Welcome to The Mind Body Marathon: the podcast that puts you on a path to a healthier lifestyle–whether you’re a daily runner or just finding your footing.

Running is one of the best forms of exercise to improve both your mental and physical health, leading to stronger cardio health, more sleep, higher energy, and even stronger immune systems. But it’s not the only way to get healthy. This podcast will explore running as well as other exercise, health, and wellness topics that relate to nearly everyone.

Hosted by Dr. Leo Kormanik running exper, this podcast will offer insights into getting or staying fit without the risk of injury, tips and tricks for improving your health for the long-term, and a deeper understanding of health trends and fads that may or may not be beneficial for you.

The goal is simple: to help you better understand both your body and mind so you can live a healthier life. 

Dr. Leo is a sports chiropractor, running physiologist, and former elite runner with a marathon time of 2:18. His career is focused on helping runners, athletes, and workout novices improve their performance and reach their health goals while reducing the risk of exercise-related injuries. 

Each week, Dr. Leo and his guests will be exploring topics that are relevant to fitness newbies, elites, and everyone in between, including:

• The doubts and anxieties that hold us back from our physical and mental potential
• Differentiating between injuries and muscle fatigue to speed up recovery and avoid greater damage
• The myths and facts surrounding current and past wellness trends, such as ice baths, saunas, cupping, acupuncture, cryotherapy, and hyperbaric therapy
• Fitness goals (and how to reach them) no matter where you’re starting out

Your health is a marathon, not a sprint, so start taking the steps to better long-term health. The Mind Body Marathon is here to help you set the pace.

Dr. Leo Kormanik [00:00:14]:

Hello, everyone. This is Dr. Leo Kormanik, host

Dr. Leo Kormanik [00:00:16]:

of the Mind Body Marathon podcast. This is a new show that will focus on the comprehensive aspect of your health and lifestyle. It's the goal basically for us to give you as much information as we can on how to live a happier, healthier life, And we're gonna look at it through the lens of current research and science, but we're gonna sort of whittle it down to a fun show where basically we have a lot of really cool guests, and we cover a lot of really cool topics in a fun manner. So I myself am a sports chiropractor, so I own and operate Ohio Sports Chiropractic and Rehab. And on a daily basis, I treat people with mainly running injuries and other different sports injuries, so that's sort of my specialty. I'm also an exercise physiologist, so I understand the sports science and sports training theory side of things. So I can decipher the difference between like yoga and like MMA, running, and all the different sports, and how to sort of weave all that together for you personally, and how to understand how to utilize those things for better service in your life. And then lastly, I'm a runner, so which is the marathon component.

Dr. Leo Kormanik [00:01:24]:

Right? So we're looking at the mind and the body with regards to helping both of those things and improving both of those things for the marathon of life. And it's our goal that basically we we give you as much information as we can to basically address, you know, some of the mental aspects, some of the performance aspects, and also some of the lifestyle aspects that go into understanding better health with the mind and body. So being a little bit more comprehensive with that, you know, there were shows that we released once a week. You know, we're gonna, like I said, have guests where we will have thought leaders within the health industry, professional athletes, scientists, nutritionists. So we're gonna, like I said, be very comprehensive with this approach. And it's gonna be very exciting and just kind of a conversation based show where we break down key concepts for your life and not make them too complex, but give you very actionable items for helping you on a daily basis. We hope you tune in. We hope you enjoy the show, and feel free to give us feedback and feel free to let us know what you think and what some of the topics that you wanna hear because this is really important to us, giving you as much health information as we can because we have plenty to say.

Dr. Leo Kormanik [00:02:36]:

So again, hope you tune in soon. Thanks.