Doc B on Health and Fitness... Moving Forward
This is my first post written in 2018!
- there is a previously published post for 2018 which was originally written in 2015 and sat unpublished because I walked away from this blog... then forgot about it.
I am dedicating this post to re-purposing "Doc B on Health and Fitness".
Before:
I was in the midst of struggling to juggle 2 fledgling businesses, my chiropractic practice, and Linked Athletics (the brain-child of coach Brian Barry and myself). This struggle gave rise to a scarcity mindset, which began the desperate search for patients and clients. It also found its way into the writing that I had done. When I look back to the previous posts I can see anger to some degree or another (usually directed at the medical profession or fitness profession). Because desperation begets rejection when your selling a product or service, I found that neither of my businesses were doing well nor my blog taking off.
Fast forward:
I have not coached at Linked Athletics since 2015. I had worked full-time at Linked for just over 3 years, but I could no longer put in the 50+ hours per week with no return on my time invested. Three years of working 7 days a week at both jobs, twice I worked over 100 hours in a week, with no income from Linked and hitting a pay-ceiling in practice had come to an end. I realized that I had to choose one or the other and focus only on that. Since the practice was the only business generating an income, and I had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a chiropractic education, I decided to end my time as a performance coach...
- Not a day goes by where I wish I could have done it differently.
- I miss coaching. I miss the classes, the brainstorming sessions, the creativity, the clients, working with coach Brian. I often look upon those 3 backbreaking years fondly.
Since 2015:
I have become Primal Blueprint Certified, as well as a certified Primal Blueprint Health Coach (legacy). I took all of the courses through the ICPA (International Chiropractic Pediatric Association) to become certified in family and maternal chiropractic care. I could not find the time, and money but mostly the time, to finish the final exam, but I feel no need or urgency. If, and when, the time becomes right, I will finish the course's final exam and earn that piece of paper. For now, I have all of the knowledge they can impart and I have discovered that I am delighted to work with women throughout their pregnancy. I am also taking online classes through the Academy of Chiropractic to take myself from chiropractor to chiropractic expert.
I incorporate the movement strategies we developed at Linked Athletics to better help my patients rehab and grow stronger. I am constantly falling back on the techniques and treatments from the ICPA when I work with pregnant moms and kids. I utilize the Primal Blueprint lifestyle strategies as tools to aid in my patient's, usually poor, lifestyle choices. I also donate my mind to Linked in mapping and fine tuning workout programs for it's clients. Coach Brian and I often communicate and create strategies for Linked clients.
2018:
My continuing education continues with the Primal Blueprint with a Primal Endurance mastery class and a Keto Reset mastery class. My aim is to expand my depth of knowledge of the Primal lifestyle and to move closer to "primal expert" level. As funds become available, I am also in the midst of my 3 year plan to continue the Academy of Chiropractic courses. The Academy is partnered with S.U.N.Y. Buffalo Medical School and The Texas College of Chiropractic to offer the best and most up-to-date information on the path to becoming a chiropractic expert ("primary spine specialist"). When completed I will be eligible to become an expert witness in the State of Georgia... exciting.
I also married in late 2014. My family (wife, 2 kids, 3-legged dog, hairless cat) define my life. The biggest career decision I had ever made, leaving coaching behind, was easier because I had to consider my families needs before my own. Becoming a husband, then father, has unequivocally changed me and I am better for it. I am a better doctor, friend and human being because that part of my life is filled with the right person... and people.
Moving forward with Doc B on Health and Fitness:
My aim for this blog is to consistently write about health and fitness... Sounds like before? Not quite.
This blog's original purpose was to create a space for me to vent and share the art & science of Linked Athletics, and THAT is how I related the blog health & fitness. I would throw in some chiropractic art, philosophy and science too, but the purpose was more about "Linked-is-better & the-other-guy-sucks".
The change to this blog is about me. My experiences. My findings, whether research, observational or clinical. It is about my lifestyle changes, my choices, my clinical experiences, my workouts, my Primal Blueprint journey, my chiropractic expert journey, my meditations, my work with pregnant moms, and potentially anything else for which I can think. I will always try to connect health & fitness dots, and I will steer clear from politics, but I want this blog to represent-me-more, other-stuff-less. I should probably mention that I plan to “clean-up” the previously unpublished posts, so if they seem a bit “xfit-is-bad-ish”, the reason is because they were written when xfit was my biggest business competitor, (I maintain many of my criticisms for xfit, but I either don’t care anymore or they have addressed the issue).
That's it for now
Thank you for reading,
Brendan Malloy, D.C.
