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Female 50+ Fitness- a conversation with Amy Van Liew
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A passion for fitness led Amy Van Liew to ditch here decades long engineering career for a career in fitness. Amy established Be Healthy Enough a fitness coaching business that focuses on supporting women who are over 50 years of age to live healthier happier lives.
In this episode of the Abeceder podcast Fit For My Age you will hear Amy describes the challenges that mature women can face. She explains to host Michael Millward some simple strategies that can help women to commence their fitness journey.
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Made on Zencastr.
Introduction to 'Fit for My Age' Podcast
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Hello and welcome to Fit for My Age, the health and well-being podcast from Abysida. I'm your host, Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abysida.
Focus on Health for Women Over 50
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Today, I'm going to be talking to Amy Van Lu about health and fitness for women who are aged over 50. As the jingle at the start of this podcast says, Fit for My Age is made on Zencastr.
Zencastr Promotion
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Meet Amy Van Loo, Engineer to Fitness Coach
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Very importantly, on Fit For My Age, we don't tell you what to think, but we do hope to make you think. Today my guest is Amy Van Loo, an engineer turned health and fitness coach who specializes in supporting women who are aged over 50 to be healthier, fitter and happier.
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Amy is based in San Diego, California, USA. I've visited California but not San Diego. So if I visit, I will as a member of the Ultimate Travel Club Take advantage of the trade prices on flights, hotels, trains, and holidays that the club offers.
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You can as well. There is a link to the Ultimate Travel Club and a membership discount code in the description. Now that I have paid the rent, it is time to make this episode of the Fit for My Age.
Career Shift and Inspiration
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Hello, Amy. Hi, Michael. How are you? I am very well. Thank you very much. I hope you can say the same. Oh, I'm doing fantastic. Thank you. Brilliant. Of course, you're bound to be brilliant living in San Diego with lemon trees in your back garden.
00:02:17
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Yeah, we're we're a bit spoiled. But we pay the price. It's expensive for this type for this kind of weather. but So it's bright sunshine over there.
00:02:29
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Yes. Yes, it's beautiful today, luckily. Sounds great. Sounds great. Please, could we start by you giving us little bit of an introduction to your career to date and how you transferred from being that's an engineer into being a fitness person?
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Yeah, it's pretty 180 flip there, right? Yeah. So currently, I help women over 50 get moving and feel better with an online fitness program designed specifically for what we need, strength, cardio,
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flexibility, mobility, posture, balance. I know it seems confusing. I'm just thinking it's quite a list. I know. we all need so much. We do. We do. and we And we do have to think about that. I know a lot of times I say, you know, you know, a lot of women want flat abs and toned arms and thinking about working on your balance and your posture isn't sexy, but it's something that will keep our arms strong and our bellies toned. So it's something that we
Adapting Fitness for Aging Bodies
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need as a foundation. But my main value add is to do this and help women do this as we work around those darn aches and pains that creep in. I used to laugh when I was a younger girl,
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at at the women are talking about their knees and their arms and their hips. and But it's so true. Our bodies do start to age. And with that comes some aches and pains, but we can't stop moving. We have to keep working around them.
00:03:57
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But I didn't always start out this way. i was I got my degree in electrical engineering and started my career right out of college at a company called Hewlett Packard, working in the inkjet world. And Don't yell at me why the inkjet cartridges are so expensive.
00:04:14
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I probably was a part of that, but it took a lot to design those amazing, amazing feats of engineering. But I worked there for 26 years and and got an offer I couldn't review refuse as their early retirement. They were shutting down the business I was in and then at the same time offered this package. If you had so many years of service and a certain age, you got this much as a retirement package.
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So it was almost a no brainer. And i have been passionate about health and fitness since I gained, you know, the freshman college, freshman, 30 pounds. And I started exercising to lose the weight, but I've always just had this fascination with the human body. Even when I was a little girl, my dad was very big into health and fitness and move a bike and travel.
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And I had some digestion problems and I would experiment with different foods I was eating. So I've always been so curious. I probably should have become a doctor, but I didn't like blood and needles and all that fun stuff.
00:05:16
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Yeah. neither do You know, I transitioned and I, you know, didn't, I kind of had an idea of what I was going to do, but I got a book by a gentleman called Jack Canfield. And he wrote, he wrote a lot of the chicken soup for the soul books.
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And he had a book called the success principles, how to get from where you are to where you want to be. And he stepped you through some activities and exercises to figure out what your passions were.
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Mine of course popped up You know, when do you, what do you spend hours on the computer researching or doing that you look up at the clock and go, oh my gosh, I cannot believe I spent four hours researching this um and and taught you how to tank that passion and turn it into a business.
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So that's what I did. I set out, i was going to help women lose weight and get healthy. i had actually gotten my personal training certificate, while I was HP and my group fitness, because I taught bootcamp classes while I was there. Yep.
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I kind of knew what I love to do. And then, so I started teaching some classes in my garage and doing the things I did at HP in my thirties and forties, the big bootcamp things. And I started hearing this, ow, um Amy, I can't show up because my back hurts or now my elbow hurts or my shoulder hurts. I went, oh my gosh, I've got to start doing things differently.
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So I jumped into what I love to do, learning. I got certified in ah corrective exercise, looking at body mechanics, osteoporosis, menopause fitness, arthritis fitness, um even something called myofascial release, which is a form of of massage, but light massage using foam rollers or tennis balls and things like that.
00:06:57
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It sounds as if one things that you identified when you've got people in the room is that the traditional, conventional, normal fitness routine may have been designed for someone who's 25, but it's not going to work for someone who's 55 because our bodies are different.
Personalized Fitness Approaches
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Right. And that that is my whole approach. My whole you know branding model is that you know What we thought was what we needed in our 30s and 40s to maintain our weight or to look a certain way isn't sustainable when we get to even over 40. I've got several members that are in their 40s. Most are in their 50s, 60s, and 70s. I even have some members close to their 80s.
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um But it can't it can't sustain us to do what we love to do, you know hiking, traveling, picking up our grandkids, And because we just, I'm sorry, we just feel like crap when we do that stuff that we did way back then. And and of course, when we feel like feel like that, we're not going to get the results that we need.
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It's, I suppose, one of the things I hear my parents say is like, we can do everything that we used to do We just don't do it quite so quickly. That's perfect. That is perfect. But it is almost um the right type of attitude to take. It's like you can do what you want to do, but you shouldn't necessarily believe, assume, or try and do it in the same way as you did 20 years ago, 30 years ago.
00:08:34
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And, you know, I can think to being in the gym, they could be fantastic, great places. But, you know, i often joke that, you know, if there's some pieces of metal and two blokes in the room, then you've got a competition. Right.
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it gets competitive in those sorts of places but what you seem to be saying is like it shouldn't be it shouldn't be like that you've got to listen to your body oh my gosh that's so true although that little bit of competition is sometimes sometimes kind of fun especially you know i'm 62 now and go in those gyms and they see me doing some things like okay maybe i should do something differently so i don't want to poop that's kind of it's kind of fun There have been times when I've been the oldest person in in the gym, or at least I've felt like the oldest person in the gym. And there's been um somebody standing around waiting for me to finish with a dumbbell because if somebody who's as old as their dad can lift that, then they can lift that type of thing was what they said to me.
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And I felt like, hey, cool, mate. i can i can I can go with that one. Gyms can be competitive places. So it's a it's a good competitive in a good way.
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and In most gyms, they're very community based. The ones I go to are very community based. And the competition is is very, very positive. Somebody will congratulate you for lifting.
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a certain amount of weight and all this sort of stuff. It's not, um look what I can do, you can't do. It's people recognize the fact that you're in competition with yourself to do more, to do better.
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But I go to gyms where we get a lot of support from the trainers. I'll put a link in the
Motivation and Online Fitness Programs
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description. But the... What you're describing as programs where you're almost like one-to-one with people online and providing them with very personalized support.
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Right. Yes. i you know I started out teaching those classes in the gym, but it was in my at HP and then in my garage. And they's so it's so motivating when you have to be at a place at a certain time and you get to see your friends. And there is a little bit of that competition which will push you a little bit. i think I think the biggest challenge that I see for a lot of people and when it comes to exercise isn't not knowing what to do, it's getting the motivation to do it. I think we all kind of know we need to do certain things, but...
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of the biggest struggles is finding that motivation. So going to a gym, going to a group class, purchasing program. I do do personal training. I minimized that since COVID. It just wasn't working for me.
00:11:16
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and Joining an online program where you're paying money. where the person helps you personalize a plan based on the content they have online, is it can help so much, unless you are, you're probably like you or I, which we do have a lot of that same, that self-motivation, but that it does it does take some hurdles to get over some of those obstacles that get in our way as we get older, you know, the aches and pains, the caring for an elderly parent or a child that's, you know, starting off into college or
Philosophy of 'Just Enough' Exercise
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something.
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life gets busy. I'm finding that, you know, in my twenties and thirties and forties, I was exercising in excess and, and I kind of, i not kinda, I really wish I had known better back then because I know some of the things I did like running a marathon and doing all these crazy mud runs and all this stuff probably put wear and tear on my joints that I didn't need.
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But now my my philosophy is just doing just enough, not too little, like like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, just enough and not too much to where, you know, you hurt yourself. So now, you know, I do a full body strength training workout twice a week.
00:12:32
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Sometimes three times if if I'm filming, but it lasts maybe 30 minutes because I get my full body going. I make sure within that workout, I'm working on my posture muscles.
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I'm working on my balance. I'll hold a weight in one hand. I'm working on taking days to focus on my core. I'll do a full day of a Pilates workout or a good core workout because that's sort of your foundation.
00:12:57
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for a strong body. And then I make sure I'm stretching. My goal in 2025 was to stretch for at least five minutes every day because I was getting stiff. I couldn't sit on the floor cross-legged anymore.
00:13:09
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So I need okay, that's a sign I need to start incorporating something a little bit, not crazy, but just something that feels good. It's very interesting that you say you couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor.
00:13:24
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And it I think that there is a huge number of those little indicators that you think, I used to be able to do this. I used to be able to do that. That give you that the little bit of motivation or that little sign that actually...
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this is something that you, you could do and you should be able to do again. It's just working out what you need to do in order to enable your body to respond, to do the things that you want it to Right. There's like two sides to that conversation.
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um Looking for those signs that things aren't ah things are changing. You can't sit down. You can't pick up your groceries. You can't you know balance when you're walking on cobblestones or something.
00:14:09
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That's one piece of it that's sort of motivating to to figure out. what what you might need to do. And then there's that other side of listening to your body while you're exercising.
00:14:20
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i'm This is a abuse big concept in my community, Be Healthy Enough, is listening to your body, not ignoring the pains. Now, I'm not talking about the muscle burn that you get with exercise. That's very different than a sharp pain you get in a joint.
00:14:37
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But those little taps that you get, if you don't listen to those, they are gonna scream at you later on. And they mean something. They mean that maybe you're doing it wrong, maybe your form's wrong,
00:14:50
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Maybe you need to work on a bit bit of foundation before you pick up a weight. Maybe you need to do some range of motion work or stretching or flexibility, mobility work before you can do that.
00:15:02
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But that those are two big things, listening to those aches and pains and then list looking for those things that go, hmm, I used to be able to do that. I can you imagine at the moment somebody's listening to us talking about this and going there and thinking, well, what's the difference? What's the difference?
00:15:19
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And I'm going to say, your body will tell you what the difference is between muscle burn because you're exercising a muscle and muscle and joint pain, which means Yeah.
00:15:32
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There is a very, very clear difference when it happens, when one happens and the other happens, you will know the difference because and the muscle burn, your body and your brain is not saying stop with the aches, the pains, your body tells you and your brain tells you, nope, stop.
00:15:51
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You know, you know, definitely. But there's a whole language, isn't there, around health and fitness, which I think is a lot of it is designed for the for people who are ah lot younger.
00:16:03
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And I think the older generation, the more mature generation needs their own language for their own health and fitness, I believe.
00:16:13
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Oh, I totally agree. and And we have to be so careful. I see it in my world all the time. as We get so much advice thrown at us from every which way, people that are really knowledgeable about our age group, and my age group. and then Then there are others that are that trying to make money off us.
00:16:35
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Would you have to be real careful about what you're listening to and and and being smart about it? Go, okay, let me think about that for a minute. Do some research on it before you jump right and try something.
00:16:48
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i think research is one of the key things that everyone should have in their health and fitness strategy. I ask questions of the GP, of the physio. I ask questions of the the trainers at the gym.
00:17:00
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We're in a very lucky age to be able to have access to unlimited information, really. But the key thing is that you say, There is very little editing of the of the contents of the internet, very little quality control.
00:17:14
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Triangulate, I think, is the word to make sure that you've got different sources telling you the same sort of thing. Yeah, exactly. And you can see the the information. But also, you've got to think about, least what I try to do, is think about what that would mean for me. That's that's the other thing, too. You bring up such a great point in that everybody is different.
00:17:35
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You know, we're different in age, we're different in in gender, we're different in how our body reacts to certain things. And, and so we all have to be our own scientists. And I love that you say you talk to your doctor like that.
00:17:47
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I'll often if I know one of my members or clients is going to the doctor, I give them a list of questions, make sure you ask this, and this and this and this. And then please tell me what they say, because I want to learn.
00:17:58
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But yeah, everybody's different. And i need to know more about not just being average, but being optimal, A lot of the things that doctors talk about, you know, okay, you're in the you're in the average rain, you're fine. No, no, no, I want to be optimal for where I'm at.
00:18:14
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And it takes some digging and put some pushing sometimes to get them to do the right testing and things like that. This is true, but your choice of the word there, optimal, and the name of your company, know you know, Enough. Be Healthy Enough, I know. it's Yeah, is Enough and Optimal. Yeah. is like yeah what life do you What life do you want to have? Exactly. What level of fitness do you want to have?
00:18:37
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How does your level of fitness influence, impact the life choices that you're able to make? Yes. And what do you have to do in order to maximize that? Because once you put your fitness and your health into the context of the lifestyle that you want to have, think it always becomes easier to do the things that you need to do because you've got purpose. Right. And that and that is that is a big thing. so So when I first came up with the name Be Healthy Enough,
00:19:06
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you know a couple people said, well, does it mean you just you you know you can be lazy and you can drink your wine and eat your your chocolate and your sugars and stuff like that? And I said, well, yeah, maybe if that's what you want to do. But if my concept is being healthy enough to, like you said, be optimal, to be able to keep up with...
00:19:25
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you know your friends on vacation on those hikes, to be able to do those hikes, to be able to do scuba diving and snorkeling and bungee jumping or whatever you want to do. it's That's the concept I want to portray is being healthy enough to do all those things you love to do.
00:19:40
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friend of mine was in a car crash, somebody rear, I think the American expression is they were rear ended. And they went to the physiotherapist and had all sorts of things done for repairing their back, building their strength back up, all this sort of stuff.
00:19:56
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And then 10 years later, the same thing happened again. And they ended up with the same physiotherapist and the physiotherapist said, you're getting better a lot quicker now because since the first time you have, you've taken the advantage and gone to the gym and actually are doing exercises to strengthen your body. yeah And all that the things, because you worked just an average general routine, nothing that's going to get you into a bodybuilding competition or anything like that. But because you're doing the exercises, you have to be a certain age to understand what I'm about to say. I'm sure you'll agree with me.
00:20:35
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But because you're doing the exercises, you can stand up straighter. Mm-hmm. You know, you're not one of those people who are leaning over because you've lost the core, the muscle strength in your core around the whole 360 degrees of your core, which, which helped to keep you upright. no Right.
00:20:54
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Yep. And I think it's, it's one of those sorts of things is you can't, you do not have to be someone who stoops over as you're getting older. You can stand up straight if you do the right type of exercises. agreed 100%.
Pre-Surgery Strengthening and Health Measures
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Typically when I'm on a podcast or interview, I want people to stop right now and check your posture.
00:21:15
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I bet you you're hunched over. because i always catch people. I'm the posture police. So if you're listening, bring those shoulders back and down, bring that spine nice and tall. I always try to sneak that in.
00:21:27
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But yeah, I have a a great example of being healthy enough to for a life event. And ah two years ago, last Sunday, i had a single mastectomy for breast cancer.
00:21:40
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And I'm just helping a friend. She's going to be going through a double mastectomy in a couple of weeks. And I prepared my body for that surgery. I knew it was coming up. luck Luckily, I was strong to begin with, but I started lifting really heavy, started doing things like lunges,
00:21:58
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So I could be strong enough to bend down and pick something up when it fell down on the floor, sitting down in a chair, working on my core because I knew i wasn't going to be able to sit up in bed. And i had my mastectomy in February and I was back to filming some videos by the end of March.
00:22:16
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So, and I can bend down. I was independent. I could get the my own things. I could get up and I didn't need to rely on my husband, which felt so good. It helped me feel better. to get moving right away. So be able to do things for yourself. Yeah, I just it just was so and in the hospital, you know, right after, like I wanted to get up and just walk the halls because I just I, I just needed that.
00:22:43
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and it helped you feel good. Exercise always does release those endorphins. So I'm You're going to be depressed and and not feel good. So getting some being able to get some movement in is a key.
00:22:55
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So that was another thing. I'm a big proponent on preparing your your body for life's traumas, like getting rear-ended or getting breast cancer or whatever. Well, I'm really pleased to hear that you're you're over that. That's great news. Yes, I am.
00:23:11
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Cancer-free. Brilliant. Brilliant. But of course, you highlight one of those really important issues is that you know the fact is that As we get older, our muscle density decreases.
Fitness for Independence in Later Life
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That means it becomes more difficult to do what we would have taken for granted in our younger years. The bending over, know, the bending over is not the problem. It's the coming back up again. is the problem, you know.
00:23:37
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going through Being in the supermarket and wanting something from the bottom shelf and thinking like, I can go down there, but is there a shop assistant? You know, is there somebody who works here who could get it for me?
00:23:50
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If you want to be able to those sorts of things, then you need to be thinking about how are you going to be able to counter the natural process of loss of muscle density?
00:24:03
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And that's where you've got to think, okay, what do I need to do in order to maintain not just your health, not just your fitness, not just your appearance, but at the end of the day, when you say, know, I could do it, I didn't have to rely upon my partner, and my husband.
00:24:23
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It's your independence. Yes. Right. It just comes from your physical and mental health and your ability to do things for yourself.
00:24:34
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Yeah. It's so important. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. i That's the one thing. I preach to you know anybody that comes into my periphery, my my my space here is that if you if you think about anything else about prioritizing or planning your workouts, how can you prioritize building muscle mass as women?
00:24:55
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We start losing it as our estrogen drops in our 30s. It starts to drop. And along with that bone mass as well. yes So what can we do to keep that strong?
00:25:08
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Not like you said, not to get the flat abs and toned arms, although that's a perk. But how do we maintain our independence so we don't need help getting off the pot when we're 80?
00:25:20
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and that's That's like the biggest like whack in the head for me right now, telling people that and visualizing, trying to do that. And and then along with the strength training, but thinking about your food to getting enough protein in because your muscles need that protein.
00:25:38
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You can be doing all the strength training you're not getting enough protein in your diet. um your your muscle fibers aren't going to get what they need. But that, you know, Maslow's pyramid, are you familiar? That base Maslow's pyramid is is the strength training. And then on top of that is, you know, the the flexibility and the mobility.
00:25:57
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And then on the very top is, to me, the cardio, which was flipped when I was And when I was growing up, it was always cardio, cardio, cardio, but that's actually muscle depleting. So I've flipped that pyramid and my base is what can I do this week to get my strength training in? And if anything else has to go by the wayside, that's okay.
00:26:15
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What can I do to get my protein in at every meal? And that's where I start my, my foundation. Yes. It's interesting. bring out my HR professional here in terms of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs and starting off with like, what does your body need to be able to do everything else?
00:26:34
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And gradually building yourself up. But when you talk about the cardio, I'm of saying, well, the top level from an HR perspective of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs is like, where you've got the self-actualization, you're doing all the things that you really want to do.
00:26:49
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And you know the cardio is the doing all the things that you really want to do. Being able to go out when you want to go out, be able to walk to the shops if you want to. Not going into the parking lot or car park, as we would call them here in the yeah UK, and driving around and waiting until there is a space close to the entrance of the shop that you want to go to.
00:27:10
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being confident that even if the car park space that's available is on the far side of the car park, that is not a problem for you because you've done all these other things.
00:27:21
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Your fitness or lack of fitness doesn't stop you from doing something. So the fitness that you have enables you to do more rather than thinking there isn't a car park space right next to the door.
00:27:32
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I'll go home again. Yeah, I love that visual. That'd be a good social media post. Yeah.
00:27:40
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I think it's so important to acknowledge or sort of that if we don't focus on our fitness, when we are fit enough to do it, we will be paying when we aren't fit
Proactive Health Measures for Aging
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enough. Exactly.
00:27:58
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it was almost getting into the topic for another, another podcast here, but I think the issue is that we can sometimes, because our bodies not let us down, so to speak, they're always there. can do whatever and we adapt and change, but eventually have to accept the fact that we are aging.
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Things do work differently, but if we stay healthy, if we have a good diet, the properly, a properly prepared exercise plan where we've tapped into experts who can tell us what we should be doing and probably more importantly, what we should avoid, then we're preparing for a happy, healthy, older age rather than one where we're dependent upon other people to enable us to do the things that we want to do. Agreed, 100%.
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I've really enjoyed you sharing your knowledge with me today, and it makes me aware of what I don't know and also what I do know. Amy, thank you very much. really do appreciate your time. It's been great. Thank you so much. And I want to say I am proud of you because I've i've really heard that you know what it takes and you're doing the work.
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So that's a very, very good. Good boy. Thank thank you. very Thank you very much. I'm going to be um getting my personal trainer and the trainers at True Personal Training in Weatherby to listen to what you just said thousand times.
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A thousand times. Thank you very much. You've made my day. Thank you.
Conclusion and Resources
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I am Michael Millward, the Managing Director of Abbasida, and in this episode of Fit for My Age, I have been having a conversation with Amy Van Lu.
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You can find out more about both of us at abbasida.co.uk. I must remember to thank the team at matchmaker.fm for introducing me to Amy.
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If you are a podcaster looking for interesting guests, or if like Amy, you have something very interesting to say, matchmaker.fm is where matches of great hosts and great guests are made.
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There is a link in matchmaker. Sorry, I'm getting all mixed. You've said something nice to me, Amy, and I'm all flustered. got all flustered there is a link to matchmaker.fm and an offer code in the description At Fit for My Age, our aim is proactive positive aging.
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Knowing the risks early is an important part of maintaining good health. That is why we recommend the annual health test from York Test. York Tests provide an assessment of 39 different health markers, including cholesterol, diabetes, vitamin D, vitamin B12,
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liver function, iron deficiency, inflammation and a full blood count. The annual health test is conducted by an experienced phlebotomist who will complete a full blood draw at your home or workplace.
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There is a link and a discount code in the description. That description is well worth reading. I hope you have enjoyed listening to this episode of Fit For My Age as much as Amy and I have enjoyed making it.
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Until the next episode of Fit for My Age, thank you for listening and goodbye.