How to Adapt Your Training During the Menopause Transition with Phaedra Kennedy (Episode 204)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Horrible periods. Crippling anxiety. Weight gain. Rage. Sheet-soaking night sweats. This week’s guest, elite runner, triathlete, and endurance coach, Phaedra Kennedy had all of it, and unfortunately at the time, had no idea it was perimenopause. Because that’s just how it’s been for women. We get the birds and the bees talk as kids, but then we get to this age, and it’s just like, figure it out. You're on your own. Phaedra has devoted her life to changing that reality and to helping midlife and menopausal women find the right support and training modifications to stay in the game and keep feeling and performing their best. We dive into all of it and more this week.

Phaedra Kennedy is an endurance coach that specializes in working with women, the majority of whom are peri or post menopausal. She is also an age group runner and triathlete and over the last 25 years has raced everything from 5 km to Ironman. She is an NCCP Trained Triathlon Coach, an NAASFP Certified Run Coach, a CanFitPro Personal Trainer, and a DTS Level One Exercise Coach. She has taken Dr. Stacy Sims Menopause for Athletes Course and was a part of the Navigate Menopause founding cohort. You can learn more about her and her work at www.pkperformancecoaching.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, 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.
0:30.1	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:32.5	I hope you all are well.
0:34.5	And for those of you in the U.S., I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
0:40.8	Weather permitting, I plan to spend mine mountain biking, then watching some football and
0:46.0	feasting with my family, as is the stereotypical American way, I suppose.
0:51.5	I have also been thinking that I should share that I have been taking some of my
0:57.3	own advice lately and it's working. If you've been listening to the show for any amount of time,
1:03.1	you've heard some of the basic tenets of maintaining your best and injury for your performance
1:07.8	during and beyond this menopause transition. Stuff like regular resistance
1:12.7	training, including lifting heavy loads, a consistent mobility practice, incorporating
1:18.5	plyometrics or jumping into your training, and so forth. If I'm honest, I'm pretty good
1:25.2	at the resistance training and plyometrics part of that equation.
1:29.0	I am less great at mobility because, well, I find it boring. And I can get away with not doing it
1:37.0	when I'm just riding my bike. But I've been trying to run more and I cannot get away with it
1:43.2	when I am running. My legs end up feeling like garbage
1:46.6	and my form is clunky and I have a hard time getting into that magical place where you can just
1:51.9	run and you're not thinking about how far you're running or the fact that you are running.
1:57.3	So for the past month or so, I have been doing a dedicated mobility and strength practice
2:03.6	that is specifically designed for runners that includes five minutes of mobility work,
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