Stay ConnectedWelcome to The MOVEMENT Movement — the podcast for people who want the TRUTH about having a healthy, happy, strong body.
We’ll be breaking through the mythology, confusion and sometimes outright lies about what it takes to walk, run, hike, do yoga, paddle board, lift… or whatever you do. I’m here to help you do it better and have more fun.
It’s called The MOVEMENT Movement because We’re creating a movement. Making natural movement to the obvious choice the way natural FOOD is currently.
Sitting is Not Bad for You
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 110 with Turner Osler
Turner Osler has the usual academic trauma surgeon back story: BA Neurobiology (Princeton), MD (Medical College of Virginia), surgical residency (Columbia, Harvard), fellowship (University of New Mexico) and then 20 years an academic trauma surgeon (University of Vermont) with over 300 peer reviewed papers and book chapters. But then Turner went off scrip, got a masters in Biostatistics and an NIH grant and abandoned the operating room to study trauma epidemiology.
Somewhere in the last decade he became obsessed with the problems that come from sitting too much, and especially sitting passively. Because no one else was doing it, Turner and some friends created a company to make active sitting chairs that were affordable enough that everyone could have one and attractive enough that everyone would want one.
Turner lives in Colchester with his wife, son and dogs (Bella and Suki) who have been surprisingly tolerant of his mania and are being gradually drawn into the madness. Except the dogs.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Turner Osler about how sitting doesn't have to be bad for you.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- Why sitting on bad chairs can cause all kinds of back pain.
- How moving while you're sitting is one of the best things you can do.
- Why a chair should let you move in all directions and not pre-position your body.
- How making a chair unstable makes people continuously engage their body.
- How everyone already has the spinal reflexes so sit on balanced chair in an unbalanced way.
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Guest Contact Info Twitter @qor360
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Get Healthy by Eating ANYTHING YOU WANT
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 109 with Pam Moore
Pam Moore is an occupational therapist-turned-award-winning health and fitness freelance writer, speaker, and podcaster. A regular contributor to the Washington Post and the author of There's No Room for Fear in a Burley Trailer,Pam's writing has been published in The Guardian, Time, Runner's World, Outside, SELF, and Forbes, among others. A body-positive health coach, certified personal trainer, six-time marathoner, and two-time Ironman finisher, Pam is also the host of the Real Fit podcast, featuring real conversations with women athletes about body image, confidence, and more. Her mission is to let women know they are already enough. She lives in Boulder, Colo with her husband and two daughters.Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Pam Moore about getting healthy by eating anything you want.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How imposing rules on your diet makes you want to want to eat the bad stuff.
- Why people can't participate in intuitive eating if their end goal is to be thinner.
- How by the age of four, children become aware that thinner is considered more beautiful in our culture.
- Why many people eat past the point of being full.
- How food is not good or bad and how it's not a moral obligation to be healthy.
Connect with Pam:
Guest Contact Info Twitter @PamMooreWriter
Instagram @pammoore303
Facebook facebook.com/whatevsblog LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/pammoorewriter
Links Mentioned: pam-moore.com
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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You Can't Walk Without Arms
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 108 with Beth Lewis
Beth Lewis has been infatuated with movement as long as she can remember. She grew up in small town in South Georgia where she was a competitive gymnast, swimmer, dancer, soccer player and martial artist. Her heart was set to dance as she graduated from The University of Georgia with a BFA in Dance Performance. After graduation, Beth moved to Atlanta where she fell in love with training and fitness.
Training took a pause as she had the opportunity to dance for Pilobolus Dance Theater. After four years of touring internationally, Beth decided to make New York City her home and to get back into training. Beth is currently a Strength Coach at Body Evolved in Manhattan. She works with a wide variety of humans ranging from athletes to post op clients. Beth is a founding instructor for Cityrow where she teaches instructor education and writes programming. She is a Kinstretch instructor throughout NYC and travels to teach both domestic and international workshops.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Beth Lewis about why you can't walk without arms.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- Why people should make their movements as cheap as possible with as little cost as possible.
- How your shoulder blades are the rudder for your body and help control your spine.
- How people can literally have no arms and still be world-class runners.
- How movement has to be synchronized motion of tension and release.
- Why most people need more ribcage and midline variability.
Connect with Beth:
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Instagram @bethlewisfit
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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The Fake Barefoot Running Debate
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 107
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement about the fake barefoot running debate.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How minimalist footwear brands continue to increase sales every year.
- How injury is common amongst all runners, not just barefoot runners.
- How our feet weren't designed to be supported and surrounded by cushion all the time.
- How the largest shoe companies are trying to make a sale, not a better shoe.
- Why it's important to allow your joints to move how they were designed to.
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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The Secret Cause of Back Pain
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 106 with David Newton and Lisa Borden
David Newton, Movement Therapist, Unconventional Idealist, and Co-Creator of The Akira Concept has a passion for and a dedication to functional movement, foundational wellness and self-care, productively rewiring the mind/body connection. David has been teaching fitness including indoor cycle, weight training, and yoga for over 30 years.
Lisa Borden, Business Therapist, Unconventional Idealist, and Co-Creator of The Akira Concept works daily at making healthy futures possible with drive, intuition, and connectivity. Lisa started Borden Communications, a BCorp certified company in 1994 and excels at developing efficient strategies that create positive change and healthy outcomes for conscious people and brands.
Together, they work to support a new culture of wellness that is radical, empowering, holistic, connected to nature, fun, and transformative and they challenge the status quo of inefficient health solutions, rampant disconnect, and dangerous lifestyles. David and Lisa are determined to create a "Wellness Intelligence" movement that focuses on taking action and taking care of ourselves in ways that actually make a difference, not on promises and "magic bullets" with regard to breath, movement, fuel, rest, and connection … their virtual "community centre", The Wellness Intelligence Collective is helping people feel well, look well, and be well.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with David Newton and Lisa Borden about the secret cause of back pain.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How you need to know why you are doing something to do it well and improve movement.
- Why it's a struggle to get people to take charge of their own life, even with support.
- How people should engage their glutes when they are walking up the stairs.
- Why people need to find the joy in movement again, like when they were kids.
- How wellness intelligences helps people make the right decisions about their bodies.
Connect with David and Lisa:
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Links Mentioned: theakiraconcept.com
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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Become Your Own (and BEST) Running Coach
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 105 with Valerie Hunt
Valerie Hunt has been a strength and conditioning coach for 30+ years. She spent the first part of her career in a traditional gym as a personal trainer and aerobics director/teacher. In 2001 she left to open her own gym, XpressFItness, a group workout studio combining strength and endurance for runners.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Valerie Hunt about teaching yourself to run better.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How adults have a harder time trying new things because of fear.
- Why people should focus on their connection to their feet when running.
- How running requires good technique just like dance or gymnastics.
- How watching yourself run on video can help you improve your running form.
- Why runners need to push off with their back foot and land on their front foot.
Connect with Valerie:
Guest Contact Info
Instagram @runrx
Facebook facebook.com/runrxfit
Links Mentioned: runrx.fit
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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Exercise Form is Not Important
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 104 with Justin Meissner
Justin Meissner is a fitness coach with a background in human performance as it relates to locomotive behavior. He has worked with professional athletes and everyday people to help them get out of pain, maximize performance, and be ready for anything. Outside of fitness, he used to be a professional magician, and teacher. He, his wife and 2 kids live in Meridian Idaho, spending as much time outside as possible. An avid reader and board game enthusiast Justin tried to stay connected with people and not with devices.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Justin Meissner about how exercise form isn't important.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- Why athletes don't have to worry about form as much as they think.
- How our bodies aren't linear, they are dynamic.
- How our bodies are great at finding the path of least resistance, which can be good or bad.
- Why running is about using your entire body, not just your feet.
- How a squat is a made-up exercise made to mimic how humans acted thousands of years ago.
Connect with Justin:
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Links Mentioned: thewoadwarrior.com
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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Discover SuperStarch – a NEW Kind of Carb that's GOOD for You
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 103 with Peter Kaufman
Peter Kaufman was inspired over a decade ago, along with three other folks, to help a child and his family better manage a very rare disease. They started The UCAN Company and after several years of research and discovery, they were successful in making his disease more manageable, allowing Jonah, one of UCAN's founder's sons, to maintain his blood sugar for eight hours and sleep through the night for the first time in his life in 2009 when he was 7 years old, and significantly improved his family's life.
The nutritional solution, a unique, patented, completely natural carbohydrate they have named SuperStarch, has since improved the performance of many elite athletes and it has helped tens of thousands of individuals exercise better, improve their health and lose weight. This new revolutionary carbohydrate is so different than anything in the world today, that it even helps those on keto and low-carb diets get past energy deficits to improve their exercise performance, while not taking them out of ketosis!
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Peter Kaufman about SuperStarch, a new kind of carb that's good for you.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How SuperStarch keeps anyone's blood sugar stable for hours.
- Why resistant starches provide no form of energy, unlike SuperStarch.
- How you can throw SuperStarch into a yogurt or smoothie for more energy.
- How most people stay in ketosis when they eat SuperStarch.
- Why SuperStarch is great for runners and other athletes alike.
Connect with Peter:
Guest Contact Info Twitter @GenUCAN
Instagram @genucan
Facebook facebook.com/GenUCAN Links Mentioned: ucan.co
Ucan.can.co/xero (use code XERO at checkout for 20% off)
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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Running Speed Secrets from the World's Fastest (Older) Man
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 102 with Allan Tissenbaum
Allan Tissenbaum, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon, is certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Tissenbaum brings a high level of experience and skill to The Orthopedic Group, addressing all orthopedic issues from fractures to total joints. He earned a bachelor's degree in physiology from McGill University in Montreal and a master's degree in exercise physiology from York University in Ontario.
He completed his medical degree at McGill University, where he also served his orthopedic residency and fellowship in orthopedic sports medicine. Certified in orthopedic sports medicine, Dr. Tissenbaum has treated athletes at the high school, college and professional levels, including members of the Montreal Canadians and Expos.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement where Allan Tissenbaum shares running speed secrets as the world's fastest (older) man.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- Why sprinters must harness their genetics to become an even better runner.
- How no one has the answer to when steroids stop enhancing performance.
- Why runners need to wait for their energy to replenish to perform at their peak.
- How strength is incredibly important for all different types of runners.
- How to do plyometric exercises while you're walking up the stairs.
Connect with Allan:
Guest Contact InfoWebsite: theorthopedicgroup.com
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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Running *IS* Rocket Science – Lessons from Running Marathons on All 7 Continents
– The MOVEMENT Movement with Steven Sashen Episode 101 with Dr. Melissa Corley Carter
Dr. Melissa Corley Carter. Melissa is a rocket scientist and Air Force officer turned writer, artist, leadership coach, and resilience champion. After her 20-year dream to become an astronaut was shattered, Melissa eventually rediscovered her true purpose: to build grounded leaders, connected humans, and powerful teams that change the world. Now she's living the dream, dancing with the universe daily and joyfully embodying her soul's journey as The Barefoot Dancing Rocket Scientist. Melissa is the author and photographer of the forthcoming book, Running the World: Marathon Memoirs from the Seven Continents.
Listen to this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement with Dr. Melissa Corley Carter about lessons from running marathons on all 7 continents.
Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week's show:
- How having grounded feet will lead to having a grounded soul.
- How running on 7 continents introduces you to a lot of different terrain to run on.
- How aligning your intentions can help you find inspiration to do great things.
- Why running a marathon is about being part of something bigger than yourself.
- Why everything, particularly running is absolutely rocket science.
Connect with Melissa:
Links Mentioned: resilienceactually.com
Connect with Steven:
Website xeroshoes.com jointhemovementmovement.com
Twitter @XeroShoes
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