Core Training - Interview with Paul Chek

By Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN

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Yuri Elkaim:          That is amazing.   I love the story about how you said you have a 9 th grade education, yet I firmly believe that you are by far one of the top leaders in this field when it comes to improving performance and rehabilitating from injuries.   I think it is great that you learned a lot of this from experience and working with some of the best in the field.   I have actually worked with a number of trainers that have done some of your certification programs and having gone through kinesiology at the University level, I remember one of the guys going through one of your anatomy courses showing me some of the stuff and I had no idea.   It was so advanced.   It was incredible.   If there is anyone out there who wants to get into a more advanced level of training certification then you have to check out Paul Chek's stuff.   The website is www.thechekinstitute.com.  

Paul Chek:           That is where you can find information about all of my courses.   There is video, audio, books and related material.   But our real networking site where people can get access to huge amounts of my information and also get information from my instructors is www.chekconnect.com .   My personal, profession, spiritual training is www.ppssuccess.com .  

Yuri Elkaim:       We will definitely get those out to people.   Thank you for sharing some information about your background and how you came to be where you are right now.   Let's dive into the meat of our interview now.   You have a very different approach than a lot of other people when it comes to training the human body.   What is your personal philosophy when it comes to exercise or fitness training ?  

Paul Chek:          Well I have developed a formula that I teach my students.   It is called the 1, 2, 3, 4 approach to overcoming obesity, addiction, and disease.   It is a model just like Einstein has e=mc2 to explain space, time and matter.   The 1 stands for one love.   The first thing that I do when I start working with anyone is identify what their one love is or what their dream is.   I find that if you don't find a clear motive for healing that most people won't heal.   Many people get a lot of currency out from their injury.  

Many people find that they get more love, affection, and appreciation and more connection with people from their injury than they ever did in their whole life.   So if they have no motive or no direction; if they are not trying to create something more beautiful than the circumstances that they're seemingly stuck in, then they don't want to be discharged from physical therapy or disengage from the trainer.   I teach my students that you are not successful if your client needs you after a period of time.   Our goal is to coach people to be self managed.   So unlike most systems, I train my practitioners to get rid of their clients by teaching them how to eat, move, and be healthy and then to use those people as marketing resources as opposed as the old chiropractic revolving door-type psychology where you just want to keep people coming in constantly or the drug companies keeping you addicted or trainers essentially becoming rent-a-friends instead of real guides for people.  

So once we establish motive, the 2 represents the 2 forces that create the universe: yin and yang.   We need to identify where the individual is out of balance with regard to accumulating energy; yin and expending energy; yang.  

So we look through the 7 chief cycle physical themes that all human life is constructed around and those themes are safety, security, rhythm, flow, sex, identity, and sexuality, personal power, self will, giving and receiving love, communicating and creating, accessing the super conscious or ideas beyond your own idea set or ego structure and then finally having a sense of what created the universe and what is essentially the source of life itself.  

So we find repeatedly that most all diseases and problems in life emerge from imbalances with regard to having clear motive and managing oneself within those 7 categories.   The 3 of the formula is about making choices.   Once you know what your dream is and where you are out of balance, you have choices to make and there are only 3 choices we can make in relation to any person, place, or thing.   Those are the optimal, which is the choice that is the best for everybody involved in relationship to you in regard to whatever the issue at hand is.  

The second-best choice is the sub-optimal choice which is usually best for you but causes pain and disconnection in relationships but is still a good choice because pain and disconnection are great ways to learn.   And then the third choice, which is the worst one is indifference, to not participate in life or do nothing.  

So I teach people that once we have their dream or their direction and we have motive and we know what needs to be balanced, I show them how to make more effective choices and those choices and the action pole of the system are the 4 doctors: Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, Dr. Movement, and Dr. Happiness.   All of our programs for diet and lifestyle and spiritual development are written in a prescription where Dr. Quiet represents cultivating energy and having time for yourself to develop a relationship with yourself and really get to know who you are.   Dr. Movement relates to the principal of action and there we look at everything from how you are using your mind, expressing you emotional energy and exercising or not exercising your body so we can bring you into balance.   Dr. Happiness is where we establish core values.   Once we have the dream and we know where you are out of balance, then we have to establish core values.  

What kind of food do you want to eat and how does that relate to your dream?   How much time do you need for yourself in a day?   What is an optimal rhythm and flow for you?   What do you need in your life to feel safe and secure?   These are just examples of core values, so I help each person develop their own living philosophy so that they have a means of knowing that they are moving toward completion or experiencing their dream.  

Dr. Diet is the 4 th doctor and that is where we talk about the use of food as medicine and the use of food as fuel and the use of food as a spiritual relationship to all that supports us and gives us the opportunity to live our dreams an honoring the fact that all things that we eat were once living their own life.   We essentially take life to give life to ourselves so it is important to me to teach people to honor what serves us and have a respectful relationship with food instead of treating food as some kind of an object and disregarding it as anything other than material or chemical input because those are delusions that lead people to participate in things like packaged, processed garbage because they have lost the connection to the fact that food carries life and the more processed it is the more dead it is and the more dead it is, the more of your own life force it takes to convert a dead food source into living tissue.  

I teach people to realize that in order to be truly alive, you must intake life itself.   You cannot create life out of death.   Processed food is essentially dead food.   My whole teaching can be summarized into those 4 steps and at each level of training I take people deeper into how to live that philosophy so that they can be authentic teachers as opposed to talking heads.

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