224. Dr. Mark Cheng on metabolic adaptability and healthy movement

Dr. Mark Cheng is a Chinese medicine and acupuncture practitioner in Los Angeles, CA. We discuss a variety of topics including best practices for healthy movement to the issues surrounding Asian Americans. Dr. Cheng is a lifelong martial artist as well as an expert in strength and conditioning.  He had the unusual privilege of training directly with StrongFirst founder & chairman, Pavel Tsatsouline, and with legendary Bruce Lee disciple and martial arts luminary Dan Inosanto, Dr. Cheng also shares his philosophy on why slowness is the mother of all good movement and how it integrates his knowledge of medicine, science, strength training, and martial arts into his practice of helping clients move to feel and live better. I truly enjoy these conversations and hope you do too. Please share this podcast with others and rate it on your platform of choice. You can also take one extra step to show your love by donating to the show on my website or on patreon.com/sifumimichan – you can donate as little as $1 per month. Thanks for the support. For comments or suggestions, please reach out on social media @sifumimichan “Slowness is the mother of all good movement. Slowness is the mother of speed because slow movement allows you to be mentally serene, dynamically smooth, intrinsically strong, & interactively safe. Even in an art like swordsmanship (where most fixate on speed and/or savagery), slow training allows you to observe strategy with structure and detail without distortion, developing an awareness of subtlety and giving you a pathway to learning supremacy. You groove skill without stress, you learn synergy without strain, and you learn suppleness without sickness.” – Dr. Mark Cheng Discussed in this episode Dan Inosanto Bruce Lee Dr. Mark Hyman Podcast Chinese acupuncture Gray Cook / FMS StrongFirst Pavel Tsatsouline k3Combat Dr. Mark Cheng Website Dr. Cheng Vimeo Dr. Cheng Facebook Dr. Cheng Instagram Dr. Cheng Twitter CULTURE CHAT CREDITS Host: Mimi Chan Intro Music: Mike Relm Comment Rules: Be Cool. Critical is fine, but if you’re rude, we’ll delete your stuff. Please do not put your URL in the comment text and please use your PERSONAL name or initials and not your business name, as the latter comes off like spam. Have fun and thanks for adding to the conversation!