Dr. Andy Galpin: Fitness, Performance, & Consciousness
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We can use fitness technology as a tool for cueing, learning, and sensing instead of as a taskmaster that stresses us out. - Dr. Andy Galpin
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Join us on Wellness Force Radio 182 as Dr. Andy Galpin helps us find balance in our modern world and understand both the values and the limitations of technology in fitness, performance, and overall wellness.
Andy's insights will help us slow down and navigate our digital landscape in a healthier way. He also provides us with a blueprint for using modern tech to meet our health and performance goals, while reconnecting to our instincts and the natural world.
Listen To Episode 182 As Andy Uncovers:
- Understanding the value and the limitations of technology in fitness, performance, and overall wellness
- How to navigate the information overload in our digital terrain
- The stressors that are necessary for our health and human development
- Learning to avoid the common mistakes that people make with wearables and wellness apps
- Developing a healthy relationship with modern technology and social media
- Ways to improve our intuition and level of consciousness
- Strategies to reduce the amount of pain and suffering in the body
- New technologies that are helping us reduce physical stress
- How beneficial technology is helping us discover emotional inteligence
- Using technology to get us over the initial humps of behavior change
- Why over time, gamification will lose its potency for motivation
- Using wearables to help calibrate our physical intuition and awareness
- How to take the data from our technology and design a strategy for better wellness
- Why we shouldn't circumvent problems and deeper issues through bio-hacking
- How the CRISPR technology can manipulate our genetic structure
Power Quotes From Dr. Galpin
"There is no such thing as truth in the biological and medical fields, only a lack of perspective." - Dr. Andy Galpin
"We must develop our ability to become more aware of what's going on in the body." - Dr. Andy Galpin
"We shouldn't use biohacking as a temporary solution to circumvent our problems."- Dr. Andy Galpin
"When we only focus on optimization, we miss out on adaptation." - Dr. Andy Galpin
Dr. Andy Galpin: "Unplugged"
In the first quarter of 2016, Americans bought 19.7 million fitness wearables, an increase of 67 percent over the previous year. By 2020, the global market for fitness-focused apps and devices is expe
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| 0:00.0 | Since there's been advancements in technologies, people are always warning about the consequences of that. |
| 0:10.0 | No one's really applied this line of thinking to health, wellness, performance, or fitness. |
| 0:15.0 | This is this critical junction of humanity. |
| 0:19.0 | I mean, if we look at biologically what it means to be a human being, if we look at what's happening with integration of physiology and the technology that's never happened before. |
| 0:27.6 | Let's build a good quality relationship with this |
| 0:35.0 | relationship with this technology because it's coming it's not going anywhere we need to start building solutions because if you don't set up that infrastructure that foundation that lifestyle now you're gonna have no prayer in 25 years. |
| 0:42.8 | That was Dr. Andy Galpin, and this is episode 182 of Wellness Force Radio. |
| 0:48.0 | What's up, my friend? It's your host, Josh Trent, and welcome back to another episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness as we discover the physical and emotional |
| 0:58.0 | intelligence we need to live life well. |
| 1:00.0 | In this episode we're talking with Dr. Andy Galpin as we continue on with our |
| 1:05.3 | hashtag stand tall series on Instagram and across social arm in arm with Inteliskin |
| 1:10.4 | for this 134 best of the best show we're exploring Dr. Andy Galpin, Brian |
| 1:14.9 | Mackenzie and Bill White's book Unplugged, covering all aspects of technology's |
| 1:19.4 | impact on fitness, performance, and consciousness. With decades of wisdom, these movement pros have come together |
| 1:25.6 | to write this best-selling book featuring exclusive interviews |
| 1:28.4 | with Tim Ferris, Laird Hamilton, Stephen Kotler, |
| 1:30.8 | and a ton more experts. Now why this book and this conversation is so |
| 1:35.2 | interesting is that being a healthy human in the age of technology exponential |
| 1:39.8 | technology it's not so easy especially when we look at how many coaches, movement professionals and trainers are using wearables now online with services for training clients. |
| 1:49.0 | Now I'm not in any way saying that this is wrong at all, but with the rise of exponential technology |
| 1:54.4 | comes an equal rise in our responsibility as trainers and people who care |
| 1:58.9 | about quality movement in human health to pay attention. |
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