Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I have Payton with me. Welcome Payton. Thank you.

We are talking about stress, productive stress and unproductive stress. And this is a concept that I think is really important to

understand because for a while the whole like never spike your cortisol thing was

really popular and never stress your body and I think that really

pushed people towards low impact workouts that were less stressful on their body

however I also think that there was a swing to not stressing your body enough and people

being afraid to have any kind of stress, physical or emotional in their body.

When, really, when we look at it, stress can be a good thing, it can actually

be what causes positive adaptation.

So I think that as long as you have the right kinds of stress and the right amounts of stress

and you're able to come up and down from that stress it's actually going to be

beneficial it's actually something that you want in your life.

Yep I I think this is like a great launching point and kind of a great, almost synopsis of what we really want to get

into today in removing the fear from stress overall and letting people know how to judge like what's too much

stress, what's enough stress and kind of the gray areas in between.

Yes, exactly. So that's what we're going to talk about today, productive

and unproductive stress and we're going to relate this of course to exercise and I'm

sure you could also relate this to like mental and emotional stress because what's

really interesting is emotional stress because what's really interesting is

emotional stress and physical stress have similar manifestations in your body so

when your body senses a stressor whether it be a stressor from exercise or whether it be an

emotional stressor, like you almost get in a car accident and you feel that like

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