Better sex after in menopause with laughter? The joke’s on us! Think you’re ready for this episode? It’s all fun and games until… well, no, actually today it is all fun and games in this episode. My Guest: Karyn Buxman is a TEDx speaker, successful author—and a neurohumorist (she lives at the intersection of humor […]
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Successful habit change is the topic of this post. Staying on track during the holidays or stressful times is hard. How do you keep going toward something new as you have more resistance than ever?I want to revisit a topic that is important this time of year as well as in the New Year when
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Does menopause really mean different exercise? That was the question that came after incongruent messages presented to a Flipping 50 follower. It’s common. It’s the biggest reason it’s hard to stick to a program. You constantly get mixed messages and often can’t make a decision about starting any program. Be a critical thinker. I was
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Upper body strength is lacking for many women. If you use your lower body to walk, run, bike, hike you may find you have a fairly strong lower body. If you’ve been more sedentary since COVID? It’s time to get moving. Yes, a few squats and lunges, hiking up hills, or substituting bridges and hamstring
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Exercise from perimenopause to post-menopause exercise influences the body differently than it ever has before in your life. You won’t get the same benefit from continuing the same routine that once worked. The urgency of your exercise priorities also changes. A 2020 study confirmed accelerated muscle loss for women in late stages of perimenopause. Those
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Just eat less and exercise more backfired for Jennifer. In fact, she was taking that to the extreme at one point and was both frequently sick and injured but not losing weight.Join us for this celebration of how to lose 100 lbs and make the mental changes, or continue to make them along the way,
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Great workouts start with a great warm up. Skip either of your 2-part warm up and you miss opportunities to get a better workout, reduce risk of injury, enhance oxygen delivery (to burn more fat), and feel better doing it. The two parts of ideal warm-ups: Core temperature elevation (doing low level of the exercise
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Fitness professionals are generally fit-looking, attractive, and wear revealing clothing, if under the guise of showing their movement for demonstration purposes. Is it real or fake? Does it matter? Before you read further, you might want to pause. How does it make you feel, really make you feel when you see a perfectly-polished body with
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Last month was breast cancer awareness month. Every month, though 1 in every 8 women is diagnosed. This continues a conversation worth revisiting about hormones and breast cancer. Breast cancer. You are on one side of it or the other. You’ve either been there and heard “you have breast cancer.” Perhaps you never have heard
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Let’s talk exercise lies for women in menopause! Did you know my TEDx talk was not only a victim of COVID19 for 7 months (yes, crazy wait from Nov 10 to June to have it released), but it was almost banned. It’s not easy to swim upstream. Meaning when you have a strong message that
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Shoulder
Circumference outside of both arms, at the armpit
Right Triceps
Halfway btwn shoulder & elbow, arm extended.
Hips
Find the widest point of girth at the hips
Right Thigh
Standing with weight on both legs, measure halfway between knee cap and hip flexor
Right Calf
Standing with weight on both legs, find the largest point of calf.
Chest
Measure from the rib cage just under breasts at bra line
Waist
At the belly button/umbilicus
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