Hit Play Not Pause
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Menopause fitness advice for women who still train.
Hit Play Not Pause is a warm, practical interview show about performance, health, and menopause for active women. Episodes connect expert guidance with real training questions: recovery, strength, hormones, pelvic health, weight change, endurance, and the shock of a body that suddenly needs different care.
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Hit Play Not Pause speaks to women who still identify as athletes, even when midlife makes that identity feel less simple. The show is grounded in menopause, but its real subject is adaptation. It follows the moment when old training formulas stop working and a strong, capable body starts asking for different support. Selene Yeager gives the series a warm, steady center. She sets up each topic in plain language, often naming the frustration before moving into the science or the story. Recent episodes have focused on strength training, mobility, deloads, tendon health, connective tissue, and the need to stop treating recovery as optional. The show also makes space for the messier realities of midlife: rapid weight gain, joint pain, brain fog, sleep disruption, inflammation, stress, and the disorientation of feeling unfamiliar in one’s own body. It can be very practical. Conversations move from hormone therapy and IUDs to blood sugar management, GLP-1 medications, pelvic-core function, incontinence, intimacy, and pain. The athletic frame keeps the material from becoming abstract. A discussion of menopause care is connected to running mileage, lifting sessions, long races, injury recovery, or the decision to go back to bed instead of pushing through. Guests bring different kinds of authority. Dr. Alyssa Dweck explains perimenopause care and hormone questions. Leah Keller connects deep core dysfunction to symptoms that many women are embarrassed to mention. Anna Troop’s ultra running story turns endurance after 50 into something specific and vivid rather than inspirational wallpaper. Dr. Tamsyn Lewis offers a counterpoint to rigid optimization culture, pushing toward a more physiologically respectful version of performance. The show’s tone is candid and supportive. It does not pretend that midlife athletic change is easy. It also refuses the idea that menopause automatically means decline. Its best moments make women feel believed while giving them concrete ways to train, recover, eat, lift, rest, and seek better care. The result is a community-minded health and fitness show with enough science to be useful and enough lived experience to feel human.
Made for: Active, performance-minded women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and midlife training changes. It suits runners, lifters, endurance athletes, and fitness-focused women who want evidence-informed guidance without losing the emotional reality of the experience.
What sets it apart: The show treats menopause as inseparable from athletic identity, recovery, and performance rather than as a narrow medical topic. Its strength is the blend of expert interviews, plain-English translation, and frank validation for symptoms that driven women are often told to minimize.
Perimenopause and menopause hit active women differently. We have a different lifestyle and different goals. And we know our bodies. Whether you run and hike or do CrossFit and ski (or a little of everything!), you’ve had a way of eating and exercising that worked…until the menopause transition, when it all goes out the window as body composition changes, fatigue, body aches, sleepless nights, hot flashes, brain fog, mood swings, and low mojo blindside you out of the blue—despite doing everything right. Your doctor may (or may not) help with hormone replacement therapy. But what about all the ac...
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It turns menopause research and clinical uncertainty into practical decisions about strength, recovery, mobility, and sustained athletic performance.
Hit Play Not Pause treats midlife physiology as a performance question, with Celine Yeager steering conversations toward what active women can change in training, recovery, and daily care.
Midlife training panic meets Selene Yeager, so you can stop treating recovery like surrender.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Practical guidance for training well as recovery needs change.
Selene Yeager brings together performance physical therapist Dr. Casey Francis and menopause specialist Dr. Carla D. Girolamo in a conversation aimed at women who want to keep training well as recovery changes.
A practical menopause conversation that centers resistance training, recovery, and community.
This bonus episode opens at Feisty Fest in Lehigh Valley, then settles into a plainspoken discussion of menopause, resistance training, recovery, connective tissue, and bone health.
A blunt look at GLP-1s, microdosing, and how thin the evidence still is.
The conversation treats GLP-1s as an open question rather than a settled verdict. It stays blunt about what is known, and just as blunt about what is not.
A direct look at rest, recovery, and what the body can handle when training gets rough.
This episode treats rest as something negotiated through privilege, safety, and plain necessity, not as a tidy self care slogan. It keeps the line clear between real rest and checking out, and it does so without dressing the point up.
A thoughtful, conversational look at how doping history still distorts elite cycling.
The episode uses the Tour de France Femmes as a route into elite cycling's pressure system, where performance, belief, and suspicion stay uncomfortably close.
Birth choices, argued in plain language.
Warm health talk for messy real life.
Practical midlife medicine, plainly explained.
Host Selene Yeager interviews Dr.
Feisty Fest gets a bright, community-first opening.
This episode features Dr.
This episode features women's fitness specialist Leah Keller discussing how healing deep core dysfunction, particularly diastasis recti, can resolve issues like incontinence, intimacy problems, and pain for active women during menopause or after pregnancy.
This episode features ultra runner Anna Troup discussing her remarkable endurance achievements, including completing the challenging Montaigne Spine Race in brutal winter conditions, as an inspiration for active women navigating midlife and menopause.
Host Selene Yeager interviews Dr.
Host Selene Yeager and guest Shana Norton discuss the rapid physical and emotional changes of perimenopause and menopause, offering validation and strategies for active women.
Host Selene Yeager discusses menopause-related weight gain and the role of GLP-1 medications with dietitian Dr.
Host Celine Yeager interviews sports dietitian Megan Featherstone about nutrition strategies for active women navigating perimenopause and menopause.
This episode discusses sleep issues during menopause with sleep medicine expert Dr.
This episode discusses women's sexuality during menopause, focusing on psychological and emotional aspects of pleasure with guest Cindy Sharkey.
Celine Yeager hosts a candid conversation about menopause, athletic aging, and GLP-1s.
Sarah Gross opens with Feisty Fest, a Lehigh Valley weekend centered on choose-your-own movement, expert talks, and a women-centered community.
This episode discusses the importance of carbohydrates for midlife and menopausal women athletes, debunking the myth that carbs are evil.
Host Selene Yeager interviews trainer Steph Gaudreau about overcoming harmful body image messages and embracing strength training and proper fueling for performance during menopause.
A podcast for active women navigating menopause, featuring expert advice on fitness, nutrition, and performance.
Host Selene Yeager interviews ultra cyclist Paula Ralph about her solo world record ride from Cape Town to Norway, focusing on how active women can pursue big goals during menopause.
Host Selene Yeager discusses the benefits of strength training for menopausal women, sharing experiences from a recent retreat.
This episode discusses bone health during menopause, addressing concerns about using weighted vests for bone density and emphasizing the importance of proper exercise.
This episode discusses factors influencing blood sugar during menopause, including diet, stress, and sleep, with clinical nutrition expert Liz McKinney.
This episode discusses menopausal hormone therapy as personalized medicine for active women, featuring an expert interview.
Interview with pro cyclist Serena Bishop Gordon about redefining limits and embracing curiosity during menopause.
Host Selene Yeager discusses millennial menopause with author Lauren Tettenbaum, covering challenges and strategies for active women.
Host Selene Yeager introduces the podcast for active women navigating menopause, shares recent event experiences, and promotes an upcoming retreat.
Host Selene Yeager discusses Venus Williams' struggle with uterine fibroids and the importance of proper care for active women during menopause.
Host Selene Yeager interviews 65-year-old ultrarunner Diane Grimm about her first 100-mile race and staying active through menopause.
This episode features an interview with high-altitude mountaineer Jeannette McGill about navigating menopause challenges while summiting Mount Everest.
This episode features an interview with fat loss researcher Dr.
Hit Play Not Pause opens with a community-minded promo for the Grand Traverse in Duluth, then settles into a plainspoken conversation about a doping scandal, blood markers, race standards, and the lingering habits cycling still carries from its past.
This episode features an interview with former Olympic athlete Marion Jones discussing her experiences with menopause, past mistakes, and finding a second wind in life.
Host Selene Yeager discusses menopause with guest Dena Lewis, exploring how to reframe it as a natural biological change rather than an adversary, and sharing Lewis's journey of using hormone therapy while maintaining an active running lifestyle.
This episode explores the unique challenges of navigating menopause as a spinal cord injury survivor, covering topics like hormones, catheters, and competition with guest Edie Perkins.
This episode discusses menopause's impact on bone density and symptoms, featuring a physiotherapist and elite cyclist sharing her experience.