Don't Let the Old Woman In with Sal Edwards (Episode 178)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sally “Sal” Edwards, now 76, is a pioneer in women’s sports. She qualified for the first women's marathon Olympic Trials in 1983 and is one of the original founders of USA Triathlon. She also brought heart rate and zone training to the mainstream. For 22 years, Sal served as the national spokeswoman for the Danskin Women's Triathlon Series volunteering to finish last as a professional triathlete so that no other woman would have to. This week Sal reflects back on her past and shares her insights into where training technology is taking us in the future. We also talk about menopause, what it means to have a great life, and how we “shouldn’t let the old woman in.”

Sally “Sal” Edwards, MA, MBA, an American best-selling author, professional athlete, entrepreneur, teacher and coach is one of America's leading experts in business, exercise science, and lifestyle living. She is the author of 25 books on health, fitness, and weight loss. Her passion is to get America fit. Her company, Heart Zones® is a fitness and health technology and wearable devices company. Sally is the co-founder of Fleet Feet. She is the developer of the Heart Zones patented group technology used in over 2,500 schools in 10 countries plus health clubs and individual fitness enthusiasts around the world.

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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.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.2	So this week, I had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with endurance training legend Sally, or Sal, as she now goes by, Edwards.
0:44.2	For those of you who have been in running and cycling and triathlon or endurance sports for any amount of time, you'll likely recognize her name.
0:53.2	Sal wrote some of the first books on heart rate zone
0:56.2	training back in the 90s, and for 22 years, she served as the national spokeswoman for the
1:02.9	Danskin Women's Triathlon series, where she volunteered to finish last, even though she was a professional
1:08.4	triathlete at the time, so that no other woman who was
1:11.4	afraid of finishing last would have to. And I met her during that time. It was at a woman's
1:17.0	triathlon event, probably in 1996. And triathlon was just taking off, and I really wanted to try it,
1:23.8	but I was also very intimidated by it, especially the swimming. And Sal and everyone there made it sound so accessible and so fun that I just signed up and gave it a go.
1:34.3	And I loved it.
1:37.3	And meeting Sal at that event was a major turning point in my life because it would lead me to Ironman and Kona and mountain
1:46.2	bike stage racing. And it was such a joy to be able to thank her for that and to talk to her
1:52.1	about her early work as well as her insights on where training technology is taking us in the
1:58.0	future because she is still very, very much involved in endurance training
2:02.8	and the wearable market and is still an entrepreneur in that space. And now 76 years of age,
2:11.0	she is still as active as ever. And she has some very strong ideas about what it means to stay active and what it means to have a quote
2:21.4	unquote great life and how we, quote unquote, shouldn't let the old woman in.
2:27.5	And of course, we also talk about menopause because pit play not pause.
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