Dr. Vonda Wright

This is where we have our spin classes.

This is where we do our boot camp classes.

They never direct them to the lifting platforms.

They never look and say, hey, here are the way to get strong.

Because they are under the assumption through sociocultural ideas that a woman is coming to the gym to lose weight, not to get strong, not to gain muscle.

Not to recomposition.

Right.

Right.

But if a man walks in, then it's always the great.

Here's the lifting platforms.

We have X amount of barbells.

We have X amount of bumper plates.

How much weight do you want to gain?

Do you do you want to work with someone to, you know, help you build that mass?

And this is where the intensity part, where Dr. Rai is talking about seeing the Ignite class and everyone's in that moderate intensity all the time.

With moderate intensity, you don't have the post-exercise anti-inflammatory response.

So if we're trying to build muscle and we're trying to dampen inflammation, if we're always doing this moderate intensity cardio, then we're not, one, going to be building the muscle we want, and two, we're going to have this baseline elevation of total body inflammation.

So we need to mix it up and have that precedence on being muscle-centric and building that muscle.

One, to help with aesthetics.

I mean, that's the byproduct of lifting weights.