Ultimate Guide to Muscle Building: Tips for Women Over 40
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I'm going to discuss the importance of building muscle as we age and its relationship to fat loss, overall metabolic health, and longevity.
I've been a personal trainer for over 30 years, and back in the day, there wasn't much emphasis on women and building muscle. There were guidelines, but it wasn't until I became certified as a menopause fitness specialist and discovered the newer science for women in midlife and beyond that I understood how important, if not the most important, things we can be doing.
Importance of Muscle Building
What I'm learning about muscle is that it is our longevity organ. When we start focusing on building muscle rather than losing weight, fat loss will happen.
Notice I'm not saying weight loss because we lose part muscle and part fat when we lose weight. Diets that are quick fixes or calorie deficit cause massive muscle loss touted as weight loss, and that, my friend, for women...
Get a Boost with Short Interval Training
Let’s talk about SIT training.
Have you heard of this?
No, it’s not sitting in a chair.
SIT is Sprint Interval Training.
The studies about SIT say that it is very important for women in perimenopause & menopause to perform.
Why do you need to include Sprint Interval Training?
#1 - It turns up your body’s ability to burn fat
#2 - Helps with insulin sensitivity and Insulin resistance
#3 - Gets you using more oxygen, burning more calories and burning more fat
The key to SIT is the high-intensity SHORT interval plus recovery.
Your sprint could be on a bike, on a treadmill, in the water, or up a hill. You sprint really hard, get breathless for 8-30 seconds, and then recover for as long as you need to.
A big benefit of SIT will be the improvement of your body composition. It increases lean muscle mass and reduces fat mass in a relatively short period of time.
SIT helps burn belly fat...
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