Episode Highlights With Katy
- Breast health through the lens of movement
- Understanding why breasts need to move and how to do that without injury
- The way you move moves your body in a particular way
- If you want breasts that are well supported, do movements that build strength in support
- Movements like pushups or hanging as a test of chest movement and strength
- How carrying babies and breastfeeding can lead to stiffness in the upper body
- Why to work up to being able to hang by holding onto a bar for one whole minute each day
- How to work better movement into the things you're already doing
- Ways to counteract too much single-position input like looking at a phone
- How our core is affected by what is happening in the hips and the shoulders
- A tip for getting better movement and benefits even from walking
- We're so much more fluent in the importance of food than the importance of movement
Resources We Mention
- Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time by Katy Bowman
- More books by Katy Bowman
- Hanging board on Amazon
- Book: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume