Rebuild the Body Marty Langlois

This episode is meant to address the four most common foot and ankle injuries: plantar fasciitis, achilles tendinopathy, shin splints, and ankle sprains.
This concludes our focus on the ankle and foot complex segment. Since the body is interconnected compensations or dysfunctions and lead to impairments in other parts of the body.
Hence the need for assessment and workout program to address these issues as you pursue and progress throughout your fitness journey.
Sources: NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training

Shared some client wins today- one has lost 7 lbs just by learning to love the good, true, and beauty of her body; another was able to get off her blood pressure medicine; and another mentioned her osteoporosis situation is improving.
The way our body moves involves a complex balance of sensory stimulation, neuromuscular control, and biomechanical stability. This body is an all-closed chain of movement and it begins with the relationship between our foot and the ground.
Sources:
NASM Essentials of Corrective Exercise Training, Edited by Rich Fahmy

When I start working with a client for the first time, I take them through the assessement I learned through NASM. This is a thorough and well-done assessment to help identify compensations in the body that may show up in respective movements-- whether it be due to previous injuries, life style, chronic health, or other reasons.
An assessment may have a bad taste in your mouth as it does mine, but don't worry this is not one of those fitness tests you had to do in PE class in you school years, nor is it about finding out what is wrong with your body.
Rather, it's about finding you starting point and meeting you where you are at in your journey, thereby creating a workout program designed to overcome your compensations, avoid future injuries, and ultimately achieve your goals.
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As we read in Psalm 139:1-2, "O Lord you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar..."
We are body and soul composites- That is how God created us in His image and likeness. Every part of the body is an expressive instrument of the soul.
In this podcast I acknowledge the different postures of prayer mentioned in the Bible: standing, kneeling, bowing, sitting, prostration. The Church uses them all at different & appropriate times.
Which means our posture matters!
Not only does our posture matter for the purpose of prayer and worship, but it makes a differences in how we show up when we are active.
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Traditional workouts and training focus on training specific body parts, often in single, fixed planes of motion-- i.e. bicep curls, leg extensions, etc. As a result our anatomy has been trained to function in isolated movements.
The problem with that approach is the human body is an integrated system, not a series of isolated pieces-- ergo, the focus of this episode and understanding the need to train the body from a functional, integrated approach.

Shifting our focus from the Catholic mindset and approach to fitness to some of the practical application of fitness. As a NASM certified Corrective Exercise specialist I present the rationale for corrective exercises in light of some of the current lifestyle trends here in the U.S.