Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community Your Workouts Are Teaching You Something More Important Than Strength Show of hands: Who wants to become rigid, closed off, resistant, fragile, predictable, or smaller versions of themselves? Okay. Now who wants to be comfortable all the time? Sorry. If you don’t want the first one, then you can’t have the second one—because humans adapt brilliantly. Unfortunately, we don't just adapt to challenge—we adapt to comfort too. In other words,...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community Congratulations. You've Been Successfully Outsourced. By the time a woman is past forty, she’s tried at least 283 different things that are supposed to help improve her health. Okay, I completely made that number up, but it sounds feasible. Between programs, supplements, challenges, meal plans, morning routines, special equipment, color-coded accountability charts, and trackers that politely inform you that you’re even failing at...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community You Don’t Need Motivation. You Need Consequences “I just can’t find the motivation.” I’ve heard so many women say this—including myself. But I’m sure we’re all aware that nothing changes if you don’t do something different, so waiting for motivation is a problem. Motivation is utterly unreliable. It comes and goes based on sleep, stress, mood, weather, hormones, how your day went, and whether Mercury is doing something dramatic (I’ve been...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community Strength Training Isn’t Just Empowering—It’s Required Have you noticed that strength training got rebranded over the last several years? It went from something you do for your body and health to something that’s framed as empowering. And they’re right that building strength fosters self-sufficiency and confidence. But this reframe does something else, too—and it’s not helpful. Empowerment, as it’s often presented, is aspirational. It’s...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community Who Taught Women to Become Smaller With Age? Our culture sends an insidious message to women: Take up less space. It shows up in many ways. Of course, we’re told to shrink our bodies—to eat less, weigh less, and sit still. We’re also told to be easier, be more agreeable, and be lower maintenance. We shouldn’t ask for too much—or change too much. We’re not supposed to be too loud, too ambitious, too sensual, or too visible. And as the...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community Comfort Is Expensive Modern life is brilliant…kinda. You can set your thermostat to an-always comfortable 70℉. You can get your groceries delivered—or just have meals brought right to your door. Entertainment streams endlessly to your screens, and almost anything can be solved with a tap or a swipe. You can even ask Alexa to do half of it for you without even lifting your bottom off the couch. We’ve removed inconvenience from daily life...
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Get Stronger After 40 Join The Wonderfulness Community The People Around You May Be Aging You We like to think we make our choices entirely on our own—that what we eat, if we exercise, what we tolerate, and how we age comes down to personal discipline and individual decisions. But the fact is we’re social creatures—even if we’re introverts who prefer our time alone. Research has shown that we absorb far more from the people around us than we realize—and this also refers to the people we see...
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Build Strength. Feel Capable. Live with Age 36 Energy. Join The Wonderfulness Community Walking More Isn’t the Problem—Relying on It Is There is nothing wrong with walking. It’s one of the easiest ways to move your body, clear your head, and stay generally active. It supports your mood, your energy, your cardiovascular health, and your ability to keep moving as you age. For many women, it’s also the one fitness habit that they actually enjoy. So when you feel like you’re putting on more...
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Build Strength. Feel Capable. Live with Age 36 Energy. Join The Wonderfulness Community You Don’t Have a Consistency Problem. You Have a Quitting Problem. Some of you aren’t consistent with your workouts at all. You start, you stop, you think about it more than you actually do it. You tell yourself you’ll get serious when things calm down, when you have more energy, when you can finally do it properly. It’s easy to see how that isn’t going to bring you the benefits you desire, but what about...
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