{"id":9680,"date":"2017-02-12T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T00:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rethinking-exercise-as-a-source-of-immediate\/"},"modified":"2017-02-12T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T00:36:13","slug":"rethinking-exercise-as-a-source-of-immediate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/rethinking-exercise-as-a-source-of-immediate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/20\/rethinking-exercise-as-a-source-of-immediate-rewards\/'>Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/kenyatta.tumblr.com\/post\/124660361879\">kenyatta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Three years ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/27\/changing-our-tune-on-exercise\/?_r=0%20\" title=\"Times article, Aug. 27, 2012.\">wrote about research by Dr. Segar and others<\/a>showing that promoting physical activity to prevent or control disease, lose weight or sculpt one\u2019s body, and prescribing doses as if exercise were medicine, wouldn\u2019t get most people to do it and keep doing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth is not an optimal way to make physical activity relevant and compelling enough for most people to prioritize in their hectic lives,\u201d Dr. Segar said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Though it seems counterintuitive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21867397\" title=\"Psychology and Health abstract.\">studies have shown<\/a> that people whose goals are weight loss and better health tend to spend the least amount of time exercising. That is true even for older adults, a study of 335 men and women ages 60 to 95 showed.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, immediate rewards that enhance daily life \u2014 more energy, a better mood, less stress and more opportunity to connect with friends and family \u2014 offer far more motivation, Dr. Segar and others have found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rethinking Exercise as a Source of Immediate Rewards kenyatta: Three years ago, I wrote about research by Dr. Segar and othersshowing that promoting physical activity to prevent or control disease, lose weight or sculpt one\u2019s body, and prescribing doses as if exercise were medicine, wouldn\u2019t get most people to do it and keep doing it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2w8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}