Episode 137: Stop Training to Shrink, Start Training for the Woman You'll Be at 70
Broads: The Bold & Badass Fitness Podcast for WomenShow Notes
Okay, real question: how do you want to feel at 70? Not look but feel. Because the second you start training through that lens, everything about fitness shifts, and suddenly the goal isn't a smaller body anymore. It's a body that actually works.
Here's the thing nobody in the fitness industry wants to say out loud: you were sold the wrong goal. For years! And if you've been working your ass off and still feel like nothing is landing, it's not because your body stopped responding.
It's because you were handed a game that was never built to serve the woman you're becoming.
In this week podcast episode, I will talk to the 70-year old in you and share what longevity training actually means (and no, it's not cold plunges at 5am), why strength is hands-down your best insurance policy, and the non-negotiables if you want to still be strong, capable, and independent decades from now. This is your permission slip to change the goal.
What's Discussed:
(2:34) The question nobody in fitness is asking, and why it changes everything.
(3:43) Why women are tired, and the shift that's already happening today.
(5:40) The real number one predictor of quality of life as you age.
(6:20) What longevity training actually means and what’s not.
(8:36) Why women get nearly three times the cardiovascular benefit from strength training than men do.
(10:37) The silent thing happening to your bones after 30 that nobody warned you about.
(12:15) Walking: the most underrated longevity tool, and why you're probably skipping it.
(14:54) Why under-fuelling is quietly working against the women training the hardest.
(17:21) The recovery signals you should never push through.
(18:58) The one question to sit with this week that changes everything.
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