Is Muscle Anti-Aging?
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Our Western society is, to put it frankly, obsessed with the idea of anti-aging and the fountain of youth. This multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry that is mainly targeted at women focuses on all of the products and things you can do to maintain the appearance of youth on the outside of your body. But what about what is going on in the inside?
Key Takeaways
If You Are Interested in Using Muscle to Improve Your Aging, You Should:
- Start strength training now if you haven't already
- Follow a plan that is progressive and will help you
- Outsource to a professional in order to take the next step
Preserving Your Muscle and Quality of Life
Muscle is the most critical topic that is missing from the majority of conversations around aging. Preserving our muscle mass as we get older is one of the best ways to maintain our quality of life and longevity as we transition through menopause and beyond. Developing and maintaining muscle not only makes you feel good but is a key factor in how you age.
The Unsung Hero of Anti-Aging
While you may not be able to prevent 100% of the muscle mass loss you may experience as you get older, strength training is the best action you can take to take steps in that direction.
Muscle mass is the unsung hero of the anti-aging discussion, and is about so much more than vanity and appearances. If you want to preserve your quality of life and longevity as you age, maintaining your muscle is the first thing you need to think about.
How has strength training changed your approach to aging? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.
In This Episode
- Exploring what the term anti-aging really means in modern Western society (4:45)
- Evidence-based statistics to help you understand the aging landscape (9:02)
- Why you need to pay attention to strength training, especially during the menopause transition (13:21)
- What you need to know about the relationship between estrogen and muscle (17:11)
- Things you can do about your muscle mass as you age (25:02)
Quotes
“If there is one thing that gets missed over time and time and time again in the conversation about aging, it is the unsung hero, muscle.” (3:12)
“I don't want to just live to be very old in terms of my years, but I also would like to have as much quality of life, and quality of health, as possible.” (8:29)
“No matter where on the spectrum you are, it is absolutely important and possible for you to start strength training now and reap some of these benefits.” (15:53)
“Not only does this affect performance in terms of sports and athletics and fitness, but also, life.” (21:48)
“This is all about your longevity, quality of programming, quality of life, and how strength training is going to serve you going forward.” (29:01)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | One doesn't have to look very far before you realize that anti-aging is an obsession by most people, especially in the Western world. |
| 0:11.6 | But we are missing one of the most critical topics in the conversation of aging. |
| 0:20.6 | What is it? |
| 0:21.6 | We're going to talk about it on this episode of the podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | If you're an athletic 40-something woman who loves lifting weights, challenging yourself and doing hard shit, the fuel your strength |
| 0:35.2 | podcast is for you. You'll learn how to eat, train, and recover smarter so you build strength and |
| 0:42.1 | muscle, have more energy, and perform better in and out of the gym. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm Strength Nutrition Strategist and Weightlifting coach Steph Godro. |
| 0:51.9 | The Fuel Your Strength Podcast dives into evidence. coaching you need to do things a little differently than you did in your 20s. |
| 1:06.0 | We're here to challenge the limiting industry narratives about what women can and should do in training and beyond. |
| 1:14.2 | If that sounds good, hit subscribe |
| 1:16.2 | on your favorite podcast app and let's go. |
| 1:19.4 | Before we dive in, if you listen to this episode and you're like, okay, I am |
| 1:27.7 | ready to get to work. I want to take my strength, muscle, energy, and performance |
| 1:33.6 | and take it up a notch. |
| 1:34.9 | I want to take it to that next level. |
| 1:36.3 | I want to feel like a badass, but at the same time, |
| 1:38.5 | do it in a way that works with my physiology |
| 1:41.4 | as an athletic woman, 40 with coaching and community support |
| 1:46.2 | then go ahead and check out strength nutrition unlocked this is my group program we're |
| 1:50.7 | gonna lay out the framework for you and guide you as you implement and really |
| 1:54.2 | customize it to all the things that you're doing, your preferences, your likes, and the places |
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