The Movement Movement

The holy grail is knowing how to run without getting injured, whether you're wearing shoes or going barefoot, that's really your goal is to enjoy going out...enjoy running, and not worry about being able to do it the next day. Well, we're going to be chatting with someone who has some interesting thoughts about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes, to have a happy, healthy, strong body, starting with your feet first, those things that are your foundation. I'm Steven Sashen, host from Xero Shoes, and my guest today is Peter Francis, a lecturer in sports, exercise and rehabilitation science at Leeds Beckett University. Visit my website at https://jointhemovementmovement.com, and connect with Peter at https://peterfrancis.blog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Article on CNN by Peter Francis:   https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/health/barefoot-running-wellness-conversation-partner/index.html

Yeah, it's important to have a strong core. Well, what if that's the worst thing you could possibly have? That's what we're going be diving into today. On today's episode of the MOVEMENT Movement podcast. The podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body, starting feet first. I'm Steven Sashen host from Xero Shoes and my guest today is Jae Gruenke, a Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner, running technique expert, and founder of The Balanced Runner™. Jae has been helping runners from beginner to Olympian improve their form since 2003. She is a Feldenkrais practitioner, and uses this method of movement education to help runners improve their form and improve their motor control. Visit my website at https://jointhemovementmovement.com, and connect with Jae at https://balancedrunner.com.

How do you fix your feet, relieve foot pain and create functional, healthy feet that will help you hike a mountain, run a marathon or just walk to get groceries? We’re going to find out more about that on today’s episode on The MOVEMENT Movement podcast with my special guest Petra Fisher. I'm Steven Sashen, host of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, and we call it that because we are creating a movement about movement, more accurately, we are trying to remind people, help them rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, the way we currently think natural food is. And it's a movement, that means it involves you reading the message, sharing the word about natural movement. If you want to spread the word, be part of our community, it's really simple, just share and like and review, and do all those things you know how to do. Go to www.jointhemovementmovement.com, and that's where you can find all the previous episodes. It’s awfully hard to enjoy life when your body hurts. By giving your bo

You've taken a long run or a long walk, or a long hike, your feet are beat up and now you need recovery shoes, or do you? Do you even need to recover at all? Let's take a look at that in today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. We break down the propaganda. The mythology Sometimes they outright lies. You've been told about what it takes to run to walk to hike to dance, to play to lift to do yoga to cross it, whatever it is you like to do, to do it enjoyable, efficiently, helpfully, best, importantly. Enjoyably, if you're not having fun, do something different. I'm Steven Sashen, host of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, and we call it that because we are creating a movement about movement, more accurately, we are trying to remind people, help them rediscover that natural movement is the obvious better healthy choice, the way we curren

Many people like to think this whole idea of barefoot running, or natural movement is new, but what if it's actually really old and we have not been learning from the masters of it?  Today's guest is Joseph Mora, originally from Southern California, he's been running on and off for most of his life, running in the bare foot fashion for about 10-12 years. Joseph has been a student of Native American thought and philosophy for most of his life. He lives in the Southwest and has a lot of roots there. He takes the philosophies, tenants of the Hopi way and the Native American way of being and running, and incorporates those into his lifestyle. We're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to run, to walk, to hike, or whatever it is you like to do, enjoy-ably, and effectively.  If you have any questions, just drop an email to move@jointhemovementmovement.com.  To connect with Joseph, his website will

How can you run safely and without endangering others, during this COVID-19 crisis? Well, let's take a look at that in today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body, starting with the feet first, those things are your foundation after all. Where we take a look at the propaganda, the mythology sometimes the outright lies that you may have heard about what it takes to run, to walk, to hike, to do Yoga, CrossFit, or whatever it is that you do. Whatever it is you do enjoyably, effectively, easily. I think I start with enjoyable, I'll end with enjoyable, too, because we want to focus on that. If it isn't fun, don't do it, do something different, until it's fun. You can go to jointhemovementmovement.com and find out every place that you can find all of our content, our social media channels, etc, etc...You can find past episodes and well, in short, if you want to be part of this tribe, please subscribe. And if yo

You just spent $50 or $100 or $200 on a pair of shoes. You get your credit card bill, it says $50 or $100 or $200, is that what you really paid? I know that's a weird sounding question, but we're going to find out what the real cost and value of shoes are, on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, the podcast for people who want to know that truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. Alright, let's talk about the cost of shoes. So you can buy shoes at all different prices, obviously, anything from just a couple of bucks at Walmart or Target, to hundreds of dollars. I'm not going to be talking about the kind of collectible shoes, the way people line up for days to get the newest pair of Air Jordans and trade them, there's a secondary market for that. It's like investing practically. I'm going to talk about things that you wear every day, all day. If you want to find previous episodes of The MOVEMENT Movement

Whatever activity you're doing, whether it's Yoga or running, or climbing or hiking or lifting, you want to be better at it, right? Maybe not, maybe it would be better if you got bad at a lot of things, but we're going to be looking at that and much, much more, on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body, typically starting with the feet first. because those things are your foundation. I'm your host Steven Sashen and we're going to be debunking the mythology, the propaganda, sometimes the outright lies that people have told you about what it takes to run to walk, to hike, to dance, to lift, to do all those things you like to do and do that enjoyably, efficiently and effectively by using your body naturally. We call this MOVEMENT Movement because it's a movement about movement. More specifically about natural movement, again, about letting your body do what it's supposed to do, and it's a moveme

The recent scientific as severe shocked me and probably will shock you as well. Women have no feet. Yes, you would be right. Women have no feet at least, that seems to be the way big footwear companies treat women and their feet. And we're going to find out more about that on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. Today I am by someone who I've known for a number of years and really, really admired. I'm really thrilled to have Geoffrey Gray as my guest. Geoffrey is the Founder and President of Heeluxe who started the company by building custom high heels in a garage. He is the driving force behind Heeluxe’s mission to “Make Better Shoes.” Dr. Gray is inspired by the works of Salvatore Ferragamo and Bill Bowerman and their efforts to create footwear that is inspired by the human body. His background in Physical Therapy, profession

You buy a new pair of running shoes or even walking shoes, or any kind of shoe frankly. And you go for a walk or a run and at a certain point, the shoes get bad. And what could happen to you if you don't replace them in time, and when do you replace them? Well, I have answers to both of those questions in today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, the podcast for people who like to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body, starting with the feet first, because those things are, you may have noticed your foundation there at the bottom of your body. We also break down the propaganda, the mythology and sometimes the outright lies that you've been told, about what it takes to walk, to run, to hike to dance, to play to do yoga to do crossfit, whatever it is you'd like to do, enjoyably, efficiently, effectively. And that's why we're here. I'm Stephen Sashen and your host of The MOVEMENT Movement Podcast, the CEO of XeroShoes.com. And more importantly, what we're doing here, we

Could the way you breathe be hurting...not only your health but even your performance? Do you breathe in then out? Or do you breathe out then in? Whichever one you do could make a difference. Kidding, that has nothing to do with it, but you're going to find out more on this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body. Typically starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. But now we're going to get into your lungs which are in a way also your foundation, without your lungs, your feet don't really matter too much. So this is the podcast for people who want to know what it takes to run to walk to hike to do Yoga, CrossFit, you name it enjoyable helpfully efficiently and if you're already part of what we're doing take, for being here, if you don't know what we're creating MOVEMENT Movement. We're trying to make natural movement, the obvious better healthy choice, the way natural food is. And we

With all the uncertainty and anxiety and confusion, and sometimes sheer panic about what's happening with the COVID-19 Virus, I do not have a solution for you, but I do have something that hopefully will be helpful on today's somewhat somber episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast that is typically for people who want to know the truth about having a happy, healthy, strong body, feet first. But of course, in this case, what's going on with your feet really has nothing to do with what happens with the virus. Actually, there may be a little something that may be useful. We'll get to that. I'm not offering solutions. I just want to offer something that may be a little respite for your stressful day and somewhat ironically it's about, we'll talk about a movement that's the most fundamental movement that we do and that is breathing, that is in and out, and in and out. Thing that we do with oxygen and nitrogen and carbon dioxide and all the other things that are in the air on a regular basis now is a time, es

This was one of our most listened to episodes from season one. We would like to share with you again, what are 'Minimal Barefoot Shoes'? You may have heard about minimalist shoes or barefoot shoes. Do you want them? Which ones do you get, which are good, which are bad, which aren't even what they say they are? That's what we're going to find out in today's podcast. Welcome to The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a healthy, happy, strong body, and The MOVEMENT Movement podcast. We're going to be cutting through the mythology, the confusion, the propaganda, sometimes the outright lies that people tell you that keep you from enjoying doing what bodies like to do, which is move. Walk, run, swim, hike, play, lift, whatever your body likes to do. We're here to have you do that. I always like to say, let's start The MOVEMENT Movement with some moving. So, do something. Anything. What you want to do, whenever you can, for moving is break out of patterns

If you don't know physics, you shouldn't be buying running shoes. I will tell you why, and I'm also going to teach you a little bit of physics, enough to be really obnoxious at parties. And just a few minutes here on this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with the feet first, cause those things are your foundation. Here's where we break down the propaganda, the mythology, sometimes the outright lies that you've been told about what it takes to run, to walk, to hike, to dance, to do CrossFit, to do yoga, to power, lift, to do dance, dance, revolution, whatever it is that you like to do and do that enjoyably healthily and efficiently. I'm your host Steven Sashen. Remember to join the tribe and subscribe at https://jointhemovementmovement.com.

If there was just science proving that running barefoot, or in truly minimalist footwear was good for you, then everybody was switch, right? Okay. We're going to take a look at that in today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with your feet first, because those things are your foundation. Nike sponsored a study, they call it an independent study that they sponsored, which in and of itself is kind of fascinating. I talked about it, the React Infinity Run and they said that that shoe reduces injury rates by over 50% and if you look at the research, I just saw the abstract. I didn't see the entire research paper, but according to the abstract that the researcher gave me, it's true that that shoe reduced injury rates by 50% but that's not the important part. The important part is what they did is, they compared people in that shoe to people in Nike's best selling motion controlled running shoe and

You've just gotten out of big, thick, padded motion control shoes. Maybe you're running barefoot, maybe you're running in a truly minimal shoe, like Xero Shoes. You've had incredible experiences. Injuries might have gone away. You feel better, you're having more fun. So you want to tell everyone, right? Yeah. Shut up. Don't do that. We're going to talk about why on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body, starting with the feet first.

As we come to the end of our second season, I wanted to share with you the episode with the MOST downloads, not only in Season Two, but in Season One as well. I want to thank you for listening to the show these last two seasons and hope you will stick with me as we enter Season Three with more insights to natural movement and amazing new interviews to help support you in having a happy, healthy, strong body. Starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. The most downloaded episode info: The woman and man that I'm going to be chatting with in this podcast are doing the stupidest research in the history of human biomechanical research, and what can we learn about natural movement from people who don't move naturally at all? We're going to find out both of those things on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast.The woman and man that I'm going to be chatting with in this podcast are doing the stupidest research in the history of human biomechanical research. And what can we lea

Could the secret to getting stronger and fitter be doing less than you ever thought was realistic or possible, or made any sense whatsoever? Maybe. We're going to find out today on this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast. I'm Steven Sashen from XeroShoes.com, the host of this podcast. And today I am speaking to Tim Anderson and Dani Almeyda of OriginalStrength.net. Please share and like and review and give a thumbs up and ring the bell If you're watching this on YouTube. As I always say, if you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email at move@jointhemovementmovement.com. And as always, go out, have fun and live life feet first.

The new Nike React Infinity Run can reduce injuries by 52%, who wouldn't want that? I don't know, but we're going to take a look and find out more on this episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body starting with the feet first. I'm Steven Sashen from XeroShoes.com, the host of this podcast. Please share and like and review and give a thumbs up and ring the bell If you're watching this on YouTube. As I always say, if you want to be part of the tribe, please subscribe. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email at move@jointhemovementmovement.com. And as always, go out, have fun and live life feet first.

Could becoming a better runner, be as simple as using a rubber band? I don't know, sounds weird, but we're going to find out on today's episode of The MOVEMENT Movement podcast, the podcast for people who want to know the truth about what it takes to have a happy, healthy, strong body. Starting with the feet first, because those things are your foundation. We're going to look at the mythology, the propaganda, sometimes the simple lies that people had been telling you about what it takes to run, to walk the hike, to dance, to play, to lift, whatever it is you'd like to do, enjoyably and healthfully. I'm Steven Sashen from Xero shoes.com the host of this podcast. We are creating a MOVEMENT Movement, getting people to share the fun and benefits of natural movement so we can make this the obvious better healthy choice. The way natural food currently is. So share and like and review and give a thumbs up and ring the bell If you're watching this on YouTube. As I always say, if you want to be part of the tribe, plea