What is environmental stress?

Training Q&A [Moderated]
1

Dear Dr. Feigenbaum and Dr. Baraki,

I was reading the instructional manual for the Bridge 1.0 again, and was confused between the difference between physical, emotional, and environmental stress.

Would you define environmental stress as “physical and/or emotional stress” that is not accrued in the gym, for instance “going through a divorce, doing an Ironman Triathlon, etc?”

I’m just a little puzzled that environmental stress is a classification of stress on its own, apart from physical and emotional.

Sincerely Yours,

Eddie Mun

2

Not necessarily, no.

What sort of things contribute to an individual’s environment and how might that influence the fatigue incurred from a training session?

-Jordan

3

Do you mean things like temperature and humidity?

4

That’s part of it, yes. If you take the next day or so, what can you come up with here?

5

Oh, do you mean sleep??? Lol, it took me a while to get that, if that is indeed what you meant! Sorry doc, I may be a little slow.