The best workouts for perimenopause, menopause transition, and post menopause all should first be determined by HOW YOU FEEL and to offset the decreasing influence of sex hormones and corresponding increase in cortisol levels, you want to exercise with these two goals:
Increase lean muscle
Decrease cortisol levels
It’s a dance between achieving muscle and keeping cortisol low. If you’re doing cardio in attempt to lose fat… Everything you’re doing now may in fact be elevating cortisol so that you make burning fat impossible. The body is in fat storage when cortisol is high.
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