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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.…
Miles of Audiobooks
You’re here because you want to move (more, better, with less pain, etc.). You’re here to learn about movement, but I don’t want your “learning about movement time” to become more than “actual movement time”…
Activities Move Your DNA
In Grow Wild, I dig into mechanical nutrients much more deeply than in any previous book. “Mechanical nutrients” are the biochemical responses on the cellular level that come from your larger body parts moving around…
Changing a Sedentary Culture
When I was twelve years old I would have told you that running the mile was the WORST thing ever. I hated it. But I didn’t only hate running while running; I began dreading it…
The Highs and Lows of Foot Arches
Here’s something about me: I love animal tracking and prints. Animal signs are visual traces of past movement so it’s no wonder I enjoy tuning in to all the movement around me—I’ve made a life…
Permission To Move
In the last few years I’ve become super-interested in looking at movement as a behavior facilitated by an environment. Like all animals, we’re always responding to our environment; because so many spaces don’t tolerate movement,…
30 Books To Connect Kids (Toddlers to Teens) To Nature
Kids’ experiences with movement and nature have never been lower. That being said, a simple place to start can be reading books about kids being in nature! I’m not speaking of technical, how-to books (although…
Knee Love And A Low-Load Lunge
As explained in the Walking chapter in Move Your DNA, tight quadriceps muscles pull the kneecaps deeper into the knee joint. OUCH! These stiff bits need to release to fix the issue—you might even have…
Winter Exercise And Good Form
A snow storm is on its way here. I mean, if you are from Minnesota or Winnepeg it’s not a real snow, but to a Californian living in Washington state, snowmageddon is imminent. If 2020…