movement is exercise

  • destigmatising exercise
  • exercise as a basis of trauma for many, forced exercise, starting too intensive, extreme fatphobia, body dysmorphia and dysphoria, post-exertional malaise as a symptom of complex illness, etc
  • why do you exercise - to stay alive, to feel comfortable and safe and secure in your body, to carry a child or pet, etc
  • active jobs and workplace exercise
  • social management movement, sports and dance and similar
  • expressive movement, dance and similar
  • slow and gentle work on strength and flexibility and balance, eg yoga or tai-chi
  • cardio through excitement and joy and games
  • sex as exercise
  • movement as a casual part of the everyday, integrating it into life more consciously
  • environmental affordances that encourage gentle movement, building play into space and varied ways of engaging bodies
  • IKEA did a range of everyday workout-adjacent objects that are also just items you’d have around - multi-purpose everyday items :)
  • clothes should also facilitate everyday movement, everyday comfies
  • old people accessible movement routines, and also for other people with limited mobility.
  • kids - suitable to bodily development
  • calisthenics and ‘natural movement’
  • stimming.