Hello everyone welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're talking about

if men and women should train differently and there are obvious differences between men and

women but I want to talk about the differences in physiology.

And I think that these are important to understand when thinking about training and knowing how to work with your physiology

to see the best results.

Today I'll talk about the key differences

between men and women.

So the differences in their skeletal muscle,

the differences in their hormones,

the differences in their cycles,

and more that will influence some training

variables when you're exercising. I will also talk about how men and women can

train the same in many ways and when and where that's appropriate. So let's start all

the way from the beginning and talk about what's happening before someone is

even born. So in utero, males are exposed to lots of

testosterone where females are not. So this is genetically influencing things like

muscle strength and power that will

influence how men and women train and respond to training. Because of this

exposure of testosterone in utero, this influences characteristics of male musculature

to make them more powerful.

So males in general can recruit a higher

percentage of their muscle fiber

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