Dr. Stacey Sims

It started from when I was teaching at Stanford and wanted to wake some of the undergrads up after lunch and afternoon sleepies come in and I was teaching about sex differences in training or high performance.

So it started with women are not small men.

And people are like, well, of course not.

Like that's, you know, women aren't small men.

But what I mean by that is everything from what happens in utero until we die is different for women than men.

So when we talk about women are not small men and we see all the guidelines that are out there for exercise, all the guidelines out there for mental health, for the connections, the sociocultural pressures, we experience things differently as women than men do, but that's not ever really explained.

So when we say women are not small men, it makes people take that pause and ask, well, what do you mean by that?

What topic?

So today, what I mean by women are not small men is we're going to dive into exercise, especially how what we do should change as we move through our lives.

I think...

When we look right now at what's being portrayed in social media, fitness trends, the medical trends, all of that data is really drawn from men and just generalized to women, which is a huge disservice.

So I want women, especially you as a listener on this podcast, to take a pause whenever you see a new trend come up or someone pushing something to just go, well, where does this originate?

How does it appropriate for me as a woman in my phase of life?

And when you take that pause, you begin to have an objection to some of the things that are being pushed on you and an objective view of how you should approach things to make it beneficial for you.

I mean, if you look at most women who make a point to get up, do some training, go exercise, and it happens so often after four weeks of fasting.

following the same kind of training program as their male partner.

Their male partner has gotten leaner, fitter, better cognition, focus, all of the things that you want out of fitness.

And the woman's like, how come I'm fatter and tired and I don't have any increase in my fitness like my partner does?

And I see it all the time.

And I'm always explaining, well, one, your partner might get up and go fasted training.