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
#24: What equipment is best for weight training? (building muscle in midlife)
Mentioned in this episode:
- Free training tracker: www.befitafter40.com/tracker
- episode #18: progressive overload
- episode #22: unilateral weight training
There are a lot of equipment choices out there when it comes to building muscle. There are barbells, dumbbells, cables, various machines, and rubber bands (including "booty bands"). In addition, there are those who use mainly bodyweight exercises to get strong (calisthenics). So, which one is best for building and maintaining muscles?
I dive into the pros and cons of each of these types of equipment and also discuss the most important thing to keep in mind in order to get results.
You'll get answers to questions like:
- Can you build muscle with gym equipment?
- Are machines better than free weights?
- What are the top things to build muscle?
- Kick-start your lifting with my easy-to-follow Learn to Lift programs:
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- Lose fat with The Midlife Fat Loss Formula >>
- Download my free guide to working with your menopausal body >>
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