(SCIENCE DAILY) -- If getting to the gym seems like a struggle, a University of British Columbia researcher wants you to know this: the struggle is real, and it's happening inside your brain.
The brain is where Matthieu Boisgontier and his colleagues went looking for answers to what they call the "exercise paradox": for decades, society has encouraged people to be more physically active, yet statistics show that despite our best intentions, we are actually becoming less active.
The research findings, published recently in Neuropsychologia, suggest that our brains may simply be wired to prefer lying on the couch.