How to Be More Consistent in the Gym Over 40

Fuel Your Strength

Steph Gaudreau

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Life is life-ing especially in midlife. One day you're fired up, smashing your lifts, and thinking the whole week will be a highlight reel; two days later you're sleep-deprived, stressed, and wondering who parked a bus on your quads. In this episode, you'll learn a structured-yet-flexible strategy to use with your lifting to ride the wave of real-life energy swings so you can keep showing up, build muscle, and actually enjoy the process.

We'll break down how to anchor your week with strength, layer in cardio, and use auto-regulation (RPE/RIR) to dial intensity up or down without ditching your plan or your progress. If you're an athletic woman 40+ navigating perimenopause, career, caregiving, and sport hobbies, this practical framework will help you train smarter, recover better, and stay consistent long term.

What you'll learn in this episode:

Why the "go hard every day" mindset backfires once you hit your 40s and what to focus on instead.
The approach that keeps lifters consistent even when life is chaos.
How to tell if it's a day to push or pull back without second-guessing your training plan.
The simple two-day strength & cardio framework that delivers results without burning you out.
The mindset shift that turns "I missed a workout" guilt into sustainable long-term progress.

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0:00.0	Picture this. You start your Monday, absolutely ready to crush your week. You feel great. You lift.
0:07.2	You feel so accomplished. And you're like, fuck yeah, the rest of this week is going to be amazing.
0:13.7	And then life happens. You don't sleep very well or you're extra stressed because of work. And life is just lifing. By the end of the
0:23.3	week, you're sort of wondering if you've been hit by a small bus and you just didn't realize it.
0:28.3	That roller coaster is super common and we might even say kind of normal when you're in your
0:35.3	40s or in this midlife period of time. But the trick with
0:39.4	training isn't to just try harder and push through it no matter what. On this episode, I'm letting
0:46.6	you in on the strategy that I use with my lifters and personally with myself to stay consistent
0:52.9	and ultimately get better results from the
0:56.0	training that you're doing in the long run.
1:03.2	If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights, challenging yourself
1:09.0	and doing hard shit, the Fuel Your Strength
1:11.9	Podcast is for you. You'll learn how to eat, train, and recover smarter so you build
1:18.2	strength and muscle, have more energy, and perform better in and out of the gym.
1:24.5	I'm Strength Nutrition Strategist and Weightlifting Coach, Steph Goddrow. The Fuel Your
1:29.3	Strength podcast dives into evidence-based strategies for nutrition, training, and recovery,
1:35.8	and why, once you're approaching your 40s and beyond, you need to do things a little differently
1:41.1	than you did in your 20s. We're here to challenge the limiting industry
1:45.3	narratives about what women can and should do in training and beyond. If that sounds good,
1:52.1	hit subscribe on your favorite podcast app and let's go. What's going on? Welcome back to the
2:00.8	podcast. I'm so glad that you're here with me today on this
2:03.7	episode. We're going to be getting into when you're in midlife. There are so many things that
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