Friday, August 14 – Saturday, August 15, 2026
Midwest Retreat Iowa
Movement, Muscle and Metabolism for Longevity
An Intimate MIDWEST Woman’s Fitness Intensive Retreat (LIMITED spaces)
Take two days and learn more about your body and how to care for it with movement, lifestyle habits and focus on strength, power and metabolic health for the decades ahead. If the idea of aging gracefully doesn’t appeal to you as much as aging racefully, living the bucket life, this is for you.
In this special, never-done-before retreat Debra is hosting you at her home for two days
*lodging not included (hotels nearby 10-20 minutes away)
The Art and Science of:
- Musculoskeletal changes in menopause and what we have the power to do about them.
- Evidence-based protocols for reversing bone and muscle loss
- Weight Re-composition strategies (gain/maintain muscle & lose fat)
- The visceral belly fat truth
- Assessments (you don’t have to sweat for) of mobility, stability, strength, power and what the results mean
- Science-backed proven strategy to improve and increase health-span not just longevity
- To eat before? Or fast before? How much protein and why? What counts as weight training and how many sets, how often?
Day 1 Includes:
- Presentation: Musculoskeletal Changes in Women’s Lifespan (keynoted at Women’s Health Summit 2025)
- Longevity Fitness Assessment Workshop (dress comfortably)
- Movement sessions (bring a yoga mat)
- Lunch: Cooking & meal prep for optimizing health and minimizing inflammation
- Presentation & Lab: 7 Components of Longevity Fitness
- Playbook for scoring your assessment and strategy notetaking
- Goodie bag (we know people: these are good!)
Day 2: (ends by 12:30 pm)
- HRR Interval Testing (treadmill)
- Tool Testing (Play with a variety of fitness tools: weighted vest, Massage gun, Protonics alignment, Airex pad, rebounder, foam rollers, bands)
- Q and As with Menopause and Longevity Expert Debra Atkinson for answers to all your questions about:
- Weighted vests
- Walking: # of steps and timing that matter
- Weight training formulas that build muscle quality and bone density based on your experience
- How to know if you have the MSA (mobility, stability and agility) you need for aging optimally
- Interpreting your personal HALO METHOD™ results for best strategies
- A 60-Minute Hot to Trot walk
Plus, Post event ONLINE 30-Minute Private Strategy Session Follow up call with Debra (value $250)
Tentative schedule:
Day 1
9 am arrive Meet & Greet, Introductions
9:30 Musculoskeletal changes in Before, During & After Menopause
10:30 break
10:45 Longevity fitness assessments
11:45 short yoga session
12:15 Too many cooks in the kitchen? Never!
1:15 Light post-meal movement
2:45 7 Components of Longevity Fitness and how to interpret & strategize your scores
3:45 Movement Snack
4:00 short break
4:15 Score with Core & Pelvic Floor
5:15 Wrap up – dinner on your own (recommendations can be made!)
Day 2:
8am Arrive for Light Movement Warm up and HRR assessment & Tool Testing
9am HALO METHOD assessment circle
10am short break
10:15 Q and A (Ask Me Anything: fitness/exercise/nutrition/sleep/health)
11:15 Agility & Hot to Trot walk
12:15 -12:30 Depart with more knowledge about loving the body you live in!
*times/activities subject to change
BOTH DAYS: $399
Register you and a friend/sister and save!
Use code FRIENDS for $100 savings on two registrations
Minimum and maximum group size*
Refunds allowed within 48 hours of booking less fees and service charge. Otherwise, fees deferred for credit or transferred to a friend only. Your reservation takes a spot that can’t easily be filled.
The Midwest Retreat will be offered twice. Choose your weekend!
Friday & Sat July 10 & 11
Friday & Sat August 14 & 15
Book now and join me in Iowa this summer.
