77: Strong Women STILL Need To Get Strong

So how often do we hear the importance of building strength and muscle in our careers? Like not very much, right? No, we hear plenty about becoming stronger leaders and we're told to work on communication and negotiation, confidence.

Resilience, executive presence, managing teams, networking, all of it.

And those things absolutely matter.

But almost nobody is talking about the physical strength required to support life and careers that we're building.

And I think that the conversation becomes even more important as women move into bigger jobs, more responsibility.

And yes, through midlife.

You know, it's ironic.

As our careers grow, we often become less physically active.

I think we sit more.

We spend more time in meetings.

We travel more.

We eat on the run.

We eat on those Zoom calls.

We have more people who need something from us.

The calendar gets tighter and stress gets higher.

And suddenly that hour-long workout that we used to be able to squeeze in doesn't fit very well anymore.

And I see this all the time with the women I work with.

I coach women who have really demanding careers.

They travel a lot.

They have big meetings.

They have even bigger deadlines.

They are responsible for teams and projects and families.

And I do not program their monthly workouts as though none of that exists.

If I know someone has a heavy week of travel coming up we are going to work around it.

If she's walking into a really stressful stretch of work it might be the perfect time to intentionally deload her training just a little bit so that her body has more time to recover and to adapt.