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:

• The Pilates origin story, including its clear cut relationship to ballet and the ‘dancer body’
• The problematic origin of the dancer body in the 1960s in New York and its influence on Pilates and barre
• The Barre origin story and the Lotte Berk Method
• How Lotte Berk’s approach was sanitized for future iterations
• Whether the teacher and the teachings can be separated
• Laurel and Sarah’s experiences with the yoga body in their teacher trainings
• Some essential differences between the yoga body and the Pilates or Barre body
• What we can all do going forward to dismantle this patriarchal dominance over womens’ bodies

And more!

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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:

• Acute vs Chronic injuries - what’s the difference when it comes to exercise
• How different types of injury will impact your movement choices
• Your body’s mechanism of injury response at a tissue healing level
• The tissue healing timeline and what can speed it up or slow it down
• The role pain plays in injury and how it’s not a 1:1 ratio of injury to pain
• Situations where the best option actually is to rest
• What types of exercise are best depending on your level of injury
• Red flags to keep an eye out for that would require medical intervention

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:

• Why kettlebells are excellent tools for cultivating strength, power, and endurance.
• How the shape of a kettlebell makes it uniquely effective for training stability and moving in multi-planar ways.
• What it means to be a non-diet kettlebell coach.
• What building body trust means, and how grasping at some ideal, future body can sabotage some people’s ability to relate to and trust the body they currently have.
• What intersectionality is, and how understanding this concept can help us teach and coach in a way that is inclusive so that more people feel welcome in fitness.
• A critical look at a popular kettlebell certification system, StrongFirst, and a test they impose as a barrier to entry for certifying coaches—the 100 kettlebell snatches in 5 minutes test.
• How the fitness industrial complex negatively impacts folks who don’t conform to societal ideals and what we can do about it.

And more!

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Reference links:

Damali Fraiser's website