Mike Salemi: The Truth About Kettlebells, Strength, & Spiritual Growth
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Wellness Force Radio Episode 376
World-Renowned Human Performance Presenter, Division 1 Strength & Conditioning Coach, Kambo Facilitator, and Creator of the digital Kettlebell Lifestyle program, Mike Salemi, unpacks the concept of movement as medicine, how to cultivate body awareness, his advice for starting a brand new fitness program, and how our physical health impacts our emotional, spiritual, and mental wellbeing.
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Listen as Mike shares why movement is medicine, the power of trusting the wellness journey, and how breathwork strengthens both the mind and body.
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| 0:00.0 | Any exercise is medicine, right? Maybe people have heard this, but there really is no, with good technique or more or less, there's no bad exercise. There's only a wrongly prescribed exercise. |
| 0:10.0 | So if you understand some movement, principles, any movement can be an energizing activity. |
| 0:16.0 | So as an example, pressing exercise for the upper body, you're going to get energy and flow to the chest, to the upper back, |
| 0:22.0 | you're going to open up the heart center. If you really want |
| 0:24.4 | to exercise your boundaries in life you're having trouble saying no, pushing away, that's like you're saying no to things. |
| 0:30.6 | When you're pulling your opening, you're receiving. |
| 0:33.2 | So you can look at it from that and what I would encourage people to do with all their movement |
| 0:37.3 | practice, whether it's training hard in the gym, which will be a little bit more challenging |
| 0:41.6 | to do this, but when you're unloaded and your focus is energizing the body, |
| 0:46.0 | put intention to it, make it be a ritual. So many things in my life now, |
| 0:50.8 | I've got so much more richness from simply by adding an intention practice before. |
| 0:57.0 | That's Mike Selemme and this is episode 376 of Wellness Force Radio. |
| 1:02.6 | Wellness Force Radio, |
| 1:04.0 | we discover the physical and emotional intelligence |
| 1:06.7 | to move life well. |
| 1:08.8 | You can have the same brain states as someone |
| 1:10.8 | who's done an hour of meditation every day for 40 years. |
| 1:14.0 | There's a lot of losses that we go through, so the ability to be able to cope with those losses is very important |
| 1:18.4 | to build skill in it, because loss will happen. |
| 1:21.6 | You have to have spiritual courage |
| 1:24.1 | to really grow spiritually because if you really |
| 1:26.8 | want to take guidance from your soul, |
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