Think Fit. Be Fit.

As you may have noticed by now; being healthy drives my motivation.  Today's episode was inspired by my own personal health journey with functional medicine What you'll learn in this episode Fout things I’ve learned about Functional Medicine on a societal level and working alongside these practitioners how my personal healthcare depends on the philosophy of functional medicine to be accurate plus...

Optimal health and fitness doesn’t have to be a guessing game.  Chronic illness, aging, old injuries or stress can get in the way of whole body fitness and feeling good while moving.  Functional Medicine can reverse the negative impacts of stress and life on our body.  A guided approach to whole health and fitness starts with measurements and data that the typical doc does not offer. Functional Me...

Gregory Gordon MA of Exercise Intelligence joins Jenn for a special recap episode! Check out the blog on our most downloaded shows of 2020 with notes on the content: https://www.thinkfitbefitpodcast.com/our-most-popular-episodes-january-june-2020/ As we start the second half of 2020, we have seen our community grow tremendously and we thank you for your support! If you are a long time listener and...

There are advantages to workouts in an outside natural environment that are difficult to account for within the confines of a gym or fitness center.  This is because the body and mind were beautifully designed to adapt to our environment.  Today’s episode is an exploration of adventure meets exercise and leadership for fitness professionals. In this day and age exercise is not just a way to improv...

Finding the sweet spot for running and enjoying your movement is worth an inside look at how the feet contribute to strength, force absorption and running with natural confidence. Rick Merriam has spent years educating runners on how to compete and have fun without pain.  He is a seasoned massage therapist, professor of anatomy and kinesiology and has his own podcast, Engaging Muscles podcast.  In...

If you're adamant about health and fitness for the long-term, not just the short-term benefit, then you will want to use Jenn and Ben's conversation for guidance on the inside view of fitness education's broken system.   "Making it" in your fitness journey requires adaptability, openness and a willingness to be held accountable.  This is true of both fitness professionals and exercise lovers. You'...

Self transformation is beyond self awareness.  It is a reshaping of perception while being in ownership and abundant energy.  Do you want to know how a professional approaches this process?  This episode is a transparent view of helping oneself through a course of trusting the process.  Dr. Stephanie Johnson DC is not only a chiropractor, ART Practitioner and business owner.  She is also an avid y...

Ben Dragavon knows more than a few things about client defined progress and high performance athletics.  Join Jenn and Ben for this conversation about the nuances in taking it to the next level from being a defeated athlete to micro-assessing and training Olympic athletes like Hope Solo.    Here's a little more about Ben: He is a Muscle & Joint Specialist for the professional athlete to the everyd...

Being decisive and creative was a necessity during the recent global events that have changed the world.  This episode is all about building an effective home exercise experience by sharing exercise mechanics knowledge. This is an ongoing project for Think Fit. Be Fit . as we believe our community's exercise is about personal growth and getting stronger despite complicated circumstances. Jenn and...

The most optimistic way  to signal the next era of wellness is say “it’s time - to wake - the f*ck -up” with guest Keith Norris on Think Fit Be Fit podcast.    Keith is the co-founder of Paleo f(x)™ and a true visionary in the ancestral health movement and exercise.   Paleo f(x)™ is the world’s premier holistic wellness event, covering health, nutrition, fitness, sustainability, self-development,...

Throughout the month of May Think Fit. Be Fit. went on a deep dive of the core.  This is the 6th episode in that series.    Here’s the summary of May’s core-centric episodes: An episode all about Pilates;  why it’s a full body exercise modality and not purely abdominal focused. Link Learning motion intrinsically with the creator of the Core Restore training system. Link An expert guest, academical...

Title: Independent Thinking and the core with Dr. Paul Juris Ed. D. Exercise Science Insider ep #12   This is a conversation on independent thinking about the core with Dr Paul Juris Ed. D.   Paul is a noted kinesiologist specializing in education, motor skill development, sports performance enhancement, rehabilitation, and intuitive program development. He has also provided extensive sports devel...

“Cueing is the substance of our message” Nick Winkleman PhD   Trainers, athletes, therapists and coaches- has this EVER been more true?   Cueing may be one of the most underrated skillsets that get developed by fitness professionals.  There is an art attached to cueing and choosing the substance of our words that is aligned to improving every aspect of performance- speed, autonomic nervous system,...

Have you ever thought that the learning of a motion is one of the biggest components of an exercise experience?  Chris Verdi of Core Restore New Jersey and Jenn have spent time on his patented training system, The Core Restore.  This truly unique apparatus has a lot to offer anyone willing to try a new way to activate movements or muscles.  This includes  body building competitors, an athlete reco...

The automatic motions of our body are rarely thought of in terms of chronic pain and performance.  We are discussing a topic today that bridges all of those factors together; the diaphragm, breathing and the pelvic floor.   Please welcome the 2nd Physical Therapist guest on Think Fit. Be Fit., Noelle. Noelle Ekonomou has Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Saint Louis University and has received ex...

“Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.” Joseph Pilates The goal of today's short episode is to present the theory that Pilates, the modality and man, have a lot more to offer than ab exercises and helping lower back pain.  Jenn is bringing on her Pilates teacher, Tara Becker, for a presentation on a whole-body approach to Pilates and why every single p...

Chances are your home exercise program is centered on full body cardio and burpees.  If this is the case, join Jenn and Ed Morand for a conversation on enhancing and amplifying your home workout.   There's nothing wrong with the typical full body cardio home workout, but what if you could replicate every exercise from a cable machine with tubing and a carabiner? Wouldn't that be better?  This epis...

Instagram influencer workouts seem pretty harmless and fun. While they serve their purpose of capturing your attention, Jenn and Jaclyn of Athleats Nutrition discuss how ‘fun and sweaty’ are not the same as appropriate and effective.  They would argue that the nature of Instagram influencer workouts are not stimulating enough to be effective for fat loss and achieving muscle growth in females. In...

Today’s episode is a really important one.  It covers a topic that affects someone you know or perhaps even you and it’s definitely something we are trying to avoid, which is chronic pain.   Here are some statistics:   50 million Americans live with chronic pain Between $500 and 630 BILLION is lost annually due to chronic pain in  America  Patients experience persistent pain after routine surgery...

These conversations are the reason WHY Jenn started this podcast.   The way we exercise is a direct reflection on how we view the body.  The Exercise Science Insider episodes are designed to show you that exercise is so much more than meets the eye. This episode lays out some critical thinking pieces about exercise and training for sports that you can apply NOW and when our gyms and fields open ba...

Fitness has been reframed for us.  Today's episode is about balancing your beliefs about your fitness journey with what is important for health. Here are the 6 fundamentals of injury prevention while boosting the accuracy of your workouts: 1. Develop your intuition and knowledge about exercise 2. Perfect the warm-up process 3. Know what you're capable of and the opportunity costs 4. Spark recovery...

Learning and skill acquisition have a big domain in the discussion on healthy exercise. This episode is a fun dive in to the inner workings of an intellectual connection to exercise.  Jenn’s guest today is  someone she calls a friend, mentor and colleague; Gregory Gordon MA of Exercise Intelligence. He is a movement scientist with a specialization in pain science and motor learning who practices M...

Quarantine and Chill with Ryan Crossfield!  Meet Jenn's new friend, LA based coach Ryan Crossfield.  He is an introverted Health & Performance Coach with a lot of experience optimizing health and body composition.  This is essentially a conversation between two exercise professionals that are not seeing clients due to the pandemic shutdown and social distancing.  It should be obvious that both Jen...

Now more than ever we are reflecting on community and depending on one another.  This interdependency makes us fundamentally human. While we are deeply entrenched in the culture of productivity it is hard to recognize the importance of community and the one-ness of good health.  This episode is a conversation about building a community with the goal of human expansion and taking calm, conscious ac...

We are in interesting and uncharted territory, so this episode is about keeping immunity high and being there for one another.  This pandemic is bigger than YOU - and requires action for the community at large... and aren’t we all curious on how the immune system works and how we can  keep life as normal as possible?  We are all experiencing deep fear of the unknown and anxiety about what’s to com...