In my last article, I mentioned near the end that “if there’s one thing you learn from the Reembody blog, let it be this: muscles don’t create movement patterns; they respond to them.” Did anyone …
Think back to the last time you saw someone bust out a set of push-ups: what did they do when they were finished? It’s such a common reaction that many yoga …
If you’re looking for pregnancy advice, it’s out there for you. If you’re not looking for pregnancy advice, it’s coming to find you. Somebody else can bombard you with tips on swaddling. I don’t …
It has been a fun couple of weeks, hasn’t it? We all got a chance to knock fitspo down a peg and reestablish our own individual health and wellbeing as being …
The Reembody blog, up to this point, has been a thoughtful exploration of human movement, a subject about which I am extremely passionate. Today, however, I’m mad and I’m going to tell …
Here are a few clarifications and expansions of ideas presented in the EBFA webinar, Spring Loaded: Assessing the Knee Through Tibial Rotation. Joint Locks I mentioned that, because I have a …
Everybody has a tight spot: hamstrings, IT bands, shoulders, groin. Sometimes tightness comes and goes; sometimes it’s the only way you can remember ever feeling. You tell yourself you should stretch more. Maybe …
This is an atlatl: More specifically, the handle in which the spear is cupped is an atlatl. Humans have been using devices like this for hunting and warfare for around 30,000 years. …
Albert Einstein famously quipped: “There is no hitching post in the universe.” A hitching post, in this case, means a starting location: a point A. When an object is moving, the …
In the current American climate, science is divisive; it inspires unwavering trust in some, and pure contempt in others. It’s talked about like a cohesive thing, spelled with a capital ‘S’, …
“What makes a car move?,” my high school physics teacher once asked us, through her usual quirky grin. It was a trick, and we knew it. “The engine?” a few of us mumbled …
Modern fitness is bizarre, when you think about it. The cultural consensus is that your body is an external object: a tool that can be improved upon with exercise—like you would …