Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

If exercise is healthy (so good for you!), why do many people dislike or avoid it? These engaging stories and explanations will revolutionize the way you think about exercising--not to mention sitting, sleeping, sprinting, weight lifting, playing, fighting, walking, jogging, and even dancing."Strikes a perfect balance of scholarship, wit, and enthusiasm." --Bill Bryson, New York Times best-selling author of The Body - If we are born to walk and run, why do most of us take it easy whenever possible?- Does running ruin your knees?- Should we do weights, cardio, or high-intensity training?- Is sitting really the new smoking?- Can you lose weight by walking?- And how do we make sense of the conflicting, anxiety-inducing information about rest, physical activity, and exercise with which we are bombarded? In this myth-busting book, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and a pioneering researcher on the evolution of human physical activity, tells the