Align Podcast

"There's nothing new under the sun, it's how you put it together," says Steve Maxwell. Recognized as one of today's most creative strength and conditioning coaches, his talent for constructing fresh, well rounded, and effective mixed-modality workouts is legendary. Steve has a long history of competitive grappling. He wrestled competitively through high school and college, and then in the US Army. He now holds a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. His BJJ competition record includes several Pan American and World Championship gold medals. Steve is also known as the American Master of the Russian Kettlebell. Steve founded Maxercise Sports/Fitness, in Philadelphia PA, the first gym in the U.S. to offer scheduled kettlebell classes. Steve's development of Joint Mobility workouts for dynamic mobility is the latest example of how he integrates multiple disciplines and techniques, producing an effective and accessible system for retaining, or regaining, range of motion. Steve is highly in demand for Strength & Conditioning, Joint Mobility, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu seminars. He has worked with various US Government agencies, including DEA, Secret Service, and FBI as well as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academies throughout the country. He has also been published and featured in books and magazines including: Mens Health, Muscle Media, Hard Style, The Russian Kettlebell Challenge, and The Naked Warrior. Learn more at http://www.maxwellsc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I'm Christopher Kelly, and I figured out the solution the hard way so you don't have to... I love cycling – training, competing, the whole thing. I love the buzz a great workout session gives me... But with hindsight, I realize I've spent most of my life feeling like crap. Sure, I was fast, but the biomarkers spelled impending doom. I struggled with insomnia, fatigue, brain fog... my libido plummeted and my recovery times took a nose-dive. I wanted to train well, but I also wanted to enjoy the rest of my life! So I transitioned to a Paleo-type diet, reading a book a week on the subject for a year – but that was only half the solution... The other half came through experimenting with and perfecting a system of functional medicine – I became my own guinea pig! Now, my body’s back in balance – my symptoms have disappeared, my diet’s right for me, and my family life is as enjoyable as my training.   Learn more about Chris at http://www.nourishbalancethrive.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom studied directly with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller. He has also studied with movement teachers Judith Aston, Emilie Conrad, and in the martial arts. His work is influenced by cranial, visceral, and intrinsic movement studies with European schools of osteopathy. An inveterate traveler, Tom has practiced integrative manual therapy for 40 years in a variety of clinical and cultural settings. He is a member of the International Association of Structural Integrators (IASI). A certified Touch-in-Parenting instructor, Tom retains a strong interest in perinatal issues relating to movement. Tom lives, writes and sails on the coast of Maine with his partner, Quan. https://www.anatomytrains.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Ballantyne, Ph.D. (a.k.a. The Paleo Mom) is the blogger behind the award-winning blog  www.ThePaleoMom.com, cohost of the top-rated and syndicated  The Paleo View podcast, and New York Times Bestselling author of The Paleo Approach and The Paleo Approach Cookbook. Sarah started her academic career in physics, earning an Honors Bachelor of Science with Distinction from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1999.  Her honors thesis work was in radiation therapy for prostate cancer, which prompted her to look for medical research applications in graduate school .   Learn more at http://www.thepaleomom.com/     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Gentilcore is one of the co-founders of Cressey Sports Performance, which really should have been called "Cressilcore Sports Performance" because that sounds like an awesome castle where a wizard lives (and plays sports). He's no longer coaching there, but his legacy remains. Tony's Techno Tuesdays will live on forever. When he’s not picking things up and putting them down, he trains top-level athletes and clients in Boston, MA, contributes to the top fitness magazines and websites around, and sets up a camera in his garage to record his lightsaber skills. He lives in Boston. With his wife, Lisa.   Learn more about his work at tonygentilcore.com     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Epstein writes about the developing science around sport -- from performance-enhancing drugs to the lucky genetics that separate a professional athlete from a duffer. A science writer and longtime contributor to Sports Illustrated, he's helped break stories on steroids in baseball, fraudulently marketed health remedies, and big-money irregularities in "amateur" college football. In 2007, inspired by the death of a childhood friend, he wrote a moving exploration of the most common cause of sudden death in young athletes, a hard-to-diagnose heart irregularity known as HCM. Now an investigative reporter at ProPublica, Epstein is the author of The Sports Gene, a book that explores the complex factors that make up a championship athlete. Is there such a thing as natural greatness, or can even extreme skills -- like the freaky-fast reaction of a hockey great -- be learned? Conversely, is the desire and will to master extreme skills something you're born with? Learn more about his fantastic work at http://thesportsgene.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and the first female professor to gain tenure in the Psychology Department at Harvard University. She is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles written for general and academic readers on mindfulness for over 35 years. Her best-selling books include Mindfulness; The Power of Mindful Learning; On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity; and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Her most recent book, the Wiley Mindfulness Handbook, is an anthology on mindfulness in which leading researchers integrate work derived from her western scientific theoretical base of mindfulness with research on eastern derived forms of meditation. It will be published in early 2014. Learn more about Ellen's work at http://www.ellenlanger.com/ Intro to podcast is an old Richard Alpert video sound bite.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P3TrGCMHNU     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Boyle is known internationally for his pioneering work in the field of Strength & Conditioning and is regarded as one of the top experts in the area for Sports Performance Training. He has made his mark on the industry over the past 30 years with an impressive following of professional athletes, from the US Women’s Olympic teams in Soccer and Ice Hockey to the Boston Bruins, Boston Breakers, New England Revolution, and most recently the Boston Red Sox. His client list over the years reads like a Who’s Who of athletic success in New England and across the country including legendary Boston names such as Nomar Garciaparra, Cam Neely, and Ray Bourque. In 2012, Michael was selected to become part of the Boston Red Sox coaching staff, acting as a strength and conditioning consultant for the team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Guillebeau is a best-selling author, traveler and general badass. His Philosophy borrow from his website will give a you a sense of the our conversation. PHILOSOPHY The essence of my philosophy is this: You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect You can do good things for yourself and help other people at the same time If you don’t decide for yourself what you want to get out of life, someone else will end up deciding for you There is usually more than one way to accomplish something In short, I’m interested in the convergence between highly personal goals and service to others. Learn more about Chris at chrisguillebeau.com/ Enjoy the intro song at end of podcast. Youtube link included below... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1pB4rCz3dQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The C.H.E.K Institute’s approach to functional exercise and optimal health was developed by the founder, Paul Chek and is based on his 30 years of clinical practice working with clients from all walks of life, as well as his diverse educational background as a Holistic Health Practitioner, Neuromuscular and Sports Massage Therapist. Paul’s methods are truly holistic, viewing the body as a system of systems – a fully integrated unit where physical, hormonal, mental, emotional and spiritual components must be considered. Learn more at http://chekinstitute.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices