Dr. Stacy Sims

It's also creating in a recovery standpoint, a boost of growth hormone, a boost of testosterone in both men and women that creates the cell cleanup, which is autophagy. So if we're looking at the difference between fasting and exercise, exercise is a stronger stress. All the things that we hear about fasting and longevity, exercise does the same. It's a stronger stimulus for it.

It's also creating in a recovery standpoint, a boost of growth hormone, a boost of testosterone in both men and women that creates the cell cleanup, which is autophagy. So if we're looking at the difference between fasting and exercise, exercise is a stronger stress. All the things that we hear about fasting and longevity, exercise does the same. It's a stronger stimulus for it.

But the problem is we've become a lazy society and people think exercise is too hard. As an exercise physiologist, it breaks my heart to see people who are struggling to walk down the street because we are so used to being conditioned to a certain temperature in a room, to having a car automatic opener or Uber come so we don't have to walk down the road.

But the problem is we've become a lazy society and people think exercise is too hard. As an exercise physiologist, it breaks my heart to see people who are struggling to walk down the street because we are so used to being conditioned to a certain temperature in a room, to having a car automatic opener or Uber come so we don't have to walk down the road.

And I bring up that movie WALL-E from the early 2000s with the little robot who's like wandering around society. And you see all these people on these floating beds watching a screen. And one of the guys gets kicked off by WALL-E accidentally. Falls down, he can't get up. And he's looking around going, well, why can't I get up? What's going on?

And I bring up that movie WALL-E from the early 2000s with the little robot who's like wandering around society. And you see all these people on these floating beds watching a screen. And one of the guys gets kicked off by WALL-E accidentally. Falls down, he can't get up. And he's looking around going, well, why can't I get up? What's going on?

I'm like, that's today's society where people are not able to actually pull their own body weight around for a significant amount of time because it feels too difficult.

I'm like, that's today's society where people are not able to actually pull their own body weight around for a significant amount of time because it feels too difficult.

Whereas we look at all the stuff that comes out with nutrition and all the trends that come out with nutrition from fasting to carnivorous diet to the old-fashioned paleo, all of these things that people are trying to do, we turn to exercise and we change the modalities of exercise. Are we doing intense exercise? Are we doing low intensity? Are we doing resistance training? Are we doing cardio?

Whereas we look at all the stuff that comes out with nutrition and all the trends that come out with nutrition from fasting to carnivorous diet to the old-fashioned paleo, all of these things that people are trying to do, we turn to exercise and we change the modalities of exercise. Are we doing intense exercise? Are we doing low intensity? Are we doing resistance training? Are we doing cardio?

What are we doing? All of these things in exercise are significantly stronger stress on the body that create more adaptive changes than all these crazy diets. But people find exercise too hard where they don't have time.

What are we doing? All of these things in exercise are significantly stronger stress on the body that create more adaptive changes than all these crazy diets. But people find exercise too hard where they don't have time.

Yep, absolutely. So when we're looking at regardless of age for women, because we see that women don't age in a linear fashion like men. So we have definitive points. We have puberty. We have our reproductive years. We don't have pregnancy in there. We have perimenopause. We have postmenopause. Each one of those is a different hormone profile that can affect the way we train.

Yep, absolutely. So when we're looking at regardless of age for women, because we see that women don't age in a linear fashion like men. So we have definitive points. We have puberty. We have our reproductive years. We don't have pregnancy in there. We have perimenopause. We have postmenopause. Each one of those is a different hormone profile that can affect the way we train.

For men, you know, you just kind of go, and we start to see a decline of testosterone when we get into our late 50s. So we're talking about women and training. If someone is coming in and they're in their mid thirties and they're like, I want to lose weight. Okay. Resistance training. If someone comes in and they're in their mid forties and perimenopause resistance training doesn't matter.

For men, you know, you just kind of go, and we start to see a decline of testosterone when we get into our late 50s. So we're talking about women and training. If someone is coming in and they're in their mid thirties and they're like, I want to lose weight. Okay. Resistance training. If someone comes in and they're in their mid forties and perimenopause resistance training doesn't matter.

Resistance training is key for mobilizing abdominal fat. and for creating more lean mass and also increasing the amount of crosstalk between their skeletal muscle and our stored fat through little things called myokines, which are hormone signals that are released during exercise and released from the skeletal muscle. So if we say, okay, let's do resistance training to really recomp the body.

Resistance training is key for mobilizing abdominal fat. and for creating more lean mass and also increasing the amount of crosstalk between their skeletal muscle and our stored fat through little things called myokines, which are hormone signals that are released during exercise and released from the skeletal muscle. So if we say, okay, let's do resistance training to really recomp the body.

We also want to increase our protein intake because we see if you're doing a resistance training with a higher protein intake, then we have complete recomp over the course of 12 weeks. And it's a very powerful, motivating tool for women because for the most part, women have been excommunicated from the strength world until recently. It wasn't kosher for women to have a lot of muscles.

We also want to increase our protein intake because we see if you're doing a resistance training with a higher protein intake, then we have complete recomp over the course of 12 weeks. And it's a very powerful, motivating tool for women because for the most part, women have been excommunicated from the strength world until recently. It wasn't kosher for women to have a lot of muscles.