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Behind The Shield

Dr Eric Goodman (Healing Back Pain With Movement, Chiropractic Medicine and Performance) - Episode 11

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Mental Health, Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9695 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Dr Eric Goodman is the founder and creator of Foundation Training, a system of movement that facilitates the body’s natural healing ability and quickly improves degenerative movement patterns. He has published 3 books, including his latest, True To Form, which have contributed to health innovation for individuals, communities, and the Yoga world.

His incessant curiosity for anatomy, movement, and healing has led him to become one of the most sought out trainers in the world, training prominent media figures and top level athletes, including Olympians as the strength and conditioning coach of the U.S.A. Men’s Water Polo Team.

During the last few years he has also been directing the Foundation Training Instructor Certification Program, a four day intensive workshop for doctors and movement specialists, and he continues to treat patients and lecture around the world. Currently, Eric lives in Florida with his wife, Jen, and their daughters, Sunny and Veda.

Foundation Training was born of out of necessity. In 2007 Eric Goodman was in his last year of chiropractic school gaining knowledge and skills but remaining debilitated by back pain that had followed him for years. He was advised to get spinal fusion surgery, but after deeply considering the effectiveness and physical toll it would take, declined this option. He instead worked to create a better solution. This choice became the catalyst for his life’s work

Dr. Goodman became the doctor he wished he had, creating innovative corrective movements as the answer to his pain. Understanding the challenge of being a patient without viable options, he started teaching the exercises to help other people help themselves. These exercises became Foundation Training and have been utilized by tens of thousands of people to get out of pain.

The business of Foundation Training is committed to the common goal of helping people heal and redefining a life without pain. The team behind the scenes holds to the commitment of continually learning how to do this better. Over the years, our talented teaching staff have contributed significantly to helping us breakdown the information to make it easier to learn, including developing certifications that allow us to produce instructors who deeply understand and are skilled at teaching the material.

The programs Foundation Training offers remain innovative and are continually evolving as knowledge, resources, and applications expand. The community of instructors, clients, patients, and friends whose lives have been improved remains the core of who we are.

https://www.foundationtraining.com/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Behind the Shield. My name is James Gearing and this is episode 11 of the show.

0:05.0

And my guest this week is a man who I truly credit with saving my career.

0:10.1

Dr. Eric Goodman, chiropractor and creator of foundation training, is a lifesaver that I was

0:18.1

introduced to by my chiropractor after having a pretty horrendous back

0:23.7

injury lifting a patient into the rescue. Eric himself was an athlete when he was younger and

0:29.6

had developed tremendous back pain. He basically crushed his lower back through all the crazy

0:36.5

weights that he was lifting when he was an athlete.

0:38.3

And whilst him chiropractic school realized the hypocrisy of jumping into surgery.

0:44.3

So he used his knowledge of personal training and chiropractic and the other movement practices that he'd studied.

0:51.3

So he developed a system to reverse the effects of sitting and the other imbalances that he had in his body that he'd studied. So he developed a system to reverse the effects of sitting and the

0:55.4

other imbalances that he had in his body that he created these injuries in the first place.

1:00.9

Once I embarked upon this journey with Eric's work, I saw an amazing increase in the healing

1:09.4

of my back, the strength of my back, to the point where

1:12.6

not only did I return to work a lot quicker than I anticipated, but within a couple of months

1:17.7

was lifting as heavy if not heavier than I had been prior to my injury.

1:23.8

Another area that really impresses me about Eric is he truly loves his work.

1:28.7

He spends his life pretty much traveling around the country teaching a lot of times in his

1:34.5

Winnebago picking areas to teach in that he wants to visit.

1:39.4

He wants to surf an area.

1:40.6

He wants to hike an area.

1:42.1

He puts a workshop on there and he, you know, drops anchor and then

1:47.9

explores that area, teaches, but also, you know, lives life to the fullest. This interview was

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