An Integrated Approach to Functional Movement, Quality Movement Mechanics, and Smiling While you Train w/ Aaron Alexander — The Bledsoe Show #112
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Alexander CR, LMT, CPT is an accomplished manual therapist and movement coach with over 13 years of professional experience. He is the founder of the Align Movement™, an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care that has helped thousands of people out of pain and into health.
Aaron also hosts the top-rated Align Podcast featuring the biggest names in movement and wellness. His clients include Hollywood celebrities, Olympic/professional athletes and everyone in between. He teaches workshops and speaks at events all over the world.
In this episode, we talk about the Align method as an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care, the quality of mechanics with ranges of motion and creating length, how to fix your posture and why stretching your back too much can actually be bad for you, how to position your life so you love what you do and have consistency with practices, the benefits of floating in Epsom salts for relaxation and muscle recovery, and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
P.S. Check out the last time Aaron's was on The Bledsoe Show w/ Aaron Alexander: Cultivating Diversity Across the Board #71 and his episode on Barbell Shrugged — Cultivate Your Mind, Body, and Movement w/ Aaron Alexander — 334.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you a survivor or a creator? |
| 0:03.0 | Not sure. |
| 0:05.0 | A survivor is someone who is always on the lookout for what could go wrong. |
| 0:09.4 | The mind is in a constant state of prepping for it could happen situations. |
| 0:15.1 | Making itself busy with things that will never happen. |
| 0:18.6 | And if one of those many scenarios do occur, did all that worrying help you achieve the desired |
| 0:24.6 | outcome? |
| 0:26.4 | Not really. |
| 0:27.4 | A creator is someone who already knows that they are safe. |
| 0:31.1 | They know and trust themselves to show up fully for each moment prepared. |
| 0:36.2 | They trust the universe to be perfect in the unfolding. |
| 0:39.8 | Each moment has a purpose for their greatest good. |
| 0:44.6 | Most people will never get to experience what the universe has waiting for them. |
| 0:49.2 | Attachment to how things get done and very specific outcomes is limited. |
| 0:54.2 | The survivor keeps expectations low and figures out exactly how they'll get it done. |
| 1:00.7 | The creator dreams big, sets an intention. |
| 1:04.3 | Without attachment, puts their attention on a general outcome and allows the how to take |
| 1:10.5 | care of itself. |
| 1:12.1 | The creator is constantly delivered and life greater than they could have ever imagined. |
| 1:18.5 | When life is lived this way, miracles are always present. |
| 1:23.5 | Believing in miracles is one thing. |
| 1:25.9 | Expecting it is another. |
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