Body Care, Mobility, and Recovery with Alex Ellis
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Alexandra Ellis is a polymath, having studied and worked in many different areas of exercise science, fitness, and coaching.
She has a degree in Exercise Biology and has amassed nearly 1,000 hours of yoga training. Alex also has additional education in:
- Human Dissection (of course, this was the first thing we talked about)
- CrossFit Mobility
- Movement education with Sarah Court, DPT
- Regeneration Techniques workshop completion through NSCA
As you can see, she has experiences that most coaches would envy (human dissection and NSCA training in particular).
And I'm always looking for new perspectives that will help us improve our running. Alex delivers in a fun episode that highlights her knowledge about the body, movement, recovery, and injuries.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- What did she learn from dissecting human cadavers?
- The physiological, biomechanical, and behavioral aspects of her Exercise Biology degree
- What she learned from CrossFit Mobility that will help runners
- How to incorporate a daily mobility practice into your life
- The pros and cons of different massage tools (foam rollers, lacrosse balls, and even Graston tools)
- How to prevent and treat rolled ankles
- What she means when she says, "If stretching ain't helping, start building strength."
To celebrate our 100th episode, I invite you to take a short (3-question) survey to help us make it better. I really appreciate it.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:04.0 | This is episode 100 with Yoga Instructor, |
| 0:07.0 | exercise biology major, and CrossFit Mobility |
| 0:10.0 | certified, self-described body geek, Ms. Alexandra Ellis. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, runners and the run curious. |
| 0:25.5 | This is your host, Jason Fitzgerald, and I am so excited. |
| 0:29.2 | You are listening to the 100th episode of the Strength Running podcast. |
| 0:33.7 | It has been a whirlwind few years, and I want to start by thanking you so much. |
| 0:40.1 | This podcast has just about tripled in size since 2016, and we've featured everyone from |
| 0:47.7 | Olympians to professional strength and conditioning coaches to health journalists, registered |
| 0:53.0 | dieticians, sports psychologists, and whoever I think can help you make better decisions about your training, |
| 1:01.3 | nutrition, or recovery. And I really have you to thank every single time that you download an episode, |
| 1:07.8 | leave a rating or review in Apple Music, share an episode on Instagram or with |
| 1:12.9 | your running club. It's telling me that you like what we're doing here and that you want |
| 1:17.0 | me to continue. Thank you again. This podcast wouldn't be where it was today celebrating 100 |
| 1:22.7 | episodes and over 1.1 million downloads without you. But that doesn't mean that we're done. I always want to |
| 1:30.0 | be improving and shaping this podcast into one of your favorites. And I've put together a three |
| 1:35.7 | questions survey that I would really appreciate you taking at strengthrunning.com slash survey. |
| 1:42.5 | That URL is so simple. So please hit pause on me for two minutes |
| 1:46.3 | and let me know how I can make this show even better. That's strength running.com |
| 1:51.2 | slash survey. Okay, let's talk about our guest today and an interesting conversation about |
| 1:57.4 | body care, recovery, mobility, strength training, and help treating and preventing |
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