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Feisty Fest is the flagship live event from the Feisty Media network, designed for active, performance-minded women who want more than a weekend wellness retreat. Think training sessions, evidence-based talks, and real conversations about the topics the Feisty podcasts cover every week: strength, endurance, hormones, and the science of performing well at every age. It's built for women who treat sport as a serious part of life, not a side hobby.
What Feisty Fest actually is
Feisty Fest sits at the intersection of education and community. Attendees get access to expert speakers drawn from sports medicine, exercise physiology, and endurance coaching, alongside hands-on training sessions that put the theory into practice. Sessions cover a wide range of topics, from fuelling strategy for long-course events to the specific physiological shifts that affect women during perimenopause and beyond. The format is deliberately practical: you leave with information you can apply in your next training week, not just a highlight reel for social media.
The event also creates space for community in a way that a podcast simply can't. Women who've been training alone, or who've felt out of place in mainstream fitness events, show up at Feisty Fest and find their people. That's not incidental to the event's design. It's central to it.
Who the event is for
Feisty Fest draws cyclists, runners, triathletes, and strength athletes. It attracts women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond who are actively training and want information that reflects their actual biology. If you've found yourself frustrated by generic fitness advice that doesn't account for hormonal shifts, recovery differences, or the specific demands of midlife performance, Feisty Fest addresses those gaps directly.
The audience skews toward women who already have a training base. First-timers are absolutely welcome, but the content pitches to people who are already asking harder questions. If you've spent time with Feisty Women's Performance or dug into the research on muscle-building protocols for menopausal women, you'll feel at home immediately. The conversations pick up where the podcasts leave off.
The content: what to expect on the program
Programming at Feisty Fest typically covers three broad pillars: performance science, health and hormones, and sport-specific coaching. A session on periodised strength training might run back-to-back with a panel on managing menopause symptoms while maintaining a high training load. That combination isn't an accident. Feisty Media has always argued that these topics belong in the same conversation, not in separate silos.
Speakers are practitioners who work with women athletes, not generalists repackaging standard fitness content. You'll hear from coaches who programme specifically for perimenopausal athletes, clinicians who understand the gap between population-level research and the needs of the active woman in front of them, and athletes who've navigated the exact challenges the audience is living through. The content on menopause and performance is among the most densely attended programming at the event, which reflects how underserved that conversation has been elsewhere.
Why Feisty Fest is worth attending in person
The Feisty network publishes strong content across its podcast roster. Feisty Triathlon covers multisport training in serious depth. Hit Play Not Pause tackles midlife performance with a rigour most health media doesn't attempt. But a live event does things audio can't. You can ask the speaker a follow-up question. You can train alongside someone who shares your goals. You can have a conversation at lunch that changes how you approach your next training block.
Community is the word most attendees use when describing what they got from Feisty Fest. Not networking in the professional sense. Something closer to finding a group of people who understand the specific overlap of competitive ambition, midlife physiology, and the desire to keep improving. That combination is rarer than it should be.
How to find out more and register
Details on dates, location, and registration for Feisty Fest are published through Feisty Media's official site. Spots fill quickly, particularly for the hands-on training sessions, so getting on the early notification list is worth doing if you're considering attending. The event sells to a loyal returning audience, which means first-time attendees benefit from moving early rather than waiting for a full program announcement.
If you're on the fence, the simplest test is whether the content that Feisty's podcasts produce already fits your training life. If it does, the in-person version of that community is worth making the trip for.