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#27: How to exercise when you're stressed by Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

#27: How to exercise when you're stressed

from The Dr. Shannon Show

by Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021

Show Notes

Stress can affect how your body recovers and benefits from exercise. When you're particularly stressed, that is NOT the time to switch things up, avoid moving altogether or ramp up the intensity. All those things will backfire.

In today's episode, Dr. Shannon discusses how the neuroendocrine system responds to stress and best practices for exercising during a particularly mentally stressful time.

2:50 Physical pain associated with mental/emotional stress

6:46 How moderate exercise can help with stress

8:53 The neuroendocrine system and exercise volume

Steady state cardio

How to choose workouts during stressful times

How stress can negatively effect your training

Signs that you are chronically stressed

How to exercise when you are stressed

Study referenced: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-008-0852-1

Articlereferenced: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2012/11000/Psychological_Stress_Impairs_Short_Term_Muscular.23.aspx

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