Coming Back from Injury Over 40
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the thing that keeps you grounded, confident, and connected to yourself suddenly gets taken away by injury? In this episode, you'll hear from strength coach, combat athlete, and student physical therapist Adam Duthie of Gray Beard Black Belt to unpack the messy middle between getting injured and getting back to the activities you love.
You'll hear about the physical and psychological realities of rehab, chronic pain, strength training, and returning to sport in your 40s and beyond. From navigating fear around movement to understanding why "just rest it" often isn't enough, this conversation is packed with practical insight for athletes over 40 who want to stay strong, resilient, and active for the long haul.
What you'll learn in this episode:
- Why injuries hit harder than just the physical pain
- The problem with "just stop training" advice
- What scans and imaging may not tell you
- A different way to think about pain and recovery
- Why some athletes stay stuck after injury
- The overlooked role of strength training in resilience
- What's missing from a lot of rehab programs
- How to stay connected to your sport while recovering
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| 0:00.0 | When you're strength training, you're doing your sport and living an active lifestyle, |
| 0:04.8 | unfortunately injuries can still happen, even though you're taking steps to try to limit the likelihood. |
| 0:12.2 | How in the heck are you supposed to manage your return not only to the gym to lift weights, |
| 0:17.5 | but also to the sport or activity that you love to do while also keeping your |
| 0:21.3 | mental state intact. That's exactly what we'll be attempting to answer today on this episode |
| 0:26.8 | of Fuel Your Strength. If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights, |
| 0:33.3 | challenging yourself, and doing hard shit, the Fuel Your Strength podcast is for you. |
| 0:39.3 | You'll learn how to eat, train, and recover smarter so you build strength and muscle, |
| 0:45.1 | have more energy, and perform better in and out of the gym. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm Strength Nutrition Strategist and Weightlifting Coach, Steph Godro. |
| 0:53.5 | The Fuel Your Strength |
| 0:54.9 | Podcast dives into evidence-based strategies for nutrition, training, and recovery, and why, |
| 1:01.8 | once you're approaching your 40s and beyond, you need to do things a little differently than you did |
| 1:07.2 | in your 20s. We're here to challenge the limiting industry narratives about what women |
| 1:12.2 | can and should do in training and beyond. If that sounds good, hit subscribe on your favorite |
| 1:18.9 | podcast app and let's go. What's going on? Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for joining me today. |
| 1:26.9 | Before we go any further, |
| 1:27.9 | if you're liking the show and getting value out of it, please hit subscribe on your favorite |
| 1:31.6 | podcast platform. It really does help the show. Okay, today's very special guest is Adam Duffy. |
| 1:38.7 | Adam is better known as graybeard black belt on Instagram. He is an incredible strength and conditioning coach. |
| 1:45.6 | He works mostly with older grapplers and combat athletes. He is one himself as a |
| 1:51.7 | jiu-jitsu athlete. And he is also a student physical therapist. So he is going through the |
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