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Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

No Pain, Lots of Gains, Body Awareness, and Empathy with Mariah Heller

Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser

Dr. Ron Kaiser

Rejuvenate, Age, Aging, Fitness & Nutrition, Mental, Self-help, Gym, Doctor, Health, Fitness, Emotional Health

5.0 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Committed to becoming an athlete, Mariah Heller started facing unusual health issues for someone her age. She was 16 when she began dealing with chronic pain, and just a few years later, she had to undergo a couple of surgeries. Trainers, fitness instructors, and physical therapists didn't know what to do with her; she was a mystery case. Mariah then had to become her own instructor, fitness coach, and therapist for a while. 


Mariah was in one of the fitness industry's blind spots, so she decided to work hard so no one else would be in that place and founded Pain-free Fitness. 


Mariah Heller is a Fitness Industry Executive, Gym Co-founder, Author, Speaker, and Creator of Pain-Free Fitness. She is the author of two eBooks and the creator of Fitness Fundamentals Flash Cards - a line of flashcards designed to help fitness professionals add value to their clients. When she was 28, she was diagnosed with Ehler-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a connective tissue disorder that causes chronic pain among hundreds of other things. 


In this episode, we talk about Mariah's unique approach to fitness, overall health, and the relationship between chronic pain and reduced mobility and training. Mariah kindly shared bits of her background and experience in the fitness industry, the five pillars of the Pain-Free Fitness method, and her view on the obesity epidemic, the diet culture, sedentarism, and much more. 


Tune in to Episode 98 of Rejuvenaging, to learn about a more emphatic side of the fitness industry.


Some Questions I Ask:

  • Can you give us a short course on what Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is? (4:28)
  • How did you happen to get into the fitness industry? (6:32)
  • Are there general principles about working with pain patients that we should keep in mind, whether through a formal program or even if we're dealing with our own lives? (11:42)
  • If somebody wants to get into the fitness realm at this point, and they're not used to it, and perhaps lived quite a few decades without it, where should they begin? (23:05)


In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • What made Mariah decide to get into the fitness industry (6:16)
  • Having little wins daily. Mariah's unique approach to fitness (9:21)
  • The best way to find the perfect fitness instructor (11:44)
  • The five pillars of the Pain-Free Fitness method (13:48)
  • How powerful changing our habits can be (18:46)


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0:00.0

Welcome to Rejuvenaging with Dr. Ron Kaiser.

0:23.3

This is the podcast. This is a side to help you lead your lives enthusiastically today,

0:30.1

tomorrow, and every other day. I'm your host, Ron Kaiser. I'm a positive health psychologist,

0:36.9

also a keynote and TEDx speaker and author of the award-winning and bestselling book,

0:43.2

Rejuvenaging the Arton Science of Growing Older with Enthusiasm. My website is the Mental

0:50.2

Health Gym. It's your source of all sorts of information related to wellness and positive

0:56.4

psychology. My own particular spin on it that I call goal achieving psychology. And it's also

1:03.6

the place to recommend guests for upcoming podcasts. Listeners to the podcasts know that we try to

1:12.5

present you with some really high quality guests who not only lead their own lives enthusiastically,

1:20.0

but have different ways of helping us to lead our lives in such a way that we can be the best

1:25.9

versions of ourselves from a physical and mental standpoint. And we have a really special guest

1:33.8

that I've been looking forward to interviewing today. We have with us Mariah Heller, who is a fitness

1:40.3

industry executive, Jim Co-founder, author, speaker, and creator of Pain Free Fitness, which I

1:49.6

think should interest a whole lot of us. Mariah spends her days as the executive program director of

1:55.8

a million dollar fitness company, and she spends her evenings as a multifaceted fitness entrepreneur.

2:03.1

Mariah is the creator of Pain Free Fitness and started the company after spending eight years

2:09.7

in the fitness industry and realizing that there were no viable solutions for clients with chronic

2:16.8

pain. And I'm sure many of us know lots of people who have chronic pain. So apparently the fitness

2:24.3

industry was missing a great bet. So she actually found that not only does it tend to not address

2:32.4

the chronic pain patients, but almost any patient who doesn't fit into the classic Jim setting.

2:38.8

Mariah was diagnosed with Eller's Danlos Syndrome at the age of 28. And we'll ask her about that.

2:45.6

After dealing with debilitating symptoms for a majority of her life, her mission is to create a

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