da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Welcome to the Meathead Hippie podcast.

I am your host Emily Schramm.

That's my intro for the day.

And I was just at the gym and it was a lightning bolt moment.

Sometimes we are the lightning bolt.

Sometimes the lightning bolt hits us.

And I have been, basically, this is kind of a long intro that I'm going to make short

that says, we as a whole are overtraining. We as humans are overstressed, undernourished, and not

sleeping enough. And yet we are pushing our body in the gym in a way that

is detrimental to our health because it is our only coping mechanism.

It's our only stress relief.

And so when I look at this meathead podcast that I want to revive, so we have the meathead, we have

the hippie, today's meathead is yours truly talking about adrenal health, specifically for women,

but also very relevant for men as well, to understand why less is actually more.

And the types of workouts that are beneficial when you are in higher stressed environments,

whether that is external stress or systemic stress.

External stress, meaning 2021, the world we live in, right? It's getting better. Hopefully,

we are recreating our reality and making things mirror back to us the work we are doing, right?

So hopefully things are moving up for you because that means you're doing that work. If it's not

moving up for you, it's not a guilt trip. It just means that we have to keep digging because externally we can only

control so much, right? But we also have a lot of life stress, job stress, career stress,

...