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🗓️ 11 April 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Jen Esquer, DPT, PT, has been on a ruthless ongoing journey to learn about the body and movement since she was a child. She was a professional gymnast until age 16, studied yoga and pilates, studied physiotherapy, and is continuously exploring and learning more . is creator of and The Optimal Body Preventing Pain & Injury Optimizing Lives.
Dr. Jen is also the creator of The Mobility Method, which is designed to give the everyday person the opportunity to take themselves through a basic screening process and self-diagnose limitations. In addition, there are various modules to help individuals address their own personal needs, whether it be their neck, back, shoulders, etc.
In this episode, we learn why the neutral spine doesn’t exist in the real world, why foam rolling gets misunderstood, how much of training has become robotic, why you need to have more appreciation for your body, and much more. Enjoy!
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0:00.0 | And yet when it was measured that when someone squats in neutral spine or deadlift in neutral spine |
0:06.5 | Your body is going to flex to at least 23 degrees |
0:10.9 | So that means anytime that we're adding load or we're thinking that we're in perfect neutral spine |
0:16.6 | It's not true and you're eventually probably maybe you can cause a discrepaniation |
0:30.0 | We ready Rock? Rock it. Well, we're about to struggle your sore for strength conditioning inside the struggle collective |
0:59.2 | I'm Andrew Sparner that's Doug Larsen you bet that's Kenny Kane. It's going on. We are in Santa Monica at Oak Park Oak Park. This Kenny's Jim yeah |
1:08.3 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we just had an epic handstand battle to start this thing off |
1:16.6 | Arkham guys today |
1:18.8 | Come from a very serious gymnastics background turned physical therapist and now we've entered into the next stage of life here |
1:26.9 | Treating the world basically teaching mobility |
1:30.5 | And and solving all of life's problems by empowering people |
1:34.8 | Dr. Jin as scare |
1:36.8 | Oh, God it because she's hairs welcome to the show |
1:41.8 | Thank you. Thank you guys for having me. I'm excited. Oh, you bet my favorite thing to do anytime we have a doctor on here |
1:48.2 | We're going we're going myth-busting |
1:51.2 | We got to talk about some things you've been lightened up on your Instagram the blog |
1:55.5 | I'm excited to get into understanding some of these neutral spine |
1:59.0 | myths that are going around the world these days |
2:02.2 | That was what I wanted to learn about |
2:04.2 | You stole my my thing maybe we talked about it too much before the show we did |
2:08.9 | We all we almost went too far and just had the whole conversation about before the show start |
2:12.3 | We had to cut ourselves off. So I'm also very interested to get your thoughts on on neutral spine |
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