Hello everyone welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today I'm sharing more of my conversation with Doug Brignoli and we are talking about why just doing endless cardio is not the answer and how your body will adapt and that routine will

potentially end up backfiring over time. So we're going to talk about that today.

Doug is former Mr. Universe. He is a bodybuilder, but more than that, he is very

intelligent. He really understands biomechanics on a deep level. And his book, The physics of resistance exercise is one that I

refer to all the time it's one that I've learned a ton from so if you're interested

in that book I do highly recommend I you can also find his information on Doug Brignoli.com.

Before we get into our conversation, I want to do something that I've never done

before and share a story with you. I think that so many of our listeners are you know 30s

40s 50s maybe younger maybe older but a lot of them tend to be in that 30 40

50 range and they're women.

And I had an Evela member reach out to me and give me her amazing story.

And it just relates to our topic today so perfectly and it was very ironic the timing was

perfect. She just sent this to me last week and it's about essentially how it's about

her story of burnout and how she was doing more and more and more eating less less less and how that was

backfiring for her. So I want to quickly share her story before we get into the

interview. So this is from an Evela member Rachel,

and Rachel wrote this story and gave me permission

to share it, but I just think that it will really

inspire so many of you who need to hear this message.

So here are Rachel's words.

During both of my pregnancies I gained a lot of weight.

With my first pregnancy I put on over 50 pounds and

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