Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my

absolute honor to welcome on the show, coach, author, and movement specialist Al Cavadlo.

So as you will hear, I bumped into Al in a store after being made aware of his work through

social media and we sat down in his home and had an incredible conversation. We discussed a host of topics from the bodybuilding environment that he entered as a coach,

his journey into chastanics, the importance of flexibility, the aging athlete, and so much more.

Now before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, please just

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So with that being said, I introduced to you Al Cavadlo.

Enjoy. Well, Al, I want to say, firstly thank you for welcoming me to your home.

We are now in Ocala, Florida.

I know it's not where you're from originally, but just as an icebreaker, tell the audience how we met.

I was in the supermarket, and James approached me and said, do you have some sort of a movement practice?

And I think I knew what he was getting at, but I wasn't exactly sure how to respond.

And I kind of said, yeah.

He said, I think I might have seen something yours on the internet. And I said, oh, cool. And I thought

that was going to be the end of the conversation. And then he said, do you want to be on my podcast?

And I said, okay. And then I invited them over to my house. Kind of unusual to do that with someone you just met at the supermarket.

But I felt comfortable with him.

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