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.
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.
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!
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.
Go Fun Yourself (or someone you know)
When your exercise is fun, you automatically work harder (without anyone forcing you to). We’ve always known this to be true intuitively, but now research shows it.
May Fun Forever Light Your Way to Fitness
Let’s stop forcibly cramming so much “fun” into every life event (holidays, births, weddings, pets) that life no longer is fun. Let fun movement be an essential part of your life.
Effortless Effort (Human Lily Pad Workout)
My random Human Lily Pad workout was “effortless effort” and somehow burned almost 500 calories while I felt like I was playing. The world is your fitness playground.
50 Stairs a Day Ups Cardiovascular Health
As little as 50 stairs a day improves cardiovascular health (and thus brain health). Don’t sell your stairs. Even if they feel hard. Even if your knees hurt. If you do, soon you’ll find stairs out in the world almost impossible and you’ll also miss out on an everyday way to improve health.