7 Big Exercise Myths

Why laziness is normal and exercise is not

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
7 min readJan 4, 2021

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On a recent “bloody cold” Massachusetts morning, Harvard University evolutionary biologist and paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman, PhD, wasn’t eager to embark on his usual five-mile jog. “I did not want to leave the house, and I whined and complained to my wife for about 45 minutes,” he recalls. But as an expert on human movement and its many benefits, he…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB