Start Where You Are: How to Build Strength and Resilience in Midlife — with Jenny Rappole
Episode Description
What happens when your childhood is defined by surgeries, pain, and a degenerative bone disease—and you grow up to become a powerful advocate for women’s health, strength, and potential? You get Jenny Rappole.
In this inspiring conversation, Jenny shares how she transformed early challenges into a lifelong passion for movement, wellness, and helping women in midlife reconnect with their bodies. Now a fitness and wellness coach—and a newly appointed member of the Board of the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation—Jenny empowers women to start exactly where they are, one small step at a time.
We talk about the importance of mobility, why strength training must be built on a solid foundation, and how midlife can be a time of reinvention and real personal growth. If you’ve been feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to begin, this episode offers a clear, doable roadmap to move forward.
Listen in and learn why it’s never too late to build strength, confidence, and momentum.
Takeaways
- Start where you are—keep it simple and doable to build real momentum.
- Midlife is a reinvention: embrace it as a magical, powerful stage of life.
- One kept promise builds confidence; choose one action and let it be enough.
- Mobility is essential; movement is strength work.
- Nutrition and exercise work together to enhance overall health.
- Repetition in midlife is a superpower for maintaining strength and well-being.
- Regularly reassess and adjust your wellness routine as your life shifts.
- Build a foundation of essential habits to set yourself up for success.
- Approach strength training with care—start with mobility, form, and basics.
- It’s never too late to start making meaningful change.
Links & Resources
Connect with Jenny Rappole:
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Learn more about the Bone Health & Osteoporosis Foundation
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