Episode #365: Cycle Syncing, Fasted Cardio, The Pink Tax and More ft. Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple
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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this conversation, Dr. Feigenbaum and Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple discuss the pervasive issues in the fitness industry, particularly focusing on Dr. Stacy Sims' commentary surrounding cycle-syncing, fasted cardio for women, as well as 'pink tax' that targets women with ineffective marketing strategies. They evaluate the effectiveness of popular fitness trends such as weighted vests, creatine supplementation, and Pilates, emphasizing the importance of evidence-based practices in exercise and nutrition. The discussion also highlights the need for individualized approaches to fitness, debunking myths surrounding gender-specific training and the marketing tactics that exploit women's insecurities.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Barbell Medicine podcast where we bring modern medicine to |
| 0:11.8 | Strength and Conditioning and Strength and Conditioning to Modern Medicine. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm your host, Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum. |
| 0:16.2 | On today's episode, we have a very special guest, Dr. Lauren Colenzo Semple. So after receiving a master's |
| 0:22.7 | and exercise science and a PhD in muscle physiology and endocrinology, Dr. Colenzo Semple has become |
| 0:27.6 | an absolute force in the health and wellness space, especially when it comes to women specific topics. |
| 0:33.4 | Whether it's training considerations surrounding the menstrual cycle, calling out charlatans, |
| 0:37.3 | or just solid evidence-based takes on fitness, it's an honor to welcome Dr. Colenzo Semple to the Barbell Medicine podcast. Thank you for joining me. How's it going? |
| 0:46.0 | It's going great. Thanks for having me. Did I miss anything in your CV? I don't want to like, you know, miss any of the top things you've done over the past. |
| 0:47.4 | I don't know. You've probably been in this, what, like 15 years, 10 years, something like that. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm a co- any of the top things you've done over the past, I don't know, you've probably been in this, what, like 15 years, 10 years, something like that? I'm a co-owner of the mass research review. That's right. Yeah, I knew you wrote for a mess. Okay, cool. So how did you get into this space? Was it like, okay, I'm into fitness. I'm into science and then just bringing them together. Or like, what was, how did you get here i actually have an undergraduate |
| 0:57.0 | degree in psychology and you can't really do much with that except get another degree or get an |
| 1:12.0 | unrelated job so i got an unrelated job um and i was always really into fitness i was actually a runner |
| 1:17.8 | in my late teens early 20, ended up getting a stress |
| 1:25.2 | fracture and wore the boot. The rehab was terrible. And it really put me off running and that's when I got |
| 1:29.2 | into lifting. So while I was working my corporate job, I started teaching group fitness and just |
| 1:36.7 | training a few clients on the side, just for |
| 1:43.7 | fun, just because I loved fitness. And I ultimately ended up leaving my real job, developing my own |
| 1:46.2 | kind of training business in New York City at the time. And I was interested in the science and |
| 1:53.5 | kind of muscle physiology more specifically |
| 2:00.2 | because I was trying to get the best results for myself and for my clients at the time. And I |
| 2:02.0 | hounded Brad Schoenfeld for a while to let me volunteer in his lab because it was convenient, |
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