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Vibram FiveFingers: Behind the Scenes

– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 081 Tony Post.

Tony Post is the Founder and CEO of Topo Athletic, a footwear brand with a unique fit and feel that encourages instinctive and natural movement. Competitor Magazine called Topo 'a stunning modern take on minimalism.' Topo has won many editor's choice awards from Runner's World, Outside, Women's Running, Health Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, and many more. Most recently, Topo's new Trailventure boot received the REI Co-op Editors' Choice Award for 2021.

In July of 2013, Tony launched Topo following successful leadership roles at Vibram USA and The Rockport Company. During his 11 years as president and CEO of Vibram USA, Tony not only helped establish Vibram as a premium sole supplier to footwear brands around the country, he sparked the natural running movement with the introduction of Vibram FiveFingers®. Time Magazine named Vibram FiveFingers one of the best health and wellness inventions of 2007, and Vibram was named the 2010 footwear Brand of the Year by Footwear News. Under Tony's leadership, the outdoor retailer REI selected Vibram as their 'brand partner of the year' in both 2010 and 2011, distinguishing Vibram among more than 1,300 brands.

Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Tony Post who gives a behind the scenes look of Vibram FiveFingers.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:

- Why being required to wear shoes at the gym is ridiculous.

- How regular running shoes can deteriorate your form and posture.

- How shoes that support natural movement decrease pain and help people run longer.

- Why it's about using the correct form and not about the footwear.

- How traditional shoes cause muscle atrophy in people's feet.

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Improve Your Breathing to Improve Your Running

– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 080 Amy Novony

Dr. Amy Novotny founded the PABR® Institute with the mission to provide pain, stress and anxiety relief to those who seek a naturalistic form of treatment when other treatment methods have fallen short. Her unique approach comes from her experience treating in a variety of settings and with a wide range of patient populations over the past 12 years. Her background in orthopedics, sports, geriatrics, balance disorders, nerve injuries, and most recently, chronic pain; and influences from coursework at the Postural Restoration Institute gave her the foundation to develop this treatment method to address a wide variety of painful and restrictive conditions.

Her methods have helped countless people reduce and eliminate pain, stress, anxiety, orthopedic surgeries, sleep issues and the need for medications. She co-authored two Amazon #1 Best-Selling books Don't Quit: Stories of Persistence, Courage and Faith and Success Habits of Super Achievers, which share her journey on how and why she developed the PABR® Method. Her ability to speak French and Spanish has allowed her to communicate with and help various clients from all around the world, including France, Mexico, Central America and South America. She has a variety of interests including running 40+ marathons, running 10 ultra marathons (including two 100 milers), completing an Ironman triathlon, photographing wildlife and landscapes all over the world that has led to several of her images being chosen as Photos of the Day, most notably National Geographic Your Shot World Top Photo of the Day. Visit her photography portfolio at www.amysimpressions.com!

Listen to this informative The MOVEMENT Movement episode with Amy Novonty about improving your running by improving your breathing.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:

- How taking away the flight or fight sympathetic tone out of your muscles allows them to contract voluntarily without tension.

- Why changing your breathing helps calm your nervous system down and improves your running.

- Why your knees should be higher than your hips when you are in a seated position.

- How it's important to keep your ribs and shoulders down when you're inhaling.

- Why you need to work on relaxing your back muscles, so they aren't in a flight or fight position.

Connect with Steven:

Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com

Twitter @XeroShoes

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Does Neil DeGrasse Tyson NOT Know Physics?

– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 079

Listen to this informative The MOVEMENT Movement episode where Steven debunks the myth on energy return.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:

• How energy return is a term created by big companies to make more sales.
• Why anything that has a little bit of flexibility sucks energy out of you.
• How a higher energy suck means your body has to work harder.
• How running speed comes from your stride length and frequency.
• How trampolines and foam slow down how much energy you have

Connect with Steven:

Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com

Twitter @XeroShoes

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If you want to be a faster runner, it's really simple, you gotta go to Harvard. I'm going to tell you why in this episode.

I'm Steven Sashen from XeroShoes.com, your host of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast.

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

Stretching, icing, all that sort of massage, all that kind of rehab stuff, super, super important, right? Maybe it's the worst thing you could be doing for yourself, if you're trying to be a healthier, better human being, let alone athlete. We're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast.

Today I am chatting with Brianne Showman, PT, DPT, a Physical Therapist by trade, but what she primarily does, is coach runners and obstacle course racers. Many years ago, Brianne was a traditional therapist who saw the injured person in an insurance-based clinic, and she got very fed up with what insurance companies do to control us. She got very fed up with just fixing broken people constantly, so she became a coach to get people on the front end of things in order to make more resilient athletes rather than constantly fixing broken people.

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

For more information on Brianne:

Dr. Brianne Showman Brown has been a licensed physical therapist since 2006. Since that time, she has been helping active adults and athletes get back to the activities they love.

As ideas and theories in rehabilitation, functional movement, and nutrition are constantly changing, she is constantly searching for the new information in order to get you back to the activities you love as quickly (but safely) as possible.

Being a CrossFitter and runner herself, she also understands the desire to want to push through the pain, not wanting to take time off, and wanting to get back to activity as soon as possible when required to take time off. She does her best to keep you active in the things you are able to do, modifying as necessary, but not taking you completely out of the gym, off the track/field, or off the road.

Website: https://getyourfixpt.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.ocr.doc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianne-showman YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GetYourFixPhysicalTherapy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetYourFixPhysicalTherapy

Now, I'm not suggesting that if you put on a pair of traditional running shoes, your IQ will go down, you won't get into the college of your choice, or you won't be able to fill out a tax form or a crossword puzzle. But, I'm going to talk about two other kinds of stupidity.

And when I talk about traditional running shoes, traditional is sort of a funny word to use because what most people think of as a running shoe, thick, padded, motion control, arch support, elevated heel, things like that. Frankly, that's actually not traditional. For most of human history, we ran in shoes that looked frankly more like the minimalist shoe, just enough to protect you from the ground and hold that protection onto your foot.

So what I'm talking about with traditional running shoes... And here's one of the ways they make you dumber, because they have all that cushioning, which we think we need, we think. Well, Cushing is good, because running must be hard on the joint, so we need cushioning, right? Well, it's a great idea, but the reality is, it doesn't work that way at all, because when you have all that cushioning, there are a number of things that happen, one, you tend to land harder because your brain is trying to get feedback from the ground, and with all that questioning, you can't feel it. You have more nerve endings in the sole of your feet then anywhere but your fingertips and your lips. That's so that your brain knows how to use the rest of your body correctly.

So if you make it dumb by making it numb, sometimes you'll land harder just to get that feedback that you need for balance and agility, but of course with all that extra padding, you don't have the balance with all that extra height, you don't have the balance.

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

I often talk about how feet are the most important thing, but I also talk about how glutes are the most important thing. And, maybe to train your glutes, you need to train your feet. To train your feet, you need to train your glutes, what's the connection? We're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast with my special guest Chong Xie.

Chong Xie practiced Wushu as a child in Beijing Sport University, is an avid researcher and student of Tai Chi, he has a bachelor degree of science from Binghamton University. With his ebook "Secret of Athleticism" Chong Xie makes an honest endeavor to help all of us understand and discover a path to superior athletic performance without the expense of injury.

Connect with Chong Xie: Website: https://www.secret-of-athleticism.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvadUJcVjdSKA0cUJpStQKA

Chong Xie Bio:

Chong Xie is the author of "Secret of Athleticism", inventor of the Hyperarch Fascia Training System and founder of the page "secret-of-athleticism.com" a website and discussion group founded to understand more about the foot, and its relationship to athleticism, as well as best training practices. Chong has a computer science degree and has been working as a technical analyst in the software industry for the last 10 years. His interest in the foot was piqued by seeing the large discrepancy in athletic performance, and Chong has spent many years on a quest to unlock the "secret" of athletic performance that is hiding beneath our shoes.

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

If you are looking to improve your body in every way you can imagine, maybe working out is not the way to do it, we're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast with my special guest Bart Potter, author of Jiffy Body, The 10-Minute System to Avoid Joint and Muscle Pain. Since 1995 Bart has taught people of all ages a simple approach to avoid pain and tuneup their bodies. He enjoys sharing quick tips for a healthier and happier body, brain and life.

Visit Bart at JiffyBody.com

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

Join me for a Friday rant session with good friend, Nick St. Louis of thefootcollective.com. On this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast, we talk about natural movement, the ideal human diet, body movement, the moon landing, the rice diet, running on hard surfaces and so much more...

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.

Here on The MOVEMENT Movement podcast, we talk about natural movement. Is what we're talking about actually even natural? Did we evolve to do the things that we talk about doing? I get an email maybe once a week or a comment on YouTube video once or twice a week that says what I'm talking about, this whole idea of using footwear like ours, that doesn't have a bunch of cushioning and padding and motion control in our support. Or, even walking and running barefoot. That's not good. It's not what you're supposed to do. Only amazingly, wonderfully talented gifted genetic freak people can actually do it, because we didn't evolve on hard surfaces, we didn't evolve to be able to run on pavement, we didn't evolve to be able to stand on cement floors all day. So let me give you the shortest version of today's podcast...that's complete nonsense.

Let's take a look at why that is on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast.

If you have questions for me about the show, please email me, Steven Sashen, at [email protected], or visit the website at www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and find what's going on, be part of the family of helping people discover and rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, just like natural food is... If you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe.