In today's episode, we talk about the idea of fascia being an integral role in EVERYTHING movement related within the human body... but also how it's been appropriated as a marketing term to create a lot of hype without a lot of substantiation. Typically, strength and conditioning (S&C) coaches will dismiss fascia as an important variable (or a variable at all) worth considering. Some functional fitness fellas go whole hog in the other direction and insist that if you're not training your fascial fitness, then you're doomed to deal with destruction of your joints, and are booking a one-way ..read more

Anthony and Dr. Will go through a list of logical fallacies (both formal  and informal) and relate it back to the fitness industry and the weird,  whacky world of biomechanics!   A juicy conversation that will teach you how to debate, think, and learn  with more precise critical thought.   Follow us on instagram: www.instagram.com/anthony.manuele www.instagram.com/theartofmove --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-art-of-move/message ..read more

Our favourite BOYO joins us again for an epic conversation about the nature of how language shapes our experience of reality, the important of using precision in the terminology that we use to communicate, how avoid letting jargon be weaponized, and much, much more.   From biomechanics and mainstream fitness culture, to injury diagnoses causing more issues than they solve, to how societal narratives can affect collective testosterone levels, this is a conversation that will make you think, and hopefully, audit the language that you use to map out your world so that you have a more clear ..read more

On The Art of Move Podcast Episode 96, we're joined by CEO and Founder  of Functional Patterns, Naudi Aguilar, and coach from FP Santa Monica,  Mike Mucciolo to discuss some "criticisms" (IE, unfounded ad hominem  attacks) put forth by Layne Norton in a mini beef they had recently  online.   The conversation poured over into the issues within the fitness industry  as it pertains to the mainstream gym, physio, and rehab culture having  resistance to looking into considering different/relevant variables  pertaining to human movement.   We went EVERYWH ..read more

I was fortunate enough to have a very cool conversation with Professor @bart-kay, one of the most well-studied academics and researchers I've met in the fields of nutrition and exercise science.   A few things we talked about:  - Why carnivore diets make the most sense from an anthropological vantage point - How metabolism endogenously regulates glycogen/blood sugar levels when you're not eating exogenous carbs - Why carbohydrates and sugar is actually damaging to your body, and why the "pro-metabolic/Ray Peat enthusiast' crowd is misguided in their beliefs - How Paul Saladino screwe ..read more

FREESTYLE EPISODE!   Today, Dr. William Rajbar and I talked a bit about some of the ideas  we've been experimenting with in training, the challenges of creating  well-defined experiments, the challenges of avoiding environmental  toxins and endocrine disruptors, glucose metabolism, and much much much  more.   Follow us on Instagram for more information about The Art of Move,  biomechanics, functional fitness, lifestyle, marketing for personal  trainers, and more:   www.instagram.com/anthony.manuele  www.instagram.com/theartofmove --- Send in a ..read more

Dr Anthony Chaffee is an American medical doctor and Neurosurgical resident who, over a span of 20+ years, has researched the optimal nutrition for human performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases we treat as doctors are caused by the food we eat, or don't eat, and can be reversed with dietary changes to a species specific diet.   On this episode, we tackled a lot of different topics ranging from why people in the carnivore diet community started eating carbs (is it too much liver/organ meat causing health issues?), thoughts on the pro-metaboli ..read more

Devon Brown's One-of-a-Kind Fitness (www.instagram.com/oneofakind.fitness or www.oneofakind.fitness) is an expert in all things functional fitness, gait mechanics, and intelligent, innovative training solutions. Driven by the question "WHY", he relentlessly searched for his own answers about the optimal way to train a human body in relationship to its native mechanics. WHY do some athletes get injured? WHY does traditional strength training methods seem to create movement compensations? WHY do functional fitness systems get SOME results, but don't go all the way (to Devon's standards anyways ..read more

In this episode of the Art of Move Podcast, Dr. William Rajbar and  Anthony Manuele talk about the challenges of thinking for one's self,  the temptations to outsource your critical thinking to experts and  search engines, how AI could implicate misinformation and censorship,  and of course, a few pointsson the nuances of biomechanics and training.   To watch these episodes live in real time where you can interact and ask  questions, follow us on Instagram and get updated when our next stream  is going to happen:    www.instagram.com/anthony.ma ..read more

CEO and Founder of Functional Patterns Naudi Aguilar joins Anthony  Manuele and Dr. William Rajbar for a discussion about obstacles the  public faces as it pertains to ascertaining truth - specifically about  the field of fitness, health, and functionality of the human body.   We discuss the processes and principles of Functional Patterns, riff on  ideas of how public opinion is formed, why people value certain frames  of information over others, and much more.   Let us know if you agreed or disagreed with any specific points, and  tell us any questions ..read more