I know a lot of people like it, but it’s not nearly as common as it is in other animals. All other animals I can think of actively seek out and enjoy things like running, jumping ect. It seems to come naturally and be painless while for us it takes training and pushing through pain. Why? How? Does it hurt them too but they don’t care or?
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Read “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding”
by Daniel Lieberman. Humans AND animals are trying to conserve energy as much as possible. We now know that we need to exercise to stay healthy, so many of us try to, against our instincts to be lazy.
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