“Let’s get physical, physical… let me hear your body talk!”Grab Your Leggings! Cue Olivia Newton-John! The author of Let’s Get Physical is in the house! This interview promises to take you back, like flash-back potentially. You’ll recognize some of the names and some historic women’s fitness icons will be new. Are you getting physical? This episode […]
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In this episode I share 3 menopause fitness makeovers. Without disclosing or intruding on client confidentiality these three represent unique situations not uncommon in the 25 years I’ve been coaching midlife women. In the last decade, I’ve grown far more knowledgeable about how to help and the science behind both the stuck and the tools
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Using health benefits for personal training? At one point this was wishful thinking. Get sick, they said, then you can use those flex benefits. Gain weight, lose muscle and strength, then come back was essentially the message. Ever wished you could use your flex benefits toward your personal training and run into obstacles and red tape?
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As a midlife woman your diabetes risk increases as hormones change. This episode intends to help you realize that you are in control. We include what may be reminders for many of you, or new points of awareness for others. This may be for you or for loved ones struggling with insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or
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Recent studies (since 2019) provide more clues about the effects of hormones on muscle:The ability to build itThe loss of itPlus, in this episode I provide suggestions on what to do that is also noted by science as proven protocols.Study 1Treating women post menopause with either a placebo or estradiol, the estradiol subjects increased their
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Welcome to this episode, and this movement of ageism dismantled. How does it show up? Are you more ageist than you think? A recent solo podcast I did on this topic got a lot of attention. In our own Flipping 50 membership I regularly spot women being ageist in reference to themselves. This episode is about helping
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Want to increase your metabolism? Or at least ensure it doesn’t slow? Strength training increases the size and the density of your lean muscle mass. Muscle mass requires more energy than fat, so your energy expenditure or caloric burn goes up for every activity – even sleep. Exercising of course burns more calories while you’re
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What midlife fitness changes do the pros make? Today I’m talking to a fitness industry leader about how she’s embraced each decade, while running a business, in fact doing a lot of pivoting as we all have. When you’re an influencer and leader of many, in the spotlight in many ways, busy and then some, how
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If you’ve been a long-time listener, and you’ve heard episodes discussing hormones, and hormone therapy options to fix your hormones stay put because you haven’t heard this.No one has talked about this on Flipping 50 before. In all the episodes I’ve discussed and similar discussions about micronutrients I’ve had with clients, it’s never come up
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I’ve been asked frequently if I still do private coaching sessions. The answer is I do. I’m reframing how though. I’ve had to guard my time to start, grow and manage a team where we not only offer the first and only exclusively made-for-menopause fitness membership in the world, I train trainers and health coaches so
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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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