17 CrossFit Box Owner John McPherson Talks More CrossFit, Cognition, and Whole Health

CrossFit Box Owner, L4 Certified Trainer, John McPherson joins Michael to discuss CrossFit, health, fitness, education, and how to achieve whole health. We discuss: -how movement and exercise helps improve our cognition and confidence-how fitness helped some CA police officers, and how it helped Isaac Newton-the difference between Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 in CrossFit certification-movements and exercises you can do at work to stay healthy and stay sharp-what parents and PE teachers can do to keep their kids (and themselves!) fitTo support the show and help us grow our audience -- so we have more of an impact on education and the culture -- please help us with a donation:1. https://www.patreon.com/reasonrxpodcast 2. https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SP6QPQKJU4XSS&source=url Also, please consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.And if you find an episode valuable, please share it with parents, teachers, school personnel, friends, and family. Help spread the word, help spread rational ideas for better living. About John:"CrossFit has been his sole and principal strength and conditioning program for over 15 years and credits CrossFit with keeping him injury free and healthy since retiring from the military."He grew up with a passion for competitve athletics from a young age, excelling in baseball and swimming. While also playing a variety of sports over the years, including soccer, basketball, rugby, track and field and competitive shooting."After leaving the military in 2007, John started teaching CrossFit in Houston to anyone and everyone that would listen. In about a year the program out grew his tiny rented space inside of a 'globo gym' and forced him to outfit a top-tier functional fitness gym dedicated to CrossFit in 2009."His goal is to share his extremely broad training experience with everyone that wants to make a change in their life."John is the ONLY Level 4 CrossFit Coach in Houston and is 1 of only 72 in the US. He will help you reach your goals, no matter how big or small." (See: http://www.p3crossfit.com/coaches/5/john-mcpherson)Description of CrossFit quoted in the podcast:"CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide."Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist."CrossFit contends that a person is as fit as they are proficient in each of ten general physical skills: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, agility, balance, coordination, and accuracy."Contact Melanie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-katragadda-nctm-9b14522aContact Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/ or http://goldams.com/External Links1. CrossFit: https://www.crossfit.com2. P3 CrossFit: http://www.p3crossfit.com3. MovNat: https://www.movnat.com4. Parkour: https://wfpf.com/parkour/4.a. Parkour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour5. Primal Play: https://www.primalplay.com6. Nutritious Movement: https://www.nutritiousmovement.com6.a. Move Your Body Better (Nutritious Movement Certified practitioner): http://www.moveyourbodybetter.com/7. Isaac Newton beats up a school bully.a. https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-isaac-newtonb. http://mentalfloss.com/article/81487/15-observational-facts-about-isaac-newtonc. search on "antagonist:" http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM001668. The Autism Revolution by Dr. Martha Herbert, Karen Weintraub: https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Revolution-Whole-Body-Strategies-Making/dp/03455272089. Books about epigenetics (have not read them, just mentioning them for your consideration).a. The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance by Nessa Carey: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-Revolution-Rewriting-Understanding-Inheritance-ebook/dp/B0074MTTEK/b. Epigenetics: The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease Transmission First Editionby Joel D. Wallach D.V.M, Ma Lan M.D., Gerhard N. Schrauzer Ph.D.: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-Genetic-Theory-Disease-Transmission/dp/1590791495/c. Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes by Richard C. Francis: https://www.amazon.com/Epigenetics-How-Environment-Shapes-Genes/dp/039334228X/d. You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease by Judith Finlayson and Kent Thornburg: https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Your-Grandparents/dp/0778806332/See also:1. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey: https://www.amazon.com/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain/dp/B001GAUS6E/2. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams: https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Fix-Happier-Healthier-Creative/dp/03932427143. Epigenetics and cancer.a. Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms by Travis Christofferson: https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Approach-Cancer-Integrating-Bio-Individualized-ebook/dp/B071Z36X5C/b. The Metabolic Approach to Cancer: Integrating Deep Nutrition, the Ketogenic Diet, and Nontoxic Bio-Individualized Therapies by Nasha Winters and Jess Higgins Kelley: https://www.amazon.com/Metabolic-Approach-Cancer-Integrating-Bio-Individualized-ebook/dp/B071Z36X5C/Image courtesy John McPherson.Please consider liking us on your podcast app, and leaving a rational review.Email us at [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/Gold Academy: https://goldams.comTotal Human Fitness: https://total-human-fitness.com