Cortisol Belly Explained

Have you guys heard of cortisol belly?

I have girls coming to me all the time complaining that no matter how hard they work out, they can never lose the weight. They carry excess weight in their stomach and intuitively believe that they need to be doing more hard cardio workouts, more cycling, and push to their limits.

The problem with this mentality is that constantly pushing to your limit puts your body in a constant state of fight or flight and it will naturally retain weight around the midsection as a layer of protection.

Instead, if you want to lose weight around your midsection specifically, then I always recommend scaling back on the cardio, cycle syncing your workouts, and incorporating both low impact strength and high impact strength into your weekly split. Sometimes the answer isn’t working harder, but working smarter!

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