Brady Holmer

They should listen to their bodies.

They should listen, you know, program it strategically into their training cycle.

Right.

I also don't really know where this idea that I think it refers to maybe more so like a perimenopausal postmenopausal women should be careful with it.

But like, sure.

And there are certain, you know, hormonal changes that happen at that time.

But again, if we look at what the studies are showing, if you do it in a smart way, that women can benefit just as much as men.

It's not really a biological reason, I think, to think that.

there would be any detrimental effects as long as you do it smartly.

And I get, like you mentioned, fuel adequately, you know, relative energy deficiency in sport.

Red S is a thing.

If, if you're doing more activity than you're fueling your body for, and women are, um, more prone to kind of that under fueling than maybe males are, um, especially kind of in the endurance sports realm.

Yeah, you can overdo it just like anything.

But I think, um,

to scare women and say, oh, you shouldn't do HIIT because it's, you know, going to be like too much cortisol or something.

I mean, the point of it is kind of to increase cortisol and then you recover and do it again.

I mean, let's just do it smartly.

So yeah, we're not, I don't know.

I'm not sure where it has gone to weird places, this idea.

You will get, I'll get an Instagram reel every now and then where it's like,