If you've been training hard and eating well, showing up even on the days you don't feel like it, but the effort you're putting in just isn't paying off the way it used to...

I've been working on something for you and it's finally almost ready to share.

It's called The Aging Athletically Podcast and it's everything I wish someone had told me about thriving in midlife as a woman — sooner.

For 12 years, I've watched women train hard and eat well and still hit a wall. And then, in my early 40s, I hit that same wall myself as perimenopause set in.

The runs felt harder. The lifts stalled. Recovery got less predictable. The aches showed up and the injuries lingered. The same effort I'd put in for years started producing lackluster results.

Then it hit me: why don't men hit this same wall?

Was it that age affects women differently? Our midlife hormones? And the more I learned, the more I realized: it's not us. It's the bullshit model we've been given for years.

Midlife women aren't struggling because they're fragile. They're struggling because they were taught that smaller is healthier and fitter. we've bee told our whole lives that the answer is always to exercise more and eat less.

Want to get faster? Lose a few pounds.​
Want to get stronger? Do more workouts.​
Want to feel better? Burn more calories.

We're struggling because no one ever gave us an evidence-based framework to get stronger in midlife and beyond.

Men have always been taught - and it's always been acceptable for them - that strength means gaining: more size, more weight, more capacity. Men's fitness was never about thinner thighs and a smaller waist. It was about building something.

So it's no wonder women start struggling in midlife. It's no wonder we're left asking whether it's our hormones, our age, or both. But it's neither. It's the method we were given.

Here's what's true.

For both men and women, aging doesn't diminish your capacity for improvement. What it reduces is your margin for error.

The strategies that carried you for years - as off as they may have been - had plenty of room to be imperfect. You could get away with just about any old workout, eat tacos and margs to your heart's content, and skimp on sleep.

When we're young, even very flawed strategies could work. But in midlife, that wiggle room is gone.

That's why more discipline and more intensity aren't the answer. You need a new, more specific approach to keep seeing gains in midlife and beyond — and that's exactly what this series is for.

Across eight episodes, we get into the recipe for skinny you were handed, the menopause "gold rush" cashing in on your symptoms, why under-fueling might be making it all worse, and what it actually takes to refuse the decline you've been told is inevitable.

The limited series drops Monday, July 6th — and it's free. I'll share it with you the moment it's live.

Stay tuned.

— Alison

P.O. Box 601, Clarksburg, MD 20871
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