HUFFINGTON
03.16-23.14
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ARIANNA
HUFFINGTON
Getting in Shape Doesn’t
Have to Be Such a Drag
W
HY HAVE WE MADE EXERCISING — at least
the way we do it in the places that have come
to be known as “health clubs” — such an awful experience? It’s a question I had time
to mull recently on my 14-hour plane ride
back from Seoul, where I was for the launch
of HuffPost Korea. While I was there I was
amazed at their practice of Kouksundo — a
practice that combines meditation, breathing and martial arts and has been shown to
boost productivity and reduce anxiety and
stress — which was so different from how we
approach fitness. ¶ It’s quite a contrast to
the gyms that have become America’s temples