Menopause Strength Training & Fitness | 40+ Fitness for Women
Jun 30, 2026 · 23 min · 11 segments
If I could go back and have a chat with my 40-year-old self, oh boy, would I have a lot to say. There are three big things I really wish I'd done differently. Mistakes that cost me real time and real…
So the biggest mistake I think that I made was not educating myself on what the heck menopause is.
And actually, I bit blame my mother also for this, that she never, ever talked to me about menopause.
She never talked to me about the fact that she went through menopause early, and that I might need to, like, watch out for that happening.
[laughs] And all of my friends who are older than me, and some of them were going through menopause, like, nobody said that, "Hey, get yourself educated on menopause." Because let me tell you something, I was caught quite by surprise.
I had no idea that all the terrible things that were happening to me at that point in my life were caused by the hormonal changes going on.
I remember I started a new job, and I could not remember anything anybody told me.
I was always walking around with a pen and paper, and I was writing down every last little thing.
It was really one of these going to the next level to a job you had never done before, and somehow you had convinced [laughs] convinced the hiring manager that you could do it.
You know, so it wasn't like I was going into this easy job that I'd done a million times before and could do with my left hand.
So I wish I had known a little bit sooner about all the different symptoms of menopause.
Even when I was diagnosed with menopause, I remember i- it was because in the previous job before this one that I was hired for, I went to a health check.
At the beginning of the working relationship here, they have you do a health check, and it's basically to make sure that you don't have anything, high blood pressure, cholesterol, whatever, that might affect your job, and to make sure that you have all the right medications in place and everything is good so that you can do your job, right? So, uh, uh, quite a nice thing.
So the biggest mistake I think that I made was not educating myself on what the heck menopause is.
And actually, I bit blame my mother also for this, that she never, ever talked to me about menopause.
She never talked to me about the fact that she went through menopause early, and that I might need to, like, watch out for that happening.
[laughs] And all of my friends who are older than me, and some of them were going through menopause, like, nobody said that, "Hey, get yourself educated on menopause." Because let me tell you something, I was caught quite by surprise.
I had no idea that all the terrible things that were happening to me at that point in my life were caused by the hormonal changes going on.
I remember I started a new job, and I could not remember anything anybody told me.
I was always walking around with a pen and paper, and I was writing down every last little thing.
It was really one of these going to the next level to a job you had never done before, and somehow you had convinced [laughs] convinced the hiring manager that you could do it.
You know, so it wasn't like I was going into this easy job that I'd done a million times before and could do with my left hand.
So I wish I had known a little bit sooner about all the different symptoms of menopause.
Even when I was diagnosed with menopause, I remember i- it was because in the previous job before this one that I was hired for, I went to a health check.
At the beginning of the working relationship here, they have you do a health check, and it's basically to make sure that you don't have anything, high blood pressure, cholesterol, whatever, that might affect your job, and to make sure that you have all the right medications in place and everything is good so that you can do your job, right? So, uh, uh, quite a nice thing.
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