Gray Cook: Movement Fundamentals, Ankle Mobility, and Self-Awareness | EP 388

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 923 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Do you think you have stiff ankles? Chances are, you just lack mobility. In this episode of the Align Podcast, Gray Cook and I chat about the fundamentals of movement and how our current culture is out of touch with them. In Gray’s experience, a simple practice of self-awareness can help us identify a lot of our movement patterns that are broken and allow us to bring it back to their performing state. We also talk about how we can integrate the basic fundamentals of movement in today’s sedentary modern world where sofas, desks, and cars all have an impact on our mobility. Gray Cook is a physical therapist, orthopedic certified specialist, and certified strength and conditioning coach. His developments in movement pattern screening and assessment are at the forefront of fitness, physical conditioning, injury prevention, and physical rehabilitation. What we discuss: 02:36: What are some of the low-hanging fruit in terms of mobility in today’s world? 05:45:Which movement fundamentals should be thought in our education system? 10:52: What are Gray’s observations on physical independence? 27:22: Have we really conquered nature? 31:02: How do we integrate modern life into the natural and seamless self? 34:48: Can we seamlessly integrate more than one movement practice into our daily lives? 42:30: What does it mean to walk “well”? 51:13: How has Gray’s perspective on breathe shift over the years? 01:11:59: How can we get to a point where we’re effortlessly inhabiting our physical body? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lyme podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place
0:04.8	that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and
0:07.8	wellness help you optimize your mind, body and movement. Today's gorgeous
0:11.7	conversation is with a new friend referred to as Gray Cook.
0:16.8	Gray Cook is someone that I have been following for many years.
0:20.1	I think many people listen to this podcast have as well.
0:23.0	If you do not, it would be in your favor to do so.
0:27.0	If you have a body, if you have any friends with a body, if you are a practitioner or a clinician of any sort. His work is mandatory at this point. He's the
0:35.6	founder of Functional Movement Systems. He's the founder of the Functional Movement Screen, and he's really
0:40.9	done a tremendous job at defining what in the world is this nebulous concept of functional movement in the first place.
0:48.6	It's a word that gets tossed around.
0:50.4	Most movement-based systems, personal trainers, yogi, things of the sort, and
0:56.0	gray I would say is the godfather of creating a heuristic guide for the rest of us to be able to
1:02.1	follow to determine how functional is our
1:06.0	movement. This conversation we get into how we can screen our own movement to make sure that we live a life of longevity of
1:16.8	self-expression of flexibility strength durability the gray is probably one of the greatest teachers on the planet of the concepts of movement,
1:26.3	what it means to move well, and I'm just so immensely grateful to get to share this conversation
1:30.7	with you today. If you would like to hear the response to the questions at the end they are
1:36.7	exclusively in the Aline community which is absolutely free and can be found at
1:42.0	Aline Podcast.
1:43.6	dot com slash community.
1:45.9	On there, there's something like 800 members in there now,
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