Jeffrey Jaime, CISSPServant Leader & CEO Driving AI Innovation and Team Excellence

Women Need to do WHAT to Optimize Their Exercise Routines?!

25 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube transcript excerpt where two speakers discuss Zone 2 training and sex-specific physiological differences. Speaker A critiques the hype around Zone 2 but suggests their bike is well-suited for precise Zone 2 work. Speaker B asks about differences for women; Speaker A replies that women typically have more slow-twitch fibers, greater mitochondrial density, and greater metabolic flexibility, so Zone 2 targets may be lower priority for women than men.

In case there's any question, the bike can do a lot more than just rehit. In fact, even though we're not the biggest fans of Zone 2 and we think that Zone 2 has been overhyped, maybe a big claim now, but I would argue that our bike is probably the best tool you can use if you want to do Zone two perfectly.
Women have completely different physiologies, and I'm just curious if there's anything you found in the type of approach with a woman versus a man when it comes to Zone two intensities.
You're absolutely right in pointing that out, and I think what this leads to is it shifts the priority of Zone 2 further to the back, so women have more slow twitch fibers, have greater mitochondrial density kind of on average than men, and have greater metabolic flexibility. So therefore the targets you're trying to achieve with Zone two training are maybe slightly lower priority for women than for men.