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Today's episode of The Wirecutter Show is called Strength Training is for Everyone.

My friends, I know that this whole thing is supposed to be New Year, New Me, and I know that this whole thing is supposed to be New Year, New Me, but we're into Jan.

And it's a new year and it's the same me.

I feel like you're giving up too soon.

I'm not giving up.

I'm just willing to commit to this idea that I am the same person as I was

last year. Okay. I hope I will grow and learn. And one thing I am committed to is getting back

into some sort of regular exercise. It's always been an important part of my life, but I think in the last

several years, I have fallen off is a nicest way to put it. Would that coincide with the two

little humans being born? Has it been three years exactly, actually? It's tacky to blame them for

everything. It's okay. You get a pass. But I really do want to get back to some of

that baseline because I've always really loved strength training. What's your relationship to it?

I actually this past year just got more serious about strength training. I had lifted weights

since my early 30s because I was like, oh, when you hit 30, that's when you

start losing all your muscle. And so I started lifting weights. Wait, what age? I thought I had at least 20

years. Well, no, it's once you hit 30s and into your 40s, you start losing muscle mass and strength.

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