Katy Bowman
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45 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I'm going to hop on my bike so that you're finding other domains of your life in which you can pepper in movement as opposed to setting it just aside for what we consider leisure time. Exercise is essentially a leisure time activity. The more we can distribute it through the other domains in life, the more likely you are to get those minutes of physical activity that you need.
The reason we put this on the cover of the book is because it's so relatable.
So practically, practically speaking, I do question if it is right there. What would happen if you cleaned it off and actually put it in your way? And I think that this is something that, this is an aesthetic choice. I don't know how practical it is. But in my own home, for example, I have found too that the more Pieces of equipment are tucked out of sight.
The more they are put into rooms that I barely go into, you know, with the best of intentions, I set up an exercise room in my house, but the more physical activity sits outside of the flow of your daily life, the less likely you are to interact with it. So I bring a lot of my pieces out into the living room. I have teenagers, and notice this as well with them,
The idea of stepping away from where other people are, I can absolutely recognize the value of a focused place for movement, but when you're trying to bring movement into your own house, it can get tricky because those dark spaces quickly become where you're throwing your laundry or you just have cobwebs. We sent out,
a photo contest of people sending in some of their equipment and we got pieces that had birds nests built into them because they had just been sitting in the garage, you know, sitting in their workout garage. And it was just a testament to the less likely you are to see it, the less it is in the flow of your day to day life, the less likely you are to engage. So scoot it out.
Um, don't throw your laundry on top of it or just recognize that maybe that's not the best situation. for you to motivate yourself.
It's sort of like committing to going to the gym five days a week. It's a really big step. And so I do think that for many people, it's like, well, the gesture of a big investment is perhaps being confused with how big your motivation is to pick up that particular mode of exercise. So knowing yourself a little bit more here is gonna be a little bit more helpful.
So yes, you had the big intention, but maybe there wasn't as much thought going into the steps behind wanting to move more. So again, identifying your values, asking yourself what types of physical activity do you actually enjoy? Many people love going to the gym, like it's a great sense of community.
That works for a lot of people, but if it doesn't work for you and if it's never really worked for you, maybe it's not that mode of exercise, maybe the reason the treadmill or the you know, the bike that you have in your house isn't motivating you because it's hard for you to choose movement within your house.
And so maybe it's better if you actually go to a place that has those pieces of equipment because maybe you're easily distracted in your home space. And so you need to rethink your approach in this case.
It's absolutely better than nothing. So all movement counts. We just want to make sure that over time, doesn't have to be over the course of a day, but maybe over the course of a week or two, that you're thinking of all the different ways that your body needs you to move and try to blend them again through the different domains of your life.
Well, all of your joints, cycling through regular joint range of motion.
So that would be just, you know, you can look at it as stretching, but one of the things that I recommend is, you know, if you're gonna sit down in the evening, instead of sitting in that same shape that you do, you know, in your chair, in your car, where you're just always at that 90 degree hip and knee, you know, sit cross-legged on the ground.
Try getting up and down from the ground a few times just in the course of your day. Walking is another big one. Carrying, carrying, being able to load weight onto your frame, whether it's directly on your spine or it's really good to practice carrying in your arms.
And you could get that, you know, instead of pushing a cart at the grocery store, just hold that basket and load that weight up in there. And that's a practical way of getting a little bit of, you know, so-called weightlifting, but while you're doing something else besides exercise.
Well, I know that what happens is we have a bias in sort of recognizing the discomfort, the negativity, the effort of something, and sort of overly focusing on that when we first start. Because it does take a little bit for the benefits of movement to pay off, where especially if you are really focused on the negative aspects, you have to really choose to pay attention to
I feel really good right now. You know, like you're sitting there on the couch and it's so comfortable on the couch, you're doing your thing, the idea of having to get up and you perceive all of this negative effort.
And then for anyone who's trained for anything, it kind of hurts, you know, exercise is that you're out of breath, you might be sweating, your body is kind of flopping around and you don't feel as coordinated. And so there's this period of time where The negative feelings sort of outweigh the positive benefit, especially if you're choosing to not focus on it when you're done.
So one thing you could do if you know you're prone to the I don't wanna, it's so hard, it's uncomfortable feeling is just to, when you do it, savor That's a big psychological step is savoring the feelings that you have afterwards or maybe even the feelings that you have while you do it. Like, wow, I got outside. Look, the sun is so beautiful. I can hear birds.
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