#84: Is feeling the "burn" enough to stimulate muscle growth?
The Dr. Shannon Show
Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. I'm a physical therapist and founder of Evelo Fitness. |
| 0:06.0 | And this podcast is intended to educate you about fitness, about, miss about fitness, in order for you to create a routine that is both effective and |
| 0:16.0 | doesn't break your body down. So today we're talking about muscle burn that |
| 0:20.8 | burning sensation that everyone who has exercised has felt probably at least one time in their life |
| 0:26.0 | It's so satisfying it feels so good but what is really happening when you feel that muscle burn is this burning fat |
| 0:35.0 | burning sensation toning that area do you have to feel the burn in order to see |
| 0:42.0 | muscle growth or hypertrophy? What if you don't feel the burn? Is your exercise |
| 0:47.3 | selection still effective? These are all things that we will cover in today's episode, |
| 0:52.1 | but first before we get into it if you have been listening |
| 0:56.0 | to this podcast we would so appreciate a rating and review and a subscribe all of |
| 1:01.3 | those really help us grow the podcast. So just give this a little pause quickly and go give us a little |
| 1:06.8 | rating and then come right back to it. All right, let's go. So I created this episode based on Payton who works for Evelo. |
| 1:15.0 | She's a teacher at Evelo and she also works for us. |
| 1:18.0 | She created a blog post two weeks ago |
| 1:20.0 | similar to what I'm going to talk about today. So if you want to go read that you can |
| 1:24.2 | head on over to evo fitness.com and click the education tab. We have tons of |
| 1:30.1 | great blog posts on there if you what if you're someone who likes to read rather than listen. |
| 1:35.0 | Here's the bottom line up front. |
| 1:37.0 | Just feeling the burn is correlated with muscle growth, but it's not causated. |
| 1:43.2 | In other words, feeling the burn is often |
| 1:45.2 | associated with muscle growth if you're |
| 1:47.2 | choosing the right exercises. |
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