299. Building Your Strongest and Healthiest Body (Without Deprivation) with Dr. Stacy Sims
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Almost everything you've ever been told about working out was tested for men. But today's guest is actually giving you the step-by-step resources to build your strength, increase your health, and feel good in your body.
Why does the fitness industry overlook women’s unique needs?
My guest today is the world-renowned Dr. Stacey Sims. She's an exercise physiologist, nutrition scientist, and one of the most leading voices on training women's bodies for women's lives.
How does research based on men mislead women’s training?
We get into why lifting heavy not just protects your muscles, but also your brain, why toning isn't a thing, how to actually train for menopause instead of just white-knuckling through it, and why your smartwatch keeps telling you you're exhausted when you might just be fine. Plus, if you stick around to the end, Dr. Sims is going to break down the functional full body movements that actually build strength and how to start them from your living room, even if you've never touched a barbell.
Why should women lift heavier weights instead of “toning”?
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How does heavy‑weight strength training protect the brain?
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What’s the best way for beginners to start strength work at home?
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Why is training while fasted discouraged for women?
What is something that the fitness industry is telling women to do that you know deep down is actually setting them back when it comes to their time, their money or their health?
I think what's happening now is we're seeing just one category of women and it's not taking into account.
How can women train effectively through menopause?
Are you in your 20s? Are you trying to get pregnant? Are you coming back from pregnancy? Are you perimenopausal? Are you postmenopausal? Do you have PCOS? It doesn't take any of the life factors of women into account. It's just like you're a woman coming into the gym, and we can have you, quote, tone up. And toning is not a word, but that's the thing. And you see the marketing, and it's not really – playing well to women in the fact that it's just using buzzwords and it's not really accounting for any of the life phases of women.
When I first discovered your work, I think the thing that I found so interesting is you were citing all of this research that showed we were just telling women things that had only been tested for the male body. And we were just handed... and just said, well, this applies to you too, which feels very similar to the way I've thought about money and the coaching that I do around money, where the playbook has just been given to us and it is a copy and paste for men, but it is very, very different when you are trying to save and spend money as a woman. So when did it click for you that that data was just not serving women?
I think most of it stems from trying to get better myself as an athlete and then looking at the same time of, you know, I'm in the lab, I'm trying to answer questions for research for studies, and my research is being thrown out because it doesn't look like the standard quo of a teaching lab. So there are small things that kept coming up. And then as I'm pursuing my research as a student and then further on as an academic, going into the literature and not seeing real representation. I'm also a person who wants to know the history of something. So I did my PhD in hydration and hydration status. And I want to know what was the origins of the sports drink. And so you go all the way back and you see all the research that comes up and the existing sports drink is not based on original research.
So how did that come to be? So you see all the cultural and the sociocultural influences that come out into these parameters. You're like, hold on a second. We have to really look at what are the origins of the research and so many important things that we see, like medication doses. We see things like heart attack symptoms and signs for what we think of as a myocardial infarction. And when you're looking at it from the male perspective, it makes sense, but it's completely different for women.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:13
2
Why does the fitness industry overlook women’s unique needs?
0:13–0:23
3
How does research based on men mislead women’s training?
0:23–0:48
4
Why should women lift heavier weights instead of “toning”?
0:48–0:56
5
How does heavy‑weight strength training protect the brain?
0:56–1:19
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What’s the best way for beginners to start strength work at home?
1:19–1:43
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Why is training while fasted discouraged for women?
1:43–2:02
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How can women train effectively through menopause?
2:02–59:18
Speakers
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