What can we do to stay strong, healthy and adaptable as we age? Olympian Dame Denise Lewis joins Liz to share how movement, mindset and challenging ourselves can help us thrive in midlife and beyond.
They discuss the importance of strength training, finding exercise you enjoy, and how setting new goals can help us maintain physical and mental resilience as our bodies change.
Denise also shares her approach to sleep, nutrition and managing stress, and explains how she connects lifting heavy weights with pushing through difficult life moments.
Stream the episode below, or download the recording via Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
In this episode:
- How Denise maintains fitness since retiring from professional athletics
- The connection between lifting weights and mental resilience
- The importance of finding exercise you enjoy
- Ideas for making movement more social
- Denise’s experience of menopause and HRT
- How to become your own life coach
- Simple strategies for managing stress
- Why self-acceptance and adaptability are key skills for healthy ageing
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- Read Denise’s book, Adaptability: Seven Lessons To Thrive in a World of Competing Demands
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