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Training For Your Old Lady Body

An honest, no bullsh*t guide to help women (re)frame exercise

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Training For Your Old Lady Body

By: Elizabeth Davies
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'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 readers 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. Aging & Longevity Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Exercise & Fitness Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Physical Exercise Heartfelt Witty Health
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Loved the honest and relatable content. An amazing book that every woman needs to read. Thank you

Honest and relatable

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Relatable and achievable and at the same time so powerful. Why strength training and physical activity are essential for women throughout our lifetime, and simple ways of getting started, and reasons to stick to it. Highly recommended.

Empowering reframing of strength for women

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Growing up in the nineties has left so many of us with a warped view of exercise and nutrition. This book is a good step towards reframing that, and moving towards a much healthier approach. The book has a nice mix of personal experience, evidence to back up reasoning, and guidance on reframing approaches. It focuses on moving away from using food and exercise in order to LOOK good into using it to actually feel good. The goal isn't to be thin, but to be able to still function through into old age. I'm very glad I read this!

Helping women reframe nutrition and exercise

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Great narration, easy to follow and very relatable and actionable. I’m in my late forties and found this really insightful, I’d also recommend to younger or older women looking to improve their knowledge on overall fitness thinking in terms of longevity.

Excellent book

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I have just finished listening to this and I feel really inspired but also not overwhelmed. Elizabeth finds the right balance between telling us what is needed to age well but also reminding us we don’t need to get it perfect.

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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