Do You Fall Victim to the Comparison Trap? How to Avoid it with Sarah Joyce

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🗓️ 13 January 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast is focused on why it is a good idea to avoid the comparison trap and why it’s better to focus on our own milestones and improvement.

We are also going to learn about some of the interesting differences between male and female physiology and how it relates to performance and recovery. We are also going to discuss why what someone else is doing may not be right for you. It all comes down to drawing inspiration from other people, but not doing comparisons. We also discuss why recovery is so important, and why a diet that is overly strict is not a good idea.

The guest today is Sarah Joyce. Sarah has a PhD in Sport Science, and she is the Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Running Australia. She is a runner, an established writer, and has a specialized knowledge of the female athlete.

Sarah put a lot of r [...]

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0:00.0	normally menstruating women who weren't taking oral contraceptives and women taking oral contraceptives.
0:06.0	And I just measured their baseline hormone levels at certain points through the female's menstrual cycle. And I found it very interesting that the men had
0:16.2	higher endogenous or natural estrogen levels over the women taking our
0:20.4	contraceptives.
0:21.4	Welcome to the runnersners Connect Run to the Top podcast, where it's all about learning from the best and most
0:29.2	inspiring minds in the sport.
0:31.8	So together we can train a smarter, healthier and faster running
0:36.3	community. Now here's your host, Tina Muir.
0:41.8	Hello this is Tina Muir. Thank you so much for taking the time to be with me
0:47.1	today for the latest episode of the Runners Connect Run to the Top
0:50.6	Podcast. This is the first interview episode of 2016 and hopefully last
0:56.0	week you enjoyed the recap episode of what we have coming in this year and kind of
1:02.2	what I've been up to a little bit more as some of you
1:04.4	have asked about that.
1:06.4	Now today I have a it's kind of a female based episode although I do think a lot of males
1:11.9	will be able to resonate with what my guest and I talk about particularly when it comes to comparison
1:18.0	So today I'm talking to Sarah Joyce who is a sports scientist with specialized knowledge of the female athlete.
1:25.9	We also kind of dive deep today into the scientific research and what she found about gender
1:30.5	differences, the effects of female sex hormones on muscle damage and
1:35.3	recovery, but actually interestingly we actually didn't talk about this as much as
1:40.4	I thought it would. We kind of ended up going off on a bit of a tangent, but actually I think you might find it kind of enjoyable because we talked about the comparison trap and weight gain and how, you know, this time of year we tend to be very critical of ourselves
1:54.8	because we may have indulged a little over the winter holidays or whatever it may be and the
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