The Active Life Podcast

Aja Barto is a retired three time CrossFit Games athlete and a CrossFit Affiliate owner (Behemoth CrossFit). On today’s episode Aja discusses his thoughts on the preliminary changes to the CrossFit games season. . The talk takes a welcome turn when we start talking about identity and how it is related to someone’s opportunity to compete, quality movement, becoming a professional coach, and core pr...

Nataly Valenzuela is a woman who knows how to work, scrap, and make everyone around her feel good. Today’s episode is a blend of character study and coaching session with Nataly. . We cover what it was like to hustle for 10 years trying to and ultimately successfully land a job working as a host of her own television show for Univision. We also dive into how Nataly needs to learn from that experie...

Kimberly Pastuch, the REAL boss over at Active Life is back on the podcast today. In today’s episode I discuss with my wife some vulnerable moments I have faced in the last 10 years and how she has been the rock that kept me upright. . It’s nice to believe that we can do anything on our own, but the reality is usually much less independent. We all need support from time to time and this episode is...

I spent most of my adult life struggling in business. Recently I learned one of the most valuable things I’ve ever learned and I wish I remembered who taught it to me because I would give them the credit they deserve. . This simple fact has transformed everything that Active Life does from a marketing and messaging perspective. It has revolutionized our company. . You need to know the answer to fo...

Can you imagine if the most embarrassing moment of your life was also the scariest one? Can you imagine hiding a potentially fatal illness from your spouse and suppressing the reality of it from yourself only to have it show itself in public leaving you no choice but to reveal that you need help? . Dr. Chris Zaino found himself in exactly this position when his ulcerative colitis nearly claimed hi...

Do you still think that it’s possible to be a great coach and a great athlete at the same time? Do you still think that the best athletes write the best programs? You might want to give this episode a listen. . Michele Letendre has been wildly successful as a CrossFit Athlete, placing 4th in the world at the 2014 CrossFit Games and she is now wildly successful as a coach heping two of her clients...

Intensity. If you are looking for one word to describe Jason Khalipa, it’s intensity. At least that’s what I got from a 40 minute conversation with him for today’s episode. . Jason Khalipa has won the CrossFit Games as an athlete and he has won the CrossFit Game as a business owner. Today Jason talks about his concept of an AMRAP Mentality, the act of being present in every moment by having wild c...

On today’s episode Dr. Ray Gorman, the director of staff for Active Life joins us to discuss writing corrective action programming. . These days corrective exercise is something that many people “dabble in”. At Active Life we immerse ourselves in it and pride ourselves on being the best in the world at providing it. . Dr. Ray is responsible for making sure our staff of 14 coaches are up to date an...

In season 2 of the Active Life podcast we are bringing you hard hitting content and guests to you up to a mindset you may not have considered yet. Be ready for a mix of monologues with Dr. Sean and interviews with amazing guests to help you develop personally and professionally. “To open you up to a mindset” Follow @activeliferx, @seanpastuch on instagram

The 2018 CrossFit Games were undoubtably the most physically and mentally demanding games of all time. . On this episode Active Life 1 on 1 Coach Dr. Matt Stevens joins Dr. Sean to discuss how the athletes handled it. Between them Dr. Matt and Dr. Sean were working with almost 30 athletes at the games this year and what they saw might surprise you.  . Learn how athletes bodies held up to a 42,125...

As adults we have life experience to tell us what we can and cannot do. The problem is that our life experience is incomplete. If other people can do something, why would you believe yourself to be incapable? . What you really know is that if you try to do something again the same way you tried to do it in the past when you failed, then it is likely you will fail again. The solution? Do it differe...

One of the most common questions we get is “What does #TurnPro mean?”. . The answer is very important to us at Active Life. In this episode Dr. Sean discusses where the hashtag originated from, what it means to him, and how owning it in your life can drive massive change towards the life you want.

Have you been living a lie? . Do you really have to continue dealing with your aches and pain? Is it age? Is it that old injury that won’t go away? Is it your herniated discs or torn labrum? Maybe you’re bone on bone. . While all of the above factors are real, none of them are the reason you are still in pain. . In this episode we dive deep into the mindset of pain and why you’re still dealing wit...

Cody "Boom Boom" McBroom is a stud. . Imagine yourself considering getting into a field that feels saturated and dominated by big players, and asking yourself "what can I possibly do to break into this space?" and viewing that question as an opportunity. That's what Cody did. . As a remote fitness and nutrition coach, Cody jumped all the way in, leaving a successful career coaching clients one on...

Dr. Danny Matta is doing some of the most important work in the field of physical therapy and chiropractic today, he is educating practitioners. . If you are like most Americans, the first question you ask when considering a practitioner is "do you take my insurance?", this is the WRONG QUESTION. The right question is "Can you solve my problem?" Nothing else matters! . Dr. Matta is teaching practi...

80:20 are numbers Matt Fitzgerald lives by. . As a Nutritionist, a competitive endurance sport athlete, a coach, and a professional author, Matt has little room in his world for error. . Listen as Matt speaks about how spending 80% of your time doing subthreshold work (easy work) can actually spike your performance. And maybe just as important, learn how low, low effort really is. . It’s going to...

Have you ever suffered a major injury? Have you ever been in position to have to find something new to enjoy doing because the ship has sailed on what you have always loved? . This interview with Emily Duncan is incredible. At age 16 she lost her ability to perform competitive dance when she tore 5 muscles around her hip. . Now, years later, Emily has transformed her life to be a successful bikini...

If you listen to podcasts in the strength and conditioning or nutrition space, you probably are no stranger to Dr. Andy Galpin. . That is why in this interview we don’t talk very much about nutrition at all. . We don’t even talk much about sports performance. . The goal of this podcast was to help you learn through Dr. Galpin’s intentional experience how you can become more valuable like he did. P...

If you want to be the best in the world, you have to be selfish. . In this interview with Dave Durante, a former United States Olympic Gymnastics Team Alternate, Owner and Entrepreneur and Power Monkey, and gymnastics coach, we dive deep into the mindset it takes to become the best version of yourself. . We discuss the lessons Dave learned in the Gymnastics Arena and how he has parlayed those into...

It’s hard not to notice Hannah Eden as you scroll through your instagram feed. She’s the awesome athlete with an insane body and bright red hair doing things with ease that the rest of us struggle to even think of. But that’s not what makes Hannah special at all. . Hannah found herself working multiple jobs when the opportunity to create a class at a CrossFit Gym came to her. 7:30 class was dead a...

You might know Eric by his social media handle @Primal. Swoledier. He is the guy who looks like he is effortlessly breakdancing with heavy kettlebells in his hands. The way he moves with the weights is like a poem in motion. . He is a a true artist in his craft, but just a few years ago Eric was just stocking shelves at the Onnit Warehouse in Austin Texas. He wasn’t coaching NFL athletes, professi...

Mike Boyle is one of the people in strength and conditioning who has had the largest influences on me (Dr. Sean) as a coach.  Back in 2006 in Chiropractic School Mike was putting out content that was so full of common sense and practicality that I could not ignore it. Whether it was an article of his on T-Nation or a video of him I found somewhere, I was consuming Mike Boyle content. The opportuni...

In this episode Dr. Sean speaks with an Active Life client who is moving across the country after getting out of the military due to injury and wants to establish himself as a valuable strength and conditioning coach. This is a fun, personal and professional development talk that opened Francisco’s eyes and left him with some options he didn’t see before. If you want to get into being a fitness pr...

What if the best person to help you get out of pain and moving towards performance wasn’t a doctor at all? Would you trust them? Aaron Alexander is a Structural Integration Specialist, sometimes better known as a Rolpher. Aaron has done a phenomenal job of influencing elite athletes, hollywood stars, and corporate giants in the southern California area to live a healthier, more pain free and progr...

Today’s Bonus episode is especially interesting because Dr. Sean is speaking with one of Active Life’s longest standing one on one clients (over 2 years). Kimberly, the athlete is struggling to establish purpose for her training. She came to Active Life to help get back to performance after rehab from a Torn ACL left her in the space between needing training and needing therapy (Active Life’s swee...