Dr. Giulia Enders

And people who overdo it, who will train even though their muscles are still aching from yesterday, if they do this over a few weeks or even months, the phenomenon is that they get weaker, which is a phenomenon called overtraining.

And the second thing I take from this is sometimes I sit down and I'm a bit inspired by that from my body, from my life.

I think how serious do I take restoration, relaxation,

in my work life, in my work day?

Do I take it serious enough so that I actually can be most effective with my body?

Or do I always just think about working, getting everything done?

And that is a sort of like burnout movement that is very similar to overtraining in athletes.

You don't get stronger by just overworking the whole time.

You get stronger by taking relaxation equally as important.

and some people say well that's good that's a good thing and other people say well you know i mean pain if that if your muscles hurt that pain is telling you something's wrong so what's going on so when you have this aching muscles it just means oh you challenged it a bit more than what it was capable at that point and that can be good because it means it'll try to provide you with more muscle more resources for the next day

So if you want to build muscle, being sore, having some sore muscles is not a bad thing necessarily.

Overdoing it, that might be a bit on the edge.

And just training when you're sore again, that doesn't get you very far.

I think the aspect that I like about the whole breathing topic is that, well, many people already know that it's kind of good to do breathing exercises and or have, you know, had some yoga instructor telling them six seconds of breathing in and then eight seconds of breathing out or something.

But the part that's fascinating to me is how easy it can be explained.

And I always like that so much when I don't just get a to-do thing, but I also really understand it.

So when the heart actually gets a fresh load of oxygenated blood, because we've just breathed in, then it will be in a bit more of a hectic mode.

So it'll pump a bit faster.

And that makes the heart a bit less relaxed.

So if we breathe out, then it has a more of a relaxed time.