Following your calling and defining your “why” are the building blocks of a successful and fulfilling life. It’s something you hear us champion frequently on Barbell Business, Barbell Shrugged and Barbell Buddha. But what do you do when your calling and your “why” don’t exactly match up?
Dr. Theresa Larson, founder of Movement Rx, has the answer to this question. Frustrated with a traditional clinic setting, she didn’t want to deal with the BS of the regular physical therapy world – treating 20 patients a day in the insurance business which felt broken and very restricting. After confiding in Kelly Starrett, the idea of breaking free from the regular constraints of the physical therapy world seemed much more doable.
In this week’s episode, you’ll hear more about how Dr. Larson fought through a debilitating eating disorder, the passing of her mother, leading an entire Marine platoon while deployed in Iraq, and embraced her calling to heal and nurture to craft her own successful career in the fitness industry.
We drop into MovementRX this week to talk all things mobility with Theresa Larson and Anders Varner.
We dive into lower back pain and how you can identify and fix the source of the pain in the body. Fact: 8 out of 10 humans (both athletes and couch potatoes alike) have some sort of lower back pain, and most of the time the pain is caused by some sort of imbalance or weakness somewhere else in the body.
Theresa and Anders bring to light some “oh shit” points on how our daily habits can be the cause of our pain. They also debunk some assumptions around mobility, and physical therapy.
On Episode 12 of The P.T. Entrepreneur Podcast I catch up with Dr. Theresa Larson. If you aren’t familiar with Theresa she’s a P.T., an author, a former marine, a business owner, a MobilityWOD coach and the founder of the CrossFit Speciality Course
Adaptive Athlete, basically a total bad ass.
The topics we cover with Theresa
-How to get the balls to start your own business
-Why working on public speaking is so important
-The hiring process: how to do it when it’s time
-How to plan for productivity
This podcast was a really special experience for me. It was the first time my husband Per Larson has joined me on a podcast. The focus of this podcast was on the transitioning veteran. This “transition” can be all over the place for service members because you no longer have your tribe. The tribe you spent years with, deployed with, went through many highs and lows with is now very different. The transition period can be filled with a lot of questioning yourself, sadness, happiness, and overall working to figure our what is next, then actually following through with your decision.
My husband Per before we were married was with me during the final phases of my transition. While I was prepping to go to graduate school, I met Per. We were in two completely different phases of our life, and our professional career, however our relationship was easy. I am incredibly thankful for him in my life. His patience, unconditional love, and ability to meet where I am at is one of the most amazing gifts that came out of my “transitioning” time from the Marine Corps.
When you listen to this podcast that my friend Keith Galloway and his wife Laura run, you will hear what my transition from being a Marine Corps officer to a civilian was really like. It was not easy by any means, however, it did get me where I am today. I have a beautiful family, a business that is growing, and people around me with a similar vision. While this did not happen over- night, and there were years of education that needed to happen, years of shedding unneeded relationships, years of trying, failing, trying again, I landed where I am today.
This story is about me becoming healthy, and about my life long journey of keeping myself healthy, my family, and those around me.
“Why online prehab rehab is the way to go for Theresa Larson. Not only is it helping people have access to health in their own home, but it is healthy for Dr. T as well.”
Stoked to be a guest on the Wodigy Podcast run by Ryan Davis who is a Doctor of Chiropractic. Being part of the CrossFit community and the Strength and Conditioning world, all the health professionals who live it, breath it, do it, all find each other somehow. Ryan and I connected via LinkedIN and here it is. We talked about going online with programming, coaching, influencing and what that jump has been like for me. I was able to share how my vision for my practice has pivoted due to truly understanding more in depth my values and how those play out in my life especially with a growing family.
Health professional to health professional we had the heart to heart about running a practice and how to do other fun and innovative things with the knowledge we have. For one, how many people do you want to help? While I like one on one, I want to influence and help heal MILLIONS. I can only do this by going online, speaking, and sharing the gift of movement education in person as well as shared over the internets.
Hence the birth of our low back fix program which includes low back pain exercises, low back strengthening programming, and breathing more effectively with your diaphragm. The program involves a little bit of rehab with a lot of functional movement. With Ryan I was able to explain the why behind this program, and how we plan for it to influence the masses knowing that 8 in 10 adults will experience low back pain in their lifetime.
I am thankful for other health professionals like Ryan Davis who are out there working to make a difference.
“Why online prehab rehab is the way to go for Theresa Larson. Not only is it helping people have access to health in their own home, but it is healthy for Dr. T as well.”