Dr. Vonda Wright

We are exacerbating inflammation.

We're exacerbating cortisol.

Now, cortisol isn't the demon, but when we have an elevation of it, and especially in perimenopause, when we're sympathetically driven and we already have a higher level of baseline cortisol, if we are continuously in this moderate intensity zone, we never get a signal to allow that to drop.

So if we're looking at polarizing, which is top, top end and low recovery end, then with the top end, we get the signal cascade of improving body comp, improving insulin sensitivity, as well as getting growth hormone and testosterone responses, which then feed back to drop cortisol.

So we look at the quality of the training, not the volume of the training.

So if we're in our reproductive years, then yes, you can do the moderate intensity stuff because you have estrogen and some of our other hormone feedback signals that are going to drop cortisol.

It's going to allow your body to recover and repair.

So this is your polar.

So you have a very specific session that you're going to do.

So for Vonda, it's your 30 seconds on as hard as possible, two to three minutes recovery.

Do that four times at your session.

And you also have to pepper in some lower intensity work.

So this is your- Flexibility.

So that you have recovery, you're getting blood flow circulating, you're tapping into some mitochondrial work so that you are still getting benefit of exercise, but it's not in that modern intensity.

So that's what we mean by polarizing.

So if we were to talk in like the zones talk that everyone talks is out there, right?

So if we're talking about heart rate and the way that your body works, we have zone one, which is just sitting around, you know, like you're... Yeah.

We're in zone one.

Zone two is the bro science kind of thing where you're like, let's work in this zone two area where we're working...

Yeah, there you go.