Movement and Breast Health: Biomechanics and Exercises

Episode Highlights With Katy

• Breast health through the lens of movement
• Understanding why breasts need to move and how to do that without injury
• The way you move moves your body in a particular way
• If you want breasts that are well supported, do movements that build strength in support
• Movements like pushups or hanging as a test of chest movement and strength 
• How carrying babies and breastfeeding can lead to stiffness in the upper body
• Why to work up to being able to hang by holding onto a bar for one whole minute each day
• How to work better movement into the things you're already doing 
• Ways to counteract too much single-position input like looking at a phone
• How our core is affected by what is happening in the hips and the shoulders 
• A tip for getting better movement and benefits even from walking
• We're so much more fluent in the importance of food than the importance of movement

Resources We Mention

• Rethink Your Position: Reshape Your Exercise, Yoga, and Everyday Movement, One Part at a Time by Katy Bowman
• More books by Katy Bowman
• Hanging board on Amazon
• Book: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume