Hello everyone welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we have a very exciting guest

Doug Brignoli. I will tell you about Doug here in a second. But before I do I just want to say that

the information that I've learned from Doug in his book has been a lot of the

foundation of my classes and how I teach and what I believe in with fitness.

I was first exposed to biomechanics

and how physics influences the body and exercise

after physical therapy school, kind of in my first job and I was yearning for more to

learn even more about it because I knew like what it's it's one of those things

that the more you learn the more you learn that you don't know and so after I was

exposed to it I was really digging digging digging and I came across this book the

physics of resistance exercise and it is so so good and it's his book is a lot of like oh that just makes sense so I wanted to bring him on the

podcast I was thrilled that he agreed and we had like a conversation for like an entire hour.

But I do want to say that Doug is different

than a lot of the guests that I bring on.

You know, he has a history of bodybuilding.

He's in that world. he works with a very different type of person that I work with, but as he said later in our conversation, a muscle is a muscle no matter who you are. Everybody's deltoids functions pretty much the same.

Everybody's quad functions pretty much the same. So it's like no matter who you are,

physics play a role in your body and it's important to understand and that's kind of

what we talked about in this conversation. Now we talked for a long time and what I

decided to do because there was so much goodness from our conversation, I decided to kind of cut this podcast into separate parts.

So this first part will be, we're talking about like functional exercise and and then we will

do kind of subsequent parts after this week. So Doug is super impressive. He is

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