Dr. Jannine Krause returns to the show to discuss her unique blending of functional fitness and functional medicine. That’s right, Jannine treats patients on her acupuncture table and then they head right across the room to see how their bench press improves in real time! 

One tip Jannine gave me a couple years ago has been a huge benefit to my training. It’s called “positional parasympathetic breathing,” and entails lying down after a high intensity workout for 5-10 minutes with your legs elevated, then engaging in some nasal diaphragmatic breathing to help bring the body into a parasympathetic state after the fight or flight experience of a high intensity workout. 

In this show, Jannine talks about exercises to balance the body and prevent injuries (like my recent high jump injury!), including a little balance test you can do right now to determine if you have a left-right imbalance. She also talks about the cutting edge healing technique of “body tempering” invented by powerlifter Donnie Thompson. This strength prep or rehab technique works by getting the muscles and tissues out of their adhesive or “sticky state”, which is due to heavy loads of weight being placed on the body. These heavy loads of weight stimulate the proprioceptors and mechano-receptors located in tissues, which then change the signals to the brain and trigger the brain to relax the muscles that are under this heavy load. Commonly, loads are placed for 3-5 minutes in certain areas of the body, like hamstrings for example, or trigger points/neuromuscular junctions are targeted. For more info, check out Body Tempering.

TIMESTAMPS:

If you have pains or aches dominating one side of the body more than the other, it’s because you have some nervous system imbalances. [01:30]

Are you overstretching? Overdoing it? [05:24]

Sometimes imbalances are signaling back up to the brain. Have you tried to balance your technique?  [08:31]

Each of us, athletes or couch sitters, need to pay attention to our imbalances in standing, sitting, or walking. [12:12]

There are some exercises you can do right away when you see that you have an imbalance. [16:52]

Brad describes what it feels while doing the high jump. [18:50]

Sometimes athletes are focusing on just one part of the body when they really need to think about all areas in order to stay balanced. [21:38]

Dexterity is important to consider.  Some people have trouble with feeling things or even carpel tunnel. Squeezy balls are helpful for both hands and feet. {26:19]

What is body tempering? It’s a game changer. [31:01]

There are some good dexterity and balance exercises to get you back after therapy. [40:31]

Parasympathetic breathing is done after you have had a high-intensity workout. It’s a big step beyond the cool down. [44:21]

Janine talks about her practice. [51:56]

LINKS:

• Brad Kearns.com
• Brad’s shopping page   
• Dr. Jannine Krause
• HealthFix Podcast
• Plantar Fasciitis video
• Body Tempering
• Vigor Ground Fitness
• Watch Donnie Johnson talk Body Tempering

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Brad [00:01:30]. Hey listeners. It’s a fun, interesting show with Dr. Jannine Krause from the great state of Washington. She is a podcaster host of the health fix podcast, which I’ve been a guest on wonderful show, and she’s also a functional healer acupuncturist and really cutting edge health professional. I think you’re going to love, uh, some of these great insights. And, uh, the first part of the show kind of goes down the road of, uh, her talking about my high jump injury as sort of an example, uh, of healing and some of the things, uh, that might be helpful to integrate into a fitness enthusiast training schedule, some balance dexterity and mobility exercises, especially for the neurological system to fire correctly and correct the very common, uh, condition of having imbalances, um, sides of the body. So if you find yourself getting hurt or aches and pains dominating on one side more than the other, that’s because you have some, uh, nervous system imbalances.

Brad (02:36):
She works with players on the Seattle Seahawks with her naturopathic medicine, acupuncture and strength training modalities. You got to check her out on Instagram. She has great mini videos of little tips and drills and skills that you can integrate and test yourself on, uh, to see, uh, to show up some of these, uh, functional imbalances that might be affecting your bread and butter activities like lifting heavy weights or sprinting or jumping, things like that. So we’re going to learn about how to achieve neurological balance. And one of my favorite insights from her that she told me a couple of years ago, and I’ve been doing it faithfully since I first heard it is this technique of positional parasympathetic breathing. And it’s a way to get your body to chill out highly effective after a high intensity workout, because you want to come down quickly off that fight or flight stimulation that appropriate fight or flight stimulation when we’re talking about doing a workout, but then we want to recalibrate and get back to homeostasis and start the recovery process immediately rather than walk around, wired on stress hormones, flooding through our bloodstream. So she’s going to describe this positional, parasympathetic breathing and many other fun stuff from the interesting lively and engaging Jannine Krause. Here we go, Dr. Jannine Krause catching up with you again. I’m catching up with you on Instagram all the time with your fabulous, fun, little exercise routines, keeping people creative and motivated. So, uh, thanks for joining us. And we have some fun, exciting topics to talk about.

Janine (04:14):
Yeah, yeah. You know, just some things I’ve been working with. I read couple of books, interviewed a couple of people on my podcast and he got me asking some questions about the patients I’ve seen and going, what these athletes, why do, why do we keep having injuries on all on like the left-hand side of the body or all on the right hand side? Does that happen to you? Or you have the left-hand side?

Brad (04:35):
OH my gosh! This is good timing. Cause I’m, I’m so distraught to be injured again with my beloved sport of high jump, which is one of the most violent sports. There is Olympian AKF calls it a car accident is the proper way to high jump is to, you know, create all this momentum, this speed around a curve, and then hit the brakes and go flying through the air. Just like you, wouldn’t going through the windshield to be crude a little bit. But, uh, yeah, the injuries are, um, are very frustrating. I won’t say they’re inevitable. Cause I think a lot of it stems from overdoing it, uh, but just these imbalances that we bring to the table are really hard to address and correct. And I wonder if I’m doing rehab that’s helping or hurting sometimes such as stretching or just the basic things that you think might be, uh, might be helpful, but they’re not. Yeah,

Janine (05:24):
Yeah, yeah. You know, it’s one of those things you wonder like, yeah, am I overstretching? Am I overdoing it? Because a lot of us athletes tend to overdo it on the field or whatever sport is. And then the mobility and all that. We’re like, oh, well, if I did it that hard, I’m going to mobility the daylights out of everything else. And so now it’s like, Ooh, where do we get with this? Where do we go? So, so you’ve got a hamstring injury is what,

Brad (05:47):
Yeah, it’s a hamstring, glute, piriformis, you know, sort of a, a dead feeling muscle that is lingering there. And hopefully a lot of people can relate cause, uh, we, you know, we all have imperfections, but when they linger along for weeks or whatever the checkpoint is, then you know, you got some issue to deal with. It’s not just going to be maybe not just rest. Maybe it’s the same with plantar fasciitis, which I talk about, I have a popular YouTube video and a lot of people have commented and asked me further questions and all that. It’s like, yeah, I just, I’m just going to rest for a month and it’s going to go away. I’m like, no, it’s going to get worse. I promise you because you’re going to reduce blood flow and strengthening to the area by resting. And then you’re going to come back and repeat the same, uh, you know, movement patterns that cause that plantar fasciitis in the first place.

Janine (06:37):
Oh my gosh. Yeah. It’s unfortunately I hear that over and over again from, from patients like, yeah, my doc told me to stop and just, you know, put my feet up and rest and I’m like, oh God, no worst thing you could do. Cause life is about circulation. He was about circulation. If we don’t have blood flow moving, how do we need nutrients to there to heal it up.

Brad (06:55):
Interesting. Yeah. Uh, so, so movement, it seems like it’s an emerging concept. Kelly Starrett talks about it a lot where, you know, th the injured person and our notion that we’ve been programmed a whole life is to get a brace, get a cast, do whatever. And then the body will magically heal and you can go return to the court. And it’s not that simple, huh?

Janine (07:17):
This is not that simple. And even when you’ve got the glute hamstring thing, I mean, imagine, imagine a brace that went around, like you’re full, like, like in your glute. And then now it’s like, oh, I can think of so many problems that would go along with that whole whole deal. So is it your right side? Is it,

Brad (07:34):
Oh, yes. To answer your question. A lot of my injuries over, uh, over my lifetime as a runner at triathlete have been on the left side. I remember going in and getting, uh, examined. And, uh, some people would conclude that I had a leg length discrepancy and my left leg was longer. Then I’d go to someone else and they just show me, your legs are perfectly straight. You know, they’re perfectly the same size, but if you develop these muscular imbalances, tightnesses where you can develop a functional leg length discrepancy, because I’m all twisted up and I don’t have, uh, you know, straight ahead alignment then, you know, call it whatever you want. But I keep getting injured on the left side. And also I’m taking off with my left leg. So I’m sure that this is a high jump related injury in my individual case. But I know a lot of people have that, those, those weak areas are those sides of the body that aren’t, uh, that aren’t holding, holding their water.

Janine (08:31):
Sure, sure. And a lot of times, you know, of course, yes. With being your jumping leg and all that, of course, we’re going to have that as being the potential more potential for injury. Let’s put it that way and yes. With, yeah.

Brad (08:43):
And we used to use the word potential. Thanks Janine. Since I stepped on the sidelines, I’m thinking about my potential a lot. I have potential to, to perform well in the master of meets and I have potential for injuries. Thank you very much.

Janine (08:57):
Well, I mean, we’re all walking potential for something, right.

Brad (09:00):
So we want to explore our potential.

Janine (09:04):
Exactly. Exactly. I don’t like to give it as like, yes, you’re sidelined right now, but you still have potential and there’s lots of different potential. And it’s up to you of course, as to how that potential evolves. And, and one of the things we had kind of talked about today is it chatting about, is possibly talking about some dexterity things and balance things, because one of the most common denominators and folks that keep it getting injured on one side versus the other, it breaks down to sometimes there’s some imbalances within signaling back up to the brain. And so the concept here is that, why would you keep injuring the left side? Well, yes, there’s, there’s specific sports movements where you have to keep using that side. But my question to you would be what happens or have you even tried using your right side to launch off of every so often? Have you played with that at all?

Brad (09:52):
Interesting question. Uh, I’m also very strongly on this topic with the golf swing. And so I have left-handed clubs. And when I go to the driving range, I always start my session with a few left-handed swings. I do left-handed practice swings, uh, I’m terrible whatever, but I do feel strongly that we need that balance and that there must be some benefit in the central nervous system. So I’m glad you brought it up. And, uh, all my drills, I, I take some time to, you know, when you’re, you’re running the circle and high jumping, one drills where you just keep running in a circle, like you’re about to take off, about to take off. Well, uh, I also changed direction and run in the opposite way that I’d never take off jumping over the bar, but the answer is yes. I try really hard to, to balance that load.

Janine (10:41):
Nice, nice. That’s a really important key concept. And I I’ve seen you do that on Instagram, sending, sending you up for that one, but it’s good because I mean, that’s where I’m smiling because it’s, that’s what a lot of people don’t think about. We’ve got a lot of pitchers, you know, who are in the high school ranks in the grade school ranks who are constantly throwing right-handed left-handed whatever their dominant hand is. And they’re not throwing in some work to kind of balance things out. Now, sports specific is one thing, our couch folks, we got to talk about them for a second. You know, because we also have a lot of couch folks who are sitting around, they’re sitting on the couch and they get up, they twist an ankle, something happens and it always tends to be on say the right side or the left side. Why would they have that? If they’re not sports specific? Neurologic stuff. And really, it’s not that we are damaged neurologically. It’s just that we’re imbalanced neurologically. Cause how many of us sit on the couch or even sit in the chair or even while you’re driving, do any of us sit straight up and like, don’t do the gangster, lean a little, you don’t have some kind of thing going on. I catch myself all the time. Same thing goes with standing. You find, when you stand, are you left sided stander or your right side stander.

Brad (11:59):
Oh, mercy. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know, but I know it’s one or the other and I have, uh, all these, um, you know, idiosyncrasies like you described for sure. Yeah.

Janine (12:12):
So after this, I want you to email me when you decide which side you stand on, because if it tends to be where you’re standing, just in general, you tend to kind of do the, you know, what feels better kind of thing. We might be able to figure out some imbalances that might have set you up for the potential for having the injury. That’s one thing, and this is kind of everybody, you know, I’m talking you as an athlete, I’m talking as my weekend warriors, I’m talking to my couch potatoes. Every single one of us are set. We’re setting ourselves up. If we’re kind of not paying attention to what we do and kind of helping our body in terms of balance. So that’s one thing now, why would it be that this glute feels like dead leg what’s going on there? And I think a lot of people don’t really understand the nervous system as to how it works and senses things. So are we feeling numbness? You have numbness in that left side there?

Brad (13:01):
No, it’s just like a dull ache and then when you stretch, uh, you feel more of a pull on that side. Like if I’m just touching my toes, for example, uh, I can clearly identify, uh, some sort of problem, uh, because the stretch doesn’t feel right as, as it might on the other leg.

Janine (13:22):
Gotcha. So it feels like the body’s like screaming, like no, no, don’t do that.

Janine (13:29):
Okay. So those, those kinds of like, oh, the body sends that message to the brain like, oh, don’t do that. That’s wrong. That’s bad. When we get those kinds of sensations, it’s it’s protect mode, right? The sympathetic nervous system kicking in. And so athletes will keep pushing it a little bit. Cause we’re like, no, I want that pain to go away. I’m going to try to figure out what’s going to work. Let’s try a different technique, a couch, potato folks, you know, and I love you all dearly because I want you all to get off that couch. And that’s why I’m here. But that type of person who’s not as physically active, might take that sensation as, oh no. If it hurts, my brain’s telling me that I should really stop doing this and so we stop moving. But essentially what’s happening folks is that your nervous system is going, I don’t really know where I am in space because that glute, that hamstring doesn’t feel the same as the other one.

Janine (14:17):
So I’m sensing my world differently. And so really the message back up is like protect message back down, put the muscles on lockdown, cinch it up. A lot of times, what I’ll see with hamstring injuries is now we will have a functional, shorter leg because we’re, synching the hamstring up the calf cinches up. And now we’ve got a whole gimp to the walk and all kinds of things that happen. And sometimes, I mean, I’ll truly even believe that, you know, chicken or egg with that plantar fascia stuff there. I mean, that is going to cinch to a lot of times with hamstring injuries and we can go all the way up the whole spine and find things that’ll change functionally sometimes even up to the shoulder. I don’t know if you’ve noticed there, if there’s been anything Brad, with the shoulders being offered different too.

Janine (15:00):
And so these are some of the things I look at then the other thing that is kind of fun, and I don’t know if you’ve played with this and of course we’re doing audio. So for those of you folks, I’m going to ha I’m going to ask you to, or invite you to, uh, imagine this standing shoulder with the part and then kind of do a no place like home, move your feet in so that your, your heels and toes touch and close your eyes. And so Brad, I’m going to have you try that and literally make sure that you’re not anywhere that you could fall over and hurt yourself. And then let’s see. Let’s see, did you, well, you’re going to the left a little there. It looks like closing.

Brad (15:34):
Wow. What’s amazing. Is, um, I’m actually floating around. I thought this would be super easy to just hold my position. So everyone, please try this where you’re, I don’t know. It’s like the, um, it way easier than, uh, the DUI test, right? We’re just asking you to stand there with your, uh, your heels together. Boy, what a, what an experience when you close your eyes.

Janine (15:56):
Yeah, no roadside Olympics here on the show. We’re just going to have you close your eyes, keep your heels and your toes together. And yeah, you’ll find that if you’ve got an imbalance, you’re going to sway a little bit. And oftentimes you’re going to sway towards the side of the injury. And you’re going to the left a little bit.

Brad (16:10):
I went left. Wow!

Janine (16:14):
This is one little test to be like, is it a neurological thing? Do we have a neurological imbalance going on here? So folks literally, if you know, you’re injured on the right side more often, and you’ve got to make some pains right now, try this test out, put your heels, put your toes together, close the eyes and see which way you go. Make sure you’re in a safe place. I don’t want anybody tipping over and getting hurt, but just see which way do you sway. And you only need to close your eyes for like three seconds. And you’re going to know it takes like Brad. It was what couple seconds. And you knew which way you were starting to sway. So this is a nice little test to go, okay. If I’m going towards the left, the body’s protecting the left. That means we’ve got to work on some right-sided stuff.

Janine (16:52):
So oftentimes in this case, I’ll do some drills with the nervous system to kind of help prime the right side a little bit. Now, granted, I’m not going to ignore that left cause we don’t want to ignore the left at all. So we’ll start to prime the right side. Now some of it is really basic stuff where you’re literally standing on your right leg. You kick that left leg out a little bit and I am on video. Obviously you guys are audio. So we’re going to give you the best description here. I like to have folks think about like tree pose and yoga. A lot of people know what that is. You have your one leg kind of out in a 45 degree angle touching your other foot onto your leg. So I have the right leg. I’m standing. You could also do what I call Flamingo, literally bend your knee and keep your heel behind you and stand on one leg.

Janine (17:37):
And that’s a practice. Where are you doing this 5, 10, 20 seconds. And then you take a break, do another. And so I usually do like kind of how a workout would be. I like to do it where like three rounds, 15 seconds each on the, on those and see how it goes. And if you can do it without wobbling, you can even increase it. And so sometimes I’ll do three rounds up to, you can hold for a minute without wobbling too much. That’s kind of your goal. Once you get past a minute, it’s like, okay, great. You got it covered. And so that’s some of the basic practice here now. Brad is extremely athletic. So I might have to challenge him a little bit more than just standing on one leg. We might have to do some other tricks with them. So what I brought today, and then I’m going to do a little bit of description for you guys here as to what I’m talking about is we might need to work a little dexterity with Brad because when we’re doing jumps, right. And, and we’re doing what you’re doing in terms of these high leaping moves to get over that bar, your arms go up, right. Brad?

Brad (18:37):
Hmmmm. For sure.

Janine (18:37):
And do you feel them when you’re going up over that bar? Tell me, tell me what that feels like going up or that bar you were talking about a car accident and then a sudden stop. So I want to know what does that middle part feel like flying what’s going on there?

Brad (18:50):
Oh my gosh. It happens so quickly. It’s like a lot of athletes describe. You’re not really in your brain processing much. And interestingly in the high jump, it’s everything you do before you leave the ground. So you want your body in the correct positions. Uh, once you leave the ground, it’s pretty much what, whatever you did to get to that point is going to be your result. You can’t do much while you’re in mid-air except for bend over the bar. And, yeah, so I think the same would go for like the the baseball player swinging at the pitch. You know, the decision to swing is like, as soon as the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand and that’s what the science shows it’s really fascinating that they just make these split seconds decisions. They’re not thinking about it. They’re just reacting to what’s there. Yeah.

Janine (19:39):
Yeah. So what we have to think about for you then is they’ll going into the leap what’s going on with the arms there. And then my thought is the end. We, I remember in high school, we watched this horrible video about car accidents in high school and like not driving too fast. And it was like, literally there was a song about the sudden stop at the end. And so I’m thinking about when you land. Do you have any thought process on how you land? Because I’m like with the arms coming down over, this is where I was going with it. What happens when you land? So let’s, let’s start with the process we’re running. We’re kind of getting our stride going. What’s going on with the arms, with the stride. We’re trying to get the arms up as high as possible. What’s what’s going on there?.

Brad (20:20):
Yeah. As you approach takeoff, you do an aggressive swing of the arms. Otherwise you’re running with correct running sprinting form. And then on, as, as your last couple steps up to the bar, you’re going to swing your arms to, to create the momentum, to get your, your upper body as high as you can into the air.

Janine (20:37):
Okay. So I’m wondering a little bit about the swing on the right side. Cause granted you’re using your left to kind of come up, but what about the momentum on the right? Could there be some imbalance going on between right to left there and the right arm compared to the left arm swing? Have you done any swing kind of practices? Does, is that even part I, excuse my ignorance here. Is there, is there an actual practice where you swing to, to get the leap up off going?

Brad (21:05):
Yeah. You can say do a abbreviated takeoff where you’re just taking one or two steps. So you’re not focusing on this important run-up you’re just working on what happens. Right as you take off. And so there’s more focus on the arms.

Janine (21:19):
Yeah. Have you ever played with focusing on the arms a little bit more in terms of where you feel yourself in space or having anybody video?

Brad (21:27):
Aye. Aye. I video a lot, but I, you know, I’ll have to look at that as a, as another option to, I guess what we’re striving for is this balance in the, in the central nervous system?

Janine (21:38):
Yeah. Yeah. What I’m trying to do here and folks, just so you guys kind of get a sense of where I, where I’m at here is I’m trying to see if Brad is like dumping a shoulder on the right super far down or the left’s down or kind of what’s going on. If there’s some imbalance in the shoulder girdle. And where I’m getting at here is the nerves and how the nerves play out in terms of that huge forceful motion you have to leap up and get over that bar. So the idea when I’m working with you to kind of help, you know, one of my patients, you know, things of that nature when I’m working with folks that are in the same situation, having chronic injuries. I’m going, okay, the motion what’s going on is do we have imbalances happening in terms of the muscles? Do we need to maybe do some more pec work? Do we need to do some more like brachialis work? You know, so folks I’m explaining muscles on the front of the chest. Do we need to maybe work on those? So that they’re more even. How, how much, uh, chest presses and pushups and pull ups do you do these days?

Brad (22:35):
I’m doing pretty well with total body exercise. And I think the upper body can take a lot more, uh, frequency than the lower body. Uh, and it’s easier to get sore when you’re doing dead lifts, squats, things like that, and, and require recovery time. They always talk about dead lifting. You need to give your, your nervous system several days of rest because it’s so such a comprehensive compound move. So I’m trying to pull the stretch cords and do upper body things. I also, uh, heard, I don’t know if you’ve heard of this, that, um, for most of us, we have a greater percentage of fast twitch fibers in the legs than we do in the arms, regardless of our overall profile, if we’re a sprinter type or an endurance type genetically. And that was an interesting insight because obviously when you have more slow twitch and in the arms, it’s because, uh, we’re adapted to do prolonged effort to carrying things or whatever, where the legs are for sprinting. Uh, you know, as the, as the fast twitch fiber adaptation, but that means, you know, more recovery time necessary for things involving legs and, and less, if you’re doing a bench press, you can probably do several days a week versus squats or deadlifts.

Janine (23:48):
Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. As, as demonstrated by most of the big box gyms and all the guys, you know, in there, like what are you doing? And then they end up in my office because now they’ve

Brad (24:01):
Got to have the right technique

Janine (24:02):
Absolutely. So just kind of thinking around those things, we’re talking, I’m talking about what can happen to the nerves and the compression of, of the nerves by muscles and not getting the right firing, too. And so, because I’m an acupuncturist, I love, love, love to look at down the spine and see what kind of nerve root ending. So where the nerves come out of the spine there, those are going to go to the muscles on the backside of you and the ones that come out there and go towards the front. They’re going to go towards your abs and things of that nature. So another question that I would be thinking in terms of your case is, what’s going on with the core? And we know you have a good core, I’m not, I’m not even arguing that my question is, do we have one side that’s a little bit more dominant than the other?

Janine (24:41):
And so that could be something to, to look at as well with videos and doing a short off kind of one us ladies will be like, oh, look at that, Brad, Brad with the shirt off. Um, but I think it would be, I think it would be a good thing to think about in terms of balance there. And then with the landing looking at balance now, going back to those nerves. So have you heard of like myotomes and where the nerves go out to the muscles and the nerves go out to the skin? Ooh. Okay. So these guys can get impinged. So like when someone needs a chiropractic adjustment and I know that a lot of folks are on either side of whether chiropractic is useful is not, in my opinion, it’s, you know, whatever works, is gonna help. And there’s a lot of great data with the vertebrae.

Janine (25:26):
When they’re out of alignment, they can mess with the signaling to your muscles. So a lot of folks might have muscle imbalances that aren’t necessarily a full strength issue, but more of the nerve not firing, like it should causing trouble with being able to keep the balance in the body. And then we end up with a cascade of injury because we’re not keeping the right muscle tone. We’re not getting enough of the firing to get the most explosive activity, or we’re not getting enough muscle activity in tone to help balance the body while we’re going through these motions. So something, something to think about in this case. So it’s just one of the fun things that I experiment. And so a lot of times in my office, I will needle someone. That’s having trouble in a certain area in terms of imbalance, and then we’ll have them go lift and then we have to come back and then go, all right, did we get that correct?

Janine (26:19):
And then sometimes we can get it really good. Sometimes it’s a little bit more, sometimes I’ve got to do a little bit of these neurological drills to, to get things changed up with folks. So it kind of all depends. Now we talked a little bit about dexterity and this has nothing to do with your jumping or your hamstring injury. But I figured I’d mentioned that a little bit and then I’m going to segue if you’re cool with it, into talking about the body tempering. Cause that was that I was like, maybe this could be useful for you. It might actually be something that can help those muscles to regulate. So dexterity, I’m holding a squishy ball. A lot of people have seen these little stress balls. They give them out at like when, when we used to have conventions. Yeah. Like when there were conventions and we get all hang out together, these, these trust balls with everyone’s logo on them, we like kind of leave around.

Janine (27:07):
Like I don’t, I’ll give it to the dog, let the dog chew it up. But actually these could be really, really useful for you because most of us as humans have trouble with things like carpal tunnel. Have trouble with actually feeling things with our fingers. And same goes with our feet. I like to do dexterity stuff with our feet too. And this could be something that could help prevent folks from having the plantar fasciitis issues as well. Don’t do this while in a flare, by the way. You’ll hate me. But when you’re working on post post flare up, this could be something to consider. But the idea is taking that squishy ball and squeezing between the thumb and the first finger and then the thumb and the second finger thumb in the fourth thumb in the fifth. Now I learned this from Justin Franson. Do you know him?

Janine (27:52):
No, he’s a, he’s a coach has a book called Athleticism and yeah, the squeezy ball. And so instead of just squeezing, like squeeze, squeeze it, like, you know, Brad showing me a squeezy ball by the phone, by the way folks. And I’m holding up my squeezy ball here, but a lot of us will just squeeze it like this. We have this motion down and this is why the motion. Yes, you can make fist all day long. What we need to be doing is more stretch and more individual. And you can see like, even with my pinkie, I need to work on this still. And this has been something I’ve been working for for a couple of days, um, days, weeks, and squeezing, squeezing. But if the more dexterity you have in your fingers, the better you can grip strength things. So for those of you that are bar athletes and folks that like to do lifting, but also rock climbers, folks of that nature, all this dexterity great for that.

Janine (28:42):
But for life in general, now this is going to prevent you from having injuries where you can’t open jars and we’re having to ask other people to help us things of that nature. And then the reverse of this is working on stretching your fingers back out. I didn’t bring my rubber band down here, but I took a nice rubber band and put her on all of my fingers, right. At those like distal joints. And then I stretch out my fingers and then I bring it back in kinda like a starfish stretching out and then bring it back in. That’ll help you to work on the opposite motion that we don’t do very often with our fingers that we absolutely can. So folks, what I’m talking about here is dexterity that helps with neurological balance in terms of your fingers, being able to grip things, hold things, grocery bags, whatever it may be, because if the fingers get off and we can’t feel our fingers in space, a lot of people have numbness in their fingers. Now we’re going to mess up how the elbows work, how the shoulders work and go all the way up into the neck. So the more we can work on dexterity on the end points, the better. Same thing goes with the feet.

Brad (29:41):
I had a guest named Bryson Newell, who is a fascial expert. And he believes that with, with the fascia that we’re kind of terminating in the feet, that this is the, the root cause and the source for all kinds of pain and suffering in the body. And it’s a really compelling story there, but getting that fascia, uh, you know, integrated nicely with the, with the central nervous system and he, he prescribes different exercises and things, and it’s kind of a different way of looking at it rather than always looking at the muscles and trying to strengthen my hamstrings. So they don’t get injured again. Or what have you,

Janine (30:13):
Oh, I love his work. And really what it is is like it’s circulation, we’re hydrating the myofascial. So folks who are listening myfascial ask what the heck is that? It’s like that wrapping in around your muscles and underneath your skin. And a lot of times folks will say it gets sticky and they need to break up adhesions. They’re not breaking anything up. They’re just hydrating. They’re just moving the fluid in there. There’s no way you can break up here on tissue, unless you like full on drain or sprain yourself, all of the techniques with like grasping and all that. They’re not breaking the tissue. They’re literally hydrating is what they’re doing. Getting the body to pay attention, to put some blood flow in there, but literally causing an agitation. So dexterity here, dexterity in the foot, huge. I have people take their foot, put the ball on the bottom and just grip the ball, go grip it, let it go.

Janine (31:01):
And then work to try to go through all of the toes. It’s hard. It’s really hard to do, but it’s fun because you’ll realize like, wow, my, my third and fourth toe moved together. Yes, that happens. And then your pinky toe actually, we’ll go a little bit more separate there. So working on that is huge. And then this is where I can segue into my, uh, body, temporary body, temporary onto the feet. Ooh, game-changer good stuff. And goes into Brad’s work in terms of helping to hydrate and get that tissue. Nice and pliable. So body tempering, you had asked me, Brad, you’re like, what the heck is like, what is this stuff? Um, it is a technique that was developed by Donnie Thompson, who was a major power lifter, a famous guy, and two PTs friends of his that got together and were like, Hey, us, big muscular folks are having trouble to release our muscles.

Janine (31:56):
Right? And all the like Accu mobility balls, you know, they sorta helped. And the lacrosse ball sorta helped. But they weren’t able to get their muscles to really relax. And they were having more and more injuries because of the tension. And why do we have tension, you know, injuries because of tensions because we’re not getting the messages from the brain as to what that muscle is doing in space pain is essentially your brain screaming. It doesn’t know where it is in space. Something’s off now, of course there’s acute injuries. And then there’s chronic injuries and chronic injuries that we have chronic pain. This is now the body not trusting itself, not feeling safe, not feeling good in its space. And we can use drills like I’m doing here. Some of the balance stuff we were talking about to help the body to feel comfortable again and safe. Again, have you ever experienced where you were going to do a lift, like say a heavy deadlift or a heavy squat and you felt your body be like, there’s no way I’m going to do this and you stop. Like you can not move any further. Have you ever had that happen to you?

Brad (32:57):
Yeah.

Janine (32:59):
So that’s a lot of the nervous system shutting down your ability to lift. And so these guys like Donnie Thompson and the PTs who are also powerlifters, we’re like, wait a minute, we need to be able to keep these guys lifting a thousand pounds or more. Cause Donnie has some record for like a thousand pound deadlift, which is insane, not a goal of mine. Um, but cool. And, and they needed to figure out how could they get their bodies to go pass the limits safely and not injure themselves? Cause your nervous system is very intelligent. It’s going to be like, you are not in balanced to do this. And I’m going to tell you stop. And there’s also, you’re sorta not balanced to do this and I’m going to tell you to stop. Cause you shouldn’t, you just, just don’t do it. I don’t feel safe.

Janine (33:39):
So for those of you who want to push a little bit more body tempering can be really helpful in this case, but it can also be helpful for covering. So body tempering is putting larger, heavier amounts of weights on your actual muscle tissue and letting it flush out all the lactic acid in the area, flush out some of the blood. So we are kind of compressing the area and then allowing the blood flow to come back in. And by doing this, it’s speeding up the hydration of the myofascial. So that wrapping around your muscles and allowing your skin to glide more over the muscle so that you’ve got more mobility. Now you can also target body tempering to trigger point areas. So folks who are listening, trigger points are where we often will have knots in the muscles, the most famous one, the top of your trap, you’ve got to knot there?

Janine (34:23):
That’s a trigger point. And that’s where your nerve goes into that muscle. These little get those feet go in there and they’ll just lock up that area and cause those muscle fibers to be nice and short and full of lactic acid. So you put some weight on there, like the body tempering tools, there’s, it goes from six pounds all the way up to, to some serious, 135 pounds. And these guys will layer them on and different things that I don’t do too much of the 135 pounds. Cause I weigh as much as that one, putting it on people over and over it gets, gets to be a little bit much, but some of the Seahawks I’ve worked with, um, up at, up at my office in Renton here in Washington, it’s awesome. It’s how we can get the blood flow to change in their muscles and really relax the muscles.

Janine (35:06):
And one of the biggest things I use body tempering for is for the hamstrings. Because they’re the hardest muscle. Like it’s, it’s hard to stretch them. We all know there’s debate on whether you stretch you don’t you do, you don’t and, and so body tempering and can really be extremely helpful. And you put them the weight on there for three to five minutes. Some folks will leave it longer. I don’t recommend going too long because you can get a neurological response where the brain’s kind of like at first it’s gonna be like, I feel the weight on me and that’s weird. And then it’s gonna be like, oh, I’m getting used to the weight. Okay. I’m safe. It’s okay. And so by that five minutes, you’re good. Sometimes when it goes a little longer, it does go wait a minute. Is this thing going to get off me? Like what’s going on here?

Brad (35:46):
Uh, to be clear, you’re talking about, it looks like a foam roller, uh, when I saw the video with, with, uh, the enthusiastic Donny. And so he’s, he’s carrying this thing around and he goes, well, we have a 50 pound, an 80 pound. And I finally realized a few minutes in that he’s talking about the devices using actually weighs 80 pounds. So imagine an 80 pound foam roller instead of a 12 ounce foam roller, an 80 pound foam roller rolling up and down the hamstrings. So that’s body tempering, people. And of course we’ll have links to acquaint you further with this, uh, this novel technique.

Janine (36:21):
Yes, yes. Good clarification there. Yeah. We are literally putting, not like weights like dumbbells, but yes. Foam rolling looking devices. And then the ones that specifically target the trigger points or the neuromuscular junctions, those are the lighter ones that look more like metal sticks. They’re a little bit wider than a barbell. And those guys are, I mean really since I started using the body tempering in my practice, along with the neural techniques I’m talking about now, so that it’s functional neurology techniques. I I’ve seen a lot of great changes in folks and a lot of folks that were not feeling fingers after, you know, in a lot of times with lifters and folks, you’ll see like the fourth and fifth of the fingers don’t tend to, they can’t feel them. They wake up in the middle of the night, not feeling them. Maybe some of you listening to this might wake up in the middle of the night, not feeling your, your fingers and different fingers.

Janine (37:13):
It depends on what compression is happening and it may be in the neck, but it could be in the shoulder. It could also be in the bicep or tricep, and even in the forearm in this case and those little tiny ear roller. So we’ve got ones that are six pounds. We’ve got ones that are 19 and 44. I will put those on the arm and we roll it down and spend a couple minutes on the trigger points of the spots that kind of hurt the knots and we’ll get sensation back and it stays. It’s not like it just goes away. Cause that was my frustration with acupuncture. I could get it to go away for like a week and then it was back. And then I’m like, ah, so now it’s like, I’ll do the needles for the acupuncture. Then I do the body tempering and then it tends to help flush stuff out.

Janine (37:54):
Um, the feet and the hands with the weighted stuff. Amazing because a lot of us don’t get, you know, regular massage on our hands or our feet for that matter. And a lot of us are squeamish about trying to roll out on, on the lacrosse balls. But yeah, getting the weight put onto the feet now in a course that I took for the body temporary certification, they put a 50 pound weight on someone’s kind of their arch of their foot. And they had the foot propped up onto a bench so that the foot was completely full at there. So we had the ankle, you know, to the point where the foot was up flat. And then the, the 50 pound was put onto the arch and let it sit there for five minutes and person got up and was like, I can feel my body.

Janine (38:36):
Like I’ve never felt it before. And I think where you’re going back to, to talking about plantar fascia and all of the neurological connections in our feet, I think for a lot of us, sometimes we do chronically injure one side to the other when we can’t feel like we should in our feet. And I’m wondering too, if maybe one of the places that I look at with you would be going back to the feet and going back to, could you benefit from somebody doing a little bit of body tempering techniques to your feet? And now you don’t folks who are listening. I don’t want it to sound barbaric and torture us. It’s not like we would leave you and walk away, but there’s also, we could do six pounds. We could do the 19 pounds and put those into certain like the middle, you know, that middle of the arch of the foot, where it just hurts.

Janine (39:21):
You know what I’m talking about, Brad, that, that spot that’s like the gunked up, that a lot of people have knots. You can press into that and just hold there and you can run kind of in what I call like the palm of your foot in the middle section here, you could also go to where that plantar fascia attaches, which is on the inside of the heel, where it is pretty gnarly and hold there with this device as well for three to five minutes. And a lot of times, I mean, some people won’t let you do it, but about 60 seconds and that’s fine, you ease into it, but this can be a game changer. And I think a lot of people should start looking into body tempering for this. Cause I, at first I thought, oh my God, this looks barbaric and silly. But when I started using it on folks, I was like, they jump higher. They move better. It’s, it’s a game changer at our gym. I work out of a gym. I should say, I’m not full-time there anymore because I am back in Illinois taking care of my dad right now. But when I’m in and out of there, it’s I see a lot of amazing results on folks. And we have some folks that now we’ve trained and been certified within the gym to do this too. And we have a certain amount of athletes in some Seahawks that come in there and game-changer for them. It’s pretty awesome.

Brad (40:31):
So they get some good therapy and start to see some, some results and benefits. And then when we’re ready to go back out and perform, you’re recommending these dexterity and balance exercises, which I’m guessing even a highly accomplished athlete might really suck at like being able to stand on one foot or close my eyes with my feet together and not be able to stand up straight and notice my body tipping to the left.

Janine (40:57):
Absolutely, absolutely. So we loosen up the mild fascial tissue and then it’s like, okay, we’ve got to help the body reconnect and rebalance. Because remember that tissue was bound up before and the body got used to moving in that bound up, man. Now we’ve got a whole new body. The body feels differently. So yes, before we go into doing any drills or going to a squat or dead lifts or whatever it may be, we do do a little bit of balance techniques. And one of my other favorite ones I had showed you kind of, we just, the basic balance ones. I sometimes we’ll have people hop on one leg and I do it both legs, but we do, you know, a couple sets on each side. Another big one is putting a coin on the back of your hand.

Brad (41:38):
She’s demonstrating this. If you’re watching on YouTube people, this is a good, good video to watch.

Janine (41:43):
So we got the hand here and I’m hoping I’ll be able to catch it. You flip it up and you catch the point just like that. So you’ve got it like this. Oops, there we go. And then you flip up catch it’s and you have to catch it with your palm down, not like this. So if I try it the other hand now, see I am right hand dominant and I have been practicing this. So I’m hoping I’m going to catch it on this one. So we’ll see, we flip it up. See, it’s tricky. And that is where I’m like, you gotta get your left and right side connected with dead lifts. We, a lot of people don’t, they think it’s all legs, but we’re doing a lot of latch stuff. Well, what’s going on. If you’re not neurologically balanced in your upper body, dexterity can be an issue. Balance can be an issue. So we play with,

Brad (42:28):
She just caught one, people.

Janine (42:30):
Got one.

Brad (42:31):
So you’re putting the coin on the back of your hand, your palms facing down, you shoot the coin into the air and then you grab kind of an overhand catch to make it difficult as, as opposed to just opening your hand like a basket. So that’s the drill. You can try, people. If you’re listening to.

Janine (42:47):
Yup. Yup. And I would highly recommend playing with it. I got that from Justin France and his Athleticism book, I was kind of drilling through all the different things that he was doing in there. And I was like, oh yeah, we’re doing this. And so I’ve been using that before for my deadlifts. And I had this issue of, I would dump my left shoulder forward quite a bit. And if I did a little bit more, I kept working at this. I didn’t dump it forward as much. I kind of helped that little balance going on.

Brad (43:10):
Yeah. I liked that comment because maybe people are wondering what does catching a coin on my hand have to do with my incredibly important goals to increase my deadlift or perform on the football field for the Seahawks? And so I think these are little diagnostics to show or to prove to the person, Hey, if you can’t stand straight with your eyes closed and your feet together, you might want to, uh, take a few steps back from your next super awesome bad-ass workout, uh, at the track facility or in the gym.

Janine (43:41):
Yes, absolutely. It’s, it’s incredibly important. And I think we undervalue how much the nervous system is at play for us to do all these incredibly awesome things and doing little drills here and there before you get out, you know, get out into your sport or even if you’re going to compete sometimes doing a little bit of this ahead of time, just to kind of help make sure that you’ve got every, like both hemispheres, basically firing and yourself, getting things firing, like you want them to so that you can be at the peak of your game.

Brad (44:11):
I guess the body tempering, uh, would be advisable either before or after a workout, I suppose, to get the blood flowing and all the benefits.

Janine (44:21):
Absolutely. So I use it as a recovery, but I also will use it as like a pregame or, or a pre lift kind of situation. In the pre lifts situation you don’t want to be more than 60 seconds on a certain area, the recovery that’s when we start to get in the three to five minutes, because just that kind of flushing of the blood for too long, we’re kind of getting the body to go into a different type of mode when it comes to recovery status. Whereas with light compression prior to a lift, it can be quite awesome to just kind of stimulate the body a little bit more.

Brad (44:56):
Uh, I want you to describe one of the favorite things I’ve, I’ve heard out of your mouth, as soon as you said it a couple of years ago, I implemented it immediately and it’s been really a wonderful component of my, my overall training regimen. And that’s this, uh, parasympathetic effort that you do, uh, following a high intensity workout where you’ve stimulated fight or flight, you’ve worked hard. You’ve, you’ve done your reps or your, uh, your, your sprints or whatever it is. And then you come home and take a little time. So describe that, that, uh, sequence that you recommend.

Janine (45:30):
Yeah. So positional parasympathetic breathing, I got that from Dr. John Russon and he literally was like five minutes after work. I’ll try this out. I’m like, okay, cool. So you laid down and you put your legs up onto a bench or chair, whatever you can do, where you brought your calves up there and your heels are on a table, a chair, and you’re literally breathing, just chilling. And what that does that five minutes of time stops that cortisol pump. Cause after a workout, we’re pumping, pumping, pumping, cortisol. And if we go on to like the shower and the car, the next thing we’re going to keep that cortisol pumping. And we’re going to waste a lot of our energy that we could use for other things during the day. And so having that cutoff at the end of the workout to tell the body like, Hey workout’s over, we’re going to move into the next thing is huge.

Janine (46:17):
It will help you ease into recovery, but it’s also going to help your neurological system know like what is stressor and workout. And what’s like chill. Now, when can we stop being in fight or flight mode? And this is really kind of an extension of where my talk today is about all the different nervous system stuff as an extension of helping the body feel safe and helping the body get into parasympathetic mode. Because unfortunately in the world we live in, we are in sympathetic mode more often than not. So our nervous system is kind of always trying to figure out like in my safe, I want to balance what do I do? I don’t know. And so doing the positional parasympathetic breathing tells your body the workout’s over. Stop being in fight or flight in pump mode. Let’s go into chill mode.

Brad (46:57):
Yeah. It’s a big step beyond the cool-down, which we know is so important to bring the blood back to the core from the extremities and lower your body temperature and your breathing. Uh, but then I’ve generally found a lot of times coming back home and feeling a little bit wired to the extent that I’m going to go clean the house now, and then I’m going to go do some yard work because I’m on this, uh, artificial high from the fight or flight hormones pumping through my bloodstream, uh, from the recent sprint workout. And so boy, if you can kind of, uh, piggyback a proper cool-down with this positional parasympathetic breathing, I love that. I love that description. Then you can kind of come off properly and recalibrate. And of course that’s accelerating the recovery process because like you said, we want fight or flight to be short, temporary extreme, and it helping our performance tremendously. And then turn that switch off just like in the ancestral experience where we run for our lives and then we’re safe and we calm down and go back to, uh, hunting and gathering, you know, chilling.

Janine (48:03):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, it’s something that, unfortunately we don’t do the primal response as well anymore. We were on full on sympathetic and being able to tell our body like we’re safe. We’re cool. Everything’s over. We’re going to go into parasympathetic mode is huge. I mean, I think it’s possibly one of the key things for longevity being able to get into parasympathetic mode more often.

Brad (48:25):
Um, and so the breathing we’re doing a nasal diaphragmatic breathing, maybe counting them or whatever our preference is. We could maybe play an app or something.

Janine (48:35):
You can play an app. I just recommend not like laying there and staring at your phone two reasons. One, because if it slips out of your fingers and hits your face, it hurts. I’ve I tried that before. Um, but also it’s just, you want to be in the most calm setting you can. And so yes, the breathe apps, calm app, any of those apps, setting those to help you to breathe. Cause I think a lot of people do struggle to, to really slow down and breathe a little bit and myself included. So yeah, the apps, any type of breathing techniques that you’ve practiced before and go with it.

Brad (49:11):
Uh, yeah, it’s super great. After a high intensity workout, but I also realize that we can call upon this technique. Anytime we want to maybe unwind from a series of, uh, stress provoking emails. When we’re sitting there typing, we can just hit the deck and are now in our home office. You know, people used to scoff when, uh, we we’d talked too much about, you know, optimizing your work situation. I’d say, get a Bosu ball and sit on a low desk and then go back to your standup desk and then do your regular one. People are like, no, that can’t happen at the, at the high rise. But now with so many people with more flexible work, we have a chance to call upon these tools. And it’s so great to kind of, uh, you know, strategize and pace your workday appropriately rather than just go and get slammed and start to lose cognitive performance because you haven’t taken a five minute break to do positional parasympathetic breathing. So yeah, after workouts, after a tough day at the inbox, whenever we need to calm down,

Janine (50:09):
I mean, I tend to work it in. Yes, I have to. If something stresses me out, you better believe I’m hitting the deck.

Brad (50:14):
Yeah. Well, one of her, one of her clients just left and it’s a high maintenance, Seattle Seahawk asking too many questions and now she’s got to go hit the deck and do some breathing. Okay. Okay.

Janine (50:25):
Just chilling, you know, really. I have a lot of my, my clients who just, you know, we’re like, Hey, how many times did you take a break during the day? And they’re like, what do you mean a break? Like I, what? And I’m like, just lay down and put your legs up. It feels good. And you just hang out or like five minutes, that’s all it takes. You don’t have to like have a whole, like half hour of meditations, you know, session just stare at the ceiling.

Brad (50:50):
Uh, these recommendations have more significance to me now at age 56, because probably if I was 30 and listening to this, I’m like, what do you mean a break? But now boy, you can get that sensitivity. I think over time, especially when we’ve spent years and decades in front of a screen where I can really notice my cognitive performance declining because I’ve been looking at it too long or actively engaged in a reactive behavior, like answering emails. And it’s, it’s pretty stressful. So the switching back and forth between disparate tasks, like here’s my file for the book I’m working on is open. And so as my inbox, and so as my little text message screen, and that’s the stuff that really blasts the brain to the extent that you’d need to go off and recalibrate. And then ideally when we come back, we’re refresh so that we’re able to be more focused, keep focusing on the, the book file, if that happens to be open and then, you know, make graceful transitions where we’re not scattered all day long.

Janine (51:50):
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, just, I can’t say any better. That’s what I use it for transitions.

Brad (51:56):
Uh, tell us a little more about your practice and how you integrate the various, uh, healing or wellness modalities and how you kind of got into this, uh, how you took this journey.

Janine (52:10):
It’s been a fun journey. I’ve kind of taken all kinds of different ways. I honestly, in my practice right now, I’m not doing as much acupuncture. I’m flying back and forth from the Chicago area back into the Seattle area every so often because I’m taking care of an elderly dad right now, but my practice works more of like, okay, let me take an assessment of you. I want to see what’s out of balance. I want to look at neurological. I want to look at muscles, see what’s out in that department as well. And then I’m going to integrate acupuncture with a lot of the body temporary kind of things. Or I might be doing cupping, absolutely love cupping, favorite thing in the whole world in addition to maybe body temporary now. Um, and so I will have that. And then what we do is I often will have people go out and then lift or go out and show me kind of like, okay, where are we at in terms of your strength?

Janine (52:56):
Are you feeling stronger? Now let’s move into this. So I’ll have like a little short visits or I’ll have longer visits where we’re doing recovery stuff and a lot of the recovery it’s going to be okay, now you go home and you, you, you take an Epsom salt bath and you help get that magnesium in the body and you help just kind of complete the circle, get a good dinner in college. Good. So my practice is much of experimentation. Really. I will have people come in and we’ll do different types of things, whether it’s needles, cups or whatever, then we have do a drill, do kettlebells and whatever it is, it’s hurting like certain motions that are already in the, see if we’ve improved. I also use a lot of tack needles. So they’re like, I don’t have it on me, but I can put a little tack, like onto certain parts of the body that relate to helping with motion, like overhead motion or helping with hinge or flection types of motions.

Janine (53:41):
And then I’ll have people do a lift as well. So it’s basically using it somewhat as diagnostic, but somewhat as therapeutic as well. And then the biggest part of my practice is teaching people how to heal themselves and take care of themselves because yeah, I can be around and do all these things, but you’re your own best doctor you truly are. And if you have the awareness and you know, what’s going on, you can test yourself. And so I teach a lot of my test techniques to my clients and I do a lot of that hands-on stuff where they can learn how to do. And if they have partners that are in the gym with them, now they’re learning. And so the idea is learn how to help yourself here too. And then I can get some of the difficult stuff or help you troubleshoot if we need to.

Brad (54:21):
So are you saying you have a venue where they can get treated on an acupuncture table and then go into the next room and swing some kettlebells? That’s cutting edge, girl. I love that.

Janine (54:32):
Yeah. So it’s Vigor Ground Fitness in Renton, Washington. So there’s a room that I use specifically where it’s just right off the main, where the rigs are and everything, and we work on folks and then they go right back out into the gym and do their things. And so we go back and forth like that. Yeah. It’s quite fun.

Brad (54:51):
What’d you say Vigor Ground?

Janine (54:52):
Vigor Ground Fitness. It’s a great place. It’s a fun gym,

Brad (54:59):
Dr. Jannine Krause, killing it today. Thank you so much for the overview. We have some things to work on, bringing in some more dexterity and balance. And you’ve mentioned a few and I’m sure. Well, we can go follow you on your awesome Instagram where you’re doing these demos, video demos of different drills. And I highly encourage everyone to kind of sprinkle some of these in, along with your bread and butter, favorite things to do, whether it’s a hoist the bar or a jump over the bar in my case, or whatever we’re doing outdoors or in the gym, uh, just pursuing that, that well-balanced fitness. So you can stay healthy and, uh, achieve your, your, your potential in the, in the right area. We’re going to clarify that potential.

Janine (55:42):
Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, no, this is good stuff. And yes, Instagram, check me out there. Dr. Jannine Krause. I will be posting a lot more on this since this is kind of my jam right now and just seeing such great results. I can’t help, but share.

Brad (55:56):
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