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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 215 — Matt Nichol, Mindy Mylrea and Matthew Januszek: Fitness Philosophy

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Religion & Spirituality, Wellness, Society & Culture, Plant Medicine, Relationships, Alternative Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Paul Chek, Spirituality, Sexuality, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Development

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

How has fitness evolved as a practice and industry so far in the 21st Century? Has it changed for the better or worse? Where is fitness heading and what does that means for your life and health?

Paul talks to a legendary trio of fitness veterans — Matt Nichol, Mindy Mylrea and Matthew Januszek — who share their valuable insights about the future of exercise and performance in this very special Living 4D podcast.

Find out more about Matt’s work at his website and on Instagram. Learn more about Mindy’s mission on One Day to Wellness and social media via YouTube and Instagram. Enjoy a free workout with Mindy at this link. Explore Matthew’s work at his Escape Fitness website and on social media via Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Listen to his Escape Your Limits podcast on Apple Podcasts or watch it on YouTube.

Show Notes

  • “Your philosophy of health and fitness should have meaning, or your heart is never in it.” (4:06)
  • Movement nutrition. (7:50)
  • Cardio training is no panacea for total fitness. (15:52)
  • The alignment of health, wellness, fitness and performance as one. (25:32)
  • The ongoing struggle with filtering the good and useful information from the bad. (33:35)
  • Human interaction really matters. (41:48)
  • Mindy’s introduction to anaerobic training in a bar helped her win $5,000. (57:11)
  • Mindy and Paul created the working-in concept at nearly the same time. (1:02:32)
  • Young trainers in the fitness industry aren’t learning how to teach, create and think for themselves. (1:11:29)
  • “I don’t want a device telling me that I’ve slept well.” (1:24:23)
  • “A healthy body is at the center of what I do because it links to a healthy mind.” (1:40:46)
  • If 80-90 percent of the world just did the basics… (1:57:38)
  • The prices young people pay for enhancing their body’s performance will devastate them one day. (2:04:12)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This year the skirts up to here.

0:02.5

Next year the skirts are up to here,

0:05.0

then they're back down to here.

0:07.0

It probably was funnier in Romanian, like in his head,

0:10.0

but when he, but the point being,

0:12.0

these trends they come and go and there's certain

0:14.2

certain principles that are eternal.

0:17.3

Everything comes and goes and comes back again.

0:20.7

Yes.

0:21.7

Yeah. So in trends in fitness and gyms, you're going to see steb aerobics maybe come back, not as big, but maybe come back.

0:30.0

Zumba was huge and now dance-based fitness is maybe making a comeback but in a different way.

0:35.6

So everything in some form or fashion comes back.

0:39.7

We design, manufacture a lot of fitness training tools, so we're always really on the lookout for new trends and new ideas.

0:46.1

And it's very rare that anything new comes out from a, I guess, from a fitness fitness perspective but it's not a version of something

0:55.6

that's been around for a long time you know there are one or two things that come

0:59.8

out but generally there are things that have been around in a package in a in a slightly different way

1:04.4

when you've been around for long enough you can actually sort of see that.

1:09.9

Welcome to a special edition of Living Paul D with Paul Chek.

1:13.9

Today, Paul is talking with three guests

1:16.5

from different fears of the exercise, conditioning

1:19.4

and wellness industries about the philosophy of fitness. His three guests range from

1:24.6

Matt Nickle, a veteran strength and conditioning coach with over two decades spent

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