Harnessing the Masters Mindset with Ashling Smith (Episode 96)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What would happen if you tossed out all your premenopausal notions about how you are “supposed to” eat and train for your best performance and tried some new tricks to work with your changing physiology? If you’re like this week’s guest, you might just win a gold medal. Ashling Smith is a runner from Ireland who recently won a gold medal at the World Masters Athletics Championships in the 4 x 400 relay. She also ran to a career-high 4th place in the 1,500-meter race at the same event. She did both shortly after turning 50, recovering from Covid, and as she puts it being “smack bang in perimenopause”. How did she do it? Lifting, sprint training, plyometrics, and changing her relationship with food. We dive into all of that, her newfound love for being a menopausal woman, and more this week.

Along with being a competitive elite runner, Ashling is a personal trainer, a Pilates instructor, and a deep tissue massage therapist. She helps women pursue sustainable fitness for life and have fun with their body at every age. You can follow her here. You can read all about her gold medal run at the Independent.ie. The research on iron supplementation we discuss can be found here.

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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, 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.
0:30.5	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:32.8	I hope you all are well.
0:35.0	So this week, I had a really fun conversation with recent World
0:39.2	Masters gold medal winner Ashleen Smith. Ash is a runner from Ireland who recently won a gold
0:45.9	medal at the World Masters Athletics Championships in the 4x 400 relay. She also ran to a career
0:52.3	high fourth place in the 1500 meter race at the same event,
0:56.2	all of which shortly after turning 50, recovering from COVID, and as she puts it, being
1:01.6	smack bang in perimenopause. And that's exactly how she put it in a story that featured her
1:07.4	and her team in the Independent. And I'll put a link to that story, which is how I found her, in the show notes for those who want to check it out.
1:14.7	Ash is a personal trainer, a Pilates instructor, and a deep tissue massage therapist.
1:19.9	She's also taken Dr. Stacey Sims' menopause for athletes course and has applied the advice she learned there, especially lifting heavy, sprint training,
1:28.3	and plyometrics to turn her training around while struggling with symptoms and win that gold medal.
1:34.1	We also talk about Ash's history as a runner, and as someone who ended up running away from running early on,
1:41.4	because of the pressure to be skinny and thin equal success and all of that
1:46.9	that led to eating disorders and stress reactions and mental health struggles. I really loved
1:53.2	hearing about how she has reclaimed a healthy relationship with food and her body, and I think
1:59.1	you will too. Okay, before we get to it, if you enjoy this show,
2:03.9	if you've been inspired by guests, if you've learned from our guests, I would love, love,
2:09.0	for you to take a minute and tell us about it. For the next few weeks, I have an online voicemail
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