1 hr 57 min
Episode 17: The idea of the outcome can supersede the fear - Dr. Stacy Sims Life's Work
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In this interview Steve talks with Dr. Stacy Sims, a forward-thinking, innovative international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who is revolutionising exercise nutrition and performance for women.
Stacy has directed research programmes at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance.
During her tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into consumer products and a science-based layperson's book (“ROAR”) written to explain sex differences in training and nutrition. Both the consumer products and the book challenged the existing dogma for women in exercise, nutrition, and health, and “ROAR” was ground-breaking in approaching the topics through a female lens, rather than the traditional male perspective. This paradigm shift is the focus of her famous and well-received "Women Are Not Small Men” TEDx talk.
Her contributions to the international research environment and the sports nutrition industry have established a new niche in sports nutrition and established her reputation as the expert in sex differences in training, nutrition, and health. Stacy has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, several books, and is a regularly featured speaker at professional and academic conferences, including those by the USA Olympic Committee and USA Cycling.
In this interview, Stacy shares her Life’s Work story with us, which includes how she grew up feeling like an outsider, moving from place to place due to her father’s career in the armed forces. Instead of this negatively impacting her development, Stacy took the opportunity to learn and understand different cultures, seeing the world from different perspectives. It was this ability, and willingness, that led to her becoming a researcher in a field she now dominates as a world leading expert.
As a person who never seems to slow down, and at a time when Stacy was balancing lecturing, being an athlete herself, and working with athletes, opportunities kept on coming that she readily accepted because, in her words, “it’s all about trying to help people get better at what they’re doing.”
Part of the help that Stacy is providing today, as she talks about, is trying to drive the discussion of traditionally taboo subjects such as the menstrual cycle and menopause, how significant the impact can be on a woman’s career and relationships, and how important it is to normalise the attitudes towards them in society.
Stacy also shares some of the experiences she had along the way which not only demonstrated her resilience, but also the need for her to speak up and fight for what she believes in, with an attitude that ‘the idea of the outcome can supersede the fear’.
Stacy also has her own business (www.drstacysims.com) where she creates and delivers online learning material focused on women training with their physiology across the lifespan.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this interview Steve talks with Dr. Stacy Sims, a forward-thinking, innovative international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who is revolutionising exercise nutrition and performance for women.
Stacy has directed research programmes at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance.
During her tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into consumer products and a science-based layperson's book (“ROAR”) written to explain sex differences in training and nutrition. Both the consumer products and the book challenged the existing dogma for women in exercise, nutrition, and health, and “ROAR” was ground-breaking in approaching the topics through a female lens, rather than the traditional male perspective. This paradigm shift is the focus of her famous and well-received "Women Are Not Small Men” TEDx talk.
Her contributions to the international research environment and the sports nutrition industry have established a new niche in sports nutrition and established her reputation as the expert in sex differences in training, nutrition, and health. Stacy has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, several books, and is a regularly featured speaker at professional and academic conferences, including those by the USA Olympic Committee and USA Cycling.
In this interview, Stacy shares her Life’s Work story with us, which includes how she grew up feeling like an outsider, moving from place to place due to her father’s career in the armed forces. Instead of this negatively impacting her development, Stacy took the opportunity to learn and understand different cultures, seeing the world from different perspectives. It was this ability, and willingness, that led to her becoming a researcher in a field she now dominates as a world leading expert.
As a person who never seems to slow down, and at a time when Stacy was balancing lecturing, being an athlete herself, and working with athletes, opportunities kept on coming that she readily accepted because, in her words, “it’s all about trying to help people get better at what they’re doing.”
Part of the help that Stacy is providing today, as she talks about, is trying to drive the discussion of traditionally taboo subjects such as the menstrual cycle and menopause, how significant the impact can be on a woman’s career and relationships, and how important it is to normalise the attitudes towards them in society.
Stacy also shares some of the experiences she had along the way which not only demonstrated her resilience, but also the need for her to speak up and fight for what she believes in, with an attitude that ‘the idea of the outcome can supersede the fear’.
Stacy also has her own business (www.drstacysims.com) where she creates and delivers online learning material focused on women training with their physiology across the lifespan.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
1 hr 57 min