Hormones & Heavy Lifts: The Menopause Blueprint with Holly Rilinger (Replay)

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Health & Fitness, Medicine, Fitness

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This episode originally dropped on: June 2, 2025

When some of the biggest names in menopause medicine want to learn to lift heavy, they turn to this week’s guest, Nike Master Trainer and midlife fitness advocate Holly Rilinger, founder of the LIFTED Method. Because Holly gets it. She’s been through her own journey with damaging diet culture, body image issues, and a challenging perimenopause that has left her navigating sheet soaking night sweats, brain fog, and fatigue. Through a midlife-specific training plan and tailored hormone therapy regimen (including testosterone), she’s been able to reclaim her energy and power and is devoted to helping others do the same. This week we dive into the science and strategy behind Holly’s Lifted Method and her Blueprint programs designed specifically for women in midlife, as well as for those using GLP-1 medications. This conversation is packed with insight, honesty, and a lot of muscle. You can learn more about Holly and her programs at www.theliftedmethodcoaching.com

Holly Rilinger is a Nike Master Trainer, author, and founder of the LIFTED Method: An in-person and virtual platform with the focus of empowering people at all levels to strength train. Holly is dedicated to delivering innovative, science-backed training methods in an environment that prioritizes growth, resilience, and a lifelong passion for fitness. Holly coaches in her East Hampton studio and on her virtual platform. She is also the founder of LIFTED Blueprint, formerly Menopause Bootcamp, a program designed specifically to help women in midlife get stronger, feel more energized, and gain confidence as they navigate this powerful phase of life. She is also the creator of LIFTED’s newest program for SLP-1 patients–GLP-1 Blueprint in partnership with Dr. Alexandra Sowa of So Well.

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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.
0:31.1	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.4	I hope you all are well.
0:35.2	So at the top of the show here, I want to take a quick moment and thank
0:38.7	all the folks who came up to me to say kind words about my Feisty-40 Plus newsletter and this
0:44.6	podcast at the Roughneck Rube in Titusville, Pennsylvania last week. It was a doozy of an event,
0:52.3	which anyone who is there knows, with well over 10,000 feet of climbing,
0:57.0	over 100 pretty soggy miles on some pretty soft dirt because we've had a lot of rain here in PA this month,
1:05.1	but it was also just lush and green and gorgeous, and it was super, super beautiful event. And I had a good day. I was really
1:13.4	stoked to come in 12th overall in the century distance and clock the fastest female time. So it was a good
1:19.4	day. I got to sign some books and meet some people. And I have been making it a goal to attend
1:24.9	more small grassroots gravel events and rides because while the really
1:30.3	big marquee events are cool, there's something uniquely special about smaller local races and rides.
1:38.4	And I always love meeting new audience members and meeting some of you out in the wild. So thanks again.
1:46.6	It was a really good time. Anyway, so this week, when some of the biggest names in menopause
1:54.1	medicine want to learn to lift heavy, they turn to this week's guest, Nike Master Trainer,
2:00.1	former basketball star, and midlife fitness advocate, Holly Rillinger,
2:04.6	founder of the lifted method, an in-person and virtual platform that focuses on empowering people of all levels to strength train.
2:13.6	Because Holly gets it.
2:15.6	She has been through her own journey with damaging
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