Insight
Senada Greca: Intermittent fasting disrupts hormones for women in their thirties
“It's not that great, period. If you're, you know, especially when you're hitting your late thirties and early forties, it is just not a good idea because of our hormones. Our hormones are much different than a man's hormones and that can wreak havoc. In our ho…”
Assertion Contradicted
Senada Greca: 150 weekly exercise minutes is twice as effective as antidepressants
“Just as little as a 150 minutes a week of physical activity can have almost twice as much of the effect as an antidepressant or as a an anxiety medication can have.”
Opinion
Senada Greca: Margin compression is forcing major apparel brands to cut quality
“Because even those brands are suffering, like just to hear some of the margins that they're having to deal with. It's like, it's, they're suffering. So they're having to cut on quality. They're having to cut corners.”
Insight
Senada Greca: Ignore seed oil panics and focus on basic calorie foundations
“I would side with Mike's a little bit on that, in the sense that Let's tackle like the big rock issues, like the easy, the easier issues. And, you know are you eating? What are, what's the calorie amount that you're eating? What's the macro breakdown? Like tho…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Senada Greca: Studies undeniably prove animal protein is superior to plant protein
“The studies are just out there and are undeniable as to how much more beneficial, like, animal protein is.”
Assertion Supported
Greca: Creatine supports cognitive function and brain health alongside muscle growth
“It turns out that creatine is a pretty important supplement, not just in muscle growth, but in brain health as well. So I have, I've started myself adding creatine to, especially as, you know, get a little bit older, And, you know, we want to really keep that …”
Assertion Supported
Senada Greca: Women cannot get bodybuilder-bulky from weightlifting without steroids
“Our hormones do not allow us forget to, for us to become that big. Naturally, you know, I'm sure there is Steroids and other anabolics that, like, people can use that can do that, and that's their choice, and maybe that's the fear there, because people see som…”
Assertion Supported
Senada Greca: Touching a muscle during exercise triggers neurological activation
“There's also a chemical Process, if you will, that, that happens when you do actually touch. All of a sudden, your brain is like, oh, that's being worked. Like, it's actually a chemical process that's occurring as well, not just the, a woo-woo that I'm touchin…”
Insight
Senada Greca: Maximizing workout results requires ditching music for full concentration
“If we're talking about then maximizing like your results and talking about like the nitty gritty, then yes, you'd want to kind of fully concentrate on what you're doing in that particular moment.”
Insight
Greca: Lifting heavy becomes increasingly critical for women as they age
“Weightlifting, it's so important to do right now, or wherever you're at, wherever, whatever point you're at, it is so important, whether you're in your twenties, but then it becomes even more important when you're in like thirties and forties and fifties and s…”
Insight
Greca: 'Lifting heavy' means reaching failure at target reps with proper form
“If in a program you're recommended, let's say, 12 reps or eight reps, heavy means going up until that eight or 12 rep, and you're not able to go any further than that. Maybe you have one or two more reps in the tank, but you're basically AKA going to failure. …”
Disclosure
Senada Greca: Kim Kardashian's team hired me by sliding into DMs
“She slid into my DMs, literally. Well, not her, but, you know, her people initially.”
Insight
Senada Greca: Production volume costs make small apparel brands a brutal business
“It's a tough business, especially for a small brand when you're trying to compete with larger brands that can produce tons of units at super low cost, and here you are, you know, producing a fraction at a higher cost, so then you have to pass that on to the co…”
Insight
Greca: Working out twice a day is unnecessary unless bodybuilding
“It's unnecessary. You don't need to be doing two workouts a day. Unless you, that's, You are a bodybuilder, and that's what you're going for.”
Disclosure
Senada Greca: Building businesses means I currently work out less than ever
“Meanwhile, it's like the time in my life when I've worked out the least, if you will. Yeah, I mean, like you were talking about before, meetings take time. As you know, one hour meeting turns into a two hour meeting. Training somebody takes time. It's all of t…”
Opinion
Senada Greca: Bulgarian split squats and pull-ups are the ultimate compound exercises
“I would choose a Bulgarian split squat. Because I, because it tackles just like so much of your lower body, like your glutes, your quads to a lesser level, like your hamstrings, and it's a compound because, you know, depending how you're performing it, you kno…”
Disclosure
Greca: We Rise app will add career and branding modules in 2025
“Whether that is changing your mindset or navigating through careers, changing careers, or creating your own brand, that's coming in 2025. What we do have now is an expert in habits and a nutritionist expert as well”
Disclosure
Senada Greca: I still personally create and edit all my social content
“I still manage my own page. I have a few other social media platforms that I'm, I have not given up the controls yet. I manage it. I put the content together. I added the content. So all of what you see is done by me, unless it's something from the We Rise or …”
Assertion Open · timeframe Nov 2027
Senada Greca: Zentoa shifted all apparel manufacturing from China to Portugal
“Then we involved them into kind of clearing out and settling that process and the production. In China and moving it to Portugal, where Zentoa is now exclusively being produced.”
