Marcus Filly: From Medical School to Professional CrossFit Athlete to Founding Functional Bodybuilding

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Filly is the founder of Functional Bodybuilding. After leaving medical school, Marcus turned instead to health and fitness to help people more directly with training and nutrition in their day to day lives. Drawing on an extensive training background in soccer and his competitive CrossFit career, Marcus owned an affiliate for years before changing methodologies to help athletes better succeed through individual coaching. After the 2016 CrossFit Games, Marcus was burned out and broken, and about to become a first time father. Functional Bodybuilding was born out of a need to train more for longevity and sustainability – while still looking good and moving well.

We get into how and why Marcus left medical school, went pro, and then synthesized all his experience and knowledge into his own methodology, Functional Bodybuilding.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. And I'm Juliette. And you're listening to The Ready State
0:09.8	Podcast.
0:12.4	You got it. You're going to stop it. This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Sleep Me.
0:20.1	Can we talk about torpor? I mean, maybe you're going to have to define that. But yes, I'd love to talk about torpor. What I mean is one of the great things, there's two things I want to talk about today around, using Sleep Me's technology to modulate temperature in bed. First of all, is that my favorite way to wake up now of all time is to crank the heat up in my bed. All of a sudden, I go from like sleepy bear, torpor, right? I'm an animal just moving slowly, and then I actually warm up and feel good. And the first step of the day, I actually feel great. I don't feel stiff. Well, I think the other thing, too, is that our bedroom is actually unusually cold in
0:54.7	the winter for a variety of reasons. Mid-Centure Modern House, you're welcome. Lots of air coming in.
0:59.2	It's always cold. So being able to crank up the heat first thing in the morning and sort of being
1:04.5	able to make our bed match our environment has been really awesome. Or a mismatched environment.
1:09.2	Or mismatched.
1:09.6	One of the cool things about using this technology is that your ideal sleep temperature may
1:15.6	shift during the year based on how hot it is outside or how cold it is outside.
1:19.6	I'm running about 10 degrees warmer on my Doc Pro that I normally do in the summer, which
1:25.6	means I still get this great sleep, but I don't
1:28.2	have to suffer on one extreme of the other. So I really feel like being able to individualize
1:33.4	my mattress to match this season has been a game changer for my sleep. Yeah, and we've been
1:37.8	sleeping great lately at our warmer temperatures. Even my o'ring. 90s baby. 90s child.
1:43.6	Head over to sleep.
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1:51.9	me slash TRS to take advantage of our exclusive discount and wake up refreshed every day like us.
1:59.9	Before we get started today on this episode with Marcus Philly, which I think you're going to
2:03.9	enjoy, we just want to take a minute to remind you about something we are super proud of
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