The Gender Health Gap in Fitness and How This Harms Women With Dr. Jessica Shepherd

March 9
25 mins

Episode Description

Episode Highlights With Jessica

  • What the gender health gap is and how this negatively impacts women 
  • The reason women weren’t included.. It wasn’t necessarily malicious, just assumed that the physiology was the same and just adjust based on height and weight
  • Women and men’s physiology is very different and this impacts a lot in medicine and fitness
  • How hormones come into play in fitness
  • Why functional training is especially important for women and how to strength train in functional ways 
  • The importance of the time between age 40-60 that impacts things later in life
  • Hormones are chemical messengers and how to understand female hormones to train differently 
  • Her personal and clinical 80/20 that she suggests for biggest impact for women

Resources Mentioned

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