Premium: Does Physical Strength Help Build Psychological Strength? with April Hutchinson

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Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Incorporating regular strength training can be profoundly beneficial, especially for women. Beyond the physical gains, such as improved bone density, hormonal balance, and overall health, strength training cultivates a unique sense of mental resilience and personal empowerment. Unlike purely aerobic exercise, lifting weights offers stability, balance, and structural protection that can prevent injury and promote functional longevity well into older age. Strength training doesn’t require lifting heavy from the beginning; rather, it encourages a personalized, steady approach that’s adaptable to one’s capabilities and fitness level, fostering both physical strength and self-confidence as goals are met and surpassed. The benefits extend far beyond muscle; weight training encourages inner strength, discipline, and the ability to handle life's challenges with resilience.

In this bonus episode for premium subscribers, April emphasizes that building physical strength contributes to psychological strength and that training is beneficial for long-term health and overall vitality. And in this special premium subscriber exclusive, our very own Sasha, a weightlifting enthusiast herself, invites April to evaluate her deadlift. April generously brings her own depth of experience and eye for detail, insightfully critiquing Sasha’s powerlifting form, sharing practical guidance and a few tips.

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0:26.0	I want to, I mean, I want to ask you about this and I feel very strongly about this.
0:31.0	I really think, because you know we're therapists, Stella and
0:34.4	our therapists, so we work with a lot of, you know, young people and families
0:38.1	who have gender-related issues or whatever and broadly speaking I think being strong really helps people to become
0:48.5	more psychologically strong. I think it's carries over like what we do with our physical selves can carry over to our mental
0:56.4	selves. And I think that more women should be strength training.
1:01.2	Yeah. And I, you know, I tend to also say like, hey, you got to do what you love.
1:06.5	Like if you love running, like great, go run.
1:09.7	But I also think there's something different about being strong and stable in your body and I really think that women would benefit from more strength training and I wonder do you agree with that? What do you think about that? Like do you encourage your friends to strength train or you
1:25.0	just like that weird lady that strength trains?
1:27.6	No, I think every woman she should incorporate weight training in their weightly activities,
1:33.7	whether it's, like I'd say minimum twice a week,
1:37.0	just for their overall bone density
1:39.8	that in their powers, because it also applies, so it it helps like me I'm at like what I guess I would be like a lot of my
1:47.2	girlfriends are going through peri metopausal I'm not even at that stage I wouldn't got tested my doctor's like you're not even
1:54.4	close right now and I was like well a I don't drink alcohol B I eat healthy and
1:59.6	C I lift weights and guess what the best thing is for your hormones is lifting weights because it keeps your
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