The Bledsoe Show w/ Aaron Alexander: Cultivating Diversity Across the Board #71
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Alexander CR, LMT, CPT is an accomplished manual therapist and movement coach with over 13 years of professional experience. He is the founder of the Align Movement™, an integrated approach to functional movement and self-care that has helped thousands of people out of pain and into health.
Aaron also hosts the top-rated Align Podcast featuring the biggest names in movement and wellness. His clients include Hollywood celebrities, Olympic/professional athletes and everyone in between. He teaches workshops and speaks at events all over the world.
In this episode, we dive into why you sometimes need to remove supplements rather than add more, how diversifying your training and movements can improve your performance in your specific sports, why fasting is healthy for you, how eating poop can make you healthier, and much more.
Enjoy!
-Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bloodsau Show, this is your host, Mike Bloodsau, and today I have a big announcement. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm launching the Strong Coach program. |
| 0:08.5 | So go over to thestrongcoach.com. |
| 0:12.0 | This program, as you can guess, is for coaches. |
| 0:15.5 | Now, what we have in our industry is a lot of trainers, and that means that we have been taught, |
| 0:23.0 | and we've really put all these things on a pedestal. |
| 0:25.5 | We've been taught program design, movement, how to coach, you know, teach and coach movement, |
| 0:30.5 | and we've been taught nutrition, but very little emphasis has been put into how to actually develop a bond with your athletes and clients. |
| 0:41.5 | Leadership, or do you find that you're a pushover sometimes, or you're overbearing, or you've seen coaches that are a pushover or overbearing? |
| 0:49.5 | I see it all the time, I walk around gyms, and a lot of cross with gyms specifically, and I see that there's a lot of really great movement going on, |
| 1:00.5 | and some really cool workouts happening, but I definitely noticed that there's a lot of times this missing communication piece, |
| 1:09.5 | where the coach, a lot of times, might be getting frustrated that the athletes aren't doing the things that they're telling them to do in and outside of the gyms. |
| 1:21.5 | So a lot of what I've spent the last few years, I noticed, I felt like something was wrong, and I noticed that something was wrong, |
| 1:27.5 | and I started looking around, and I definitely found a lot of things that are going to transform the fitness industry. |
| 1:36.5 | And so I'm really excited to be bringing and developing a program that is designed to take a trainer and take them from being a trainer to a real coach. |
| 1:46.5 | So if you want that, which I know you do, go over to thestrongcoach.com and fill out an application, I'm doing a beta group. |
| 1:55.5 | So if you want to be in that beta group, go over there, hit the application button, fill out the application, I'm going to hop on the phone with quite a few of you, |
| 2:04.5 | I'm going to select five for the summer, and we're going to have a really good time. |
| 2:09.5 | Another thing I want to let you guys know about is I've got some live events coming up, I'm doing some seminars on the East Coast, |
| 2:16.5 | go over to thestrongcoach.com and click on the events page. |
| 2:21.5 | Over there, you can see that I'm going to be in North Carolina, May 26th, Richmond, Virginia on June 2nd, and I'm going to be in Boston, Massachusetts on June 9th. |
| 2:31.5 | You want to make these seminars. I'm not going to be coming back to the East Coast anytime soon, so be there. |
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