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Before hormone balance can be a goal you need a clear definition of what it or hormone imbalance looks like! It\u2019s never just hormones though is it? For the majority of women in midlife and beyond, there\u2019s also a special condition, a joint issue, or a crazy schedule that also needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n
If any of these describe you:<\/strong><\/p>\n Plus:<\/strong><\/p>\n And potentially:<\/strong><\/p>\n And finally:<\/strong><\/p>\n What you used to do doesn\u2019t work any more.<\/p>\n Then this is definitely for you\u2026 if you want to change. Changing is the obstacle for a significant percent of women that express interest<\/em> in change. If you aren\u2019t willing to change habits, change beliefs, change what you eat and when, change how you exercise and when, then this will just be another blog. No set of exercises, videos, menu plans will ever help until you decide you are 100% in.<\/p>\n Exercise for hormone balance is not your textbook exercise.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve never heard that before,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>is not a good excuse to dismiss something as true. How many research studies did you read last week about menopause, hormones, and exercise? They\u2019re at anyone\u2019s fingertips in today\u2019s world. So holding onto old ideas without researching for yourself or finding a voice you trust instead of going by an outdated text is irresponsible. A published textbook is outdated by the time it goes to print. Research in this area is accelerating. Get help and get up to speed on research on hormone balance.<\/p>\n Approximately 6000 women a day go into menopause right now. That\u2019s 2 million a year. Yet, 39% of all sports medicine and exercise research features females at all. It\u2019s safe to say a small slice of that focuses on women in perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause and the hormones that influence and are influenced by her exercise.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to change the way we prescribe exercise during the change. If a woman begins perimenopause in her mid 40s and lives to her mid 80s she spends 40 years in menopause. Shouldn\u2019t we be optimizing exercise for this large population of currently 38 baby boomer women, 25 million Gen X women and coming soon, an even larger number of millennial women? Fitness is either going to open a new level of health for women, who ultimately influence 80% of household decisions including health, or fail miserably. Conventional exercise prescriptions contribute to hormone imbalance.<\/p>\n Start lifting weights focused on major muscle groups. Even if you swear by functional movement patterns, insulin, cortisol, and the half dozen more hormones that influence her fat and health are key for reducing risk of disease. Even if you want to tone those arms, you want to start with major muscle groups. Even if you want a flat belly, start with major muscle groups. Stop long slow exercise sessions and long endurance activity.<\/p>\n Increase your protein at every meal and eat regularly. Get to bed early and make sure you control your environment. If you love your wine or nightcap, you\u2019ll want to stop that. All of these things kill testosterone, a key hormone for building lean tissue and libido. Testosterone gives you a kick of confidence too also important for libido.<\/p>\n These are but a few scenarios of exercise changes you can make for more hormone balance. Each woman has a unique set of health history, physical status, signs and symptoms that make her unique.<\/p>\n Excerpt from the original blog post<\/a> by Debra Atkinson for Flipping 50<\/a><\/p>\n Debra Atkinson is the #youstillgotitgirl who is flipping 50 and changing the way thousands of women think about their second half. She\u2019s the host of the Flipping 50 TV Show and the Flipping 50 podcast. As a master personal trainer, strength and wellness coach with over 30 years fitness industry experience, she works with women who are pro-aging with vitality and energy. She is an international fitness presenter, author of hundreds of articles and multiple books. 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If any of these describe you: You\u2019re putting on weight lately no matter what you do You have belly fat even though you\u2019re weight is OK You have cellulite on your thighs, belly, bum, or on your upper arms You can\u2019t seem to develop any muscle tone in your legs You\u2019ve got a saggy bum in spite of so many lunges and squats you can\u2019t sit down You\u2019ve turned up the exercise and eat carefully but still no results You\u2019ve got saggy chest and neck skin Plus: You have touchy joints from prior or current injuries You have had breast cancer surgeries You\u2019ve had other invasive surgery or joint replacement You have a chronic condition And potentially: You can\u2019t sleep well Even if you do sleep you don\u2019t wake up refreshed You have high levels of stress right now You\u2019ve tested your hormones and you\u2019re \u201cnormal\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[193,257],"class_list":["post-24736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-healthy-aging","tag-womens-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31179,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24736\/revisions\/31179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Throw Away the Textbook<\/strong><\/h4>\nYour hormone balance exercise<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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