5 Signs you're losing muscle in menopause coming up. If you're losing muscle, you're making both midlife and later life less enjoyable and potentially putting yourself at risk. Because we focus so much on fat loss in midlife and menopause, women over 40 can take their eyes off the real (and easier solution) which is muscle.
5 key points in this video and one big hint about how to track your skeletal muscle mass so you age optimal are included here.
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These signs you're losing muscle in menopause are the easiest way to spot the way simple lifestyle habits can positively impact the way you age!
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Are you tired of settling for weight gain and fatigue just because you’re approaching or have already passed age 50?
You can still get in the best shape of your life, no matter your age! Debra Atkinson – a 40-year fitness veteran and international fitness presenter, Master trainer to personal trainers, and a former (15-year) University Senior Lecturer in Kinesiology – created this channel to share weekly videos for women to help with hormonal changes in menopause, pro aging nutrition, and strength training for women over 50. Debra is the bestselling author of Hot, Not Bothered; You Still Got It, Girl! The After 50 Fitness Formula For Women, and Navigating Fitness After 50: Your GPS For Choosing Programs and Professionals You Can Trust, and host of the Flipping 50 podcast and Flipping 50 TV. She is a frequent blogger for Huffington Post and an expert contributor on ShareCare.
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Thank you for this content. You are talking about me! 57 years young…7 years Post-Menopausal ..moving more, sleeping more, eating better…highest weight of my life. 😒🤔😳
Thank you for all of your well-informed content, Debra! What a gift ❤️
Can you recommend a good power plate? Thanks
Thank you.This video motivated me, I just went on your resource page and ordered a scale from there. Your the best!!!
A good reminder to book end protein ! I’ve spent 3 yrs regaining muscle and strength via strength training. I’m finally strong enough to really enjoy exercising again – I’m as strong as I was in my early 40s. I’m a similar age to you – what’s the ideal rest period between strength training ? I suspect my enthusiasm is possibly impacting on my ability to build more muscle – aiming for 5 days a week. Is it too much ? Should I choose another exercise?
So true. I was always active, but menopause, covid and a high stress project leading job ended in chronically weak hips. When I try to reintroduce exercise, I get piriformis pain and even sciatica. It keeps setting me back.
But… it’s a problem that can get solved!
Looking forward to implementing your suggestions.
But I don’t want to know my body weight percentage! 😭😭
I’m 52 and my battle is diabetes 2 stopping any weight loss, regardless of exercise or eating habits. Have been placed on Ozempic and now am on Victoza. Just over here gaining weight 😢
I’d like to know if anyone has had issues with power plate. I used for 2 weeks 5 minute 3x a week. I ended up with tailbone area pain that has lasted several months. So power plate is gone to storage
I stopped going to the gym for a week 😢😢😮. The symptoms were back very uncomfortable 😣. Started feeling tired, irritable and my sleep was compromised.
There are scientists on the Zoe podcast who have said that we do not need to increase our protein intake as RDA guidelines were set out to cater for 98% of the population of the US. Also that the timing of consumption of protein makes only a minuscule difference. Who am I to believe? It seems on the face of it that the high animal protein consumption recommendations may be influenced by the industrial agriculture machine and also the protein shake / diet people would also have a vested interest in pushing this increased protein message so I am suspicious. But also open to reasoned scientific data if available. Difficult because a reductionist model will only ever look at the variable in question and longitudinal data is not ethical in many cases. Will search for the Zoe podcast and link in next post. Thank you in advance for any light you can shed.
Menopause changes everything and you will have to change everything. Big agriculture is not meat. It is grains and processed food. I am 54 and post menopausal. I gave up grains and went very low carb. Even with hrt I gained weight. Have been active my entire life. Gave up cardio and I am lifting now, and taking at least 120g of protein daily. The only efficient way to get enough protein without too many calories is meat. Eat grass finished meat from a local farmer if you are suspicious of big agriculture. The blood sugar issues are real. Cardio queen time is catabolic to your muscles.
If you think you can chicken breast this, sorry , low fat high protein wont work, protein plus fat is critical.
Thank you so much for being so transparent and helpful! This is exactly what I needed today❣️ I am overwhelmed with going through my shop and liquidating my inventory that I love and also going through my mother’s beautiful things that she acquired when she had a shop. She is deceased and many things are very sentimental and beautiful and I don’t want to get rid of them. I absolutely love beautiful things and I love decorating and creating. I am very worn down today and hearing your words of wisdom is very inspirational to me❣️
Something I was wondering is do women require less calories as we hit midlife, even if we still have very active jobs and strength train. I’m still not sure what the sweet spot is as far as my own nutrition goes.
Great question. It’s tricky. Best place to start is tracking what you are getting in calories and macros. Use an app for 5 days and be diligent! What’s the average? Then find a simple online tracker to estimate your calorie need based on age, weight activity. Many women are far below. Check your goals/result.. mb this would be a good video!
In 4:15 min mark, you said get a dexa scan at a gym at $50. Please clarify. Thanks for your advice
I wonder if I can still lose my belly now that I’ve turned 60?? I am in fairly good shape. I still do work out. I do a lot of your workouts, in fact. I just went to a wedding and people were saying they couldn’t believe I was 60 because I was dancing just as much as the young ones on the floor. But this belly has been with me all of my life even before I had a baby at 41 and a C-section and now it’s just worse and it’s the only place where I carry excess fat!