Crushing CrossFit During Menopause with Shawna Norton (Episode 97)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Heavy lifting, HIIT training, and explosive exercises like plyometrics do a menopausal body good. So, CrossFit can be the perfect workout for women in this stage of life…provided they scale it to their needs. That’s because CrossFit also has elements that may not work with our physiology and can leave us feeling tired and beat down instead of strong and built up. That’s why this week’s guest, CrossFit coach Shawna Norton of Competitive Female Training created “Level M” CrossFit programming for women peri and post-menopause. We talk all about the benefits of CrossFit, how to scale workouts to work with your physiology, and how to fuel it all for the best results.

Shawna is an L1 Certified Nutrition Coach through Precision Nutrition, with a B.S in Kinesiology. She holds her L1 with Crossfit and actively coaches athletes through her women’s only coaching program–Competitive Female Training. She loves helping women fuel their training and focus on what their bodies can do! You can find more about her and her work at competitivefemaletraining.com/level-m/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers,
0:19.7	and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.6	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:34.4	All right, so this week we are talking CrossFit, specifically CrossFit for women in the
0:40.6	menopause transition. Anyone who has listened to this show for any length of time or has followed us
0:46.7	on feisty menopause for any length of time knows we talk a lot about strength training and lifting
0:52.6	heavy to stay strong in the menopause transition and beyond. We also talk a lot about strength training and lifting heavy to stay strong in the menopause transition
0:55.5	and beyond. We also talk a lot about sprint intervals and mobility work. So CrossFit, which
1:02.1	features a lot of barbell squatting and deadlifting and sprint intervals on the assault bike and the
1:07.4	rowing machine, can be amazing for menopausal women. To a point. So CrossFit also
1:14.6	has elements that don't always work with our physiology quite as well, because there are workouts that
1:20.0	feature tons of volume or longer intervals without much recovery, and that raises cortisol,
1:25.9	which at this time of lives, when cortisol is
1:28.7	already hard to manage, can leave us feeling a bit beat down and tired rather than strong and built up.
1:35.9	So this week's guest, CrossFit coach Shauna Norton, has created a program she calls Level
1:43.2	M, programming for athletes and menopause.
1:47.5	Jana is part of a team who runs competitive female training, which is online CrossFit programming
1:53.5	designed specifically for women, which includes programming based on how women are feeling
1:58.9	throughout their menstrual cycle. Well, as she enters
2:02.9	peri menopause herself and works with more women in this demographic, it has become apparent to her
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