On our wise walk today, I thought it would be fun to share a very special guest with you, my little sister JJ Thomas. JJ is the owner of Primal Physical Therapy, the creator of Primal Performance Systems, and a trainer for GMB Fitness. JJ has spent her life focusing on the body and it’s development to really optimize performance. But most of all, JJ is a wonderful mom to my three niece and nephews, a great wife, sister, daughter, and more.
On this episode, we discuss 5 ways to align your True Stride physically, emotionally, or energetically and as we stride together, the questions on my mind are: are you wasting energy on things that aren’t helping you? In what areas of your life do you feel centered, and where do you want to make changes? For any changes you want to make, are your goals realistic and attainable? Are you open to resetting your expectations to regress to progress? How are you integrating balance in your life to support your overall wellbeing and achieve what you really want?
JJ believes you need to work on your attainable goals, refine them, and train beginner moves as if they were advanced. Take a fundamental piece of your goal, work it and perfect it, and from there, the growth is exponential instead of reaching for that unattainable goal. JJ breaks down the components any athlete needs to make them good and efficient at what they do without breaking down: strength, flexibility, mobility, power, explosiveness, and balance by knowing where you are in space at any given time.
I know most of our analogies for this wise walk were movement and physical progression examples. Hopefully, you were able to take the broad themes and focus your energy, stay centered, be realistic, be kind, and find balance in everything you are currently working on because all of those things apply to everything we do to realize our True Stride. In almost everything we do, physical, emotional, or psychological, we need to trust our inner compass, find our center, and seek balance.
We all need and benefit from support physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and sometimes spiritually. The key is to pay attention, ask for help when we need it, and trust our inner compass to direct us. As you think about what will empower you to get your game on right now, remember to focus your energy on what really matters, stay centered, be realistic, be kind to yourself, and last but not least, find your balance.
In this episode:
[00:24] Can you believe we are over a month into 2021 already?!
[03:00] JJ’s Heart Value is massive.
[04:20] Where are you focusing your energy? Are you wasting energy on things that aren’t helping you?
[04:40] What areas in your life do you feel centered, and where do you want to make some changes?
[04:50] For any changes you want to make, are you clear on your goals, and are they realistic and attainable?
[05:00] Where can you ease up on what you expect of yourself?
[05:23] How are you integrating balance in your life?
[05:49] Welcome to the show, JJ!
[06:45] True Stride is about channeling your best self and moving forward in alignment with your heart and your head.
[07:40] JJ shares how she sees the body’s progression and optimizes the body’s best movements.
[08:56] JJ speaks about a person she saw running on the beach and how inefficient their gate was.
[11:55] Build some kindness into what you are doing.
[13:31] JJ believes you need to regress to progress.
[14:41] JJ helps me with my hip flexibility and says the fundamental positioning is the most important part of the exercise.
[17:08] JJ shares how she imparts on her clients the importance of balance and stability.
[18:44] Each component is different but important to feed the other components.
[19:39] Amazingly, our bodies know most of what we need intuitively.
[21:25] Thank you so much for being on the show today, JJ!
[22:44] Are there areas in your life where you are overstriding, where you are giving a lot of effort but losing forward momentum?
[23:07] Where in your life are you wasting time?
[23:22] How does balance play a role in what you want to accomplish?
[25:16] Thank you for listening!
Memorable Quotes:
- “Our gifts help you reconnect to what is important to you.” -Mary Tess Rooney
- “It’s important to set realistic attainable goals for your vision.” -Mary Tess Rooney
- “Build in some kindness into what you are doing.” -Mary Tess Rooney
- “Regress to progress.” -JJ Thomas
- “Work on your attainable goal and refine it.” -JJ Thomas
- “Train beginner moves as if they were advanced.” -JJ Thomas
- “If you want to head in a new direction, you have to head that direction.” -JJ Thomas
- “It’s amazing that our bodies know most of this intuitively.” -Mary Tess Rooney
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