The 5 Hard Truths Your Lifting Needs After 40

Fuel Your Strength

Steph Gaudreau

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever heard a coach say "it's not wrong, but it's not right either," you'll resonate with this episode. Dive into the nuance that gets lost in punchy social media hot takes – especially for athletic women over 40 who want strength, muscle, and better performance without the fluff.

Get insight into why your progress may feel stuck, what to do about it, and how to build muscle with less frustration. Get practical coaching on progressive overload, program hopping, hypertrophy, auto-regulation, and why DIY training isn't actually "free."

What you'll learn in this episode:

What happens when you've been lifting for a while… but the weights (and results) haven't really changed?
Why "switching things up" might be the reason you're stuck in place.
The truth behind words like toned, sculpted, and long and lean and what they really mean for your training.
How chasing the number on the scale can quietly derail your performance and progress.
The real cost of trying to make up your own workouts, and what it's stealing from your gains.

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0:00.0	I was so confident that I had the technique correct. My professor turned to me and he said,
0:06.8	it's not wrong, but it's not right either. And that stuck with me until this day. And quite
0:15.0	often he does say this when we're in class learning techniques. And even as a black belt,
0:20.6	there's still stuff that I know
0:22.7	I can improve and I don't always get correct. It can be hard to hear sometimes when we're given
0:29.1	the feedback that something isn't quite right and here's how we could fix it or address it.
0:34.9	And at the same time, our world is so full of hot takes, especially in the
0:39.3	fitness industry, that sometimes the nuance of coaching gets lost. But on this episode of
0:45.1	Fuel Your Strength, I decided to sit down and record a short list of stuff that if I was
0:51.2	being brutally honest with you, I would want to tell you without worrying about
0:56.6	hurting your feelings, things that are going to make your lifting so much better and your
1:01.8	experience of building strength that much smoother. So that's what we're going to talk about
1:06.3	on this episode of the podcast.
1:18.6	If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights, challenging yourself and doing hard shit, the fuel your strength podcast is for you. You'll learn how to eat,
1:25.1	train, and recover smarter so you build strength and muscle,
1:29.4	have more energy, and perform better in and out of the gym.
1:34.1	I'm Strength Nutrition Strategist and Weightlifting Coach, Steph Goddrow.
1:37.8	The Fuel Your Strength Podcast dives into evidence-based strategies for nutrition,
1:43.8	training, and recovery. and why, once you're
1:46.6	approaching your 40s and beyond, you need to do things a little differently than you did in your 20s.
1:52.6	We're here to challenge the limiting industry narratives about what women can and should do
1:58.1	in training and beyond. If that sounds good, hit subscribe on your favorite
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