Dr. Stephanie Estima
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And I think the more that we can talk about failure as a positive thing to work towards, the more I think that we can get more comfortable at approaching muscle failure in the gym because so many women that, and I have to, I hold myself back in the gym because I see so many ladies like the lightweights. It's like, good for you. You're in here. Like, yeah, kudos to you.
But the 10 pound weights are no longer an appropriate weight for you to be holding when you're lunging. You know, it's like, I've seen you do this for the last three years. You don't need this weight anymore. And so I think that this idea of pushing yourself maybe is a bit more of a... I don't want to say male quality.
Like I don't want to ascribe, like I don't want to bring sex into it, but I feel like a male energy is like hunt, you know, get like find, kill the boar, bring it back to the tribe, like hunt, succeed, like get the accolades, get the... I think that that male energy will say, not necessarily... like chromosomal... It's warrior. It's warrior energy. Yeah. It's warrior. Yeah.
And so for a lot of women, like I know that when I was giving birth to my children, I went from like Stephanie the happy, generally, you know, like I went into... Okay. It's like, it's gomo. Like I turned into a primal animal. I was making noises I had never made before. And I think that... I get there in the gym as well.
Not that I'm making those same primal noises, but it's like I turn a little bit into that primal animal where it's like, I got to lift this goddamn barbell. I have a lot of weight on my body right now. If I do not stand up, I'm going to be crushed under this weight. So... That was a really long ramble.
I'm not exactly sure I was going with it, but I just wanted to add on to your very eloquent observations around why women are so reticent to really sink their teeth in and take a bite out of real weight training.
And that's, I mean, that, isn't that like just a life skill, right? It's like, here's another tool in the toolbox when shit hits the fan that I can self-regulate myself in this way. And I can channel that energy, that rage and frustration and PTSD, like you were describing into something productive rather than something destructive, right?
Because it's very easy for you to spiral from that energy to be to kind of get back into potentially, and there's sort of like lots of different shades of this, but into that sort of victim mentality, like why me?
Why is this always happened to, you know, that kind of thinking, which even though there's someone, you know, when I look at you, you're so strong, you have such a strong mind, we all are susceptible to that kind of ruminating, those sort of ruminating types of thoughts that can continue to circle and circle and circle.
So what an important skill for you to say, I'm going to take this energy, which is all that is, right? All that PTSD, all that anxiety, that rage, that frustration, and I'm going to channel it into something that's really good for me. And, you know, I just want to say as well, I think for a lot of women, we'd like to pretend like that rage doesn't exist. It's like... It absolutely does.
And if you continue to pretend that it doesn't exist, it will control you rather than you being able to control it. So I would offer, get in touch with your inner rage, whatever it is, warrior. Make friends with her because she's going to help you. That part of you, that side of your personality is going to help you in so many facets of life like it helped you.
And I said to you on the show, and I'll say it here, like I...
honestly was and i am still in such admiration for your strength of character um to really go against your entire like we were gag ordered like we it's like if you say the v word if you talk about and like you are losing your license and we will persecute you we will witch hunt you right um and you're just like one of the witches that like you know um I've been burned a few times.
They tried to burn. Yeah, they tried to crucify, tried to shave off your head and behead you in the town square. And it's like, yeah, I'm still here.
She shows up elsewhere.
They become keyboard cowboys. They get online and they take it out on people online.
It will be really great if it's like you want to have any position making any type of decision for health care. You have to show up. You have to have a dynamometer. So we have to measure your grip strength. How much can you deadlift? How much can you squat? How many unassisted pull-ups can you do? Or can you...
Let's do a beep test.
Let's see how fast you can run. You know, like let's see all of that stuff. What's your vertical jump? What's your wall sit? You know, like these would be qualifiers if I was in the government, if someone ever asked me like, what should be, you know, what kind of person should we have making decisions about our health? It's like, well, we should probably start with having healthy people.
And then, you know, these would be, this is how I would qualify it.
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