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A Beautiful LifeThe Fitlosophers' Cast Episode 002 w/ Fitlosopher-Coach Spencer Goodding: Becoming Stronge(r) Is A Long Game, What Makes A Great Coach, Finding Fuel In Your Origin Story, and Much, Much More!Spencer Goodding is the Director of Sports Performance at Impact Sports Performance (ISP) in Superior, CO, where he also tests & trains fire fighters, creates & guides strength training classes for adults, and empowers individual human beings to see & feel the results they seek through 1:1 sessions. He is an accomplished Strongman and powerlifter, and he has a great passion for caffeine and cookies. But this is all the veneer we know very well from his resume, coaching schedule, and fueling pit stops ("office snacks"...resembling the office workers' coffee break room).I work alongside...2022-03-221h 24A Beautiful LifeThe Fitlosophers' Cast Episode 002 w/ Fitlosopher-Coach Spencer Goodding: Becoming Stronge(r) Is A Long Game, What Makes A Great Coach, Finding Fuel In Your Origin Story, and Much, Much More!Spencer Goodding is the Director of Sports Performance at Impact Sports Performance (ISP) in Superior, CO, where he also tests & trains fire fighters, creates & guides strength training classes for adults, and empowers individual human beings to see & feel the results they seek through 1:1 sessions. He is an accomplished Strongman and powerlifter, and he has a great passion for caffeine, steak, and cookies.Catch a quick glance of Spencer in the weight room lifting 4-5 plates per side of the barbell, and you may wonder: how the heck did you get so strong, man?!In your...2022-03-2200 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 008: Five Practices To Immediately Transform Your Next Physical Workout Into A Spiritual ExperienceDo you want to feel more alive? If so, this episode is for YOU....Spirituality can be uniquely defined by each individual, yet we can all agree that it is connection to some larger force, essence, or entity.Spirituality is a FEELING.Which is why it can be so challenging to express in words!Yet, it is non-negotiable to experience the essence of Spirit in our lives...if we want to live a more fully relished and inspired Life, that is.This begs the question: How can...2021-11-1519 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 008: Exhalation Deep Dive: Letting Go of The Three B's of Survival, Entering Full Thriving Mode"Let It Go."What do you feel when you hear this refrain?Looser? More relaxed? Serene?Clenched? Contracted? Constipated?Personally, I hold on tighter when someone tells me to "let go."I feel unseen and unmet.I feel misunderstood.Perhaps you can relate.The things that we cling to most in our lives stem from the belief that we need them to survive.This may have been very true at some point in our lives, though it may no longer stand...2021-10-1927 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 007: Reframing The Broken Heart--Openness is WholenessA broken heart.We often identify this human phenomenon with pain and suffering. The slashes and cuts that dig so deep into our sense of self can be excruciating. And the brain knows no difference between physical and emotional pain.No doubt, the potpourri of emotions in can accompany us in "The Guest House" experience of heartbreak can be terrifying and torturous. Unwanted, at the very simplest.However, what we must realize is that this brokenness creates a space for OPENNESS.As the wonderful Sufi poet Rumi once expressed: "the wound...2021-09-2210 minA Beautiful LifeThe Fitlosophers' Cast Episode 001 w/ Fitlosopher-Coach Sam Tooley: How To Turn Pain To Purpose With An Alpha Mindset, Becoming A Fearless Beast of An Action Taker, Risk-Taker, and Doer, How Taking Extreme Ownership Will Free Up Your LifeSam Tooley is a fitness and business phenom rising up the ranks of his own life and into the upper echelons of leadership in the fitness coaching world. He is a 28 year old young man living in Westfield, New Jersey, owns and runs AlphaFit Club and The Garage Gym, coaches with the Ladder Teams: Fit. Together app, and trains for endurance running races. Fitness trainer, business owner, business coach, real estate investor, and are just some of the hats Sam wears in his life. But on this podcast, we dive deep into the individual human being's story...2021-05-121h 04A Beautiful LifeEpisode 006: Inspire Yourself, Inspire Others: The Literal & Metaphorical Vitality of Every One Breath and Every One Act of KindnessInspire (v): to breathe in.We take approximately 20,000 breaths a day (inhale and exhale = 1), yet for most of us, the majority of these precious life-granting inhalations go by non-consciously.It’s time to wake up our sights and psyches to value, benefit, and momentous gift of breath. Without it, we couldn’t live to do the things we love.Today’s takeaway = begin noticing and appreciating each inhale and use the awake flow it generates to do something kind for someone else.Turn small non-conscious acts into small conscious acts, and your w...2021-05-0804 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 005: How Do You Deal With The Vrittis of Working Out?“Yoga chitta vritti nirodha.”Silence the fluctuations of the mind.This yogic dictum has been revelatory and guiding for my life.Seven years ago, when I entered the realm of yoga teacher training, I learned this words and molded my mind with daily meditation—for the first time ever in this body.What I quickly learned is that, fluctuations of the mind are not all random. Though the disturbances can happen “spontaneously” or “on their own,” they most definitely are provoked by physical challenge.Resistance training, runn...2021-04-1806 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 004: How To Take The First Step Into Your Fitness JourneySo you want to get fitter but you don’t know where to start?You are lost in the “What Should I Do?” Woods of Fitness.You are not alone. And, you don’t have to stay feeling lostIt is time to blaze your trail.Stop hacking away at the branches of opinions of the hundreds of fitness experts and influencers + subtle societal pressures of peers and magazine headlines.YOU KNOW BEST WHAT TO DO NEXT (you just may have need to be guided within).In this epi...2021-04-1411 minA Beautiful LifeQ & A Potpourri #1: What To Do When You Fall Off The Wagon, Conquering Fear As You Embark On Your Fitness/Wellness Journey, How To Build Confidence In The Weight Room & Beyond Tune into you by distinguishing which worries, woes, or wonders of these three AB Life listeners resonate with you and your life.2021-04-1331 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 003: So You Wanna Be You 2.0? Start Practicing!Today, WE TALKIN' BOUT PRACTICE!One of my favorite quotes stems from the philosophy of K. Pattabhi Jois, "mid-husband" of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga: "Practice and all is coming." He found it very essential to manifesting success and growth.Allen Iverson had a very different value judgment of practice: "who needs it?!"The answer: EVERYONE WHO EVER WANTS TO BE THE BEST VERSION OF HERSELF/HIMSELF/THEIRSELVES.In today's solo-sode, I will tell you how to bridge the gap between who you are and who you want to be. How to go...2021-04-1007 minA Beautiful LifeWelcome to Fitness Flowetry (My Spoken Wordsmithery): Flow 1- “If Language Is Mobility”‘Fitness Flowetry,’ as I call my genre of spoken word/freestyle, soul-centered speech is a child of the harsh criticisms I received about my writing style as a youth and adolescent.Rather than fold to the ongoing opinions of person after person—a rhythm of external validation, I realized I had to turn into my own heartbeat and unique subconscious tapestry.So, hear—here, we go.Listen in as I express the connections I draw between seemingly unrelated topics to the cadence of my poetic dance.Line into line, I hope it spark...2021-04-0703 min
A Beautiful LifeEpisode 002: You Are ONE Breath Away From A Better Response (Exercise At Episode's End)ONE breath, my friends, can be the great wedge that takes you from low to high, sad to happy, angry to calm.Herein rests the epic secret that we all forgot about at some point in our lives: your physiology directs your psychology.With a single breath, we can shift ourselves from our default state to our elevated state--recalibrating to who we want to show up in the world as.If you ever feel that you do the following too much:-lose your cool-react to unimportant...2021-04-0414 minA Beautiful LifeEpisode 001: Start With Your Why: The Forever-Fuel For Your Pursuits (Exercise At Episode's End)Do you feel lost and confused when you ponder your pathway in life?Do you feel disconnected from your goals and disoriented from the work/play you do?Do you feel empty and unenthused when you think about what you are after these days?Do you feel slave to the habit of starting things and not finishing them?Or perhaps it's come to the point where you simply do not feel the fuel to get up and take action.Don't fret. I gotchu.In today's episode, I'll...2021-04-0210 min