Episode 1081: Why You Don't Exercise Even Though You Know You Should. And Strategies To Get Over the Hump. | Katy Bowman - 10% Happier with Dan Harris

A toolkit for bringing more movement into your life.

Katy Bowman is a biomechanist who runs a movement education company, called Nutritious Movement. She's the author of 11 books, and her most recent is I Know I Should Exercise, But...: 44 Reasons We Don't Move and How to Get Over Them.

In this episode we talk about:

What a biomechanist does
What Katy means by "movement as nutrition"
How to determine your "movement diet"
The distinction between movement and exercise
Why people don't exercise
Strategies for consistency
The role of values and attention
How to move if you don't like sweating
How to find time to move
The technique of "stacking your life"
Overcoming embarrassment and shame related to movement
Strengthening your "so what" muscle
Getting comfortable with discomfort
What to do when you're addicted to your screen
And much more

Additional Resources:

Katy's Substack

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