Episode 60: Dismantling Long and Lean Part 1
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/
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!
Sign up here to get on the Wait List for our next Bone Density Course in October 2024!
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/
Previous Episode
Episode 59: Are You Certain You Need Certifications?
Welcome to our supersized Episode 59 of the Movement Logic podcast and the final episode of Season 3! In this episode, Laurel and Sarah discuss certifications for movement professionals. Are they necessary? Are they useful? Do they help promote you, or just the brand? Should you be focusing on it so much?
You will learn:
- Do certifications in the movement industry function to a means to ensure quality control and accountability the way that the equivalent does in a regulated industry
- Do the tests measure meaningful and important qualities of a movement teacher or do they measure what is easy to measure
- What are some drawbacks to certifications
- What are some positive aspects of certifications
- The differences between regulated and unregulated industries
- Does promoting a course as ‘safe’ require any proof in an unregulated industry?
- Can a certification course really claim to be a safer form of movement than any other?
- Why are many teachers looking for certification in their continuing education classes?
- The value of longer form, apprentice/student to teacher/mentor relationship versus a weekend training
- That Yoga Alliance is not the evil overlord that so many seem to think it is
- Does having letters after your name make you more credible or trustworthy?
Episode 48: Alignment Dogma - Pelvis
Episode 54: Alignment Dogma - Spine
Episode 58: Alignment Dogma - Shoulders
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Next Episode
Episode 61: Putting Conditioning Back Into Strength & Conditioning
Welcome to Season 4, Episode 61 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel explores whether strength training alone suffices for health and longevity. She compares training stress, intensity, and adaptations of strength training versus high intensity interval training (HIIT) versus cardiorespiratory endurance training. Discover how both HIIT and cardio are forms of conditioning, and why both strength and conditioning are necessary "weekly human maintenance habits" for preventing chronic disease and promoting longevity.
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You will also learn:
- What counts as exercise?
- Does HIIT promote strength or cardiorespiratory endurance or both?
- What is aerobic versus anaerobic conditioning?
- What role does cardiorespiratory fitness play in our strength gains and what role does strength play in our cardiorespiratory fitness gains?
- How strength training, HIIT, and cardio compare when considering the following: typical length of a session, work to rest ratios, relative intensities, common limitations to performance, and the specific adaptations each promotes.
- Is strength enough for health and longevity?
- Is walking conditioning?
- Can the fatigue cost of HIIT interfere with our ability to exercise enough throughout the week?
- What should we pay attention to specifically if we want to build strength with HIIT?
- What’s the best way to structure weekly strength and conditioning workouts, specifically when we want to do both on the same day?
Reference links:
Episode 6: How Much ‘Should” You Exercise
High-intensity interval training for health benefits...
Episode 37: Plyometrics—Get More Bang For Your Bones
Episode 46: How Often Should You Strength Trainlll?
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