Welcome back. I want to start this episode with a couple of questions for you.

I want to know what style of shoes you wear to the beach. Would you ever wear high heels to the beach?

How would that affect your experience on the beach if you had on

three inch stilettos at the beach? Or I want you to think about going on a hike. Maybe you're

hiking the Grand Canyon. How would that hike go if you were in

flip-flops? How would country swing dancing go where you're spinning all around if you were in sandals.

All of these things help you realize that your shoe wear

makes a huge difference for the activity.

And obviously these examples, you're like're like yeah these are no-brainer

obviously you don't wear a pair of high heels six inch stilettos to the beach but I think

oftentimes we aren't fully aware of our shoe wear during exercise.

We understand that footwear matters. Hence why in soccer, lacrosse, football, and many other

outdoor activities that are on fields, we wear cleats.

Or basketball players wear high tops and so many other examples.

Tennis players, tennis shoes, golf shoes, for golf, all of those things.

But for fitness, are we really aware of the shoes

and how it is affecting our ability to do that exercise?

When I used to teach classes, I would come into a hit class and it just blew my mind when people were wearing running shoes because we're moving laterally and running shoes aren't meant to move laterally.

Or when I was training someone on a gym floor

and they had some pretty cushiony high-top shoes,

yet we were working on deadlifts.

Often the shoes that we are wearing during our physical activity if they're not matching

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