149: Lift Like a Girl (strong!)
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Everyone from trainers to medical doctors is touting the benefits of lifting, not just for cosmetic reasons, but for metabolic health, hormonal health, bone density, and more. Nia Shanks joins to Lucas on the Yoga Talk Show to share her experiences with weightlifting, and the impact that continuous exercise can have on your overall well-being.
Nia Shanks is a coach, health and fitness writer, and founder of "Lift Like a Girl" website and popular podcast. She is busting the myth that women can’t develop strong bodies in a healthy way and she wants them to embrace who they are and become even stronger, more awesome versions of themselves.
Nia has a degree in Exercise Physiology and has written for and been featured in: Burn the Fat Blog, Tribe Sports, Breaking Muscle, Experience Life Magazine, EliteFTS, Muscle and Strength, Contributor to TNation, Beautifully Hardcore, BodyBuilding.com, and more.
In this Show, You'll learn:
- The benefits of weight training for women (and men)
- Why injuries are so common in lifting and how to avoid them
- Gettings started 101
- 3 resistance training exercises to start now
Links & References from the Show:
www.LiftLikeaGirl.com
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| 0:00.0 | Yoga students, if you want to deepen your practice, discover optimal health, |
| 0:04.4 | and learn practical tools that will improve your life, |
| 0:07.2 | then you have come to the right place, my friend. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the yoga talk show with Lucas Rockwood. |
| 0:16.0 | So hello and welcome everyone Lucas Rockwood here. This is the yoga talk show. |
| 0:17.0 | Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:18.0 | We have a special show today. |
| 0:19.0 | It's called Lift Like a Girl. |
| 0:21.0 | And I am here with Nia Shanks. |
| 0:22.0 | Nia is a coach, a health and I am here with Nia Shanks. Nia is a coach a health and |
| 0:24.3 | fitness writer and she's the founder of LIF like a girl which is a website it's also a |
| 0:28.8 | popular podcast which is where I learned about her work and she is trying to bust the myth that women |
| 0:34.9 | can't develop strong bodies in a healthy way and a natural way and she wants to |
| 0:39.0 | embrace who they are to become even stronger, more awesome versions of themselves. |
| 0:44.4 | Nia has a degree in exercise physiology and has written or been featured in a bunch of different |
| 0:50.9 | magazines newspaper sites, burn the Fat blog, Tribe Sports, |
| 0:55.0 | Breaking Muscle, Experience Life magazine, |
| 0:57.0 | Elite FTS, Muscle and Strength, |
| 1:00.0 | and beautifully hardcore bodybuilding. |
| 1:03.0 | com and much more. |
| 1:04.2 | So while we're listening today, |
| 1:05.7 | you can visit her website which is lift like a girl, |
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