Hey everybody welcome back to the Primal Potential

podcast I am Elizabeth Benton thanks so much for joining me this is a big day this is a big

episode because we are kicking off enrollment for our strong foundations program.

It starts September 9th.

Registration is officially open.

And I'll tell you, this became a passion for me

for a lot of reasons and it primarily became a passion because

I was somebody who grew up always associating exercise with weight management.

And part of that is because I was an overweight kid, I was an obese teenager,

and the message that I got is, hey, this will help.

You know, hop on an elliptical hey, this will help.

You know, hop on an elliptical machine, this will help.

And as I got older, I really observed more and more people,

especially women viewing exercise as a weight management technique.

And look, I'm not here to say that it is not that because it is that.

But most people do not understand how and why strength training is absolutely non-negotiable.

I think it's awesome if you're a walker. I think it's awesome if you love

your peloton or your spin classes or whatever other form of cardiovascular exercise

you do, but we can't use that as a pass to not be consistently and

effectively strength training. As I've gotten older, this has become more and

more of a passion because I've spent a lot of time going down the deep scientific

rabbit holes around the things that aging has taken the blame for that are not in fact a function of aging like slower

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