40+ Fitness for Women: Strength training in perimenopause & menopause
If you are a woman over 40 and are looking for practical information on how to keep your body strong and functional in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, this is the show for you!
- Do you want to learn how to exercise in a way to increase muscle and lose fat so you look and feel great today while preparing your body for the decades ahead?
- Do you want to start lifting weights?
- Do you want to understand the hormonal changes that are going on in your body during menopause (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol) and how those affect how you should be working out?
Lynn has you covered!
40+ Fitness for Women Podcast is THE fitness podcast for women over 40. It is focused on practical, concrete tips and strategies for getting strong and fit today and maintaining your quality of life in the decades ahead.
Host Lynn Sederlöf-Airisto is a Certified Menopause Fitness Coach. And, as a 54-year-old post-menopausal woman, she knows first-hand what going through the menopause transition is like.
She has struggled with the hormonal changes including a rollercoaster ride through perimenopause and changes to her body composition that seemed to happen almost overnight!
Lynn has been there and found the path forward - and is here to share that with you. Midlife can be the best part of life - if you learn how to work with your body.
40+ Fitness for Women: Strength training in perimenopause & menopause
#19: How to know if you are getting results from your weight training (8 ways to track progress)
Building muscle is a slow process so it's not unusual for people to question whether they are actually getting anywhere as they continue to show up and lift.
In this episode, I go over 8 ways to track whether you are actually making progress:
1️⃣ Take progress pictures
2️⃣ Take measurements with a tape measure
3️⃣ Take body composition measurements
4️⃣ Track your training sessions' weights and reps
5️⃣ Watch for changes in your everyday life
6️⃣ Feel yourself
7️⃣ Look for signs of increasing muscle definition
8️⃣ How clothes fit
For each of these, I go through them with some real-life examples so that you can more easily apply some or all of these methods!
IF you are NOT seeing progress and you've been doing this for a while, please go back to episodes #12 and #13 which go over all the factors which affect how quickly you'll see results, and make sure you're not missing some critical piece!
If you want help to figure it out, I'll be glad to help - reach out to me.
LINK to the training tracker that you can download and use >>
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