Welcome to Season 5 and Episode 75 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by Nikki Naab-Levy, strength coach and hypermobility specialist.

You will learn:

• What is hypermobility and how does it differ from flexibility
• What are the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes and how do they differ from Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder
• Who can and can’t diagnose hypermobility
• Whether hypermobile people should never lock out their joints
• What are the most important considerations when working with hypermobile clients
• The negative consequences of catastrophizing positions as safe or unsafe
• Why social media focuses on the wrong issues for hypermobile people
• Strategies for hypermobile people to sense what level of activity they should undertake on any given day

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Reference links:

Nikki Naab-Levy on Instagram

Nikki Naab-Levy’s website

Welcome to Season 5 and Episode 74 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this unplanned episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss Stu McGill’s recent appearance on the Huberman podcast. In Episode 62, we identified McGill’s big themes around movement. In this episode, we go through his appearance on Huberman to see if he’s still promoting the same ideas or if he has updated his approach.

You will learn:

• Why we are once more deconstructing Stu McGill’s standpoint and outdated views on movement safety
• Why a hyperfocus on potential future pain is not only unhelpful but can put people off from exercising at all
• Why we need to be encouraging more people to lift weights vs scaremongering them away from it
• How McGill seems to continue to characterize himself as a ‘healer’ when in fact he is often well out of his scope of practice
• McGill’s continued overuse of anecdote and analogy in lieu of evidence and research
• Whether we will cover it if and when McGill goes on Rogan next (spoiler: we won’t)

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Reference links:

Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense

Stu McGill on Huberman: Build a Strong, Pain-Proof Back

Welcome to Season 5 and Episode 73 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this first part of our much-requested three-part series "Posture Panic," Laurel and Sarah dive into the history of posture. They discuss Beth Linker's book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, providing insights and context to how posture has been perceived and addressed through history starting around the turn of the century up until now.

You will learn:

• The origins of "Posture Panic" around the turn of the century.
• How Darwin's theories influenced the medicalization of posture.
• The fear that human spines weren’t "ready" for bipedal stance, contributing to back pain and other issues.
• Why we believe it’s important to move like animals and babies, and where these beliefs came from.
• The intersectional impact of posture panic, affecting different races, classes, ages, and genders.
• The critique of evolutionary anthropology and its perpetuation of race science.
• The parallels between historical posture scrutiny and current fitness and diet trends like paleo, primal, and Crossfit.
• How "primitive" and "natural" marketing terms are often used inappropriately and simplistically.
• The evolution of posture surveillance from top-down to peer-based monitoring, emphasizing self-surveillance.
• The controversial practice turned scandal of nude posture photography in colleges.
• The historical use of posture as a symbol of civility and its implications for modern fitness standards.

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Reference links:

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, by Beth Linker

Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense

Laurel and Sarah’s interview on the Conspirituality Podcast - Episode 205: Dismantling Movement Dogma

Episode 60: Dismantling Long & Lean Pt. 1

Episode 63: Dismantling Long & Lean Pt. 2

Episode 66: Dismantling Long & Lean Pt. 3

Welcome to Episode 72 of the Movement Logic Podcast! In this inbetweenisode, Laurel poses a thought-provoking question: “Are you trying to spend the least on exercise?”

We delve into how we prioritize spending on exercise compared to other essential health needs like diet and sleep and ask, “if investing more in exercise could give us access to better communities, education, equipment, time-saving convenience, and even luxury, would we be more inclined to engage in and enjoy it?” We ask, “considering the significant role exercise plays in our health and longevity, is it rational to hesitate in spending more to build and strengthen an exercise habit, especially when we have the means to do so?”

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Ramit Sethi’s stuff —

I Will Teach You To Be Rich (the book)

I Will Teach You To Be Rich (the podcast)

Welcome to Episode 71 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this inbetweenisode, Sarah analyzes a recent NY Times article about exercise and bone density. How much do they get right, and how much do they get wrong? You’ll have to listen to find out!

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NYT Article: How to Strengthen Your Bones with Exercise

Welcome to Episode 70 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this inbetweenisode, Laurel answers the question, “Do you need a deload week?” In strength training, a deload week is a planned, periodic reduction in training intensity and/or volume.  Spoiler: you probably don't need to plan deload weeks into your training, but listen more to find out!

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Episode 32: Load & Volume: When is Enough Enough? When is it Too Much?

Episode 39: RPE, 1 RM, 3 sets of 10, oh my?

Welcome to Episode 69 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by Adam Meakins, also known as The Sports Physio, to discuss his recent co-authored paper, “A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy.” Adam highlights the major issues in current manual therapy practice and education, as detailed in this extensively cited paper, which draws on decades of research. He also outlines what a modern, evidence-based approach to manual therapy could look like.

In this episode you will learn:

• The distinction between clinician-centered and patient-centered care.
• How traditional manual therapy relies on pathoanatomical reasoning and what research reveals about its reliability and validity.
• The potential harms of traditional manual therapy, including the propagation of harmful, fragilizing, and disempowering narratives about the body.
• Why manual therapy treatments cannot precisely target individual joints and tissues, nor produce specific outcomes for those areas.
• How human biases, such as appeal to authority, sunk cost fallacies, cognitive dissonance, and big egos, hinder the evolution of beliefs and practices in manual therapy.
• Predictions for the future of manual therapy.

And more!

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References:

Laurel and Sarah’s interview on the Conspirituality Podcast - Episode 205: Dismantling Movement Dogma

Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense

Episode 3: Massage Mistruths

Adam Meakins’ publication - A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy

Adam Meakins’ website

Welcome to Episode 68 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Sarah is joined by soon to be Doctor of Physical Therapy Adam McAtee, founder of Evidence-Based Pilates, a continuing education platform for Pilates instructors. Sarah and Adam discuss long and lean, whether Pilates can contribute to bone density improvement, and why the hundred is Sarah’s least favorite one.

In this episode you will learn:

• Common myths often heard from clients and instructors alike about Pilates, including using lighter springs to strengthen smaller muscles
• Why Pilates instructors confuse aesthetics and functionality and how freeing it can be to let them go
• How the variety of Pilates styles now available is a positive, not a negative
• The relationship of Contrology to modern day Pilates
• Why it’s not that useful to your students and clients to name where all of your exercises come from
• The difference between instructor-centered care and client-centered care
• The importance of meeting clients where they are, even if you’re uncomfortable
• What heavy load could look like on a reformer instead of the typical endurance based exercises
• If anyone can make accurate claims about what the Hundred is for
• How any Pilates exercise might be useful for one particular population

And more!

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References:

Evidence-Based Pilates

Effectiveness of yoga and Pilates to improve bone density in adult women: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Welcome to Episode 67 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss what current science, versus outdated advice and conventional wisdom, have to say about the causes and solutions for sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain. Learn what research says about whether or not the SIJ is an inherently robust or fragile structure, whether things like lots of stretching in yoga or joint laxity during pregnancy contribute to its instability, and what therapists can and cannot reliably know about the causes of SIJ pain.

You will learn:

• The anatomy and biomechanics of the SIJ.
• How Sarah differentiates between low back pain and SIJ pain with her patients.
• What joint incongruency is and what therapists can and cannot know about joints through palpation.
• What amount of force is required to dislocate the SIJ.
• What SIJ form and force closure are, and how they are used to explain SIJ pain.
• Some common explanations, assessments, and treatments for SIJ pain that lack evidence.
• Why muscle testing is an unreliable way to assess muscle strength or weakness.
• The problem with muscle imbalance theories.
• How upper and lower cross syndrome theories —the idea that muscles can be “locked short” and “locked long”— has since been replaced by more contemporary research.
• What evidence-based tools we have to address SIJ pain.

And more!

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Episode 21: Is the SI Joint Painful Due to Instability?

Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment of the Painful Sacroiliac Joint

The sacroiliac joint – Victim or culprit

A radiostereometric analysis of movements of the sacroiliac joints during the standing

Clinical tests of the sacroiliac joint.

Effects of mobilization treatment on sacroiliac joint dysfunction

Association between the serum levels of relaxin and responses to the active straight leg raise

High-velocity, low-amplitude manipulation (HVLA) does not alter three-dimensional position of sacroiliac joint

Effects of mobilization treatment on sacroiliac joint dysfunction syndrome

Welcome to Episode 66 of the Movement Logic podcast! This episode is Part 3 of our Dismantling Long and Lean series. In this episode, Sarah and Laurel discuss the origins of Pilates, Barre, and yoga, and the connections between each movement method’s origins and the concept of a Pilates body, a Barre body, and a yoga body.

In this episode you will learn:

• The Pilates origin story, including its clear cut relationship to ballet and the ‘dancer body’
• The problematic origin of the dancer body in the 1960s in New York and its influence on Pilates and barre
• The Barre origin story and the Lotte Berk Method
• How Lotte Berk’s approach was sanitized for future iterations
• Whether the teacher and the teachings can be separated
• Laurel and Sarah’s experiences with the yoga body in their teacher trainings
• Some essential differences between the yoga body and the Pilates or Barre body
• What we can all do going forward to dismantle this patriarchal dominance over womens’ bodies

And more!

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Reference Links:

Maintenance Phase: Pilates episode

1962 Sports Illustrated article

The Predatory Genius: what do we do when great artists are also moral monsters

Pilates Anytime: What is a Pilates body?

Lotte Berk Website

GX United: The down and dirty history of barre fitness

NY Times: From Shimmying to Standing on Your Head

The Cut: The Secret Sexual History of the Barre Workout

Dance Magazine: The Cult of Thin