Dr. Alyssa Olenick

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The Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Show · Cardio vs Strength Is a Myth and the Science Proves It - Dr. Alyssa Olenick · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

I've been lifting since I was 15.

I played lacrosse and did cross country.

But I was exposed at a very early age of what my max effort felt like, what hard felt like.

You know what I mean?

If women don't have that context.

Um, they might not think, okay, well, I should be lifting to like a seven, eight, nine out of ten in the gym, whatever, but that might actually be like a four, five, six, right?

Because to them, that does feel perceptually really hard, but they've never

Given that relatively.

So then maybe they're not getting as much of the stress and the stimulus that they actually need.

And then they're frustrated because they're like, oh, I'm not gaining muscle.

I'm not getting the body composition goals I want.

I'm not getting results.

But the stress wasn't great enough to to drive that.

But I also then, you know, wonder how do we get more women to understand what like truly hard enough feels like so that you can have those adaptations that you are looking for from resistance training, right?

Yeah, I think that

The influence of the menstrual cycle on performance or intake ends up being, and this is not, you know, this is really hard for people to understand.

The data right now really doesn't show this like hormones change equals.

like muscle like performance or output or whatever that looks like.

We just don't really see that consistently in the data.

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