by 5dmin | Nov 28, 2018 | Blog, Podcast
I’m so stoked about this episode of My New Normal! I’m joined by Chase Gentilhomme, a Service Warfare Naval Officer, CrossFit Coach, Adaptive Coach, and soon to be Physical Therapist. And Keith Concar, an Adaptive Athlete, a giver, an empath, and a total badass who would do anything for anyone.
Keith fractured his spinal cord in a motor vehicle accident and has a T12 “incomplete spinal cord injury”. Which means he can still feel and has some access to levels below that injury.
This episode of MNN is about having a serious episode or injury in your life and either maladapting or adapting. Can you be resilient and change?
There’s a point after the injury or serious episode where you have to make the choice to search for the optimal instead of settling for your current situation. And that’s what it means to ADAPT instead of maladapting.
Keith’s injury occurred when he was down in New Orleans helping people during hurricane Katrina. He was hit while riding a motorcycle and was hospitalized for a month.
Instead of falling into depression with his new diagnosis of being paralyzed, Keith shifted his focus to the nurses and doctors he was surrounded with who had lost everything. He bonded with the people he had met while working in the city. He consoled and talked to the woman who hit him in the accident.
Keith adapted instead of maladapting.
While Chase doesn’t have an injury like Keith’s, his history is comprised of several injuries and surgeries. His story is one of constant adaption to find his passion which is working with people and adaptive athletes.
He started out as a college athlete and engineering major, then graduated with a major in Sociology. After working with athletes and doing some bodybuilding, he decided he wanted to serve his country and defend our freedoms, so he joined the Navy.
Upon joining the Navy, he found CrossFit and furthered in understanding of movement and functional movement. He went from wanting to be the strongest and fastest, to understanding that mobility and recovery is such an important part of maintenance and good movement.
When Chase arrived in San Diego he began to look towards what he’d do when he got out of the Navy and came full circle to Physical Therapy and met Dr. T.
Chase never settled and kept adapting.
Topics Covered On This Episode
- Ice Breakers: spirit animals, 5 words to describer yourself and what do you want to do when you grow up
- Origin stories
- First line of care for adaptive athletes
- How to mentally deal with traumatic injuries
- How to grow past “why do bad things happen to good people”
- Dealing with a diagnosis and learning how to not let it become you
- How to become an adaptive coach
- Putting yourself out there after trauma
- Weeding out people that don’t really matter
Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:
by 5dmin | Nov 21, 2018 | Blog, Podcast
When it comes to wheel chair and spinal injuries there is always a what’s next despite what your doctor says. Often times people dealing with spinal cord injuries or family members helping a loved one who has a spinal cord injury can feel hopeless. On Episode 1 of the My New Normal Podcast I sit down to educate on conditions that most commonly put people into wheelchairs. On this episode I get into the nitty gritty of the diagnosis and then spend some time talking about why your diagnosis is not your new normal, because it does NOT determine your function.
Topics Covered On The Podcast
- The 4 most common reasons people get put into wheelchairs
- The basic anatomy of the spinal cord and what happens in spinal cord injury
- Bodily systems that can be effected by a spinal cord injury (Integumentary, Cardiovascular…etc)
- AIS/ASIA scale of spinal cord injuries and ABCDE classifications
- My levels classification system for adaptive athletes with a spinal cord injury and how to adapt movements based on this screen
by 5dmin | Nov 14, 2018 | Podcast
Welcome to Episode X of My New Normal! Per and I are coming to you from Mumbai, India.
This first episode is going to be all about the “whys” behind Movement Rx and our everyday business and the launch of the My New Normal podcast. A behind-the-scenes glance, if you will.
I chose the title “My New Normal” for the podcast because of the adaptive community I work with. One of the things that comes up in when we’re training is “what you had before isn’t what you have now. “
I kept saying, ‘You have this new movement pattern, so let’s adapt to it.” And it just kind of stuck. But then I saw how that could apply to really anyone in life. If you’re a new mom, starting a new job, moving to a new city, you’re going to have a new normal.
If you know me, you know that there’s a mental health aspect to everything I do. And you know that I’m all about adapting to your circumstances. And I’ve found that the people that do the best in life are able to adapt and find a tribe, find their place, find their NEW NORMAL.
Movement Rx was designed to help educate people about the healing power of movement, so I felt it was the perfect foundation for the My New Normal Podcast. I’ll not only be sharing my stories and my path to healing, I’ll be talking with so many amazing athletes and people who have utilized movement as medicine. Which is the heart of our mission at Movement Rx.
In this first season of My New Normal “Tales of the Adaptive Titans”, I’ll be focusing on interviewing the adaptive community and showing how they’ve overcome their struggles and shifted to living a new normal, stronger, more badass life. And I can’t wait for you to tune in!
In this episode I’m talking about:
- What is “My New Normal”
- My Warrior story
- What my new normal looks like
- Tools I use to adapt
Listen to the first EVER episode of My New Normal below:
Episode X Show Notes:
“Welcome to the first ever episode of the My New Normal Podcast. On this episode I sit down with my husband, Per, to give you the back story on why I am doing this podcast and what you can expect from it.
The episode initially starts out with a discussion about the adaptive population how it inspired this podcast. From there we get into why we are launching this on Movement Rx. Then we take on a big discussion of my personal new normal and the road that has got me to where I am now. We finish up the episode by previewing season 1 of the podcast and what you can expect.
If you enjoy this episode please do us a solid and leave a review or ask a question in the reviews. It makes a big difference in how many people are exposed to this podcast.
LINKS:
1. Learn More About Dr. T, her adventures, and get access to information from her early in her newsletter: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/newsletter/
2. Learn more about her online course Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete (NSCA CEUs available): https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/
3. Learn more about Dr. T’s company, Movement Rx
4. Learn more about Dr. T’s well researched and tested Prehab Programs: The Shoulder Fix:, The Knee Fix, and The Low Back Fix
Start crushing your NEW NORMAL today!
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