Outsmart Hormonal Changes with Weights and Workouts

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Calling all women runners, especially ones going through perimenopause and menopause: Listen to this smart, insightful episode! The guest is Brooke Bussard, M.D., a certified personal trainer, health coach, and author of Outsmarting Menopause. Along with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and Amanda Loudin, post-menopausal Dr. Brooke details: -her personal strength routine (hint: 5x5); -how to start lifting heavy—and to progress; -how—and why— to stimulate your central nervous system while lifting; -the importance of doing jumping exercises; -the drill that makes her “feel wild” as she’s doing it. Before the guest joins around 04:57, both hosts share why they’ve been doing two-a-day workouts lately. (Spoiler: Cuz they can!) When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR.We appreciate your—and their—support! Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com Stay-put performance underwear: For 20% off, use code AMR20 at ParadisSport.com A dream mattress: Use code AMR to get 40% off sitewide at bearmattress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thanks to Selkirk for its support. For a decade plus, Selkirk has been the industry leader in
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0:16.5	Thanks to Parody Sport for supporting our show. Founded by a mother athlete, the brand is on a mission to make the best performance women's underwear that stays in place. Use code AMR 20 for 20% off at Parodysport.com.
0:39.5	Welcome to another mother runner.
0:40.8	This is Sarah Bowen-Shay.
0:42.4	I'm joined today by Amanda Loudon.
0:43.0	Hello, Amanda.
0:43.9	Hey, sir.
0:44.4	How are you?
0:46.2	I am good.
0:46.6	I'm good.
0:56.5	I do have to say very quickly that I am making for dinner the recipe that you shared with me that kind of, kind of, um, make, make it, make it yourself sweet green. Oh, yes. Right. Mm-hmm. The 20,000 ingredient salad dressing that goes with it.
1:03.2	Yes. The 999, uh, jar of cashew butter. Right. It's 365 brand. And I, by the time you've stared at all the
1:12.3	1617 dollars of, uh, cashew butter, you're like, wow, 999. What a bargain. What a bargain
1:19.8	for three ounces. So I better like it because now I need to make it a whole lot. Right. Exactly.
1:28.1	Exactly.
1:28.7	Well,
1:28.9	you're going to have to keep you posted on whether or not it's a hit.
1:31.4	Yes.
1:32.0	So I'm making it tonight for dinner because my son John is home and then his big sister,
1:38.8	Phoebe's coming over for dinner and she's a vegetarian.
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