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, running, 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 Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch outdated male-based methods, and apply what you learn to feel your best, look fit, and run strong, energized, and injury-free at ANY age!
Louise and her clients share how they achieve previously thought "impossible" results, driven by Louise's multi award-winning science-backed nutrition, fitness, running and fat loss methods designed for ambitious everyday runners age 35 and beyond. Get inspired each week as they share how they've turned their own health, hormone, and fitness breakdowns into breakthroughs and how they now lead the way in empowering 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 – Louise is here to help you harness its fierce natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
If you're an active female who loves to run and wants it all, Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" – Your go-to resource to break through to next-level health, hormones, and fitness!
Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
#119 - Candid Reflections on Rewriting Women's Running, Nutrition & Perimenopause Health Outcomes
Unfortunately, many of the ways we've been taught to train, eat, and “push through” as females who love to feel, look, and run our best are working against our best health, hormones, and longevity in vibrant active living.
In this episode, Louise speaks directly to driven, active women who want to feel strong, lean, energized, and confident through perimenopause and beyond.
As a multi award-winning women's integrative health practitioner, top trainer, and exercise physiologist she explains why many traditional fitness, running, and nutrition approaches, including fasting, intentional or unintentional underfueling, traditional best practice dietetic recommendations, and high-volume training, can quietly damage our best health, hormones, body composition, bone health, and recovery.
Drawing from her own eye-opening journey and 23 years of coaching female runners, ambitious athletes, and everyday wellness-minded fitness lovers, Louise shares why fueling to support your female physiology, managing stress, and training in hormone-aware ways are essential for long-term health and performance. She breaks down how cortisol, under-eating, fad diets, and outdated male-based training methods contribute to fatigue, injuries, belly fat, performance decline, and frustrating symptoms many women accept as “normal.”
You will learn why perfection is not the goal, how to build sustainable habits, and how small daily choices can protect your best hormones, strength, performance, and longevity.
This episode is a powerful reminder that you deserve to thrive, not just survive, in this phase of life.
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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(5:05) Building a strong fueling foundation
(7:19) “Adult boundaries” and realistic balance
(8:41) Alcohol, recovery, and fat loss
(11:55) Food, training, and hormone production
(13:55) Rebuilding bone and hormonal health
(16:11) Why group fitness and high-volume running fall short
(17:24) Stress, cortisol, and burnout patterns
(21:50) Simplifying supplements and going back to basics
(24:08) The dangers of outdated training methods
(32:12) Underfueling, hunger hormones, and RED-S
(38:30) Understanding your personal stress tipping point
(40:34) Timing nutrition for hormone support
(43:16) Osteoporosis and advocating for your health
(49:49) How to train and thrive long-term
(53:26) Why fasting is devastating for active women
(1:00:03) Outro
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