A Conversation about Muscle with Author Bonnie Tsui

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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If you have a body that you enjoy moving, download and listen to this episode, a think-piece about all the mysterious ways our muscles function. Guest Bonnie Tsui, author of the fascinating new book On Muscle, talks with hosts Sarah Bowen Shea and fitness professional Britany Williams about: -lifting weights being important to your cognitive health; -not being afraid of age-related changes to your body; -how running and swimming are “essential” movements; -how movements hold memories; and, -the muscle-related tours she led at a modern art museum! Before the guest joins around 5:12, Sarah excitedly tells her co-host (+ former personal trainer!) about her new weight-training tools. Register for our Lake Placid retreat. When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Feel the Currex difference: Get 15% off with code AMR15 at Currex.com Use code INF-AMR to get a gift card good for your next purchase at Selkirk.com The future’s bright: Get 20% off Tifosi sunglasses with code AMR2025 at TifosiOptics.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.6	Thank you. Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen-Shay. I'm joined by Brittany Williams. Hello, Brittany.
1:11.5	Hello, Sarah. How are you? Good. It's been a few minutes. It really has. I was thinking about that leading into the day where I was like, I actually don't even remember the last time we recorded a podcast,
1:15.6	which means it's too long. Yeah, I know. Look at that. We did not edit out a word that you maybe
1:21.2	would have thought of saying right there. No, I wasn't the game.
1:27.5	I wasn't.
1:29.0	Oh my goodness.
1:30.1	Well, I have workout related news that I'm excited to share with you, which is that I finally bought a pair of adjustable weight dumbbells.
1:40.0	Yes, round of applause.
1:41.8	Woo!
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