Debra Atkinson, Author at Flipping Fifty

She’s post-diabetes, she’s retired from teaching, and she’s 70-your next trainer?

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Imagine a 70-year old yoga instructor and personal trainer. If you picture someone gently stretching during chair yoga or helping clients lift pink dumbbells you don’t have a good image of our guest today. Lin Goldkrantz is 70 and after picking herself up after hearing “diabetes” from her doctor she got a trainer, got empowered, …

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How to Make Friends and Influence Enemies At the Gym- An After 50 User’s Guide

Exercise / By Debra Atkinson

The Dirty Dozen (+1) of Gym Etiquette: YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW If you’re new to the gym experience you don’t know what you don’t know. Sure, you can read the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) your gym posts but that don’t really give you the inside scoop. You, after all want to look like …

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Interval Tuesday and Day Two of My Meatless Month

Nutrition / By Debra Atkinson

Interval Training Has It’s Perks And in case you’re wondering here they are: less time consuming more optimal effects on growth hormone to build lean after 50 (we tend to produce less especially if we sleep poorly) more optimal effects on cortisol (keep your intervals appropriate duration work-to-recovery and frequency appropriate and you have the …

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How Long Will Weight Loss After Menopause Take?

Podcasts / By Debra Atkinson

Reader “Dawn” wrote in her situation and you’ll hear how I coach her on the “next step.” If you’re implementing changes in exercise, diet quality and timing and not seeing consistent evidence of change, listen up! The answer can be hidden.Are you next? Got a challenge with weight loss or finding an active routine or …

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Form Follows Function – Shape Your Rear View By Strengthening

Exercise / By Debra Atkinson

The biggest muscle in your body is very possibly one of the weakest. If you’re spending a lot of time sitting weak gluteal muscles can lead to aches and pains, or worse injuries when you do want to get up and go. Take time to walk through the pictorial or print it off for reference. …

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More Fit, Less Fat and a Boost of Fun After 50

Podcasts / By Debra Atkinson

Boomer twins and fitness experts Kymberly Williams-Evans and Alexandra Williams ofwww.Funandfit.org join the episode today to give the all-star line up for a two-day growing bolder never older summit coming up June 3 and 4. Find out how you can start or re-start, why weights matter for weight, how to move so you never get …

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How To Do Intervals For Your After 50 Fitness Fix

Exercise / By Debra Atkinson

Two Interval Training Tracks for Your Summer Exercise Solutions I think most of us agree health is important. Who doesn’t want to look better while she’s getting fit? My mom’s nearly 89 and when she tries on a pair of pants she still turns around to look at the rear view. It’s not going to …

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The Shocking Truth About Diets After 50

Nutrition / By Debra Atkinson

A Woman On A Diet Is Skipping More Than Dessert As few as 12% of women over 50 are satisfied with their bodies. A whopping 87% had more eating disorder symptoms, dieting behaviors and weight and appearance dis-satisfaction. In a similar study done eleven years earlier (2004) 80% of 54 year old women reported body dis-satisfaction. Are we …

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Three Things That Boost Your Exercise Results After 50 Results

Exercise / By Debra Atkinson

Welcome to the first edition of The After 50 Fitness Formula For Women! If this is your first visit and pass through my site, in your shoes, I’d be wondering who this chic is and how she has authority to deliver content. So here’s the dirt on me. No police record, no tabloid headlines, just a …

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The WELLU After 50 Podcast

Podcasts / By Debra Atkinson

The WELLU After 50 Podcast features how to, what to, and why to for the pro-aging boomer. If you’re looking for a great ride and not willing to settle for slowing down… then here’s where you pick up speed.Sleep, stress, brain and memory to exercise and nutrition…where we’ve been doing it wrong, how to get …

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