Making Mobility Practical w/ Coach RT3
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Often we forget what an important part of strength training mobility work is. Mobility work has the reputation of being something that you just tack on or do during a warm-up. But the reality is that mobility work is incredibly important and dictates how you move, how you feel, and the gains that you see in and out of the gym.
Key Takeaways
If You Want to Make Mobility More of a Priority, You Should:
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- Support online content creators who are sharing this information by saving and sharing their content
- Stop thinking of mobility work as something on the side and instead center your training around it
- Remember to rest and recover in order to achieve the goals you are looking for
Taking Care of Your Whole Body with Coach RT3
Rich Thurman, better known as Coach RT3, is a mobility specialist who is passionate about sharing his experiences as a black man in the fitness industry and advocating for coaching in a way that takes care of your body, mind, and spirit as one whole person.
Mobility is Not an Afterthought
Let's be real, does every part of your body function optimally? The chances are probably pretty low. Incorporating mobility into your strength training as the main objective will help you see the benefits you are looking for and improve your overall performance as you age.
In general, we tend to overlook and neglect important health things until it is too late. This is why Coach RT3 is so passionate about helping others understand the why behind their workouts and get specific about how mobility work can help them. Mobility work is not an afterthought; it is a key component to achieving your goals.
Knowledge is Power
Coach RT3 really understands the importance of educating people on how their body works. You need to access the full capability of your mobility to ensure your training is going to succeed. Coach RT3 believes in the power of sharing information, which can be challenging on social media. But, through his passion and tenacity for the power of mobility, he helps people move better, feels better, and do more while still recovering in a way that is essential for longevity.
The more you have access to your mobility, the better your life is going to be. What are you waiting for?
Are you ready to dedicate yourself to mobility? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.
In This Episode
- Understanding the struggles around creating social media content as a creator (4:48)
- Calls to action that will help amplify and support the content of diverse online creators (24:52)
- Common mistakes or fallbacks people believe to be true when it comes to mobility (33:51)
- How to incorporate mobility work as a key part of your strength conditioning (40:12)
- Tips for working with Coach RT3 and improving your relationship with mobility (51:53)
Quotes
“I am a firm believer in the way I communicate and the way I put out information; it is in a sharing way. I don't hold any information back. And if you want to work with me and if you want to train with me, then you are working with me and training with me because you like the way in which I coach.” (26:18)
“I want you all to be better and to understand and to learn and to grow. Because if you all learn and grow, then everyone is better.” (27:40)
“Mobility should be the throughline for everything that you are doing in life because it is life.” (33:19)
“If you really want mobility to be something that impacts your longevity and life, you have to slot it in as the thing, and everything else has to be the 20.” (44:53)
“If you move better, you feel better… and if you feel good you do more. And if you do more, you get more of what you want overall anyways.” (51:37)
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| 0:00.0 | Mobility work is a very important part of strength training, but if you're like many people, |
| 0:05.6 | you don't know how to incorporate it or you're just confused about what is really going to be |
| 0:10.4 | effective. On the podcast today, my special guest is walking us through how to really incorporate |
| 0:16.6 | mobility into strength training and why, yes, it's an important supplement, but it's really a |
| 0:22.8 | through line for your training as opposed to something that you just tack on on the side. |
| 0:31.2 | If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights, challenging yourself and |
| 0:36.8 | doing hard shit, the fuel your strength podcast is for you. You'll learn how to eat, |
| 0:42.8 | train and recover smarter so you build strength and muscle, have more energy and perform better |
| 0:49.5 | in and out of the gym. I'm strength nutrition strategist and weightlifting coach, |
| 0:54.8 | Steph Goddrow. The fuel your strength podcast dives into evidence-based strategies for nutrition, |
| 1:01.5 | training and recovery and why once you're approaching your 40s and beyond, you need to do things |
| 1:07.6 | a little differently than you did in your 20s. We're here to challenge the limiting industry narratives |
| 1:13.4 | about what women can and should do in training and beyond. If that sounds good, hit subscribe |
| 1:20.3 | on your favorite podcast app and let's go. Welcome back to the podcast. Thank you so much |
| 1:30.3 | for being here. Remember to hit subscribe on your podcast app. Today on the podcast, I am so happy |
| 1:36.9 | to welcome back to the show Rich Thurman, better known as Coach RT-3. He was here on the show |
| 1:44.5 | in episode 338 and he's back today to go a lot deeper into mobility training and how to really make |
| 1:52.9 | it a feature of your physical work, not just a tacked on annoyance or side thing that you have to |
| 2:02.3 | do, but really how to make mobility work for you so that you are seeing the benefits of that work, |
| 2:08.5 | especially as we're getting over 40, we really need to pay attention to that stuff. We're going |
| 2:13.2 | a lot deeper on that today in this episode. What we're also doing is revisiting a very important |
| 2:19.3 | topic that Coach RT-3 talked about in that episode 338. We're really looking at how it continues to |
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