My Updated Midlife Exercise Plan (ep 18)

The messy middle of my movement experiment

A few weeks into this workout overhaul, I hit a moment where I needed to stop, breathe, and actually look at what I was doing. I had just finished a workout, still sweaty, still energized, and all I could think was:

What’s actually working here? And what am I pretending I can keep up with?

This whole my Body can project is about the messy parts — the overreaching, the adjusting, the “I want to do everything” optimism followed by “nope, not sustainable” realism. So this episode is just that: an honest update.

I had started this month with ten different ideas: fascia, feet, knees, posture, neck, wrist work, pelvic floor, squats, stretching, strength training. Ten. Why? Because my brain loves possibility more than practicality.

But somewhere between the foot program, the fascia video, and the band workout playing in the background, I realized I needed to check in with myself. Not the plan. Not the idealized version of me. Me-me. The actual human in her living room, trying to stay functional in her 50s and not lose momentum.

So I pulled up my Google calendar, sat down and started talking through it because that’s the whole point of this experiment.

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