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The Model Health Show

TMHS 879: The Real Reasons We Struggle To Exercise & How To Fix It TODAY – With Katy Bowman & Dr. Diana Hill

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably experienced times in your life when you just couldn’t find the motivation to exercise. Whether it’s a lack of time or energy or dealing with feelings like embarrassment or body image issues, experiencing mental blocks that stop you from exercising is a common occurrence.

On this episode of The Model Health Show, Dr. Diana Hill and Katy Bowman are here to discuss their new book, I Know I Should Exercise, But… Their book is a powerful guide to understanding the psychology of aligning your actions with your values. We’re going to discuss some of the most common roadblocks keeping people from adding movement into their day, and how to overcome them.

You’re going to learn about the powerful principle of psychological flexibility, how to stack movement into your existing routines, and how to reframe some of the most common barriers that hold people back from moving their bodies. Changing the way you think about movement can add so much value, joy, and self-compassion into your life, and I hope that’s what you take away from this interview. Enjoy!   

In this episode you’ll discover: 

  • How our environments can stifle our movement.  
  • The psychology behind not exercising.  
  • Why your phone can act as a movement disruptor.  
  • What psychological flexibility is.  
  • How identifying your values can help you overcome obstacles.  
  • What the biggest predictor of change is in psychology research.  
  • The definition of time affluence, and how to find more time in your day. 
  • How to utilize stacking to add more movement into you routine.  
  • Why recognizing paradoxes can help you move more.  
  • The power of asking “so what?”  
  • How to find an exercise that works for you when you feel burnt out.  
  • Why light activity can actually give you energy.  
  • How to use your values to identify your motivation.  
  • The importance of optimizing your environment to facilitate more movement.  
  • Why you should give yourself permission to move your body. 
  • How to overcome embarrassment.  
  • Strategies for connecting with others, and the value in sharing your capacity. 
  • What urge surfing is.  
  • Why moving your mindset is a powerful strategy.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Sean Stevenson.

0:04.7

For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com.

0:11.8

Welcome to the model health show.

0:13.5

This is fitness and nutrition expert Sean Stevenson,

0:15.7

and I'm so grateful for you tuning in with me today.

0:19.1

We are now existing in the most sedentary time in human history.

0:25.0

We are moving less as a species than we ever have before. But is this about willpower? Do we just need to get up and get moving?

0:34.6

Is it solely on us as a people not being willing enough or motivated

0:41.1

enough to move? Or is there something deeper at play? Well, just to give you a little bit of an

0:48.0

insight, we're going to talk about today, we have systemic, culture-wide changes that have taken place that have literally created the conditions to make us sedentary.

0:59.9

So don't beat yourself up too much.

1:02.3

Now, does this mean that we don't have a responsibility to make change?

1:08.6

Absolutely not.

1:09.5

This does not mean that we can just outsource our moving exercise responsibility to someone change. Absolutely not. This does not mean that we can just outsource our movement and exercise

1:12.9

responsibility to someone else. We cannot hire AI to do push-ups for us yet. But in all seriousness,

1:20.4

so many of us have struggled at some point or consistently to get in the movement that we truly desire to have,

1:29.9

to get in the exercise and have the exercise habits,

1:33.5

to have the health and the body that we truly desire to have.

1:37.0

But I'm here today to say that you are far from being alone,

1:41.4

and we can change this starting now.

1:45.2

Today we're going to be talking to the world's foremost biomechanist, expert on human movement

1:51.9

and also one of the premier psychologists with a specialty in fitness psychology, exercise psychology,

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