Nov 30, 2021
Moderate amounts of HIGH and of low intensity exercise vs “moderate” middle-of-the-intensity pyramid.
zone 1
= your daily activities of life.
You walk the dog. You go up and down stairs. You garden. You golf. You have an active job.
Zone 2
= endurance, steady state exercise at a low all-day pace
You go for a bike...
Nov 24, 2021
Are you eating too little to lose weight? How would you know?
Eating consistently less than your body wants will slow your metabolism. You will lose your metabolic flexibility. There is no way you can eat less and less, continue to exercise the same or more and not stress your body, causing a ripple of...
Nov 23, 2021
The Flipping50 membership is a labor of love in response to frustrations I heard for years with my own private clients and the hundreds of women in midlife training with staff members, then later the thousands of women I know weren’t wrong when they said, “I’m not settling” and “I’m not going to listen to a...
Nov 19, 2021
This Flipping 50 Insider question comes from Joy who asks about any difference between post menopause fitness and menopause fitness recommendations. She wrote:
I’ve been following Flipping 50 for some time and enjoy it! One question, do the same rules apply to post menopause (66) as to menopause? Thanks!
-Joy
The...
Nov 16, 2021
10 Years of increased physical activity (exercise) AFTER MIDLIFE can reduce mortality rate by 32%
Publication: British Medical Journal
Subjects: 2205 50 yr-olds in 1970-73
What: Re-examined at age 60, 70, 77, and 82
Results:
After an increase in physical activity, subjects could not be distinguished [on the basis of...