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