Dr. Stacy Sims

male physiology because you know if you go to do a pull-up and you're a bit wider like no more narrow so it puts a lot of strain where it shouldn't same with push-ups they're trying to teach you to be really tight and use more tricep but our shoulders as women we need to be wider so it's just that inherent that we're and we tend to like when we get our 40s we're like okay yeah i really i most of us have a challenge and we want to accomplish so it could be a push-up or pull-up or we start doing more up

and push-pull motions, and even like lifting things overhead, groceries and all that kind of stuff. It's just the mechanics that we are not taught how to actually maximize with our wider shoulders. And you couple that with changes in our estrogen-progesterone ratio, which changes tensile strength and the actual texture kind of of our tendons and our bursa, and it just comes on.

and push-pull motions, and even like lifting things overhead, groceries and all that kind of stuff. It's just the mechanics that we are not taught how to actually maximize with our wider shoulders. And you couple that with changes in our estrogen-progesterone ratio, which changes tensile strength and the actual texture kind of of our tendons and our bursa, and it just comes on.

and push-pull motions, and even like lifting things overhead, groceries and all that kind of stuff. It's just the mechanics that we are not taught how to actually maximize with our wider shoulders. And you couple that with changes in our estrogen-progesterone ratio, which changes tensile strength and the actual texture kind of of our tendons and our bursa, and it just comes on.

So I'm always trying to reteach from a young age From puberty onward, how we move in these new mechanics to reduce injury risk at the onset of puberty, but also as we get older into peri and postmenopause.

So I'm always trying to reteach from a young age From puberty onward, how we move in these new mechanics to reduce injury risk at the onset of puberty, but also as we get older into peri and postmenopause.

So I'm always trying to reteach from a young age From puberty onward, how we move in these new mechanics to reduce injury risk at the onset of puberty, but also as we get older into peri and postmenopause.

So a lot of it is you're dropping your traps and you're pulling back. So you're doing a lot of rhomboid work. You're also looking at where you're placing to be able to use more of your back muscles when you're doing a push-up. Also back muscles when using a pull-up instead of relying on the shoulders. And the same when you go to lift something up.

So a lot of it is you're dropping your traps and you're pulling back. So you're doing a lot of rhomboid work. You're also looking at where you're placing to be able to use more of your back muscles when you're doing a push-up. Also back muscles when using a pull-up instead of relying on the shoulders. And the same when you go to lift something up.

So a lot of it is you're dropping your traps and you're pulling back. So you're doing a lot of rhomboid work. You're also looking at where you're placing to be able to use more of your back muscles when you're doing a push-up. Also back muscles when using a pull-up instead of relying on the shoulders. And the same when you go to lift something up.

Most of the time we're lifting, we're hitching our shoulders. If we're thinking about dropping our traps and we're using our back muscles to pick something up and then extending through the hips to lift it up, we're reducing the load in our shoulders and in that rotation. which reduces the whole onset of injury or soft tissue damage that can perpetuate injury.

Most of the time we're lifting, we're hitching our shoulders. If we're thinking about dropping our traps and we're using our back muscles to pick something up and then extending through the hips to lift it up, we're reducing the load in our shoulders and in that rotation. which reduces the whole onset of injury or soft tissue damage that can perpetuate injury.

Most of the time we're lifting, we're hitching our shoulders. If we're thinking about dropping our traps and we're using our back muscles to pick something up and then extending through the hips to lift it up, we're reducing the load in our shoulders and in that rotation. which reduces the whole onset of injury or soft tissue damage that can perpetuate injury.

All the glute work where you're thinking about deadlifts, you're thinking about Romanian deadlifts, you're thinking about hip or glute bridges, hip thrusts, all of those things, right? And really focusing on getting the hips strong. And a lot of other things that can perpetuate it is we have weak and tight hip flexors.

All the glute work where you're thinking about deadlifts, you're thinking about Romanian deadlifts, you're thinking about hip or glute bridges, hip thrusts, all of those things, right? And really focusing on getting the hips strong. And a lot of other things that can perpetuate it is we have weak and tight hip flexors.

All the glute work where you're thinking about deadlifts, you're thinking about Romanian deadlifts, you're thinking about hip or glute bridges, hip thrusts, all of those things, right? And really focusing on getting the hips strong. And a lot of other things that can perpetuate it is we have weak and tight hip flexors.

So really working on developing that hip flexor strength so we can lift the hip and the leg up and over instead of stumbling.

So really working on developing that hip flexor strength so we can lift the hip and the leg up and over instead of stumbling.

So really working on developing that hip flexor strength so we can lift the hip and the leg up and over instead of stumbling.

Yeah, definitely. Yeah, absolutely. And it's scary because the conversation has not been out there. And now it's a buzzword and everybody's grabbing onto it. And there's a lot of misinformation that's being spread. And...