Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon.

Today's podcast, I'm giving you the first half of the workshop

that we did earlier this week.

I have spent hours and hours on this workshop and truly it's really an aggregation of

over a decade of my own education and research so I don't want to give away the

whole thing for free on the podcast but I am giving you the first half, which I think is

super important and will still be super valuable to you because I think that we really need to understand

and learn what not to do so that we can focus our energy

better and we don't feel like we have to overwork in order to see results. So in the

new year or really anytime someone wants to get fit I think that this could be any time of the year

not just the new year we are conditioned to immediately jump into intense workouts we want to

sweat we want to you know burn off holiday. Maybe we feel like kind of blea after like a month or two of not being super consistent. And so we want to hit the ground running. We want to get that reward from our fitness watch that we burned a lot of calories and it's totally understandable.

That is what we are taught that works is that you need to burn more than you eat.

And I talk about why this is not the best use of your energy

and how it can affect your metabolism. I really want to caution you from

jumping into an overly intense routine and I really break that down with hopefully what makes a lot of sense to you so that you can work out smarter not harder.

I also talk about the flip side of things which is becoming very popular is the low intensity craze or the

low impact exercise and like a focus on yoga and Pilates. I talk about my

opinion on how this can affect your body as well. So again, I think that understanding

where to focus your energy is very, very important

so that you're not wasting your energy,

you're not unnecessarily depleting yourself.

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