Power and recovery through midlife strength training
Training advice designed for younger male bodies can become increasingly unhelpful as estrogen declines and recovery changes. Sims and Yeager explain how muscle, bone, temperature regulation, fueling, sleep, and stress respond across the menopause transition. Strength training becomes central not as punishment for aging, but as protection for power, mobility, and future independence. Within the MHS library, the book offers an active alternative to simply doing less: adjust intensity, prioritize protein and recovery, and train with the body that exists now. Its tone is energetic, but the deeper message is adaptation rather than relentless performance.
About Dr. Stacy Sims and Selene Yeager
Stacy Sims and Selene Yeager unite research with lived athletic experience. Sims built her career challenging the idea that women are “small men”; Yeager continued racing through menopause and turned her own transition into the Hit Play Not Pause community.
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