Click on NOTE CATEGORIES to browse by topic, read through the entire archives, or type a topic in the search box.The first (and the latest) pair of shoes I bought for my kids were Soft Stars. (Spring has clearly gotten the best of them, as you can see here.) I love Soft Stars, and not…
#wholebodybarefoot
The amount of information I’ve put out in the last 8 years is overwhelming to me. And to you as well, from what I’ve heard. “Where should I start?” “What should I read?” “Which exercises…
Ladders=Kid Play
Say that you’re not able to ditch the couch or install indoor monkey bars. Guess what you can do: get a ladder. A couple years ago, my husband came home with a bamboo ladder he…
Furniture Free Freak?
This article from 2015 was lightly edited to update resources in 2020. I’ve written a lot more about going Furniture Free; you can start with Why I Went Furniture Free. Joe Rogan called me a…
Vitamin “Flat and Level” OVERDOSE
This is one out of a handful of our favorite articles on walking, including topics covering what various “walking parts” do as well as other whole-body considerations. Find the rest of them in the walking…
A list of body casts.
If you’re interested in reading more on ideas presented in the article below, I suggest reading Move Your DNA, Expanded Edition. If you’d like movement instruction via video, start with Daily Movement Multivitamin. Body cast…
The 2014 Health Recap
I do some version of a year recap every December. I used these “Health Recap” questions back in 2011 (I haven’t looked at my answers back then but I just *know* that there will be…
Day 6: Don’t HEAD OUT on a walk.
When I’m in a hurry, I tend to walk with my torso and head leaning slightly forward. I see this in other people too. Leaning forward to reduce work is totally natural, but the way…
Day 3: Gait Datahead
Walking provides many different “movement nutrients” but not all walking is equal, meaning the “nutrients from walking” depends on how you do it (joint positions used, speed, terrain, etc.). The natural walking speed for a…
Day 2: Articulate each “vertebrae” of your “foot spine”
In gait analysis there are two points of foot contact analyzed during landing—heel strike and foot flat (where the ball of the foot comes down to the ground), but really there are 17 joints between “heel…
EXERCISE ADVENT CALENDAR 2014: GAIT
I love movement and I love celebrating, thus I always strive to create movement-rich celebrations. For years, I’ve done a movement advent calendar at the end of the year as a thank you to my…
From the Bio Beat
This week I spent my writing juices finishing up a little book on transitioning to minimal footwear, but here’s some interesting stuff I’ve been thinking about. I posted a lot of this on Facebook, but…