What Rucking Taught My Nervous System (and Why My Rings Fit Again)
From swollen hands to deep sleep: the biology of stress, the myth of motivation, and what actually makes a body adapt.
I knew I had to leave my job for years.
My intuition told me.
But I stayed.
And my body kept the score.
It started quietly—just a little more fatigue. A little less sleep.
Then one day, I realized my resting heart rate was sitting in the 90s.
I wasn’t recovering at night.
My deep sleep started to shrink. My HRV dropped.
And my han…