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The Most Underrated Way To Improve Your Health
It’s exercise, but not as you know it
Sometimes the simplest of fitness principles are the ones that go under the radar. In this case, the difference between exercise and physical activity is often greatly overlooked. We’re fed all of these fancy-looking videos and articles that show us how to train, when to train, and why we’re never training enough. This goes far beyond fitness, too. We’re also bombarded with nutritional advice from every angle that muddies the waters and leaves most people confused and lost.
It’s as if all we’re constantly exposed to the ‘ideal model of health’ which quickly causes us to forget the simpler, and may I argue more effective, principles of fitness. As a personal trainer and kinesiologist, one of my favorite roles is transforming what fitness means to a new gym-goer. In my vast experience, my client’s boxes are often far too restricting when we first start out.
One of the great shortcomings I see is the perspective that only planned exercise is valuable for your health. If you didn’t put it in your calendar, track it with your apple watch, or move for more than an hour…what’s the point? While we aren’t to blame for this faulty paradigm (it’s simply what we’ve been told), it’s seriously attenuating our ability to foster a healthy lifestyle throughout all of…
