Health & Wellness

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Movement: Ponder what that term means to you.

The fitness industry and media try too hard to fit movement into a completely scientific and mechanistic realm. We adorn the body with various devices to precisely count the 10,000 steps we strive to take each day, to calculate the number of calories we burn, to measure the rate of our beating heart, and even to track sleeping patterns. We encourage people to exercise 150 minutes every seven days whilst maintaining a heart rate of 64-76% of its maximum estimated rate. We go on to tell them to complete 8-10 resistance exercises for three sets of 10 repetitions. We time our “WOD” with the goal of achieving the shortest time possible, down to the second. We break down the human body into hundreds of different moving parts and attempt to isolate each muscle group.

Humans are intimately connected to the sun and its rhythms. It affects our mood and energy, which have all encompassing effects on how we live and interact with the world. This relationship is never more apparent than when the long, bright days of summer give way to darker autumn nights. The end of daylight savings time darkens moods as much as it darkens the short afternoons.