Is a 20-Minute Workout Enough Exercise? | Women Over 50
https://www.flippingfifty.com/5dayflip A 20-minute workout enough exercise? It's not the message you've been given for decades. Women over 50 have been told for 30 or more years to do more, more times a week, longer, harder, and or all of the above.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
None of the messages you got have been about research based on exclusively YOU.
Position statements and guidelines are based on men and women of all ages. Even newer recommendations for "older adults" do not take into consideration hormone differences of women - whether women in menopause, women post natal, women far past menopause... your needs change.
Your needs most definitely do not mimic mice, men, or even young women.
Watch my TEDx talk for more https://www.flippingfifty.com/TEDx
Make short workouts work for you by assessing your:
current hormone status (how you feel tells you all)
current day's or week's exercise or sedentary activity
current injuries or conditions
Focus on major muscle groups not silly little small ones.
Do a full body workout: you don't have the hormone status to make long full body part workouts do anything but throw you under the bus because they have to be much longer to be enough stimulus.
Reach muscular fatigue every single exercise.
(warm up and cool down: you're going to go hard!)
Women in menopause already know they can do hard things. Look back for a minute! Apply that to your exercise!
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