You’re working hard.

Training consistently.

Eating well.

Doing “all the right things.”

So why aren’t you seeing the results you expected?

In this episode of The Fundamentals of Fitness, Alison breaks down The Effort Illusion; the belief that doing more automatically leads to better results.

You’ll learn:

Why your body doesn’t respond to effort alone

The physiology of stress, recovery, and adaptation

How too much training (or too little fuel) can stall progress

The difference between productive overload and accumulated fatigue

Why athletes don’t just train harder, they train smarter

How to identify your limiting factor instead of adding more

Because progress isn’t built on effort alone.

It’s built on applying the right effort, in the right way, at the right time. ...