The number one reason most women give for their interest in a fitness or nutrition coaching program is overall health. A random collection of 200 surveys given to women near or on the other side of 50 showed 58% say that’s the most important. In further description of what exactly would improve their overall health, […]
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I often talk with women frustrated that they can’t lose weight or that don’t get energy from their exercise routine any more. After trying what used to work for them, or trying to piece together several random pieces of exercise – all that might have worked before – they’re just tired, not better. Adrenal fatigue
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You can’t blame it on your parents. At least not simply from being born. Your environment and lifestyle choices give trigger instructions to turn on or off your gene expression. Specifically, diet, physical activity, and the environment you live in are triggers. Even your thoughts about health and stress can put you in the driver’s
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You’ve started and stopped exercise and diets before. You’ve landed in the same spot again and again. It can be going poorly, or going well, and still you can’t seem to stick with it. Here are six obstacles that regularly get in the way of women over 50 who eventually find me because they can’t
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Lift weights fast or lift weights heavy Either way is a small time commitment. Fast means with power. Rather than traditionally lifting on a 1-2 count and lowering on a 3-4 count, you lift quickly in 1 count, pause slightly and lower the weight under control. The addition of power increases the energy expenditure of
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This past week has been an eclectic emotional roller coaster. It’s been exhausting, overwhelming, frustrating, confusing, heartbreaking and so much more. I’ve had friends express their own awful life circumstances and explain how they got through it not because they were any more emotionally equipped than the next person but because of their physical health.
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I sent this message and more to my subscribers and have nothing left this week. My energy, my mind, and heart are elsewhere. For those who’ve seen this previously, I apologize. Originally written Monday, June 27. I woke up this morning as I usually do, optimistic at the slightest hint of light. It lasted
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Finding time for it all is impossible. Thinking about it all, all the time, is exhausting. Men and women both can be subject to the overwhelming stress of our constantly connected work lives. I don’t know where I end and you begin What once was said to describe great relationships: I don’t know where I
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You want to lose the weight. You want more energy. You have the information you need. You know the things you need to change. If you can say, “yes” to each of those you’re ahead of the game. So often when I meet a frustrated woman 50+ a part of the reason she isn’t reaching
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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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