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Dr. Stacy Sims

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Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

And that is a little bit lower intensity and a little bit longer, but you're still really polarizing where when you go to do your interval, you're doing it at the intensity you're supposed to. And the recovery, you're fully recovering so that you can hit that intensity again. So the three big things there are proper strength training. and the intensity of your sprint or high intensity work.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

And that is a little bit lower intensity and a little bit longer, but you're still really polarizing where when you go to do your interval, you're doing it at the intensity you're supposed to. And the recovery, you're fully recovering so that you can hit that intensity again. So the three big things there are proper strength training. and the intensity of your sprint or high intensity work.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So like I said, it's not a lot of volume, it's the quality. Because each one of those factors affects the body in a way that will cause positive change. So strength, like I said, you know, you're going to get that central nervous system response.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So like I said, it's not a lot of volume, it's the quality. Because each one of those factors affects the body in a way that will cause positive change. So strength, like I said, you know, you're going to get that central nervous system response.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So like I said, it's not a lot of volume, it's the quality. Because each one of those factors affects the body in a way that will cause positive change. So strength, like I said, you know, you're going to get that central nervous system response.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

to build bone and muscle when we're looking at that high intensity interval training which is not full intensity but maybe 80 percent this is causes more of a cardiovascular and a blood glucose improvement and then when we're doing that high high intensity sprint interval work It causes a cascade of what we call myokines.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

to build bone and muscle when we're looking at that high intensity interval training which is not full intensity but maybe 80 percent this is causes more of a cardiovascular and a blood glucose improvement and then when we're doing that high high intensity sprint interval work It causes a cascade of what we call myokines.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

to build bone and muscle when we're looking at that high intensity interval training which is not full intensity but maybe 80 percent this is causes more of a cardiovascular and a blood glucose improvement and then when we're doing that high high intensity sprint interval work It causes a cascade of what we call myokines.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So these are little hormone and feedback molecules that go from the skeletal muscle to the liver and the storage area of body fat and says, you know what? We don't need to store body fat. We don't need to take these circulating molecules. fatty acids and make them visceral fat. We need to use them and store them in really active tissue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So these are little hormone and feedback molecules that go from the skeletal muscle to the liver and the storage area of body fat and says, you know what? We don't need to store body fat. We don't need to take these circulating molecules. fatty acids and make them visceral fat. We need to use them and store them in really active tissue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So these are little hormone and feedback molecules that go from the skeletal muscle to the liver and the storage area of body fat and says, you know what? We don't need to store body fat. We don't need to take these circulating molecules. fatty acids and make them visceral fat. We need to use them and store them in really active tissue.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So the aspect of doing those three things is the mainstay during perimenopause is to benefit body composition, our metabolic health, our cardiovascular health, and then most importantly, our brain health. Because if we're doing strength training and creating neural pathway plasticity, we're doing lactate training to improve brain metabolism.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So the aspect of doing those three things is the mainstay during perimenopause is to benefit body composition, our metabolic health, our cardiovascular health, and then most importantly, our brain health. Because if we're doing strength training and creating neural pathway plasticity, we're doing lactate training to improve brain metabolism.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

So the aspect of doing those three things is the mainstay during perimenopause is to benefit body composition, our metabolic health, our cardiovascular health, and then most importantly, our brain health. Because if we're doing strength training and creating neural pathway plasticity, we're doing lactate training to improve brain metabolism.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

Then again, we are able to support the brain when it is starting to lose the receptor sensitivity of estrogen, progesterone, because we don't have those sex hormones anymore.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

Then again, we are able to support the brain when it is starting to lose the receptor sensitivity of estrogen, progesterone, because we don't have those sex hormones anymore.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

Then again, we are able to support the brain when it is starting to lose the receptor sensitivity of estrogen, progesterone, because we don't have those sex hormones anymore.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

When you look at those classes, it feeds into the mentality that we've grown up with where you have to feel smashed, absolutely smashed and burnt out when you finish a class to make it worth anything because it's about the, quote, calorie burn and the smash aspect. I think Orange Theory even has splat points or something like that, trying to navigate how hard it is.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

When you look at those classes, it feeds into the mentality that we've grown up with where you have to feel smashed, absolutely smashed and burnt out when you finish a class to make it worth anything because it's about the, quote, calorie burn and the smash aspect. I think Orange Theory even has splat points or something like that, trying to navigate how hard it is.

Habits and Hustle
Episode 435: Dr. Stacy Sims: Workout Like a Woman Not a "Little Man" + How To Train Based on Hormones

When you look at those classes, it feeds into the mentality that we've grown up with where you have to feel smashed, absolutely smashed and burnt out when you finish a class to make it worth anything because it's about the, quote, calorie burn and the smash aspect. I think Orange Theory even has splat points or something like that, trying to navigate how hard it is.