Hello everyone welcome to fit body happy joints my name is Shannon almost forgot to be in my own

podcast it's one of those days welcome back today we're talking about low impact workouts

and how low impact workouts can be super beneficial but that low impact

workouts don't always equate to low joint stress workouts so low impact and low joint stress workouts. So low impact and low joint stress are not

necessarily synonymous. People think that just because they're not jumping

around that their workouts are safer or less joint stress when this isn't necessarily the truth.

And then on the flip side of the coin, I think people think that low impact workouts are

easy and ineffective and that low impact sacrifices effectiveness for

being easier on your joints.

So today I want to kind of dispel some of those misconceptions and really talk about the mistakes that I see in low impact

training and then how to make your low impact training the most effective.

For some people you know low impact means cycling or swimming. For others, it's walking, but I think

that most people would agree that low impact exercise is anything where you're not

jumping or running or you're not like hitting the ground with a lot of force.

The purpose I think for many people who pursue low impact training is to ultimately protect their joints and feel better.

You know, my knee hurts, so I need to do low impact training instead.

My back hurts, so I need to do low impact training instead.

And today I want to talk about how low impact can be great, but it might not necessarily be the impact that is what's bothering your joints.

It could be exercise selection, it could be

dosage and not all low impact training regiments are created equal

so we're going to talk about that today.

I did an entire podcast about how impact is not necessarily the enemy.

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