Forget the bikini body, exercise for your 'old lady body' – with Elizabeth Davies

About this episode

Elizabeth Davies joins Liz Earle to discuss the importance of exercise for maintaining strength and health in midlife.

Exercise is vital for maintaining strength, independence and vitality well into our later years, but it's easy to lose your fitness mojo in midlife. Personal trainer Elizabeth Davies joins Liz to talk about the power of movement – and easy ways to get started. They discuss how fitness has been marketed as a way to lose weight or build a ‘summer body’, and why the focus should be on being strong, not skinny. Elizabeth also explains the importance of midlife fitness for heart and bone health, tips for navigating pelvic floor weakness and how to save time by cutting your workout in half.   In this episode: ·     The importance of training for our later years ·     How much cardio we really need ·     Protecting heart and bone health ·     How to exercise with pelvic floor weakness ·     Do we need to lift heavy weights? ·     Ways to cut your training session in half Links mentioned in the episode: ·      WHO guidance on physical activity   More from Elizabeth: ·      Follow…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Earle

Guest: Elizabeth Davies

Topics covered

• midlife fitness
• exercise
• heart health
• bone health
• pelvic floor
• strength training

Keywords

• fitness
• exercise
• midlife
• strength
• cardio
• pelvic floor
• workout
• health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WHO

Products: Training For Your Old Lady Body, How to Age, A Better Second Half

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