Benjamyn Smith

About Benjamyn Smith

My Movement Coach Journey
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∗ B.S. Health And Wellness

∗ Certified Personal Trainer with NPTI

∗ MovNat Level 2 Certified trainer

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Recent Posts

Start Your Day With Gratitude

Stop Doing Ab Exercises – There’s A Better Way!

You Need More Than Bodyweight Training Exercises

Take Control Of Your Health

Take Your Time Getting Fit!

Internal And External Hip Rotation Exercises

Why I Don’t Recommend Counting Calories To Clients

Psoas Release Exercises – Help Back And Hip Pain

6 Small Changes To Lose Weight

Your One Rep Max Doesn’t Matter

Pull-Ups Aren’t A Functional Movement

Why Do I Hate Working Out?

Personal Finance And Health – Build Financial Independence

Are You Having Trouble Getting Up Off The Floor?

Change Is Hard – It takes Constant Effort And Attention

How I’m Rehabbing My Lower Back Pain

Ground Movement For Neck And Upper Back Strength & Mobility

Ground Movement Series – Hip Bridge Workout

Ground Movement Series Episode 1

My New Favorite Self-Massage Tool

Forearm Self-Massage For Elbow, Wrist, Hand, And Finger Pain

Start Your Fitness Journey Off With Self-Love

Eliminate Pain With Somatics – Thomas Hanna’s Somatic Exercises

Ease Shin Splints With Tibialis Anterior Self Massage

I Left My $90k A Year Job And Couldn’t Be Happier

Proper Breathing Is Essential For Good Health

Standing Up From The Floor – 2 More Techniques

Thoracic Spine Mobility And Shoulder Mobility Stretch

How To Make Sitting Part Of Your Movement Practice

Why You Should Practice Movement Slowly

Single Leg Exercises For Hip Mobility And Stability

Why You Should Practice Crawling

Simple Exercises To Keep Your Eyes Healthy

Scalene Self-Massage For Upper Body Pain

Working Your Core – How To Roll Over Correctly

Where Should You Start Your Movement Practice

It’s resolution time – Set Useful New Year’s Resolutions

Simple Shoulder Exercises To Improve Your Range Of Motion

Vivobarefoot Tracker Boot vs Lems Boulder Boot

11-12-18 Movement Monday – Hip Mobility Sequence

10-22-18 Movement Monday

Movement Monday 10-8-18 Doing Ground Work

Between Muscle Ups And Pull Ups – Elbow Pull Ups

Muscle Balance Is Essential For Quality Movement

Movement Monday – Start Working On Your Balance

Psoas Self-Massage – Help Your Hip, Back, And Groin Pain

Movement Monday On Wednesday! Split Squat, Deadlift, Squat

What You Say And How You Say It Matters

The Fitness Industry Is Lying To You – There Are No Shortcuts

The Most Overlooked Nutrient – The Importance of Adequate Sleep

You Will Rock It – Core Strength And Stability

Never Miss An Opportunity To Practice Good Movement Fundamentals

Movement Monday – Building Your Base

August 13, 2018 Movement Monday – Get Crawling

You Cannot Achieve Success Without Failure

What Responsibilities Are You Using As An Excuse?

Get-up To A Balanced Carry And Finished With Push Presses

How To Train Cardio Without Running – Walk With A Load

Misuse Or Disuse – You’re In Pain From One Of These Two

Building Healthy Relationships That Work

New Video Series – Movement Monday Combos

Making Grain Safe To Eat – Soak, Sprout, Or Ferment

Strength Training For Beginner Runners

We Have A Major Mobile Phone Dependence Problem

New Study Proves Bread Older Than Thought – Is Bread Paleo?

Calf Self Massage – Don’t Let Sore Calves Ruin Your Day!

Why Novel Movement Is Important For Your Health

The Economy Of Buying The Best Food You Can

Flexibility VS Mobility – What’s The Difference?

Why Is My YouTube Channel Named Doctor Ben Not A Real Doctor

There’s No Substitute For Barefoot

Prep It Yourself – Mortar And Pestle

Jawzrsize Alternatives – No Equipment Needed

How to Start Your New Healthy Lifestyle

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Stretch Routine

Build A Useful Body, Not A Pretty Body

Why You Shouldn’t Train Like An Athlete

Moving And My Thoughts On Minimalism

Stop Bending Over And Start Squatting

5 Exercises To Build Core Muscles – They Aren’t Crunches

Are Natural Movement Systems A Fitness Regression?

The Movement Lifestyle – It’s More Than A Workout

What Do You Value The Most In Life? There’s More To This Than Money

The Universe Gives You Subtle Hints… If You Pay Attention

What Stretches to Do Before Walking – 5 Stretch Routine

Understand System Design to Better Design Your Lifestyle

The Benefits of Being Cold, Tired, and Hungry

Hip Trigger Point Release – Lacrosse Ball Exercises

I’ve Never Heard Anyone Say They Want To Be Weaker

How Do Tight Hips Cause Lower Back Pain?

The Modern Human Environment Is A Tactile Wasteland

Why Are Video Games Popular – It May Not Be What You Think

Exercises To Help You Do Pull Ups – All You Need Is A Bar

Is It Impossible To Lose Weight? Why People Fail To Lose Weight

Natural Movement Routine At Home For Strong And Mobile Hips

If Natural Movement Is Your Focus Are Barbells Still Useful?

No More 30-day Challenges

What Is A Goal Really? Your Own Line In The Sand

How To Stay Motivated To Get Fit – 6 Tips

The Benefit of Having A Dog – What I Learned Last Week

One More Year Down! Welcome To 2018!

Life Is More About What You Don’t Do Than What You Do

What’s Wrong With The Fitness Industry?

6 Tips – How to Improve the Quality of Your Life

Getting Up Off The Floor – 4 Techniques So You Can Stand Up

What Does Getting Up from the Floor Without Using Your Hands Show?

Effort vs Results – Learn to Love The Process

Upper Back Mobility Exercises – Shoulder Stability and Scapular Mobility

What Two Days Of Intensive Movement Showed Me

Level 2 MovNat Certification Follow Up

October ’17 Challenge Review and November Challenge

It’s Hard Living The Life You Want Sometimes!

The Healthy Way to Lose Weight

Where Have I Been?

Neck Strengthening Exercises at Home – Eliminate Neck Pain

Finding My Own Happiness – How I Edit My Life

How Can I Strengthen My Ankles? – Building Ankle Muscles

Thoughts on How Social Media is Affecting Our Lives

October 2017 30-Day Challenge

September 2017 30-Day Challenge Update

Changing Some Classic Yoga Poses Into a Great Core Exercise!

Flushing Toxins Out Of Your Body

What To Do When You’re Feeling Under The Weather?

A Simple Standing Hip Extension Exercise – No Equipment Needed

What Is The Best Diet For Human Health?

Why Should You Chew Your Food?

30 Day Challenge – September 2017

How Many Reps Should You Do?

A Spontaneous Camping Trip

Balancing Out Rock Climbing With Handstand Work

What Is Movement Efficiency Really?

That Thing I Hate Doing

VLOG 1 – Tenkara And Always Bring The Pliers!

You’d Think I Know This, But Eating Is Important

Dirty Dogs For Hip Mobility

You Don’t Train Muscles, What You Actually Train Are Nerves

Can Your Hamstrings Do This?

August 2017 30 Day Challenge

The Best Way To Look At Your Cell Phone

How Does Sugar Interact With The Human Body?

Don’t Let Others Define Your Success

Exercises For A Stiff Lower Back

Create a 30 Day Challenge and Smash Your Goals

When Do I Use Passive Stretching?

Levator Scapulae Massage to Relieve Neck Pain

Nutrition Isn’t What You Eat, It’s What You Absorb!

Don’t Be Jealous Be Inspired

Don’t Be a Bag of Bones – Support Your SPINE

Does Spot Reduction Really Work?

Make That Internal Weight Belt USEFUL Again!

Health Isn’t Genetics, It’s Lifestyle

Ghee is EXPENSIVE so just make your own!

What’s A TVA???

My Favorite Way To Decompress

Moving From The Ground Up

Don’t Build Function On Top Of Dysfunction

Keep Your FEET Healthy to Keep Your Body healthy

I HATE Push-ups but I’m going to teach them anyway

While It’s Not Popular, Discomfort Is Essential

Do You Have A Muscle Strength Or Tension Imbalance?

Cooking On The Lodge Hibachi

Understanding Injury So You Can Avoid It

Finding The Why So You Can Succeed

Lunge Variation to Stabilize Hips, Knees, and Ankles

The Weather’s Nice Again! Go Barefoot!

Maybe We Should Rethink Quitters Never Win

Get Your Glutes Back Into Working Order

Hunting For A New Laptop

How Our Degraded Soils Impair Your Health

How My Sense Of Smell Has Adjusted

Make your hands work like NEW!

I’ve Given Up on Beds… Again

Simple Homemade Fermented Salsa

What Has Technology Cost Us?

Can You Trust The Findings In Studies?

Learn About Active Stretching

What is Strength Really?

But Isn’t Crawling for Infants!?

Training Mindset vs Competition Mindset

Am I Afraid of Success

Simple Neck and Shoulder Stretch

Fitness Program Design Primer

Keeping It Real In the Digital Age

Lean Doesn’t Equal Fit or Healthy

Just Hanging Around

The Rolfing Saga Continues

Rotator Cuff Self-Massage

Hike Two in the Five Fingers

Let’s Talk Nutrients For A Sec

How I’m Loosening My Neck

Your Foundation, Build Smart Feet

Hiking The Little Devil Stairs

Use Your Words

Movement of the Week: Power Clean

I Don’t Know Is a Great Answer

I’m Back from Iceland!

Moving While Traveling

Stretch of the Week: Back of the Neck

Balance Is a Skill Too

Movement of the Week: Lunge

Risk vs Reward vs Challenge

Why You should Buy Organic Wheat

Movement of the Week: Lifting and Carrying

The Superfood of Movement

Foam Roller Tips

Make Bacon at Home

Produce Isn’t What It Used to Be

Your Outlook Affects Your Results

Movement of the Week: Deadlift

My First Rolfing Session

Static Before Dynamic, Dynamic Before Ballistic

Gym Muscle Anatomy Series: Latissimus Dorsi

Stretch of the Week: Chest Stretch

Don’t Rush, Organize Your Body

Grow A Little Weed for Your Health

What’s in a Pearly Smile?

Movement of the Week: Landing

Organic Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be

Take Charge of Your Health!

Gym Muscle Anatomy Series: Trapezius

How’s Your Headset?

No Equipment No Problem

One Step Forward and Two Steps Back

Caffeine Doesn’t Always Love Me

My First Guest Post!

What Do You Mean Another Circulatory System?!

Squat Series: Quad Stretch

Homemade Road Blocks

Squat Series: Outer Hip Stretch

5 Minute Horse Crap

Squat Series: Calf Stretch

2017 Goals Revisited

Squat Series: Inner Hip Stretch

The Best Pair of Shoes Ever

The Fascia is King

Squat Series: Hamstring Stretch

Hard Work Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Success

Body Weight Squat Basics

The Comparison Game

Specific Adaption to Imposed Demand

Sunday Morning Blues

3 Keys to a Successful Movement Practice

The Easiest Stretch I’ve Ever Done

What’s All the Stress About Stress?

Up the Intensity!!!

Movement Compilation 2017

What The Hell is a Calorie!?

Playing in the Rain

Too Many Priorities is the Same as No Priorities

Processed Food Isn’t Really Bad for You

2017 Baselines

Movement Goals for 2017
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