Just Move

On movement variety, exercise monoculture, and why none of it needs to be yoga.

There is no single correct way to inhabit your body. And the idea that there is has kept more people sedentary than it has ever helped.

This episode makes the case for any movement over perfect movement - and for variety over dogma. Drawing on a 30-year Harvard study of 111,000 people, we look at what the research actually says about movement and health, why exercise monoculture is a problem both physically and psychologically, and why the body thrives on novelty - different planes, different demands, different joys.

And yes. None of it needs to be yoga.

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