One man, who his entire life had believed that he hated to exercise, told me that at age fifty-three, he decided to work with a personal trainer to improve his health and support his recovery in a twelve-step program. He started with one workout a week, and within three weeks, decided that he could tolerate a second weekly session. One day he left a training session and noticed that he was smiling, something he describes as shocking. “I realized that not only was I happy, I had found actual pleasure in my training session. I hadn’t believed that kind of pleasure was possible outside of
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