Monday, October 16, 2023

Exercised by Daniel Lieberman

If the exercise is very crucial to stay healthy, why people need to be motivated to do physical activities? And if workout is the answer to a lot of problems why the healthy people end up getting all those bad knees, back, and even early death?

These questions always challenge the effect of exercise on the well being of humans. In this book the author tries to answer some of these questions from an evolutionary point of view, and also uses some of the latest studies of exercising.

It does try to answer a lot of questions, and succeeds with many of them with the logical sounding arguments, and statistics. However, the idea of explaining everything from an evolutionary point is a lot hypothesis led scenarios which try to explain things which doesn't have a lot of influence from evolution. But that point apart this is definitely worth reading if you're ever exercised with the idea of exercise.

In a nutshell, we need exercise to keep a lot of our bodily activities going and this book tries to educate you to see and understand what you want and where you're pushing too much. Plus there is a no one formula for how much exercise we need, we just need to go what our body feels like and enjoys. Stop buying workout from a marketed package and educate yourself about what you want to achieve.

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