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🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Mike Fitch from Animal Flow and Global Bodyweight Training is interviewed on the show this week. Mike is an innovative trainer who focuses on bodyweight training, skills-based practices and multi-planar, fluid movement. This episode is all about connecting the mind and body through ground-based movements in an effort to reconnect with our internal system. We will be getting into the benefits of hand and feet coordination, meditation and breathing, injury prevention in CrossFit and getting out of the sagittal plane. Be sure to check out his website for tons of free content on mastering handstands, muscle ups, and any other bodyweight skill. Enjoy the show!
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Topics of discussion:
[2:46] What is Animal Flow?
[4:05] Reconnecting with the system
[7:00] Meditation and breathe work
[14:20] Explaining the Animal Flow program
[21:10] Why do we get complacent?
[24:25] Injury reduction in CrossFit
[35:26] Global Bodyweight Training
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Animal Flow
Global Bodyweight Training
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0:00.0 | What's up everyone? This is Mike Kaju and this is the Brut Shrink Podcast. My guest today is Mike Fitch. |
0:06.4 | He is the founder and president of two companies called Animal Flow and Body Weight Athlete. |
0:13.2 | Animal Flow is all about kind of coming back |
0:18.2 | to connecting with your body. |
0:20.5 | You know, something I talk about all the time on this show is, you know, in terms of |
0:25.5 | self-awareness, mindfulness, etc. |
0:29.0 | But usually I only talk about it in the kind of mental psychological sense. |
0:36.2 | And I almost never talk about it from a physical sense, right? |
0:40.4 | Being in touch with your physical sensation, with your movement, and that's what Mike is all about, right? |
0:47.0 | Animal Flow is about reconnecting with your body, learning how it moves, and doing so through animal-like movements with you know on your |
0:55.8 | on all fours and stuff like that. Body weight athlete is more about developing high-level skills like handstands and muscle-ups and human flags and all |
1:09.3 | of that kind of stuff. You know, this was a really great conversation because what Mike is doing with his work is all about making people slow down and progress intelligently through very complex things and doing so while |
1:28.4 | being very present with what they're doing which is something that really |
1:32.3 | really vibes with me and I know a lot of you as well. |
1:35.0 | If you have a question that you want answered related to health and fitness, mindset, business, etc, |
1:41.0 | please don't hesitate to call in. |
1:44.0 | I absolutely love being able to connect with you guys and answer your questions or having friends of |
1:49.8 | mind that are experts help me answer your questions. So if you're interested, call into the hotline at 801 449.0503. That's 801 405-03. |
2:04.1 | Before we get started, if you're a regular listener |
2:06.4 | of this show and haven't done so already, |
2:08.5 | please head over to iTunes real quick |
2:10.7 | and leave me a quick review. |
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