These 5 menopause programming tips come directly from a presentation given to Medfit Foundation during Menopause Awareness month. We need to be distinct, set ourselves apart and be not just cutting edge with variety for variety’s sake. In some cases, old and traditional wins. As I continue to update you with content here that I think you’ll love and I sprinkle rich ideas throughout that help you market or program with these tips (or both) you’ll gain ideals to get your own creative juices flowing!  Anything I can do you can do better… in your style, your brand and with a knowing of why your clients love YOU. So take the idea and see where it takes you. It’s you and I brainstorming together.  Each one of these 5 menopause exercise programming tips can be used:  To market with live social media minutes As pitch sheets for your local media  To develop new programs (or tweak existing ones)  #1 Menopause Exercise Programming Tips: ESTROGEN LOSS DIRECTLY CORRELATES TO MUSCLE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS LOSS Because insufficient estrogen levels lead to loss of muscle protein synthesis, during menopause transition when this is the most significant, there needs to be an increased external stimulus (lifting weights) and protein compared to before menopause transition. Solution: Lifting heavier and or with more volume (not frequency) than PRE menopause and consuming a regular dose of high quality protein throughout the day: both proven to boost muscle protein synthesis. Programming: Consider your titles closely. Do they sound like “anyone’s” program? Or do they shout right to menopausal women, this is for you! Educate and market using this message. Get in front of doctors and support body composition testing. Menopause Month and day are ripe times to promote this. And when they know, they know they need you.  Science: Gerontology, 2021   #2 Menopause Exercise Programming Tips: The Greatest Loss of Lean Muscle Tissue Occurs... ... during the phase from Early Perimenopause to Late Perimenopause (27%) percent. This is the greatest opportunity to PREVENT losses that follow in greater significants too. Though early and late postmenopause phases also reflect signficantly high muscle loss, they could be mitigated by positively influencing what occurs for most women between 40 and 50. (Understand every woman's menopause journey is unique) If you didn't, start. If you're in perimenopause (know it or not in your 40s) begin this muscle protein synthesis boosting NOW. Programming: Get in front of audiences of women in their late 30s, early 40s and late 40s and early 50s and give them a specific reason why based on what is happening to their physiology they need to start right now!  Science: Iran Journal of Public Health, 2021 #3 Menopause Exercise Programming Tips: Greater Volume During a Session vs Greater Volume in Frequency ...Provides Greater muscle mass, strength, and endurance. THIS is really an important concept to consider. When volume is identical comparing 3x a week with 2 sets of strength vs 2x a week with 3 sets of strength, the latter was far more beneficial. There's more. If you combine this study with others demonstrating adrenal insufficiency, recovery rate, and the number one obstacle for exercise (time), there is a huge advantage to less frequent, yet additional sets creating a volume of stimulus with a more positive effect. Programming: Be different. Start with low frequency and increase volume by other means than longer sessions and more times per week.  Science: Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research, 2022 #4  Menopause Exercise Programming Tips: Still Ovulating? A Time to Lift Heavy, a Time to Do Agility Moves Plan your exercise with your cycle or you miss an opportunity to make fitness gains and decrease risk injury. During week 2 or ovulation, That is about 10-14 days after your cycle starts, is the BEST time to lift heavy. Yet, it is the worst time to do agility and rapid directional changes of movement. The effects of es