Ashish Kothari argues you should reframe exercise as a gift to yourself, not punishment. He contrasts running as punishment with moving your body outdoors with kindness and appreciation.
We have to move our body and be outside. So we all are inside 80 to 90% of the time now, the average person. Whereas 80 to 90% of the time we used to be outside. Yeah. And moving and moving. So our body is meant to be outside and our body is meant to move. And one of the things is I used to run and I used to run as punishment. I used to be like, oh, well, I ate this, so I need to go exercise because I have to burn these calories. So it's going into being outside and moving your body in a loving, kind way in a way that's like, wow, I get to do this. This is so great. I can walk up this hill today versus I have to walk up this hill because I ice cream last night. So that was another big shift that I think that a lot of us can make is to use movement as a gift versus as a pun.
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