Hello everyone welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I want to talk about something that may feel counterintuitive for a lot of you and it's the idea that overly fatiguing workouts are actually counterproductive and that programming

your workouts to limit fatigue may actually accelerate your results.

It seems counterintuitive because it seems like the more tired of fatigued you are, the harder you worked, and therefore the better results you will see.

But this is actually the opposite. Fatigue can interfere with your results.

You want your muscle to be fatigued,

but you want to limit fatigue to the rest of your system.

In other words, you want the muscles you're targeting to feel like they got really efficient work,

but not feel like your whole system got hit by a truck.

Like have you ever done a workout and you feel exhausted later in that day or the next day or whatever and that's going to interfere

with your performance and subsequent workouts and I want to break that down

today and I'll hopefully give you tangible takeaways that you can start applying right away.

So first, when we're talking about results, what do we mean?

What do I mean in this podcast when I say results?

When I say results, I'm talking about body composition changes body composition improvements come when you increase your overall muscle mass percentage relative to your fat mat percentage.

When fat mass percentage, when you think about this,

you can increase muscle mass without a change in fat mass

and still see improvements in overall body composition. So even if you don't

lose any fat mass, if you increase your muscle mass percentage, you've now improved

your body composition. If decreasing fat mass is a goal for you, remember that that's

primarily the job of nutrition and being in a slight calorie deficit. We talk

about nutrition and leanness in episode number 108.

So go listen to that if you need more information there.

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