The Female Performance Project

I had a catch up with my friend and past training buddy the absolute TANK Marlene Andersson!

Marlene is a previous CrossFit Games athlete, the National Champion of Sweden, coach, and now a mighty mother!

We had an amazing conversation about the reality of managing training expectations as a high level athlete, the shift in identity from training full time to becoming a mother, and how Marlene feels that hormonally, she is healthier now in her 30s than she was in her 20s.

Marlene runs a platform online for new mums in navigating motherhood while feeling a need to 'get back' to where they were before they gave birth, and how they can reframe this mindset to be kinder to themselves!

Strap in for a really awesome episode!

You can find Marlene's instagram @mightymomscommunity

Join two competitive bodybuilders as we discuss relationship with food and body image!

Olivia Oneid and myself had a great conversation about how we have both worked on our relationship with food through the lens of bodybuilding, and how our sport may have impacted the way we view our bodies as we go through different phases.

Olivia is also a wellness competitor and a female coach, and she gives so many useful pieces of advice in this episode to help you if you are struggling with any of the issues we discuss.

Most importantly, we cover how our relationship with food will always be a work in progress, and how YOU can keep progressing forwards with it!

You can find out all about Olivia and her story on her instagram @oliviaxoneid

This is an UNMISSABLE episode as I had the pleasure of chatting with the amazing Dr Dean St Mart, pharmacologist and product formulator at Supplement Needs.

We took a deep dive into female physiology and how this can impact blood test results, our supplementation, and how to make educated choices around our lifestyle based on symptoms and what our hormones are telling us!

Get ready for all the knowledge bombs with this episode!

You can get everything else right, but unless you're getting the amount and quality of sleep that you need, you are only going to progress so far.

Our sleep will dictate our energy levels, our hunger signals, our recovery, our body composition, our cognitive function... but it can be so easily overlooked!

I'm joined by The Sleep Geek, James Wilson, a sleep coach who has worked with a wide range of people from footballers, CEOs, celebrities, new mums and dads, and ourselves in the general population who are all searching for the keys to a better nights sleep!

James talks us through why our sleep timings, how much we need, and how it impacts us, is completely individual and often genetic.

We talk about fads, peri menopause, whether sleep supplements work, and most importantly, how to set yourself up for the best nights sleep, whether we are at home or going away.

Don't miss this one!

I had a catch up with the lovely Wioletta, otherwise known as Coach Vee, who is an online coach who supports women in reaching their goals without restrictive diets and living a balanced lifestyle. Wioletta studied in psychodietetics and so is a great person to chat to on understanding the psychology behind our nutrition.

Wioletta and I discuss most importantly the problems of getting so hung up on the scale, and we have a good and honest chat about our own experiences with struggles as athletes and coaches, including losing menstrual cycles, disordered eating patterns and how we have made changes.

This is a great and honest coach to coach episode, and hopefully our chat will be useful for you!

You can check out Vee's insta here: @_fitnesswithvee_

In this episode, I spoke to Registered Nutritionist and CrossFit coach Nelly Koenig, who helps girls to eat more food to fuel their training and work on their relationship with food.

In a very open and honest episode, Nelly talks about how her experience with disordered eating habits and trying to chase a certain amount of leanness while also trying to perform in her sport made her lose the love for it. She talks about how she overcame these habits and has worked hard on her own relationship with food to enjoy her training again!

This is a hugely relatable episode and if you're struggling with any issues related to the above, I highly recommend that you take a listen!

You can find Nelly on her instagram @nellnutrition and her website here.

Today I am solo-casting and I am here to chat with you about how I lost my menstrual cycle for over 4 years and how I managed to get it back!

I will discuss the reasons I believe I lost my cycle, the mindset behind these, how it impacted my life and the action points which I took to bring it back.

Hopefully some of the action points discussed in here may help you if you are feeling alone in this, or are struggling to know where to start in the quest to understand how to start getting your cycle back.

Feel free to message me on our instagram @femaleperformanceproject if you have any questions!

Karima Adi (@caffeinated_curves) is here today to share her story, of how being diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 30 reshaped her narrative and forced her to think about her life, her body, and her self talk differently.

In this episode we talk about how to forge a strong mind, how to reshape our existence by changing the stories we tell ourselves about how we live our lives, and how this carries over to the relationship with our bodies and our health goals.

Is your mindset holding you back? This episode will help you to take some small actionable steps to make some changes!

I chat to Tom McClure, a sports nutritionist and endurance athlete who has taken on so many incredible feats such as running 13 marathons in 13 days!

We talk about how getting out of your comfort zone can help you achieve some amazing things, how important a strong mindset is for life as well as training, and how to make sure you're eating enough for your long endurance efforts!

You can find Tom on his instagram, @tmc.nutrition

Another episode you don't want to miss where I spoke to Irene Clark, a sports educator working with Athletics Ireland who is an expert in all things peri and post menopause. Check her out here @menopause_coach_irene and menopausecoach.ie

We had a great chat about the pressure to 'do it all', how we can be more at risk of over training, whether we should train fasted, how we should prioritise our recovery, HRT, and whether we can be stronger, fitter and faster post menopause than when we're in our 20's and 30's!

For more information about our programs and what we do, check us out @femaleperformanceproject and femaleperformanceproject.com