Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I have a very special guest with me in person my very first in person podcast. I'm super excited.

Payton Busker is here.

Payton is, she works full time for Evelo now.

She is a physical therapist.

She teaches for Evelo.

She's a former Reformer Pilates instructor and we're going to talk all about

Pilates or former Pilates all of the things and kind of her experience. So welcome to the podcast, Payton.

Thank you.

I'm very excited to be here and just

to talk kind of about my experience and what brought me here.

Yes.

So let's start with your kind of background because you've been teaching fitness for a long time you've been in this world for a long time and we have a really similar background.

You're a physical therapist. You've also you know been in the fitness world. so tell us a little bit about kind of

what brought you to where you are now. Yeah so I went to college for and

studied biology and while I was there that's really when I became into group fitness.

Growing up I never really did group fitness classes.

I mean I played sports like most children was not good at any of them but still had fun and then I really

got into fitness and kind of thought about starting to take care of myself in

college and wanted to have like an active routine and I kind of fell in love with Reformer Pilates and found a local studio in Austin and became a member and was just there all the time and actually did some like we called it energy exchange

membership where I like worked for the studio like at the front desk in order to pay for membership

because I was in college and good and broke it. Yeah. You were broke yes. So I was

there so much and the owner was like we're going to do a teacher training you should you should do it and so I did and I really enjoyed it and it's just kind of funny though to look back again we have similar

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