Eischens Yoga – Monkey Bar Gym

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Eischens Yoga – Monkey Bar Gym

Jon is a master trainer and a business founder with more than 30 years of international training experience. Jon is a master of the art of strengthening and healing the body through his extensive knowledge of human physiology. These disciplines have been a source of inspiration for many patented tools and a unique method of training that continues to be popular with professional and Olympic athletes around the world.

Jon is also a great motivational speaker, and has toured alongside Tony Robbins. His frank and direct demeanor allows him to quickly disarm and connect with his clients making the efficient progression he’s widely known for look simple.

Jon has the ability to inspire anyone who will listen. Jon is equally captivating in an elevator than in a stadium. He has a rare integrity that is rooted in his lifelong search for better methods, regardless of financial implications or trends. A diverse group of elite athletes, trainers, and coaches closely monitor his endorsements and practices.

Jon is the current Owner and Founder at the Monkey Bar Gym franchise. LifelineUSA, a worldwide leader in fitness innovation as well as product distribution, is also his Vice President. Jon graduated from the University of Wisconsin’s National Academy of Sports Medicine and has been certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Jon is also a contributing writer to numerous major sports publications.

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Caryn Hartglass: We’re back! I’m Caryn Hartglass, you’re listening to It’s All About Food. Okay, we’re gonna change things up a little bit, and I’m gonna bring on my next guest, Jon Hinds. With over 30 years of experience as a trainer and business founder, Jon has a deep understanding of human physiology. He also shares simple training principles. Jon is an expert in the art of strengthening and healing the body. These disciplines have been a result of Jon’s dedication. He has patented many training tools and developed a unique method for training that continues to be popular with professional and Olympic athletes around the world. And he’s the owner and founder of the Monkey Bar Gym Lifeline USA is a leader in global fitness innovation and product distribution. He serves as vice president for the franchise. He’s a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and is certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Super! Welcome to It’s All About Food, you’re Superman!

Jon Hinds: Thanks, Caryn, how’re you doing?

Caryn Hartglass: Good, how’re you doing?

Jon Hinds: I’m great, thanks.

Caryn Hartglass: Okay, well I hope my listeners go to my website ResponsibleEatingAndLiving and check out what this guy looks like, because he’s an awesome specimen of humanity. You own a few websites. Where can people find information about you?

Jon Hinds: They can go to monkeybargym.com and if they want to see more of my own training and nutrition and stuff like that, they can go to jonnyhinds, that’s J-O-N-N-Y-H-I-N-D-S, dot blogspot dot com (jonnyhinds.blogspot.com), and that’s my blog, basically telling you how I eat and train and restore my body.

Caryn Harglass: Okay, let’s talk about each of those things just briefly.

Jon Hinds says Yes.

Caryn Hartglass – How do you eat your food?

Jon Hinds: Hundred-percent plant-Based for the past twelve year.

Caryn Hartglass: Woo! You look so good and can gain all the strength and muscle you desire. What is the secret to this?

Jon Hinds: Yeah, it’s crazy how many times people ask that: “Where do you get your protein and stuff like that?” Und ich sage immer: “All plants have proteins in them. If you eat strong plant foods, you’re gonna get strong.” You can eat plants wrong too, and a lot of people do, and that’s what’s giving us a tough go-It is worth thinking about, as there are many people who have only eaten cheap plant foods such as potato chips or Kool.-Aid, and they think they’re plant-based. They give it a bad name, and people get a stereotype that you can’t eat plant-Supercharge your life by becoming a based person-strong and lean and energetic, and that’s completely false. And we’re proving that. I mean, my gym is the only gym in the world that’s plant-based. All the trainers are lean and strong and vibrant, and we’re excellent examples of what can be achieved by eating a plant-A functional diet, as well as training.

Caryn Hartglass: I love it. We were discussing earlier on the show how to do things from the inside. And I know that there are many athletes out there that look really stunning on the outside, but they’re not eating the right foods, and they are not as stunning inside.

Jon Hinds, right. That’s real common. I mean, you see it happen where they’re young athletes, they’re okay, and they can get away with it, but as they get longer into their careers, things start creeping up on them. They have back pain in the morning when they get out of bed, the backaches start to hurt them during their games, they have the tight hips, hamstrings, and it’s just from a lack of movement, one, and doing things in a balanced manner, and also eating a diet that creates health from the inside out, like a plant-based diet does.

Caryn Hartglass: Right. Now, what do you—what is the art of healing from your point of view that you have mastered?

Jon Hinds: That’s doing things in a manner that creates balance in your life, making you feel happy and healthy basically is the goal. And that’s a question that I constantly want—I ask myself that all the time—“Am I feeling good, healthy? Am I happy?” And if I’m achieving those things, I know I’m on a good path, by listening to my gut and my heart, and I always strive to go by that: listen to my gut. When I eat healthy, good-for-you foods, it makes me happy, healthy, energized, and happy. When I train in a way that’s instinctive, and it’s movement-based—it’s not muscle-Because we are able to focus on movement, and not muscles, our based approach is a good one. And when you do that, you’re connecting to the way we’ve moved for thousands and millions of years as primates. Moving involves crawling, running and jumping as well as reacting. And that’s the exact way that I’ve trained everybody since I started training some thirty-something years ago, and it works because it’s fun and it’s instinctive. These ingredients are the key to a long-lasting recipe.-Health in the long term. Particularly when we have a diet that is intuitive and natural for us.-based diet. And you’re doing things that are—when they’re fun, and they’re healthy, and they improve both your movement and you from the inside-How could it go wrong? And that’s what creates that balance in the body and in the mind and gives a long-term health, so you can do what you want at any age. That is my goal.

Caryn Hartglass: Now, I’ve heard a lot of guys that are weightlifters, they say that they have to have animal protein in order to really get big.

Jon Hinds, right. And that’s just that mindset, they’re still stuck in a matrix basically, that that’s the only way. So many people still believe, “Well, you gotta bench-press. Well, you have to do your leg-curls,” Blah!-blah-Blah, other stuff. It’s just that old mindset, they’re stuck. And so what needs to happen is what we’ve been doing. I mean, I’m forty-nine years old, I can still dunk a basketball, and I’m strong as hell. And the reason why I point those things out is not for ego, but it’s to stress the point that you can do anything that you want at any age, and you do not need to rely on the animal products in order to do that. It’s a complete mess.

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Caryn Hartglass says: That’s what I like. Any age can accomplish anything. What’s underlying that, that’s so important. People think that they get older and they’re supposed to get aches and pains and slow down and feel miserable. Uh-uh.

Jon Hinds: No, no, you’re not supposed to have aches and pains, you’re not supposed to slow down. If you choose in your mind that you’re getting old, you will get old. And if you choose in your mind that you’ll stay young and vibrant, and you do things that support it, like moving, like putting foods that are high nutrient-dense foods into your body that support fast recovery and allow you to continue to train and move at a high level, there’s no end to what you can achieve. I mean, it’s incredible.

Caryn Hartglass: Yeah, it’s magic.

Jon Hinds – We can do anything.

Caryn Hartglass: It sounds too good to be true, it’s so simple. How about your exercise style? What’s the deal with your exercise style? Monkey Bar Gym? What’s there and what isn’t there?

Jon Hinds: There’s no machines there, there’s no mirrors there, and we don’t wear shoes generally, most of the time. So it’s no shoes, no mirrors, no machines, and, been training that way for a long time. I’ve been going barefoot for seventeen years in my training, and it’s caught on over the last five or six years, people are starting to do it. We have protocols for everything we do to make sure they are safe. Because it’s good for you, but you gotta learn how to progress into it. But those are the things that we don’t have in the gym; the things we do have in the gym are movements that are fun and instinctive. We teach people to crawl. We help people walk with their hands, at their level. We show people how to climb ropes, do chin exercises and how to do chin.-Ups and downs-Ups and downs at their level. We teach people how they can run and jump at their level. What I emphasize is “their level.” So, no matter where you are, what level that you’re at, whether you’re eighty Years old, you’re an eighteen-Year-old teenager that’s full of energy, it doesn’t make a difference. Let’s say you’re an eighteen-Year-old and I’m an eighty-year-old, and I’ve never worked out, and you’re on the high school volleyball team, and you’re a stud. Then, I’d do jumping drills today. Maybe resistance. I’d then do a simple sit-up that prepares me to jump if I ever want to. But it’s slower movement that’s working towards full range of motion. That’s what beginners at the Monkey Bar Gym Do, that’s what we call “stability level,” because you’re just gaining your balance and your movement. And that’s the safest, smartest way to indoctrinate somebody into relearning how to move again. And then that same movement, I’m doing a squat, is just accelerated to add speed to it so that they eventually are jumping. You can all work out together. Everybody can benefit from the same type movement, and all workouts are done in a way that we balance all types of movements, whether it’s jumping and running, or pushing and pulling, like for example, walking our hands and climbing a pole. These are opposites that balance one another.

Caryn Hartglass: I’m thinking about how good this is for so many reasons. Even people that really think they’re fit and have a lot of muscle are not very flexible. They may find themselves in a situation in which they bend in the wrong way and break, tear or rip. Also, I think about what happens when we fall. Some people fall accidentally, some people fall because they don’t have balance or they have some problem, but I think you can talk more about this maybe, but when we learn how to move, when we learn how to react, we even learn how to fall so it doesn’t hurt us.

Jon Hinds: Yes. That’s what we do in every class. We show people how to cartwheel. We teach people how they can fall and roll forward as well as how to fall backwards. You’ll learn to crawl, roll forward, stand up, and walk backwards.

Caryn Hartglass: Sounds like fun.

Maya Dowe: This sounds like the gymnastics Caryn or I did back in the day.

Caryn Hartglass: That’s right, when we were younger, yeah.

Jon Hinds: That stuff’s fun, but like, even that stuff. Let’s say, a person’s coming off an injury. Then they need to get back on track. This is what we do, which is a form called yoga Eischens YogaThis is a unique form of yoga that anyone can do. And it’s all about realigning the body to develop stability and mobility at the same time. We do it with. You can do it alone, or you can have a partner to help you.-on feedback, and that’s the thing about Eischens Yoga that’s truly unique. You can sometimes work with a partner and they can tell you to lengthen a little bit more here, or resist your neck back a little bit more here, because we don’t see those weak links, working with another person, they can help you out to create strength where there was weakness beforehand. And that’s a big premise of the gym.

Caryn Hartglass: Mm. It’s a great idea. We need—I think we’re learning more and more that humans have excelled and survived because of cooperation, not because of survival of the fittest.

Jon Hinds: Yes, exactly.

Maya Dowe: May I take a moment to comment?

Jon Hinds – Yes please.

Maya Dowe: Hi. My name is Maya Dowe, I spoke earlier about my son with autism, and I’m listening to you talk, and one of the things that happened with my over-Focusing on my son and all that it took for him to recover is important because although I was an active, fit, and athletic person, I have lost a lot. I suffered from injuries and lost my confidence and movement.-It is important to do this in order to rebuild that foundation. And I did go to my traditional gyms where I live in New Jersey, and some of what happened from that is that I gained more injuries because it wasn’t movement-based like you’re describing, and people that are coming back to rebuild themselves, I’m listening to you talk about building balance and stability, and moving through a natural field of movement, and I’m thinking, “That’s exactly what I needed!” And it’s very difficult to find a facility that’s geared that way. I’m very impressed.

Jon Hinds, thank you. You can also do it at home. Our workouts are available online every day for free. The Eischens Yoga As I mentioned, we created a DVD to allow people to practice the technique at home. I am confident that you will find it extremely helpful. If you just do the beginner’s sequence for a minimum thirty days’ straight, your life will change, I guarantee it.

Maya Dowe: Thank you very much.

Jon Hinds: Yes. And then after that you follow the workouts at your level, which as you’re starting would be stability level, and this is the level that my mom works out at. She’s eighty-One-Years-old. After open-After undergoing heart surgery, and having a stroke she is now able to do a full hanging pull.-She can do a squat, with her feet together, buttto heels, or she can kick up to a handstand.

Caryn Hartglass: Wow! That’s fantastic. I’m all in for that video.

Maya Dowe: Definitely.

Caryn Hartglass: Where can we find it?

Jon Hinds: monkeybargym.com, and just go to the—just find our store, you’ll find Eischens Yoga DVD, and you’ll follow the beginner’s sequence for thirty days, minimum, thirty days straight, and I guarantee your life will change. It’s amazing.

Caryn Hartglass: What about when you get hurt? Are there some that you can, you should workout with, some you shouldn’t workout with? Because a lot of people think when they’re injured, they should just do nothing.

Jon Hinds. Yeah. See, that mindset, that’s—it’s basically just a give-Up mentality. It’s a terrible thing. And doctor’s often-Times tell us: “Oh, just don’t do anything.” Well, that’s not stimulating blood flow through the body. Blood should flow throughout the body. But let’s say, for example, your knee hurts. Well then, just do things that don’t make your knee hurt. You can do a pushup. You can do a pull-up. A kettlebell swing can be done if you use them. You can do tons of exercises that don’t aggravate your knee. You can do almost the entire yoga sequence at whatever level that you want of bending your knee as long as you don’t bend it so much that it hurts. What is this doing? It’s stimulating flow of energy and blood through the body, and that’s what helps to recover and heal the body. If you let it sit, it’s stagnant. It’s just like a traffic jam, and the police guy in the middle of the street’s just saying, “Everybody just sit here and the traffic jam will miraculously clear itself.” No. It’s totally bogus to think that way. Move! Move!

Caryn Hartglass – How did you become so intelligent?

Jon Hinds: I was always interested in animals. That’s how I learned so much. My dad was the head president of Lifeline USA. He invented the Lifeline jump rope at the age of 14. Then he created the Lifeline. Gym. As a young boy, I began thinking outside of the box when it came to exercise. I was six years old. He introduced me to his equipment, which was very popular at the time. I met many pro athletes. And I never stopped asking questions. “How can this stuff help them move better?” I then looked at how humans move, and they always move in segments. Then I looked at wild animals, and they didn’t move in sections or isolated, they moved their entire body. I was always puzzled by this: why would humans be able to move in isolation while all other species of life on the planet do so? It didn’t make any sense to me. Since I was a little boy, I have always been able to move my whole body and I was always able to perform well. However, I did not give up on training with my buddies. “What do you bench?” My performance fell because of my mentality. I was shocked when my sensibility struck me again. “You don’t need that stuff,” I went back to training the way I used to, my performance went to incredibly high levels to the point that I could hit my head on the basketball rim, and I’m only six-One-And-A-half. And I hit my head on the rim, that’s almost forty-Eight inches. This means that almost no one on the planet can leap that high.

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Caryn Hartglass: Wow.

Jon Hinds: And that made me realize, there’s something to moving full-body. And so I just then applied it to every other type of movement that we do, whether it’s pushing or pulling, and results have always been phenomenal with myself and my athletes that I train, and then twelve years ago I just thought, “Well why not bring it to the masses? Why not teach everybody how to move this way, how to restore their body with the Eischens Yoga and how to eat plant-based so that we heal ourselves from the inside-out?” And it’s working incredibly well. We’re affecting tens of thousands of people all over the world, we’re in six continents now and we’re growing really fast, and it’s really exciting, right now, everything that’s happening.

Caryn Hartglass: Your awesome. You are amazing!

Jon Hinds: I’m grateful. I try, I do my best. I’m trying to help the planet people…

Caryn Hartglass: I just love the energy that’s coming out here that I’m feeling from you. There is so much positive energy in your life. Now you talked about getting up in the morning and asking yourself, kinda checking in and seeing how you’re feeling and if you’re happy. And a lot of people aren’t.

Jon Hinds says yes.

Caryn Hartglass: How can you motivate people to find joy?

Jon Hinds: You have to be honest with yourself. “Am I happy? Am I doing things that make me happy? Am I listening to my gut?” Bruce Lee said it best: “Be like water, my friend, be like water.” It meant to flow. That means, do not resist life, whether it’s martial arts, or business, or relationships. You must go with it. And that means, like, it doesn’t necessarily mean just eat ice cream and lay around all day. It doesn’t mean that. It is important to make our lives happy. Also, help the planet and other people because that is what all of us are here for. We’re not just here to help ourselves, we are here to help each other to evolve to a higher place, whatever that may be for each person, but to help make ourselves and the planet better for future generations. So, what do you do every day that makes you happy? Does it help others? So I thought about this: “How can I affect the planet in the biggest way?” I can help people eat in a better way that’s tasty, that makes them leaner, that makes them stronger, and makes them healthier. That’s pretty awesome.

Caryn Hartglass says it is quite amazing.

Jon Hinds: If I can teach them how to move in a way that’s instinctive, that’ll help them get leaner and stronger and healthier and have a lot of fun while they’re doing it, I’m gonna do that, and that’s what I strive for every single day, is for people out there, there is a choice. There is something else out there besides the monotony of isolated training and also hitting out a piece of cardio with the TV one foot in front of your face and zoning out for an hour and feeling like that’s your choice. There’s so much more out there, it’s incredible. Have fun with movement. Move around. Jump up and try some jumping rope. You will learn a lot of tricks. You can climb on furniture or just have some fun. You can do exercises and other stuff. Play with your children. Go out with your dog to run and enjoy different movements. You will see incredible benefits from this stuff, and it’s just movement. And the eating point, we don’t have to eat as much food. Eat just less food, you’ll have lots more energy. Plants are the best.-based because you’ll do yourself and the planet good. And you’ll lose fat, you’ll feel a lot better, and you’re gonna do everybody a lot better for short- and long-term. You can do both of these things easily. You can do those starting right now, today, and it doesn’t have to be this enormously difficult thing to do. It doesn’t matter if you go to a gym to do your workouts or if you prefer to do them at home. Monkey Bar Gym, it’s all free and it’s on our website,

Caryn Hartglass: I love it.

Jon Hinds: This is what we do because it’s important to us that the world and people around us are helped. It’s free, we want to help.

Caryn Hartglass: I love everything you’re saying, and the thing I didn’t realize before this whole thing about moving the whole body: we have such a reductionist society. We’re reductionist in so many ways, with medicine, where we have specialists that look at one part of the body and not the other. All of us are connected to the planet. We share the air and the water. Therefore, it is important that we all recognize how interconnected we need to be. It makes perfect sense to move your body in this way, and not as separate pieces. It’s brilliant.

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