I tried Weight Training for 9 months - started age 40 (build muscle, loss fat) 

did you get rid of the brain fog and fatigue? what helped for it? was it both the diet and excercise?

if you already explained in the video, im sorry. im just eager to ask im still watching the rest :D

Laura I was going to say it is good to see that you are being trained by someone like Phil with real lived experience and knowledge in the health industry rather than some young thing who only has youth on their side. But when it comes to health, beauty, fitness, social media is just full of fake, superficial inexperienced young influencers trying to sell a dream to older people who have realised you have to put in quite a bit of work and lifestyle changes to keep yourself in good condition. I would take more notice of Phil's advice than some young one in lycra.

I'm not saying he doesn't know what he's talking about but in this interview 'Exclusive: An Interview with Jamie Lloyd and Phil Richards on how to reclaim your health' he tells people to get rid of meat from their diet? His services are also insanely expensive. You can get the blood tests done yourself through a company online, hire a dietician for a diet plan and get a personal trainer to give you a template program for a lot less. You don't need to spend that amount of money.

Your trainer seems rock solid in his approach, methods and guidance. Congrats on your progress and strength gains!

Yessss me too!! Down 28 lbs since Jan’

Good job!! Keep going girl!!! 💪💪💪

have you had any injuries along the way? Great work, you sound like you're on an incredible journey

Yep

plus just finished a bowl of pasta 😅

Yep, laying in bed with a sore neck, after already having got a chiro adjustment and massage. Um. Yeah.

Me😟

Slumped in bed eating a mint magnum, she's amazing.

agree!

Before you know you'll be ramping up jogging for the obligatory "run 42,x km (a marathon) by 42".

Yes me too! I was always fit. Then life happened and slacked for about 8 years. Now that 40 is 2 years away- I felt this huge need to get my butt in shape again. We can do it!

learned so much

Great realistic tips. Thanks, from a nervous beginner.

Aside from just counting reps and adjusting weight as we adapt, we can benefit from utilizing any weight to failure, whether that be 5 reps or 25. Don't let a number stop you if your body's not.

Oh... I thought in order to build you need 4 to 8 reps and heavier? But toning and building up to heavy you go for the 10 to 12 range? I'm 58 and have been weights training since I was 16. Has the advice on rep range changed recently?

@@jenA9026 to my knowledge it's reps till failure that best supports strength gains, rather than a specified number of reps, though low reps with heavy weight will lead to more bulk.

I've been trying to get my parents to do strength training. Still no luck. :(

Awesome 💪🏻💪🏻

This is soooooo good! It's great to hear about your success! Great work 👊

@@LauraTryUK Thank you Laura. And Thank you for all the wonderful, educational and amusing video’s you post, don’t know how you do it 💪🏼🙏🏻

Congrats..near your age.I had a great year, losing the extra lbs I had for about 2 years, lifting weights.. Did not see the menopause coming so fast ..but, I am fine, stronger than before. I wish to see more women of our age in the gym.

@@Elena-fe3os Thank you Elena, so sweet of you, congratulations on your progress too! And I do wish to see more women of my age lifting weights in the gym, it’s more of a trend among the younger “social media generation”, sometimes I feel old training next to those girls 😂😂 But I do my best to keep up with them which is another incentive to give it my all 💪🏼. Wishing you many gains, let’s lift ourselves through menopause 😂😘

I love what you said, “ I like to imagine that I can achieve a body that has completely forgotten the surgery “ That’s excellent and exceptional AND entirely possible 🥳💪💪

Thank you :)

Hi, congrats on getting healthier and moving forward. Can I ask what were the symptoms of the sternum pressure, did you feel something yourself or just the doctor realized that is the case on some xrays?

@@Groaznic I was going through a lot of symptoms. Shortness in breath by doing everyday tasks, heart palpitations, sharp pains when breathing deeply. Feeling very uncomfortable around the chest area, and ofc psychological distress, and body dysmorphia. On the CT scan it was visible that 2 of my heart cardiac chambers were afffected serverly. My sternum was kind of stabbing my heart or cutting it off.

You've got this 💪 Some time, patience and discipline and you'll be there. thank you for sharing your experience so others can read it.

@lorrizzo Well.. conditioning your connective tissue, including collagen, and tendons are extremely important here also. As an aside - tendons; collagen matrix & connective tissue, do not adapt & gain strength along with muscle fiber just with regular strength training alone. It's with certain types of movement - isometric, HSR (heavy slow resistance) and slow eccentric 'stretching' (what LT refers to here as slow eccentric stretch) - or she may have left out the word 'eccentric' - but she did demo it with a slow, downward release of a bicep curl - an eccentric movement. Those type movements are needed to keep tendons & connective tissue strong and conditioned. They need heavier, prolonged force on them in order to 'adapt', i.e.' get stronger.' It's not all about conditioning muscle fiber, especially where repair of the entire system (muscle AND connective tissue is required. (The book - I've *mentioned below) is about strength/hypertrophy training, properly done, with an emphasis on attending to your connective tissue, as well.) Unfortunately, there are personal trainers and physical therapists who focus solely on muscle fiber and leave connective tissue out of the mix. I would highly recommend Scott Hogan's book *'Built from Broken' to help you understand how to rebuild your connective tissue. (Just as one suggestion, lift heavy and SLOW, especially on the eccentric move - tendons and collegen respond very well to this type movement, especially. Aside from lifting slow/heavy & low rep (if you are unable to lift much at all) - then isometric exercises are great as a start, to help condition/repair connective tissue, also. (Planks to help strengthen the core, for instance, would be a prime example of a useful isometric exercise. Stay away from NSAID's as much as possible. Try using collagen peptide supplements, curcumin, and Boswellia for pain relief/inflammation relief, in place of NSAIDS. Lastly, be very careful with your stretching exercises - stretching too much, or the wrong way could easily re-injure tendons, especially. Hope this helps😊 P.s. yes, agree that your repetitive lifting movements @ work threw you off balance - HOWEVER - I would venture to say that what happened, over time, was that your issue lies more with one of the rotator cuff tendons (generally the supraspinatus) that helps stabilize the 3 rotator cuff muscles together. That band of tendons began to wear down gradually (happens with age anyway, but even moreso with repetitive movement) . And you developed tendinopathy (Pathological [disease]state of the tendon). When- at one point - that generally feels sudden or acute - a tear occurred- but it actually happened over time. Unless you have a substantial tear, >2/3's, of the tendon, you likely don't need surgery. If your 'slap' injury is a major tear (unsure of your meaning, here re 'slap' injury - (?) - yah, surgery would probably be required. But for a partial tear of the tendon,(depending on the actual degree of the tear), surgery may be, and often is, unnecessary. Get that book! ...and this will make alot more sense to you.

Thank you for recognising this! 9 months of filming my workouts, transferring the files and saving and organising them in the right place, then backing it all up. Along with all the food, video diaries etc. It's totally worth it to get comments like yours 🙏🏼

I wonder how much time the workouts took each day. For people who work and raise kids, etc. how can we fit it in?

@@DecherWayte approx a hour per workout

I love that she doesn’t talk ❤

My Mum said similar the other day. She's eaten healthy most of her life, but only recently (in her 70s!) has realised the importance of strength training.

When I used to horse ride competitively, every single time I took a week off, I came back noticeably better. To the point where my trainer at one point told me to take a vacation when I was spiraling up there and just could not get things right. There is something to be said for a physical and mental break.

I am so pleased you like the videos. One reason I make them is so I can actually learn about all this stuff. Books and videos can confuse me sometimes, so I find writing it in my own words (then making the video) helps me learn.

I agree. Laura’s videos make things so much easy to understand!

This comment means so much to me, thank yoooooooou!!!!!!! 🙏 💕 It actually my heart do a little something, thank you for recognising the work I put into these.

what a great comment! Arnie surely has the 4 things I spoke about. I'm really pleased you liked the video 🙏🏼

Arnie was on steroids for a long time though. He has spoken openly about it.

@@jfc4798 .. not sure what that has to do with my comment. If anything it backs up the opinion that you won’t end up looking bulky and massive like arnie if you lift weights like a regular person..which is what I was saying and is what lots of people think will happen and why lots of people won’t lift weights.

Didn’t mean to put a heart there, lol

Go dad! 💪

30% is absolutely healthy for a woman. There is no need to go down to 25%, which does not look good anyway, as you could see in her video. 30% gives that nice curvy look. Just concentrate on keeping your muscle mass.

@@sassuki thank you, i do need to shed the 7 kgs though, its what I've put on during meno and I think it isn't my best look for me tbh, I notice it in photos and it doesn't make me feel great. I am realistic however, as when I start to drop the fat I want to also 1. keep and or grow my muscle, and 2. stop when I think it is enough and its not too much that it starts to 'age' my face due to loss of volume and/or is unrealistic overall to maintain. Ya gotta live a little! lol. So, wherever that is, perhaps its 27% or 23% or whatever, then I'm willing to call it 'enough' then.

every sentence he says to me my mind is blown 😂 we are just scratching the surface here. I am pleased you are gaining value from the video 🙏

Hey! It's all Phil - everything from this video is Phil 😆 Well done on the ferocious effort and the training! It could be hormone related. If you have some budget, consider one of Phil's webinars, workshops or blood tests. He has the answers! 🌟

@@LauraTryUK thank you! I should save up to see Phil instead of buying more stuff I don't need.

All the best !! You can do it ! I am almost 57, do yoga and workout every day 2-4 hours .

Hey, great work on the transformation! And thanks for writing about it 🙏🏼 I add that book to my Wish List, thank you. The gems are _all_ Phil!

I forgot, Knees over toes guy

I agree with you!

We've just got to go for it 💪