Episode notes
I have a marketing degree. I've worked in high-tech and small fitness studios. Which means I am incredibly easy to sell to — show me a woman lifting heavy or doing Pilates for "the shape you want" and my head goes, yes, that's what I should do.
That's the problem.
This week I'm talking about movement — not the Instagram version, the real one. What does your body actually want? Why is 10,000 steps a made-up number from a 1970s Japanese marketing team? Why does the same workout that used to work in your 30s now spike your stress instead? And why, once you hit perimenopause, does performing a workout instead of enjoying it work against you, landing straight in your visceral fat?
I share my own framework: move daily, hit your step number (not someone else's), lift heavy where your body can handle it, and stop performing for a class that isn't even watching you.