424: The Joy of Movement with Kelly McGonigal
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Joy of Movement
with Kelly McGonigal
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Many of us chase happiness in life but happy states are fleeting anomalies largely out of our control. If you’re experiencing true joy right now, swim and revel in it, but know that soon it will be gone.
Instead of chasing happiness, what if we pursued states of “good” instead. You can feel good and happy at the same time, but you can also feel good while simultaneously feeling anxious, nervous, depressed, or overwhelmed. Unlike happiness, good is a target at which you take aim at and hit very consistently.
Get a good night's sleep. You’ll feel good.
Eat the foods you know are right for you. You’ll feel good.
Sit less, move more, and exercise. You’ll feel good.
Feeling good doesn't fix all the other challenges in your life, but it always helps. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet the author of a new book, The Joy of Movement, an exploration into the biochemical, neurological, and emotional health benefits of using your body for what it was designed to do. To move.
Listen & Learn:
- How movement and exercise release happy chemicals such as endocannabinoids, oxytocin, and endorphin
- How exercising to music can actually help bring out your physical best
- Group vs. at-home exercise, who wins?
- COVID-19 tips and tricks to finding your flow
- Why it’s important to reframe exercise as movement, and do whatever you like instead of what you think it “most effective” or “burns the most calories”
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Kelly McGonigal is a health psychologist, teacher and writer who specializes in the mind-body connection. Many of you will know Kelly from her TED Talk “How to Make Stress Your Friend.” She is the best-selling author of The Willpower Instinct and The Upside of Stress. Her newest book is called, The Joy of Movement, and presents physical exercise as one of the more powerful and predictable antidotes to depression, anxiety, and loneliness.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the more surprising positive outcomes of COVID-19 is that more people are |
| 0:08.1 | practicing yoga exercising working out at home than ever before. It's phenomenal. In fact, it's really |
| 0:13.8 | difficult to find a kettle bell or a stationary bike and yoga classes online are |
| 0:20.4 | booming. We have people, hundreds of people, every single day joining us |
| 0:23.4 | online. It's really inspiring and exciting to see why. Well, here's my theory. Here's what I |
| 0:28.4 | know to be true for me and maybe it's true for you too when things are falling |
| 0:31.8 | apart when your personal life is |
| 0:33.9 | stressed when your work is stressed or non-existent when there's lots of things |
| 0:38.2 | out of your control when you know you can control a 45 minute a one hour and a half workout exercise |
| 0:44.8 | yoga class whatever it is it gives you something to lean into it gives you a |
| 0:49.0 | source of strength for me this has always been what yoga provided me throughout different moves in different times in different countries in different stages of life. |
| 0:58.0 | It's always provided this foundation that I knew I could come back to and lean into and it has absolutely been a rock for me |
| 1:04.9 | during what has been really challenging period of life this COVID-19 period. |
| 1:10.4 | The reality is that movement of any type is just so good for you, whether it's |
| 1:14.5 | modulating stress, whether it's cardiovascular health, but maybe even most importantly |
| 1:19.4 | is what it does to your brain, how it makes you feel, your mood and your neurotransmitters. |
| 1:24.8 | Unfortunately, a lot of people get stuck in these fitness ruts, this idea that fitness has to |
| 1:29.8 | be cardiovascular or it has to be resistance training or you need a personal trainer or |
| 1:35.0 | you need a special kind of bike or whatever it is the realities you just need to |
| 1:38.0 | move and the true joy of movement is what we'll be chatting about on |
| 1:41.8 | today's show. |
| 1:43.0 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
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