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The Resiliency rEvolution: Your Stress Solution for Life 60 Seconds at a Time
What if, despite the ever-increasing stress in your professional and personal lives, you were able to live resiliently? You eat healthy, sleep well, and have the time and energy to exercise. You perform well in a demanding work environment, are the best possible version of yourself for your loved ones, and are becoming healthier every day.
Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn’t evolved to our twenty-first-century, stress-filled lifestyles and we’re paying the price – we’re dEvolving.
The Resiliency rEvolution is your stress solution. Rather than letting stress diminish your life, you can become more resilient to it. Using your primitive hardwiring to your advantage, you can learn how to recover from stress more quickly and raise your threshold for it. Utilizing realistic and manageable tactics, you’ll soon be on your way toward a more resilient life.
It’s time to join the rEvolution! Work with your body to realize your full potential and to perform at your absolute best—professionally and personally—in the face of stress.
Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn’t evolved to our twenty-first-century, stress-filled lifestyles and we’re paying the price – we’re dEvolving.
The Resiliency rEvolution is your stress solution. Rather than letting stress diminish your life, you can become more resilient to it. Using your primitive hardwiring to your advantage, you can learn how to recover from stress more quickly and raise your threshold for it. Utilizing realistic and manageable tactics, you’ll soon be on your way toward a more resilient life.
It’s time to join the rEvolution! Work with your body to realize your full potential and to perform at your absolute best—professionally and personally—in the face of stress.
384 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2014
About the author
Jenny C. Evans
2 books2 followersJenny C. Evans is a speaker, award-winning author, and on-air expert on resiliency, stress, exercise physiology, nutrition, and health. Jenny is the founder and CEO of PowerHouse Performance. Working with thousands of C-suite executives, leaders, and employees worldwide, her dynamic presentations inspire and educate audiences to increase their capacity for stress and to recover from it more quickly and effectively. Clients improve their performance and productivity, all while enhancing their health. Her corporate client list includes Yale School of Management, AT&T, Estée Lauder Companies, Comcast, Nationwide, and Ameriprise Financial. She is also the creator of PowerHouse Hit the Deck—the ultimate tool for combating stress and increasing fitness.
Jenny serves on many advisory boards, writes as a blogger for The Huffington Post, and was NBC KARE 11’s Health & Fitness expert for over four years. She has been featured on National Public Radio and Lifehacker.com as well as in Shape, Elle, Women’s Health, Redbook, and Woman’s World.
Jenny has a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in psychology from the University of Minnesota and has been an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor for close to twenty years.
She lives with her wife and daughter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In her spare time, she’s a competitive athlete and a yoga addict. She races duathlons and performs aerial arts on her backyard trapeze rig. She also loves to travel off the beaten path around the world.
Jenny serves on many advisory boards, writes as a blogger for The Huffington Post, and was NBC KARE 11’s Health & Fitness expert for over four years. She has been featured on National Public Radio and Lifehacker.com as well as in Shape, Elle, Women’s Health, Redbook, and Woman’s World.
Jenny has a bachelor of science degree in kinesiology with an emphasis in psychology from the University of Minnesota and has been an American Council on Exercise Certified Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor for close to twenty years.
She lives with her wife and daughter in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In her spare time, she’s a competitive athlete and a yoga addict. She races duathlons and performs aerial arts on her backyard trapeze rig. She also loves to travel off the beaten path around the world.
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February 13, 2024
For a majority of books, both good and bad can be found within it, depending on the person viewing it. This is also true for the nonfiction book I recently read titled The Resiliency rEvolution by Jenny C. Evans. It is a self-help book for stress. The writing explains a bit of the science behind our stress, and it showcases how the author’s advice has helped many overcome their modern problems with stress. Though the amount of worse parts outweighed the good, there were still some worthwhile aspects about it. Nonfiction writing is based on complete reality, with different genres like memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and histories.
There are positive traits about The Resiliency rEvolution, even though they may be few in number. The writing is simple and easy to understand, and stories from other people are incredibly in-depth. Even when the writing is almost too simple to the point of being condescending, it still manages to work. A quotation from the book says “Your brain is the starting point. A network of nerves from the brain connects to both the somatic and automatic nervous systems of the body” (Evans, 2014, p.19). The sentences flow neatly and are sorted out properly. If the book was simply a children’s fiction story, maybe it would have fundamentally worked out better.
To be blunt, The book’s writing often sounds like a scam artist trying to lie to people. A quotation from the book says, “After sixty days of resiliency training with Hit the Deck and changing his eating patterns, Scott finds himself falling asleep more easily and sleeping more soundly. The headaches have disappeared, and he feels more focused at work and home—able to deal with stress more productively than ever” (Evan, 2014, p. 6). It mentions how the world has changed more than our bodies, so that is our main source of stress now. However, it never criticizes our environment and the workload given to us, despite showing multiple stories where people (who are supposed to be like us, the reader) are incredibly stressed in their day-to-day lives. Why does it not mention how what people are expected to do as normal adults in America? The change of environment cannot be the only stressor. People are overworked and stressed from countless other things in America, and this book seems to shy away from that fact so it can focus on its magical way to mitigate stress. “Resiliency Training”, as the book calls it, is nothing more than a vague concept in the first parts of the book which doesn’t say what you should do for stress at the beginning other than giving vague advice like “eat healthier” and “exercise”. It’s almost meant to make you angry when it shows how people’s lives are just so much better afterwards, but never tells you what exactly they do.
Additionally, the book speaks to the average office worker and/or parent. It isn’t useful for anyone else beyond that. However, it is very in-depth when it comes to describing the average target audience’s life. However (again) this may be because the author physically talked to them about their lives for their treatment plan, so it would honestly just be disappointing if they couldn’t describe it. Even with all of my critiques, I can acknowledge that some of these faults may be because of the book being nine years old, or because I am not the target audience. This still does not make this book exempt from what I have to say, nor what effect it could have on people.
In the end, I really cannot recommend this book to many people in good faith. If a person is feeling stressed, then there are so many other ways to help other than a book like this. However, I acknowledge that not everything in this book is bad; I would have dropped it if there was nothing to praise. A person could always pick this book up and see for themselves whether it works for them, or simply skip around and read only what they want to. Overall, I would give this book a one out of five.
There are positive traits about The Resiliency rEvolution, even though they may be few in number. The writing is simple and easy to understand, and stories from other people are incredibly in-depth. Even when the writing is almost too simple to the point of being condescending, it still manages to work. A quotation from the book says “Your brain is the starting point. A network of nerves from the brain connects to both the somatic and automatic nervous systems of the body” (Evans, 2014, p.19). The sentences flow neatly and are sorted out properly. If the book was simply a children’s fiction story, maybe it would have fundamentally worked out better.
To be blunt, The book’s writing often sounds like a scam artist trying to lie to people. A quotation from the book says, “After sixty days of resiliency training with Hit the Deck and changing his eating patterns, Scott finds himself falling asleep more easily and sleeping more soundly. The headaches have disappeared, and he feels more focused at work and home—able to deal with stress more productively than ever” (Evan, 2014, p. 6). It mentions how the world has changed more than our bodies, so that is our main source of stress now. However, it never criticizes our environment and the workload given to us, despite showing multiple stories where people (who are supposed to be like us, the reader) are incredibly stressed in their day-to-day lives. Why does it not mention how what people are expected to do as normal adults in America? The change of environment cannot be the only stressor. People are overworked and stressed from countless other things in America, and this book seems to shy away from that fact so it can focus on its magical way to mitigate stress. “Resiliency Training”, as the book calls it, is nothing more than a vague concept in the first parts of the book which doesn’t say what you should do for stress at the beginning other than giving vague advice like “eat healthier” and “exercise”. It’s almost meant to make you angry when it shows how people’s lives are just so much better afterwards, but never tells you what exactly they do.
Additionally, the book speaks to the average office worker and/or parent. It isn’t useful for anyone else beyond that. However, it is very in-depth when it comes to describing the average target audience’s life. However (again) this may be because the author physically talked to them about their lives for their treatment plan, so it would honestly just be disappointing if they couldn’t describe it. Even with all of my critiques, I can acknowledge that some of these faults may be because of the book being nine years old, or because I am not the target audience. This still does not make this book exempt from what I have to say, nor what effect it could have on people.
In the end, I really cannot recommend this book to many people in good faith. If a person is feeling stressed, then there are so many other ways to help other than a book like this. However, I acknowledge that not everything in this book is bad; I would have dropped it if there was nothing to praise. A person could always pick this book up and see for themselves whether it works for them, or simply skip around and read only what they want to. Overall, I would give this book a one out of five.
January 2, 2018
**NOTE: This is a book that I won through a goodreads giveaway**
I seemed to have trouble getting myself to fully read through this book up until recently but, I did manage to learn some things to better help me break habits and improve my stress resiliency. Overall, I feel like the book could have been a lot shorter if it were written in a different way. It broke down things way too much and repeated them often.
I seemed to have trouble getting myself to fully read through this book up until recently but, I did manage to learn some things to better help me break habits and improve my stress resiliency. Overall, I feel like the book could have been a lot shorter if it were written in a different way. It broke down things way too much and repeated them often.
March 9, 2019
Great practical ideas to improve our health. Loving the Jenny’s fitness cards!
November 16, 2016
3.5 stars
The book stars off strong with some very insightful information on our biology and how it sometimes plays against us. Each chapter digs deeper and gives the reader some tips to combat our "cave man brain" or to use it to our advantage. However, the books gets into a lot of detail and at times it is hard to keep up with all the back and forth or terms. It also seems to drag a bit. The success stories and the end of the chapters seem fake and are zero help, skip them.
The book stars off strong with some very insightful information on our biology and how it sometimes plays against us. Each chapter digs deeper and gives the reader some tips to combat our "cave man brain" or to use it to our advantage. However, the books gets into a lot of detail and at times it is hard to keep up with all the back and forth or terms. It also seems to drag a bit. The success stories and the end of the chapters seem fake and are zero help, skip them.
January 9, 2015
Loved it, great info!
This isn't just another diet book, and it's not another science book, it's both!
I loved the language, super easy to understand and the content was broken down so it was easy to take away.
Well worth the read.
This isn't just another diet book, and it's not another science book, it's both!
I loved the language, super easy to understand and the content was broken down so it was easy to take away.
Well worth the read.
March 4, 2015
I received this book free from a GoodReads giveaway.
I signed up for the giveaway of this book on a whim, but I actually enjoyed it. While it is simplified, maybe too much for some people, it was easy for me to take something away everytime I sat down with it.
I signed up for the giveaway of this book on a whim, but I actually enjoyed it. While it is simplified, maybe too much for some people, it was easy for me to take something away everytime I sat down with it.
March 5, 2015
An insightful and compelling work.It does a solid job of carrying the genre.
**Thank you for my free Goodreads copy**
**Thank you for my free Goodreads copy**
April 18, 2024
This book was gifted to me for review. Fantastic read and great re-read as well!
January 12, 2015
Gimmicky and simplistic to the point of being insulting.
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