Powerlifting is Menopausal Medicine with Michelle Carlson (Episode 117)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Many women start exercising to lose weight–to get smaller and chase a number on the scale. This week’s guest powerlifter Michelle Carlson is no stranger to those goals. She took up running in her early 30s and in her own words “spent a ridiculous number of years chasing the number on the scale and living in a chronic state of energy deficiency”--a state she likened to a prison of her own creation. But when a terrible accident left her shaken and shattered, she picked up weight lifting to help her bones heal and fell in love with feeling strong. She developed a healthy relationship with food and her body and a level of peace and confidence that set her free. Now, at 51 and solidly in perimenopause, Michelle is stronger than ever and recently set the International Powerlifting League (IPL) World Record in the Bench Press for her age group and weight class. She talks all about what she’s learned and how powerlifting has been the best medicine for her during these menopausal years.

Michelle Carlson is a strength coach, strength athlete, and Masters Raw Powerlifter with records in squat, bench, and overall total. She is also a nutrition coach with a focus on plant-based nutrition for athletes and the general population. She has training, nutrition, and pain-free performance certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. You can learn more about her and her work at her coaching site Strength Elevated at www.strengthelevated.com.

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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
0:21.2	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.
0:31.3	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:34.0	So before we get to it, I have a little announcement.
0:37.5	I am going to be planning some question and answer episodes in the future where you can all send in some questions and I'll answer them on the show.
0:46.1	I get so many direct messages that this just seemed like a natural avenue to address them and help each other out.
0:53.7	So I have reopened the bat line where you are all
0:57.2	able to leave messages during our 100th episode show where you can leave a voicemail with your
1:02.5	questions. That line is at speakpipe.com slash hit play. They make it super easy to record your message on the website and then I'll get to as many
1:14.7	of them as I can. And I will put a clickable link in the show notes so you don't have to remember that.
1:19.1	But it is speakpipe.com slash hit play. All right. This week, I am excited to bring you my conversation
1:26.9	with Michelle Carlson of Strength elevated.
1:30.8	Michelle got into powerlifting about five years ago in her mid-40s after a mountaineering accident left her shaken and shattered.
1:39.7	And she just fell in love with getting strong and how powerful it made her feel and how it
1:45.0	helped her heal literally and psychologically and how it helped her learn to refuel her body
1:51.0	after years of dieting and calorie restriction that she was practicing as a runner and
1:57.0	endurance athlete. At age 51, she is absolutely crushing it as a power lifter and just sent
2:04.0	recently a bench press world record in her division this past November. I highly recommend
2:12.0	following her on Instagram. Her images are super inspirational and she shares some really poignant, powerful messages,
2:20.0	like one on body image that I shared during our conversation in this episode.
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