Menopause & Training

The most common thing I hear from so many women arriving at my Ealing studio is some version of the same sentence: I am doing more than I have ever done, and my body is going in the wrong direction. More classes. More steps. More early mornings. And less to show for it. The assumption is almost always that effort is the problem. It is not. The type of effort is. Perimenopause changes the hormonal environment your training sits inside. The same sessions that built strength and

Most women I work with who are going through perimenopause are not doing nothing. They are training regularly. Some of them are training harder than they ever have. And it is not working: not for weight, not for energy, not for the belly that appeared with no obvious explanation. What I tell them, and what I wish someone had told me during my own perimenopause, is that the problem is usually not effort. The relationship between cortisol and menopause is the part of this pictu