Dr. Vonda Wright

We just have to be very careful of how you start to have support and phase you in to these different exercise modalities.

Meaning?

Meaning.

And there's so many women that underestimate their strength.

Mm-hmm.

see them and they gravitate towards the 10 pound dumbbells.

It's like, put that away, go to the next one, do a couple of lifts with that.

And then ideally I want you to put that away and pick up the next one.

Cause that's going to challenge you because women have been,

So conditioned to do 10 to 15 reps to get, quote, toned and not really put in the work they need to to build muscle and to get the benefit out of strength training.

And I'm always telling women, you're underestimating yourself in so many facets.

Don't cheat yourself with the strength training as well.

Exactly.

The other thing I want to bring in is the brain health component, right?

We talk about Alzheimer's and dementia.

And one of the reasons I really preface doing high-intensity work is the lactate production.

Because we're finding more and more research coming out showing that part of the development of dementia and Alzheimer's and the plaque is a misstep in brain metabolism.

So when we're looking at brain metabolism and the brain uses a lot of glucose, it also uses lactate.

Now, for women, we have less of the glycolytic or lactate-producing fibers, and we tend to lose those with age.

Men are born with more, tend to hold on to them more, so it's not necessarily as big an issue for lactate production.