The Deep Roots Athletics's Podcast

We sit down and discuss a very important topic around how muscles function and the differences between why some muscles "work" and others struggle.  It's a crucial part of understanding how to fix movement and help clients move better.  The fitness industry tends to only focus on skill of movements.  Meaning they try to fix positions and what its supposed to look like rather then cr...

Jen, Trevor and I discuss a very new controversial topic around GLP1 agonists and the larger discussion that is not being had.   The way we see the world is not good or bad, it's about tradeoffs.    There is always a consequence to an action, and that seems to be forgotten when discussing this topic.   We don't look at the drug itself, but the issues that aren't seemed to be talked...

Competing VS Training and Working Vs Expecting.  We discuss what the difference between competing Vs training, and how important it is to realize how they need to be seperate.  We also unpack how and why it can impact you not only as the athlete but also as an individual.   This podcast also looks at what doing the actual work looks like and what peoples expectations are of their performance.  We...

In this episode we continue on our conversation about nutrition and its impact on the nervous system.  We bring discuss individually what works for us within the constraints of the protocol, how we eat, and what we've changed.   Theres also talk about how recovery from training is not souly based on food, but more the nervous system.   If food recovered us, than why wouldn't we just eat...

Trevor and I discuss the profound effects that Q-1 has on your behaviour.  We explain how to do it, what to expect and how it can help you in your everyday life.  We get into how doing q-1 at certain times can help with certain behaviours as well as workouts that can also be done.  We lay how it works and the function of doing it properly and intently.  This has drastically changed my stress toler...

In this podcast we update you all on what Trevor and I have been doing with Jen in regards to rehabbing her shoulder and what her training looks like.   From car accidents to a subluxed shoulder we discuss the process were taking to address the main structural issues to make her come back better than before.   We also discuss this concept of the credit card affect.   The importance of digesting yo...

Jen Trevor and I all finally get on the podcast and discuss a very interesting and controversial topic on nutrition.   We dicsuss the impact of nutrition on the nervous system and how different macros (protein, carbs, fats) have an impact on the body, mind and behaviours.  There is quite a bit of nuance in food that most people are missing, as always the nervous system is the biggest influencer of...

Trevor and I go into a very profound strongfit idea called no fix November.  It's design is simple and developed around better understanding what your body is telling you.   Trevor opens up about his experience with it and how it impacted his behaviour, relationships, sleep, training and day to day life.  It's a fantastic listen, and something I have personally done multiple times to bet...

I discuss and Idea that I find most people in the fitness industry massively overlook.  This is the idea of what "Scientific truths" are and how often only look at one structure of evidence.   I find that today science is only about data, but thats not the true definition of science, its not only about numbers.  This episode is a bit of a deviation from fitness, however it is also entire...

Coach palo and I discuss a very different approach to all things nutrition.   We both talk about our experiences with the protocol and how its evolved over time.   Most approaches to food are very simplistic and are often built around attaining some sort of aesthetic goals.   We explain the importance of the protocol on your recovery, your performance, sleep and behaviour.  Most people struggle wi...

Palo and I share a lot of the same principles when it comes to training and coaching, both unique and unorthodox in approach and execution. This episode we discuss some principles around movement and how the system works.  We also discuss what that looks like around training and coaching tri-athletes.  Adjusting behaviour, motives, performance and movement patterns.  We take a deep dive into one o...

A big warm welcome to Trevor.   As of January, he has decided to join the deep roots team and were excited to have him. He has an extensive background in kinesiology that we are slowly integrating into the deep roots practice.   In this episode we talk about his history with kinesiology, and how he, like most of us learning the strongfit principles for the first time, are completely and utterly st...

Lots of things have changed...Lots of things are changing... This was an old one from the summer, where Matt and I discuss my approach to fitness, and finally our shared common understanding of how the body functions and what you can do to truly help yourself.   We never always met eye to eye with this stuff, we always got caught in semantics, however things change the more you talk and experience...

Jen and I have a little update about our training, her broken foot, the impact it's had on her and her training and whats to come.   We talk a little about how her most recent injuries have impacted her sense of self but also showing her a new path forward.  From her almost broken wrist to a now broken foot she talks through what happened and how she's using it to learn about her life an...

Jen and I did a little impromptu podcast a couple weeks back just talking about our current training and fitness.   We discuss our individual paths of our current fitness, what we've learned, what we need to work on, and what we are really enjoying.  Of course this podcast comes a few weeks after Jen breaking her 5th metatarsal on her foot.  It's a short one but always fun.   -Sorry for...

I had a wonderful conversation with Pavol from all the way out in Dubai.   We met each other through instagram sharing some sort of content related to Strongfit.  From there we've been in touch and we finally got together and had a lengthy chat about his approach to fitness. I find that most Strongfit coaches share a lot of the same values and principles towards not only fitness but life also...

Jen and I travelled down to L.A. for a 2 day seminar and a 4 day coaches week withe Julian Pineau from strongfit and Mike Ramirez from divergent fitness.  Jarrett asks us a load of question about what we learned, how we felt, and our whole experience down there.  We also touch on how training actually impact autism, and how the principles I've been learning from Strongfit are crucial for help...

This episode we talk about the novelty search and what that means for training and your life.   The Study done in France outlines how they used algorithms in conjunction with AI to solve getting out of a maze (fundamentally, solving problems).   We explain and connect black swan event to your life, and even training, and how they impact the direction and path in which you take, and the impacts of...

Jarrett is back !  We discuss the rest of the Q training and how it can help you with your training and your everyday life.  We will be going back to these at some point and elaborating on them even more.  We discuss Q+1, Disney December, and burn the questions.  All massively helpful tools that can start to create balance within you as an individual and your training systems.  Sit back and enjoy....

Jen and I Discuss how your system functions through prediction and observation, and the impact it has on you day to day and your training.   We get into how the mind is a predictive mechanism and the body is an observation mechanism, they work in conjunction with one another, to manage entropy (karl Fristons free energy principle).  This seems to be the basis in some scientific fields of how the s...

We have our first guest on the podcast, Jennifer Way. She gives us insight into her life, in regards to sports, training, eating, and her own personal battles with mental health.    .She explains from a females point of few what we find most women struggle with in regards to training, stress, and self image.  It's nice to have a females point of view on some of these principles other than jus...

An impromptu podcast about some recent events that have occurred in the fitness industry.  Im sure a lot of you out there have heard about the social media influencer "Liver King" and everything that he embodies.    I wanted to use this as an example of how I believe the fitness industry is doing a massive disservice to everyone that is involved.  We have built a system that is based on...

Jarrett and I discuss a more complex topic around training and behaviour.   We get into the difference between mindset and behaviour, how mindset cant directly impact change  to your environment in the way you think it does.   We go into one of the main Strongfit principles called the phylogenetic hierarchy, the flow, fight, flight, and freeze and how these states impact your behaviour but also di...

This episode gets a little more complicated, Jarrett and I discuss the function of the nervous system and its basic functions.  This is important to know because this is the powerhouse of the body, without the nervous system life for humans may not even exist. We discuss the importance of the autonomic nervous system and the main focus of the sympathetic and parasympathetic side.  We are simply ju...

We start off by talking about a very key principle that is often over looked not just in fitness but in life.  Functional integration versus functional segregation, and its common effect on people decision making process.  We touch a little about how we see fitness, we talk pros and cons of the fitness industry.  We outline the positives and negatives of social media, the lack of depth of knowledg...