She’s Gotta Try

Laura Peerless
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Weekly insights from a grassroots rugby player and online coach. Nutrition, Training and Mindset tips alongside rugby related yarns and banter

  1. −4 d

    Sisters Who Scrum: Breaking the Silence on Pelvic Floor Health in Women’s Rugby

    In this episode, I sit down with Holly Montabelli (known on Instagram as "The Rugby Midwife") to tackle a critical, yet often ignored, topic in our sporting community: pelvic health. Holly opens up about their personal journey as a lifelong rugby player and midwife who experienced a prolapsed cervix and pelvic floor dysfunction while training. Together, we bust common strength-training misconceptions, discuss the immense physical demands placed on rugby forwards, and share the exact breathing and rehabilitation techniques needed to restore core stability. We also dive into the cultural and structural challenges facing women's clubs today—from the normalization of urinary incontinence to the glaring lack of basic infrastructure, like sanitary bins in changing rooms. Tune in to discover how to identify key warning signs, seek the right professional care, and implement proactive team education to break down barriers and keep female athletes in the sport they love. Find Holly on instagram @therugbymidwife

    55 min

  2. 18 juni

    What Do I Want to Be Known For?

    This week I’m taking a step back to answer a question that came up in my business mentoring group: what do I want to be known for? The result is a properly honest rundown of what sits behind the Peerless Pack and my coaching, from my childhood at the rugby club to why a no b******t, common sense approach to nutrition and training matters more than ever in a world of conflicting advice and AI generated noise. I talk community over competition, fun over grind, and why keeping women in the game for as long as possible is the whole point. Like the sound of this, come join the Peerless Pack. Early bird sign up for the Peerless Pack opens 22nd June - contact me @laurapeerlesscoaching or nutrition@laurapeerless.co.uk for more info.

    19 min

  3. 11 juni

    Did Drinking Three Days in a Row Ruin My Life?

    This week I'm back on my own and we're getting into something that's been on my mind after a very normal, very human weekend involving three consecutive days of drinking. Did it ruin my life? No. Did I still get the job done on Monday? Yes. And yet somewhere out there, a man with millions of podcast listeners is telling the world that two glasses of wine ruined his life for three days. So let's talk about that. Because when people with massive platforms conflate imperfection with disaster, it quietly reinforces the idea that you have to be perfect to be healthy. And that is not only wrong, it is genuinely harmful. In this episode I get into the WHO definition of health (physical, mental, and social well-being), why I think about it as a Venn diagram, and why chasing optimisation in one area often tanks the others. I also talk about the version of myself that spent too long trying to look like the right kind of fitness coach, and why I would rather be messy and relatable than aspirational and unattainable. Featuring: Friday balcony beers, a County Cup final at Twickenham, a birthday weekend for someone deeply missed, and the England Women's Rugby team still half-cut at their post-World Cup interviews. This one is for anyone who has ever felt like they ruined everything because they had a normal weekend.

    17 min

  4. 4 juni

    They Don't Want Us to Take Up Space. We're Doing It Anyway.

    This week I'm joined by Becky Jones, otherwise known as the Empower Coach, and honestly this conversation went places I didn't expect. Becky is an anti-diet coach who helps women break free from diet culture and unrealistic beauty standards. She grew up being bullied in a small Yorkshire village, developed a disordered relationship with food at 12 years old, and spent her 20s fighting the messaging that her body needed to look a certain way to be accepted. Now in her 40s, she's turned that into a career calling out the systems that caused it in the first place. We ended up talking about a lot more than food. We talked about what happened when my team won our league this season and got almost zero recognition from our club. We talked about being labelled "difficult" and "hysterical" when you ask for things that are completely reasonable. We talked about how women in sport are still being made to feel lucky just to be there, and what you can actually do when you're tired of beating your head against a brick wall. In this episode we cover: • Growing up in 90s diet culture and how it shaped us both • Why "skinny talk" is making a comeback and why that matters • The lack of recognition for women's grassroots rugby (and why 5,000 people clearly agreed) • How to find your voice and set boundaries without blowing everything up • Non-violent communication as an actual practical tool for dealing with institutions • Why BMI is basically useless for rugby players • The patriarchal systems behind diet culture and why Becky isn't shutting up about them • And why community, not comparison, is what actually changes things This one is for the women who've been told they're too much. You're not too much. The room is just too small.

    45 min

  5. 28 maj

    I Retired at 39 and Made County Trials at 43. Here is What Actually Changed.

    At 39 I genuinely believed I had no business playing rugby anymore. So I hung up my boots, missed an entire season, and told myself that was just what happened when you got older. Spoiler: I was completely wrong. In this episode I am shooting from the hip and sharing the five things that took me from retirement to county trials at 43. Not theory. Not things I read in a book. The actual stuff I did, the mindset shifts I made, and the honest truth about what was holding me back in the first place. We talk about why I finally invested in a coach and what that actually changed, what structured strength training has done to my body and my confidence on the pitch, why I used to treat rest days like failure and why that was costing me more than I realised, how I simplified my nutrition after years of overcomplicating it, and the one thing that was quietly killing my enjoyment of the sport I love. If you are a woman in your 30s or 40s who is starting to wonder whether your best rugby is behind you, this episode is for you. I promise it is not. The Peerless Pack opens Monday 1 June. If anything in this episode lands for you, come and find me at @laurapeerlesscoaching on Instagram or drop me an email at nutrition@laurapeerless.co.uk I would love to have you in the Pack. If you’re ready to take action then apply here https://forms.gle/JwvgHttK7GLHzHAq6

    26 min

  6. 22 maj

    The Tight 5: The Only Things You Need to Reset, Recover and Keep Moving Forward

    I’m going to be honest with you. The last few weeks have been a lot. Socialising, eating on the fly, poor sleep, and a body that was absolutely cooked after our cup final. I intentionally took a week off the gym because I knew I needed it. But the other stuff? That crept in and I can feel it. So this week I’m doing what I tell my clients to do when things have slipped. I’m going back to my Tight 5. These are the five foundations I come back to every single time life gets messy. Not an overhaul, not a punishment, not a dramatic detox. Just five simple things done consistently that keep me feeling good, performing better and staying sane. Named after the front row and second row of the scrum, the players that provide a strong, stable platform to keep everything safe, secure and moving forward. That’s exactly what these five things do for you. In this episode I’m walking you through all five. Protein and plants at every meal, hydration habits that actually work, why daily movement is not the same as training, why sleep might be undermining everything else you’re doing, and the mindset shift that holds all four together. I’m doing this reset alongside you this week. Not above you, with you. And if by the end of this you want to do it inside a community of women who genuinely get it, the Peerless Pack is back and we start on the 1st of June. Five early bird spaces available. Link to the app form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeds7rXSJY0zef0ZpQXPYZS5igR5UEWvanz6tt16eJRVN_nQ/viewform Come find us.

    32 min

  7. 16 maj

    Not Every Club, not Everybody but Some - The Women’s Game Deserves Better

    This week I’m getting something off my chest. I’m part of the most successful team at my club, league winners, National Plate winners, three-time County Cup holders yet when we won the league last weekend, nobody from the board came to watch and there was nothing on the club’s social media. Not a word. In this episode I’m talking about what that feels like, why I think silence is compliance, and what real allyship actually looks like in the grassroots game. This isn’t a rant, it’s a rallying cry. And I’d love to know if any of it resonates with you.

    11 min

  8. 7 maj

    She’s Gotta Try — 13 Seasons, One League Title, and What It Actually Takes to Reach Your goals

    We won the league. 13 seasons in the making, two near-misses, one absolutely rank mud bath, and a day trip to Guernsey that cost more than a week away and we finally did it. In this episode I’m unpacking what winning the league with Seaford Scarlets actually taught me about goal-chasing not the glossy version, the real one. Because it wasn’t one game or one season that got us here. It was the boring stuff. The uncomfortable stuff. The stuff nobody sees. I’m sharing my five takeaways from the season and how every single one of them applies whether you’re chasing a performance goal, trying to shift your body composition, or just trying to show up consistently when life is being a nightmare. We cover: — Why you’re basically winging it without a proper plan — Getting comfortable being uncomfortable (and why it’s non-negotiable) — The danger of the “one big moment” myth — Why community will always beat going it alone — What happens after you hit the goal (this is where most people go wrong) If you’ve been waiting for a sign to stop messing about and actually go for it this is it. DM me PACK on Instagram @laurapeerlesscoaching if you want to know more about the Peerless Pack, or drop me an email at nutrition@laurapeerless.co.uk if you’ve got 1:1 coaching on your mind. She’s Gotta Try. Let’s go.

    21 min
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Weekly insights from a grassroots rugby player and online coach. Nutrition, Training and Mindset tips alongside rugby related yarns and banter

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  • Skapad av
    Laura Peerless
  • Aktiva år
    2024 - 2026
  • Avsnitt
    105
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    © Laura Peerless
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    She’s Gotta Try