Women’s Health & Logistics

• Coaching for Women’s Life Stages: Specialized evidence-based support for:

  • Pregnancy & Postpartum: Safe return-to-run protocols that respect the timeline of physical recovery.

  • The Menstrual Cycle: Optimizing training intensity to work with hormonal shifts rather than against them.

  • Perimenopause & Menopause: Strategies for strength, power, and recovery as estrogen and progesterone levels change.

• Motherhood & Schedule Logistics: As a working mother of two teenagers, Sarah specializes in designing high-performance training that fits into the reality of family, career, and school sports schedules without leading to burnout. She also wants to be a resource and strategizing partner for you. She has been there!

  
  Why just women?

• Dr. Stacy Sims famously said, "Women are not small men". Most of the academic literature in exercise physiology has focused on men and results are then applied to women. This is slowly changing, in part thanks to Dr. Sims, but it is still the norm.

• Why is this true? Mostly because women are hard to study in a strict scientific way. Our cycles add way too many variables and life stages complicate things even further. Many universities and grad programs simply can't afford to control for all of these variables so just choose the easy option: study men.

• Not only is our physiology different, our body structure is different! Our hips, knees and feet are not small men's. Most shoe companies make shoes based on men's anatomy and then "shrink it and pink it". I look forward to the day that Nike releases super shoes in women's sizes only and tells men to convert sizes.

Sarah operates on the fundamental principle that "Women are not small men." Her coaching rejects the industry-standard male-centric models, instead focusing on the unique female hormone profile, thermoregulation, and metabolic needs

As a female athlete, the mom of female athletes, and an exercise physiologist, I am super invested in learning about women- specific training, physiology, and anatomy and applying that knowledge to my practice. I love to teach what I love, and have chosen to dedicate my practice to female athletes.