12/04/2025
The most pivotal decade for women’s health?
Your 30’s.
Your 30’s are the foundation decade - the years that quietly set the stage for how your body will move, feel, and function in perimenopause, menopause, and beyond.
Here’s what’s happening behind the scenes (that NO ONE warned us about):
1. 🦴 Bone density peaks in your early 30’s. Strength training NOW is what protects your 50-, 60-, 70- year-old-self.
2. Muscle = metabolic GOLD. It stabilizes hormones, supports blood sugar, improves inflammation and protects joints. Women start losing muscle in their 30’s unless they actively rebuild it.
3. Perimenopause often begins earlier than you think. Most believe perimenopause hits at 45-50, but hormone variability often begins in mid to late 30’s.
4. Pelvic floor symptoms don’t start “out of nowhere”. The 30’s are peak years for: pregnancy and postpartum changes, leaking with exercise, heaviness or pelvic pressure, hip and back pain, pain with intimacy, chronic stress and inflammation…these patterns build for years and often explore during perimenopause if not addressed.
5. Inflammation drives symptoms. Chronic low-grade inflammation from stress, poor sleep, low protein intake, under-training, over-training, dysregulated blood sugar, makes your 30’s feel harder and your 40’s overwhelming.
Start strengthening now.
Start supporting your pelvic floor now.
Your future self will thank you.
