10,000 Steps Have you ever wondered where the “walk 10,000 steps a day” prescription originated from? This prescription did not come from research or as medical advice. It originated in the mid 1960’s from Japanese marketers trying to sell a pedometer called the “manpo-kei”, which translates roughly in English to Read more…
Last Thursday I took an excellent online zoom yoga class from my friend and colleague, Christina Sell. Christina and I share common tendencies and similarities in our teaching. Christina is also very different from me, too, which is great because I already practice by myself and guide myself on a Read more…
Bending Your Own Aging Curve – What to do About Age Related Muscle Loss Part 2: FAST AND SLOW TWITCH MUSCLE FIBERS A brief review of Part One “What to do About Age Related Muscle Loss” https://mewithlauriebb.com/bending-your-own-aging-curve-what-to-do-about-age-related-muscle-loss-part-one/ I wrote about sarcopenia, the term for age related muscle loss Read more…
Bending Your Own Aging Curve – What to do About Age Related Muscle Loss You know I’m a bit obsessed with the idea of “bending your own aging curve”, especially as it pertains to using movement as a means to bend it, right? If we consider that Read more…
10 Determinants of Healthy Aging One of the two specialty focuses of my MS in Kinesiology is “geriatric exercise science” (ugh, what a name for it – sorry). I continue studying the process of aging on my own time because I am both an aging adult Read more…
I received an email from a long time student saying, “ I was surprised to hear that most elder falls cannot be helped by balance exercises as they occur while the person is in motion.” That was obviously received as pretty scary news. Agreed and I sure hope I didn’t Read more…
Scaling Movement I recently made an Instagram Reel of Skandasana, a side lunge position. In the reel I showed how I can go from standing legs wide apart down into skandasana and back up, but how this may not be accessible to everyone. Here is a link to that Read more…
This blog post speaks to the way infants are born in “flexion” and must develop their extensor system so they can eventually sit, crawl, squat, stand, and walk, as well as pick things up from the ground.
Embracing the wobbles in terms of balance means learning to accept that losing our balance can be a learning opportunity. Our nervous system requires us to lose our balance in order to adjust and adapt. This is neuroplasticity at work…. neurons that fire together wire together. What if we played with our balance and did so with a neutral mindset not worrying about whether it was right or wrong, but just is? We might then have the opportunity to work with both the mental and physical wobbles.