It’s not news that, if you want to be well and do the activities you want to do, moving your body is a must. But, before you groan, hold on. Yes, hold on just a gosh darn second! (I couldn’t resist.)

It is not mandatory that you torture yourself. Get it? You have … drum roll  … choice. Yeah, really. Choices within choices. Probably within even more choices.

Here are your two main choices:

One, if there’s some activity you feel is important to your well being, but you tend to grumble about it, find ways to take the grumble out. Common ways: Listen to music, people watch, remind yourself of how you feel when you do x. Uncommon ways are yours to ferret out. There might be something that someone else would give a solid eye roll to but is the sweet spot for you. Do it. It’s your movement, not someone else’s.

Two, there are 40 billion ways you can move your body to be well. (Yes, I counted.) Just moving it. Just getting that body off the couch and getting it in motion a reasonable amount of time on a reasonable amount of days. If the usual doesn’t float your boat, find the unusual. If you’re moving your body, you’re … moving your body.

Whatever you do, do it. Embrace it. Find the best out of it you can. For God’s sake, don’t complain about it. Don’t fall for the seeming idea that, if you moan and groan about your hard work out or your long run or your whatever, that you’ll get extra brownie points for it. You don’t. You just make yourself miserable. But, if you can find the joy in it — or insert some joy in it — it’ll make it much more likely that you’ll continue to … do.