Welcome to Fitbody Happy Joins. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about managing fatigue.

We are taught that hard workouts are the key to success.

And I'm not saying that your workout should be easy, but I want us to use our efforts in the right ways.

We want our workouts to be hard for our muscles, but not so exhausting on our overall system that your quality suffers.

Because remember that exercise biggest contribution to physical change in your body is not fat loss, but muscle growth.

And exercise has been oversold as a fat loss tool.

So so many people optimize for hard and exhausting workouts

and this leaves them feeling depleted

and it feels like they're working really hard

but not seeing any change in their body.

Whereas if you were to optimize for muscle growth,

you would actually see better body composition changes

and you would feel a lot better

and you wouldn't feel so burned out.

So if we are concerned with muscle growth, not fat loss,

fatigue management is crucial.

It's crucial because if every single workout

is leaving you gassed and super sore, it's going to affect your performance on the next workout.

It's going to be difficult for you to progressively overload your lifts if you're always on E,

because the workout prior destroyed you.

And continual consistent performance

is so much more important than getting

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