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We are the Happy Gerbils!The Story & The Philosophy of “Beneficial Stress” in The Ranks… Happy Gerbil Theory describes a classic behavioral experiment with 3 sets of gerbils

• The first set lived receiving random jolts of stress through the floor of their cage
• The second gerbil group lived stress free
•  Surprisingly, neither set lived long healthy lives

 The third set of gerbils were the Happy Gerbils – and the Healthiest

• They received jolts of stress through their cage floor
• BUT, they had a door to safety they could escape to when stress occurred
• They had stress AND they had control….

 This simple study underlies a strong Ranks principle:            WE NEED STRESS to stay ALIVE and MUSCULARLY YOUNG

• The key is to control the stress in tolerable amounts. This is what well-conceived exercise can do for us
• Get in The Ranks and Get Stressed Right!!