Conditioning for Backpacking with Dr. Morgan Brosnihan, PT, DPT

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Join host Martin as he welcomes Dr. Morgan Brosnihan, PT, DPT, a seasoned physical therapist with experience spanning trauma hospitals to outpatient facilities.In this episode, Dr. Brosnihan offers essential insights on conditioning and preparing for a backpacking trip. Whether you're a seasoned hiker or planning your first adventure, Morgan's expertise guides you through the steps to ensure you're trail-ready.Don't miss this invaluable conversation on backpacking preparation and the power of...

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0:00.0	Today we have with us a doctor of physical therapy.
0:05.0	She's been doing this since 2017 and is passionate about helping her patients make progress to get back to keeping doing what they love.
0:14.0	She has worked both as a traveling therapist and a clinic manager.
0:18.0	She's also a Pacific Crest Trail crew hikes.
0:23.0	Morgan the swan, welcome back to pop-up-a-hikes.
0:27.0	Morgan, the swan, welcome back to pop-up-hikes.
0:35.0	Thank you it's good to be back we were just talking about how you were one of my first
0:38.8	podcast when I first started following PCT hikers and so it's fun to be back now heading into my third season.
0:45.0	And I've been following you Morgan and you have been doing, you've been quite busy since.
0:51.0	You got my interest early on with what you were doing to the point where I wanted to have you on here
0:56.3	and talk about it.
0:57.3	But yeah, you're out there helping to keep hikers healthy and hopefully succeeding in their through hike.
1:05.0	Yeah, it's been, you know, it was one of those things where it was an idea I had, so I had to like satisfy that hunch and now I've treated like I think last time I counted it was like over
1:15.9	1200 people so that's insane it's been so fun and it's so fun and it's so enjoyable to talk to people who are, they're living, I guess what you could say, the dream, right?
1:27.0	You love the outdoors, you love backpacking, and you're trained physical therapists, you're a doctor in physical therapy, and you're out there helping hikers and living in the outdoors.
1:36.0	I just admire that so much.
1:40.0	I feel like I have no complaints.
1:53.8	Morgan, what I want to talk to you about today is how do we prepare ourselves for a through hike and this can be any through hike. This could be the Pacific Crest Trail, the long trail. A through hike, if it could be a few thousand miles, it could
1:58.8	be maybe a hundred or so miles for some people. And I've had people on that address the nutritional side of this. Heather
2:05.2	Kelly from Kelly's Choice was recently on. I've had Aaron Owen Mayhew, who's a registered dietician and owner of
2:10.5	backcountry foodie on the podcast.
2:13.2	And we talk about how in preparing for these hikes,
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