The reason exercise takes more effort when you’re unfit or overweight.

Simon Shears
3 min readDec 9, 2021

(and why that shouldn’t matter).

Are you familiar with the couch potato conundrum? Whilst nestled deep into sofa cushions like a sloth in a bed of cecropia leaves, the couch potato repeats the same four thoughts:

1) ‘I need to exercise.’

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Simon Shears

Author of 'Working [it] Out: what actually makes us exercise?' Looking at fitness through an evolutionary lens.