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Tag: sarcopenia

Forget Menopause – The Real Reason You Gain Weight in Midlife

March 28, 2022

By Shawna Kaminski

It’s not all menopause! As we age our muscle mass naturally dwindles as nature takes its course. This is a process, called Sarcopenia, which begins as early as 20 and can ramp up to .4 lb loss in muscle each year by 50. When we lose muscle tone, we tend to have a lower metabolism … Continued

Sarcopenia – The Real Reason You’re Gaining Weight

September 20, 2017

By Shawna Kaminski

As we age our muscle mass naturally dwindles as nature takes its course. This is a process, called Sarcopenia, which begins as early as 20 and can ramp up to .4 lb loss in muscle each year by 50. When we lose muscle tone, we tend to have a lower metabolism and gain weight more … Continued

🎯Do you focus on LOSING weight or GAINING… . 🎯Do you focus on LOSING weight or GAINING…
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✅health…
✅muscle…
✅strength & function…
✅bone density…
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❓Ask yourself: Am I overweight? Or UNDERmuscled?…
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💪🏻in addition to strength & function, muscle is also associated with…
⏳increased longevity…
🦠reduction in metabolic disease…
🩸improved insulin sensitivity…
⚖️more effective weight management…
🧠improved cognitive function…
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🤔So consider shifting your focus to  building muscle before losing weight…
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❓What’s YOUR focus?…
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🙋🏼‍♀️Need some support? Join my most affordable accountability coaching program that will help you GAIN muscle while focusing on the habits that matter most to manage your weight #linkinbio …
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#Muscle 
#Buildmoremuscle 
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🤳🏻Message me #warmup for a full body dynami 🤳🏻Message me #warmup for a full body dynamic follow along warm up sample & I’ll send you the full video🎥…
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🙁As estrogen declines, our bodies tend to feel more stiff, sore and achey…
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🔥Your warm-up prepares your muscles & joints for your workout…
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🤕Warming up reduces the risk of injury…
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💪🏻As well, once you’re warm, you’ll feel stronger & more energized⚡️…
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👉🏻Focus on dynamic full range of motion movements in your warm up…
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🧘🏻‍♀️Save the slow static stretches for your cool down…
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🤔Remember: Don’t skip your warm-up!…
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🙌🏻If you have no time to workout, you can even just do a 5 minute full body dynamic warm up & you’ll feel better for having done a little something…
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🙃Happy to send you the full video, message me #warmup …
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#warmup 
#menopausefitness 
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#dynamicwarmup 
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❌Don’t throw out the pickle juice!… . 🥩Pi ❌Don’t throw out the pickle juice!…
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🥩Pickle juice makes a delicious, meat tenderizing marinade base…
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🧂Throw in a variety of your favourite spices & marinade in the fridge or freezer…
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🍗Use with chicken, pork or beef…
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😋Yum!…
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👉🏻Want more ways to include healthy protein into your diet? We talk protein options a LOT in my weekly nutrition group coaching meetings…
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💥You’ll discover healthy ways to spice up your meals while losing your menopause belly - all without pills, powders, potions, starvation diets or long workouts…
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🤳🏻Message me ‘protein’ for more details info on how you can join us…
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#protein
#eatmoreprotein
#marinade #easyrecipes #easymealprep
#menopausematters 
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🚀You can change the trajectory of your life… 🚀You can change the trajectory of your life…
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🏋️‍♀️Both the quality & quantity of your years can be changed when you add resistance training 2-3x per week…
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💪🏻Muscle is dramatically reduced as estrogen and progesterone drop with menopause…
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7956097/ …
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❌Women who don’t resistance train can expect to lose 3% of their muscle every decade after age 30 and up to 50% of their muscle mass by age 80…
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 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4066461/ …
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❓Do you want to age well?…
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💥It’s up to you…
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✅Join my Waist Management program at the linkinbio…
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🙌🏻You’ll discover DOABLE habit changes that will change the way you age…
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#agewell 
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🧘‍♀️Try this pose for one to 20 min… . 🧘‍♀️Try this pose for one to 20 min…
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☺️It will stimulate the ‘para-sympathetic’ or ‘rest & digest’ nervous system to ease all kinds of tension related to menopause & your busy life…
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🧘‍♀️It may not help with weight loss, but a calm mind will help you cope & make better decisions related to your health…
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➕Plus you’ll get these benefits:
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✔️Relaxes the mind & body…
✔️Increases circulation…
✔️Soothes muscle cramps…
✔️Stretches hamstrings & glutes…
✔️Relieves lower back tension…
✔️Eases headaches & migraines…
✔️Improves digestion…
✔️Improves sleep…
✔️Helps quiet the mind…
✔️Gives the benefits of inversion, without the effort…
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❓Do you ever do this pose?…
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#Wallstretch 
#Menopausefitness 
#Stressrelief 
#Menopausematters

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