Move your body

[Lottle]

Good morning.

I've noticed the phrase 'move your body' being increasingly used to replace the word exercise.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is it new? Is it American?

I find it annoying but I don't know why.

I think it’s a good phrase. It’s a way to encourage people with a sedentary lifestyle and low base level of fitness to start some sort of physical activity in a non-daunting, safe way and build up to more strenuous exercise gradually.

Exercising isn’t defined by busting a gut in the gym or running a marathon and I think that’s the point they’re trying to make.