Old dogs CAN learn new tricks and ”Roar!”

So I am about to embark on reading “Roar” written by Dr Stacy Sims, MSC, PhD, exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist.

Stacy has regularly featured as a speaker at professional and academic conferences, including those hosted by USOC and USA cycling, she now lives in Tauranga, New Zealand and is an environmental Exercise Physiologist and Nutrition Scientist specializing in sex differences of heat and/or altitude stress, recovery, genetics, and nutrition to moderate adaptive responses for performance at Waikato University.

So why the interest in “Roar” and Stacy’s online course “Women are not small men.”

Well, I’m not alone in wanting to know more about the way women in particular race and train so about 160 other dedicated women, athletes, coaches (of both genders) and many others from an enormous variety of professional backgrounds will join me in finding out more about women’s unique physiology as we make our way through Stacy’s online course!  

Some questions that I know will be addressed include:

1. How can we work with a females cycle nutritionally and get the most out of it?
2. What type of training can be utilised for maximum gains regardless of the hormonal impact during our monthly cycle? 
3. And for us #oldgirls, what can we do to enhance the impact of menopause? There has to be something we can do!!!

Some of the solutions are accessed through our nutrition, dedicated strength work, and the understanding of our unique thermoregulation patterns.

This is a great time to be involved in sport and activity if you are a female. There is now “some“ research to help us get the training process better for all females regardless of age.

It is just the tip of the iceberg, but so exciting to be part of the pioneerIng process in terms of delivery and implementation! 

This is not just for the elite, but for anyone who is active. We are not small men even though the research would have us believe we are. Our training and eating need to reflect and enhance our unique physiology.

It’s an exciting start to the New Year, more proof that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Catch you again soon when I know more!