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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…
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…
A Different Kind of Activity Tracker – Podcast Episode #126
There are activity trackers that measure your steps, mileage, or jolts of your entire body, but is this good enough? Biomechanist Katy Bowman weighs in on a new non-digital, non-analog activity tracker—a chart!—that helps you…
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…
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,…
About Grow Wild – Podcast Episode #125
In this show, biomechanist and author, Katy Bowman introduces her new book on kid and family movement, Grow Wild, with some publishing industry dialogue on what makes a coffee table book. Katy also answers an important…