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You can try EVLO now for two weeks free if you visit evelofitness.com. Welcome to Fitness Rewired on the Dr. Shannon Show, a nine-episode

capsule designed to close the gap between fitness culture and exercise science so you can see

higher return on your effort and finally feel like you're doing enough.

Many fitness beliefs come from marketing and tradition and don't align with current evidence.

When you learn the truth, you can rewire your thoughts around fitness.

That shift leads to higher quality actions, better results, and health you can actually sustain.

I'm your host, Shannon Richie. Welcome to the show.

Welcome back. Today, I've got a big episode for you. And this is an important one. We're talking about

some of these ideas in the fitness culture that are especially marketed towards women,

toning, sculpting, long lean muscles.

These are all marketing phrases that we're familiar with.

And they are not only misleading, but they come with an opportunity cost.

Because they appeal to women's desire to be lean with muscle definition, they distract

women from doing what actually creates that result,

which is proper resistance training and diet. But often, these workouts aren't even loading the

body enough to properly maintain muscle, let alone build it. They're also not significantly

causing fat loss. So to be brutally honest, it's wasting your time when you could be doing

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