Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. I am a Dr. Physical Therapy, the owner of Evelo Fitness, and the intention of this podcast is to help give you tips and tools and education so that you can be fit and strong and feel good. So today's episode is a guide to help you gain muscle for those

of you who struggle to build muscle,

especially for the modern woman.

And before we get into today's episode,

I want to put something relevant to this topic on your radar.

I get so many messages from people who are very confused. I think it

there's so much information out there in the fitness world about do this,

don't do that, do this, not that, and a lot of us are confused about, you know, weight loss or how to quote unquote tone up or if they need to be building muscle or if they shouldn't be building muscle and there's a lot of

noise and information. So what I want to do is have an interactive workshop that is

free for everyone that kind of walks you through why and how to build

muscle and thus how to change your body composition in 2023.

I have done this over the last year myself and I've learned a lot and I want to share those

things and I want to share kind of the why behind why you should care about building

muscle how to go about it, how to set goals, how to track those

goals, and really give you the tools that you need to be successful next year.

I'm a big believer in setting year-long goals

instead of by week or by day, God forbid, or even by month.

I think that setting a whole year goal

is such an awesome way to set a fitness goal because

after one year you will have so much data and information about what works, what doesn't work,

you will have really nailed down or at least gotten yourself a

lot further on the answers of what it takes in your own body. I'm big on writing things

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