Metabolism slows, goes, or speeds up due to multiple factors. One is hydration. If you’re not drinking enough water, start. Metabolism Mastery Let’s not blame a slowing metabolism on your hormones. Not, at least, the ones that have changed during menopause. Cortisol is there for both genders and all ages. Your lifestyle habits are more …
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Prevent muscle losses I wouldn’t agree with experts who say the natural process of aging leads to muscle loss, but if you aren’t strength training there is an average loss of .5 lbs a year that begins at age 30. This means some of us are losing more than that and some less. The problem …
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You’ve got goals! In today’s episode, Julie is planning to do a marathon. She knows weight training is important to avoid muscle loss and wants help juggling the increasing miles and demand on time and energy. Fortunately, marathon training has changed! Instead of miles and miles, even endurance training is shifting to include more intervals, …
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I am a research geek. I love to scour the fitness association journals that fall into my inbox and dig further from the often misinterpreted articles forwarded to me by clients to find the best information available for application in designing videos, workouts, and programs that I first use myself before sharing. I’ve included here …
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When you’re setting New Year’s resolutions or considering gingerly easing yourself off the couch, its not typically bone density that motivates you. In 32 years as a fitness professional and in addition to the sessions I’ve personally conducted, supervised 200,000 personal training sessions over a six year period of time, exactly twice have I had …
Resistance training is recognized as a way to increase your lean muscle tissue and to enhance metabolism during rest. In fact, we know now that as we age maintaining lean muscle with resistance training is as if not more important than cardiovascular training. The intensity of resistance training is an important factor in whether benefits …
Have you ever felt more “bulky” than lean and sculpted from exercise? You want to lose weight and wonder why everyone seems to be telling you to lift weights? This is definitely for you! Watch the full Flipping 50 episode right here. Why weight training for weight loss? Whenever you lose weight, you lose a …
As you watch episode 10 you’ll learn that upper body muscle tone is a concern for Zina. A lack of upper body muscle tone is often related to estrogen dominance that can occur when cortisol is blocking progesterone. That’s a lot to take in, right? In short, you need to decrease stress in all areas …
“My biggest question is about strength training. I don’t even know where to begin.” This is one of the most common questions I’m asked. The focus is on weight training, and for a good reason. If you’ve crossed that threshold of 50, 60 or 70 or beyond, your need to maintain muscle increases. The combination …
Weight training is the bomb if you want weight loss and fat removal after 50, really 30 would have been a better time to start. The next best time is now! For a variety of reasons heavy weights are proven superior for getting results faster, but when schedules, or conditions, or just lack of space …
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