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…
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…
Extensorville Part 1 Remember Baby J and the development of his extensor system? See blog post here https://mewithlauriebb.com/baby-j-shows-us-how-to-develop-our-extensor-system/ and review the short video of Baby J showing us how it’s done! https://youtube.com/shorts/SDDKckKN17c?feature=share Co-contraction of the Flexor and Extensor System We are born in flexion. We develop 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.
Squatting is a full body movement, allowing us to function in the world around us. Without the ability to squat, it becomes difficult and/or impossible to lower ourselves towards the earth, to sit, to toilet, and to get back up again.
Squatting is a motor skill. Motor skills involve precise movement of muscles with an intent to perform a specific act. The precise movements for squatting are developed through a series of movement components we begin practicing in infancy.
Teaching yoga and movement classes gives us the perfect opportunity to explore the components that actually combine to make a squat.
The psoas is often blamed for hip tightness, low back pain, and more. The psoas is misunderstood. Read this post to learn a few interesting tidbits about your psoas and what it actually does.
In this Balance Tips and Tricks I discuss how changing the base of support challenges your ability to balance. I’ve included a short video and some “playwork” (my word for homework or practice).
Welcome to your Lumbar Spine I’ve mused in some of my recent blog posts about how we might view our body as a stack of joints, the importance of variable movement and the cardinal planes, and the concept of “stiffness” (which is really about stability) in our spine. Now I’d Read more…
