Menopause Strength Training & Fitness | 40+ Fitness for Women
Jun 16, 2026 · 18 min · 11 segments
You know you should be strength training. You've maybe even started. And then life happens, and three weeks later, you realize you haven't picked up a dumbbell since. I get it. This came up again…
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So my first tip is to really make it easy for yourself, okay? That may seem really obvious, but if you start saying, "Oh, I gotta drive to the gym.
I need to be facing all these m- machines and everything that I've never been in before," that may be an insurmountable hurdle.
So what I want you to do is to get started at home, and all you really need is enough space to lay down one yoga mat and a couple pairs of dumbbells, okay? I started with just some dumbbells that honestly had been laying around my house.
If you're watching this in video, there are some of them right there [laughs], some green dumbbells that I had laying around my house gathering dust.
Friend of mine had given them to me years before, and I just hadn't thrown them out.
But I'm not gonna lie, if you have a proper program, those are not going to be enough for long.
In fact, usually by the end of eight weeks, you will notice that you are strong enough that you need to start buying heavier dumbbells.
And this is also a tip for you who might already be doing something with weights at home, and you've been using the same dumbbells for months or even years.
Something is wrong with your program because you're not getting stronger.
If you're getting stronger [laughs], you should be buying more dumbbells over time.
That way you can just sneak over to that spot, and for m- my case, it was in the basement, in my basement bedroom.
So I would just be like, "Kids, Mom's gonna go work out now," and I would run downstairs, and I would do my workout, and it was so much easier than having to hop in the car, all the things, okay? Make it easy for yourself.
So my first tip is to really make it easy for yourself, okay? That may seem really obvious, but if you start saying, "Oh, I gotta drive to the gym.
I need to be facing all these m- machines and everything that I've never been in before," that may be an insurmountable hurdle.
So what I want you to do is to get started at home, and all you really need is enough space to lay down one yoga mat and a couple pairs of dumbbells, okay? I started with just some dumbbells that honestly had been laying around my house.
If you're watching this in video, there are some of them right there [laughs], some green dumbbells that I had laying around my house gathering dust.
Friend of mine had given them to me years before, and I just hadn't thrown them out.
But I'm not gonna lie, if you have a proper program, those are not going to be enough for long.
In fact, usually by the end of eight weeks, you will notice that you are strong enough that you need to start buying heavier dumbbells.
And this is also a tip for you who might already be doing something with weights at home, and you've been using the same dumbbells for months or even years.
Something is wrong with your program because you're not getting stronger.
If you're getting stronger [laughs], you should be buying more dumbbells over time.
That way you can just sneak over to that spot, and for m- my case, it was in the basement, in my basement bedroom.
So I would just be like, "Kids, Mom's gonna go work out now," and I would run downstairs, and I would do my workout, and it was so much easier than having to hop in the car, all the things, okay? Make it easy for yourself.
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