REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT.  Why do we feel inflamed, lack of strength, lack of power, speed  and PUFFY while we put on fat weight and lose lean body mass??

YES - I repeated myself many times in this episode and the previous episode on training and fueling for the female athlete!  Let's stop, pause and reflect on our own programs.

As we, females, enter the “Transitional” mid-life time of our lives, we begin to experience “random” symptoms even when we don’t change anything as lifestyle habits, nutrition or exercise. 

During our mid-life, we begin to experience changes in our estrogen receptor sites, before “peri-menopause” (5-10 years) and “post menopause” (keep in mind- “menopause” is one day in time!). 

As I always say… “Take ownership of your health now” and don’t wait until you feel burned out, broken and living with “METABOLIC CHAOS”.   Start making the adjustments in how you fuel, train and perform each day as an aging female athlete instead of blaming the aging process- or using “aging” as an excuse!

Don’t wait to make those changes when you are “post menopause”… start making those changes now so your body learns how to adapt to the external changes to replace the role of our estrogen and progesterone.

I always like to understand the WHY!

How do we stop the INSANITY…doing the same workout over and over again still expecting to see different results?  

If it is not broken, then don’t fix it.

If it is broken, then fix it by doing something different!  

• Long slow distance used to work for us… 
• Hypertrophy resistance training workouts used to work…
• Fasted exercise…
• Very low to zero carbs…

Women Need Strength 

1. https://debbiepotts.net/fueling-training-adjustments-for-the-aging-female-athlete/
2. https://debbiepotts.net/prioritizing-protein-post-workouts/
3. https://debbiepotts.net/training-the-female-athlete/