Welcome back. I want to start this episode with a couple of questions for you.

I want to know what style of shoes you wear to the beach. Would you ever wear high heels to the

beach? How would that affect your experience on the beach if you had on three inch stilettos

at the beach? Or I want you to think about going on a hike. Maybe you're hiking the Grand Canyon.

How would that hike go if you were in flip flops? How would country swing dancing go where you're

spinning all around if you were in sandals? All of these things help you realize that your shoe wear

makes a huge difference for the activity. And obviously these examples, you're like, yeah,

these are no-brainers. Obviously you don't wear a pair of high heels, six inch stilettos to the beach.

But I think oftentimes we aren't fully aware of our shoe wear during exercise.

We understand that footwear matters. Hence why in soccer, lacrosse football and many other outdoor

activities that are on fields, we wear cleats or basketball players wear high tops and so many

other examples. Tennis players, tennis shoes, golf shoes for golf, all of those things. But for

fitness, are we really aware of the shoes and how it is affecting our ability to do that exercise?

When I used to teach classes, I would come into a hit class and it just blew my mind when people

were wearing running shoes because we're moving laterally and running shoes aren't meant to move

laterally or when I was training someone on a gym floor and they had some pretty cushiony high-top

shoes yet we were working on deadlifts. Often the shoes that we are wearing during our physical

activity, if they're not matching what the need of the activity is, it can be part of a

cause of aches and pains or it can help prevent those aches and pains. So that's what we're going to

talk about today. We're going to talk about shoes and what shoes you should be wearing for what

activities. But first I want to give a shout out to Michelle Gleason, exactly what I'm looking for.

As a mom of three little boys who has been lifting and working out for a year, I'm loving this

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