The Power of Play & Parkour During Menopause with Penny Szentkuti & Rachel Gray (Episode 151)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When we reach menopause and midlife, we’re sometimes leery of trying new things. We don’t want to embarrass ourselves. We feel afraid. We don’t want to get hurt. Whether hormonal, societal, or a blend of both, we can easily succumb to the urge to stay on the sidelines. But the real magic happens when you jump (maybe literally) into something new, especially an activity that builds skill, confidence, and a community of like-minded women who want to break expectations. For this week’s guests, that activity has been parkour, a practice that involves maneuvering over, under, and through obstacles, which has given them both a newfound sense of power and strength, as well as play and fun. They talk all about their path to parkour and how much it’s improved their lives in this week’s show.

Penny Szentkuti, 53, is a teacher librarian at Ascham School in Edgecliff, Sydney, Australia and is a mother of two (which is how she got into parkour in the first place). You can see her parkour in action on Instagram here. Rachel Gray, 48, is an early childhood educator, running Outdoor Playgroups. She is a mother of three active children (which is how she, too, got into parkour). They both practice parkour at AAPES (Australian Academy of Parkour, Exercise and Self-Defence).

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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 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.
0:30.3	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.0	First, I wanted to take a second to thank all the women who came up to me while I was in Kona,
0:38.9	producing live podcasts and other content with the Feisty Media team for the Iron Man World
0:44.3	Championship race. I love meeting audience members, and it was so exciting to watch so many of you
0:52.0	put it all out there on the Ironman course. And the whole
0:56.2	experience also just really reaffirmed that we all have so much inside of us and so many great
1:03.6	adventures ahead of us, especially when we believe in ourselves. And speaking of great adventures and believing in yourself, I have a great
1:14.6	show for you this week. And it is all about finding that inner confidence and belief. And in this case,
1:21.6	it's through parkour, which if you're aware of it at all, you probably equate with running up walls and leaping off
1:28.5	tall buildings. But, you know, lately I have been seeing a lot of midlife women taking up
1:35.3	parkour. I have a couple of friends who are really into it. They go to conferences, they go every
1:41.5	week. And I, you know, caught this story online on one of my news
1:46.0	sites about this woman, she's 53, Penny's and Cootie, who started doing parkour. And now she's
1:53.1	like an addict and feels stronger and more confident than ever. And I was like, all right,
1:58.1	I need to know more about what's going on here. So I dropped
2:02.9	Penny a line and she said she would love to talk about it. And she had a friend Rachel Gray
2:07.4	with a similar story. So they both came on the show. And I really loved this one so very much.
2:15.3	You can hear how infectious and positive, they just love it so much,
2:21.1	and you can hear how the practice has positively transformed their sense of self and how they
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