How To Exorcise Your Fitness Demons

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🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Happy New Year! What Next resumes regularly scheduled programming tomorrow, but for the holiday, check out this episode of How To! from December: How To Exorcise Your Fitness Demons. Sandy is a former college athlete who knows how to exercise—at least, she used to. These days, she’s feeling lost without a coach, a workout plan, or much free time. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings on Danielle Friedman, author of Let’s Get Physical and a contributor to the New York Times Well section. Danielle explains how to embrace movement that you love, make it fit into your life—and actually stick with it. If you liked this episode check out: How To Start Strength Training and How To Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis and Sara McCrea. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, what next listeners, it's New Year's Day. Hopefully you are ringing in 2025 with family and friends, getting some time off. That makes it the perfect time to check out another great slate podcast. This one's called How To. It is hosted by Carvel Wallace. And this
0:23.2	episode is all about something you have on your mind today, New Year's resolutions. And if you're
0:28.5	one of the many people who are looking to start or stick to a fitness routine, you have got to
0:32.8	check this one out. We'll be back with new episodes of What Next Tomorrow. Meanwhile, here's Carvel.
0:41.2	Welcome to how to. You've got questions, and we find the people with the answers. I'm Carval
0:46.9	Wallace. Well, believe it or not, that part of the year is sneaking up on us again, New Year's,
0:53.3	where people commit once again to changing
0:55.6	their lives and reaching their health goals. For many of us, no matter how much we really mean
1:00.9	it on January 1st, oftentimes the changes we make don't last throughout the year. They're too
1:07.3	ambitious or just too drastic. Sometimes it's just that old habits, habits that we've been practicing forever, are hard to get rid of.
1:15.4	And if you want to make a real adjustment, an adjustment that lasts, it has to be realistic and it has to work with your life.
1:23.0	But like, how do you do that?
1:25.3	Well, that's the question faced by today's listener, Sandy.
1:28.9	I'm a former college athlete.
1:30.4	I've always played field hockey and gotten immense joy from team exercise settings.
1:36.2	Now, as a busy health care provider and a mom, I'm really struggling to figure out when I can put exercise into my day.
1:46.6	Sandy works long shifts as a physician's assistant and is the parent to two young children.
1:52.0	So time is a big hurdle for her, like it is for many of us.
1:56.2	But on the other side, there's also pressure, like pressure to be productive, to be fit, to push herself.
2:02.9	So between the obligations on her energy and the stress of failing, the feeling around exercise
2:08.5	has become unchill. I am so not a morning person, and so that always feels like the natural
2:16.8	place to try to shove exercise.
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