Inflammation or abnormal amounts of it from working out or training hard or higher intensity’s is

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]So, what if you feel really inflamed and you hold on to water and you feel really terrible after you do any sort of high intensity training or higher intensity workouts or anything like that? That was a question I got a ton on yesterday's post. And I'm not denying people's lived experiences of those things. But, I want to add to this idea that I think so many women are confused because what they are doing for high intensity interval training is just like junk volume boot camp classes all over the place multiple days per week or they're doing like really high intensity cardio every single day. So, for example, I just ran for 2 and 1/2 hours and I kept it very, very low intensity, but I have built up my capacity to handle that that I won't have a large inflammatory or fatigue or water retention type response from it because my body is acclimatized and adapted to that stress and stimulus.

[00:00:47]But, if my mother came out here today and ran for 2 and 1/2 hours or she did the hit workout that I did yesterday, she would feel inflamed, run down, fatigued, under recovered for days after. No offense to my mom, just a great example that won't feel personally attacking to any of you here. So, if you're somebody who feels intolerant of higher intensity training, that might be valid because there's a gap between your capacity and what your body can do. So, what you can do instead is one, do if you're going to do hit high intensity training, a lot of you guys are saying that it's like too impact. You can do it on a bike. You can do it on a rower.

[00:01:19]Those are low impact modalities. That is no different than doing like incline walking versus yes, running is a little more impactful of that, so to speak.

[00:01:28]But, build up your capacity of what you're doing. Don't just start with that if you feel like you can't handle it or you have a big immune response or inflammation response because every time something's new or novel or beyond the capacity of what you can do or more volume or intensity than what you're used to or can handle, you're going to have that elevated response to your exercise training. But, if you build up that capacity gradually over time with easier stuff or time or minutes or intensity gradually well dosed with a a program, that's how you build that capacity. But, jumping to it, yes, it's going to leave you feeling inflamed and crummy.