Tuesday May 09, 2023

67. Unlocking Your Body’s Potential Embodied Movement Training Systems | Lizzy Wolterbeek

Key Takeaways

• The more dynamically you move your body, the more potential there is for injury. It is important to master the foundations of how to do an exercise correctly prior to adding intensity or weight.

• Many trainers at gyms and group fitness classes focus on goals like weight loss and will not put as much time into training people how to do the movements correctly.

• A person’s body type and weight do not necessarily reflect their health or level of fitness.

How can you unlock your body’s full potential? In today’s episode Dr. Andrew talks with Lizzy Wolterbeek, owner of Embodied Movement Training Systems in Centennial, Colorado about using movement to unlock the full potential of the body. Lizzy has experience not only in training, but also has personal experience coming from a weight lifting background and having spent much of her younger years fighting an eating disorder. These experiences have helped her to create a space that focuses not on weight loss goals like a large majority of trainers, but instead on rehabilitative and injury preventative movement and overall wellness goals.

In a group setting or a fitness class with a weight loss focus, there can often be not enough time spent on preparing the body properly for intense movement. When you go to those classes, you expect to feel sore and exhausted, so you may not even realize that you are doing an exercise incorrectly and causing harm to your body. When those same exercises are done properly, they can be very beneficial to your body, but first you must learn the foundations. By learning how to correctly move your body with a personal trainer like Lizzy beforehand, you can get a lot more out of fitness classes and be much less likely to injure yourself.

Your body has the potential to do incredible things and propel you toward your fitness goals, but only if you take care of yourself properly. If you do not eat right and get enough sleep prior to exercising the next day, you will likely hurt yourself. Similarly, if you do not learn the correct form for an exercise or spend time stretching and preparing your body, or amp up the intensity or weight too quickly, you may hurt rather than help yourself.

Quotes

• “We take the time to look at how you move before we have you move intensely and with weight.” (29:42-29:48 | Lizzy)

• “They want to continue to go to one of those group classes. And I say, go ahead, but let's spend the time in here really nailing down all of the stuff that you're not getting there.” (35:11-35:19 | Lizzy)

• “If you're not executing it well, it's not a good movement. It could actually be a harmful movement.” (38:11-38:14 | Lizzy)

• “There's no one body type for any situation. And how you look does not necessarily correlate to your level of health.” (51:15-51:24 | Lizzy)

Links

Connect with Lizzy Wolterbeek:

Website | https://embodiedmovementts.com/

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/embodiedmovement_ts/

Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/lizzyatembodiedmovement

Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/lizzofasho/

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