The most common mistake women make when starting or returning to strength training is adding load before the foundations are in place. It's understandable, but it's also where most problems and niggles begin. Here's why technique comes first, every time.

Creatine has spent decades being associated with bodybuilders and male athletes. Most women have never considered it. But the emerging research, particularly for women in perimenopause - tells a very different story. Here's what the evidence actually shows.

If you've been doing everything right and still feeling like your body isn't cooperating - you're not imagining it. Something has changed, and it has a clear physiological explanation. One that most fitness advice completely fails to account for.

I came to strength training because I understood the evidence. I knew what declining oestrogen was doing to my body and I wanted to do the thing most likely to protect my long-term health.