Wendy Goldthorp Coaching

Wendy Goldthorp Coaching Active women in midlife. Recalibrating training, recovery and energy using a plant-based performance framework.

You’re an active vegan woman over 45, you train consistently, and you’ve already made protein a priority. So why does th...
18/09/2026

You’re an active vegan woman over 45, you train consistently, and you’ve already made protein a priority. So why does this even need saying?

Because perimenopause onwards, what your body does with the protein you consume - aka protein synthesis - changes. It builds less lean muscle from the same food, and it’s slower to repair after training. 💪

Three amino acids do most of the building and repair - leucine, lysine and arginine - and on a plant-based diet they’re the ones worth eating with intention.

Your daily protein total definitely matters, but a proper source at every meal beats one big hit at dinner.

If you’re already spreading protein across the day and hitting a source every meal - you’re likely covered with these three amino acids.

If you’d rather have it done for you, I’ve put together a high-protein recipe pack for my clients. 15 vegan meals, each built to get the protein - and these amino acids - where they need to be. Comment PROTEIN and I’ll send it over. 🌱

17/09/2026

If you're an active vegan woman, over 45, in perimenopause or post-menopause, and your goal is to get in more protein on a plant-based diet, this is for you.

Give me five minutes and I'll walk you through the three changes you can make that fixes it. You can start at your next meal.

Want the high-protein plant-based recipe pack I created for my clients so you can see what your meals could look like?

Drop me a line below and I’ll send it over in messenger.

15/09/2026

*LIVE Facebook Training this Thursday*

* Confused over training in peri-to postmenopause?
* How to continue to build strength?
*How to fuel on a plant-based diet for what you do?
* How to improve your symptoms with straightforward lifestyle actions?
And more.. !

Starting this Thursday 17 Sept at 12.30pm I’m going to be live to walk you through these topics.

And if you have a particular question you’d like answered, send me a DM so I can look to include it in future trainings.

10/09/2026

Just about recovered from Saturday’s Haytor Heller. Now back in training for the Quantock Hills half, three and a half weeks out.

Powered by plants. 🌱55. Midlife training doesn’t have to mean an inevitable winding down. I ❤️ that we still get to go after our thing.





09/09/2026

Strength gets all the attention in midlife. Power is the thing slowly disappearing while you’re not looking . 👀

It’s also the first thing you notice in real life, getting up out of a low chair, stepping up a kerb, or climbing the stairs.

Working on it isn’t about doing more. It’s about where fast work sits, and in what order, alongside everything else you’re already doing - your lifting, your running, your recovery, and a body that’s changed underneath all of it so that you can still progress in your training.

Power is one of the things I work on with you inside Edge Align.

If your training stopped paying off the way it used to, the Strong Season Session is where we start - a free 30 minutes to work out what’s actually going on (see link in comments to book).

Saturday evening I was on Dartmoor, back at the Haytor Heller after 6 years away.This race always draws strong runners b...
07/09/2026

Saturday evening I was on Dartmoor, back at the Haytor Heller after 6 years away.

This race always draws strong runners because it’s genuinely brutal - an uphill climb from a standing start, steep ascents, wet feet through a stream, running over boulders, a scramble in places, and single-width tracks hemmed in by shoulder-height bracken with little room to pass.

The front-runners went up the climbs like mountain goats- they’re amazing to see in action.

The way back in to the finish is mercifully downhill. By then my legs didn’t have much in them, but I gave that last bit everything (I do love a sprint finish) and caught the runner in front a short way before the finish line.

- 1:07:32 chip time
- 128th of 268 runners
- 31st of 114 women
- 3rd of 11 in the Female Vets 55–59

Happy with that on a warm evening over that terrain.

Congratulations to everyone that ran that evening, and to Teignbridge Trotters and volunteers for yet another iconic race.

All of it building towards the Quantock Hills trail half in four weeks - just as hilly and around twice the elevation and twice the distance. I’m expecting it to be just as brutal.

I’ve been reading ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller (The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results). Currently...
03/09/2026

I’ve been reading ‘The One Thing’ by Gary Keller (The surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results). Currently on chapter 9 about going big.

The bit that stood out: we talk ourselves out of the goal before we’ve even started. Because we run the maths - work, family, life, what it would cost us in terms of these and question where would it even fit - and decide it doesn’t.

But here’s what I see in the women I coach, and what I had to work out for myself.

It’s not that there’s no room for the goal (I will *never* talk you out of it, or suggest you shoot for something smaller).

It’s that the effort stopped paying off. You’re still training. Still trying. And the times slow and the lifts stall anyway - so going after anything bigger can feel like a lost cause before you’ve begun, because where are you going to find that extra push from if you’re already knackered?

That’s not age taking the thing away from you. It’s your training, your fuelling, your recovery and your changed midlife body no longer matching each other.

Four things that used to move together, now quietly drifting apart. You can’t see it, but you do feel your effort producing diminishing returns.

Get these pieces talking to each other again and the numbers move. Not your twenties back. But faster than you are now. Stronger than you are now. For where you actually are.

Your goal *does* fit you. It just needs the effort to start paying off again.

This is the whole reason I coach the way I do. Follow along if you’re vegan/plant-based, midlife, still training - and done deciding age is your limiting factor.

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