A personal fitness monologue (December 2024) describing a shift from high-volume training to prioritizing workout quality and recovery. The speaker emphasizes heavier lifts, short high-intensity interval sessions (about 20–25 minutes), scheduled deloads and full rest days, and a nutrition focus on protein — arguing that ‘less is more’ for many women who instinctively respond to body changes by doing more or eating less.
I'm trying to go a little heavier. I'm really focusing on quality over quantity. You know, I think for so many years in my 20s and 30s, I was teaching classes and then making videos and doing things, and I had a lot of workouts in the week, but I was tired. So now it's much more. I'm prioritizing recovery, but also, you know, having full days off and which often are on the weekends, having deload weeks or workouts where I intentionally go lighter and then on those other workouts, having shorter workouts, but really going for it on heavy lifting, hit intervals, high intensity intervals, but also sit sprint interval training, putting that, but not for 45, 60 minutes in those like 20 to 25 minute ranges. So those are some things that I'm focusing on. It's something that I think a lot of women, you know, we start to see those changes or feel those changes and we automatically go to, oh, I need to do more, I need to eat less. And it's actually the opposite. Less is more. When it comes to your workouts, we just want quality and more is less. Usually when it comes to nutrition, we want protein.