I'm a doctor of physical therapy fitness trainer and founder of Ethel Fitness.

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that's gonna take some getting used to saying that

instead of fit body happy joints.

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Today I've got Payton and Jill with me

and we are having a discussion about heavy lifting.

We've been talking about this a lot as a team recently

because there's lots of talk about. talking about how

how women have to lift heavy weights.

They have to do super heavy compound lifts,

especially as they age and approach menopause in order to build muscle improve body

composition and improve bone density etc etc and we've been talking about it a lot

because number one there's a lot of confusion about it. Number two there's lots of women that just

have zero interest in training that way and they feel discouraged or they feel hopeless. They're like,

I do not want to go to the gym and squat heavy and do heavy

deadlifts and things like that. And then number three, we are a bit confused

because from all of the literature that's currently available that we've been able to find, we don't see that that's necessarily the case that you have to lift heavy in order to build muscle, improve bone density, improve body composition, even as you age.

So before we get into this discussion,

we want to talk about kind of what's out there

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