Building Strength & Pushing Limits after 40 with Steph Gaudreau (Episode 218)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to shrink ourselves. We grew up being told you could never be too thin. As athletes, especially in endurance sports, smaller, lighter, faster was the ethos of the day. That is changing as we see athletes, especially women, discover that being fueled and strong yields even better performance–and longevity. This week’s guest, trainer and nutrition coach Steph Gaudreau embodies that journey through both her personal and professional life. She shares how, for 40+ women especially, growing muscles is the key to better energy and performance in sport and life, and how strength training is the gateway to midlife self-acceptance.

Steph Gaudreau, CISSN, CPT, helps athletic women over 40 fuel themselves better, get stronger, increase their energy, and perform better in the gym. She’s a sports nutritionist and strength coach with multiple certifications including USA Weightlifting coach, Menopause Health & Fitness Specialist, Girls Gone Strong Women’s Coaching Specialist, and Intuitive Eating Counselor. She shares her advice on building strength, proper fueling, and much more as the host of the Fuel Your Strength Podcast. You can learn more about Steph and her work at www.stephgaudreau.com

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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,
0:19.7	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.
0:30.9	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.2	Welcome to Hit Play, Not Pause, the podcast where I will never, ever, ever tell you to shrink yourself.
0:41.0	So many of us came up in our younger years with the message that you just can't be too thin,
0:47.2	to the point where models were, you know, smoking, taking drugs, and occasionally dying to be
0:53.0	emaciated enough. And for many of us, sports were a
0:57.0	refuge until they weren't, because often, especially in endurance sports, we would get indoctrinated
1:03.3	with this ethos that we always needed to be smaller and lighter to be faster, even when there
1:09.0	was no real evidence to show that being smaller actually
1:12.1	did make us faster. And that's something that I have certainly experienced over my athletic
1:17.3	career and has this week's guest who walked a similar path as myself 40-plus female trainer,
1:23.8	Steph Goddrow. And in this conversation, we just dig into all of it, how damaging those
1:29.6	messages were and in some cases still are, how thankfully we are seeing changes where female
1:35.5	athletes are discovering that being well-fueled and strong yields even better performance
1:42.0	and longevity in sport and life.
1:45.5	Steph talks about how strength training can be a stepping stone to more unconditional acceptance
1:51.1	of self, and that's a message that really landed with me, and I hope lands with you as well.
1:56.9	And of course, we dig into the nuts and bolts of training and fueling for 40 plus and menopausal bodies because that's Steph's main mission.
2:04.6	As a certified sports nutritionist and personal trainer, weightlifting, and menopause coaching specialist,
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