Built Different: Training for the Female Physiology, with Olympian Shannon Rowbury & PT Jessica Dorrington
The Strength Running Podcast
Jason Fitzgerald
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Should women think differently about training and weightlifting when they're pregnant and post-partum?
In this episode, Olympian Shannon Rowbury and her physical therapist Jessica Dorrington explain the specific training needs of pregnant and post-partum women, including:
- Exercise that's advised vs. not recommended
- How to modify training as pregnancy evolves
- The role of strength training during pregnancy
- Post-partum recovery strategies
- How to prepare for perimenopause through training
Their new book, Strong as a Mother, is also available to preorder!
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Invented by renowned physical therapist Jay Dicharry, MOBO helps you stabilize your stance with an innovative rocker board that's set up on two fins. The design effectively forces you to drive your big toe into the board to improve your stability. I was pretty arrogant going into my first session on the MOBO Board. How hard can it be to balance, right? Well, I was humbled pretty quickly!
Even if you're a good runner, better balance, stability, and proprioception is going to help you have a more powerful stride and prevent more running injuries. You'll learn how to improve the efficiency of the kinetic chain from your hip to your big toe. Because as Jay likes to say, it's not just how strong you are, but how well you use that strength.
I was recently at a weekend physical therapy workshop (lol I was the only running coach) and learned how important (and rare) this simple movement is. Save 10% with code STRENGTHRUN10 at checkout at moboboard.com.
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Give yourself the gift of certainty this new year and get your running, strength training, nutrition, and mindset on the right track. Get it today at strengthrunning.com/bundle/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go! |
| 0:04.4 | This is episode 443 with not one, but two guests, Olympian Shannon Robbery and physical therapist, Jessica Doreington. |
| 0:23.7 | Welcome to the Strength Running podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm coach Jason Fitzgerald, and I want to help you become a better runner. |
| 0:39.8 | Don't miss our award-winning website at strengthrunning.com, our YouTube channel with more than 100,000 subscribers, or feel free to connect with me on Instagram at Jason Fitzger 1. My singular goal is to help you improve your running. So if there's anything I can ever do to help your training, please let |
| 0:44.7 | me know. And if you love the podcast, support us by taking advantage of these great deals to help |
| 0:50.2 | your running. We're supported by one of my favorite strength and performance tools, |
| 0:54.8 | the Mobo board. Go to MoboBord.com and use code Strength Run 10 to save 10% on your board. |
| 1:02.4 | Invented by renowned physical therapist Jay DeSherry, Mobo helps you stabilize your stance |
| 1:07.7 | with an innovative rocker board that's set up on these two fins, and there's a |
| 1:12.2 | hole where your four little toes are supposed to be, which effectively forces you to drive |
| 1:17.3 | your big toe into the board to improve your stability. Now, I mentioned this before, but I was a little |
| 1:23.4 | arrogant going into my first session on the mobo board. How hard can it be to balance, right? |
| 1:28.7 | Well, I was humbled pretty quickly. Even if you're a good runner, better balance, |
| 1:33.6 | stability, and proprioception are all going to help you have a more powerful stride and prevent |
| 1:39.3 | more running injuries. You'll learn how to improve the efficiency of the kinetic chain from your hip to your |
| 1:45.3 | big toe. Because as Jay likes to say, it's not just how strong you are, but how well you use |
| 1:51.8 | that strength. Save 10% with code Strength Run 10 at checkout at mobo board.com. Again, that's |
| 1:59.6 | code Strength Run 10 at mobo board.com. Again, that's code strength run 10 at mobo board.com. We're supported by |
| 2:04.6 | Strength Running's own Ultimate Training Bundle, a collection of our six most popular training programs |
| 2:10.3 | at a huge 35% discount. Since 2010, Strength Running has been helping runners all around the world, |
| 2:19.1 | race faster, get stronger, |
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