S5 EP4: Normalizing Menopause
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How will menopause affect your health and fitness? Today’s guest will help listeners who are exploring that issue. Selene Yeager, athlete, author, and host of the podcast Hit Play Not Pause joins our podcast today to discuss some of the top issues affecting women experiencing the transition to menopause who want to maintain or build a fitness regimen. Listen in to hear about how menopause affects training and performance, how you can adjust your training to work with menopause issues, and how you even know when you’re hitting menopause in the first place.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- How menopause affects training and performance
- What can be done to improve sleep
- How to adjust training to mitigate menopause issues
- Lifting heavily and safely at the same time
- How women know when they’re hitting menopause
- Common mistakes to avoid during menopause
- The importance of working with your physiology
- How to combat a slower metabolism
- Pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy
- Training with pelvic floor issues
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| 0:00.0 | What's the first thing women do, sometimes men too, but like women especially, as soon as they notice like body composition changes that are different or they're not happy with, they eat less and exercise more, right? |
| 0:12.1 | Like that's like, and that's, that's going to be counterproductive for you. You're actually not going to, you might actually make things worse because your body is already stressed. So if you put another stress on top of it, it's just going to, you might actually make things worse because your body is already stressed. So if you |
| 0:22.7 | put another stress on top of it, it's just going to go into super conservation mode and store |
| 0:27.8 | more and shut you down. Like that's just not what to do. |
| 0:34.9 | The big question is this. |
| 0:38.8 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:47.4 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:56.9 | Wherever you are at on your journey, |
| 1:04.4 | we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thigh Thighs Save Lives podcast. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:11.6 | Hi everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:16.6 | I am super excited to have you guys back this week because we have a special guest, |
| 1:22.6 | Celine Yeager. |
| 1:23.6 | Celine, so happy to have you. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm very stoked to be here. I'm very stoked to be here. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm very excited to be here. |
| 1:29.5 | Our listeners are very excited to have you on. |
| 1:32.9 | I pulled some of our ladies before and I was like, okay, guys, like, we're going to |
| 1:37.0 | have a specialist on. |
| 1:38.8 | She's going to talk specifically about metapause and like, are your burning questions and I within an hour |
| 1:46.9 | there was like 300 questions and I was like okay cool cool like side text coming in being like |
| 1:55.7 | yeah I was like so we're going to categorize these. |
| 2:07.5 | But can you just tell our listeners like a little bit about you and why you're an expert for metapause? |
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