Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Dr Shannon. I'm a physical therapist and owner of Evelle Fitness and today we have Dr. Payton on the podcast. Welcome, Payton. Thank you, so happy to be here.

Payton and I were having a discussion like we do in many of our just team meetings.

We always get talking about things.

And she was kind of talking about how she's been noticing a lot on cycle sinking on Tik-talk in particular and we would like, we have thoughts about this.

We would like to clear some things up and we want to start by saying that there's really not a lot of research in this subject, in the subject of cycle sinking and exercise for women.

So there's no, it's hard for us to be evidence based on this because

there's just not enough evidence. So that said I wanted to give that disclaimer

that we are just using our own educated lens on a lot of this stuff and if there is

further research that comes out we will absolutely change our tune if we need to but

we just thought that it seems a little confusing and it seems a little

counterproductive in some ways so we wanted to talk about it because like I think the

only research that's out right now around females and exercise is the work of Stacy Sims and a lot of Stacy Sims

work is geared towards the female athlete not towards just the general female

who's trying to exercise and be fit and I think the female athlete goals are very different right the goal is to like win the goal is performance versus just the general public the goal is to to be healthy and not hurt and maybe see body composition changes

and things like that. So let's get into it. I just wanted to give that little disclaimer and I also we also want to say that if cycle

sinking if you're doing it and it's working for you and it feels really good like

please keep going we do not want to discourage anyone from doing something that feels

aligned but we just wanted to kind of give our opinions on it. anyone from doing something that feels aligned.

But we just wanted to kind of give our opinions on it.

Absolutely.

So first let's talk about what cycle sinking is.

Payton, do you want to discuss what that means?

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