I trained like I had a scholarship on the line during my junior year of high school — six days a week, no off-season, no rest weeks — and I burned out completely before senior year. It took me years to rebuild a healthy relationship with exercise, and by the time I hit perimenopause, I … Read more
The summer before my sophomore year of college, I worked a warehouse job and trained every morning before my shift — and that combination taught me more about recovery than any article I ever read. What stuck with me wasn’t the heavy lifting or the long hours; it was discovering how much the mind governs … Read more
When I was on the swim team in high school, our dryland training was basically an afterthought — and looking back, that’s exactly why so many of us plateaued at the same time. I think about that lesson a lot now, because starting an exercise routine during menopause carries a similar trap: it’s easy to … Read more