Why You Don't Exercise Even Though You Know You Should. And Strategies To Get Over the Hump. | Katy Bowman

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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