Moderate exercise has significant role in maintaining a healthy body weight, getting good sleep, mood regulation and heart health. However, too much exercise can put excess pressure on your thyroid, adrenal and pituitary glands. When women start exercising rapidly such as training for marathon, competition sport, or such major events, lots of hormonal changes happen in their body and they may even stop getting period suddenly.

High intensity workouts such as weight lifting and body building exercises can provide some benefits if you want to reduce your weight, and increase fitness and strength. However, when you engage in these physically demanding activities regularly, they can contribute to many symptoms of over training. When you do too much intense workouts, it will lead to the release of cortisol, a stress hormone. Therefore, excessively intense exercises can cause various health problems such as adrenal fatigue, gut dysbiosis, or autoimmune disease. High intensity workouts can also lead to hormonal imbalance among women, which is becoming an epidemic in Western world. Irregular menstrual cycle, diabetes, impaired thyroid function, lowered sex drive, PCOS, PMS, infertility, amennorhea, etc are the common problems that occurs due to hormone imbalance.

Everybody neglects this fact. Exercise is helpful for reducing weight and keeping you healthy. However, it can actually work against your weight loss efforts. It is very hard for women to reduce weight even if they do too much intensive workouts because they need to deal with estrogen dominance issue. This is a hormone produced by ovaries and it promotes formation of fat tissues, cell growth and cell division. Progesterone is the other hormone found naturally in the body of women. It protects against pro-growth effect of estrogen. Progesterone and estrogen work together to achieve hormone balance. However, due to aging and intense Female weight training, progesterone declines faster than the decline of estrogen, which leads to the dominance of estrogen and growth of excessive fat tissues.

When you exercise harder, your overall appearance will be based on a tiny little grand, called thyroid. It controls your eyes, skin, hair and every cell in your body. The success of your weight loss and fitness objective is controlled by thyroid. Many health problems are associated with thyroid issues. Female ovaries produce one progesterone and three different forms of estrogen. This is the reason for the quick dominance of estrogen. Thyroid hormones allow your cells to produce energy. When you have high levels of estrogen, your body produces high levels of TBG. This estrogen dominance will upset the balance of hormones quickly. When you do excessive weight lifting, cardio, or bodybuilding exercises, your body gets very less time to recover. It is not adequate for repairing completely and creating new foundation. It is very hard for your body to handle hormone imbalance and it may even break down.

If you are concerned about your health, it is better to limit the high stress, high intensity exercises to 2-3 times a week. It is highly important if you are suffering health problems such as hormone imbalances, digestive troubles or autoimmune conditions. These problems are highly stressful. When it is combined with extra stresses from Intense Female weight training, you will become more sick.

You must take breaks from exercise. At the same time, it is also important to get adequate sleep, which allows you to recover from heavy weights and intense exercises. It is also highly important for avoiding over training syndrome.

High intensity workout is the best way to improve your general health and body composition. However, you should also listen to your body and the hormonal changes. So, prepare a healthy eating plan along with good exercise routine.