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Beautiful African Woman Plays Guitar In A Slightly Non-traditional Manner. Why You Hate Exercise (And What You Can Do About It) When your body is in pain trying to adjust to a new exercise routine, it’s hard to really enjoy the process. The Wall Street Journal takes a look at what it is that makes us hate exercise and what we can do about it. Picture: normanack/Flickr Like many things, exercise is all about perspective. If you’re starting a new exercise regimen, you might hate it simply because you’re pushing yourself way too hard without realising it: From couch potatoes to Olympic athletes, everyone has a physical capacity for exertion, beyond which the body becomes stressed and begins to feel bad. How much stems from genetic factors-things like lung capacity, oxygen transport and the rate at which oxygen is used in the muscle cells-is still a subject of scholarly debate… But many sedentary people push beyond their intrinsic range when they try to exercise too quickly or intensely, which can make them hate the activity and want to stop.

The stress comes when you reach your “ventilatory threshold”. Faking Powerful Body Language Reduces Stress And Makes You More Confident. Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. You can learn a lot from the body language of others but its usefulness doesn’t end there. As social psychologist Amy Cuddy points out, the body language you choose to use can influence your own behaviour. People with powerful body language — movements that tend to be more open and spread out, that take up more space — also feel confidence. They’re more likely to take risks, feel optimistic, and even produce less cortisol (the stress hormone) and more testosterone (the dominance hormone).

Although we’ve known for a while that displaying dominance through body language contributed to a more powerful appearance, Cuddy found that lower levels of stress were also a major contributory factor. The results of the study suggest that you want to sprawl out in stressful situations to feel more powerful, but kicking your feet up during, say, a job interview definitely sends the wrong signal. Be sure to watch Amy’s TED talk above for more.

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