Richard Aceves

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The Richard & Dr. Ed Show

Conversations revolving around proactive mental, physical, and emotional health.

A recurring conversation between Richard and Dr. Ed about movement, proactive health, and the questions that keep coming up in real coaching practice. Every episode is on Buzzsprout, and the same feed plays on Apple Podcasts.

You’ll be taken to the show’s host to play every episode.

Recurring themes

What the conversations keep coming back to.

Episodes move around, but the ground stays the same: movement, breath, and coaching, with proactive health in place of waiting for something to break.

01

Movement as a whole system

The body as an ecosystem connected through torque chains, breath, and nervous system feedback — not a set of muscles to isolate.

02

Breath and tension

Creating tension and letting it go on purpose, and what that does to stress, inflammation, and chronic discomfort.

03

Proactive health

Working on the body before it forces the issue, instead of waiting for a diagnosis to start paying attention.

04

Pain as information

Pain tells you what is not working, where tension is missing, and what needs to be adjusted.

05

Coaching beyond programming

How mental and behavioral responses shape what a client can actually do with the program you wrote.

Guest appearances

Richard on other people's shows.

Podcast · Just Fly Sports

Richard Aceves on Fusing Mental, Physical and Emotional Elements of the Total Training Process

Just Fly Performance Podcast

A long-form conversation on the physical, mental, and emotional sides of training, and how training gets modulated to address each of them.

The clearest third-party explanation of how Richard assesses a body and builds from there.

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Interview · Behind the Shield

Episode 154: Richard Aceves

Hosted by James Geering

An extended interview covering Richard's background: the climbing accident, the years of rebuilding, running a gym, and how that path turned into coaching people through pain.

Long-form personal history behind the method, recorded years before this site existed.

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Podcast · Decoding Superhuman

Richard Aceves: Movement Ayahuasca

Guest appearance · Apple Podcasts

A guest appearance on movement as a way through anxiety and stuck emotion, and on the thinking behind Movement Ayahuasca.

Covers the retreat side of the work: movement, breath, and emotional release.

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Have a topic you want covered?

Podcast, workshop, or coaching inquiries all start the same way — a conversation about what you are working on.