Half His Size: Physical Therapist Alan Fredendall on Losing 200 Pounds and Introducing Patients to CrossFit PH179

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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I first connected with Alan via a virtual physical therapy conference for the Institute of Clinical Excellence, and I was excited to learn more about his remarkable transformation story in this episode. We talk about the approach his friends used to encourage him to make major lifestyle changes, and how he sees CrossFit and physical therapy working together to help individuals stay functionally fit throughout their lives.

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0:00.0	we program our PT exercises as emoms and am wraps and rounds for time.
0:05.5	So, you know, they're kind of in this back corner of the gym
0:09.6	using the same equipment.
0:11.2	They look over and they see the crossfitters in class doing it and they
0:16.0	look at themselves and think this looks pretty similar. This looks like something I could
0:21.5	be doing. And I love when they start to ask like what
0:25.0	is this is this barrier that we've learned patients like is this barrier that we've
0:29.5	learned patients perceive as like a line between the gym and the clinic and they start to ask like what does it
0:35.1	take to cross that line and it's fun to tell them like well not much like you know
0:40.6	especially when truly their pain is gone I'm saying, especially when truly their pain is gone.
0:43.7	I'm saying, well, I have a lot of patients
0:45.9	that their discharge visit with me
0:47.8	is to come and take my class that I'm coaching.
0:51.7	Like, come try it out while I'm coaching. I'll be your
0:53.6	coach. I know what's going on with you. I'll show you that it's safe that we can
0:57.9	modify the workout based on whatever is going on with you and you can have a
1:01.7	fun successful hour and I think we've been
1:05.0	more than surprised about the amount of patients who were not doing anything before who
1:08.6	maybe didn't even know what cross fit was or maybe had a negative connotation about it who have signed up for
1:13.8	Cross Fit membership.
1:19.8	Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
1:21.6	I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-vit-game athlete.
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