Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Let's see if this is a test.

See if I understood all of this stuff.

So if I do a lot of volume, but I play in that sort of medium intensity range, I'm basically just like stressing out my body in all the worst ways.

Exactly.

Like the inflammation.

It's just not good for my body necessarily.

If I don't do vigorous enough exercise, then that's also bad because nothing's going to break and therefore build.

Nothing's going to adapt.

Nothing's going to grow.

Mm-hmm.

If I do it for long periods of time, really anything for long periods of time, that's also stress.

But the key thing to do is to do shorter, higher intensity exercise that will cause my body to adapt, but won't put it into that inflamed, stressful state.

We're in zone one.

I was in zone two when you're talking about menstrual cycle.

Everyone wants to stay out of zone... Three, four.

Because that's the medium range, right?

So you want to jump into zone five, hang around for... Five, six, yeah.

Okay, a couple of minutes and then get out of there.

Yeah.

And what about the last phase?