Dr. Stacy Sims

You wake up and you feel awful and you're like, I really want to do this workout, but I don't know how it's going to go. Give yourself 10 minutes. If after 10 minutes, you can't hit those intensities or you just feel horrible,

You wake up and you feel awful and you're like, I really want to do this workout, but I don't know how it's going to go. Give yourself 10 minutes. If after 10 minutes, you can't hit those intensities or you just feel horrible,

change it, drop it down, do something that's more recovery, do something that's not going to be so taxing because we do have a limited amount of that stress acumen of how much stress we can handle. So if you're going to try to exert it all in a high-intensity workout, what do you have left over for the rest of the day?

change it, drop it down, do something that's more recovery, do something that's not going to be so taxing because we do have a limited amount of that stress acumen of how much stress we can handle. So if you're going to try to exert it all in a high-intensity workout, what do you have left over for the rest of the day?

change it, drop it down, do something that's more recovery, do something that's not going to be so taxing because we do have a limited amount of that stress acumen of how much stress we can handle. So if you're going to try to exert it all in a high-intensity workout, what do you have left over for the rest of the day?

And then that compounds because if you're always fighting it, then you're going to increase this baseline stress. sympathetic drive because you're fighting the training, you're fighting life. So give yourself that 10-minute rule. If it happens three days in a row, that's okay because it's a very short period of time. It's not going to last forever.

And then that compounds because if you're always fighting it, then you're going to increase this baseline stress. sympathetic drive because you're fighting the training, you're fighting life. So give yourself that 10-minute rule. If it happens three days in a row, that's okay because it's a very short period of time. It's not going to last forever.

And then that compounds because if you're always fighting it, then you're going to increase this baseline stress. sympathetic drive because you're fighting the training, you're fighting life. So give yourself that 10-minute rule. If it happens three days in a row, that's okay because it's a very short period of time. It's not going to last forever.

So a lot of women have this internal conversation of, I have to do this. And it's really based on some kind of external motivation. They think everyone's watching them. But internally, you don't have to. If you give yourself permission, you end up training better, recovering better, and getting better gains.

So a lot of women have this internal conversation of, I have to do this. And it's really based on some kind of external motivation. They think everyone's watching them. But internally, you don't have to. If you give yourself permission, you end up training better, recovering better, and getting better gains.

So a lot of women have this internal conversation of, I have to do this. And it's really based on some kind of external motivation. They think everyone's watching them. But internally, you don't have to. If you give yourself permission, you end up training better, recovering better, and getting better gains.

It's not true. We see it comes from a misstep in food intake. And we also see that it's a cultural influence. Because if we think about how sports started, it started as a way for men to demonstrate how powerful and aggressive they are. And this is the original Olympics, right? There were no women allowed. And as we feed forward into sport and how it became okay for women to be involved, it

It's not true. We see it comes from a misstep in food intake. And we also see that it's a cultural influence. Because if we think about how sports started, it started as a way for men to demonstrate how powerful and aggressive they are. And this is the original Olympics, right? There were no women allowed. And as we feed forward into sport and how it became okay for women to be involved, it

It's not true. We see it comes from a misstep in food intake. And we also see that it's a cultural influence. Because if we think about how sports started, it started as a way for men to demonstrate how powerful and aggressive they are. And this is the original Olympics, right? There were no women allowed. And as we feed forward into sport and how it became okay for women to be involved, it

At the high performance level, if a woman walks in and shows any fallibility, then she's immediately put on a lower stool, right? You can't play with the boys because you have a menstrual cycle. You're bleeding. You're a woman. You're a delicate flower.

At the high performance level, if a woman walks in and shows any fallibility, then she's immediately put on a lower stool, right? You can't play with the boys because you have a menstrual cycle. You're bleeding. You're a woman. You're a delicate flower.

At the high performance level, if a woman walks in and shows any fallibility, then she's immediately put on a lower stool, right? You can't play with the boys because you have a menstrual cycle. You're bleeding. You're a woman. You're a delicate flower.

So women would walk into that professional sports space and be excited if they were amenorrheic or didn't have periods or they trained hard enough and their period went away. because then they were more like men and they could play with the boys.

So women would walk into that professional sports space and be excited if they were amenorrheic or didn't have periods or they trained hard enough and their period went away. because then they were more like men and they could play with the boys.

So women would walk into that professional sports space and be excited if they were amenorrheic or didn't have periods or they trained hard enough and their period went away. because then they were more like men and they could play with the boys.