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Dr. Sarah Court, PT, DPT and Laurel Beversdorf
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Episode 69: Crack is Whack - Adam Meakins and A Modern Approach to Manual Therapy
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06/12/24 • 71 min
Welcome to Episode 69 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by Adam Meakins, also known as The Sports Physio, to discuss his recent co-authored paper, “A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy.” Adam highlights the major issues in current manual therapy practice and education, as detailed in this extensively cited paper, which draws on decades of research. He also outlines what a modern, evidence-based approach to manual therapy could look like.
In this episode you will learn:
- The distinction between clinician-centered and patient-centered care.
- How traditional manual therapy relies on pathoanatomical reasoning and what research reveals about its reliability and validity.
- The potential harms of traditional manual therapy, including the propagation of harmful, fragilizing, and disempowering narratives about the body.
- Why manual therapy treatments cannot precisely target individual joints and tissues, nor produce specific outcomes for those areas.
- How human biases, such as appeal to authority, sunk cost fallacies, cognitive dissonance, and big egos, hinder the evolution of beliefs and practices in manual therapy.
- Predictions for the future of manual therapy.
And more!
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References:
Laurel and Sarah’s interview on the Conspirituality Podcast - Episode 205: Dismantling Movement Dogma
Episode 62: Make McGill Make Sense
Adam Meakins’ publication - A modern way to teach and practice manual therapy
Episode 74: McGill We Go Again
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07/31/24 • 91 min
Welcome to Season 5 and Episode 74 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this unplanned episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss Stu McGill’s recent appearance on the Huberman podcast. In Episode 62, we identified McGill’s big themes around movement. In this episode, we go through his appearance on Huberman to see if he’s still promoting the same ideas or if he has updated his approach.
You will learn:
- Why we are once more deconstructing Stu McGill’s standpoint and outdated views on movement safety
- Why a hyperfocus on potential future pain is not only unhelpful but can put people off from exercising at all
- Why we need to be encouraging more people to lift weights vs scaremongering them away from it
- How McGill seems to continue to characterize himself as a ‘healer’ when in fact he is often well out of his scope of practice
- McGill’s continued overuse of anecdote and analogy in lieu of evidence and research
- Whether we will cover it if and when McGill goes on Rogan next (spoiler: we won’t)
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Episode 86: Inbetweenie -What the Osteoboost?
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12/04/24 • 22 min
In this in-between episode of the Movement Logic Podcast, Sarah discusses a new product for osteopenia called Osteoboost, a wearable medical device that uses gentle vibrations to improve bone density and strength, offering a non-invasive alternative to traditional treatments. Sarah delves into the research behind the device, its FDA clearance, and its effectiveness compared to medication and exercise. She emphasizes the importance of heavy lifting for bone health, and expresses concerns about people relying solely on passive treatments like Osteoboost instead of engaging in comprehensive exercise routines.
00:00 Introduction and Episode Overview
02:20 Introduction to Osteoboost
03:00 How Osteoboost Works
04:30 Research and Development Behind Osteoboost
09:30 Clinical Trials and Results
13:37 Comparing Osteoboost to Traditional Treatments
17:21 Final Thoughts and Recommendations
Episode 46: How Often Should You Strength Train Per Week?
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06/21/23 • 72 min
Welcome to Episode 46 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel discusses frequency, or how often to strength train per week. Laurel unpacks the concept of frequency its relationship to volume, as well as what research suggests is the “minimal effective dose” to get certain benefits from resistance training, like increased longevity and strength. By the end of this episode you will understand why workout frequency matters enormously, but why it cannot matter separately from weekly volume or the individual who is training.
You will also learn:
- Why the common prescription for frequency—3x/week—is empty advice devoid of context to make it useful.
- Why any amount of resistance training is better than none (according to research).
- What the minimal effective dose of resistance training is for older adults (people over age 65), and what amount might be too much.
- Why it’s important to control for volume when researching workout frequency and its role in strength.
- Why there’s no right optimal dose of volume or frequency for everyone.
- Why fatigue and recovery play an important role in determining optimal training volume and frequency.
- That science still can’t point confidently to specific causes of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
- What types of individuals, muscle groups, and workouts might require more recovery time than others.
- How to use frequency to increase volume in a safe way.
- How maintaining strength is different from increasing it, and what research shows is enough volume to maintain the strength you've built if you have to spend time away from training.
Get our FREE Bone Density Mini Course: Barbell 101
Essentials of Strength and Conditioning
Chris Beardsley Articles
What determines training frequency?
How does training volume affect muscle growth?
What causes delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS)?
Stronger By Science Articles
Training Frequency for Strength Development: What the Data Say
What is the optimal dose of resistance training for longevity?
A Guide to Detraining: What to Expect, How to Mitigate Losses, and How to Get Back to Full Strength
Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - General Physical Activity Guidelines
Episode 63: Dismantling Long and Lean Part 2
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03/20/24 • 83 min
Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 63 of the Movement Logic podcast! This is part 2 of a much requested series titled Dismantling Long & Lean. In part 2, Laurel and Sarah discuss the phrase "long and lean" from a science-based, as well as sociological and racial perspective. They cover whether or not you can actually make anyone’s body “longer” and/or “leaner” through formats like Pilates and barre. Additionally, they unpack the harm that appealing to this narrowly, aesthetically-idealized body shape has on students and teachers.
You will learn:
- Common code words used to show preference for thinness in exercise.
- Is there a way to make limbs or muscles longer?
- How do we change the shape of muscles?
- Can we make muscles tone without making them bulky?
- How hypertrophy works and whether or not Pilates or barre are particularly effective for building muscle.
- What does it mean to be bulky versus lean?
- The constrained energy model for metabolism and how it explains why exercise is a poor tool for weight loss and why it’s more complex than calories in and calories out.
- How human metabolism is a product of evolution, not engineering and more like a business on a budget rather than a car that runs on fuel.
- How the science of metabolism explains why exercise is so important for long term health and longevity.
- Whether building muscle makes you burn more calories at rest.
- That fast and slow metabolism doesn’t mean what people think it does.
- Whether or not you can burn fat specifically from “problem areas” on your body.
- How the transatlantic slave trade and the rise of Protestantism influenced the way we think about fatness and thinness.
- How fatphobia and a preference for thinness has been used to craft and reinforce racial, sexual, and socioeconomic hierarchies over the centuries.
- Why “long and lean” is to the 1990s and 2000s as “white and nordic” was to the 1800s and 1900s.
- Why using "long and lean" as a marketing ploy does harm to the teaching profession of Pilates and barre.
And more!
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Reference links:
Episode 60: Dismantling Long & Lean Pt. 1
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories...
Episode 43: Nutrition Facts vs. Fiction with Dr. Ben House, PhD
Episode 42: Compassionate Myth-Busting
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05/24/23 • 73 min
Welcome to Episode 42 of the Movement Logic podcast! Laurel goes it alone this episode to unpack six common myths that still inform the way movement teachers and even clinicians think about and talk about the body, to potentially harmful effect.
You will learn about:
- The Magical Low Back Exercise Myth
- The Poor Body Design Myth
- The Posture Predicts Pain Myth
- The Scapegoated Isolated Muscle Myth
- The Fragilista Warning Label Myth
- The Muscles As Modeling Clay Myth
- How questioning your own beliefs as a teacher helps you be a better teacher.
- How challenging your student’s beliefs may not be as productive as actively listening to them, and creating motivating, positive, and enjoyable movement experiences for them.
Book Explain Pain to recommend for your clients
Papers
Does unequal leg length cause back pain?
Paul Ingraham -
The Complete Guide to Low Back Pain
Should We Stop Teaching Yoga for Low Back Pain?
Complete Guide to Plantar Fasciitis
Physio Network -
The McKenzie method for (sub)acute non-specific low back pain
Is neck posture subgroup in late adolescence a risk factor for persistent neck pain...
Greg Lehman - Do our patients need fixing? Or do they need a bigger cup? and How to Better Treat “Shoulder Impingement”
Ian Griffiths - The myths of foot orthoses
Julie Weibe - To Kegel or Not to Kegel?
Episode 49: You Don't Know How Strong You Are (Says Research)
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08/09/23 • 70 min
Welcome to Season 3 and Episode 49 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss the common tendency for people (not just women) to under load when lifting weights to build muscle and strength. In fact, it’s likely a slight majority of people in the gym are either not lifting heavy enough or taking sets close enough to failure to make changes to their muscle mass or strength!
You will learn:
- If left to their own devices, the average lifter gravitates toward sets of 10 with 50-55% of a 1 repetition max, which would not be stimulating enough to make a change to muscle mass or hypertrophy.
- That research has shown people are likely to leave too many reps in reserve (ending the set too soon) and why this will not make your muscles bigger or your body stronger.
- That research has shown that a slight majority of people select weights that are too light for a given rep range and why this will not make your muscles bigger or your body stronger.
- That if a slight majority of people with access to a fully equipped gym are prone to underloading, then people working out at home with more limited equipment might be even more prone to underloading.
- How heavy, moderate, and light loads are defined according to exercise science.
- A working definition of “serious lifters” which is people who track their workouts and correctly apply the principle of progressive overload to their training protocol. AKA, people who see results from their training!
- How laundry detergent can explain why people are so stuck on doing 3 sets of 10.
- How strength training is a lot like yoga in that it is literally ALL about listening to your body.
- How feelings can explain the tendency to underload, like avoiding feelings of discomfort or avoiding feeling embarrassed if you cannot lift a weight successfully.
- Getting close to failure is key for success in strength training.
- That healthy boundaries for women includes learning your no, but also learning your yes, especially when it comes to saying yes to loading sufficiently to build muscular strength and bone density.
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Article by Stronger By Science - Most Lifters Train Too Light
Self-Selected Resistance Exercise Load: Implications for Research and Prescription
Episode 32: Load & Volume: When is Enough Enough? When is it Too Much?
Episode 52: What Stopped You from Lifting - 7 Guests Share their Stories
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08/30/23 • 95 min
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 52 of the Movement Logic podcast. In this episode, Laurel and Sarah are joined by seven other guests for a panoramic, multi-perspective answer to the question “why don't more women lift weights?” Our seven guests (all of whom are movement professionals) weigh in on their previous objections to strength training. Of course they also share their impetus for starting to lift, and how it changed their lives.
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Our guests on Instagram:
Maryann Thompson @maryannthomsonpilates
Diana Romero @insprana.yoga
Naomi Gottlieb-Miller @conscioushealthymama
Lisa Schwarcz Zlotnick @lisazlotnick
Kathy Dodd @kdnaturalyoga
Trina Altman @trinaaltman
Alex Ellis on Instagram @hollaformala on Tik Tok @aewellness
Episode 47: Our Oopsie Stories from the Teaching Trenches
Sarah’s barbell equipment Post 1 and Post 2 on Instagram
Books about fitness culture:
Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
Episode 60: Dismantling Long and Lean Part 1
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02/07/24 • 79 min
Welcome to Season 4 and Episode 60 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this much requested first part of a three-part episode series, Laurel and Sarah discuss the phrase long and lean from a historical and sociological perspective. They cover the idealized image of women through art with a historical gaze, then unpick the narrative around becoming long and lean, how diet and exercise became front and center for this impossible ideal, and where we are today with social media, photoshop, and AI in the mix.
You will learn:
- How bad Medieval artists were at drawing human bodies
- How the Renaissance ideal form was the exact opposite of long and lean
- “Ideal” female forms through the 20th and 21st centuries
- The inherent misogyny, internalized anxiety, and social pressure of long and lean
- Whether the diet and exercise boom of the 1980s had anything to do with health
- Why GOOP is indeed a four letter word
- How ‘problem areas’ keep us busy objectifying our bodies and how this is a feature of our modern capitalist society
And more!
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Reference links:
The Toast Looks Back: The Best Of Two Monks
https://greatist.com/grow/100-years-womens-body-image#1
https://www.worldometers.info/weight-loss/
Episode 91: LIFTMOR, Not Less: An Interview with Professor Belinda Beck
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02/26/25 • 82 min
In this episode of the Movement Logic Podcast, Sarah and Laurel are thrilled to interview esteemed exercise scientist Professor Belinda Beck, investigator in the groundbreaking LIFTMOR trial. They discuss the necessity of high-intensity resistance and impact training for improving bone density, comparing it to less effective exercises like Pilates, yoga, and walking. Professor Beck shares insights on her LIFTMOR, LIFTMOR-M, and MEDEX-OP studies, underlining the importance of mechanical loading for bone health. They explore the misleading promotion of devices like OsteoStrong or courses like Buff Bones that do not provide the necessary rate of loading or magnitude of load to impact bone density. The conversation elucidates the mechanisms of bone adaptation and defends high-intensity training as essential for combating osteoporosis.
00:20 Bone Density Course Progress
06:28 Guest Introduction
08:25 Interview with Professor Belinda Beck
16:59 Understanding Bone Health and Research
23:46 Bone Adaptation and Remodeling
36:15 Bone Remodeling and Exercise Breaks
37:52 Exercise Types and Bone Response
39:35 Strength Training and Client Engagement
42:37 Effective Exercise for Osteoporosis
44:00 Impact of Weight-Bearing Activities
48:47 High-Intensity Training for Older Adults
53:14 Impact Training and Bone Health
01:02:12 Marketing vs. Science in Osteoporosis Treatment
01:04:09 Comparing Exercise Programs for Bone Health
References:
Get on the wait list for our Bone Density Course
Episode 53: Your Bones Are Bored
Exercise to prevent falls in older adults: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Osteostrong: 3 Things You Should Know
Twelve-Minute Daily Yoga Regimen Reverses Osteoporotic Bone Loss
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Movement Logic: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held currently has 94 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Yoga, Health & Fitness, Exercise, Physical Therapist, Crossfit, Physical Therapy, Alternative Health, Strength Training, Fitness, Podcasts and Pilates.
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The episode title 'Episode 65: How to Exercise Safely When You're Injured' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Movement Logic: Strong Opinions, Loosely Held is 67 minutes.
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