Think Fit. Be Fit.

Our nervous system truly is exquisite, and our exercise is orchestrated completely by this system.  We are far from understanding all that this system is capable of, but one thing we know for sure is that our brain is wired for healthy movement.   Jenn has been exploring what it means to align your exercise with the nervous system since her first neuroscience education course in 2009.   This short...

Exercise content cannot help us if we don’t know when to use it. The interplay of what is good for us and what is harmful might be confusing you.   This episode is the scientific synopsis for 'self awareness' and 'the science of you'. Things you'll learn in this episode: Changing the Allostatic Load is a concept that will help you execute better decisions about exercise. Tips on measuring your pro...

Here are our tips to adjust your exercise for a THRIVING muscular system that will award you in decades and in the mirror a few months from now Get specific with strength training Don’t exercise too much Use isometrics.      If you are exercising with diminishing strength, tight muscles and achy joints you need to be here for this episode.   Join Jenn for this 24 min. solo-cast on what she believe...

The EXERCISE SCIENCE-focused topic for today is also the FOUNDATION of every single benefit of exercise and everything that optimizes our lifespan. It is the foundation for almost all biological processes in the world…. This solo-cast Jenn gets into the mitochondria and the energy of your body.  These new shorter episodes of 'Think Fit. Be Fit.' are designed to support you to be your own best advi...

Welcome to Exercise Science Insider #7 with Rob DiDinato, whom is my classmate and colleague in the elite MATRx program and a previous guest from October. (here's our first episode)   There are discussions around targeting vulnerable areas for strengthening in all types of athletes.  I’ve always entertained the idea that enhancing muscular foot strength works incredibly well for most athletes- for...

When exercise is about being your best self, strength should be your first goal.  In this episode Rachel Garmon joins the podcast for a 3rd time and they are encouraging one another (and you!) through our own workouts and the common mistakes that our clients make.     In the conversation you’ll learn how we work on a multi-faceted approach to strength, specifically squats and lunges.  When execute...

Functional Nutrition, Sports Nutrition and Female Leadership with Jaclyn Sklaver of Athleats Nutrition. When it comes to the complexity of your health, we have to think bigger than just making fitness and nutrition as simple as fast food. You must think of it as nurturing an asset. There’s no better person to help us see the big picture about nutrition and a long-term successful relationship with...

In this episode, Katie and I recap my last ten years of business. That’s one whole decade of dedicated service to injured populations - turning the dial from “survive” to “thrive”, even with old injuries. It’s no secret that I’m passionate about what I do, and with the turn of the decade, I re-hash my own exciting, emotional and sometimes not-so-sexy journey in the business. If you’re an entrepren...

Welcome to the second Boutique Fitness Guide on Think Fit. Be Fit. Podcast!   We love the idea of boutique fitness for the greater good of our collective fitness and for creating valuable health assets.  A sense of belonging and managing a healthy lifestyle are what Boutique Fitness studios offer that the bigger gyms are striving to copy and why we keep going back.     Even though some studios are...

Exercise Science 101 is all about understanding the Stress Adaptation Curve and how human biology is innately connected to the rise of a challenge and adaptations from exercise.    The Stress Adaptation Curve promotes the understanding that creating change and progress in your life isn’t a linear process. Our hope with exercise is that our body creates “functional adaptations” like improved health...

Welcome to Exercise Science Insider #4 with Rob DiDinato, whom is my classmate and colleague in the elite MATRx program.   We discuss some problems in youth sports: burn out, injuries and not allowing them to be students of the game.   We share ideas on how to go beyond band-aids for athletic injuries and actually provide an opportunity to develop athletic excellence.     The theme of this episode...

Exercise is a tool for optimization. There is no one single way to accomplish this, there are many avenues!  However, If this one big thing is misjudged you could be headed for disaster; the amount of fatigue in your workouts.   If you notice that you barely get what you put into exercise, you might be falling for this huge fallacy in fitness, that states of fatigue are required to get results.  ...

The ultimate opportunity with being fit and staying fit is carrying over strength from decade to decade.  Hamstrings are majorly important because this group of muscles are such a common hurdle for active people.     Not knowing how to make them more flexible Not know how to target their weaknesses And how they can fail us during high speed movements which impacts the knee ligaments directly.   Th...

The answer? Knowing what you are challenging and why. It’s typical to get hamstring exercises from your PT or sports cross-training plan, but these exercises are usually non-specific and assume that all cases of hamstring weakness are the same…they’re not!    If you are:  An athlete of any type. Suffering from a history of knee or lower back and hamstring injury. Someone who is lacking quality in...

This plagues so many active people; hamstrings that just don’t quit. They carry a sensation of tightness most of their day or  tightness that pops up days after a rigorous workout.. While this may be normal, it’s not productive for your workouts.   One of the most common observations that people have about their active body is that their hamstrings are ‘tight’.  This is usually followed by some ty...

Holding onto pain-free exercise as we biologically age is a big deal. Healthy muscle mass is one of the keys to successful aging. When you’ve worked hard to achieve your fitness or injury recovery goal it’s important to take a step back and refine your process to ensure that your progress is maintained.  This solo-cast from Jenn proposes that we all take a the time to evaluate what we need to do m...

Any true fitness professional will tell you that trends appear with little to no outside validation or scientific thought process.  Jenn and her guest Morgan Williams discuss their 2 decades of experience as fitness professionals. They sift through the different areas of exercise application, the trials of being fit , maintaining healthy joints and exploring their competitive nature as female athl...

Do you worry about your body changing over the years?  I hear concerns all the time about not being able to achieve the body or athleticism of the past.   Join Jenn and Dr. Eleni Boosalis for a conversation that is a blend of personal fitness experience and professional knowledge of accepting change with grace.  Dr. Eleni of Del Ray Psych in Alexandria Virginia brings an incredible wealth of knowl...

This episode is a stunning example of how simplicity and science can harmonize for effective exercise.  This harmony isn’t possible without a deep understanding of movement and neural pathways, but don't worry we make this lesson fun and interesting!   Join Jenn Schwartz and Rui Reis for a conversation about a novel way of injury rehab, exercise and re-wiring the brain for successful exercise and...

Meet Dr. Stephanie Johnson DC!  She is a full time chiropractic provider, business owner and super-jacked CrossFit athlete.  She and Jenn discuss the importance of being proactive with your chiropractor as well as mindful decision-making for maintaining good habits and posture.     Things you’ll learn in this episode: How a forward head posture can predispose an athlete to injuries The importance...

Give your exercise a full upgrade! Do you want to develop a better connection with your exercise – minus the frustration of old injuries or relying on specialists or therapists?   If so, this is for you!   Here's what you’ll get with Movement Pathways – a live course offered on June 7-9 at  Local Motion Project  in Alexandria, Virginia and an online course that will be available on June 20th:   FA...

Chronic pain and under-performing muscles can slow down our exercise and age us faster. Exercise – and specifically strength training – has the power to improve muscle mass and joints. Muscle mass is the number one measurement of quality of life for adults, but we rarely discuss it in the context of functional aging and exercise. Many people are told to work around old injuries, limit themselves a...

Join Meredith McDonough and Jenn for a look at how so many of us are letting our personal blindspots keep us in a cycle of bad exercise.  Meredith McDonough is an Intuitive Problem Solver that uses Quantum Touch, Hypnotherapy, Psychic Awareness and Reiki to help individuals deal with the internal load of thoughts being out of alignment with our actions.   Continual exercise effort does not mean a...

This episode is packed with soulful energy of Jenn’s fitness journey along with a description of specific cognitive blocks that kept her and many of her clients from achieving fulfillment with exercise.   She discusses a wide variety of topics related to being held back by personal blind spots; fitness codependency, the placebo effect, the stress adaptation curve and how a major life trauma fueled...

Those of us with previous injuries can’t afford to waste time in the gym on what we ’think’ should be working, The ability to maintain and gain physical strength for our entire body is not born from a reactive or passive process.  This episode is dedicated to exercises that create a healing stimulus, which belongs in your Active Recovery routine in order to perform well on all aspects of your fitn...