(This made me laugh!)
When I was a kid, it used to really annoy me when I couldn’t spell something and my teacher would tell me to look it up in the dictionary. If I knew how to find it in the dictionary, I wouldn’t need to look it up! I’ll be honest – to this day, I’m still not a big fan of the system (thank goodness for spell check!), but I guess it makes a little bit more sense now than it did when I was eight. And, if you think about it, the relationship between exercise and energy works the same way: Exercise gives you energy, but you need energy to exercise.
But how are you supposed to get the energy to exercise if you need to exercise first to get energy?!
Before tackling that conundrum, let’s review two studies that prove this whole premise is even true: