390 — You Can't Fire a Cannon From a Canoe: The Core Truth Elite Athletes Learn Too Late With Paul Chek
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When people have a hard time dealing with back pain that keeps them from doing the tasks that make up their day, they rarely think about the health of their core, the locus of their body’s visceral somatic expression.
In this very special solocast, Paul shares a wealth of knowledge he’s accumulated for more than a quarter-century about the core and explains why doctors and therapists commonly misdiagnose the origins of back pain and assorted injuries this time on Spirit Gym.
This episode is also available as a video on Paul's YouTube channel. To see the graphics he talks about, download the accompanying handout here.
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Timestamps
3:17 Mapping out your core, the foundation for your arms and legs.
6:42 Why many physicians and therapists misdiagnose core dysfunctions like back pain.
9:00 The CHEK Totem Pole.
15:09 The most unstable part of your body and spine.
25:43 Why it’s common to see hip, knee, ankle and foot injuries originate in the spine and low back.
28:24 How the inner and outer unit muscles work.
37:10 “You cannot fire a cannon from a canoe!”
44:14 The RC Factor.
51:43 Functional exercise and infant development.
1:02:53 The Primal Pattern™ movement system.
1:15:31 One of the most dangerous things you can do in a gym.
1:21:44 The human microbiome.
1:28:33 Without healthy glands and organs, optimal conditioning and strength development cannot happen.
1:48:59 Fear changes everything from your breathing to your muscle tone, posture and hormones.
1:52:53 Achieving balance between the right and left hemispheres of your brain.
Resources
The filum terminale
The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky (FREE PDF link)
How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music
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- 0:00Intro
- 3:17Mapping out your core, the foundation for your arms and legs.
- 6:42Why many physicians and therapists misdiagnose core dysfunctions like back pain.
- 9:00The CHEK Totem Pole.
- 15:09The most unstable part of your body and spine.
- 21:41Organifi
- 25:43Why it’s common to see hip, knee, ankle and foot injuries originate in the spine and low back.
- 28:24How the inner and outer unit muscles work.
- 37:10"You cannot fire a cannon from a canoe!”
- 44:14The RC Factor.
- 49:37CHEK Institute
- 51:43Functional exercise and infant development.
- 1:02:53The Primal Pattern™ movement system.
- 1:15:31One of the most dangerous things you can do in a gym.
- 1:19:38Korrect
- 1:21:44The human microbiome.
- 1:28:33Without healthy glands and organs, optimal conditioning and strength development cannot happen.
- 1:38:17Wild Pastures
- 1:48:59Fear changes everything from your breathing to your muscle tone, posture and hormones.
- 1:52:53Achieving balance between the right and left hemispheres of your brain.