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After the age of 30, women lose muscle and bone density every single year unless you're actively and intentionally exercising and eating in a way to prevent this.

Add to this any extreme diets that you've done where you've lost weight rapidly - Atkins, Keto, IF, weightloss medications...you can Imagine how much you may have lost already. 😰

Light weights do NOT t send a strong enough signal to prevent this.

Resistance training with progressive overload is the single biggest lever you have — for muscle, for bone, for your metabolism.

You might think light weights will do the job and 'protect' your joints and body from aching. But your body loves and needs muscle.

If you want to build skeletal muscle for improved metabolism, better blood sugar response AND to look better in your clothes, this is what I’d do.

3 x resistance sessions per week with progressive overload
Eat sufficient protein for my body size to support training - without it, you won’t get the resuylts
It’s that simple.

Comment PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD if you'd like to understand more about progressive overload. And no, I'm sorry but your BodyPump class and PIlates is not doing it for you.

I hope you're not feeling like a lardarse.

But my experience coaching midlife women is that most women hit September feeling like they've overindulged and like they have to 'start again' from scratch.

Which leads to all or nothing approaches which is impossible to maintain and ends up leaving you feeling like you've failed.

The trick to success and constant progression is understanding the snakes and ladders approach to progress.

It's something that I coach all the Kickass women on - and which we go through before we take on anyone in our coaching programme.

Because once you understand this concept, everything begins to change - both in terms of sucessful fat loss, muscle gain but more importantly, feeling that you're in control of the process and there is never any starting again, just progress.

p.s You'll get to understand this process more in the KIckass Body Breakthrough in 6 which kicks off Sept 14th. comment BREAKTHROUGH for more information.

Staying motivated to train and eat nutritiosly to lose the menopausal weight gain or the marshmallow softness that seems to develop as if over night can be difficult.

Especially, if, as so many women tell me, they feel like they've tried everything and already thrown money at supplements and personal trainers, gym classes and Pilates, running and diet resets.

That's why I'm launching the first ever 6 week Kickass Body Breakthrough, combining all the elements of my Method...

Meno Belly Blitz nutrition
Metabolism Boosting Strength
Kickass Mindset
Parasympathetic Recovery

In one short 1-2-1 programme to help 20 women finally have the Breakthrough with their own bodies, lose up to 12lbs, create muscle definition and finally understand how to get these results for life.

Get on my waitlist NOW for the chance to grab one of these spaces before they go public on 1st September and gain an exclusive perk.

Comment WAITLIST below and I'll send you more info.

We start Sept 14th, the perfect time to reframe, refocus and kickass.

Have you ever considered the fact that it's NOT you that's failing or that can't stay 'motivated' to get the results that you want?

Rather that the 'diets' that you've been trying are characterised by one of these factors...

So extreme they're impossible to maintain ...you might have managed it when you were younger because you didn't have quite as many things to juggle.

Designed to keep you ignorant...all those traffic light systems and meal plans what did you learn about your body and nutrition? Nada, right?

And the WORST thing of all? They forgot to tell you the MOST important thing of all...that if you lose weight suddenly and quickly, you're losing muscle which slows your metabolism down, which is why it's harder now.

But you keep trying because you assume that it's you who is at fault. Or worse, that it's your body or genes and there's nothing you can do.

It's not you, it's your strategy.

Give me a follow for effective strategies that have worked for 1000s of midlife women like you.

P.S and if you want to try it in action, I'm bringing back for one time only a 6 week programmme, The Kickass Body Breakthrough, helping you to learn how to build some muscular defintion, lose up to 12lbs and finally learn a strategy that works for life.

I open bookings August 31st but get on my PRIORITY WAITLIST now to be first in line to book - and get an exclusive early action takers bonus if you decide to go ahead. Comment WAITLIST below to discover more and we'll send something over.

LUNGES are most midlife women's nemesis. But lunges do NOT cause a painful knee, this only happens if you do them incorrectly.

Firstly, if you're a beginner to lunges, start with bodyweight and a static variation. By which I mean, keep the feet in the same place and don't step forward or backwards.

Avoid having your feet one behind the others - you'll lose your balance.

Feel like you're pulling your feet apart on the floor to help bring some stability.

And use a pole - there will be dowel poles in the gym or your brush at home (sorry, don't know why I used the word broomstick!) to help you slide down the pole so that your torso stays upright.

And most of all, maintain a right angle at the front of the leg and back of the leg. this comes from going down NOT forward.

Why do them?

Because they build single leg strength, building muscles in your glutes and hamstrings (back of your body) and quads - you thighs.

Of course there are different exercises which can be used if struggle - which is why personalised online coaching helps. No prescriptive one size fits all.

In midlife, one thing is for sure. Bodies are different but most of all, mindsets and confidence is too, and we deal with all of this, not just the exercise part.