Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Exercise
- Published
- July 16, 2026
- Duration
- 6:27
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses Exercise is supposed to relieve stress, but when you're burned out, even the thought of a workout ca…
Summary
Exercise is supposed to relieve stress, but when you're burned out, even the thought of a workout can feel exhausting—or worse, like another obligation. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the paradox of exercise under chronic workplace exhaustion, drawing on a 2025 study from the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology that found burned-out employe…
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Exercise is supposed to relieve stress, but when you're burned out, even the thought of a workout can feel exhausting—or worse, like another obligation. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the paradox of exercise under chronic workplace exhaustion, drawing on a 2025 study from the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology that found burned-out employees who forced themselves to exercise actually had higher cortisol levels afterward. They discuss the difference between movement as recovery ve