Why You Shouldn't Suck In Your Stomach, Why Standing All Day Is Bad For You, And How Kegels Are Killing Your Core.

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Woo boy. Talk about shattering the myths of movement. From sucking in your stomach, to the problem with standing workstation to why Kegel exercises aren't all that great, my guest Katy Bowman author of the book "" joins me in this podcast...

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1:01.5	Podcast. You're putting in kinks into your hose and your hips and in your knees and these areas
1:07.4	correlate to the highest areas of black occurrence. You can think of it less as I need to get my heart
1:13.9	right up as opposed to can I just break up my geometry. Not just looking away from your computer,
1:19.2	but looking at something really really far away. It becomes uncomfortable on the floor without a
1:25.5	pillow. There's these natural signals to change position that are muted, you know, by sleeping on.
1:29.8	Pillows are mattresses. High for tenacity of the pelvic floor is a very large problem in men and
1:35.5	women right now. A lot of people are trying to work on constipation while they hold their stomach
1:40.8	tight all the time which creates an upward force opposite to the direction of where the food's trying to go.
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2:15.2	Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and you may remember biomechanist Katie Bowman from the podcast
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