Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're

talking about if low impact workouts are really more effective. As always I'm

here to help clarify Fitness marketing versus current science and reality.

So you may have heard these claims.

Like I went from high intensity workouts to exclusively Pilates and walking and my body transformed.

Or high impact is bad for your joints and your hormones or low impact is better for your body.

You might have heard any of those things and maybe you're confused about the validity of those things.

So first off, low impact workouts can be amazing, but not all low impact workouts are equally as effective.

And then on the flip side,

high impact workouts can wear down your body,

but they aren't inherently bad for your body

or for your joints.

So in today's episode, I'll discuss what makes a low impact

workout effective, what makes a high impact workout effective, and how to

integrate both into your routine for the best results. So first let's define what an

effective workout is and obviously everyone might have a slightly different

definition of this depending on your priorities but this podcast I think I know my listeners, we're not Olympic athletes, we're not competing bodybuilders.

Our goals are to improve health and fitness and improve overall body composition without costing other areas of our health, like our

hormones, like our joint health, etc.

So to me, and something I recommend for each of you as setting as your standard. A workout is not overall

effective if it is harming a part of your body in the pursuit of improving a part of your body.

So maybe it's helping improve your body composition,

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