Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause," the podcast that redefines your relationship with fitness, nutrition and hormonal changes.
Hosted by American College of Sports Medicine Practitioner of the Year 2023, women's integrative health and performance expert Louise Valentine, this show empowers you to mitigate impacts of hormone changes without overcomplicating it! Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch ineffective trends, outdated methods and apply what you learn to feel your best, look fit or run strong and injury-free.
Join Louise, her coaches and clients as they share multi award-winning science-backed nutrition, fitness, running and fat loss methods designed for active females age 35 and beyond. Get inspired each week as they share how they've turned their own health and fitness breakdowns into breakthroughs and how they now lead the way in helping women just like you do the same!
Whether you're looking to ditch hormone havoc, break through a setback or want to understand how to lift, train and fuel harmoniously with your changing female physiology, you'll find this podcast insightful and inspiring. No more fighting against your body – we're here to help you harness its natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
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Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
#98: 6 Odd Shifts in Our Health & Performance as Hormones Change
What if some the very things you swore you’d never do are the ones that bring you the most growth in your health and performance as your hormones change age 35 and beyond? In this episode, Louise Valentine, leading exercise physiologist and women’s integrative health expert for everyday female runners, gets real about the unexpected shifts that happen in perimenopause, changes that affect not only your body, but also your mindset, relationships, and how you fuel, live, and train.
Louise shares six surprising shifts that many women face: juggling kids’ performance with personal goals, odd pelvic floor pain and symptoms that show up out of nowhere, taking supplements for health instead of performance, realizing that sex can be a powerful form of nervous system regulation, navigating stress like never before, and perhaps most shocking is racing for fun, joy, and love of running, instead of always chasing PRs.
These insights aren’t just personal stories; they’re backed by decades of coaching, cutting edge female-specific science, and lived experience. Whether you’re struggling with hormonal changes, recalibrating your fitness priorities, or searching for balance in a high-stress season of life, this conversation gives you permission to evolve with grace, strength, and joy.
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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(3:22) Six surprising shifts in perimenopause
(5:21) Shifting focus from self to kids’ performance
(15:49) Pelvic floor pain returns in perimenopause
(18:13) Supplements for health, not performance
(22:18) Sex as nervous system regulation
(25:32) Why stress management matters most now
(32:54) Racing for fun instead of PRs
(40:03) Outro
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