Jeff Cavaliere

There are literally muscles too.

You can improve the muscle, muscular strength of your feet.

And when you do, you can, I think you can start to restore some of the natural arch that you've lost to the foot.

If it's because of tendinous,

dysfunction that's there or inherited, as you said, a genetic predisposition to this, you may not be able to have the arch of somebody who has naturally better arches, but you could certainly create enough of an arch where all the arch is really doing is just changing the position of your ankle joint itself.

So of how the tibia sits on your ankle.

If the foot collapses, the tibia is now torqued, essentially, in its relationship to the foot.

And so now every time you step, whatever forces are being incurred on the ground are being sent up through the ankle, into the knee, into the hip, into the back.

So you're just trying to maintain a better, more natural alignment between the tibia and the foot itself.

So that's what happens with the weakness of the foot, is you're basically allowing it to collapse too far to start to create that torque in its relationship to the tibia.

So if you can start to increase the strength of those muscles resting, they can basically maintain a higher arch or a more natural position that's more aligned with the tibia, and that's where the benefits come from.

something i knew nothing about back in my 20s nothing i didn't think for at all to do that all i did was go put an orthotic in right which basically put me in a better position for that it lifts the foot up and it puts me in a better alignment to try to start

decreasing some of the ongoing damage I was doing to my knees by being in that torque position, but did nothing to actually fix the problem itself.

Yeah, exactly.

Like a mouth brace would actually create some long-term change, but this is doing nothing.

longevity ultimately is is basically in my eyes is being able to maintain function as you age because again it's it's not the the number of years but the quality of the years so all muscles in your body serve a function they're all there for a reason almost i think there's one or two that were potentially they don't actually even have a function i forget which ones they are but they're but they're but for the most part they're there for to serve a purpose

The idea that we don't train all of them in some way is a little bit crazy because they're there, they need to be able to function for the lifetime of however long you're going to be here.

Finding ways to do it where we don't have to do

hundreds of different exercises to address all these muscles is the ultimate goal so we can become more efficient with our efforts and we're not skipping them.

But the idea that they're not necessary or they're not, they don't need to be maintained or maximized over a lifetime doesn't make sense to me either, right?