Love At First Science

Feel unsupported without consciously engaging your core? Wanting to dive deeper into why you don’t need to always grip and squeeze your core? Mike Golden dives into the mechanisms behind anticipatory and compensatory postural control. He explains how the spinal and neural tracts that communicate information about eye and head movement to the trunk and surrounding muscles. He dives into the importa...

Feel unsupported without consciously engaging your core? Wanting to dive deeper into why you don’t need to always grip and squeeze your core? Mike Golden shares his journey with injuries from contact sports, how his rehabilitation journey shifted to simultaneously addressing higher order brain systems, and how his journey got him to where he is today. Inspite of his journey, Mike explains how the...

Always been told to grip your core in sport or dance? Wanting to transition into Yoga with an open mind? Amy Carmody shares her story with movement and the importance of knowledge and education over labels and generic cues. Furthermore, she shares her perspective on gripping the core and her journey in re-training her core to be more responsive and reflective after her ballerina days. As she speak...

Unsure how to teach the core? Wondering how important is core engagement in Yoga? Intention is everything. Diana kicks off the podcast addressing the cues that need to be revised and why they aren't as helpful as we once thought. Then, Diana breaks down the core biomechanics behind plank pose, the importance of the core and diaphragm, and potential compensations that occur with an inefficient core...

Will Yoga fix it all? Do you need to engage your core in Yoga? Hannah Barrett shares her journey with the core and how valuable pelvic floor training will be in schools for adolescent girls. She discusses the nuances in core engagement cues and the problems in ingraining that narrative to adolescents. As someone who habitually still holds the core tight involuntarily, she emphasizes the importance...

Should you "engage the core," "pull the belly in," grip the core," "pull the belly to the spine," "knit the ribs in?" We here these cues thrown about in the fitness world, but perhaps, those cues aren't doing us as much good as we once thought. Physical therapist, Finola, uses her 10 years of clinical experience to debunk and reveal the truths around the core, and how to properly utilize the core...

Let's talk pelvic floor today. Yes, Men have Pelvic floor issues to and we're here to drop tabooness around it. We touch base with pelvic health in the male population, then move onto pelvic health amongst females. After explaining the stages in female adolescent development, Clare describes labial variety, and the need for synergy around the pelvic floor. She provides her best pelvic floor tips w...

We're myth-busting and revealing truths about the function and system of the core in this episode. Dr. Nidhi Sharma provides knowledge bombs, educating us about true core activation, how the integrated core system works, and common cues that may not be as valuable as we think they are. She discusses practical tips for mothers and pregnancy, performing abdominal exercises during Diastasis Recti, an...

Welcome to the Love @ First Science Podcast. This season, we're unpacking the core! Tune in to learn all about the core in the worlds of mothers and fitness. Look forward to interviews with  1. Dr. Nidhi Sharma 2. Clare Bourne 3. Finola Burrell 4. Amy Carmody 5. Hannah Barrett

Let's talk with Julie about breathing and how interconnected it is with the Core.  It's time we understand the integrity of the functional core, its anatomy, its physiology, and how its appropriate activation transfers into movement. Julie touches base with the fundamentals of the true core and how lack of synergy manifests in paradoxical breathing. Julie rediscovers the science behind core,...

Join Richie (@thebreathguy) and I as we explore breath, trauma, emotions, and healing! Richie shares is story, inspired by Wim Hof and how he found his path in breathwork as a by-product of his relaptionship with his father. Highlighting the importance of reflexive control over breathing, Richie speaks into the power of conscious hyperventilation and its profound adaptation effects on the body. He...

Matthew and I take a deep dive into the Vocal Chords, an area of the body we place little to no attention to. We get into the nitty gritties of the Vocal Chord anatomy and physiology, unveiling the truths, misconceptions, and tips for Vocal Chord pathologies, especially as a result of constriction. Matthew shares his favorite strategies to notice and relax the vocal chord habitual constriction, th...

Join Patrick McKweon, peak performance trainer, scientist, therapist, and author, and I as we dive into the fundamental concepts of how to breathe correctly, and why we should be breathing in a certain way These concepts are highly mis-understood in the general population and world of fitness. We touch on how nasal breathing relates to topics of sleep apnea, chronic exhaustion, anxiety, recovery,...

James Nestor and I talk all about how breathing relates to anatomy and physiology. As an automatic and unconscious practice, we never really take the time to understand breathing and appreciate it, yet it is one of the most vital contributors to the efficacy of all the systems in our body and how well they work together. Fundementally, James Nestor talks into addressing the root cause, which in ma...

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