Rufus Griskam: There are essentially four pillars of health. Eat well, nurture your relationships, get a good night's sleep and move your body, exercise. Kelly McGonigal makes a case for reframing exercise as something that is joyful,. That has the potential to delight us and animate our lives.
Pay a visit to your local gym, observe the grimacing patrons as they pound the treadmill or march in place on the StairMaster, and you might conclude that exercise is no fun. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Kelly McGonigal, who lectures at Stanford, teaches dance classes, and wrote “The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage.” Today, she explains how exercise — of all kinds and in all doses — can strengthen your mind, elevate your mood, and deepen your social connections.