Female athletes face special health risks from pushing too far into the red. Here’s how to stay in the training-recovery sweet spot.

By Selene Yeager

Training is a balancing act. You push, push, push, overreaching just enough to make your body go, “Woah, she’s asking a lot out of us, we’ve g...

It works for the U.S. Women’s National Team. It can work for you, too.

By Selene Yeager

We use a lot of metrics to guide our training: our heart rate variability, our resting and training heart rate, our power numbers, maybe even our moods and sleep scores. There’s compelling evidence that w...

Unless we lift while we climb, many are left behind.

By Selene Yeager

Women have been demanding equal spaces in athletics for as long as there have been women who want to run, jump, swim, bike, and play sports. And in 1972 in the U.S., we made a giant step forward with the passing of Title I...

Here are the golden nuggets of wisdom from nearly 50 episodes of Hit Play Not Pause this year.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was first published on Feisty Menopause on December 6th, 2022 ***

It’s that time of year when we look back at what we’ve learned over the past 12 months and l...

With help from Maurya Couvares - pregnant triathlete

Over the past two weeks on the Women’s Performance Podcast, we have delved deep into pregnancy as an athlete. Interviewing both a researcher, as well as a pregnant athlete, one highlight really stood out:  it is extremely hard to find accurate...

We are all just a few steps away from breakthrough performances. Record-setting professional endurance athlete Alyssa Godesky tells us how to go the extra mile. 

By Amelia Perry

Every endurance athlete has stared down the wall–that place where everything hurts, you’re far from the finish, an...

Ironman Champion Sara Gross on how she would have planned her training differently if she had tracked her menstrual cycle  

When I was at Edinburgh University studying for my Ph.D. I was part of an elite athlete development program hosted by the University. I was 24 years old, had just come o...

Feisty CEO Sara Gross on how more knowledge about female-specific performance can accelerate fitness success

Eight days before I won my first Ironman I finished an ugly and hard-fought 18th at Ironman Texas, one hour and six minutes behind the winner. Even in a long race like Ironman, an hour be...

Exercise as a tool in your mental health toolbox.

By Amelia Perry

TW: This article contains mention of suicidal ideation, mental illness, and more specifically, disordered eating. If you, or someone you know, is struggling with any of the above – please seek care. 

We started our company...

By Sara Gross

The conversation about trans women’s inclusion in elite sport has often pitted “fairness” against “inclusion,” most notably by World Athletics President Sebatian Coe.  I have heard this binary approach several times and every time it makes me wonder, do we really have to choose? Can w...

What I would — and wouldn’t have — done differently if I knew what I know now.

 By Selene Yeager

“What would you do differently if you knew what you know now?” As the host of Hit Play Not Pause and Content Manager for Feisty Menopause, it’s a question I’m asked frequently when I’m interviewe...

It’s that time of year. Everywhere we turn there’s the new year, new you narrative.


By Kathryn Taylor 

Gyms are offering new year challenges.

Clickbait articles promoting diet culture disguised as ‘clean eating challenges’ or detox programs are all over your social media.

Fitspiration con...