Move Your DNA 2nd ed: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

By Katy Bowman

Book Overview

Bestselling Move Your DNA has shaken up the health and fitness world with this message: there is more to movement than exercise.

"A landmark in explaining biomechanics." Dr. Joan Vernikos, Former Director of NASA's life science division and author of Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

It's often said that "movement is medicine," but rarely is the how behind the power of movement explained. It's not only our whole body that's moving; our cells are being moved as our limbs push and pull to locomote us around, and each movement moves our cells uniquely.

Some of the "big ideas" in this paradigm-shifting book include:

The human body evolved to a tremendous amount of certain movements―like walking, squatting, hanging, and carrying―loads our bodies still require to work well, even though they're mostly gone from our "convenience-centric" culture.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."Why a physical therapist or personal trainer is coaching you in alignment or "good form" we're adapting most to our daily positioning It's not only "move more," it's "move more of your body parts " (All bodies, couch potatoes to high-level athletes have areas that can be nourished with better movement.)We're using exercise like "movement vitamins" instead of addressing the deeper issue of a poor movement diet. We should be using both

Move Your DNA also contains:

40+ corrective exercises to help you find your "sticky spots"―areas of your body that just aren't moving (even when the rest of you moves a lot)alignment checks and a guide to increasing your walking movementssimple lifestyle changes to get you moving more (without always needing to add exercise ).

Keen laypeople, yoga and pilates teachers, fitness enthusiasts, personal trainers, physical therapists, and athletes can all use this humorous, passionate, and science-based guide to finally getting the movement every body requires.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943370109
• ISBN13: 9781943370108
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Propriometrics Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

More Life, Less Gym

The distinction Katy Bowman makes is simple and important: exercise and movement are not the same thing. One is a packaged ritual performed at scheduled intervals. The other is what our bodies were built for: continuous, varied, purposeful physical engagement woven through the fabric of daily life. Bowman pushes back gently but persuasively against the 150-minutes-a-week standard, not by demanding more intensity but by asking for more life. Walk more. Do your own chores. Carry things. Cook food. Climb something. Stand consciously, move intentionally, engage your body as a matter of ordinary living rather than a compensatory habit. The argument is accessible, the delivery concise, and the underlying case genuinely compelling. Our bodies do not want scheduled exertion; they want constant, natural, meaningful movement. If you need both the why and the how, this is an excellent place to begin.

Brilliant!

This book is a brilliant compilation of how we use (or don't) our body and how movement affects our present and our future health. She explains in a way we non-science people can easily understand. Such a great wealth of knowledge. Read this book! It will really change your life!