#6 Naudi Aguilar | Why Modern Training Is Destroying Your Biomechanics

If not, maybe one of the most foundational fundamental, obviously, because we're meant to move.

Isn't that insane? It blows my mind that people think that pain is a normal part of life.

Yeah, I remember.

Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

No, I was just saying, I remember, like, something, I think it was even Sanjay Gupta, who's, like, a very mainstream, like, medical physician in the space, and he wrote a book about pain, and he said, like, foundationally, we consume, like, on mass majority the... probably the largest percentage of like pain medication in the world.

And that's like outside of like, obviously the crazy danger ones like opiates, but also like Tylenol, Advil.

I mean, I grew up with my dad popping Advil every single day and just thinking like, oh, that's just a thing you do when you're 40.

And so it really like, it forces you to not just change your mind about movement, it forces you to observe human nature and human programming on a higher foundational level as a whole, which is why you talk about all the things that you do, because it sort of encompasses this larger picture.

But I'd love to know sort of what convinced you that mechanics and folks in biomechanics alone could have such a deep impact on a systemic level in all these other areas.

it's funny that you bring that bring that up bro because what what when i transitioned from being a um a gym bro to a personal trainer like i had all these other interests like i was interested in athletics and when i came into it i was thinking like well there's no link between what i'm doing in the weight room to like watching fights because i always like watching mma and watching boxing and kickboxing and whatnot in sports and so i never saw that link but um What was astonishing to me when I became a trainer, like I was still into music.

I was making music.

I had maybe like an inkling of maybe wanting to start a band or at least continue into production going down that path.

But I was like, you know, maybe it wasn't until I started training clients and I started changing their movement that I started seeing how their mindset began to shift more towards objectivity, the more that I started fixing their body.

When I started fixing their biomechanics, they started having more objective viewpoints about the world because like the traumas that they were, when I look at people, when they get emotional, what I see that is like the nervous system short-circuiting, like the hormones short-circuiting in a person operating in a state that too much sympathetic arousal.

They're in a state of panic and nobody that's in a state of panic can literally sit there and say, well, what's going on here? Like anybody who's anxious can't look at reality and say, well, that's what that is.

They're just too caught up on their fight or flight mechanism and their traumas.

It's hard for them to be objective.

And so to me, what I noticed when I first became a trainer was that when I would work with clients that the better I got them to move, the more that they would adhere to objectivity.

And the more they'd start telling me like, you don't do like ever since I started working with you, my posture has been getting better.

I just feel different.

I don't know what it is, but like I wake up in the morning, I feel different.

It's not just more energized, but I feel more clear headed and even the way that they would talk would be different.

The way that they would articulate speech would be different.

And I was like, what the hell is going on here? And since I was so into so many other aspects of life, like really my biggest interest was because at some point I dealt with my own mental crises.

My biggest interest was the human condition.