If you've always been told you're so flexible — and training has always felt harder, more painful, and more exhausting than it seems to for everyone else — this episode is for you.

Dr. Liz Koch, DPT shares her own experience rebuilding after hypermobility and multiple surgeries, then responds to a listener who wrote in describing disproportionate pain after every ride, a 3-hour duration ceiling that months of training couldn't move, and a wipeout that lasted days. What she describes isn't weakness and it isn't in her head — it's the physiology of hypermobility and POTS, two conditions that commonly co-occur and that fundamentally change how the body responds to training load.

Dr. Liz covers five specific reasons why training feels different for hypermobile women — including the connective tissue woven throughout the muscle itself — and four training principles that actually work for this body type.

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