Emotional state during exercise can affect benefits from it. Instead of embracing this four decades old discovery, the idiotic “rise & grind” culture of fitness where you must suffer to be buffer is doing no one any favors.
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Can Your Fitness Outlast Your Folder?
Consistency despite massive challenges and 15 years later, she’s lasted longer than her folder did. An example of the freedom that consistent fitness can bring, even with two spinal discs removed.
Of Course There’s No Time to Exercise
We need fun. Desperately. We invent endless time and money sucking stuff like gender reveal parties, promposals, and smash cakes while lamenting the lack of time to exercise. Ideas to add fun to fitness instead of creating more nonsense that keeps us from it.
When Hard Things Are Good Things – RMT Rope
Learning the RMT Rope had the right amount of frustration and progress to make it irresistible. The fun and the benefit is in the right amount of struggle.
Set the Plant Eating High Score!
Getting the high score on a video game is a feeling you can now get by eating plants. See who can get plant-eating high score in your house!
Roth Kicks!
Making fitness fun can be as simple as adding a single move from your favorite band. Or we can keep making it monumentally hard. Adding “Roth Kicks” to my workout adds a dash of fun.
There’s No Health at This Size
There is no health at ANY size. Trading one type of harm (fat shaming) for another (pretending obesity isn’t unhealthy) is not progress. Nutrition influencers are finally getting exposed for the frauds they are, and we can all hopefully get back to the simple basics.
The Missing ‘e’ in Motivation
When it comes to fitness, motivation is often missing the ‘e’ it needs to be successful. When motivation is lacking, you will also find a lack of emotion.
Is it Fun or Fitness? (How you frame it affects you)
How you frame your activity can affect the quantity and quality of food you eat after and how hard you perceive it to be. Hint: framing it as fun makes things better for you.
8-Minutes of Awful Lowers Blood Pressure!
8-minutes of wall sits lower blood pressure more than other forms of exercise. Do NOT try this at home. At the gym. Or anywhere else on Earth. The latest dumb fitness idea is coming your way.