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Fit or Fat? Training and Measuring Fitness in Menopause

Measuring fitness in menopause is complicated. I’m going to take a stab at this and let you know that if you’re not measuring beyond your weight, body composition, inches, and muscle mass at regularly scheduled intervals, you’re doing a disservice. We get all up in the business of burning calories (wrong goal), having it “feel […]
36 mins 06.09.24

Muscle and Body Composition in Menopause with Brad Schoenfeld

How can you focus on muscle and body composition in menopause, specifically gaining muscle and losing fat? How many sets,  repetitions, and how much rest should you take? How much can you follow research featuring young athletic men and how should you advocate for yourself when trainers aren’t using science based on women? We cover […]
44 mins 21.05.24

9 Ways to Measure Fat & Body Composition | Best & Worst

If you want to lose weight you want and need ways to measure fat and body composition. Not tracking, tracking too little, or unnecessary information can lead you down a path where you might lose muscle, and ultimately regain more weight because of it. So this episode of Flipping 50 lays out many methods either […]
29 mins 20.02.22

How Do I Know My Ideal Weight Goal?

I’ll challenge that you don’t have or really know your ideal weight. What you may have is a number in your head based on a body composition you didn’t know when you were at that weight. What we have is an ideal body comp0sition. We have an ideal waist-to-hip ratio. We have a waist circumference […]
22 mins 10.07.20