Episodes
167 Why Weight Gain Is About So Much More Than Your Hormones with Louise Digby
Join me and Louise Digby, a registered nutritional therapist, as we take a dive into the world of weight loss resistance during menopause. We talk about: 🌱Why we shouldn’t be blaming our hormones for everything.🌱 Interesting ‘other’ factors making weight loss harder at menopause.🌱 The paradox of not focusing on weight loss if you want […]
Selene Yeager – Why exercise? Female Athletes, Menopause and Sharing Information
Selene Yeager is an elite athlete who started professionally competing at 40. She’s also a Health & fitness writer who lives what she writes as a NASM certified trainer, USA Cycling coach, Pn1 certified nutrition coach, pro licensed off-road racer, and All-American Ironman triathlete and content creator for Feisty Media. Selene is grounded and into […]
Top Menopause Fitness Questions: Part 1
Ever wonder what the Top 10 fitness questions asked by menopausal women are?We're going to tell you. Today's episode will give you the answers to the first 5 and stay tuned next week, where we give you the answers to the second five. Is it safe to start strength training at my age? What exercises […]
Midlife Women's Guide to Upper Body Strength
I'm strong to the 'finich', cause I eats me spinach…or so says Popeye. But the real reason we get strong is because we WORK for it. Today's episode is all about building those biceps and the rest of the upper body. Upper body strength is important for many reasons, not the least of which is […]
The Importance of Protein for Women in Peri/Menopause
Being a woman in midlife means you’re way more likely to be losing muscle than gaining it. As we get older we don’t have the same level of muscle protein synthesis that we once did. We actually require more protein, especially during menopause, where we have a decline in estrogen, increase in cortisol, and decrease […]