Increase Longevity and create a life you look forward to without Heavy Lifting
Release Date: 12/13/2024
Exercise Timing Improves Exercise Benefits in Menopause
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The timing of your exercise hurts or improves exercise benefits in menopause. If this is new stay with me! If this is like a review or you’re a trainer and you’re unsure of how to relate these things to your clients, you stay with me too! This is a great refresher and for some trainers the first time they’re ever hearing it! If you’re a trainer or health pro, don’t miss the , and be sure if you’re not getting results for your midlife and beyond clients you’re aware of our sponsor of this show, the . Since 2018 we’ve been providing the course and CECs, and now, this is not a...
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Turning Your Personal Drama and Trauma into Transformation
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Personal drama or personal trauma? One and the same? What is it, and how does it shape your health and happiness? Let’s explore the connection between everyday irritations and deeper trauma. From bad hair days to betrayal, uncover how personal drama impacts your well-being and how to move past it to live the life you deserve. My Guest: Dr. Debi Silber, founder of the PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute and National Forgiveness Day (celebrated annually on September 1st). An international bestselling author and acclaimed speaker on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice). Her podcast,...
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Increase Longevity and create a life you look forward to without Heavy Lifting
The Flipping 50 Show
Having a better menopause experience alone ensures you increase longevity and your health span. Usually we talk about preserving muscle, reversing bone loss, and enhancing walking speed to do so. Today, it’s a lot less sweat and breathlessness. but probably the hardest exercise I could ask you to do. Research shows that older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging, measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions of aging. If you don’t like what you see, change it. Change the people around you, change what you’re...
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Empower & Energize Yourself with The Colors You Wear
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Have you ever wondered why you feel better based on the colors you wear? In this episode, you’ll understand just how your fashion is related to your personality. Know the difference between “image” and “essence". Discover how to use fashion as a tool for self-expression and personal growth! Today’s guest is my personal color expert (in addition to my who helped nail the ultimate Mother of the Groom dress I wore!), and now she can be yours too. My Guest: Jennifer Butler is a master of color and style. Holding degrees in Art history, Sociology and Spiritual Psychology she builds on...
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Building Muscle During Menopause: A Protein and Exercise Review
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Building muscle during menopause takes a unique stimulus compared to PRE menopause and is also unique during peri and post menopause. Of course there’s more. Are you trying to lose weight, gain muscle, prevent osteoporosis, reduce or avoid medication, do you have adrenal fatigue or long haul? In this episode I’ll discuss the research on protein and call back to a recent episode about exercise volume for building muscle during menopause. Questions I answer in this episode: How have protein recommendations changed over time (then and now)? [00:08:00] What are women’s protein needs during...
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Connection Between the Sex Hormones and Bone Density
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Today’s episode is a refresher course or your introduction if you’re new to Flipping 50 and not quite sure you can make the connection between sex hormones and bone density. Share this with younger women to understand “more than seen and felt symptoms” of perimenopause. Many women aren’t aware of the options, pros and cons of hormone health. The more we know, the more we can make our own informed decisions. Bone density declines at menopause, and postmenopausal increases fracture risks. But do you know the importance of estrogen and testosterone in your bone health? Stay tuned to...
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Exercise for Menopause Brain Fog, Memory, Depression and Anxiety
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If you deal with menopause brain fog, mild depression or anxiety any time of year, this is for you. It’s also for anyone who wants the latest science on exercise and brain health. The evidence around how movement affects mental well-being is growing, and I want to share some of the most impactful insights with you. Almost all types of exercise seem to show benefits on mental well-being. Activities like resistance training, yoga, other mind-body activities, aerobic exercise, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) can support brain health to some extent. In this episode I’ll share which...
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Fitness Then and Now: A Look at Fitness Routines as You Age
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Let’s have a quick flashback on fitness then and now, a look at fitness routines as you age. We're going to talk about how we exercised through the years with my guest Linda Malone who is 65. She’s been in the fitness industry as a personal training and fitness expert. She’s doing some marketing and helping fitness and health pros develop their copy. My Guest: Linda Melone is the founder of The Copy Worx, a copywriting business targeting health and fitness businesses. She’s a seasoned copywriter, former personal trainer, and a fitness specialist for women over 50. She once ran an...
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My Morning Routine and How It’s Changed Over Time
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In my 20s, I would go for a run within an hour of waking. But as the years went by, I would linger over coffee and my studies or work. Even though I still wanted to move in the morning, I realized the best quality creativity and focus were accessible to me in the first hours of the morning. It wasn’t the same later. Eventually, I realized that if I focus on studying or work on a project and delay my workout until later, I could get another boost of focus when I return, refreshed and showered from exercise. Even when I was training for Iron -distance triathlons, 3 to 4-hour long sessions of...
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What You Do and Don’t Know About GLP-1
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What you don’t know about GPL-1 drugs may hurt you, or your opportunity to improve your health. Misconceptions could limit your ability to make an informed decision about whether they’re right for you. Whether you’re someone considering these medications for your own health or a fitness professional trying to better understand how they fit into the broader health landscape, this episode will offer valuable insights on what you don’t know about GPL-1. We’re not having a persuasive argument here. Instead, we want to provide a balanced and nuanced discussion, offering you the...
info_outlineHaving a better menopause experience alone ensures you increase longevity and your health span. Usually we talk about preserving muscle, reversing bone loss, and enhancing walking speed to do so. Today, it’s a lot less sweat and breathlessness. but probably the hardest exercise I could ask you to do.
Research shows that older individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging, measured up to 23 years earlier, lived 7.5 years longer than those with less positive self-perceptions of aging.
If you don’t like what you see, change it. Change the people around you, change what you’re doing or not doing.
The research study consisted of 660 individuals aged 50 and older who participated in a community-based survey, the Ohio Longitudinal Study of Aging and Retirement (OLSAR). By matching the OLSAR to mortality data recently obtained from the National Death Index, the authors were able to conduct survival analyses. The findings suggest that the self-perceptions of stigmatized groups can influence longevity.
If perceptions about aging are formed by the age of 6, you might want to consider that we’ve likely contributed to our children’s and grandchildren’s early death or improved longevity, one or the other.
You and I have either helped them live longer stronger or believe the little things we’ve said, and I quote from people and potentially myself having said this:
“I’m getting old,” which we don’t usually say with a positive spin. This is most likely first said often at age 25 or at 30 when you have at least ⅔ or ¾ of your life left to live.
“It’s hell getting old.” -said at any age
“Just you wait.” -said to younger women about trying to get or stay fit
“Grandma is old, honey, you have to be careful.”
“There’s nothing good about it.” -in reference to getting old
“So, that’s when it happens/when things start falling apart.”
“I am my mother.”
But, how important are these offhanded, casual, lighthearted comments really?
Increase Longevity Through Growth and a Positive Outlook
A 2018 Plus One study found that the chances of dementia can be lowered by 49.8% if a positive outlook is maintained.
Who do you surround yourself with? What are your own thoughts? Do you think about yourself in 20, 30 or 40 years? What do you see? How does it feel? What are you doing and who are you doing it with?
Physical exercise and nutrition are the two most important of the tangible things you can do. Your mindset, however, is number one. Yes, you should move every day and we eat every day. We think 60-70,000 thoughts a day and 90% of those are the same as yesterday. We continue living the same pattern and change becomes hard.
While preparing for a class reunion, I looked through old yearbooks filled with messages like, “keep being you” or “don’t forget who you are when you go to…. [university].” In reality, we didn’t intentionally do it, but that advice is some of the worst we could have given each other.
“Keep changing and evolving, growing and becoming” would have been wise beyond our years but even teachers didn’t write things like that.
Increase Longevity With a Youthful Mindset
Dr Ellen Langer, the Mother of Mindfulness, tells us that we will stay stuck getting the same results, changing very little, if those habits aren’t changing WHO we are. Unless your best habit is to break habits that keep you doing and repeating thoughts that aren’t getting you results, you’ll continue on the path you’re on now. Virtually, you won’t change much.
The reframing of anything is possible. You’ve probably done it.
For instance, you may have had to run in high school for punishment if you lost or you made mistakes or talked too much in class. Running then was bad.
As an adult you may have come to love running maybe because someone you loved or envied did it and seemed to enjoy it.
Not eating for a long period of time seemed so difficult, it was like dieting, which has a negative connotation stemming from deprivation. But today we know not eating between meals and going 12 hours between dinner and breakfast without calories is positive, and that some often go 16 or more hours without consuming calories and call it intermittent fasting.
So when I go in for a fasting blood test and all that means is I haven’t eating after dinner and it’s 7:30 and they ask if I’m fasting or the phlebotomist asks what I’m going to eat first, as if I must be starving, I’m always a bit surprised they refer to it as a hardship not to have eaten for 11 hours, while I was sleeping most of the time.
A reframe, right?
Dr Ellen Langer’s well-known Counterclockwise study (there’s a book by the same title) with older adults asked to pretend “as if” they were their younger selves for a short time. They were exposed only to music, periodicals, movies of the time they were younger and by the end of the week older adults who arrived using canes, moving slowly, could hear better, see better, were playing touch football. Simply by changing their thoughts about aging.
References:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002, Vol. 83, No. 2, 261–270
Copyright 2002 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 0022-3514/02/$5.00 DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.83.2.261
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0191004
Levy BR, Slade MD, Pietrzak RH, Ferrucci L (2018) Positive age beliefs protect against dementia even among elders with high-risk gene. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0191004. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191004
Other Episodes You May Like:
Think You’re Too Old? Ageism Dismantled with Ashton Applewhite:
https://www.flippingfifty.com/ageism-dismantled/
The Senior Games | Off The Scale and Onto a Starting Line:
https://www.flippingfifty.com/senior-games/
Positive Aging Sources:
How to Change the Way You Age | Bolder is Better:
https://www.flippingfifty.com/growing-bolder/
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Resources:
Flipping 50 Membership:
https://www.flippingfifty.com/cafe
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