Hello everyone. If you're new here, I'm Shannon. I'm a doctor of physical therapy and

founder of Evello Fitness and you're listening to Fit Body Happy Joints. And this

podcast is meant to educate on how to get fit while feeling better in your body.

And I assimilate research, my experience as a physical therapist, my experience as a fitness trainer,

and all of the trainings that I've taken over the last 12 years into a

podcast that hopefully helps create really practical and applicable fitness tips.

So this episode is going to be really interesting.

I'm very excited about this episode.

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into it so today's episode how the nervous system affects your results and why harder doesn't always mean more effective.

And this is really a common theme in so many of my episodes and I like to use different kind of anecdotes of our physiology in order to

Create this narrative that we don't have to slam our bodies into the ground and this is just yet another excuse to workout

smarter not harder. So the nervous system have you ever done a workout and

afterwards you felt like you got hit by a truck like your system was completely exhausted?

And then on the flip side have you ever done a workout where you felt you know you felt good energy wise but your muscles felt tired? This is what I call a

systemically fatiguing workout versus a specifically fatiguing workout

Otherwise known in the literature as central fatigue and peripheral fatigue but what do these terms mean and how and why should you focus on one versus the other in order to influence your results?

And again, I say this all the time. Harder workouts are not necessarily

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