My Perfect Movement Plan: The Move Your DNA All Day Workbook

by Katy Bowman

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

Published July 30, 2024

About the author

Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her ten books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide.
Bowman is the creator and host of the "Move Your DNA" podcast, teaches movement globally, and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in such diverse media as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.
One of Maria Shriver’s “Architects of Change” and an America Walks “Woman of the Walking Movement,” Bowman consults on educational and living space design to encourage movement-rich habitats. She has worked with companies like Patagonia, Nike, and Google as well as a wide range of non-profits and other communities to create greater access to her “move more, move more body parts, move more for what you need” message.
Her movement education company, Nutritious Movement, is based in Washington State, where she lives with her family.

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I finally gave up and put this one back on the shelf mostly read. I had hoped that the workbook format would help me apply what I’ve learned from her other books, but it was too much microanalysis for me.

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book takes the concepts introduced in Bowman's other books and podcast and combines them with a workbook format for analyzing and creating your own "Perfect movement Plan". It sounds great in theory but I didn't have the patience to go through it and analyze all of my movement and create a plan. It was just far too detailed.

However, I love Katy Bowman's other books, especially Grow Wild, Move your DNA and Movement Matters.

I think knowing the concepts of varied natural movement and getting different moving nutrients is good enough for me but this detailed and analytical approach might be better suited to others.

[Katie Steuerwald · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like being able to work out where I need more and less movement

[RM · Rating 5 out of 5]

This workbook lot of effort and a lot of being honest with myself about my own exercise and movement and it was worth it. I was surprised at how much I can still improve on. The "movement nutrition pyramid" is a really clear way to figure out how I need to change my movement diet. My first movement plan is up on the fridge now and has been keeping me on track.

[Muhammad Saad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life changing.