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

oxidative stress. Oxative stress is known to accelerate aging, to potentially waste muscle, and can increase the likelihood of diseases

and is associated with diseases like Alzheimer's and heart disease and cancer and lots of other things that I'm going to talk about in this episode.

So you can use exercise and meditation and mindfulness to reduce your oxidative stress and

ultimately see better results from your workouts.

See more desirable changes in your body from the time

that you're putting in to your workouts. And I really try to make all of my content

be about that, how to work out smarter not harder and the contents of your workouts matters

right what you're doing in your workouts matters how you're programming your

workouts the intention that you're using during your movement, how you fuel and how you manage stress.

All of that matters. And in our Evelo classes we try to make every class be relatively short and be bang for your buck.

Good bang for your buck.

We want to make sure that the time that you're spending

in your workout is going to produce good rewards for you.

And it might not be fast rewards and there's a difference between

effective and like fast. In Evelo we are not about like quick fixes at all we are about

slowly adapting learning about your body so that, you know, we can be fit and healthy for the rest of our lives.

So because of this, because we value your time, because we want to make what you're doing

in class be high bang for your buck, everything that we do has a purpose, a strong purpose.

And in every class, you'll see, you'll experience your muscles burning and fatiguing and we call it cooking your muscles. You'll feel cooked. But you'll also notice that in every class there's at least a few moments of

breath work both before and after the class. So before the class we usually do a

few rounds of breath and then after the class we'll doivas and I which is where you just lay there and breathe and relax and recover.

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