The Importance of Building Muscle in Midlife with Tara Garrison

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In this episode you will learn:
✅ How weights can transform your body and overall health -- especially in midlife
✅ How you can get fit in midlife
✅ Why dealing with trauma is as important as working out
What About Nutrition in Changing Your Body Midlife?
Instead of worry about dieting, focus on eating smarter. Instead of focusing on eating LESS, focus on eating REAL food. When you're going through menopause you are in a sensitive state to excess stress. So if you're starving yourself and over exercising, your body isn't going to react the way you want it to. It's going to be hard to recover, you're not going to feel good, and you might be pushing yourself toward adrenal fatigue. When you're trying to build muscle, you will more than likely need to really up your protein intake. But the KEY to nutrition is to always think in terms of what I've always taught which is: protein, fat, healthy carb for every meal!
Muscles and Metabolic Health in Midlife
Muscle improves metabolic health. In fact, current ongoing research is showing that by introducing women with cancer (who are even into their 70s and 80s) to controlled environment weightlifting, improves their outcome, shrinks tumors, and no return of cancer. In short, the metabolic upgrades you get from lifting weight increase the flow and productivity of your entire system!
The more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn at rest overall, so the better your metabolism will work. In addition, the more muscle you have, the leaner you are going to look! When you eat carbs, they are absorbed by your liver and your muscle. Your liver can store about 100grams and your muscles can store about 300grams -- BUT -- with increased muscle mass, the more they can absorb carbs :) It's been said that elite athletes can store up to 800-900 grams of carbs in their muscles! Carbs only turn into body fat when they have nowhere to go when your muscles and liver storage are full. So the secret is to BUILD your muscles so you're not only using the stored carbs, but are creating even more space for them to be stored there instead of turning into body fat.
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