Dr. Vonda Wright

That's it.

A little elevated.

Your heart rate's elevated.

You still a little bit have a conversation.

For women, it's good for recovery, stress release.

For men, it's good to improve metabolic flexibility.

When we're looking at zone three, four, that's the area you want to stay out of unless you're specifically training for something that requires you to be there.

So that would be your half marathons, your endurance races, that kind of stuff.

During training.

Yeah, that's medium range.

I always describe it as we have these pillars, right?

First, we have to nail sleep.

It doesn't matter who you are.

You have to.

Because you cannot.

You cannot invoke any kind of metabolic or body composition change without adequate sleep.

also improves stress resilience.

Then we look at nutrition and physical activity.

The behaviors that go with both of those are somewhat independent.

You have some people that are more motivated to do physical activity, and some people who are more motivated to change nutritional habits.