Making Moves Podcast
Making Moves Podcast
Vanja Moves
This is the Making Moves Podcast hosted by Vanja Moves.
You Don't Rise To The Occasion. You Fall To Your Environment.
The way you look and feel in your body today is no accident. Your environment built it, and you allowed it. Most people fight with willpower and mindset while the room they live in trains them the other way every single day. In this episode I break down the three environments running your body without your permission: physical (your street, your kitchen, your stairs), social (the people whose standard you inherit), and technology (the feed that decides what feels normal before you're even awake). You don't rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your environment. Build the room, and the body follows.Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttkApply to work with us 1:1: https://movesmethodprogram.com/applyFollow Vanja: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance regarding health conditions.
Jul 27
17 min
Years of Injuries Taught Me This
The body teaching you to move has been broken in more places than I can count: chronic tendinitis, two frozen shoulders, disc issues, hip flexor strains, posture problems, ganglion cysts and nerve damage in my spine. Today it doesn't break. In this episode I go through every injury and the lesson it forced on me, and the pattern that runs through all of them: the conventional approach manages problems, movement done right removes them. Your body isn't fragile. It's waiting for you to learn its language.Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttkApply to work with us 1:1: https://movesmethodprogram.com/applyFollow Vanja: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance regarding health conditions.
Jul 19
26 min
I Retired at 38. Then I Realized I Was Destroying Myself.
Peter Corbett built a company from his apartment to tens of millions, sold it to a public company, and retired at 38. Then he spent nine months in hospice learning to soften the part of him that only knew how to push. In this conversation we get into the difference between working hard and suffering, why you were never built to regulate yourself alone, the heart as a muscle you can train, and the whiteboard moment where he wrote you are dying and a 300lb founder went on to lose 100 pounds. If you've been telling yourself you don't have time to fix your body or your mind, your room is on fire and you're refusing to put it out.Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethodprogram.com/pod2627-kit-spApply to work with us 1:1: https://movesmethodprogram.com/pod2627-1on1-spFollow Vanja: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Follow Peter: https://www.instagram.com/corbett3000/ This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance regarding health conditions.
Jul 12
1 hr 47 min
The One Rule That Changed My Life Forever
Most people build a life and then try to squeeze a body into the leftover cracks. The job picks the city, the city picks the commute, the commute picks the schedule, and the body gets whatever's left. I did it backwards. My body comes first, and every other decision is downstream of that one. In this episode I open the whole system: five layers, the standard mistake at each, and a four-week sequence you can run inside a normal 9-to-5 with kids and a mortgage. The thing nobody wants to hear: you can't out-train your life. Your body adapts to how you live the other 23 hours, not the hour you train.Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttkApply to work with us 1:1: https://movesmethodprogram.com/applyFollow Vanja: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/This content is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance regarding health conditions.
Jul 7
24 min
I Stopped Sitting in Chairs for 30 Days
I stood up from my desk one day and felt my body adapting to the chair without asking my permission. So I did the obvious thing. I removed every chair from my life for thirty days.No couch, no office chair, no stool. If I wanted to sit, I went to the ground and stayed there. What happened over those thirty days didn't just change the way I move. It changed what I believe about how we live.In this episode we break down why the chair quietly takes your deep squat, your cross-legged sit and your ability to get off the floor, why discomfort on the ground is information not damage, what the East understands about the floor that the West walks past, and why the twenty-three hours outside the gym matter more than the one inside it.It was never gone. It was just waiting for you to sit back down.Follow for daily movement tips:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshfearfit/Ready to get your floor back? πŸ‘‰ Grab the Mobility Kit: here
Jun 30
15 min
The Person I'm Most Worried About Feels Fine
I want to talk to the person who feels fine. Not the person in pain, I talk to them all the time. The person who'd say their body feels okay. Because that person is often in more danger than the one who's already hurting.Pain is a signal. Feeling fine is just the absence of one. And the absence of a signal is not the same as good news. This episode is about the decline that happens quietly, in the years when nothing hurts, until the day you need the capacity and it isn't there.In this episode we break down how decline actually works (it's a cliff edge, not a slope), what your body is losing while you feel fine, the permission structure that fine creates, and how to use the window before it closes.Fine is the floor, not the ceiling.Follow for daily movement tips:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshfearfit/Ready to use the window? πŸ‘‰ Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttk
Jun 21
14 min
Weak People Don't Have Weak Bodies, They Have Weak Standards
I want to say something that's going to make a lot of people uncomfortable. Your body is not the problem. Your standards are.The stiffness, the weakness, the chronic pain, the body that feels ten years older than it should, none of that happened to you. It's the consequence of what you've been willing to accept. And the good news is that standards are the one thing you have complete control over.In this episode we break down why physical weakness is almost never a physical problem, the excuse architecture of age, injury, time and genetics, the difference between a goal and a standard, and what raising the standard actually looks like in the quiet moments nobody sees.The body doesn't lie. It just reflects exactly what you've been asking of it.Follow for daily movement tips:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Ready to raise the standard? πŸ‘‰ Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttk
Jun 14
13 min
Stop lifting! Why my strength peaked after 3 months off
I walked away from the gym for ninety days because I was scared of what I'd lose. Turns out the thing I was afraid to lose had quietly been running me for years.This episode is about the difference between needing something and choosing it. I stripped out every weight, every machine, every bit of structure I'd built my identity on, and asked one question: what am I actually made of without all of this? The answer rebuilt how I think about strength, dependency, and where capability really lives.In this episode we break down why the gym becomes a psychological crutch, what crawling, hanging and carrying exposed that years of pressing never did, why my body changed without a single change to my food, and the difference between training for a number and training for a life.The strength was never in the iron. It was in me the whole time.Follow for daily movement tips:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshfearfit/Ready to build strength that travels with you? πŸ‘‰ Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttk
Jun 7
11 min
The $5 Trillion Lie About Your Body
A coach said my last reel was too harsh. So I went on the podcast and made it harsher.The wellness industry is a $5 trillion scam built on the lie that your body is fragile. I break down the four-stage playbook the industry runs on you. I name the businesses getting rich off your decline. I walk you through the pain science behind why soft coaching literally programmes pain into people's bodies. And I give you the joint-by-joint truth about why your knees, hips, and back actually hurt.If you've been doing the modified version for ten years and you're still in pain, this one's for you.Work with Vanja:Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttk1:1 Coaching: https://movesmethodprogram.com/applyFollow on IG: @vanja.movesThis content is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Always consult healthcare professionals for personalized guidance regarding health conditions.
May 31
19 min
Movement as a Love Language
Movement, when you pay attention to it, is one of the most honest things about a person. Words lie. Posts lie. How someone moves, you can't really fake.About 400 years ago a French philosopher gave us an idea that's been running quietly in the background of how we relate to our bodies ever since: that you are one thing and your body is another. A vehicle. A biological carrier. Something to be managed, decorated, fixed, fought.In this episode Vanja takes that idea apart. Why most of what modern people call psychological β€” anxiety, numbness, restlessness β€” is actually a body that hasn't moved, hasn't been listened to, hasn't been inhabited. Why most of what we call "loving our bodies" is actually managing them from outside. Why coming back into your body sometimes hurts before it heals. And why the only relationship that lasts from your first breath to your last is the one most people never deliberately have.You can't love something you don't live in.Follow for daily movement tips:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanja.moves/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshfearfit/Ready to start being in your body? πŸ‘‰ Grab the Mobility Kit: https://movesmethod.com/yttk
May 17
20 min
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