Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I have Dr.

Payton Busker with me. She's been on many an episode and she's back. She is a

doctor of physical therapy. She is an instructor for Evlo. She works full time for Evlo.

And today we're going to do something different that we've never done before, which is usually when we do these episodes there's a lot of planning that goes into

them there's a lot of thought because we want to keep them concise and helpful and

eliminate the fluff and just kind of tell you what you need to know.

But today we're like, what if we just talked about this topic?

Like we didn't prepare, we didn't talk to each other about it at all,

we just talked about this topic,

because a lot of times we have these conversations off air, and we're like,

dang, I wish that could be recorded, or I wish I could repeat that again for the first time because it was just like really helpful and good and we get a lot of ideas from each other all the time.

So we wanted to just record one of our conversations talking about this topic that we see a lot which is functional training.

So do you want to say or kind of describe what functional training is?

So should we start there? Yeah, so the idea behind functional... describe what quote unquote functional that you perform in your day-to-day life.

Things that fall under this category are squat thrusters because it mimics you having to

bend down to pick something up and then put it in a shelf overhead.

Or a deadlift because same similar type of thing you might be bending over and performing a dead lift

motion where you're hinging the hips back and reaching down for something.

And so the idea behind the functional fitness movement is that you,

it's, they kind of based it off the use it or lose it principle of

neuroplasticity of you have to train in those specific movement patterns in

order to not lose them later in life. But they're not just training, oftentimes they're not just

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