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I completed this book via audio, which I would highly recommend so you can be moving while listening to a book about movement. She'll even give you mileage marks as you go. Tip: Listen all the way to the end, she includes outtakes.** Her solution is build a life around subtle and constant movement, as we have for the past two million years.
contains a three-level movement program to help those of all strengths and fitness levels transition to a movement-rich lifestyle Episode Overview:0:00:01 Introduction and mention of previous New York Times features0:03:31 Recap of a previous podcast episode on grip strength0:06:18 Concerns about grip strength from a professional perspective0:08:26 Therapeutic Interventions for Children0:10:40 Play-Doh for Increasing Intrinsic Hand Strength0:13:20 Thera Putty as a Therapy Tool for Adults0:16:04 Importance of Hand Strength in Everyday Life0:24:05 Creating Playgrounds with Obstacle Courses for Kids0:27:04 Importance of diversity in hand use and overuse injuries.0:29:30 The technicality of different hand grips and their importance.0:30:39 Nourishing the Hands and Feet0:32:08 Wondering about the absence of someone in the bathroom0:34:30 Exploring the use of Therapuddy for hand strengthening0:36:54 Multiple approaches to hand training and arm strength development0:39:05 Assessing daily hand movements and seeking inspiration from others0:41:09 Grip Translates to All Finger and Hand Movement0:42:10 The Importance of Grip Strength in Daily Tasks0:44:16 Decline in Strength and Its Impact on Therapy Norms0:45:40 Lowering the Norms: A Frightening Shift in Fitness0:48:51 The Transcendence of Movement: Beyond Individual Body Parts0:49:41 A Salute to an Amazing FriendshipMove Your DNA contains corrective exercises, habit modifications, and simple lifestyle changes to free ourselves from the diseases of affluence and discover our naturally healthy, reflex-driven selves. Modernity with all its conveniences – pillows and mattresses, soft chairs, flat floors, computers, grocery stores,indoor living, and shoes and some of its inconveniences: i.e., constant noise – is affecting our health and changing our bodies in ways we do not even realize. The way we have set up our environment means that some of our cells literally never move or experience a "load", which has a health effect similar to never getting a needed vitamin. Our bodies "evolve" to adjust to the changes in our environment, but more often than not the adjustment is detrimental to our health. For example, when we do lots of reading and computer work, and do not spend enough time looking at distant horizons, naturally causes our eyes to adjust to the circumstances by becoming nearsighted. The solution as presented in this book is to move our bodies in the way they used to move when are species lived closer to nature. The idea sort of implies that our bodies are "designed" to operate in a certain way and when we operate closer to the design we feel and function better. It is also my hope that you see how you are not so different from the other animals and plants that coexist alonside of you. You are just as complex and adaptable, just as entwined with and affected by your environment, and just as capable of magical transformation. In the Epilogue, Katy sums up what she hopes this book accomplishes for her readers: to plant seeds for further movement exploration and a renewed assessment of our own presuppositions. Katy says it best: I consider(ed) myself to be a very healthy person. I exercise tons, and eat good, whole foods. Unfortunately I am exercising wrong, and so are you. Exercising, walking, standing, sitting, sleeping...
Exercise cannot come close to restoring the tissues already adapted to the way we have been using our habitiat. In the same way supplements should not be the bulk of your diet, exercise should not be the bulk of your movement profile. examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter-gatherer's life and the movements in a convenience-riddled lifestyle I found the information presented in this book fascinating on several levels. Even though it has only two days since I started reading the book some of the simple technique Bowman recommends are already helping my foot pain and muscular-skeletal issues. The proof is the pudding and the movement adjustments she describes are very easy to incorporate in your daily schedule. Also there's a philosophical dimension in whole idea that the way our "paleo" ancestors were is the way we're "supposed" to be.Bowman is the creator and host of the "Move Your DNA" podcast, teaches movement globally, and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in such diverse media as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.
She also points out the irony in that even those who are diligent exercisers are usually still sedentary for the majority of the time, and that the exercises most of us do for health are just more inputs that cause us to adapt to restricted ranges of motion instead of ones that promote greater ranges of motion and thus why many extremely fit people suffer from poor overall health. She also discusses the psychology of how if you are participating in movement as part of you daily life versus as a compartmentalized chore or activity, the greater an impact it will have on your overall health. A new expanded edition of the bestselling Move Your DNA. Now with an exercise glossary and three-level exercise program! The first part of the book is fairly technical discussing adaptions of the muscles and cells at microscopic levels. While it may be a bit much for some people I love the technical details and kind of wished for even more. The human body evolved to a tremendous amount of certain movements―like walking, squatting, hanging, and carrying―loads our bodies still require to work well, even though they're mostly gone from our "convenience-centric" culture.
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Am I going to immediately stop using my pillow and start sleeping on the floor? Probably not. Will I start using my husband's Squatty Potty? Maybe. Am I going to stop wearing a bra? Tempting! (You'll know what I mean after you read this book.) Bestselling Move Your DNA has shaken up the health and fitness world with this message: there is more to movement than exercise. Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader in the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Bowman teaches movement globally and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences. Her work has been featured in diverse media including The Today Show, CBC Radio One, The Seattle Times, and Good Housekeeping. It's often said that "movement is medicine," but rarely is the "how" behind the power of movement explained. It's not only our whole body that's moving; our cells are being moved as our limbs push and pull to locomote us around, and each movement moves our cells uniquely. Katy Bowman is a biomechanist and founder of the Restorative Exercise Institute. Her articles challenged pretty much everything I had been taught about fitness before, during, and after pregnancy, not to mention basic, everyday movements like standing, walking, and putting on shoes. Katy has a fresh perspective on our movement habits that you don’t find anywhere else, and her new book, Move Your DNA, follows in that vein. Katy’s Voice
Chapter Ten: Not Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents’ PelvisAccessible and fascinating, Move Your DNA is a game-changer in the world of health, fitness, and movement science. Hailed as offering a pioneering and paradigm-shifting perspective on exercise, this book: Between the helpful illustrations, diagrams, and progressions, you’ll learn how to integrate these correctives into day-to-day life. Katy concludes the book with an entire chapter on the pelvis and squatting, with sensible progressions for beginners and people who have difficulty with squats. Who Should Read This Book