Healthy Exercise Without Healthy Food Won’t Work A combination of healthy food and healthy exercise help you feel good. The missing overlooked link is the daily habits (I call flips in Hot, Not Bothered) that keep you consistently on track when life says you don’t have the time to exercise or eat perfectly today. While people […]
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One of the hardest things about training for this Ironman has been listening. Listening to my body for signs of training fatigue, over training, and breakdown has always been important. It becomes much more important after 50. Rest and recovery have earned entire chapter in You Still Got It, Girl for good reason. They key is
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Fitness After 50 and Big Hairy Goals Fitness after 50 gets an unique reaction. Some women resent that we’re talking about it as if they’re broken or can’t do anything younger women can. Others feel they need something softer, gentler, because of their age. Women near midlife, specifically the midlife threshold 5-0, sometimes get a
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How do I choose the best exercise program from all your exercise videos? This is a frequently asked question. I realize as I create more options to solve unique problems or satisfy requests it gets confusing. I learned long ago that most women want fewer, but better choices in this modern busy life.But as someone who
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I am going to dive into endurance training details along with the hormone and supplement changes I’ve made recently today. First, though, I want your input. I’m rocked and shocked by the event in Las Vegas this week. And it compounds my apprehension about traveling to Mexico in November. As I finalize details, I’m having
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I struggled to post this. If you’re hanging on every word and post (hi mom) you may have noticed I’m about 12 hours later than usual. I couldn’t put my finger on why exactly. I think it is instead is that the shooting in Las Vegas rocked us each in different ways. I couldn’t imagine
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Today’s fitness post strays a little from my recent Thursday updates about my training status. That should be a hint. To borrow a phrase from a client, I’ve fallen off the wagon and got run over by it. The last couple weeks have been a blur of business preparation, business trips, new projects and catch
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Fitness mistakes are a total bummer! You can be exercising for months or years doing it wrong and unintentionally be sabotaging your results. It doesn’t have to happen! Most of the fitness mistakes here feature exercises that use machine weights. Whether you use them in the gym, or have a multi-station at home, these flips
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My triathlon exercise training tanked this week. Life got in the way. More specifically, exciting opportunities to share the Flipping 50 message got in the way. Life Trumps Exercise Training So rather than swimming, biking, and running, I find myself sitting for make up (trying to figure out fake lashes), waiting to get “miked” up
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There’s no shortage of exercise tips on the internet. However, did you know that only 39% of all sport and exercise research feature women? And guess what? Even fewer have featured women in peri and post menopause. Our body composition, hormones, metabolism, and socialization are all so different that studies done on young, fit males
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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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