How does our emotional state distort or complicate our relationship with training? And is this likely to be different for men and women?
Firstly, let’s simplify a quite complex piece of human anatomy. We each have an autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls some of our critical biological functions without us having to think about them, such as breathing, heart rate and digestion. The ANS has two main balancing mechanisms: the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS). There is an inherent tension
