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Dr. Stacy Sims

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3375 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

It's like, okay, but we need to look at the big rock here. If you are looking for longevity and body composition change and cognition and all those things, you have to polarize your training and that has to be the focus. But soul food, like I come from a long background of endurance.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

It's like, okay, but we need to look at the big rock here. If you are looking for longevity and body composition change and cognition and all those things, you have to polarize your training and that has to be the focus. But soul food, like I come from a long background of endurance.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

It's like, okay, but we need to look at the big rock here. If you are looking for longevity and body composition change and cognition and all those things, you have to polarize your training and that has to be the focus. But soul food, like I come from a long background of endurance.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

I now love riding my gravel bike on the weekends for long periods of time, which is not optimal for me, my age, that kind of stuff for all the things that I want to see improvements in. But mentally, it's great. So we talk about going out for that long stuff. Zone two is that low conversation, and that's fine for mental health and being out in nature.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

I now love riding my gravel bike on the weekends for long periods of time, which is not optimal for me, my age, that kind of stuff for all the things that I want to see improvements in. But mentally, it's great. So we talk about going out for that long stuff. Zone two is that low conversation, and that's fine for mental health and being out in nature.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

I now love riding my gravel bike on the weekends for long periods of time, which is not optimal for me, my age, that kind of stuff for all the things that I want to see improvements in. But mentally, it's great. So we talk about going out for that long stuff. Zone two is that low conversation, and that's fine for mental health and being out in nature.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

But for optimal health and well-being, we don't want to do that. We want to look at resistance training as a bedrock and true high-intensity work. to help with body composition change, metabolic control, insulin sensitivity, brain health, and dropping that cortisol?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

But for optimal health and well-being, we don't want to do that. We want to look at resistance training as a bedrock and true high-intensity work. to help with body composition change, metabolic control, insulin sensitivity, brain health, and dropping that cortisol?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

But for optimal health and well-being, we don't want to do that. We want to look at resistance training as a bedrock and true high-intensity work. to help with body composition change, metabolic control, insulin sensitivity, brain health, and dropping that cortisol?

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Yeah, this is where I love technology for one thing. But if we're staying really basic, I look at some of my family members and I've gotten them started with just body weight stuff or loading a backpack with cans to add a little bit of resistance so they feel comfortable in their own house and they might be doing lunges or squats.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Yeah, this is where I love technology for one thing. But if we're staying really basic, I look at some of my family members and I've gotten them started with just body weight stuff or loading a backpack with cans to add a little bit of resistance so they feel comfortable in their own house and they might be doing lunges or squats.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Yeah, this is where I love technology for one thing. But if we're staying really basic, I look at some of my family members and I've gotten them started with just body weight stuff or loading a backpack with cans to add a little bit of resistance so they feel comfortable in their own house and they might be doing lunges or squats.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Um, just keying them up of like where foot placement and knee and that kind of stuff. So they're getting used to that kind of movement. Um, I love Kelly Starrett's stuff with mobility. So show them like, here's how we do some of the mobility to find where the sticking points are.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Um, just keying them up of like where foot placement and knee and that kind of stuff. So they're getting used to that kind of movement. Um, I love Kelly Starrett's stuff with mobility. So show them like, here's how we do some of the mobility to find where the sticking points are.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

Um, just keying them up of like where foot placement and knee and that kind of stuff. So they're getting used to that kind of movement. Um, I love Kelly Starrett's stuff with mobility. So show them like, here's how we do some of the mobility to find where the sticking points are.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

And then you can either direct them to some of the programs that are out there that, um, like Haley happens has some really good ones for women who are 40 plus. So does, um, Brie and then Sonny Webster down in Australia, you can send in a video of what you're doing and he can critique you and tell you things to do. There are other programs like that too.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

And then you can either direct them to some of the programs that are out there that, um, like Haley happens has some really good ones for women who are 40 plus. So does, um, Brie and then Sonny Webster down in Australia, you can send in a video of what you're doing and he can critique you and tell you things to do. There are other programs like that too.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

And then you can either direct them to some of the programs that are out there that, um, like Haley happens has some really good ones for women who are 40 plus. So does, um, Brie and then Sonny Webster down in Australia, you can send in a video of what you're doing and he can critique you and tell you things to do. There are other programs like that too.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

So there's lots of ways of getting help if you seek it. The personal trainer is very much a stumbling block for a lot of people. And as much as I am not a fan of Planet Fitness, I am a fan of the fact that they've made it really easy for someone to walk in who's interested in resistance training.

Huberman Lab
Dr. Stacy Sims: Female-Specific Exercise & Nutrition for Health, Performance & Longevity

So there's lots of ways of getting help if you seek it. The personal trainer is very much a stumbling block for a lot of people. And as much as I am not a fan of Planet Fitness, I am a fan of the fact that they've made it really easy for someone to walk in who's interested in resistance training.