my Body can

Stephanie Fuccio
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After years of illness, injury and well, the menopausal transition, I'm taking the reins back on my strength, balance and flexibility. I'm experimenting with some weights, exercise bands, and more in order to find exercises that fit my life and help me feel strong.

  1. 19h ago

    The Mental Side of Movement: S1E30

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Thirty days. Thirty episodes. Thirty attempts to say out loud what I have been trying to make sense of privately for years. I knew this project would change something, but I didn’t know it would change this much. I didn’t know that simply talking about movement while actually moving would rewire the way I think about my body, my habits, and myself. I’m not exercising while recording this one, not really, although I am walking around the apartment with a resistance band around my legs because I think better when I move. I guess that’s part of the story. Things that used to feel like exercise now feel like living. This episode feels emotional. It feels like an ending and a beginning at the same time.

  2. 1d ago

    Building Friendships Around Movement: S1E29

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. There is something I’ve never said out loud before, but it’s been simmering in the background for months. As I rebuild my strength, as I try new routines, and as I settle into this new phase of midlife, I am realizing that my relationships are shifting too. Not because of drama. Simply because my daily habits and priorities have changed so much that some friendships no longer line up with the person I am becoming. It feels strange to admit that out loud. But it also feels honest.

  3. 1d ago

    Walking, My Lifelong Movement Joy: S1E28

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Walking has always been my movement home base. Out of every type of movement I have tried in my life, walking is the one that has stayed with me. Through childhood, through illness, through injury, through all the shifts and surprises of midlife. Today I wanted to talk about that. Not the pain, not the diagnoses, not the setbacks, but the thing that has consistently brought me joy. If you are new here, hi, I\m Steph, and this is my Body can, where I share my personal journey of reclaiming strength, flexibility, and ease in midlife after years of interruption. And honestly, this might be the happiest episode I’ve recorded all month.

  4. 1d ago

    Frozen Shoulder and My Exercise Plans: S1E27

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I didn’t expect frozen shoulder to shape my entire movement life. But here I am, years later, still noticing the aftershocks in my workouts, my choices, and even my confidence. Today I want to walk through what happened, what I learned, and why this experience affects the way I train now. Before I get into it, if you’re following along with my 30-day podcast challenge, thank you. This project has taken me through more emotions and memories than I expected, and frozen shoulder is one of the big ones.

  5. 2d ago

    How Strength Training Improved Travel Days: S1E26

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I did not expect my travel days to become a marker of progress in my strength journey, but here we are. Today I want to talk about what it actually takes, physically and mentally, to move countries with only a few suitcases and a body that is still learning how to be strong. Hi, I am Steph, creator of My Body Can. I am documenting my midlife strength journey after years of illness, injury, and wild hormonal fluctuations. I am doing a 30 day podcast challenge while I rebuild patterns, routines, and habits that help my body feel supported again.

  6. 2d ago

    Do I Dislike Cute Exercise Gear? S1E25

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I didn’t expect this to be the thing I uncovered during my 30-day movement experiment, but here I am: somewhere between dumbbell reps and editing my own voice for the 25th day in a row, discovering a weird little streak of resentment toward cute workout gear. And the more I heard myself say it, the more I realized I needed to sit with it instead of letting it float by like background noise. I record a lot of these episodes while I’m actually moving. Today’s was during my dumbbell workout; the overhead variations, the slow lifts, the huffing and puffing that happens when 2.5 kilos suddenly feels like ten because I’m paying attention to form. Something about exercising while talking always cracks open a different part of my brain. The filter drops. The truth spills out. I think more clearly when I’m using my body. While I edited the recording, I noticed something that surprised me: every time I mentioned pretty workout clothing, my tone wasn’t neutral. It wasn’t curious. It wasn’t mildly annoyed. It sounded… disdainful. Like I had a problem with it. That was confusing because I don’t actually dislike cute workout clothing. I’m not anti-color or anti-fun or anti-intentional outfits. I just don’t wear a lot of that stuff right now, mostly because I’ve been living in super basic clothes for years, especially during my time in Denmark when everything I bought ended up being black or neutral simply because nothing else fit me the way I wanted. But I don’t have any real issue with the clothing itself. So why did I sound so irritated? The more I listened, the more I realized it wasn’t about the gear. It was about what I associate with the gear. I’ve watched people prioritize looking good over doing what feels good or supportive for their bodies. Not everyone. Not most people. But enough that the story stuck in my brain. At one point during an overhead lift, I said out loud, without planning to, something I hadn’t fully acknowledged: I carry resentment toward people who seem to prioritize aesthetics over accessibility or honesty in fitness. Not resentment toward them as individuals… but toward the idea I’ve built around them. The idea that exercise is supposed to be performed rather than practiced. That it’s about appearing strong instead of building strength in real time. That it’s about looking the part rather than showing up with the body I actually have. But as soon as that thought was out of my mouth, I recognized it wasn’t really about anyone else. It was about me.

  7. 4d ago

    Exercise Progress Needs Tracking: S1E24

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Planning is helpful but proof changes everything. Today I realized something big: I’ve been putting all my exercise plans into Google Calendar and assuming that was enough. It worked beautifully when I only had two workouts to remember, literally two things to track. I would open my calendar, see the workout, tap the link, and do the thing. Super simple. No friction. No thinking. Just show up and complete it. But now that I’ve expanded into multiple kinds of movement: fascia work, bouncing, strength tools, and more, I’m losing track of what I’ve actually done. And that’s where everything started to get more confusing. The more I added, the more I realized I needed something more than just a reminder system. And honestly? It’s messing with my head a little. I’ll look back and think: Did I do that yesterday… or did I just plan to do it yesterday? And because I don’t have proof, my brain automatically assumes the worst: that I didn’t do anything. Even when I did. If you’re wired like I am, you know how dangerous that mental loop can be. You end up discounting your own effort. You assume you’re behind. You forget that progress is happening quietly in the background.

  8. 4d ago

    Rethinking Unspoken Exercise Rules: S1E23

    Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. I didn’t realize how many unspoken rules I had about exercise until I started breaking them. Accidentally at first, then intentionally, and now with a bit of curiosity. For most of my adult life, movement was supposed to look a certain way. Focused. Structured. Contained. Done in a particular room, in a particular order, wearing the “right” clothing, following the “right” exercises, and never—ever—multitasked. But the more I work on this project, the more I notice that none of those rules came from me. They were absorbed. Picked up. Assumed. And for decades, they quietly shaped how I moved, or didn’t move at all. Today’s workout made that really clear in a way I didn’t expect. I was recording during my mobility session. Yes, recording while doing a mobility routine, and I realized just how many things I do during workouts that the “exercise world” would probably shake its head at. And yet, these little rule-breaking moments are the reason I keep showing up. They’re the reason movement feels doable and not like one more performance I have to get right.

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After years of illness, injury and well, the menopausal transition, I'm taking the reins back on my strength, balance and flexibility. I'm experimenting with some weights, exercise bands, and more in order to find exercises that fit my life and help me feel strong.

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  • Creator
    Stephanie Fuccio
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025-2026 D. Stephanie Fuccio. All right reserved.
  • Show Website
    my Body can