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Even a little exercise does a lot already. Just five minutes of stretching, jumping around, dancing, or push-ups does wonders. Just as with breathwork and meditation, exercise can be done several times a day. Duration can be varied as well from 1 minute to 20.
Anything is better than nothing. But you're fooling yourself if you think a guy popping squats for five minutes a day is going to compare to someone with a full hour and comfortable accommodations for a yoga session. Hell, the difference between 10 min and 20 mins is really substantial in terms of how my back feels at the end of it.
Come on. You can barely get your pulse up inside a minute. That's not any kind of workout.
Any kind of physical movement is good and has noticeable effects.
The comparison isn’t perfection, but to not doing anything.
If you fool yourself into thinking you can scrape by on a bare minimum, eventually you're going to rationalize yourself out of doing anything at all.
True! Also true that some people need to scale things up over a long time, like titration of medicines. Or binge an activity to maintain it over the long haul. Etc.