Move Your DNA 2nd ed

Informationen zum Autor Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her 10 books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA , have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide. Bowman 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 diverse media such as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times , NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping . One of Maria Shriver's Architects of Change and an America Walks Woman of the Walking Movement, Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need message. Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family. Klappentext "Accessible 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: explains how movement works right down to the cellular level; examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter-gatherer's life and the movements in a convenience-riddled lifestyle; discusses the issues with using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet; contains a three-level movement program to help those of all strengths and fitness levels transition to a movement-rich lifestyle. 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 above all science-based guide to restoring your body through natural movement." -- Page [4] cover. Zusammenfassung Updated and expanded to include a comprehensive three-level exercise program, Move Your DNA addresses, in layperson's terms, the disease we are suffering from, identifying our lack of movement as the primary cause. Readers can use the corrective exercises and lifestyle changes to transition to healthy, naturally moving bodies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Foreword Introduction THINK Chapter 1: Nutritious Movement and Diseases of Captivity Chapter 2: Movement, Loads, and Your DNA Chapter 3: The Difference Between Exercise and Movement Chapter 4: The Heart of The Matter: Why We May Not Need Cardio After All MOVE Chapter 5:Transitioning Well Chapter 6: Your Feet, Sitting, and Standing Chapter 7: Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms Chapter 8: It's Hard to Rest in a Zoo Chapter 9: Walking: The Specifics Chapter 10: Not Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandparents' Pelvis Epilogue MOVE MORE Alignment Checks Exercise Flows Walking Exercise Glossary Appendix: Exercise Equipment and Additional Sources of Information Resources and Further Reading Index About The Author ...

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Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her 10 books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide.

Bowman 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 diverse media such as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.

One of Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change and an America Walks Woman of the Walking Movement, Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need message.

Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family.

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"Accessible 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: explains how movement works right down to the cellular level; examines the differences between the movements in a typical hunter-gatherer's life and the movements in a convenience-riddled lifestyle; discusses the issues with using exercise like movement vitamins instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet; contains a three-level movement program to help those of all strengths and fitness levels transition to a movement-rich lifestyle. 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 above all science-based guide to restoring your body through natural movement." -- Page [4] cover.

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Updated and expanded to include a comprehensive three-level exercise program, Move Your DNA addresses, in layperson's terms, the disease we are suffering from, identifying our lack of movement as the primary cause. Readers can use the corrective exercises and lifestyle changes to transition to healthy, naturally moving bodies.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

THINK

Chapter 1: Nutritious Movement and Diseases of Captivity

Chapter 2: Movement, Loads, and Your DNA

Chapter 3: The Difference Between Exercise and Movement

Chapter 4: The Heart of The Matter: Why We May Not Need Cardio After All

MOVE

Chapter 5:Transitioning Well

Chapter 6: Your Feet, Sitting, and Standing

Chapter 7: Mouse Hands to Monkey Arms

Chapter 8: It's Hard to Rest in a Zoo

Chapter 9: Walking: The Specifics

Chapter 10: Not Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandparents’ Pelvis

Epilogue

MOVE MORE

Alignment Checks

Exercise Flows

Walking

Exercise Glossary

Appendix: Exercise Equipment and Additional Sources of Information

Resources and Further Reading

Index

About The Author