Welcome to this week’s episode of Health & Fitness Friday on The Essential Strength Podcast. This is your 5 minute download of some health and fitness knowledge meant to make you a little bit smarter and a little bit stronger as you head into the weekend!

So, why is it that we haven’t evolved to enjoy something as beneficial as exercise? Evolution has created all kinds of hacks, loops and short cuts that in essence trick us into enjoying things that are good for us. But not exercise. Why? In a new book by Harvard Evolutionary Biologist Daniel Lieberman titled “Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to do is Healthy and Rewarding” we learn just that.

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Click this link to find the original article cited in this week's podcast and take a deeper look at exercise through the lens of human evolution!