“Let’s banish the myth that resting, relaxing, taking it easy, or whatever you want to call inactivity is an unnatural, indolent absence of physical activity. Let’s also refrain from stigmatizing anyone for being normal by avoiding nonessential exertion.”

As the cover shows, Lieberman wrote this book to talk through how humans evolved and why exercise is a needed part of modern life. Basically, contrary to some books I’d read in the past (I’m looking at you, Born to Run), humans are deeply programmed to conserve energy. The problem is, with modern conveniences, we don’t move nearly enough to offset the health problems we’ve developed in industrialized nations either.

Lieberman recommends finding whatever exercise works best for you—if it is fun and social, you’re more likely to do it.

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Also I’m sure I learned many other interesting things but I started reading this book in February…par for the course for me and nonfiction 😂

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