Hello everyone welcome back to fit body happy joints my name is Shannon I'm a doctor physical therapy fitness instructor owner of Evelo Fitness and I'm happy you're here today today.

Today we are talking about body recomposition.

I'm going to talk about what that means,

how to do it, and kind of my personal experience

with body recomp this year.

So I first want to say that aesthetic goals

are not bad or wrong at all.

But if you are someone who has struggled with that

a little bit and maybe you tend to be obsessive with these kind of things,

maybe I would recommend skipping this episode and focusing on some non-aesthetic goals for now,

like improving stress and feeling good and moving your body and maybe improving you know the way

your joints function and feel. So just a little disclaimer there but I do think that

there are kind of two ends of the spectrum when it comes to aesthetics in the fitness industry and in the

wellness industry. There's this side that is aggressive and all about the quick fixes and hammering your body into the ground and

Prioritizing aesthetics over overall health and then there's the opposite end of the spectrum where if you care about

ascetics and how you look at all then that's wrong and

there's something wrong with you. And I think that there's some gray space in between and

there's a real opportunity for us to yeah care about how we look and have a desire to improve our body

composition but not do so in a way that is working against our overall health.

So that said, body composition goals are not on everyone's radar and maybe your goal again

is to feel better or repair your relationship to exercise in your body and stay strong and improve

your overall health in which case you may skip this episode.

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