Ep 150: How I Feel About Minimal Shoes After My Foot Injury

Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

Nutritious Movement

Health & Fitness, Movement, Mobile, Flexibility, Muscles, Fitness, Joints, Active, Mobility, Alternative Health, Exercise

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Biomechanist, Katy Bowman and her husband Michael discuss foot injuries as a natural part of life. Sharing their own experiences, they emphasize the need for adjustments in movement patterns and highlight the importance of staying active as we age. They also address the psychological aspects of injury and provide strategies for avoiding future injuries. Overall, the message is to embrace change, prioritize healing, and always listen to your body.

Episode Overview:
0:00:01 Welcome to the Move Your DNA podcast
0:00:26 Introduction: Focus on Foot Injuries
0:03:05 Injury as an Adjustment Period in Life Stages
0:10:35 Injury during a sprinting race on the sand
0:20:10 Aging and Decreased Cardiovascular Capability
0:24:12 The Importance of Maintaining Joyful Movement Amidst Injury
0:29:14 Embracing the Valleys: Optimizing for Surviving, Not Just Thriving
0:32:19 Finding Alternatives: Adapting to Injury and Changing Gait
0:37:43 Embracing Change and Moving Forward
0:39:53 The Framework for Troubleshooting Injuries

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Move Your DNA podcast, a show where movement science meets your everyday life.
0:10.0	I'm Katie Bowman, Biomechanist, author, and Jump Roper, right up until I got hurt.
0:16.3	All bodies are welcome here. Let's get moving.
0:31.2	Hey there, podcast listeners. Today's episode is all about injury, negotiating injury,
0:36.7	specifically foot injury. I have a special guest today. Hello, Michael. Hi. This is my husband.
0:40.6	This has been a tough year for us in injury, I would say.
0:43.3	He's had a lot of foot issues.
0:44.9	And knees and back?
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.5	Yeah, there's been a lot.
0:48.3	And those can be for other episodes.
0:49.7	But today we're going to talk about feet.
0:54.7	I've written two books about feet and I get a lot of questions about foot injury. So I thought it'd be great to put it in podcast form and talk you through how I approach
1:01.5	injury myself and then how you approach injury as well using similar principles.
1:10.1	Yeah.
1:10.7	This is not information that works for every injury,
1:14.0	for every person, for every situation, but I do think there's a framework that might be helpful.
1:19.0	So even if your injury, if you do have one, it's not in your feet, I would still, I would still listen.
1:25.5	There's going to be some things about just approaching injury in general.
1:29.0	So we talk about the stages of life.
1:31.2	I think I've written books for the stages of life, right?
1:33.2	We've got Grow Wild for kids and books for middle age and then dynamic aging for older age.
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