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Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion
The joy of collective effervescence helps explain why fitness friendships and sports teams feel like family; why social movements that include physical movement inspire greater solidarity and hope; and why individuals feel empowered when they join others to walk, run, or ride for a cure.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
Green Gym’s unofficial tag line is “physical activity with a purpose,” and this is how managing director Craig Lister typically pitches the program. “Rather than go to the gym to lift things that don’t need to be lifted, give us three hours of the week. At the end of each session,
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
SoulCycle talks about how people “come for the body but stay for the breakthrough.” It’s a good workout, but that’s only the beginning. Really what people experience is a sense of release of stress or a new insight and clarity about what’s important to them or a renewed commitment to the goals in their life or an experience of sanctuary, amid anxie... See more