Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully
by Kelly Starrett
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Short trailer for book shows sedentary lifestyle vs. movement
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Calling the modern world “chair-bound,” “screen-filled,” and “caffeine-fueled,” the authors insist that we were not built to live this way. The video shows the day of a typical office worker who takes the escalator instead of the stairs, who eats lunch at her desk and dinner in front of the tv, and who bends down only when she needs to pick up something she has dropped on the floor, and then does so with stiffness and pain. The book offers ten solutions that can be done at home.
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Co-authors describe dangers of not moving in podcast format
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The co-authors saw during the pandemic that people were not equipped to take care of their bodies and that many gained weight and faced depression and other health issues, turning to alcohol, food, and TV to self-soothe. Former gym owners, they wanted to help people out of this crisis with a set of easy behaviors. Rather than “longevity,” they prefer the word “durability” when thinking about how to grow older in a healthy way. They emphasize that this is not a diet and/or exercise book.
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Authors give in-depth interview on NCFIT podcast
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The co-authors point out that although humans are typically bad at delayed gratification, most or many of us save money for retirement. They ask us to imagine how we want to feel, physically, 5 or 10 or 20 years down the road, and to consider our mobility and fitness goals just as we would our financial goals. Long-term fitness goals vary wildly; your goal may be to sit on the ground and play with your grandchildren or to be able to mountain-bike at 80.
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Excerpt from authors’ appearance on Chris Voss podcast
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Our bodies and brains work better when we are in movement. While people have latched onto the catch-phrase “sitting is the new smoking,” it’s not sitting itself that harms us but rather lack of movement. The authors emphasize that although they personally love exercise and go to the gym “for fun,” this is not an exercise book and that the important thing is to incorporate more activity in our lives, even just moving around our houses or “fidgeting.”
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