Sweating the Small Stuff (So Your Brain Doesn't Have To)

A Reluctant Exerciser's Guide to Finding Peace Through Perspiration

There's this line that's stuck with me for decades. An academic advisor told me in college that "sweat gets things out of the brain that no psychiatrist could ever dream of." At the time, I nodded politely, filed it away as some feel-good motivational speak, and went about my day. But damn if it hasn't proven to be one of the most profound pieces of wis…