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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of My Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted. I

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Speaker 1: like to think that the only bias I have when

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Speaker 1: it comes to health and wellness and exercise and nutrition

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Speaker 1: is trying to bring you the very best information without

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Speaker 1: bias and looking at both sides of the issue all

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Speaker 1: the time, because in the end, I want the best

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Speaker 1: information for myself. I don't want to just fulfill a

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Speaker 1: bias because that's not going to help me live my

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Speaker 1: best life, and it's not gonna help you live your

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Speaker 1: best life either. And today's show is just everything that

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Speaker 1: I love about out health and wellness and exercise and

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Speaker 1: meaning in life. I mean, just brings it all together

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Speaker 1: in a way that is so rarely done. And I'm

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Speaker 1: going to talk about a specific study that just came

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Speaker 1: out and also the New York Times is take on

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Speaker 1: it because I've been tough on The New York Times

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Speaker 1: in past podcasts, and I believe rightfully so, but both sides,

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Speaker 1: this is a phenomenal take on an incredible study that

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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with weight loss or genetics or

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Speaker 1: negative takes on both of those things. It has everything

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Speaker 1: to do with moving and meaning and the connection, the

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Speaker 1: incredible connection between those two things and self efficacy and

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Speaker 1: purpose in life and moving and feeling good about yourself

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Speaker 1: and setting goals living. I mean, you could just call

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Speaker 1: this podcast living, not many people would click on it,

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Speaker 1: and even calling it the connection between moving and meaning

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Speaker 1: what this is all about. And it's quote unquote deep

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Speaker 1: deeper then of the takes on exercise and the value

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Speaker 1: it is so spot on in my opinion, in my

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Speaker 1: experience personal as well as working with clients, all my research,

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Speaker 1: everything I have seen and done over the past three

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Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna read some direct passages from the

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Speaker 1: New York Times article because it's awesome, and then we're

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Speaker 1: gonna look at the study because it's awesome. I know

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Speaker 1: I abuse that word, but I'm a positive person and

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Speaker 1: I like to simplify things down. It's awesome and what

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Speaker 1: I love. As I said a few minutes ago, it's

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Speaker 1: not about weight loss, it's not about looking at genetics

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Speaker 1: and the problems you're gonna have and you know these

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Speaker 1: specific work No, no, much deeper, much more important, and

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Speaker 1: I would argue, incredibly powerful at giving your workouts, your movement,

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Speaker 1: the way you live your life purpose. All right, enough,

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Speaker 1: quick break when we come back, jumping right into it,

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Speaker 1: the connection between moving and meaning and seeing the wiks,

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Speaker 1: we'll be right back quick right, all right, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: you know, saw the article and also saw to study,

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Speaker 1: looked at both and said, you know what you know

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Speaker 1: this is. This is the other side of those types

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Speaker 1: of articles. You know, there's so many articles that I've

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Speaker 1: don't have to, you know, deliver these clickbait. It's a

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Speaker 1: little harsh, but but true. You know, listen, I need

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Speaker 1: I'm never gonna bring you information as I've said that

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Speaker 1: views based on an iconoclastic, twisting perversion of the science. Okay, enough,

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Speaker 1: this is a great, great article and the study is,

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Speaker 1: evidence that being active bolsters are mental as well as

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Speaker 1: Study after study shows that men and women who exercise

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Speaker 1: Fewer have delved into positive emotions and their lengths with

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Speaker 1: to bring up the blue zones again. The blue zones

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Speaker 1: the places in the world handful of places where people

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Speaker 1: if you're in the business of studying this, But that connection,

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Speaker 1: If you look at the research, you can always argue

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Speaker 1: much we move. All right, article continues this omission puzzled

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Speaker 1: Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Human Flourishing Program. Awesome,

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Speaker 1: amazing title for the program. Uh And she studies well

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Speaker 1: Feeling good about yourself. Self efficacy is going to come up.

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Speaker 1: And if you listen to past podcast, you've heard me

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Speaker 1: with It does not matter what your reason for starting

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Speaker 1: As I started to show by saying, that's my only bias.

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Speaker 1: am Tom Holland. This is Fitness Disrupted. Believe in yourself.

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