Physically

Each muscle is made up of thousands of tiny muscle fibers. When you do body weight exercises, your muscles develop tiny tears in the fibers. When you rest, your body begins repairing your damaged muscle cells by fusing torn muscle fibers back together and laying down new proteins within each musc...

• Instead of continuously and tirelessly working, create short bursts of intense activity tailored to your work, followed by rest and recovery.
• While taking breaks is looked down upon, this is when the actual productivity of the brain starts to happen, when it is left to think indepe...

Since cortisol is catabolic – breaks down molecules – it can inhibit protein synthesis, which means your body will find it harder to build muscle.

“Cortisol can also accelerate the breakdown of protein into amino acids and sugar, which means that you start to use muscle as an