2712: The 5 Biggest Fitness Mistakes Middle-Aged Women Make that Destroy Progress
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The 5 Biggest Fitness Mistakes Middle-Aged Women Make that Destroy Progress
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This can be a difficult demographic to train. (1:23)
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The 5 Biggest Fitness Mistakes Middle-Aged Women Make that Destroy Progress
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#1 - Not prioritizing lifting. (4:43)
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#2 – Doing too much cardio. (12:16)
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#3 - Eating too little. (18:28)
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#4 - Not eating enough protein. (23:41)
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#5 - Not managing stress. (25:26)
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Bonus: Alcohol. (28:49)
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| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump. |
| 0:18.5 | Today's episode, look, we're going to talk to middle-aged women who are struggling with their fitness. |
| 0:24.2 | What they seem to be doing isn't working. What you're doing isn't working. We're going to talk about the five biggest fitness mistakes. These are so common. |
| 0:31.4 | We see them all the time. If you fix these, watch what happens to your body, your fitness, and your progress. By the way, we have a group coaching group where our trainers help women through this process. It's Musclemommie movement.com. Everybody gets a week for free. Hop in there, get some free coaching. It's awesome. If you stick around afterwards, it's great. But a week for free for everybody. Also, this episode is brought to you by a sponsor. |
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| 1:21.2 | That's it. |
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| 1:23.8 | All right, today we're going to talk about the five biggest mistakes that women in middle-aged make when it comes to fitness that completely destroys their progress. |
| 1:33.8 | It gets in their way. |
| 1:34.8 | It stops things from happening, prevents them from burning the body fat they want to burn, and getting the body and fitness that they desire. |
| 1:41.5 | We're going to break them down and talk about why they're huge mistakes. Let's get to it. Do our best not to mansplainsplains. No. I feel like we have to say we had like 80% of our clientele is this category. You know, okay, I'd love that you say that. It's one of my pet peeves when, and we've gotten this start to 10 years we've been doing this. |
| 2:01.9 | There's always a handful people coming. |
| 2:03.9 | I wish you guys would have a girl on the show. |
| 2:06.4 | It's like I feel more confident training a woman, a middle-aged woman, |
| 2:12.4 | than I do a young teenage boy or an older guy. |
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