How To Level Up Your Fitness After 40
If I had to summarize my 40’s so far, I would say it’s been some of the most healing, yet most crazy years of my life! A warning label would have been helpful, but the fact is we all experience this season differently, and navigating can be nourishing and challenging all at once. Some of us are still chasing babies (BLESS), but if you’re like me you’re in launch mode … you’re sending your favorite humans off into the college life world, proud and devastated all at once as the mission is accomplished. Regardless of where you’re at, your body is changing, and it can be exhausting and scary, yet full of opportunity to get your empowerment and growth - game ON.
Maintaining fitness and health during perimenopause is next level, but just like Nintendo Tetris ( how satisfying is that game!!? I get to win at organizing!) you’re gonna find a way to get the pieces into place. It’s a real battle, since most of us have to learn new workout routines and make nutrition adjustments through this transitional phase of life due to those hormones and the physical and emotional changes they bring with them. If you’re like me, hot flashes, mood swings, weight gain, decreased muscle tone, fluctuating energy levels, etc. make the struggle very real. But I’m here to encourage you … you CAN stay fit and healthy during perimenopause, the pieces will fall into place and you WILL find ways to manage your weight and symptoms, and even deepen your level of self awareness and self love. You in fact, are leveling up.
Let’s take this one piece at a time, shall we? Today, we’ll start by taking a look at the exercise piece. The best types of exercises for women over 40 support your body’s changing needs and help you maintain strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular health. How do you know if your exercise is boosting your metabolism, building muscle, and reducing fat? You find a way to combine it all into one workout, because in the name of efficiency, we don’t have time to exercise all day! For myself, my in person clients, as well as my online clients, I program combinations of Strength, Cardio, and Pilates workouts, where we use compound (multiple joints and muscles at once) exercises, lighter weights, short rests between sets, and lots of repetitions to improve our results and feel great quicker. We are tracking calories and our cycle, focusing on nutrition and recovery, and enjoying the benefits of a lifestyle of wellness.
Stay tuned! We’ll take a look at the details like “How Pilates Can Help During Perimenopause”, “Nutrition Tips for Women Facing Perimenopause”, Strength Training for Women Over 40”, “Perimenopause Fitness Programs,” “The Benefits of 1:1 Personalized Fitness Coaching for Women Over 40",”Hormonal Balancing Foods”, “How Much Protein We Need after 40” and more … in next few week’s blog posts. In the meantime, if you want to find out more now, check out my EVOLVE program, where every workout is designed to fit your schedule, your current fitness level, and your future fitness goals.
Let’s level up together.
♡, Breanna
