Women's Weightlifting 101, How To Avoid Getting Too Bulky, Hormone Imbalances In Fit Females & More.

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🗓️ 12 September 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Ladies (and any of you gentleman who have a lady in your life) today's podcast is for you.

If you've ever wondered exactly what kind of weight training program a woman should be doing to get a sexy body... ...how women can avoid bulking up... ...common hormone imbalances in fit females... ...why so many Crossfitting ladies have such funky-looking abs... ...and the crucial elements of women's weightlifting 101... ...then you'll love my guest Stephani Gaudreau.

Steph has a formal education in biology and human physiology, 12 years of science teaching experience, holistic nutrition training, and an unabashed love of tasty Paleo food, which she writes about on her blog, Stupid Easy Paleo. She has competed in everything from endurance mountain biking to CrossFit to weightlifting. She coaches weightlifting at CrossFit Fortius in San Diego and has coached CrossFit in gyms reaching from Scotland to SoCal. Steph wrote the best-seller The Paleo Athlete: A Beginner’s Guide to Real Food for Performance in 2014, and recently published the award-winning book, The Performance Paleo Cookbook: Recipes for Eating Better, Getting Stronger & Gaining the Competitive Edge. Steph’s also recently taken to the airwaves with her chart-topping podcast, Harder to Kill Radio, where she interviews experts in fitness, nutrition and mindset about how to build unbreakable humans.

During our episode, you'll discover: -Even though it's counterintuitive, why Crossfitting women tend to be bulkier than "high-weight, low-rep" weightlifting women... -Why women don't necessarily need to do cardio exercise to lose weight, stay lean or stay toned... -How much fat women should actually "gain" as they age... -Stephanie's #1 recommendation for achieving a daily meditation practice, and why she does it... -Four real "healthy" foods you may be overeating... -What it means to truly be harder to kill... -And much more...

Resources from this episode:

-Performance Paleo Cookbook -The Paleo Athlete -the Headspace app for meditation -Harder to Kill Radio

Do you have questions, comments or feedback about women's weightlifting, how to avoid getting to bulky, common hormone imbalances in fit females or more? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Ben Greenfield. Welcome to this podcast episode with Stephanie Goddrow of
0:05.8	Harder to Kill radio. Before we jump into this episode, I want to tell you a
0:10.3	couple of things. First of all, I just posted up to Instagram a photo of me doing
0:15.9	something that you'll find me doing quite often these days and that is carrying a
0:19.4	big-ass bucket full of sand up and down my driveway. 125 yards down, 125 yards
0:27.4	back. Now, when I roll out of bed to do a workout like that, I need something to
0:31.6	get my eyeballs popping out my head. What I use is this stuff called Camera
0:35.2	Coffee. You can check them out at CameraCoffee.com. That's K-I-M-E-R-A-K-O-F-F-E-E.com.
0:43.5	This is not just any old coffee. Sure, it's grown at a high altitude. It's got a
0:48.2	good content of complex, deep flavorful beans, but more importantly, it has a
0:54.1	blend of herbs and neurotropics in it, like alpha-GPC, L-theanine, DM-A-E, and
0:59.5	touring, which you know all about if you like to bio-hat cognitive performance.
1:04.3	If you've never done that before, then you need to see what it feels like to
1:09.1	blend coffee with those compounds. So check it out, CameraCoffee.com. This
1:14.5	stuff is unlike any coffee you've ever tasted before, and you can use code
1:18.3	Ben10. That's Ben10 at CameraCoffee.com. This podcast is also brought to you
1:25.1	by Natural Force. Natural Force is a supplements company. They make a bunch of
1:31.6	pre- and post-workout blends, along with the same blend that I used last year when
1:35.8	I raced the Hawaii Iron Man, their Iskiade blend, which is based on chia seeds
1:40.6	and the original recipe used by the Tomahara Indian tribe, which you may have
1:45.1	read about in the book, Born to Run. Anyways, they've got this new stuff too, and
1:49.0	I've been putting it in my smoothies. It's called Primal Pep Tides. It's a
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