The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by

Brock Armstrong.

Why you should reconsider the workout mentality.

The workout.

It's funny how we talk about it.

We check in at gyms to register our efforts with Facebook friends.

We dramatically label everyday exertions as quite the workout.

It even becomes a game of equivalence.

We'll lug 10 bags of groceries to the house or mow the lawn and publicly declare,

I think that counted for my workout today!

The term is even applied to sex, which we're told is a major calorie burner.

Do we seriously need to quantify or justify this? The problem, as I see it here,

is we approach activity with a quota mentality. As handy as pedometers and other fitness gadgets can be,

they encourage this mindset. We judge and track our activity in terms of allocation rather than

immersion. This amount of hours, sweat, pounds, steps, calories, etc. To be honest, we view it in

terms of points to earn rather than enjoyment to be had or actualization to be fostered in a day.

How much do the semantics impact our outcomes, let alone motivation?

Much more than we'd imagine, I'd say.

Let's back up here for a minute and admit something.

The fact is, for nearly all of human history, no one really worked out.

Grock himself would have been utterly confounded by 90% of what we do, let alone where, at the gym.

He probably would assume you'd gorged on fermented fruit if you asked him whether he'd done his cardio or resistance training.

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