16/09/2026
“I have an injury. Can I still do strength training?”
Short answer: in most cases - yes.
I know the instinct when something tweaks or flares up is to stop altogether, maybe even cancel your membership until you’re “fully healed.” . But if you don’t need medical treatment first (always check that box first, always), then stopping completely is usually the last thing you need to do.
In nearly ten years of coaching women through perimenopause and menopause, here’s what I’ve learned: an injury almost never means the end of training. It just means we adapt. There’s usually still something we can do:
→ Adjust the exercise to work around it
→ Shift the load to a different muscle group
→ Swap it for something more functional that doesn’t aggravate it
It also helps to understand where the injury came from, because that shapes how we handle it.
If it happened outside the gym - gardening, the shopping, just life - that’s not a training issue, we simply adapt while it heals.
If it happened during a session - it’s useful information. Together we look at what happened and adjust the movement, load, or technique so we can train around it and reduce the chance of it happening again. That’s just part of good coaching.
Either way, the goal isn’t “do this exact exercise.” The goal is you - still progressing, still moving forward, even if the path looks a little different for a few weeks.
Because here’s the honest bit: stepping away for a few weeks, months or until you’re healed doesn’t just pause your progress - it makes starting again so much harder than working around the injury would have been. And you deserve better than starting from scratch.
So if you’re injured, let’s adapt the plan together - because showing up, even in a modified way, is what keeps you moving forward.
