McCall McPherson explains why high-intensity workouts like HIIT and marathon running can worsen PCOS by raising cortisol and insulin. Instead, she recommends daily walking, strength training with longer rest periods between sets, and calming activities like time in nature.
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The HIIT training and the orange theory, the F45, the stuff all these people are doing now, the marathon running, that's not for you. If you have pcos, okay, you're a dream. Or a thyroid problem, that's unsolved. Yeah, that is not for you. What you need to do is take a nice walk and listen to this podcast every morning. Okay? Yeah, you need to, you need to walk, you need to be in nature, you need to be doing things that are very calming to you. Can you lift weights? Sure. But you need to lift weights like bodybuilders. And when I say that, this is what I mean. If you watch a bodybuilder lift weights, they do a set and they rest for a minute, and then they do a set and they rest for a minute. And the rest for a minute doesn't mean we do jumping jacks in between or we run around or we're like. It means we rest for a minute. So like you, you really have to listen to your adrenals and your body when you have pcos. So if you want to lift weights, I want you to lift weights. Don't do anything that's over strenuous and make sure you're resting in between, you know, so hiit is not for you. And that's really hard for women to hear when they're trying to lose weight because it's like, oh, I'm supposed to get on a treadmill and go for an hour. No, you're actually making it worse. I promise. You're making your cortisol higher, which is making your insulin higher, which is making everything you eat be sworn as fat. And your hormones are off. Like, it's just a big mess.
