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Five takeaways from a year's reporting on fitness, and why this journalist says it's time to go easier on yourself.

Shannon Palus is a features editor at Slate covering heath, science, and human interest. In 2023, she edited Slate's year-long fitness column, Good Fit, about exercise. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times' Wirecutter, Scientific American, and the Atlantic.

In this episode we talk about:

How this conversation changed the way Dan thinks about exercise
Why you shouldn’t drive yourself crazy following the latest trends about health and fitness
Why tracking your workouts isn’t always helpful - and remembering that there is always the option to “go slow.”
The importance of remembering that exercise is not one-size-fits-all

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