Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple

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Huberman Lab · The Most Effective Weight Training, Cardio & Nutrition for Women | Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

But there are other versions of that in just daily kind of sedentary life.

You're not on bedrest, and you're not technically immobilized, but you're moving so infrequently that you are exacerbating muscle loss.

And...

even if you are just physically active even if you're not lifting weights you're much more likely to maintain that muscle but once you stop being physically active then we run into a lot of problems

I think that is missed in resistance training because we just think about it at the muscle level.

But when we think about motor unit recruitment, that is a neural pathway.

And we need all of those to stay intact to perform any kind of motor function.

And so when we are lifting weights, we're not

exclusively building muscle.

And that's why we see tendon adaptations, bone adaptations, everything is connected.

And it's also why if you're somebody who is aging, but you're physically active in a way that requires a certain type of coordination, maybe it's pickleball, that that is really helpful as well.

I think

The idea that you have to go to the gym is intimidating for some people because a lot of women in their minds think that they're going to be the only woman in the gym.

That's less and less true.

But in my experience, it's still – the weight room is still probably a male-dominated section of the gym.

I think the biggest fear is not knowing what to do.

And machines can be a really good place to start if you're somebody who doesn't want to work with a trainer and –

is a little bit nervous about trying to self-teach those movement patterns with barbells or dumbbells.

A lot of commercial gyms these days have a circuit of machines, and you can start there and kind of get comfortable with those movement patterns, get comfortable with what is challenging, what is close to failure, and then progress to some of these other exercises and equipment.

Starting with group fitness, because even though most group fitness classes are suboptimal from the perspective of a sound resistance training program, it gets you into the gym.

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