The Resiliency Factor³: Improve Your Performance, Productivity, Energy and Health
The Resiliency Factor Diet: From Distress to De-Stress
Jenny Evans, Keynote/Speaking Reel
The Resiliency Factor³: Improve Your Performance, Productivity, Energy and Health
Traditional stress management models focus on “reducing” or “managing” stress. Ask anyone if they think their job or family will ever ask less of them and the answer is bound to be a resounding “No!”. The concept of minimizing stress sounds nice, but it’s not realistic. Most people understand the stress levels in their lives will most likely continue to increase, yet they don’t have the skills to expand their capacity to perform under higher levels of stress.
High levels of stress can create a continual stream of stress hormones being released into the body, resulting in the Cortisol Crisis™: reduced performance, depleted levels of energy, poor sleep, increased body fat, extreme appetites and eating patterns, as well as decreased health.
Our unique yet intelligent approach is based on sound, scientific principles of exercise physiology and neurobiology that focus on how you can train the body to be more resilient to stress. It is possible to increase your threshold for stress as well as to recover from it more quickly and efficiently. An important bonus to these resiliency training techniques is that they also enhance health, reduce body fat, improve sleep and reduce the risk of many preventable diseases, saving companies and individuals precious resources.
Participants will understand how to use the body’s stress response to their advantage, the ways nutrition and exercise affect stress, strategies to expand their capacity for stress, and how to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently. These techniques will not only improve resiliency, productivity and performance, but also health, energy and fitness.
This program is a win for your organization and your people as it gives employees the tools they need to be healthier, more productive and more engaged, all which positively affect the organization’s bottom line.
Duration: Half or full day. Full day program includes stress profile, body fat testing, waist to hip ratio, blood work, and exercise session.
Objectives
- Boost your threshold for stress
- Understand how to recover from stress more quickly and efficiently
- Increase your levels of productivity and performance
- Improve your overall health
- Learn nutrition and exercise strategies that enhance your resiliency
Why is topic important?
Stress carries a high cost not only personally, but professionally as well, costing the U.S. businesses more than $200 billion per year. The challenging economy, lay offs, uncertain financial futures, working long hours, and doing the jobs of 2-3 people are raising the level of stressors people need to deal with. Companies need to run leaner and meaner, yet health care costs continue to rise. People are busier and more stretched for time than ever, making a healthy lifestyle difficult to achieve.
How is this practical to the workplace?
This dynamic speaking engagement combines interactive exercises and enlightening information that provide simple, effective resiliency strategies employees can incorporate into their lives right away. In addition to understanding how to become more physiologically resilient, they will learn nutrition strategies that minimize stress on their bodies that also improve energy, performance and health. These strategies utilize foods that can be found anywhere and encompass a wide variety of options so that executing the strategies on a daily basis is attainable. Participants will also learn how cardiovascular interval training helps expand resiliency to stress and be given a unique tool to be successful with exercise. PowerHouse Hit the Deck™ exercise cards provide a cardiovascular and resistance training program that can be done anytime, anywhere with no fitness equipment – perfect for anyone who travels or can’t make it to the gym. These cards not only provide a great workout, they are also scientifically designed to burn off stress hormones like cortisol and release the feel good hormone endorphins.
The Resiliency Factor Diet: From Distress to De-Stress
Stress stimulates a cascade of physiological responses that lead to extreme appetites and eating patterns, poor energy levels, impaired focus and concentration, deficient sleep and immunity, and more fat stored around the midsection, which raises the risk of developing serious health complications and disease states.
On top of this, we are faced with well over 200 food decisions each and every day, many of which directly impact our levels of stress, productivity, energy and health. Today’s food supply is laden with foods and beverages that can increase stress on the body. When added to the stresses of work, family, finances and other responsibilities, detrimental eating patterns can play a critical role in both acute and chronic stress.
This training session provides participants with the nutrition education and tools needed to positively adapt to stress in a way that increases resiliency, health and performance. It’s a whole new way of looking at food and understanding how to use what you put into your mouth to be more resilient.
Duration: Half day. Can include blood work, body fat, and waist to hip ratio measurements.
Objectives:
With a blend of humor and science, Jenny will teach you:
- How to eat in a way that increases your levels of productivity, performance and energy
- How eating for resiliency improves your overall health
- The physiological connection between stress and appetite
- The science behind why you crave certain foods when stressed
- How eating patterns can either increase or minimize stress on the body
- Nutrition strategies that enhance your resiliency to stress
- The association between stress and body fat and how you can positively influence both your lean muscle tissue and fat mass
Why is topic important?
Employees need to bounce back from stress as quickly and efficiently as possible, yet many people reach for things like coffee, chips, chocolate, alcohol and fast food when stressed…all which increase stress, not diminish it.
This session explains the physiological and hormonal connection between stress and our food decisions, and then provides effective nutrition strategies that minimize stress on the body. These objectives not only develop resiliency, they also improve energy, health and reduce body fat.
Employees benefit from improved wellbeing, energy and ability to deal with stress. The organization sees a return on investment in that happier, healthier employees are more productive and save the company money on health related costs.
How is this practical to the workplace?
No matter what foods you have available to you, where you live, your travel schedule, or whether you like to cook or not, you’ll gain an understanding of simple, yet very effective methods to stay balanced during trying times. Though this training session offers very specific methods of improving resiliency through nutrition, there is a tremendous amount of flexibility and freedom within the guidelines to make food choices that fit personal preferences, tastes, desires and availability. Everyone can implement these strategies immediately and successfully.
