Four Women Runners Strength Training in the Gym

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This episode is the second part of a conversation with real women about how they strength training—this time it’s a quartet of gals who hit the gym. With hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin (a 7-year veteran of a strength class), four women runners share how they strength train in at the gym with a friend or in a group setting, including: -how to start strength training (finally!); -how building strength has shifted several women’s self-perception; -the joys of heavy lifting and super-setting; -the power of strength training in a group setting; and,-the shared burning desire to do a pull-up! Co-host Amanda shares how she got over her reluctance to lifting before the first gym-goer joins at around 9:05. Please follow AMR on Instagram. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Relief + support: For $25 off your first order, use code AMR25 at GOSleeves.com Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.5	Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined by Amanda Loudon. Hello, Amanda. Hi, Sarah. How's it going? It goes very well. And we are going to jump right in today's topic because you have something to say about it. You are not quite a guess, but you definitely have input.
0:56.6	So this is the second of a two-parter that we're doing about strength training because we
1:02.0	emphasize and encourage folks doing it so much. Just decided we needed to really dive into it a little
1:08.6	bit with some real women because I love our real women episodes.
1:12.6	And it was in part inspired by you, Amanda, because you have a class.
1:18.5	I know that you just love. And so on this episode, so the first of the two-parter was last week.
1:25.1	And we talked to women who strength train at home and this time it is at
1:29.4	the gym whether in a group setting like maybe with a personal trainer or in a class setting and so
1:36.8	that that's what you do so i am so envious of the class that you have and have been devoted to so
1:43.3	remind us about that class,
1:45.8	including how you found it and what it's like,
1:48.3	what type of equipment you use, all the good stuff.
1:50.7	Sure.
1:51.4	I often describe my gym as the unicorn gym
1:54.8	because I really think it is.
1:57.3	So I got started about seven years ago
2:00.7	because my PT, who I was working with, opened this gym.
2:06.2	And he was saying to me, you know, you could probably have a lot fewer injuries if you did some strength training.
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