 First caller is Jenna from California. Hey, Jenna. How can we help you? Hey, um, okay. So I am Been in a fitness for a while, but I feel like my energy levels just suck and my question was I feel like I'm over training But I feel like I'm really not training at all. I'm just like I'm busy I'm a mom to a two-year-old I work from home and I also ride my horse pretty frequently. So I would like to find a way to Include strength training for health benefits But keep my energy levels up too, okay How what is your exercise look like now? Now? I know riding horses a lot of people don't know this, but that's a very active Activity it's actually quite exhausting. You know this from all the horses you wrote. I actually did it So I used to train somebody who did You just ride stallions Hey, hold on a second, hold on a second Jenna am I wrong or am I right? I used to train somebody who what is it called when they when they stand on the horse and they do like acrobatics and stuff Is that vaulting? Oh, that's that's vaulting that is That's pretty pretty wild. Yeah, so I used to train someone that did that and then we would have these conversations And then I rode a horse once and I couldn't believe how exhausted I was Anyway, it's a lot of activity. Are you doing any exercise on top of that? Are you doing any resistance training on top of that? Are you just trying to add resistance training? Yeah, so right now I do I ride three to four times a week two days a week I'll do like a 15 20 minute full-body Workout at home with dumbbells Or bands and then one day a week. I work on like just a long walk or some kind of yoga But I'm finding after those strength training workouts, I'm just Exhausted you probably hear my two-year-old in the background. Yeah, no problem. How's your how's your sleep? Oh The sleep I was super strict with this from like day one because I know mama needed sleep. So she good Oh good. Okay, so Maps had a bulk you know, it's twice week. Yeah, you know, whatever you're doing is is just too much So yeah, the problem sometimes a challenge we get into is that we feel tired and we You know, we get an idea or a clue that maybe we're doing too much But then what we do is we look at our workout and then we judge it. So we look at it and go This can't be too much. I'm not doing that much or I used to be able to do this and it didn't bother Me and I felt okay. And so we kind of throw away everything that we're currently feeling So you have to listen to your body. So no matter what Whatever you're doing is too much. So what I would do is I would reduce the resistance training From twice a week down to once a week. Just do one full body workout a week Go easy and and allow your body to kind of recover Then the other aspect is diet. Uh, you might be eating too little Or maybe not enough Of the one of the macro nutrients proteins fats sometimes carbs sometimes people need to increase their carbs Do you know what your your food intake looks like calorie wise and macro wise? I haven't I haven't tracked because I Had some disordered eating tendencies. So I haven't tracked in a long time I probably could now with it being less of a big deal Um, but I do try to eat whole foods and focus on protein Could probably have more prokina. You think you could increase your protein. What about your fat and your carbs? I feel like fat that was a big thing for me thought fat made me fat But I've gotten over that so I feel good with fat and carbs um But maybe just suggesting How where I'm eating. Yeah, I would I would try bumping your food intake a little bit um and reducing The resistance training and then Be patient allow your body to slowly acclimate And base it off of how you feel Don't look at what you're doing and say, oh, this is you know, like I said, I've done this before I'm like, I can't possibly being to be doing too much. This doesn't look like much But you have to listen to your body and it's it's as you you get older as things change So is your tolerance for activity and exercise besides the horse riding. Are you doing? Are you doing anything as far as cardio? I saw I saw on your question that jillian michael's and zumba Are you doing are you doing that anymore? Is that just the past? That was a past life of me. Okay. Okay. Is that like a confession or what? Yeah, that's kind of where I started I to be honest, um No, I just get in I start work at 6 a.m. So I try to get a walk before so that I'm not sitting In my house till 2 p.m. So, okay I like the advice sows. You know, I would love to to see you train One to two days a week maps and I'd start one and then because we could always scale up if you're feeling great from just doing one Uh maps anabolic, uh, I'd also love to put you on a little bit of a calorie surplus for now I know you want to lean out right now and you want to go potentially the other direction Um, but there is a good chance that just for all the activity and the stuff that you have going on that You might just be a little low calorie So and you're you're not you're not giving the body quite what it wants and needs for what you're doing So reducing down to a one day a week full body routine Bumping up our calories a little bit just kind of seeing where we're at and then I would I would just kind of go from there And so long as you're feeling good Uh, I'd maintain that potentially adding another day of a full body routine If if we like the direction that your your body's going but that would be my my suggestion You know what jenna something just popped into my head. Uh, so when you're out there riding three four days a week You're obviously outside. It's been very hot. You're in california. You're sweating a lot. Is this right? Probably sweating out while you're doing and you're eating you said a whole food-based diet Yeah, um, I wonder. Yeah, I wonder if you're if you need to bump your sodium Okay intake. Here's the cool thing about sodium if that's the issue You'll notice right away. So it's it's like you have to do it for a month to see a difference If you if you start to bump your sodium you could try elementy That's the obviously the company we work with it's just It tastes really good and it's got a appropriate level of sodium or you could try throwing Some salt some like, you know himalayan salt in your water Uh while you're riding try Bumping your sodium and see if that makes a difference I've actually had some some experiences with clients where that was the issue Like we did everything else and then finally we're like, let's see what happens if you You know have a little bit more sodium and then like magic they feel A lot better. Like I said, you'll notice the the first day the first day or two If if that is the you know, is the issue. Are you getting any like headaches or muscle cramps or anything like that? Um, no headaches and no muscle cramps really so I feel like You know, that's another indicator. I'm not doing too much. That's awful. So just a few tweaks maybe okay Yeah, I give that a shot and see if that does anything for you It would be awesome if that was the problem right because you could just yeah supplement with sodium and then boom feel a lot better Yeah Cool. Do you have access to maps and a ballack by the way? I do not. All right. Cool. All right. We'll give that to you. So we'll send that over to you And you just do one of the foundational workouts a week To start with try all the stuff that we said and then I would love to hear back from you I will definitely well. All right. Thank you. Jenna Thank you so much guys. No problem I like I like the Food direction with her because it sounds like she's decent as far as activity training sleep She's even trying to get rest. Yeah, so she's pretty on top of it. Yeah, you know, it's you know It's this is so hard, right? I don't know if you guys have ever done this But where you're doing a workout program or diet and either you have nagging inflammation or you're just your body's not responding and it's like Rather than listen to your body, you think to yourself it can't possibly I can't possibly be doing too much This doesn't look like a lot and so you end up questioning How your body feels which is a trap, you know, I mean you have to listen To your body because that's the best coach you could possibly you know ever have Well, the supplement market thrives on that Because it's like trying to find that that one perfect key to to unlock what's really happening when in fact It could just be that you're just doing too much totally