Theresa Larson|Dr. Theresa Larson https://www.drtheresalarson.com There's a Warrior in All of Us Mon, 18 May 2020 17:20:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Favicon-32.png Theresa Larson|Dr. Theresa Larson https://www.drtheresalarson.com 32 32 S2E3 | Sharon Moskowitz: Wheelchair Rugby and Fencing Paralympic Strength Coach https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s2e3-sharon-moskowitz-wheelchair-rugby-and-fencing-paralympic-strength-coach/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:04:36 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3508 Sharon Moskowitz works to get grass-roots rugby programs up and running and driving growth of non-contact, youth and partner-supported rugby throughout the US by focusing on removing barriers.

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]]> We’re so excited to have Sharon Moscowitz, Manager of Mass Participation programs at the USA Rugby National Office. Sharon works to get grass-roots rugby programs up and running and driving growth of non-contact, youth and partner-supported rugby throughout the US by focusing on removing barriers to play.

In addition, she’s a Strength and Conditioning coordinator for the USA Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby team.

She has been working in various sport and fitness industry roles for 15 years and is deeply passionate in helping to grow the world of educated fitness professionals and intelligent strength and conditioning for all.

In this interview we’re talking about:

  • Sharon’s history and how she got started working with the Adaptive Community
  • The role that interaction plays in eliminating barriers
  • Ways that the fitness community can grow to meet the need for Adaptive Athlete strength and conditioning
  • Sharon’s “new normal” when she moved from the law-enforcement community to work with USA Rugby
  • The lessons that Piikea and Megan have learned during their work in the Adaptive Community
  • and so much more!

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Sharon’s Bio

Originally a Philadelphia native, Sharon moved to the Denver area in May 2017 with her wife, Katie, and two dogs.  She is solar-powered and loves an enthralling book almost as much as she loves musical theatre and the sound of a full orchestra tuning their instruments just before a performance.  In Denver, Sharon is the full-time Manager of Mass Participation Programs at USA Rugby’s National Office, driving growth of non-contact, youth and partner-supported rugby throughout the US by focusing on removing barriers to play.  She is the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the USA Wheelchair Rugby Paralympic program, a Curriculum Writer and National Presenter for National Exercise Trainers Association (NETA), writing and instructing workshops in areas of strength and conditioning, group exercise and specialty fitness instructor certifications throughout the US.  Sharon is a Strength and Conditioning Educator for World Rugby and is formerly a SWAT Operator and SWAT Fitness Training Coordinator for Jefferson County, West Virginia.  She also holds her CrossFit Level 2 among other CF and fitness related certifications and still moonlights at Prospect CrossFit.  Sharon has a B.A. from Northeastern University and a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology from Northern Illinois University with an additional graduate certificate in Adapted Physical Education.  She has been working in various sport and fitness industry roles for 15 years and is deeply passionate in helping to grow the world of educated fitness professionals and intelligent strength and conditioning for all.

Season 2 is sponsored by Adaptive Sports Connection whose mission is to empower children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges through sports and therapeutic outdoor recreation.

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]]> S2E2 | How to Create a Profitable Adaptive Program with Ray Fernandez https://www.drtheresalarson.com/create-profitable-adaptive-program-with-ray-fernandez/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 07:00:52 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3484 Ray Ferrnandez is Co-Owner of CrossFit 1904, CrossFit Level II coach, CrossFit Kids coach, and seminar staff for CrossFit for injured and adaptive athletes.

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]]> Meet Ray Fernandez: Black Belt, CrossFit Seminar Staff for Adaptive and Injured Athletes, certified Level II CrossFit coach, CrossFit Kids instructor, USAW Level 1 Sports Performance Coach and Co-Owner of CrossFit 1904.

Ray attributes his current path to his work at a nursing home, where he worked his way up from a dishwasher to a line cook. But at the time, he couldn’t see himself being a cook. So he stepped into a position in Maintenance, where he applied his knowledge of functional movement and living. After about 8 years, he re-evaluated where he was and decided that he wanted to pursue a career in the fitness industry as a strength and conditioning coach.

In this interview we’re talking about

  • How to make money doing what you love
  • How Ray got his start working with the Adaptive community
  • How he programs for his Adaptive athletes and how that programming was developed
  • The importance of connection and community and how to cultivate that
  • How passion leads him in his every day life

….and so much more!

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Season 2 is sponsored by Adaptive Sports Connection whose mission is to empower children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges through sports and therapeutic outdoor recreation.

 

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]]> S2E1 | No Human Left Behind with Dr. Theresa Larson https://www.drtheresalarson.com/no-human-left-behind-dr-theresa-larson/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:00:22 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3465 In this episode, we're interviewing Dr. T and getting updates on her new projects, life, and all things adaptive.

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]]> Welcome to season 2 of My New Normal! We’ve got our own “new normal” with new hosts, Dr. Megan Graff and Piikea, who both work with our Adaptive Athletes. In this episode, we’re interviewing Dr. T and getting updates on her new projects, life, and all things adaptive.

In this episode you’ll learn:

    • The theme of this season “No Human Left Behind”
    • An introduction to your new hosts
    • How movement heals
    • Lessons learned from Season 1
    • How shifting your perspective can change your life
    • Dr. T’s prescription for finding your new normal
    • …and so much more!

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Find out more about Dr. T and view her contact information here.

Season 2 is sponsored by Adaptive Sports Connection whose mission is to empower children, adults, and veterans with physical and cognitive challenges through sports and therapeutic outdoor recreation.

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]]> S1E32 | Ret. Major General Malcolm Frost – Adapting to Adversity & Implementing THE Fitness Standard in the US ARMY https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e32-ret-major-general-malcolm-frost-adapting-to-adversity-implementing-the-fitness-standard-in-the-us-army/ Wed, 03 Jul 2019 07:01:07 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3420 US Army retired Major General Malcolm Frost has been supporting the physical fitness of soldiers because of his relationship with Pain. As a Westpoint cadet, General Frost suffered a couple of injuries by playing collegiate soccer and it has changed how he sees physical fitness. Retired Major General Malcolm Frost led all initial military training […]

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]]> US Army retired Major General Malcolm Frost has been supporting the physical fitness of soldiers because of his relationship with Pain. As a Westpoint cadet, General Frost suffered a couple of injuries by playing collegiate soccer and it has changed how he sees physical fitness.

Retired Major General Malcolm Frost led all initial military training and public affairs for the over 1.5M members of the United States Army with organizational budgets in excess of $538M. General Frost has over 20 years of experience in strategic communications, media relations, crisis and risk management, and leader development. He also possesses significant experience and skills in the areas of change management, strategic and operational planning, and keynote speaking.

  • Places where General Frost was stationed during his US Army career
  • How General Frost’s time at Westpoint looked like
  • Holistic Health and Fitness and Army Combat Fitness Test
  • Dr. T’s story about his first gunnery Sargeant
  • Understanding that everyday is a New Normal
  • What are the 3 P’s
  • How injuries shaped General Frost’s in understanding physical fitness

Contact

Connect with US Army retired Major General Malcolm Frost through LinkedIn or Twitter.

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E31 | Anders Varner – Helping People Adapt Using His Voice https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e31-anders-varner-helping-people-adapt-using-his-voice/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 07:01:23 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3411 When you start working out at age 13 and started CrossFit at 23, what would you do? Anders Varner chose to work with adaptive individuals, start a gym of his own and use his voice as a guiding light for individuals to have inspiration. Anders is the host of the Barbell Shrugged Podcast and the […]

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]]> When you start working out at age 13 and started CrossFit at 23, what would you do? Anders Varner chose to work with adaptive individuals, start a gym of his own and use his voice as a guiding light for individuals to have inspiration.

Anders is the host of the Barbell Shrugged Podcast and the Director of Media for the Shrugged Collective. Previously, he was the co-founder of CrossFit Pacific Beach. On this episode, we talked about these

  • The story behind how the My New Normal  name
  • Why did Anders end up in California
  • On opening his own CrossFit training gym
  • Working with adaptive athletes and coaching the Wolfpack
  • Running an online company
  • How his voice impacts a lot of people in the gym

Contact

Connect with Anders Varner through his website and Instagram.
Catch Anders on his podcast, Barbell Shrugged.

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E30 | Joe De Sena – Spartan CEO, Resilience, Running a Business and Adapting to Failures https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e30-joe-de-sena-spartan-ceo-resilience-running-a-business-and-adapting-to-failures/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 07:01:31 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3404 Joe De Sena – Founder and CEO of Spartan, the world’s largest obstacle race and endurance brand. With more than one million annual global participants at more than 200 events across more than 30 countries, Spartan offers heats for all fitness levels and ages, from beginner to elite and Kids as young as four-years-old. The […]

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]]> Joe De Sena – Founder and CEO of Spartan, the world’s largest obstacle race and endurance brand. With more than one million annual global participants at more than 200 events across more than 30 countries, Spartan offers heats for all fitness levels and ages, from beginner to elite and Kids as young as four-years-old. The brand has transformed more than five million lives since it was founded in 2010.

On this episode, Joe talked about how he started his company and the strategies he took to take it where it is today.  We also talked about the following topics:

  • How hard is the road to building a resilient company
  • What obstacle does Joe like the most
  • Places around the world where Joe had lived
  • Invisible wounds of the athletes joining the Spartan Race
  • The role of the Spartan Race to the mental health of the participants
  • Joe’s work-life balance working with a big company

Contact

Connect with Joe De Sena by going to his website https://joedesena.com/ and by sending him an email at joe@spartan.com

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E29 | Danny Matta – Finding His Way Helping PTs Build Businesses https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e29-danny-matta-finding-his-way-helping-pts-build-businesses/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 07:01:37 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3397 Danny Matta is a former Army where he worked as a physical therapist for seven years. He then decided to take his talents to private practice and decided to open a cash-based physical therapy practice in the corner of a CrossFit gym called Athletes’ Potential. Danny is the host of the PT Entrepreneur Podcast. Prior […]

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]]> Danny Matta is a former Army where he worked as a physical therapist for seven years. He then decided to take his talents to private practice and decided to open a cash-based physical therapy practice in the corner of a CrossFit gym called Athletes’ Potential. Danny is the host of the PT Entrepreneur Podcast.

Prior to physical therapy, Danny has been an entrepreneur since he was age 10 when he sold a couple of cut outs from a Hustler magazine he found in the woods. We talked about some of these topics:

  • Danny’s transition from the military to private practice
  • Why Danny thought he’s not a fit in the army
  • How sleeping at 8’oclock helped Danny with his health and well being
  • Starting his business inside a CrossFit gym
  • Building relationships outside the business

Contact

Connect with Danny Matta by going to his website http://drdannymatta.com and https://www.athletespotential.com
Follow him on Instagram @dannymattaPT

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E28 | Alyce Fernebok – A Marine Leading with Love Through Letters https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e28-alyce-fernebok-a-marine-leading-with-love-through-letters/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:01:03 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3391 Alyce Fernebok is a former Marine Corps Officer from San Diego, California. Alyce started the Love, Harvey movement, a letter writing campaign, which started with her father writing a letter to show gratitude to a family member. We talked about some of these Topics: Alyce Fernebok’s experience as a woman on the Marine Corps Role of women […]

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]]> Alyce Fernebok is a former Marine Corps Officer from San Diego, California. Alyce started the Love, Harvey movement, a letter writing campaign, which started with her father writing a letter to show gratitude to a family member.

We talked about some of these Topics:

  • Alyce Fernebok’s experience as a woman on the Marine Corps
  • Role of women in the battlefield
  • Dr. T’s experience as an engineer
  • Battle with cancer of Alyce Fernebok’s father
  • How Love, Harvey started with one letter from her father

Contact

Connect with Alyce Fernebok through LinkedIn and the Love Harvey Campaign Instagram account and Alyce’s own Instagram.

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E27 | Mark Browne – Crushing Life after Being Crushed https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e27-mark-browne-crushing-life-after-being-crushed/ Wed, 29 May 2019 07:01:58 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3383 Mark Browne is an adaptive athlete, playing Wheelchair Rugby for the San Diego team. Prior to being adaptive, Mark is a member of the border patrol in Arizona when a horrifying accident left him injured and losing blood. He was life flighted because of the severity of the situation Mark was in and according to […]

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]]> Mark Browne is an adaptive athlete, playing Wheelchair Rugby for the San Diego team. Prior to being adaptive, Mark is a member of the border patrol in Arizona when a horrifying accident left him injured and losing blood. He was life flighted because of the severity of the situation Mark was in and according to the rescuers, it was minutes before life or death. Mark was in a coma for 4 days after the incident.

On this episode, Mark was graceful enough to share his accident that left him with a brain injury which affected his speech and movement and how his road to recovery looked like. We talked about some of these topics:

  • How the nurses saved his life and being life flighted
  • Experiencing double vision because of the injury
  • What is Mark’s daily routine exercise
  • Mark’s adaptive wheelchair rugby
  • What was it like surviving a coma
  • How Mark’s sense of humor helped him with his recovery

Contact

Connect with Mark Browne by sending him an email at dubrowne@aol.com

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

 

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]]> S1E26 | Brian Mackenzie and the Unscared Truth About Breath https://www.drtheresalarson.com/s1e26-brian-mackenzie-and-the-unscared-truth-about-breath/ Wed, 22 May 2019 07:01:31 +0000 https://www.drtheresalarson.com/?p=3377 Brian Mackenzie is a human performance coach with more than two decades experience of innovating new protocols and ideas for training Olympians, Professional Athletes, Entrepreneurs, and High Performers in numerous realms on the use of performance, mechanical, and breathing tools to achieve maximum output in training, competition, and recovery. Brian is the founder of UnScared […]

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]]> Brian Mackenzie is a human performance coach with more than two decades experience of innovating new protocols and ideas for training Olympians, Professional Athletes, Entrepreneurs, and High Performers in numerous realms on the use of performance, mechanical, and breathing tools to achieve maximum output in training, competition, and recovery.

Brian is the founder of UnScared Inc. (formerly Genetic Potential, and Athlete Cell) manages Power Speed Endurance brand, The Art of Breath, along with our training programs, personalized coaching, training camps, and subscription services. We are a human performance company rooted in understanding human potential for athletes, corporations, and the general population.

Brian recently suffered a serious accident that injured his spine which made him paralyzed for a little bit. On this episode, Brian recalls this horrific experience and how he faced the challenges. We talked about some these topics:

  • How Brian got the name Unscared for his company
  • Remembering the accident that almost made him a paraplegic
  • How breathing is a vital part of his regimen
  • Experiences with building businesses
  • Impact of social media

Check out his books:
Power Speed Endurance | book
UnBreakable Runner | book
UnPlugged | book

Contact

Connect with Brian Mackenzie at https://www.brianmackenzie.com or LinkedIn

Listen to My New Normal Podcast here:

To check out Dr. T’s Functional Training for the Adaptive Athlete Online Course (eligible for 0.5 CEU’s for NSCA under Category D), visit: https://www.drtheresalarson.com/adaptive-trainers-course/

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