Welcome to Moving Conversations, a podcast for movement professionals by movement professionals. Join Author and 2025 Personal Trainer of the Year Finalist Brian Richey and Balanced Body Content Creator Nora St John, with their combined 50 years+ of experience in Pilates, fitness and movement covering topics ranging from Pilates, fitness, corrective exercise, pre and post rehab, exercise programming, sports specific training, and of course any and all questions that come from you, the listener.
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On Nico’s app, Pocket Pilates, he has created an endless variety of skill building sequences in the Pilates environment. Today we discuss his excellent framework for creating variations, progressions and modifications for classes and private clients. Nico outlines a simple formula for taking the exercises you already know and keeping them fresh for clients and classes of all kinds. This is a truly practical and inspiring episode with one of the most creative minds in the business!
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13 Oct 2026
New Moves- From Theory to Practice
In this episode, Brian and Nora talk about closed chain and open chain and how they impact muscle activation, joint stability and coordination. This conversation is an excellent example of our thought process when we designing and modifying new exercises. For examples we focus on firing the adductors independently and modifying range of motion to balance glute and hamstring activation. This is a look "behind the curtain" of creating new moves.
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Brian
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Nora
IG: nora.s.john.7
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moving-conversations/id1669504158?i=1000650467168 https://open.spotify.com/show/6cmgm8T0ZiC5wu6yhXrw9g
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6 Oct 2026
New Moves!
Everyone sees creative and occasionally provocative exercises on social media. Before teaching the exercise, we ask ourselves the following questions: 1) What is the purpose of the exercise. 2) Who is the exercise for. 3) Is it safe for this client or class and 4) How might I need to adapt it for clients who are taller, shorter, tighter or looser. Whether you create new exercises to address a particular movement pattern, to add variety to a workout or to help a client in pain move more comfortably, let's talk about why, how and when to create new exercises.
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Email: movingconvos@gmail.com
IG: @movingconvos
FB: Moving Conversations
Youtube: @BrianRichey
Brian
IG: @fit4lifedc
FB: https://www.facebook.com/brianrichey/
Nora
IG: nora.s.john.7
FB: https://www.facebook.com/nora.s.john.7 (https://www.facebook.com/nora.s.john.7)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moving-conversations/id1669504158?i=1000650467168 https://open.spotify.com/show/6cmgm8T0ZiC5wu6yhXrw9g
#movingconversations (https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/movingconversations/)
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YouTube views
14,369
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
15 ratings
Spotify
4.7 / 5
6 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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YouTube
76
Engagement
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