Our big fancy brains took us from all fours to walking on two legs to hunting, to farming, to sitting on our asses all day looking at screens…eliminating the very thing that caused our brains to become as advanced as they are. Movement = Anti-Dementia Pill
Research Doesn’t Show That Play is Fun! I have the Nerf gun bullets to prove it. While the future benefits of fitness on brain health are important to investigate, it is equally important to appreciate the sublime and subjective experience of a single social yet challenging fitness experience.
Zero stress is the wrong goal. Find the sweet spot of stress and feel engaged. On either side lie the dangers of boredom or burnout.
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.
We need more connections to nature, not Wi-Fi. More connected fitness devices means less time exercising outside. This goes against our nature.
“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 […]
Adapting a partner-based, physical contact fitness program for solo performance in a time of social distancing.
The expectations, beliefs, and perceptions about exercise can ultimately promote – or possibly inhibit – its benefits.
Emotional fatigue doesn’t just suck, it sucks the life out of you. The emotional state of play is the remedy. Life feels heavy right now so make it feel lighter by bringing a challenge to your muscles while your mind is at play.
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.
