Dr. Mindy Pelz: Why Women Should Train Differently Than Men
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mindy Pelz is a bestselling author and leading voice in women’s health who has spent decades studying how hormones impact training, metabolism, and longevity.
She explains why most workout advice is built around male biology — and why that approach often leads to injury, burnout, and stalled results for women. From the menstrual cycle to pregnancy and menopause, Dr. Pelz breaks down how women should actually train to support hormones, strength, and long-term health.
She explains:
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Why women shouldn’t train the same way men do
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How female hormones change strength, cardio, and recovery
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When women should push harder — and when rest matters more
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Why overtraining backfires for women as they age
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How to think about fitness through a longevity-first lens
This conversation reframes fitness for women at every stage of life — and offers a smarter, more sustainable way to train.
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| 0:00.0 | I fear that we got so obsessed with longevity that we lost the key principles that our body knows to do to slow the aging process down. |
| 0:10.0 | Dr. Mindy Pals. |
| 0:11.0 | Fasting and hormone expert. |
| 0:13.0 | Best-selling author of Age Like a Girl. |
| 0:15.0 | She shares a practical fasting plus hormone framework to help women lose weight and train with their cycle instead of fighting it. |
| 0:20.0 | How does training like a girl biologically differ from training like a boy? |
| 0:24.6 | Boy's hormonal system work within 24 hours. They have one hormone to think about that's |
| 0:30.2 | testosterone. Okay, women, we have three sex hormones to think about, estrogen, progestone, |
| 0:35.6 | and testosterone. But strength training isn't always great for women, right? |
| 0:39.8 | No, no. |
| 0:40.8 | In fact, they aren't telling you is... |
| 0:43.0 | Let's define fasting. |
| 0:44.6 | When blood sugar stays low for a significant period of time, |
| 0:49.1 | your body will flip into this other metabolism and burn fat |
| 0:53.7 | to make something called a ketone for energy. |
| 0:56.8 | The length of my fast depends on the healing mechanism that I want to initiate in my body. |
| 1:03.7 | When we break the fast, what are we eating? |
| 1:06.2 | Make sure that first meal you have some kind of... |
| 1:09.1 | How I can know what stage I am at in my cycle and when day |
| 1:12.7 | one through day 10 estrogen is building from day 10 to day 15 of a woman's cycle she gets the most |
| 1:19.8 | amount of we have lost our ability to understand our own natural rhythm what's the biggest thing |
| 1:25.0 | people still get wrong about women's bodies? Okay, so I'm |
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