Decoding Stress: Essential Insights for Military Spouses (Part 2)

Welcome back to our 3-part series on stress and its impact on health and fitness for military spouses. Today, in Part 2, we delve into how chronic stress can influence your health and fitness journey. Discover the concept of hormesis, alng with 5 Ways Chronic Stress can Negatively Impact Health and Fitness Results.


Show Notes

20 June 2024

The PCS-Proof Podcast

(Episode 12) Decoding Stress: Essential Insights for Military Spouse - Part 2

Welcome back to our 3-part series on stress and its impact on health and fitness for military spouses. In Part 1, we explored the basics of stress and its effects.

Today, in Part 2, we delve into how chronic stress can influence your health and fitness journey.

Explanation of "Hormesis" & How it Improves Fitness Results

Discover the concept of hormesis, where controlled stress, like exercise, can benefit your body. Learn how exercise triggers adaptive responses, enhancing muscle growth, endurance, and mental resilience to stress.

5 Ways Chronic Stress can Negatively Impact Health and Fitness Results

Explore how chronic stress can hinder your fitness goals. Elevated cortisol levels from chronic stress can increase body fat, disrupt sleep quality, weaken the immune system, decrease motivation, and lead to poor nutritional choices.

  

Reduced Immune Function

Understand how chronic stress disrupts hormesis, impairing the body's ability to adapt and grow stronger from stressors like exercise. Discover how managing chronic stress is crucial for maximizing the benefits of exercise.

Thank you for joining us for Part 2. Remember, managing chronic stress is essential for optimizing your fitness progress.

Stay tuned for Part 3, where we'll discuss practical techniques to reduce chronic stress and enhance your health and fitness journey.

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Grace Barnick-Damazo

Grace is the Head Coach and Owner of FitPath Coaching, LLC. She’s spent years learning from the best in the fitness industry, so that she can get you the results that you deserve.

As a seasoned Navy spouse, and she understands the unique challenges that military life plays in reaching your health and fitness goals. It’s her mission to provide solutions that work for active duty women and military spouses, including her signature fitness program, PCS-Proof Fitness.

Grace was voted the 2018 Personal Trainer of the Year by her peers, and she’s committed to providing the highest level, science-backed, proven programs to women in military life in a supportive, approachable, and affordable way.

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