Dr. Tabatha BarberI teach women how to fast their way to a faith-filled, hormonally balanced, fabulous life!

Is Cardio 🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️ Can Make You Gain Weight?

12 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Tabatha Barber (YouTube) discusses how excessive cardio can be harmful for women by increasing physiological stress. In this excerpt she states that women training heavily (marathons/triathlons) experience adrenal stress and elevated cortisol from intense cardio, which she claims can cause weight gain—especially around the midline—rather than weight loss.

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We women want to have it all, do it all, be it all, and all of that stress just tanks our adrenals. I also see a lot in my practice women trying to train for marathons and triathlons and a lot of heavy stress. Cardio. Cardio in excess is not beneficial. It does not help you lose weight. It makes you gain weight because you're now producing excess cortisol to get through that cardio intense workout. And cortisol, the stress hormone, causes weight gain, especially around the midline.