06/18/2026
Here’s what I believe to be helpful for building strength, muscle, and fitness as a 28 year old MALE (who will NEVER experience perimenopause) BUT who has trained, no joke, over 100 perimenopausal women over the years.
1. Find ways to move that are fun and encourage consistency. Walks, hikes, biking, swimming, and of course lifting weights are amazing.
2. Hormones matter. The best things you can do to “optimize” them naturally in life are sleep, exercise, stress management, and eating the right amount of the right stuff. Some of it is totally out of your control. But many of the lifestyle habits that help with losing weight can also help “normalize” certain hormones.
3. You are still eating too much. Tough love here, but if you’re gaining fat, you are eating too much. And if you could “eat way more when I was younger” I challenge you to ask yourself this question: when you were “younger” were you more/less active? Did you drink more/less wine? Did you have a greater day to day task load? If yes, I bet there’s some things to tighten up.
4. You gotta be kind to yourself. Most women spend their entire lives hating their body. From the first time it’s brought to their attention until they are old and gray many women are negative about the body they have. Don’t be. The female body is amazing. Without it, there’d be no humanity. Your body is designed to do way more than lose fat and look a certain way. Keep this in mind always.
