Stress & Burnout Exercise Canberra.

What the evidence says.

Burnout is not fixed by pushing harder, and it is not fixed by total rest either. The evidence supports a middle path: regular moderate exercise reduces perceived stress, improves sleep quality and restores the heart rate variability that chronic stress flattens. The key word is moderate. High intensity training on top of a maxed out stress system often makes things worse before it makes anything better.

How I treat it.

First we work out where your system actually is, sleep, energy, training history, what your weeks look like, and then we dose exercise like the drug it is. Early on that often means strength work at comfortable intensities and unhurried aerobic sessions, the kind that finish with more energy than they started with. Intensity comes later, once your system shows it can absorb it.

For clients in high pressure jobs, the session itself becomes protected time: one hour where nobody can reach you and the only task is the next set. That structure is part of the treatment.

What we aim for.

• Sleep that restores instead of just passing time
• Energy stable across the week, not spiking and crashing
• Strength and fitness rebuilt without feeding the overload
• A sustainable weekly structure that holds when work gets loud