Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we are talking about how to find your ideal fitness routine for improving body composition, health and longevity. Social media and the wellness industry can feel so polarizing. Some say

cardio is bad. Some say you must do a ton of cardio to live a long time. Some say

hit wrecks your hormones. others say it heals your hormones.

Here's the deal.

Anything that elevates your body's state without causing symptoms and any system of your body

will provide a beneficial adaptation for your health and longevity.

But we just tend to get so extreme with our recommendations.

We hear some hit is good, so that must mean a lot of it is even better.

And it's so common that we see fitness enthusiasts

worn down with all this joint pain

because they take it to the extremes.

If you've ever walked into a gym you might see you know half

the people in the room with knee braces and canesio tape all because they're

beating their bodies up with poor exercise programming. Exercise should elevate your physical and emotional state.

It should not cost you by riddling your body with joint pain

and mood issues and sleep disturbances and crazy hunger hormones.

It should make you look, feel, and perform better, but not at the cost of hurting you or

wearing you down. And if you listen to this podcast, you know that it's my mission to help you

structure your fitness routine so that you can achieve that goal.

We were just talking about this this week about how so many of our Evel members tell us that they'll go on a long hike or

they'll go skiing or they'll lift something

heavy or they'll do something that they haven't done in a long time physically and

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