Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joins. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about how

over exercise affects hormones and I talked about these things in other

episodes but I wanted to create kind of a concise little episode about

how over-exercise can affect certain hormones specifically and why more is not

better. I think you know we hear from so many of our members that they were doing a lot more activity prior to coming

to Evelo and yet they're seeing a lot better results.

And part of this is what you're doing within your workout and

working smarter not harder and exercise selection and how you're straining muscles

and things like that but another thing that might be at play is hormones because you could do endless activity and

still not reach your goals and part of this is because calorie expenditure from

activity seems to be capped at around about 800 active calories per day.

And I did a whole podcast about this a few weeks ago.

We'll link that in the show notes.

For some people, you know, they might be able to do more. So that 800 is really an average so I don't want you

to like obsess about that

about number,

an example for me of that 800 calories,

active calories.

I did a little bit of tracking with my aura ring and this isn't

super accurate but it's what we have to go off of. So for me that 800 active calories

is like a 35 minute build class, a 20 minute walk, and like just the addition of my daily activities,

you know, cleaning the kitchen, walking around throughout the day, fidgeting, using my hands to

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