Preventing & Coming Back from Injury During the Menopause Transition with Julie Sapper (Episode 205)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Menopause doesn't mean that you will automatically be slower. It does mean you may have to change the way you train, especially since we don’t bounce back from hard efforts the way we used to, and we’re more vulnerable to injury. This week’s guest knows all about all of that as she recently worked her way back from surgery for a blown ACL to running and qualifying for the Boston Marathon 22 months later. This week we dive into her story and the adaptations in exercise programming, strength training, nutrition, and mindset that can help you prevent and come back from injury during this time of life.

Julie Sapper is the co-founder with Lisa Levin of Run Farther & Faster, an online run coaching company, and a 12-time Boston Marathon finisher. For the last fifteen years, she and Lisa have been coaching runners of all levels for all goals and distances, working extensively with women in their 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's. They also host the Run Farther & Faster Podcast on which they feature experts on all things running and provide advice on a wide range of running-related topics. Over her 25 year career, Julie has experienced injuries and setbacks, and most notably, an ACL tear in 2022 at age 52. She has, as a result, become somewhat of an expert on returning to sport after injury. You can learn more about her and her work at runfartherandfaster.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.
0:30.6	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:32.8	I hope you all are well.
0:34.6	So first, a little story.
0:36.7	When I was mountain bike and gravel bike racing on a
0:39.9	semi-professional level in my early and mid-40s, my ability to recover and go hard day after day
0:47.2	was kind of my superpower. I just had this ability to bounce back and repeat hard efforts,
0:52.6	and it made me a good stage racer, where you
0:55.1	raced for like five hours day after day after day. And if I'm honest, I always kind of trained
1:01.9	that way too. I would take some easy days and off days, but more often than not, I'd be out with
1:08.6	friends and those easy days would turn into kind of hard,
1:12.5	if not outright, hard days because it was fun.
1:15.8	And I got away with it until, of course, I didn't.
1:19.7	And like many of you will relate, it felt like that switch happened in the blink of an eye.
1:26.0	And I remember it very clearly. I went to put my power down.
1:29.5	It was probably day two in a stage race I was doing in Cuba, and the power was not there.
1:35.3	And I spent a lot of time after that, floundering, pouting, doing some not smart things, like doubling down and training harder.
1:43.8	And eventually I just ended up
1:45.5	listening to the advice that I was hearing from Stacey Sims, Dr. Stacey Sims, which eventually
1:51.1	became what you found in the book we did together next level. And I started to polarize my training
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