Reclaim your body and mind in midlife, with Claire and James Davis
Age Better with Liz Earle
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ready to make your physical fitness more of a priority? Award-winning 'Midlife Mentors', Claire and James Davis, join Liz on this episode of the podcast to share advice on how to reclaim your body and mind - without making huge sacrifices.
Claire and James share how to adjust your workout routine for midlife, and the importance of recovery and consistency here.
The episode also covers how to successfully build positive new habits, nutrition principles for midlife, and incorporating healthy morning rituals into your day.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Visit the Midlife Mentors website
- Follow Midlife Mentors on Instagram
- Take the Midlife Mentors quiz
- Listen to Liz on the Midlife Mentors podcast
- Subscribe to Liz Earle Wellbeing Magazine
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| 0:00.0 | mistake we see people making over and over when they come to us is and I get it right it's |
| 0:05.2 | like oh I did this thing in my 20s and my 30s and it worked so if I do that again but do |
| 0:11.0 | more of it or do longer sessions, surely it'll work but they're like it's just not why not |
| 0:15.9 | well because of the hormonal changes we experience you know if we're in our 40s 50s we're |
| 0:20.5 | physiologically very different beings so we need to train in different way and we need |
| 0:24.8 | the recovery in a different way so it's about shorter more focused workouts with more recovery time |
| 0:33.7 | well that's the voice of James Davis he's one half of the midlife mentors along with his wife |
| 0:39.5 | Claire he helps us midlifers reclaim control of our bodies and minds without making huge sacrifices |
| 0:48.0 | this is the lizard well-being show the podcast helping us all have a better second half |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Lizelle and I'm sure as you know by now I'm on a bit of a mission to find ways for us all |
| 1:00.2 | to absolutely thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today |
| 1:06.9 | so today let's talk about getting fit how much of a priority do you make of your physical fitness |
| 1:13.2 | how active a lifestyle do you have do you love or loathe the idea of doing exercise well you know |
| 1:20.0 | I am not a gym bunny I've never been athletic I've never taken part in team sports and for me |
| 1:26.4 | in the early years of my life gym was joining a club going to the old step class sticking on a |
| 1:31.7 | Jane Fonda video for those old enough to remember such things and that was my idea of getting fit |
| 1:37.7 | and then I guess in my middle years I moved away from that really had my children got busy with |
| 1:42.3 | work didn't really do too much and didn't get back into fitness really until I was probably |
| 1:49.6 | 50 and I remember meeting my personal trainer for the first time in the first words I said to him |
| 1:54.9 | were I don't run and I'm not going to run well fast forward 10 years and now I do run and I do |
| 2:02.3 | actually quite like it I wouldn't go as far as to say I love it but I do quite like it I don't run |
| 2:08.0 | very fast and I don't run very far but I do get out there and just being out there in the |
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