How I Beat Stress Incontinence Once and For All
My Story I remember the day exactly. It was a cold Sunday morning in Portland, Oregon, and my two-month-old baby lay sleeping in her basinet. The dishes were done and my …
Kevin Moore on the “Breaking Muscle” Podcast
The Reembody Method is honored to be featured in A Unified Theory of Human Movement, the latest edition of the Breaking Muscle podcast. Our founder, Kevin Moore, talks about evolutionary biology, fitness culture, and …
The Pleasure Principle: a Litmus Test for Movement Therapy
From Benjamin Franklin to Jane Fonda, history is full of esteemed people who hail the wisdom of self-improvement through suffering. In today’s fitness industry, stopping an exercise out of deference to …
No, Human Legs Are Not Poorly Adapted. In Fact, They’re Amazing.
I recently read Veronique Greenwood’s article, The Problematic, Newfangled Hack That Is the Human Leg and I ardently disagree with her thesis: If you were to design a leg for a bipedal …
A Brief History of Having Limbs
All vertebrate limbs have certain basic design and function elements in common: —a highly mobile proximal joint that exchanges energy with the trunk of the body via some intermediate articular surface geared …
When Carrying or Putting On A Backpack Hurts
I receive questions every week asking me how to manage everything from leg cramps to sleep paralysis. The big stuff takes most of my attention, but sometimes it’s nice to take …
The One New Year’s Resolution You Can’t Possibly Fail
You don’t overeat because you’re weak. You don’t watch TV because you’re lazy. You don’t avoid exercise because you’re unfit. And you don’t fall short of your New Year’s resolutions because …
Chronic Pain is Terrible. Here’s How You Help.
“Help me.” Have you ever thought about how much courage it takes for a person in chronic pain to say that? They asked for help back when their pain was a …
A Quick Note on Joint Security
Every joint has a range of motion it’s structurally capable of producing. Let’s imagine that as a spectrum: Moving along that line from the left to the right means the joint is …
Stop Feeling Bad About Your Posture
You have permission to be comfortable. If that seems like a weird thing to get from a stranger on the internet, know that, whether you realize it or not, you let strangers deny you …
Live in the moment … or not
“Be fully in this moment.” “Live in the present.” “Now is all you have.” I mean… yeah, I guess. It’s decent advice, and it’s been repeated by everyone from Tolstoy to Oprah, …
3 Tricks to Finding a Great Personal Trainer
Personal trainers are like romantic comedies: there are loads of them out there, new ones are made all the time, and most of them are terrible. Nobody understands this better than good …