my Body can : putting myself back together again in my 50's Podcast
After years of illness, injury and well, the massive hormonal fluctuations, I'm taking the reins back on my strength, balance and flexibility. I'm experimenting with some weights, exercise bands, and more in order to find exercises that fit my life.
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Midlife Exercise Blocks: Rediscovering Barre in a Body That Changed
I didn’t stop doing barre because I didn’t like it.I stopped because I didn’t feel “good at it” and that mattered for some reason. This was an unconscious consensus for sure. And it stuck. The way subtle pressures rest on our...
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about soreness. Not pain. Not injury. Just that dull, sometimes surprising physical soreness that shows up after movement. The kind that makes you pause and ask, wait, why now? If you want to ...
For a long time, I released stress by moving for a long time. Long walks.Long hikes.Long bike rides. Not fast. Not intense. Just long enough for my nervous system to settle into a rhythm and let whatever needed to move, move....
There’s a particular kind of frustration that shows up in midlife. You’re moving your body.You’re getting stronger.You can feel progress, even if you can’t always see it. And then your eating habits quietly slide sideways. No...
How Long Is Enough Movement? I’ve been thinking a lot about a question that kind of annoys me. How long do we need to work out for it to “count”? There’s something about that framing that feels gross to me. Not because it’s a...
How do you fall better? It’s not a question I ever expected to ask. Falling feels like something you avoid, not something you train for. And yet, last week, after a completely ordinary misstep on a quiet street, I found mysel...