If We Knew Better, We'd Move Better: The Seeds of Movement

Your kid is going to move better than you do. Or they won't.The window between the ages of two and eight is when their body decides how it will move for the rest of their life. Most kids spend that window picking up the worst habits of the adults around them. The cost shows up later as pain, injury, lost confidence, and a body that quietly fights itself for sixty more years.This is the book that fixes that.You read this sentence because someone taught you letters, sounds, and words before you were old enough to argue. Movement was never given that same care. So your default movement patterns were built on whatever the world happened to put in front of you, and most of what got modeled was wrong. By the time anyone notices something feels off, the patterns are already cemented.If We Knew Better, We'd Move Better is Coach Steve Stokes' framework for movement literacy. The same framework that has rebuilt athletes' careers, taught children to move with confidence from their first steps, and helped clients in their seventies recover the freedom to move without pain.WHO PICKS THIS UPParents who want their child's body to outlast them, not collapse on them.Coaches and educators who already know movement matters and want a real framework to teach it.Adults who are done living with a body that hurts more than it should.WHAT YOU WALK AWAY WITHA coaching framework that works on a four-year-old, a college athlete, a parent, and a seventy-year-old. The same framework, every time.Cues you will use for life: Home Base, Face in the Base, Toes to the Nose, The Run Song.Twelve drills you can do anywhere, no equipment needed. Two minutes a day rewires the patterns most adults never get the chance to fix.The vocabulary to coach better movement on the spot, in your living room, at your kid's practice, in your morning routine.A real answer to the question of why some people just move better than others.WHAT IS INSIDEForeword: The SeedsChapter 1: Your SoilChapter 2: Your FlowChapter 3: Your BranchesChapter 4: Your TrunkChapter 5: Your RootsChapter 6: Your Apple Tree (including The Run Song)Chapter 7: Your FruitChapter 8: Your SeasonsBackwards: Your GardenBonus Section: Your Harvest (twelve movements with execution steps and coaching tips)Glossary: The Language of Movement"No one in the history of mankind has ever felt worse for moving better."The way we move matters.Volume One of The Seeds of Movement series. Written by Coach Steve Stokes. Read more