Too Much This; Too Little That. After sitting still all day, we are still somehow too tired to move. Our brains are built for the woods but we live in our ‘hoods.
It’s Against (Our) Nature
We need more connections to nature, not Wi-Fi. More connected fitness devices means less time exercising outside. This goes against our nature.
What Can Move Do For You?
“Failure is not option.” I call BS. Failure is always an option. If it were not, life would be easy. After a recent milestone birthday, combined with numerous health challenges arriving simultaneously have resulted in a bit of deeper reflection on this idea. Long ago knee injuries from sports resulted in the inevitable diagnosis of […]
Never Force Yourself to Exercise Again
The expectations, beliefs, and perceptions about exercise can ultimately promote – or possibly inhibit – its benefits.
Movement is Mind Medicine
Movement=happy. Or at least it should. And why the 150 minutes of exercise a week is a lie told because we can’t handle the truth.
The Walking Games
Walking! Everybody’s doing it. Now let’s make sure you keep doing it with some clever, fun, and simple ways to keep it interesting.
Human Sea Squirt
We only need brains because we move. The less we move, the less we use, and the more likely we are to lose our brains. We are becoming a human version of the sea squirt.
Immunity to Boredom
A curious mind and staying connected to how fitness helps you enjoy what matters most make it easier to stay engaged in exercise and eradicates boredom.
Even Jack Lalanne Got This Wrong
Even Jack Lalanne got this wrong. Hating exercise but doing it anyway will not work. The new science of motivation points the way.
We Still Don’t Get It
We still don’t get it. Human emotion. We think it can be packaged neatly and temporally controlled like in the sign above. We compartmentalize, rationalize, yet never realize that we cannot control emotion that way. We fight it instead of working to understand it and use it. One of humanity’s less attractive characteristics is our […]