Movement Podcast

What if the best way to improve performance isn't to train harder—but to remove what's holding an athlete back? In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray Cook and Lee Burton welcome Australian sports physiotherapist and longtime FMS educator Greg Dea to discuss movement screening, injury risk reduction, athlete availability, and the barriers that limit performance. Drawing on work with the Australian and British military, EXOS in China, elite volleyball, and Australian football, Greg ex...

In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray Cook and Lee Burton welcome legendary strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle to revisit one of the most influential concepts in functional training: **the Joint-by-Joint Approach**. What began as a conversation between Mike Boyle and Gray Cook at a conference in Chicago—and a few notes scribbled on a bar napkin—became a framework that helped coaches, trainers, and rehabilitation professionals rethink the relationship between mobility, stabili...

In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray Cook and Lee Burton sit down with Dr. Arianne Missimer, founder of The Movement Paradigm, to talk about movement, resilience, nervous system regulation, airway, sleep, functional medicine, and what it really means to treat the whole person. Arianne’s story begins with a deep appreciation for movement and health after losing her brother to cancer. That experience helped shape her mission to help people stop taking their health and movement for gra...

In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray Cook and Lee Burton sit down with Thomas Dewey to talk about data, wearables, movement health, and the future of human performance. Thomas is an athletic trainer and strength coach by background, with experience across Functional Movement Systems, Naval Special Warfare, Sparta Science, and ŌURA. His career has focused on helping professionals turn complex human performance information into practical decisions. The conversation explores one of th...

What are the best exercises for low back pain? Gray Cook says that may be the wrong first question. In this episode of the Movement Podcast, Gray is joined by Dr. Kyle Kiesel, one of the leading researchers in rehabilitation and low back pain, for a deeper conversation about why low back pain is not always a simple weakness problem — and why “strengthen your core” does not always solve the issue. Gray and Kyle discuss inhibition, the multifidus, high-threshold strategies, pain, inflammatio...