Diastasis Recti: The Whole-Body Solution to Abdominal Weakness and Separation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bowman M.S., Katy

Exercise & Fitness

Propriometrics Press

The definitive, award-winning guide to strengthening your feet and transitioning to minimal footwear How can we unlock whole-body movement when our feet have been bound for decades? Is it as simple as kicking off our shoe-shackles and releasing our feet into the wild? Whole Body Barefoot will help you safely and effectively transition to minimal footwear, reaping the enormous benefits of freeing your feet without injuring yourself along the way. Whole Body Barefoot presents: <ul>
<li>How conventional shoes can cause your body to lose mobility and muscle</li> <li>The importance of walking on natural surfaces</li> <li>The corrective exercises that can transition hour shoe-adapted feet and legs</li> <li>“Vitamin Texture”―and how the latest research on toe-walking and texture might mean that barefoot time is essential to walking</li> </ul>
With clear, science-based explanations, Katy lays out the issues and created by conventional shoes and artificial environments, and describes in detail the steps necessary to transition to more natural footwear safely and effectively. With over twenty exercises, this is a must-have resource for anyone hoping to restore lost foot function, and improve their health…naturally!

Whole Body Barefoot: Transitioning Well to Minimal Footwear

What if we can make ourselves, our communities, and our planet healthier all at the same time by moving our bodies more? Movement Matters is a collection of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking investigation of the mechanics of our sedentary culture and the profound potential of human movement. Here she widens her You are how you move message and invites us to consider our personal relationship with sedentarism, privilege, and nature. Bowman explores: <ul>
<li> how convenience often means less movement, not more time</li>
<li> the missing movement nutrients in our food</li>
<li> how to include more nature in education</li>
<li> the impact of adding movement to permaculture and ecological models</li>
<li> our need for vitamin Community and group movement</li>
</ul> Unapologetically direct, often hilarious, and always compassionate, Movement Matters demonstrates that human movement is powerful and important, and that living a movement-filled life is perhaps the most joyful and efficient way to transform your body, community, and world.

Movement Matters: Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement

Religion & Spirituality

The bestselling, award-winning Move Your DNA is the foremost book in the Movement movement. It has shaken up the health and wellness world, spreading the message that this culture’s sedentarism has become pervasive, exercise is no longer a viable solution: movement is. Hailed as offering a paradigm-shifting perspective on exercise, this book: <ul>
<li>Explains how movement works right down to the cellular level</li> <li>Examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter-gatherer’s life and the movements in a convenience-riddled lifestyle</li> <li>Discusses the issues with using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet</li> <li>Contains a three-level movement program to begin transitioning readers of all strengths and fitness levels to a movement-rich life</li> </ul>
Move 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. From couch potatoes to professional athletes, new parents to seniors, readers love Katy’s humorous, passionate, and science-based guide to restoring your body through natural movement.

Move Your DNA 2nd ed: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

What if your pain and lack of mobility isn't due to your age, but your habits? What if changing how you move can change how you feel, no matter your age? Dynamic Aging is an exercise guide to restoring movement, especially for healthy feet, better balance, and the activities of daily life. Biomechanist and movement teacher Katy Bowman shares exercises and habit modifications for varying fitness and mobility levels. Dynamic Aging: * Is geared to a 50+ audience * Includes exercises and postural adjustments that require no special equipment and include modifications for all fitness levels * Will teach you how to move for healthy feet, improved balance, and activities of daily life * Will help all readers move and feel better Alongside Bowman's instructions are the stories, experiences, and advice of four women over seventy-five who ve used these principles and exercises for years. Along the way they found recommended surgeries unnecessary, regained strength and mobility, and ended up moving more than they did when they were a decade younger. From hiking in the mountains to climbing ladders and walking on cobblestones with ease, each of these women embodies the book's message: No matter where you're starting, if you change how you move, you can change how you feel. As seen on the Today Show!

Dynamic Aging: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility

Allen, Joan Virginia

Wilgus, Shelah M.

Woods, Lora

Faber, Joyce

Parenting & Relationships

From biomechanist and bestselling author Katy Bowman comes her eagerly anticipated guide to getting kids--from babies to preteens--and their families moving more, together, outside. Our kids are moving less than any other generation in human history; indoor time and screen time have skyrocketed. As adults and kids turn more to "convenient," tech-based solutions, tasks that once required head-to-toe use of our muscles and bones can be done with a click and a swipe. Without realizing it, we've traded convenience for the movement-rich environment that our physical, mental, and environmental health depends on. Parents don't know what to do! But there's good news: While the problem feels massive, the solution is simple...and fun! Grow Wild not only breaks down the 'big ideas' behind movement as a nutrient, it serves as field guide--how to spot all the movement opportunities we're currently missing. Learn to "stack your life" for richer experiences that don't take more time: <ul> <li>Set up your home to promote more movement, naturally</li> <li>Dress for (movement) success</li> <li>Add snacktivities to your meals</li> <li>Plan dynamic celebrations</li> <li>Create a dynamic homework space</li> <li>Bring nature into your home and play</li> </ul> And much more! Bowman, a leader in the Movement movement, has written Grow Wild to show where movement used to fit into the activities of daily life and more importantly, how it can again. The perfect companion to Bowman's bestseller Move Your DNA, Grow Wild provides practical, everyday, nature-rich ideas on how to let kids move their DNA while doing things they'll love. The book features: <ul> <li>100+ full-color photographs of kids and families moving</li> <li>Success stories from parents, grandparents, teachers</li> <li>"Study sessions" that make movement research more accessible to laypersons</li> <li>Written to all that work with children--parents, teachers, relatives, health professionals, and more</li> <li>A book to be referenced again and again as kids grow up!</li> </ul> Grow Wild is necessary reading for a wide range of readers--anyone who spends time with children. Humans live in many places and there are countless movement opportunities wherever you live, you just need to know how to spot them. Children and their families can thrive by learning to move more inside, adventure more outside, and grow wild in any environment. &nbsp;

Grow Wild: The Whole-Child, Whole-Family, Nature-Rich Guide To Moving More

There is a crisis of stillness in our culture. We know we need to move more, and yet we're still not doing it. With frequent headaches, bunions, sore backs, aching knees, and more, we're feeling the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Even when we do move, it can hurt in unexpected ways. Sometimes one or two sore body parts stop us from getting the exercise and daily activity we want and need.The good news: We don't have to feel this way!Rethink Your Position is a collection of short essays exploring how small changes in our positioning and choices can result in huge improvements in how our body moves overall and how it feels every day. Bestselling author, biomechanist, movement teacher, and leader of the Movement movement Katy Bowman specializes in making big ideas fun to read about. Here, she details how alignment matters-to every single part of our body.From lifestyle choices to exercises and changes in body alignment, Rethink Your Position takes a part-by-part approach to addressing common aches and pains and how to move ourselves for optimal functioning. She describes how to address "tech neck" with simple positional changes, how choosing different footwear can help stop "sneeze pees," how to hold our torso and pelvis so that our core muscles can get to work, and more.Some readers will bring the benefits of good alignment to their weightlifting, yoga, running, or exercise class. Some will bring them to carrying their child or grandchild, gardening, or just living day-to-day in a body that doesn't hurt all the time. All bodies benefit from good alignment!This is a revisited, revised, and refreshed update of Bowman's classic book Alignment Matters.

Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time

My Perfect Movement Plan: The Move Your DNA All Day Workbook

Uphill Books

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