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495: The best lean muscle-building tips for women | Fitness coach & dietitian Holly Baxter

The mindbodygreen Podcast

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.52.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

“The primary goal for anyone who wants to focus on fat loss—not lean tissue loss—is to maintain your muscle. So resistance training needs to be the priority," says Holly Baxter. Holly, an accredited practicing dietitian, competitive bodybuilder, and fitness coach, joins us to discuss how to build the ultimate exercise program, plus: - Holly’s background & professional work (~00:05) - Why Holly works primarily with women (~04:15) - Why some people lose muscle mass on Ozempic (~10:37) - How to lose weight without losing muscle (~11:56) - How to build lean muscle in 30 minutes per day (~16:41) - How to get an intense workout with just your body weight (~27:54) - Why women should exercise with blood flow restriction (~32:48) - How long you should recover between exercises (~36:33) - How many reps is too many (~42:12) - How to organize your workouts throughout the week (~53:14) - How to balance cardio & strength training (~54:55) - How much protein you should eat before a workout (~59:51) - When to incorporate full-body training (~01:06:06) - The best time to eat protein post-workout (~01:07:32) - How women should train as they age (~01:11:44) Trigger warning: This podcast contains mentions of disordered eating. Referenced in the episode: - Check out Holly's website. - Holly's new e-book. - A study on HIIT & body mass. - A study on isometric training & muscle growth. - Holly's lower body workout video & the bands she used. - mbg Podcast episode #480, with Peter Attia, M.D. - mbg Podcast episode #466, with Don Layman, Ph.D. - Sign up for The Long Game.  Tale 15% off methylation support+ with code SUPPORT15. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wachib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, let's face it. Exercise science can be quite confusing and many just don't have time

0:12.3

to sort through all the noise. So let's make it simple. If you only have 20 to 30 minutes a day

0:17.6

to work out, how can you get the biggest bang for your buck if you're interested in maintaining

0:22.4

or building lean muscle mass? I asked the question point blank during my conversation today with

0:27.8

Holly Baxter. Holly is an accredited practicing dietician, competitive bodybuilder and fitness coach

0:34.1

who trains with women of all ages to build muscle, lose body fat and feel strong. In this episode,

0:41.6

you'll learn how to build the ultimate exercise program whether you're a beginner to the gym or an

0:46.0

experienced athlete. It's basically a free training session with one of the top fitness educators in

0:51.2

the game. Holly, welcome. Thank you so much. So let's start by telling folks a little bit

0:58.8

about your background and the work you do. Absolutely. So I always have a hard time kind of explaining

1:05.0

what I do, but I think I've got my elevator pitch a little better these days. So I am a dietician

1:10.5

by trade, but I kind of consider myself an online science educator. So I really try to take complex

1:19.0

subjects. I read a lot of research and I consolidate it in a really easy to understand

1:25.5

way for the general population. So I typically work with females, I guess from a background perspective,

1:36.6

my interests really started because of my career in sport. So when I was young, I was really

1:42.8

athletic. I did track sprinting, I did basketball. In fact, I think my mother put me in everything she

1:48.3

possibly could, sorry, very, very sporty. And because I grew up in Australia, we don't really have

1:54.8

a whole lot of opportunities to pursue a career in, you know, fitness or in, I guess the sporting

2:01.9

world, at least not like it is here in America. So I didn't really have a sport to go on to, so

2:07.5

let you take the academic route. So what's the closest thing you can do? All right, well, I'll get

2:11.6

a career or profession that allows me to work with these people and that works with my passion.

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