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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: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! It’s the only place you’ll get a discount on the course plus fun free bonus content along the way. 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

Welcome to Episode 65 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Sarah is delving into the topic of exercising while injured. Should you? Shouldn’t you? How do you know when, how much, and what kind to do? She takes you through a decision making strategy that will make this an easier question to tackle next time you are injured. Sarah also made a PDF Injury Decision Tree that you will receive as bonus content if you sign up for the 2024 Bone Density Course Wait List! Caveat: This episode is not medical advice and should not be taken as such. In this episode you will learn: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! It’s the only place you’ll get a discount on the course. You’ll also get the PDF Injury Decision Tree in a future email to the list. Reference links: Episode 1: Movement vs Exercise vs Sport Episode 30: Mastering Physical Literacy with Dr. Chris Raynor, MD Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense

Welcome to Episode 64 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel is joined by non-diet kettlebell coach Damali Fraiser to talk about what it means to be an inclusive kettlebell coach. We also discuss why a coach's life experience and skills (and not their body) are their real business card. Finally, we get into silly certification tests that limit diversity in an industry that desperately needs more of it. In this interview you will learn: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! Reference links: Damali Fraiser's website

Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 63 of the Movement Logic podcast! This is part 2 of a much requested series titled Dismantling Long & Lean. In part 2, Laurel and Sarah discuss the phrase "long and lean" from a science-based, as well as sociological and racial perspective. They cover whether or not you can actually make anyone’s body “longer” and/or “leaner” through formats like Pilates and barre. Additionally, they unpack the harm that appealing to this narrowly, aesthetically-idealized body shape has on students and teachers. You will learn: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! Reference links: Episode 60: Dismantling Long & Lean Pt. 1 Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories… Episode 43: Nutrition Facts vs. Fiction with Dr. Ben House, PhD Fearing the Black Body…

Welcome to episode 62 of the Movement Logic Podcast. In this episode, Sarah and Laurel discuss the recent interview of Dr. Stu McGill on Dr. Peter Attia’s podcast, The Drive. This interview has sparked a lot of internet commentary, so we’re breaking it down for you into what we’re calling Make McGill Make Sense. You will learn: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! Links: Episode 29 The Cues We Use Part 1 Episode 31 The Cues We Use Part 2 Episode 34 The Cues We Use Part 3 Episode 45 Injury and Safety in Strength and Yoga Episode 54 Alignment Dogma: Spine https://peterattiamd.com/stuartmcgill/ https://www.backfitpro.com/ https://rheumatology.org/patients/joint-replacement-surgery# Lancet Study age of hip replacements Evidence for an Inherited Predisposition to Lumbar Disc Disease Adam Meakins on Instagram McGill Big 3 on YouTube

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 61 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel explores whether strength training alone suffices for health and longevity. She compares training stress, intensity, and adaptations of strength training versus high intensity interval training (HIIT) versus cardiorespiratory endurance training. Discover how both HIIT and cardio are forms of conditioning, and why both strength and conditioning are necessary "weekly human maintenance habits" for preventing chronic disease and promoting longevity. Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! You will also learn: Reference links: Episode 6: How Much ‘Should” You Exercise CDC guidelines on exercise Talk test High-intensity interval training for health benefits… Episode 37: Plyometrics—Get More Bang For Your Bones Episode 46: How Often Should You Strength Trainlll? Episode 32: Load & Volume… Episode 9: What Are The Best Exercises for Strength? Episode 23: Do We Really Need 10,000 Steps…?

Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 60 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this much requested first part of a three-part episode series, Laurel and Sarah discuss the phrase long and lean from a historical and sociological perspective. They cover the idealized image of women through art with a historical gaze, then unpick the narrative around becoming long and lean, how diet and exercise became front and center for this impossible ideal, and where we are today with social media, photoshop, and AI in the mix. You will learn: And more! Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024! Reference links: The Toast Looks Back: The Best Of Two Monks Met Museum https://greatist.com/grow/100-years-womens-body-image#1 https://www.worldometers.info/weight-loss/ Diet Drugs Fitness in the 80s https://fitisafeministissue.com/2014/10/01/cankles-more-broken-body-parts-you-can-feel-bad-about-or-please-lets-just-stop/ https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/fitness-wellbeing/news/a37546/problem-areas-your-body-fat-explained/ Latoya Shauntay Snell Roz the Diva Roz was a guest in our podcast - listen here @fatbodyPikates Damali Fraiser

Welcome to our supersized Episode 59 of the Movement Logic podcast and the final episode of Season 3! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss certifications for movement professionals. Are they necessary? Are they useful? Do they help promote you, or just the brand? Should you be focusing on it so much? You will learn: Episode 48: Alignment Dogma - Pelvis Episode 54: Alignment Dogma - Spine Episode 58: Alignment Dogma - Shoulders Visit our website www.movementlogictutorials.com for more paid and free education! Get on our mailing list to be kept in the know about upcoming courses.

Welcome to Season 3 and Episode 59 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss dogmatic beliefs and myths around the shoulders from the yoga, Pilates, and strength training worlds. We also discuss how given the fact that shoulder joint is a “complex” of many bones and joints, it’s much more useful that teachers keep their approach to teaching this area as simple as possible (and stop micro-managing their students shoulders!) You will learn: Visit our website www.movementlogictutorials.com for more paid and free education! Get on our mailing list to be kept in the know about upcoming courses. Check out our Movement Logic Shoulders Tutorial Shoulder Girdle Video Note: we cannot source the origin of this video. If you know the origin, please let us know! Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain… randomised surgical trial Subacromial decompression surgery for rotator cuff disease Acromiohumeral distance and supraspinatus tendon thickness in people with shoulder impingement syndrome… Scapular dyskinesis

Welcome to Episode 57 of the Movement Logic podcast. In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss the fact that lifting heavy is not automatically a strength sport and that more people would feel invited to lift heavy if the media didn’t fixate so much on barbells as equipment for large, young, competitive male lifters and instead represented people that look more like everyone else and shared goals beyond competitive ones. You will learn: Sign up for our Bone Density Course: Lift for Longevity before the October 8th deadline! A 4-Year Analysis of the Incidence of Injuries Among CrossFit-Trained Participants Episode 1: Movement vs Exercise vs Sport Episode 16: Training the Non-Traditional Athlete with Rosalyn Mayse, AKA Roz the Diva Episode 45: Injury and Safety in Strength and Yoga Episode 11: Let's Stop Fragilifying Older People Already Does Menopause Cause Weight Gain?

Welcome to Episode 56 of the Movement Logic podcast. In this episode, Sarah is talking about hypermobility, and what if any connection exists between hypermobility and osteoporosis. You will learn: Alison Lloyd Instagram Prevalence of generalized joint hypermobility, musculoskeletal injuries, and chronic musculoskeletal pain among American university students Beighton Scale Hospital Del Mar Scale Ehlers-Danlos Society The Marfan Foundation Hypermobility syndrome increases the risk for low bone mass The Relationship of Joint Hypermobility, Bone Mineral Density, and Osteoarthritis in the General Population:The Chingford Study Ultrasonographic, axial, and peripheral measurements in female patients with benign hypermobility syndrome Bone Disease in Patients with Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Sign up for our Bone Density Course: Lift for Longevity before the October 8th deadline!

Welcome to Episode 55 of the Movement Logic podcast. In this episode, Laurel answers two questions that she gets regularly from folks online. They are: How can I get started with strength training? And, how can I “learn more about” strength training? Spoiler: the best way to get started with strength training (the doing and the teaching) is by…wait for it…strength training! In this episode you will learn: The three most important elements of strength training—exercise technique, programming, and coaching.Why yoga and Pilates teachers are already generally well-versed in exercise technique, but without the added component of external load and the goal of strength.Yoga and Pilates teachers are typically not well-versed in programming, which is how we apply the principle of progressive overload to work toward building strength.Coaching is key for deep understanding of both exercise technique and programming.Laurel’s evolution from teaching yoga to becoming a strength coach.The plusses, minuses and trade-offs of DIY program templates, group classes, one-on-ones, and more.How yoga and Pilates teachers are accustomed to learning in a live, follow along format, and given then, how it can be a rude awakening to discover that programs in strength are often delivered in PDF format and personal trainer certifications mostly ask you to read a textbook and pass a test.Why personal trainer certifications do not provide very much practical know-how for how to be a personal trainer.How the Bone Density Course: Lift for Longevity delivers on the three most important elements of getting started with strength and learning about strength training—exercise technique, programming, and coaching.How the CSCS is widely considered the gold standard of personal trainer certifications but that it almost exclusively caters to competitive athletes (who make up a fraction of people who resistance train.)How being a dedicated student of the thing you eventually want to teach is the most valuable way to prepare yourself to actually teach something.How strength is defined, the systems in the body involved, and what the main adaptations (or changes) to your body are when you build strength.That we can be strong in many ways,so it’s helpful to have a specific performance goal.Why specific, performance goals are the best way to reach health and aesthetic goals.Sign up for our free info session all about our Bone Density Course: Lift for Longevity Thursday, Sep. 22nd 12 PT/ 3 ET Sign up for our Bone Density Course: Lift for Longevity before the October 8th deadline! We won’t be offering this for another year. The NSCA textbook is used to study for the CSCS - Essentials of Strength and Conditioning Effect of Online Home-Based Resistance Exercise Training on Physical Fitness, Depression, Stress… Association of Efficacy of Resistance Exercise Training With Depressive Symptoms…

Welcome to Season 3 and Episode 54 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss dogmatic beliefs and myths around the lower back, upper back, and neck from the yoga, Pilates, and strength training worlds. You will learn: Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay Research mentioned in this episode: Spinal Degeneration in Asymptomatic Populations Intervertebral disc herniation: studies on a porcine model To flex or not to flex? Is there a relationship between lumbar spine flexion during lifting and low back pain? Arthrogenic neuromusculature inhibition: A foundational investigation of existence in the hip joint Effects of load on good morning kinematics and EMG activity Posture and time spent using a smartphone are not correlated with neck pain Is neck posture subgroup in late adolescence a risk factor for persistent neck pain in young adults?

Welcome to Episode 53 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Sarah and Laurel dissect a few research papers that studied the effects of various rest periods between loading bone, and how these rest periods can impact the efficacy of our bone density building. You will learn: Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay Cellular accommodation and the response of bone to mechanical loading Mechanosensitivity of the rat skeleton decreases after a long period of loading, but is improved with time off Recovery periods restore mechanosensitivity to dynamically loaded bone

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 52 of the Movement Logic podcast. In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by seven other guests for a panoramic, multi-perspective answer to the question “why don't more women lift weights?” Our seven guests (all of whom are movement professionals) weigh in on their previous objections to strength training. Of course they also share their impetus for starting to lift, and how it changed their lives. Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay. Sign up here for our Free Barbell Mini-Course + our Free Barbell Equipment Guide Our guests on Instagram: Maryann Thompson @maryannthomsonpilates Diana Romero @insprana.yoga Naomi Gottlieb-Miller @conscioushealthymama Lisa Schwarcz Zlotnick @lisazlotnick Kathy Dodd @kdnaturalyoga Trina Altman @trinaaltman Alex Ellis on Instagram @hollaformala on Tik Tok @aewellness Episode 47: Our Oopsie Stories from the Teaching Trenches Sarah’s barbell equipment Post 1 and Post 2 on Instagram Books about fitness culture: Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What It Means to Be Fit in American Culture Butts: A Backstory Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession

Welcome to Episode 51 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss myths around osteoporosis and osteopenia, including why yoga and Pilates are poor choices for bone building (yes, we’ll talk about THAT study, again) and ultimately how weight training and impact training are both safe options when applied with the proper dosage and programming. You will learn: And more! Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay Episode 5 Does Yoga Asana Build Bone Density? Episode 38 Got Bones? Yoga Asana Isn’t Enough Twelve-Minute Daily Yoga Regimen Reverses Osteoporotic Bone Loss https://osteostrongla.com/ BonES Lab at University of Waterloo Video Questions Efficacy of Osteostrong Program Is OSTEOSTRONG Misleading Vulnerable People Regarding Claims of High Increases in Bone Density? High-Intensity Resistance and Impact Training Improves Bone Mineral Density and Physical Function in Postmenopausal Women With Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: The LIFTMOR Randomized Controlled Trial

In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss bracing and breathing. Why are we all so confused about our breathing mechanics and convinced we’re doing it wrong, no matter what we’re doing? When is the right (and wrong) time to brace when lifting something? What’s the difference between bracing and bearing down? And is navel to spine even doing what we think it’s doing? You will learn: And more! Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th 10am PT/1pm ET with 30 day replay Season 1 Episode 10 Is there a Right and a Wrong Way to Breathe? Season 1 Episode 19 Oh NO! Nose Breathing and Nitric Oxide Email Apnea article

Welcome to Season 3 and Episode 49 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss the common tendency for people (not just women) to under load when lifting weights to build muscle and strength. In fact, it’s likely a slight majority of people in the gym are either not lifting heavy enough or taking sets close enough to failure to make changes to their muscle mass or strength! You will learn: Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay Article by Stronger By Science - Most Lifters Train Too Light Self-Selected Resistance Exercise Load: Implications for Research and Prescription Are Trainees Lifting Heavy Enough? Self-Selected Loads in Resistance Exercise: A Scoping Review and Exploratory Meta-analysis 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 Season 3 and Episode 48 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss dogmatic beliefs and myths around the pelvis from the yoga, Pilates, and strength training worlds. We also discuss how correlating pelvic position with safety or pain is not backed by research, and thus what value teaching pelvic alignment may or may not have. You will learn: Sign up here for the Live Strength Training Webinar on Sept 14th with 30 day replay Laurel's Body of Knowledge Course Movement Logic Hip and SI Joint Tutorial Movement Logic Pelvic Floor Tutorial 4 Types of AFAB Pelvis Paul Grilley Bone Images IG post comparing Sarah and Laurel’s internal and external hip rotation Matthew Remski’s Practice And All Is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, And Healing In Yoga And Beyond uncovers rape and sexual assault by Ashtanga Yoga’s creator Pattahbi Jois on his teachers and students Study showing 75-85% of people have anterior pelvic tilt and no pain Anterior tilt not correlated with low back pain Lumbar lordosis not correlated with low back pain

Welcome to Episode 47 of the Movement Logic Podcast—our last episode of season 3! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah reflect on their most cringe stories from the teaching trenches and the big and small lessons they learned from them. You will belly laugh at their mistakes, and also learn vicariously through them!. DISCLAIMER: the language in this episode gets a little salty so you may want to listen when there are no children around. You will learn: Episode 36: Somatic Dominance Get our Free Bone Density Mini Course — OFFER ENDS JULY 9th! Follow us at @movementlogictutorails on Instagram