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I'm Dr. Shannon Ritchie.

I'm a doctor of physical therapy, fitness trainer, and founder of Ethelop Fitness.

In the Dr. Shannon show, you'll learn applicable tools

to improve your health based on science. Welcome to the show.

Hi, everyone. Welcome back to this little coffee chat. So yesterday we released an episode about how to build five

pounds of muscle. And I have had my own personal journey of building five pounds of muscle over the last

few months. So I kind of wanted to share where I'm at and what I was doing to achieve that goal.

So currently, the last Dexas scan that I got, I had gained 4.2 pounds of muscle.

And I haven't gotten a dexas scan in about a month, but my assumption is that I've

surpassed that five pounds of muscle.

So, and I feel really, really good.

And I learned a lot this go around that I want to

share today. I also think it's important to say that I also lost body fat. When I was postpartum

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