The Movement Lab Encinitas

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/well/move/grip-strength-muscles-health.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Why Your Grip Strength Matters, and How to Improve It The muscles in the wrist and hands have been tied to longevity and quality of life. Why is that, and how can you strengthen them?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/well/move/fascia-muscle-health.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Tissue That Connects Our Muscles May Be a Key to Better Health Fascia is more important than previously thought. Here’s how, and why, you should care for yours.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/well/move/elaine-lalanne-fitness-exercise.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

At 97, the First Lady of Fitness Is Still Shaping the Industry Elaine LaLanne — who revolutionized modern exercise alongside her husband, Jack — is a model for aging well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/well/heart-health-after-covid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/09/well/heart-health-after-covid.html?referringSource=articleShare

How to Improve Heart Health After Covid Evidence suggests that Covid survivors have substantially higher chances of developing cardiovascular disease. But experts say there are effective ways to minimize the risk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/well/move/pilates-exercise-flexibility.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/22/well/move/pilates-exercise-flexibility.html?referringSource=articleShare

Is Pilates as Good as Everyone Says? The strength and flexibility workout is having a moment. What can — and can’t — it do for us?

I also practice and teach Pilates at Gyrotonic Encinitas. It is now helping me recover from a lobectomy I had on June 24 ‘22

Something in the Way We Move (Published 2019) We may each have a movement “signature” that, like our face or fingerprints, is unique to us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/well/move/exercise-icing-sore-muscles.html?referringSource=articleShare

Ice for Sore Muscles? Think Again. (Published 2021) Icing muscles after strenuous exercise is not just ineffective, it could be counterproductive, a new study in mice suggests.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-mask-covid-particles-ul.html?referringSource=articleShare

Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How (Published 2020) A visual journey through the microscopic world of the coronavirus shows how masks provide an important defense against transmission.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/19/well/n95-kn94-medical-masks.html?shared=1

A Guide to Masks Learn more about five types of masks — which ones offer the best protection, and how to avoid counterfeits.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/well/move/sitting-is-bad-for-our-health-should-we-squat-more-instead.html?referringSource=articleShare

Sitting Is Bad for Our Health. Should We Squat More Instead? (Published 2020) Our bodies may be evolutionarily adapted to continual muscular activity, something we don’t achieve with chairs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/well/live/how-much-water-should-I-drink.html?referringSource=articleShare

How Much Water Do You Actually Need? Here’s how to know when you truly need to hydrate.