Hey Reader, Boat pose is one of those poses that most people either don't like very much or don't like at all. And I get it. Boat pose is not a comfortable pose or an easy pose. It's an inverted downward facing dog in which you are balancing on your butt instead of spreading the support between your hands and feet. It's a pose that is supposed to target your core, but more often than not you feel it exclusively in your hip flexors. Boat pose doesn't have to be awful, though. This leads me to...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, This summer I had some big plans for movement and a dialed back schedule. I totally thought I'd have all sorts of time to work on some of my movement goals, despite being in a place without the same workout equipment. I brought my tap board to the lake and thought I'd be practicing daily. I brought my bands to work on my pull-ups and thought I'd bust them out e few times a week. Since I'd scaled back on work, I thought I'd be hiking at least once a week with my kids but maybe more...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, It's a rainy day at the lake today, but for much of the summer it's been hot and sticky. On those hot, sticky days, it can be hard to want to move your body. Not everyone wants to get hotter and stickier on purpose, no matter how much you love to move your body. So for those days you want to move your body and maybe sneak in a little core work without getting super sweaty, I've got something fun for you. This leads me to my Movement Snack this week. Movement Snack this week: Not...
22 days ago • 1 min read
Hey Reader, I'm writing to you from my local library. We're up at the cabin for July but right now, the cabin doesn't have internet. It's been a somewhat low-tech summer. It's not a terrible thing to be without internet, but it does require some recalibration. We watch movies on DVD's we borrow from the library. We play outside when it's not a torrential downpour like it is today. We do puzzles and read books and build forts and try not to drive one another bonkers by being in close proximity...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Hey Reader, I went for a run this morning, my second one since arriving at our cabin and also my second run since taking a month off in June. I love running and I also I did not run for the entire month of June. This was partially by choice but partially life circumstances. I had 2 weeks straight of sick kids and I was solo parenting for one of those weeks and then I had to get one of my kids to summer camp M-F by 9am and, and, and…. One thing led to another and running just didn’t happen in...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, I'm writing this from a Courtyard Marriott while my kids are still asleep. We're on our second day of driving halfway across the country for a month of vacation. Needless to say, roadtrip movement is different than at-home movement. It's a little shorter, for one. If circumstances were difference, I could swing down to the gym but I'm solo with my kids, so instead I'll stay here in my room and just do a standing yoga flow. Likely it will be 10 minutes of movement, tops. Quietly,...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, One of my biggest pet peeves within the fitness community is the idea that doing a small amount of movement is sending a bad message. Specifically, there are lots of fitness pros out there -- some of whom I actually respect and whose work I appreciate -- who say that when we tell students it's ok to do less movement, we're doing them a disservice by not pushing them to workout at their full capacity. But the thing is, not everyone has the ability to move their bodies like that...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, This has been a hell of a week. 2 weeks, really. I mean this personally, in that all 3 of my kids have been sick over the past 2 weeks and I inadvertently food poisoned myself right in the middle of all of that. I've also been soloparenting through the peak of the sickness. And it's also been a hell of a week for our country. For the world. Every morning I wake up wondering what fresh horrors I'll read about in the news. It feels overwhelming and scary and uncertain. I feel...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hey Reader, I'm coming to you from my couch today. The plague has struck my family, so we're laying low in between visits to the bathroom. It's super fun. Anyway, I haven't really moved my body today because even walking is exhausting. But if I had just a little more energy and less stomach instability, I'd do the movement practice that is featured on my YouTube channel this week. I've heard from a lot of people saying they want more movement practices that are chill and grounding, but still...
2 months ago • 1 min read