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Exercise As a Pill

Mar 23, 2020

Exercise As a Pill

If we could package up exercise, it would be deemed the magic pill.

We know it can help prevent, delay or improve symptoms of 26 different chronic conditions!

In this podcast we go through how to conceptualize exercise as a drug, how we prescribe exercise like physicians prescribe meds and using this analogy to try to get our clients to be lifelong exercisers.

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