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Podcast listeners, thank you so much for checking out today's episode. It's truly humbling to have you listen today.

This is episode five of the

Squaw University podcast, where the goal is to bring you as much value-packed content as possible

to help you move better in the gym and in life, decrease your bodies aches and pains and help

you reach your true athletic potential. Now with that being said, let's get to today's show.

The title of today's class

will be barbell training, shoes or no shoes. Now, this is an area of training that almost

everyone has questions on. I probably get about 15 to 20 emails and direct messages every single

week for people asking whether or not they're wearing the right shoes when they're lifting,

if they should be changing the shoes that they're currently lifting in, or even if they should

be using shoes at all, should they be going barefoot? So obviously, this is an area where there's

a ton of questions and a ton of opinion circulating amongst different experts out there.

So the one constant is that we need more information to help you,

the athlete, and the coach make the best educated decision on what fits you best. So most of us

obviously wouldn't think about trying to run a marathon in bowling shoes. We also wouldn't

want to play basketball and baseball spike. So when it comes to weight training, why do we just

think that we can lift in

any old shoe that we have around our house? Today, what I want to do is dive deep into the topic

of what is best to put on your feet or like thereof. When you lift, I want to lay out a very

comprehensive blueprint for how to choose the right shoes for your body and the

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