A few years ago, I had what I now call my “quadrupedal humbling” while watching videos of natural movement exercises. The presenter, a movement specialist who looked like he could be my younger brother, casually dropped into a bear crawl and started flowing through movements that made my jaw hit the floor. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ Forward crawls,…
I still remember the moment I realized I’d been thinking about upper body training all wrong. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ It was about seven years ago, and I was watching my friend’s three-year-old son playing on the playground. This kid was bear crawling up slides, hanging from monkey bars, and moving around on all fours with this incredible…
Look, I’ll be honest with you – for the longest time, I thought taking a full day off was for people who didn’t have their priorities straight. I mean, here I was running a fitness business, training clients six and often seven days a week, constantly researching new exercise techniques and equipment innovations. The idea…
About ten years ago, I made one of the biggest mistakes of my training career, and it taught me much about what I needed to know about recovery. I was working with this enthusiastic client named Marcus who’d just discovered natural movement training, and honestly, his progress was incredible. https://www.rushwalter.com/natural-movement-strength-training-for-complete-beginners/ Guy went from barely being…
I’ll remember the first time I witnessed what I now call the “natural movement recovery miracle.” https://www.rushwalter.com/how-to-create-your-own-natural-movement-training-program/ It was several years ago, and I was working with two clients who couldn’t have been more different in their approach to fitness. Both were marathon runners dealing with similar overuse injuries – tight IT bands, cranky knees,…
When I first heard about “earthing” a few years ago, I thought it was just another wellness fad that would come and go like so many others. The idea of walking barefoot to connect with the earth’s energy sounded a bit too “woo-woo” for this practical fitness guy who’d spent decades focusing on measurable results…
I’ll never forget the moment I realized I’d completely lost touch with my own body. It was about eleven years ago, and I was demonstrating a simple bear crawl to a new client. Should’ve been easy, right? I mean, I’d been in the fitness industry for almost two decades at that point, had helped thousands…
Three years ago, I was sitting in my car outside a client’s office building at 6:30 AM, watching him sprint across the parking lot because he was already running late for our session. When he finally made it to the car, he was out of breath and stressed before we’d even started. “I just don’t…
Man, this question hit me like a ton of bricks about fifteen years ago when I was going through a rough patch personally. I’d been training people for over two decades, but I was struggling with my own health issues and feeling disconnected from my purpose. https://www.rushwalter.com/embracing-holistic-wellness-from-a-biblical-perspective/ That’s when I started really digging into what…
You know, after more than three decades in the fitness industry, I’ve seen every trend come and go. From the Jane Fonda aerobics craze to CrossFit to whatever Youtube workout is popular this week. https://www.rushwalter.com/strengthening-body-and-spirit-faith-fitness-and-exercise-tips/ But somewhere along the way, I realized I was missing something huge in my approach to wellness – the spiritual…
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