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A simple way to start moving your body more is to swap your sedentary seat for “active sitting.” How much of your body’s work are you giving to the chair? If the back of the…
The Best Walking Pace
The walking pace recommended for improving physical fitness levels is 100 steps/minute. But, rates like this are tricky because a fitness-making pace actually depends on your current fitness level. If you’re just getting started (going…
Three Ways to Move Your DNA
Getting more exercise is the most-cited new year’s resolution. Personally I’m a fan of making regular resolutions and updates to better myself in numerous ways, and I’m also a fan of a stepwise approach.…
15 Places to Head Ramp (and Where To Post a Reminder)
The Head Ramp exercise is a simple movement of the head that instantly decreases the load to the neck and upper back (watch a video on how to do it below). It is a move…
Exercise Advent Calendar 2021: Take a Breather
I love movement and I love celebrating, thus I always strive to create movement-rich celebrations. For years, I’ve done a movement advent calendar at the end of the year as a thank you to my…
The Wall: Your Personal Trainer
I like that my exercises move you but I’m even more hopeful that they inform you. Increasing your physical activity during class is great, but like other types of classes my intention is that you’re…
Dynamic Holidays Start Now (And Include More Joy)
A class regular came in the other day noting that all the progress she had made on a frozen shoulder had been undone by nine months of sitting inside reading. Her comments reminded me of…
Katy Bowman, Super Podcast Guest
I have done a heap of interviews in the last few years. In our efforts to support learning about movement (and to save you time searching on the internet) here is a list to…
How Do Minimal Shoes Move?
There are different features that make up a “minimal shoe” and one of those is sole flexibility. Below is a video of how I test this flexibility, but if you want to skip the video:…
30 Ways to Move More With Kids
As we were preparing for the launch of my book about why kids need so much movement (and what to do about it), I created a sheet to be downloaded and hung on the fridge…
Fix Your Downhill Knees
A couple of weeks ago our family hiked from up high in the Olympic National Park to the town below—4230 vertical feet over 8 miles (or 9.5 if you want to take the GPS’ word…
20 Books to Inspire a Long Walk
If you’ve been hanging around this website for the last 10+ years, you know walking is a huge theme here. Walking is a big part of the toolbox I use to tend to my life.…