Welcome back. I am so excited for you to meet today's guest.

One of the things I've learned as I have coached, especially women who's mainly what I work with.

I work with like 98% women, is aches and pains are real. Everyone has aches and pains.

We have back pain, we have hip pain, we have knee pain, we have ankle and feet pain.

Like there's always pain and that's one of the reasons why I do have on decently often physical

therapists to discuss different pain points in the body and different ways to

alleviate it because I think a huge factor in how we

function, how we feel day-to-day, how we move through daily activities, and how our form is when we are lifting weights is our joints and our

ability to move them and if muscles or ligaments are tight or weak and so many different variations.

So today I'm so excited to introduce you to Dr. Lita Malik.

She's amazing.

She is a fantastic communicator and we are going to go over all things, ankles and feet.

I think sometimes we focus so much on back and hips and knee, but the truth is, as she's going to explain, so much of even that is connected to the

ankles and the feet. It's a super common issue and I think it's often sometimes even

overlooked because we're so focused on those bigger joints, those bigger regions,

when really it could possibly be our feet. There's always a lot of different reasons why we have aches and pains, but it's

important for us to be aware of the kinetic chain and how our body works together. So she is going

to lay out the ankles and the feet so beautifully for you today

with ways to tell if yours are weak

ways to tell if you need more mobility and then how to strengthen and stretch those areas and how to improve your flexibility and mobility.

Dr. Lita Malik is a doctor of physical therapy, a board certified sports clinical specialist.

She is an NSCA certified strength and conditioning specialist and she has taught

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