Get fit in just 11 minutes, with Lavina Mehta

The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show

Liz Earle

Wellbeing, Arts, Gut Health, Self-improvement, Women's Health, Beauty, Healthy Ageing, Menopause, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Hormones, Supplements, Health, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Fitness, Education, Better Second Half, Skincare, Liz Earle

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Struggle to find the time to fit in your workouts? Award-winning personal trainer Lavina Mehta joins Liz to share how you can get fit with just 11 minutes of exercise every day.

Lavina talks Liz through exercise ‘snacking’ and why this can be a better approach for midlife women, plus why we should exercise for sanity not vanity and prioritise strength over cardio. Liz and Lavina also reveal a simple trick to help mitigate glucose spikes after meals, and try out a live exercise snacking session.

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0:00.0	Actually muscle mass is incredibly important for us for our long-term health in terms of our bones, our brains, our hearts even, so it's protecting our heart the more muscle we have our joints and especially our
0:15.6	mental health it's actually proven to be an antidepressant so when your strength
0:20.2	training and I used to feel that myself I would go into this zone and
0:23.7	it would just release those feel-good endorphins.
0:27.0	So personal trainer Levine
0:30.5	Matter reckons you can lose weight, feel more energised and ultimately live a longer and happier life by snacking for just 11 minutes a day.
0:40.0	Snacking on exercise, that is. This is the the Lizel well-being show the podcast helping us all have a better second half
0:48.1	I'm Liz Earl and I yep as you know I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing
0:56.7	in our health and our well-being today. And one of the ways that I've invested in my health and well-being over the last few years in particular is through exercise
1:06.2	and strength training. I connected with a personal trainer. Oh gosh, about 12 years ago now, not long after the birth of my last child, so he's what 14,
1:16.5	so yeah, it'd be about 12 years. And I remember saying when I first met him, I'd love to come and train with you but I don't run and that I absolutely meant that at the time and now of course I do run not very far and not very fast but he has got me running and lifting weights and doing all sorts of things
1:35.6	that I know that we are going to dive into today. Well Levine Ametta is an award-winning
1:41.4	personal trainer. In fact she was awarded an
1:43.6	NBE for services to health and fitness during the pandemic. She's a patron of
1:48.3	the Menopause Mandate, an ambassador for Diabetes UK and Alzheimer's society too, all areas you know I am incredibly passionate
1:57.2	about as well so I'm sure that we will touch on those points.
2:00.9	Now she's written a book called The Feel Good Fix and it's her concept of exercise
2:06.5	snacking that I really want to focus on today. Exercise does not have to be long or arduous.
2:13.4	Researchers have found that one in ten,
2:15.6	premature deaths could be prevented
2:18.2	if people exercised for 75 minutes a week.
2:22.2	That is just 11 minutes a day.
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