Hey there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the muscle intelligence podcast. I'm your host

Ben Pocoski. Today's podcast is with a guy who's changed my life, who's changed my understanding

of exercise, who still continues to this day to be a very

good friend and a close mentor, probably, in my opinion, the guy who knows most about exercise

in the entire world, specifically, biomechanics and anatomy, ultimately. And so he doesn't,

and he gets very adamant about this in the podcast. He doesn't talk about hypertrophy. He doesn't

talk about mechanisms. He talks about biomechanics. And biomechanics is the foundation of everything

you do in the gym. Ultimately, it's how you move, right? So how do I move in a squat? How do I move

and walking? How do I move in breathing? All of those are the study of biomechanics, how the body

moves. And Tom Purvis is an exceptional wealth of

information. Tom has been a very long time. He has an incredible understanding. And his understanding

is very much accurate, very much true to the purity of the human system. And Tom tends to get very strongly opinionated,

as you guys will see in the podcast, about people doing things outside of what he sees to be

accurate. And I don't think he's wrong. I think maybe there's context that we could apply it to outside of what Tom's beliefs are.

But Tom tends to think there's not.

And again, I think it's worth exploring.

My favorite thing to do is explore my beliefs, explore what I call my own bullshit, quote, unquote.

I apologize for cussing. But explore my own thoughts. Explore what I call my own bullshit, quote unquote. I apologize for cussing.

But explore my own thoughts, explore what I believe to be true.

And Tom does a really good job, as you guys see in this podcast, in challenging me,

and challenging what I believe, and challenging my theories and challenging my hypotheses.

And for me, I enjoy that.

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