Stress is a change in your physiological state in response to what our bodies believe to be a dangerous situation. Your body is regulated by the autonomic nervous system. It balances your physiology between calm and stressful states of being.
Stress plays a role in your ability to lose body fat and or build muscle mass. There’s two states of the autonomic nervous system:
We want to enter this state when we train and then immediately come out of it and come back to the parasympathetic state once done.
I don’t know what your stressors are but a list of examples:
Stress these days is unlike the stress that hunters & gatherers experienced. Today, it’s more emotional than it is physical. Your chances of being attacked by a lion are much slimmer.
So, what can you do about it?
There are ways to manage. It becomes a big issue when your stress hormones (particularly cortisol) are chronically elevated.
Creating a bedtime routine can be extremely helpful if you have a hard time getting to sleep and staying asleep. I recommend magnesium, and melatonin to clients as well as turning your phone off 30min/hour before bed.
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