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I'm with you up to a point. If you have time watch Dr Liberman's video about why people resist exercise so much despite wanting to do it: https://www.youtube.c

I'm with you up to a point. If you have time watch Dr Liberman's video about why people resist exercise so much despite wanting to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vzS7-MtObo& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vzS7-MtObo& There's nothing new here, we all know this, but he brings the point home very well. I think brisk walking is within the realm of possibilites for most people. Running and lifting - idk. I personally love it but so many people I know have such a huge psychological resistance to doing it. So I say lets get people to at least walk!

joe_mamba 8mo ago
>why people resist exercise so much despite wanting to do it: I don't need to watch a video, I can just do introspection and I know why I resit exercise. In fact, most people will watch the self help videos and learn the exact same things they already knew, if only they'd be honest with themselves about their issue and not try to avoid accountability. But it's easier to accept things when a professional specialist tells them to you, often for money. The problem is many people want for someone to tell them that the issues they have are not their fault, so they can feel better about not doing anything to improve their situation. > I think brisk walking is within the realm of possibilites for most people. Walks are good except when you live in a concrete hellhole full with busy traffic. That's why I avoid telling people exactly what exercise they should do, as that depends on their health, location, financial situation and lifestyle.
- weatherlite 8mo ago
  > I don't need to watch a video, I can just do introspection and I know why I resit exercise Well just if anyone reads this , Liberman's point is that we are biologically programmed to NOT want to exercise unless there's a clear biological incentive - like getting food, or a social incentive - like a tribe participating in a dance or children playing. Since for millions of years we couldn't tell when the next calory of food would come - exercising for the heck of it was insanity and you wouldn't survive. You expended so many calories just gathering and hunting you mostly rested when you could. So basically our biology does not fit into the world of calory abundance we live in.
  - joe_mamba 8mo ago
    Because the concept of exercise is a very modern and unnatural thing for humans. We've been moving all day to make a living for most of our history, only when we switched to sedentary desk jobs did we discover the need to do exercise to maintain our health, but that's like the past 50+ years compared to 50K year history of being hunter gatherers. It doesn't take a prestigious scientist to connect these dots.

joe_mamba 8mo ago

>why people resist exercise so much despite wanting to do it: I don't need to watch a video, I can just do introspection and I know why I resit exercise. In fact, most people will watch the self help videos and learn the exact same things they already knew, if only they'd be honest with themselves about their issue and not try to avoid accountability. But it's easier to accept things when a professional specialist tells them to you, often for money. The problem is many people want for someone to tell them that the issues they have are not their fault, so they can feel better about not doing anything to improve their situation. > I think brisk walking is within the realm of possibilites for most people. Walks are good except when you live in a concrete hellhole full with busy traffic. That's why I avoid telling people exactly what exercise they should do, as that depends on their health, location, financial situation and lifestyle.

weatherlite 8mo ago
> I don't need to watch a video, I can just do introspection and I know why I resit exercise Well just if anyone reads this , Liberman's point is that we are biologically programmed to NOT want to exercise unless there's a clear biological incentive - like getting food, or a social incentive - like a tribe participating in a dance or children playing. Since for millions of years we couldn't tell when the next calory of food would come - exercising for the heck of it was insanity and you wouldn't survive. You expended so many calories just gathering and hunting you mostly rested when you could. So basically our biology does not fit into the world of calory abundance we live in.
- joe_mamba 8mo ago
  Because the concept of exercise is a very modern and unnatural thing for humans. We've been moving all day to make a living for most of our history, only when we switched to sedentary desk jobs did we discover the need to do exercise to maintain our health, but that's like the past 50+ years compared to 50K year history of being hunter gatherers. It doesn't take a prestigious scientist to connect these dots.