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When Push-Through Mentality Backfires

My personal trainer keeps telling me to push through the pain but my body shuts down completely and I end up exhausted for days afterward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A behaviorist approach to conditioning is overriding the body's natural feedback systems and creating counterproductive stress responses.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning theories — behaviorism through constructivism?”

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