I'm Dr Shannon Ritchie. I'm a doctor of physical therapy fitness trainer and

founder of I love fitness. In the Dr Shannon show you'll learn applicable tools

to improve your health based on science.

Welcome to the show.

Hi everyone.

Today we are talking about how women are different than men and how to build a

strengthened cardio routine based on your physiology. So I've done an episode really similar to this in the past and I'm actually using a lot of my podcast notes from that episode for this episode.

But in that episode I talked primarily about strength and muscle building and I didn't talk about cardio.

So I tweaked the podcast notes just a little bit and then I added stuff about cardio.

So even if you've listened to that episode that I did a few months ago now,

listen to this one because it'll be slightly different.

So there are differences between men and women that are helpful to understand

when thinking about training and exercise and

knowing how to work with your physiology.

So today I'll talk about the key differences between men and women.

We'll start by discussing the physiological differences that influence strength training,

the difference in their skeletal muscle, their hormones, cycles, and more that will influence

some training variables.

And next we'll talk about cardio,

how women's unique physiology

will influence cardiovascular adaptations

and what are the most impactful ways

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