Episode 5: Ansku Kangas - How to Tune in and Respect Our Physiology to Prevent Burnout and Enhance Performance

In this episode I speak to Ansku Kangas, a Health, Mobility and Recovery coach specializing in helping people restore balance in their life and training after a burnout or traumatic life events. _______________ In this episode Ansku shares her personal journey as a coach and how her own burnout had a huge impact on her view of coaching over the past 3 years after many years in the industry. She discusses what it’s like to have an unhealthy relationship with exercise and how her high achieving mentality allowed her to ignore the warning signs. She shares the popular quote, “stronger than my excuses” which she reframed as “stronger than my feelings” to explain how she over-rid the signs. She talks about how oftentimes as women we stuff down our anger and that was something she did and how this eventually led to chronic pain and how important it is to really process through what is going on. She talks about how she feels about education and how there actually may need to be a limit to learning or looking for a system or course to at times so she could use her intuition rather than intellectualizing and furthering the overwhelm. She talks about the importance of the learning process and how important it is to take a break and allow for the application of the information. We discuss the age of information overload and what happens when you take course after course. I ask her for advice she would give to a trainer about how to make information more usable. She talks about how she approaches her training for clients and incorporates the physiology piece by making sure she really learns and understands them and how important it is to ask questions. I ask her about how she structures her on demand membership to support a broad range of people and give them quality information. If you are thinking about how to scale your business and provide a lower price point offer you may enjoy hearing this. We discuss using complex breathing drills, like those of PRI and how it can be hard to let go and not place certain outcomes on the drills and end up overthinking it. We discuss social media and click bait posts and how to navigate the space to find quality content that can help people truly learn about their bodies. You can learn more about Ansku by clicking the links below: Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@ansku.kangas/videos Website https://movabilitycoaching.teachable.com/p/home Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ansku.kangas/