The Richard & Dr. Ed Show
The Richard & Dr. Ed Show
#35 - What 2024 has in Store for Moved, Richard, and Dr Ed
Summary
In this episode, Richard and Dr. Ed discuss the introduction of My System, a program designed to help individuals gain self-awareness and improve their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. They explain how My System can be applied to various fitness disciplines and how it benefits different types of individuals, including biohackers. They also discuss the goals and plans for Moved Academy in 2024, including certifications and seminars. The conversation highlights the importance of client independence and the need for coaches to provide valuable and personalized guidance. The episode concludes with a teaser for an upcoming episode on Ayahuasca and DMT.
Takeaways
MI System program focuses on self-awareness and helps individuals understand how they sabotage themselves in the gym and in life.
My System can be applied to various fitness disciplines and is suitable for individuals with independence and a desire to learn about themselves.
Moved Academy aims to become a prominent player in the coaching industry by providing certifications and accreditations that require in-depth knowledge and understanding.
The fitness industry is shifting towards a more personalized and holistic approach, where coaches focus on educating and empowering clients rather than providing cookie-cutter solutions.
Active client participation and a long-term commitment to their health and well-being are essential for achieving sustainable results.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Personal Updates
01:15 Introduction to My System
03:06 Benefits of My System
04:01 Creating a Program for All Individuals
06:25 The Applicability of My System
07:16 My System for Biohackers
08:18 Using My System with Clients
11:13 Goals for Moved Academy in 2024
13:20 Certification and Accreditation at Moved Academy
17:16 Spreading the Principles of Moved Academy
18:31 Upcoming Events and Seminars
25:23 Long-Term Commitment to Clients
28:05 Changing the Fitness Industry
30:12 The Importance of Active Client Participation
31:28 Upcoming Episode on Ayahuasca and DMT
31:46 Inviting Guests to the Podcast
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Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Richard and Dr. Ed show. We are here trying this new podcasting platform, which will hopefully give us some amazing videos and clips. It is now the middle of January and 2024. We have lots of big things coming up. We had a busy December with lots of socializing, drinking,
Richard:socializing, maybe some other substances. And we have come ready to charge 2024. From the personal perspective and the personal brand of what is Dr. Ed Caty. Richard a service and moved Academy. Mr. Ed, how are we doing today?
Dr Ed:I am very good down at the Riverside, which is our new fun technologies that we have. I like how we started and it said actual recording is better quality than what we see. Which means maybe we're going to see things in the actual episode that are going to be great and insightful. And we won't notice now. But yeah, I am very good. I just finished my day five on the my system, which is quickly becoming my favorite day for many reasons as people will soon learn when they get access to the system, which is coming soon. So that's super exciting. Yes, I will, I wondered, because it's going to be such a big thing. For the fitness industry for the health industry, I was wondering if you could tell people what the my system is the Mi system as just an intro to it.
Richard:So as a quick intro, my system is a program that is an anti program. So it is a set of guidelines for an individual to train. And the goal of my system, outside of the means goals of getting stronger losing weight, is to gain Max interoception. So Max interception allows you to get to know yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and allows you to win. So it's uh, you know, I've spent I think it's been over a year that I've been playing with the supersets and the Imams. And you know, I've had you guys and the mentees kind of play around with different days of my system. But in essence, it's it's a combination of a six day training block, that allows you to see where you fail, or where you quit in the gym. And the beauty of it is that where you quit in the gym usually translates or correlates directly to how you quit or sabotage, or fail in the outside world. So that's what my system is for. It's a it's a program that allows the individual to understand how they sabotage themselves in the gym, so they can learn to not do it. And if you can change the behavior in the gym, more than likely you can change the behavior outside of the gym.
Dr Ed:Yeah, it's definitely something that I've learned myself using the system even just since January 1, I think I've been diligently following it, so to speak. And it's the first program that I have diligently followed that hasn't led me to like extreme pain. Yes, it is good. Particularly pain on my, my left side on my right, lower back, which is interesting, because we know from an emotional standpoint, then doing things for the sake of the program, and the sets of reps that you're prescribed can either lead to frustration or it can lead to not putting your own needs first. Yeah, it's definitely helped me connect back to myself and enjoying training again, is there anybody you don't think would benefit from using the my program or that would struggle to start with it?
Richard:I think it's not for everybody. Because it is there is a sense of being independent. So for people that just want to tell me what to do, I want to go in the gym and sweat and come back home. Probably not going to be the program for you because you will end up there's too many variables where you are not wanting to listen to your body. So I think that's going to be a failing point for a lot of people are quitting point for a lot of people. It's not, they're not ready for it yet. I would like to backup and go as to why I created my system and why created you know, we talk about methodologies quite often right? So starting strength conjugate systems. You know, the Bulgarian system, there's different systems out there different methodologies and approaches out there. And this is the first one that I've been able to create and I've been in the fitness industry for 15 plus years. I think I'm getting into 18 years. And the one issue that I always had about trying to write a program or trying to write a template, or giving people my workouts was that the workouts that I did, if I were to put them in a program for somebody else, it wouldn't work for 80% of the people because it was my program, I'm very intuitive trainer. And so I always had a hard time trying to write a broad template for people to buy it at masses, because I know that as I said, we this program is not for people would do the exercises hold their breath during the movement, you know, do the required amount of work to still allow themselves to say this program didn't work for my lower back pain, or my shoulder pain, or my anxiety or my depression or my whatever. So, for me, it was very difficult to try and put a template, a program a method together that can encompass, you know, the 95%. And those 5% are just not ready to commit to wanting to learn about themselves. And that's fair. But the key points that I needed for a system to work for me is that it needed to be applicable across all spectrums. So this is, I would say, the first program that I that I've seen, that is discipline plus, meaning that I can apply it if I'm a functional fitness or CrossFitter, I can apply it if I'm a pure power lifter, if I'm a weightlifter, if I play rugby, if I do ultra marathons, it goes across the spectrum of fitness and health, which I think is a beautiful, a beautiful way to approach what we see now in the fitness industry, which is the disciplines are kind of merging together, you see people doing CrossFit in order to get better for rugby, you see people playing new sports is trying to get better at CrossFit or functional fitness. Right? There's there's this sort of merging of disciplines. And I love that. So I think that's one of the biggest things that I wanted to put together when I had my own method is that it was applicable across the spectrum of health and fitness. And I think that I've accomplished that.
Dr Ed:Well, I would agree, and it just made me think that the whole biohacking community who really like a program to follow. Unfortunately, part of their Hacking has led them down a path where sometimes they don't want to push the intensity really hard, because they want to do the minimum required in order to maintain a certain objective, right, I think this program would be great for the biohackers, because they will learn that they actually need to push hard, and they probably sabotage themselves in a lot of ways that they aren't really aware of. So definitely recommend it for them. And as you see, it's multidisciplinary. If like, even if you were just a runner, you could plug in what you need to do into this type of program. Right. And you say it is more suited to somebody with independence, but actually, we more so you for longer have been using it with your clients in order to help them generate independence over time. So it's a tool that we'll be sharing with the move Academy. And they will obviously understand it at a deeper level, because we'll have more conversations with them. But yeah, I think for anybody who wants to learn about themselves, it's a great tool to have at your disposal to plug in the movements that you'd like to coach the ways that you'd like to exercise that say, or even a competition, you can plug in the movements. I've been thinking about creating a High Rock specific version. There, I'll just enjoy it.
Richard:The beauty of it is as we have moved Academy with now 50 Plus coaches, we have 52 coaches on their minds. And if you want to join, you're more than welcome to join the movement. And they're all going to get the guidelines. So the end result is, you know, like you said, like, the program starts with a lot of education and explaining because I want people to have an understanding of how to apply the program and you know, different variations of what they can do. So like we had the sets to failure there that day, and I did uphill, I was walking at 4.2 on a treadmill and that 11% grade of incline. And it was sets to failure. So I did three sets of failure of walking uphill. My constraint was I had to stay nasal breathing. Now for endurance athletes, or for some people you're like, that's super easy. I'm not the guy. Not for me. I could benchpress all day long but having me walk uphill and I want to quit right away, especially it's having to stay nasal breathing. And so for me it was a great constraint and one of my guinea pigs They wrote to me, they're like, I've never thought about this for sets to failure. And I'm like, yeah, and she's like, that's all you did. I was like, I really didn't want to do anything else afterwards. So it's essentially a zone two, or like an act of meditation walk, a little bit more intensity involved. But it was wonderful. You know, I lasted about 20 minutes on the first one, I think it was like a teeners, 18 minutes on the second one. And the third one, I think I was like, 15 minutes, I gave myself about two minutes rested, bring myself back to center, and then get back on around two minutes, nothing specific. And yeah, it was, you know, it can it's discipline list, and you can apply it to whatever, whatever it is that you want. But the biggest thing that you're being forced to do out of it is to be active and present. And you start to learn lessons, which I think is great. So as all these move, coaches start to play around and go, like, Hey, I'm a weightlifter. So and I've developed a, you know, my system program for weight lifters, or I developed this for CrossFitters, or I developed it for hyperoxic, you're gonna try and implement endurance athletes, I think that we can get a big, you know, start to compile these programs, and just basically put them in there as six weeks or eight weeks or three month blocks, and people can choose whatever program they want to follow, which might be a little bit more dependent. And then as you start to go, and I explained it in the course, you can choose to create your own, but the goal is always independence, right? I always, always put out there that we're trying to get ourselves to not have a job, because we want to develop the, you know, independency. And I think independency Is that how you say it? That's
Unknown:probably not how you say it, independence, independence. Like, but
Richard:yeah, I think that's really part of the part of the goal here is, is educating people, because at the end of the dates, you know, people should be able to understand how their body works. There's a big thing happening out there in the fitness industry, where they just sell you to sell you and they just keep churning and churning and churning, you know, I don't I don't want to have that global gym mentality where I'm gonna charge you 10 bucks a month, and you're here forever, not never using the product, right? I'd rather have high value and
Unknown:make it work. Yeah, well, I
Dr Ed:suppose the mindset of educating and improving on teaching on the fundamentals of how we need to move and how we apply movement, to better physical, mental and emotional health is it's the goal of moved Academy, it's our goal, and that I guess it will spread like a virus in that we educate coaches, they educate their clients, their clients, who educate other people and become coaches. And I mean, when I started working with you, I wasn't a coach, I was just a lost medical doctor who saw loads of patients who were in pain or suffering. You provided solutions, and have continued to provide solutions. And I guess they have channeled through me, and now I can provide the solutions. But it's, it's a cool journey. So are there any specifics? Goals wise for moved Academy? And 2024? You want to talk about?
Richard:Yeah, there's a lot of things that we're working on in the backend isn't there? So for the Academy, yeah, the the. Again, for me, the biggest goal is to make sure that I can the end vision. Let's start with that. Right. So my end vision for moved Academy in the next decade is to be a prominent player in the coaching evolution certification accreditation, coaches, PTs, MDS, are searching to become certified, moved Academy instructors. And, you know, that is the envision the short term vision is to bring certifications to move Academy. With that short term vision is your help and your capacities to prove that what we're doing isn't just a voodoo spiritualistic or, you know, these guys don't know what they're talking about in the strength and conditioning field, sort of conversation. So we're creating part of the certification that I'm going to give and accreditation will not be where I've seen the fitness industry fail, which is you show up for a weekend. Here's your certificate, now you can educate my certification process will require you to have the applicable knowledge, not just the regurgitation of information. So we're gonna force the coaches to put in the time to make sure that they understand the fundamentals and they can see the body through the scope of tension and not just position. They can see how the physical the mental and emotional is impacted inside of the gym X, Y and Z. We can actually have results of getting people out of pain for the long term, not just the short term. And the cool thing about this is that you're going to be playing a major part, you're going to be teaching. We had a great call this week about, you know, science, and subjective versus objective and kind of an introduction to how we can propose science. And in our findings, and we are putting together lots of data points that you will be helping us kind of publish. So as of right now, we have 27 assessments that have been logged in. I'm sure that by the end of this year, I'm hoping to get over 500, because right now we have 50 coaches, for the certification, they're gonna be required to have 120 assessments blocked. So all of these data points will start to prove that what we're teaching, even though it goes against the norm of physiotherapy, of the medical practices, or strength and conditioning, and the current myofascial, or mobility release techniques, is working, and not just in the short term of like, Hey, come here, try this. Now. You're not in pain. Here you go, you're fixed. But we're requiring these coaches to keep track of the clients for a minimum of six weeks to three months.
Dr Ed:Yeah, I think it's we had some questions when we were on that call about kind of how we begin to communicate with people that maybe aren't in this mindset. And it's about speaking their language, but giving them something slightly more to challenge them or to make them question what they're currently doing. So I'm really excited because in the last week, I had a conventional physio that owns a very flashy High Street Center, locally where I live, say, they've listened to the podcast that we did with Mark belt, they've been speaking to a client that I've made lots of progress with politically, who was diagnosed with osteoarthritis, arthritis of his right hip. And now his hip is basically completely relaxed, and it's not giving him any discomfort. And she tells me that she's already referred a client of theirs from their nice flashy physiotherapy thing that says, We diagnose and treat your pain problems. So yeah, there's going to be some cool connections, because now we're starting to speak a language where the system which is trying its best for people, but it's ultimately not providing the solutions for everybody. And that's when we provide the foundational principles that hopefully can be applied to everybody. When the coaches learn how to communicate with the people when they're their clients. 100%. So that's super exciting. We also have the movement Ayahuasca coming in April, and you have a few events before that. Yeah,
Richard:I mean, it's, they're increasing. Just a little busy, it's no big deal. Yeah, so moving Ayahuasca we currently have two rooms left, but I believe it's going to be down to one room, by the end of this week. I'm working on setting one up in the US. So for all my American listeners, I'm going to be heading over to the US, I'm hoping towards middle of the year. Yeah, with moved Academy. I have three seminars that will be live in person seminars. So one is going to be the fundamentals of a moved coach. The second one is going to be the assessment seminar. And the third one will be the emotions that are muscles. So I'm kind of restructuring everything. So that there again, there's a nice path to the certification, the accreditation, the capacity for coaches that invest so much of their time, money, you know, it's being reciprocated. And so I want to make sure that I can provide the best service for those coaches that are really wanting to make a change in this industry want to, you know, when we talk to a lot of the coaches coming in here, it's I want to get better, but I don't know where to go. And most of the time, when I look at other forms of certifications, or mentoring, a lot of it ends up being how do you sell your service, which I get it, it's a big part of what we should be learning to do is how to sell our service. But what is the biggest thing that you've noticed, you know, for you in particular is, you do the work, you get the results, and now you get referrals? And that's because you've gained the knowledge, the wisdom and the applicability of what comes with it. You're not just regurgitating you should be doing the bicep opener. If it doesn't work. It's because you don't know what you're doing. You know what I mean? And so that's the big The thing is you're providing independence to your clients. And that comes back through value. And now people are being referred to you. And that's the biggest thing that we can do as we restructure. We have all these seminars and all these workshops, I just want to give people a chance to see how passionate I am about wanting to change the fitness industry. But open their eyes that a lot of the shit that you've been taught is not necessarily the best way to approach clients that are in pain, or those that just want to have other that have goals in mind. You know what I mean? Like when you look at that long term value of your client, like, is this really beneficial for them?
Dr Ed:Yeah, and the business mentoring, I mean, you can definitely make 20 to 50k a month, if you're willing to do all that social media pumping and everything like that, and just give a cookie cutter approach service. But my vision is that in not too many years, not too many months, that people like move to coaches will be such a valuable asset in the current climate, that they will be commanding a much larger market share, because they will have the knowledge and the wisdom and it's not all about money. But if you can solve big problems, then you people find you because they need your help. Right.
Richard:Yeah. And again, you know, let's give it a few years, but it'll probably be way faster than that. Yeah, chat GPT. What's, you know, what's up now has their meta AI robot that you can talk to all the stuff that these guys are doing to rake in the money now it's a short term reward, and hey, it's a great one. And if you know if you're in that in this industry, because you want to pump out the money, and then you're gonna go back into finance, or you're gonna go into something else, you're probably not a move coach. But if you're passionate about truly wanting to learn how to connect with clients, how to give results, how to understand the solution, and the problems that people are having. Those are the those are the coaches that I want, because in you know, again, let's say five to 10 years, those are the coaches that are going to be still around trying to get better to how to, they're gonna want to get better as how do we help people the best, and it's not going to be through any recipe. It needs to come through the capacity to connect to the human and have the knowledge of what that human is going through at the moment. Because stress for somebody is not stressed for somebody else. And if you can't read that, then you're just lead you're just saying the recipe is gonna give you a delicious meal. And that's not true. You can ask our buddy Jack about that. Yes, he's like, Hey, bro, I have pork belly. What do I do? And I was like, I don't know it's like any looked up a chat GPT recipe. It did not end well for him. He was angry. So that's the key right is can you make a delicious pork belly and not just follow the recipe and hope for the best?
Dr Ed:And that's where if somebody else the principles to make the pork belly to?
Richard:Yeah, and that's gonna be the key is can you transfer that wisdom? Right And and I think that's where the fitness industry is gonna go in five to 10 years because all the global gyms will get rid of most of their PTS, because chat GPT or screens, all the all the equipment will have a little chat TPT thing on there. People are now having their wearables all the time that tell them what to do. You know, there's a lot of different there's a big shift that's going to be happening here soon. Yeah, can I just want to have humans that care about other humans? That's really the truth of it?
Dr Ed:Well, to put it into perspective, while we're talking my usual group that I do coaching with on a Sunday, they've all decided to meet up without me going through their own training session with sandbags in the park, so I've become obsolete. But the good thing is they know most of them, well, some of them know a lot of the principles because they've solved their own back pain, their own shoulder pain, hip pain, whatever.
Richard:Well, you guided them, not they, I mean, they've done the work but you guided them in the right you know, you've given them direction.
Dr Ed:And now like there's there's kind of people on the fringe of the group who are coming in to train with them. And I know that the training that we're going to be doing is going to help them and then it's great to see as an evolution
Richard:but you should be so proud of that. You know how difficult That's called being a community leader, the fact that the ship can run without you being there, but they still look for you for guidance. That's beautiful because and that's what I always try and get people to understand is like if you do a good job with your core members, especially if you're in like in group training, those core members will help educate 80% of the people you can now like quadruple the amount of people coming in because they have the right direction and the right guidance because your core members now start to become part of the you know part of these leaderboards it's beautiful. Yeah,
Dr Ed:it's it's interesting to see the those people realizing they have that power and beginning to express themselves openly in the group. We've been having an opinion where before they were kind of quiet and shy, and then they, they're I know some of them will listen to this. So
Richard:don't be afraid. Good job. Good job called Building confidence.
Dr Ed:Yeah. Anything else 2024, we need to touch on how are we
Richard:2024 I have, I think I've started to work with clients. So the way that I work with clients needs to change. And now I'm only taking them on clients that are willing to invest a year. So, for those that are coming in with, you know, chronic or acute back pain or shoulder pain, I'm still going to help but I'm going to do sort of what I do with my system I have on an entire program, and educational platform, and then we'll do like one call every quarter to make sure they weren't going in the right direction. But for those that are dealing with behavioral issues, or they're having, you know, these big spurts, or like a case like Terry, these partial mentoring, like I want to make sure they're committed for the year. So that's going to be be my goal for for the next month is really ironing out these details. And then I'm going to start rolling out the way that people that are having low back pain or shoulder pain coming in, they can go do the work, I'll do some call so that we make sure that we're heading in the right direction. But I feel like it's taken me a stick me a few years. But now I have the confidence as to how I can put things in a program and educate people, even though I'm far away. So I'm pretty excited about that.
Dr Ed:Well, I'm obviously grateful to you, because I still thinks it's taken you many years. And it's taken me slightly less years. But um, I've had my first client in Australia, and I've they have long COVID fatigue. And we already got him to jogs further than he has done in years. He felt so good. He like ran down to the sea and went for a swim. And he's starting to get good connections on the car phrases. And yes, feeling good some, again, using building up towards building him his own my system. So then he can learn to regulate and yeah, it's just when you when you can guide somebody. And the guidance is them educating themselves as opposed to you giving the education it makes. It's so much more fulfilling on both sides. Yeah, I think that's what the fitness industry has lost is like, the person will always come back to the coach to be told what to do. Right? And it's like twice a week, three times a week, five times a week, because it's not going well. And then it's like, oh, you're you're you must be cheating or training. Right?
Richard:Yeah, it's uh, I was talking to this with with Bryce, on the on another podcast on the Azmuth project. Shout out to Bryce, about coaches just giving things in the silver platter. And, you know, it's giving things in a silver platter, and then kind of stroking your own ego rather than, you know, having the knowledge and understanding that the timelines differ for people. And it takes work on the clients side, like, you know, you're a consultant to their health, for as a fitness professional, PT, coach, whatever you want to call it, you're a consultant. But it takes the work on the other side in order for it to work. So it's not about you know, you need to walk the walk and talk the walk, talk the talk us out as Yeah, in order for you to understand what the person needs to go through. But if you think that writing the program is going to help the person, it's not true, it's the person doing the program accordingly, that's going to help. And I think that's one of the biggest things with online training now is how many people buy templates or programs, or right now, everything is free, because that's like the new funnel thing, right? It's like, take this free course, take this free course, like I have the four pillars of a coach, but how many people actually are doing the work that you leave in that free course. And listen, I'm the first one to admit, like, I've signed up for so many free courses, that I do the first, you know, 25% and then I drop off and like, whatever. So it's, you know, I understand how this how this works. It's you your clients as much as you need to find enough of a why to invest into putting in the work.
Dr Ed:Yeah, I've noticed that even with the metabolic testing that I do, which in some cases can be seen as a passive approach, but when you have to organize your day based on hitting specific nutrient targets because you You have severe deficiencies and certain things, and you have to literally make a time priority for your health every single day, then it becomes a very active process. I laugh a bit when people say, awesome. Am I going to take these supplements just for a kind of few weeks? Or is this like a lifetime thing? And I'm like, well, your health is kind of a lifetime thing. Yeah. So
Unknown:everyone's can change, right? These change based
Dr Ed:on stress, environment, all sorts of stuff. So it's realizing that we do live in a pretty harsh environment. And stress is going to come from all directions and that we, as coaches, mentors, acknowledge that acknowledge clients are going to be stressed, things are going to hold them back. We're just here to support and, as you said, guide and navigate that ship with them now.
Richard:Exactly. Beautiful. I think it was a great place to start for today. Yeah, I would like to get in at some of these podcasts. I would love to get into your DMT trip. And just give people an understanding. For me, I'm going to interview you. And I would like to know the differences between maybe we'll do that on the next episode. The your, you know, Ayahuasca, DMT trip and movement Ayahuasca the differences that you've had and what a what has all happened since then. So we'll get into that on the next. cliffhanger. Mr. Ed, thank you so much for the time. Last thoughts. You had something you were about to say sorry.
Dr Ed:Some guests if you want to be a guest, or a guest questioner on the podcast last note, and anybody's welcome. We don't bite. Beautiful.
Richard:Peace, guys. Have a good one. We'll catch you next time.
Unknown:Here later.
