#28: Stress is Not The Enemy - How to Avoid Burnout & Use Stress As a Superpower.
The High Performance Gym · Keir Wotherspoon
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Show Notes
You’ve been lied to about stress.
Everyone tells you it’s the enemy—wrecking your business, slowing down fat loss, and stopping you from perfoming at your best. But what if stress is actually the key to your success?
In this episode of The High Performance Gym Podcast, Keir Wotherspoon takes a deep dive into the science of stress, why cortisol isn’t the villain, and how you can turn stress into a tool for peak performance, fat loss, and mental sharpness.
Here’s what you’ll take away from today’s episode:
- The two types of stress: Why some fuels your growth while the other destroys it
- Cortisol superpower: Stop fearing it—learn how to make it work for you
- Burnout vs. resilience: My story on burnout—and what I did to come back stronger
- Mindset shifts that change everything: How your beliefs about stress shape your reality
- Powerful, research-backed strategies to regulate stress and boost your energy on demand
🔗 Resources & Links from Today’s Episode:
- Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the Stress Response
- Mindset matter: Exercise and the placebo effect.
- Huberman Lab Podcast.
- Yoga Nidra
- Waking Up App
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