Many of the ailments we face today relate to how little we move and how stiff our bodies are when we do move. Body issues are often more accurately symptoms of "movement malnutrition."

I do love my unga bunga bullshit, and sweet Katy legitimizes it more than the paleo zealots and coffee bulletproofers could ever hope to, because she is a Load Scientist. While I'm sure a contributing factor is her rejection of bras in favor of "the natural strengthening of our tissues", in this context I refer to her biomechanics degree, and her obsessive study of the long term effects of repeated movement under weight to parts of our bodies, as we all as the whole damn body.

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.

In Part One, Katy outlines the modern movement challenges we face. She also details some of the finer biomechanical details of why and how we need to move. Katy draws a sharp distinction between exercise and movement, and emphasizes the need to think outside the exercise paradigm and increase the spectrum of movements we do an a day-to-day basis. In her words: Chapter Ten: Not Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparents’ Pelvis 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.Why a physical therapist or personal trainer is coaching you in alignment or "good form" we're adapting most to our daily positioning! 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