Training for Your Old Lady Body
An honest, no bulls--t guide to help women (re)frame exercise
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Elizabeth Davies
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Elizabeth Davies
'Simply the best book I've read on women's fitness and health' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTS
'A roadmap for being strong, capable, and free in our bodies at every age' JAMEELA JAMIL
'Witty, data-driven and realistic . . . the only way exercise should be written about!' JENNIFER COX
What comes to mind when you picture your older self?
For too long, social media and the fitness industry have prioritised aesthetics over our health. Every year, we are bombarded with the message to 'train for our bikini body', warping our relationship with exercise and flooding us with misinformation. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether.
When Elizabeth Davies wet herself during an exercise class, she realised she knew next to nothing about her body. Ditching her law career to become a personal trainer meant she discovered some real home truths along the way. Like learning that muscle mass decreases by approximately 3-8% per decade after the age of thirty, or that osteoporosis affects one in three women over the age of 50 worldwide.
Finding the best products to fight wrinkles might make you look younger, but they won't protect your muscles or your bone density. And what about mobility? Your pelvic floor? Your heart?
Organised around core principles rather than strict prescriptions, Training For Your Old Lady Body invites listeners to understand their bodies, make informed decisions and build a long-term, compassionate relationship with movement. Rather than offering a rigid programme or prescriptive 'one-size-fits-all' routines, this book gives women the knowledge they need to train in ways that keep them moving well for decades.
This is not a six-week bikini body transformation. It's a way of training for life.
Honest and relatable
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Empowering reframing of strength for women
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As someone who has counted calories from the age of 13 to having sleeves sewn on my wedding dress because I hated my arms that much the first chapter highlighting the toxic thin culture of the 1990s that I grew up in was eye opening. Elizabeth is able to pivot us away from focusing solely on aesthetics and more on functionality and the long game. She talks about bone health, pelvic floor health, mobility and cardiovascular health.
As a GP I’m acutely aware that we may be keeping people alive for longer with medications but not necessarily enabling them to live better. I’ve seen the patients who break their hip and can’t get off the floor and I’ve seen the 90 year old dance teacher and the 80 year old mountain biker. My patients are inspiring and I know what I want my old age to look like if I’m lucky enough.
I’ve been recommending this book to all my perimenopausal ladies but honestly it’s never too late to start!
Inspiring, relatable and informative
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After menopause we loose bone density and muscle mass and the advice in this book on how to counteract that is delivered in a straightforward and accessible manner. I have already recommended this to several friends and to a PT!
Solid advice for women of any age
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Helping women reframe nutrition and exercise
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