How to Leverage Essentialism for Fitness

Fuel Your Strength

Steph Gaudreau

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

If you are a woman over 40 trying to build your fitness and muscle, you know how important it is to get into the gym on a regular basis. But if you struggle to find the consistency or motivation to exercise, you are definitely not alone. I find consistency as one of the most common things my clients struggle with, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Key Takeaways

If You Are Curious About Essentialism, Try:

Taking time to decide what is truly important for you
Saying no to the things that you do not want to do
Doing fewer things but doing them better

Adding Instead of Taking Away

A lot of things in the health world are focused on removing or distancing yourself from a thing. Exercise is certainly not that way, and it requires you to lean in when it comes to changing your health habits. Although exercise takes time, energy, and space in your daily calendar, adding it to your life consistently is going to help you achieve the results you are looking for.

All 24 Hours Are Not the Same

While there are 24 hours in a day, each of us has our own schedule, timeline, and ability to prioritize exercise. Finding the time, space, and motivation to be consistent isn't necessarily easy, but by asking yourself the right questions, you can identify what's important, what you may want to say no to, and, ultimately, how to live more aligned with your values.

The #1 most underrated concept when it comes to helping you find more time, which can, in turn, help you increase your consistency with training, is essentialism. There is a counterintuitive reason why finding consistency with your workouts is so hard, especially as a woman over 40.

Have you ever approached your fitness with an essentialism mindset? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.

In This Episode

Behind-the-scenes update of what to expect in the coming months on my training platform (2:47)
Why exercise does not follow the standard ideal of health change (7:43)
Understanding essentialism and why it may help you assess your life (9:50)
Questions you can ask yourself as a thought exercise to guide your actions (13:04)
How to implement the principles of essentialism into your own life (15:25)

Quotes

“It has been extremely gratifying to really bring those of you over 40 who are looking to improve your strength, muscle, and fitness, and feel strong. To really bring you a comprehensive program that is going to tick the boxes that we need as women over 40.” (3:47)

“If you are feeling challenged with consistency, I promise you you are not alone in feeling what you are feeling.” (4:52)

“Exercise cannot be accomplished through subtraction, elimination, or avoidance.” (8:33)

“Exercise is a form of self-care. We are taking care of our health.” (15:12)

“Ultimately, we all don't have the same time in our day. But by implementing the principles of essentialism, hopefully, you can carve out just a little bit more for yourself.” (17:47)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you struggling to be consistent with working out? If you're a woman over 48, you're trying to build
0:04.5	your fitness and improve your strength and muscle, then you know how important it is to get into
0:09.3	the gym on a regular basis. But if you're like many of my clients and community members,
0:13.9	you're finding it difficult to do so. On this podcast episode, we're taking a look at, in my opinion,
0:19.0	the number one most underrated concept to help you find more time, which will help you increase
0:25.2	your consistency with training. And we're also going to be taking a look at a counterintuitive
0:29.8	reason why finding consistency with your workouts is so hard in the first place.
0:34.0	And finally, leaving you with some tips so that you can start to open up more space in your
0:38.9	schedule for strength training. If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights,
0:48.2	challenging yourself and doing hard shit, the fuel your strength podcast is for you. You'll learn
0:54.6	how to eat, train, and recover smarter so you build strength and muscle, have more energy
1:01.2	and perform better in and out of the gym. I'm strength nutrition strategist and weightlifting
1:07.1	coach, Steph Goddrow. The fuel your strength podcast dives into evidence-based strategies for
1:13.4	nutrition, training, and recovery. And why, once you're approaching your 40s and beyond,
1:19.3	you need to do things a little differently than you did in your 20s. We're here to challenge
1:24.4	the limiting industry narratives about what women can and should do in training and beyond.
1:31.1	If that sounds good, hit subscribe on your favorite podcast app. And let's go.
1:41.4	Welcome back to the podcast. Thanks so much for being with me today. I am so excited to
1:46.4	be covering this topic because if there is one question that I get all the time, it's, you know,
1:52.3	I start off being consistent with my training and inevitably something happens and I kind of fall
1:58.9	off track. And it's really hard for me to get going again. How can I find the time, the space,
2:06.5	the motivation to continue to be consistent because I know consistency is really where I'm going to
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