Katy Bowman: Rethink Your Position, Maximize Your Body, Minimize Your Life

I am so pleased to welcome my old friend and repeat podcast guest Katy Bowman back to the show! Katy is the queen of nutritious movement (check out her website here to connect with her and get a more movement-oriented lifestyle). Katy joins us to talk about her new book, Rethink Your Position, which deals with the many options we have as we move our bodies throughout everyday life and why “Maximalism of the body helps you achieve minimalism in life.” Aside from workouts, we also have an obligation to optimize movement in everyday life and I love Katy’s work on the goal of creating a dynamic workplace environment (you can enroll in her digital course, Don’t Just Sit There, by clicking here). Katy shares some interesting specifics in this show, like head ramping (a drill you can do to get your head aligned with your shoulders), the benefits of spending more time sitting and interacting with the ground, and her minimalist sleeping experience (including how she has gradually moved away from using even a pillow!).    TIMESTAMPS: Katy Bowman is an expert on movement and posture. [00:47] If exercisers take a lot of downtime, sedentary time, it’s important to do it right. [06:03] Specialization is necessary for competition, but it's not great for longevity. [10:35] Our generation is not moving their body the way they used to years ago. One study says we spend 86% of our time inside and 7% in a vehicle. [23:46] Our relationship with nature and our relationship with movement can’t really be separated. [26:32] Supplementing in many areas is not really meeting our needs. [28:33] You might have a physical malady and go for treatment, but you also need to look at fixing how you got the injury.  [31:40] In her new book, Katy has short essays divided by body parts so if you are focusing on the knees, for example, you go right to that chapter. [35:03] Flexible seating in classrooms, workstations and even around the home is a low-cost way to keep in shape. [39:08] Being seated on the ground is using different muscles in the body for support from those used when sitting in a chair. We are not very fluent in our physicality. [42:23] So often when we are working on screens or reading, we position our head forward, in front of our ears, thus throwing our spines out. By learning the head ramps described by Katy, you will be in a better position. [51:09] It is hard to separate age from length of habit. Forget about aging. Look at length of habit. [57:13] Minimalist bedding experience includes no pillow.  How does that work? 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