Somewhere along the way, fitness got complicated.
Ain’t that the truth?
Somebody decided it had to hurt. Had to be hard. Had to involve a gym membership, a program, a plan, special clothes, and preferably a watch telling you whether you did enough.
I don’t buy it.
Your body needs to move.
Sometimes that movement should challenge you. I believe strength matters, and occasionally doing something difficult is good for us.
But not every damn movement needs to be a workout.
Walk around the yard.
Put on some music and move around the kitchen.
Stretch while the coffee brews.
Work in the garden.
Play with the dogs.
Take the stairs because they’re there.
None of that looks particularly impressive on a fitness app.
Who cares?
One of the things I’ve learned from years of teaching is that the best kind of movement is often the kind you actually want to do again tomorrow.
That’s where joy matters.
If every encounter with movement feels like punishment, you’re probably going to spend a lot of your life trying to co…
