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Episode 27: Our Big A-Has From The First Season

This is our last episode of the season!

In this episode, Laurel and Sarah reflect on their top three takeaways from season 1 of the Movement Logic Podcast. You’ll have to listen to the episode to hear what they are! We also discuss:

How podcasting for the first time went for both of us, what was challenging, specifically.
How science asks us to hold ideas loosely and remain a student (rather than fact holder and disseminator of facts).
Why the language we use to talk about our bodies or our students’ bodies—and the re-education around using more positive, optimistic language—is so crucial to our ability as teachers to actually help our students feel better.
The problem with all-or-nothing type thinking when it comes to better understanding a topic or finding the truth.
Why publishing your learning process can be the best way to learn.

Reference links:

Episode 19 Oh, NO! Nose Breathing & Nitric Oxide

Episode 20 Pelvic Floor In-Depth with Stephanie Prendergast, MPT

Episode 16 Training the Non-Traditional Athlete with Rosalyn Mayse, AKA Roz the Diva

Episode 12 Movement Fads and Myths: Interview with Jules Mitchell MS, CMT, E-RYT 500

Episode 7 Is Pain Automatically Bad?

Episode 8 A Perimenopause Perspective with Trina Altman PMA, E-RYT 500

Episode 17 Pros & Cons of Using Resistance Bands

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Episode 26: Strength Training During Cancer Treatment

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Welcome to Episode 26 of the Movement Logic Podcast! In this episode, Sarah discusses her experience with cancer treatment, and the guidance (or lack thereof) around how and when to exercise. She covers:

The current exercise recommendations for people going through cancer treatment
The most recent research around strength training and cancer treatment, specifically chemotherapy
What going through chemotherapy is like, and how it can be difficult to figure out what to do when in terms of exercise
Her personal experience using strength training during treatment and how it changed everything for the better

References:

Sarah’s website and mailing list

High-intensity strength training improves quality of life in cancer survivors

Effects of resistance exercise on fatigue and quality of life in breast cancer patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy: A randomized controlled trial

Long-term follow-up after cancer rehabilitation using high-intensity resistance training: persistent improvement of physical performance and quality of life

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Episode 25: Got Yoga Butt? Now What?

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Welcome to Episode 25 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this solo episode, Laurel shares her history with yoga butt, or, proximal hamstring tendinopathy (high hamstring pain.) This episode is packed with tendon and muscle physiology. It also busts the big myth that yoga butt (and any yoga-related injury) is because we’re all woefully “overstretched”. At the end, Laurel shares a 3-step approach to nipping yoga butt in the yoga bud using strength training knowledge and tools.

Additionally Laurel examines:

What yoga butt is (hint: a pain in the butt right at the sit bone more technically referred to as proximal hamstring tendinopathy).
What a tendinopathy is.
Short and sweet hamstring anatomy.
Why yoga students might be more likely to experience PHT.
That a typical vinyasa or Iyengar-inspired asana class involves a whole bunch of passive forward bends/hamstring stretching and why that makes managing and overcoming yoga butt tough for students in those classes.
How Laurel nipped her yoga butt in the bud.
The contradictory advice yoga teachers (including Laurel!) gave about what to do about yoga butt.
How proximal hamstring tendon compression (rather than tension) plays a role in causing or exacerbating PHT.
How strength training can help students overcome and avoid yoga butt.
Why the narrative that we’re overstretched is illogical and a distraction away from the solution.
What motor units are, what muscle recruitment is, and how understanding this aspect of muscle physiology can explain why yoga asana won’t make your tendons stronger but strength training will.
A 3-step process to overcoming yoga butt as well as encouragement to see a clinician if what you try doesn’t seem to help.

Reference links:

Get the Hip & SI Joint tutorial before the cart closes this Sunday 11/27/22: https://movementlogictutorials.com/movement-logic/hips-tutorial/

If you want to stretch your hamstrings please continue to do so

Ebonie Rio – Isometric exercise in tendinopathy

Putting “Heavy” into Heavy Slow Resistance

Do we need to think about connective tissues when strength training?

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Episode 24: Racism & Cultural Appropriation in Science

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Episode 23: Practical Strategies for Injured Students

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In this episode, Sarah outlines five practical steps you can take as a movement teacher when you have a client or student who is injured. She discusses:

Whether “just don’t do this pose” is a valid and useful answer for some teachers
Why memorizing a billion modifications can work, but there’s an easier way
What to do with a student when you don’t have any experience with their condition/injury
How to think critically in the moment when you are teaching so you can offer the most logical solution to their issue
How to relate to someone’s unique anatomy such that it might cause them pain or discomfort in a pose that you don’t experience
A logical step-wise approach for any student

Our brand new Hip and SI Joint Tutorial is now available!

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Episode 22: Do We Really Need 10,000 Steps a Day?

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In this episode, Laurel and Sarah ask where the 10,000 step benchmark came from (you might be super surprised!), and if every person needs the same number of steps to receive the same amount of health benefits. We also discuss:

What are the parameters that change your number of steps
How do you “get your steps in” without becoming totally obsessed about it
How where you live might determine how much you walk (versus take the car)
How the pandemic changed a lot of people’s overall fitness and activity levels
Whether it’s more valuable to track your general activity level vs number of steps
How it’s useful to focus less on how many is enough to how many is too few
How a workout doesn’t cancel out the negative effects of a day of sitting
In what ways do strength training and cardiovascular exercise support each other
How to get more movement into your day overall