Everyone in the world should watch and listen to this video, this podcast. Lifting weights-staying in shape is the fountain of youth. I have young girls at the gym coming to me and saying that they wanna look like me and I’m 61 that is a feather in my cap!
45 yo female here 4 month ago started squating at home with some weights just to feel better. not much and I'm just starting but I would not have ever imagined how much stronger and more powerful I would feel. the might of being able to run 10 flights of stairs is wow)) those who say that weighs are for men and women need pelates or fitness are so so wrong ladies! let's be powerful ❤
01:23:00 "Channel your female rage (during training)" - and Dr Mike completed it with "precision, self-ownership, dedication, commitment, reliablitity." I love that statements, thank you, you two!
This was great. Loved that last part about the importance of muscularity and youthfulness/sex appeal. Falling apart or "letting yourself go" doesn't have to be an inevitable part of aging.
Yes. I tell people that, and I get crickets. I'm 57, fit, strong,healthy, and work out seriously and heavy for decades. I have a program. I feel great. No menopause issues. No weight gain. No muscle loss. He's 💯% correct.
Love this interview!!! Love Dr. Mike's content, so informative and hilarious!! Lifting weights is incredibly benefitial for women. I remember I once was in the gym with my mom and I saw her talking with a woman around her age while I was filling my bottle with water. I then introduced myself to her and we started to chat a bit. Turns out... she was 72 years old!! And she was lifting consistently since she was in her fifties with her two sons. She looked like at least 20 years younger to me. It was incredible to see a person of such age looking so young and fresh and capable!! A woman lifting weights at that age! As a woman in her early twenties it made me feel so good and proud. I'm definitely not trading exercise for anything now!!
I started climbing 6 months ago and there's so many older people in the gym who look amazing and are so strong. I was doing a workout and wondered if they'll let me so these things in the nursing home. Then I realized if I could still do these things I won't be in a nursing home. It's been very motivating!
Loved this and love Dr. Mike! Amazing content! There's not many podcasts directed specifically for women who lift so this was refreshing and so informative! Thank u💪
Enjoyed heaps as a 56 woman who dedicated to being skinny, I’ve had to work hard to learn for myself about strength bones BDNF…..I was in the gym listening to this. Thinking about my older years to come knowing I will always be doing RT. My co worker said to me she had to stay home to cook dinner for her husband, I couldn’t believe it. 2 hrs later had a whole body work out, gym full of mostly men a few women (most did classes ie Pilates). Thanks for having Dr Mike on love his YT channel.
Thats where my husband learned to cook 25 years ago….i was at the gym after work 4 days a week, and didn’t get home till around 8. (45min trip home) im 62 now, still work out and professionally train others…im home at 6 now…and he still does 99% of the cooking 😊
Never has Dr. Mike looked hunkier than in that thumbnail and I am deeply offended on his behalf. He worked hard for that triceratops skull and they just airbrushed it away. Scandalous.
This guy's information has changed my entire life and made my training so much easier bc I had an idea of what I was doing before I started due to this man's wealth of knowledge. Love Dr Mike.
I'm a 45 year old female. I can do about 12 bodyweight pull-ups. What worked for me is doing several different back exercises to build the muscle strength, in addition to working on feeling the lats while using cable machines. I did 2 pullups EMOM sets, sets to failure until you get to 1, and weighted pull-ups for 1-2 reps. (not all in the same day). It's easier to get stronger in all of the back/lat muscles first. Pull-ups will be much easier to get improvements in. At least it worked for me...
For the squat I found for me I was squatting using my whole foot but when I started squatting coming from my heels I feel my glutes way more….I love Dr. Mike like everyone else….so here for this! Thank you! 💪🏽❤️🇨🇦
Being strong is awesome, I am 66 years old, not skinny but is great, I can run after my grandchildren, get on the floor, play with them and carry them up and down the stairs.
So... I do enjoy Dr. Mike on RP. Maybe a little too spicy for me sometimes. But here? WOW! His little whispery voice? DAAANNNGGG, Dr. Mike! CONTINUE! Dr. Stephanie, thank you for your content and for having Mr. Mike on.
Mike’s comment about beginners not needing to worry about mind muscle connection, focusing more on good technique really hit home for me but for a slightly different reason than what he mentioned. When you’re just getting into training you are learning how to move your body. You’re learning what it feels like. Over time with individual muscle groups and individual exercises you will have little mini breakthroughs like “oh, OH… that’s what that’s supposed to feel like, that’s that muscle working” and your training will just start to click into place. Everything will start making sense. It’s a process though and it can take a long time and it depends on the person and the muscle group. I’ve been training for years and I’ve felt dips in my triceps the whole time, fantastic stimulus, but I had a day the other day where I finally felt them pulling strongly in my pecs. I finally just felt them engage like crazy and it was amazing. I was able to feel my lats working within weeks of starting training. I was able to feel my glutes within my first heavy session. You can’t rush that and no one can really teach it to you. They can teach you good technique. Technique that will help you progress and help inoculate you from injury. But no one can teach you what it feels like for your body to work. It takes time and consistent training.
I’m always reluctant to try a new podcaster. I stick to my familiar faves, but I was interested in this topic, so I listened. I love your podcast. I think you ask good questions and get the most out of the interviewee. Subscribed and excited to watch more of your content.
If a patient is struggling with mind-body connection, they should see a physiotherapist. We have lots of exercises for learning how to engage/isolate muscles, which is mostly beneficial if you have pain when lifting. If not, you’ll do fine following Mike’s recommendations :)
Loved loved loved this video thank you Dr Mike and Dr. Stefanie I’ve been on my seven year fitness journey going on 51 years old never look back. Thank you for all the great information.
I’ve been a long time subscriber of Mike’s & I’m so glad it’s led me here! Your channel and is exactly what I have needed for a while now. Thank you for such a great & informative video 💙
Dr Mike is absolutely right about being fit & keeping yourself up by lifting, small waist no matter the age. Age is just a number, looks do matter at any age.
I remember I had my first ever quad pump and it felt so very weird but satisfying at the same time! Granted my legs were so sore for the next few days but I learned what the pump felt like that day, at least in my legs. Great stuff!
As a new lifter, the hip thrust has been awesome for me. I’m blessed to have a husband who has cultivated a superb home gym and loves training me and sets up my weights for me (I’m learning along the way). I really feel like my glutes are HUGE when I’m done!😂😂😂
Excellent discussion! Would love to hear you interview the OG Lyle Mcdonald, if you haven't ready. He was one of the first to take on the behemoth task of researching and writing about female training and nutrition.
Love Dr. Mike! IMO the most important thing to master when lifting, the mind-muscle connection. Difficult to teach and can be hard to master. You know you got it down when can switch the targeted muscle within the same movement. For example, while squatting, when the quads approach failure, having the ability to continue repping out the same set by placing more emphasis on the glutes and hamstrings. Also, IMO heavy lifting is not a requirement for attaining your best looking and healthiest physique. Maxing out and lifting in the 1-3 rep range, I think can be detrimental to longevity and is just not worth the risk. Training in the 4-12 rep range is not only optimal for aesthetics but more importantly for longevity in the gym, joint health, injury prevention, etc. Would you rather have an awesome 1 rep max right now or the ability to still be killing it the gym when your 50+ years old? Not likely you can have both, I mean just take a look at Ronnie Coleman.
Pointing and laughing! Thats how I feel when I do my 3-4 slo-mo pull-ups!!! I almost feel like deflecting the situation by crushing a beer can with my size zero boobs… but I don’t cuz its a Woman’s Only gym and all other girls care about is my colourful attire and pom-pom socks😂🎉😢 Thanks for the pod-cast! Jam packed with valuable info💖🌸💖
When I squat I totally feel it in my booty. I squeeze when I come back up. I take my time and sit a couple of seconds. Due to my age, I can't go as deep, but I have total mind muscle connection. I'm only squatting 125 pounds now with a goal to hit my desired weight at 150 plus another 50 or 75 over time.
Dang! I can only squat 55 lbs right now, 70 was my best before I took a few weeks off recently. I'm always in awe when I see women lifting as much as you! But I've only been back at lifting for a couple months and taking it slower than maybe I should...
I have small forearms and it takes a minute to feel like I can even squeeze the hand again, let alone do at least 5 reps. The sex appeal is also true. Matched once on dating app with this 10 years older, in her 40's, physiotherapist-personal trainer and she buries the competition in women younger than me. Like even your face looks younger when in shape. Coincidentally when our skin starts to relax or collagen starts to break down or whatever it is biologically, muscles make it not look like you're dripping towards the ground. The way Dr. Mike started describing all the surgeries to look young and better makes me think of this old band that's my favourite, in the 90's, when they wrote a song about being immortal. Paying the doctors to do the impossible and now the protagonist of the song is a bit stunned that the impossible turned real, sees centuries pass without aging a day "I'll raise a glass to commemorate the passing of your grand child's child's child's child". It was always a terrifying song to me. It sounded so empty, like living in a bubble without caring about anything around you, just being completely indifferent to life. Like a person so sad inside they are horrified of aging and dying, time being limited, that they will do anything not to face it. And once they removed that time limit, nothing had meaning.
I often hear Dr. Mike talking about women being able to recover faster, but find myself having terrible recoverability in certain muscle groups (3 sets of RDLs will give me DOMs for almost the entire week and I've injured tendons trying to train my hamstrings again before they're fully recovered to get a higher frequency). What can I do to improve recoverability beyond sleep hygiene.
keep training in my experience your capacity for training increases over time i do bouldering as well as some weightlifting and when i'm consistent for a few months i actually stop getting doms altogether (tho this doesn't mean i recover by the next day) proper nutrition, i.e. fuelling with carbs pre workout and consuming ample protein after probably helps reduce doms also the legs, hamstrings in particular, stay sore for longer than other muscle groups so be mindful of that lastly, i probably don't need to tell you that anymore since you've already injured yourself but don't train sore muscles if they're sore they're not yet recovered which means there's that risk of injury and working out likely won't be very effective anyway
Dr. Stephanie, do you have or are you going to be doing a series on science-based weight training and muscle growth focused on women? Are you a phd or an MD?
My biggest advice for any woman to get into strength training, is to go to a highly qualified exercise scientist. They will teach proper technique, design a program…the best investment for my body composition. I’m 50.
If you have any body awareness and you take the time to watch a few exercise scientists demonstrate good technique, you should be able to reproduce it. Record your lifts if you need to see what you're doing. You don't need to train with an exercise phys to figure out how to get your body into the correct form.
@@JessieDeeRiver perhaps for some. But they can see how you position your knees, back etc…to fix your form..small correction of form and technique make the world of difference, to prevent injury.
So weird flex.. so i tend to be a over achiever and perfectionisy ..knowing this when infirst started working out going from pure cardio to weights I made a goal or promise to my self that for at least a minimum of a year maybe 1.5 I will not walk into a gym to workout.. or to get a pump in .. but only go into gym with the goal of practice.. and to perfect technic. Get the feeling of what acually using a muscle feels like.. feeling the stretch feeling the muscle contract and retract .. watching Mr Mike 24/7 lol .. no but really he has changed my life ..also focus on my nutrition and learning what my body needs to fulfill each workout independently.. I cam go on forever what my next 9months is gonna look like but it won't be working out / getting my pump on 😊
That's not good at all. You'll achieve nothing and your form will break down under load. Don't waste your time. If you wanna squat for no gains stay at home and use the broom stick as barbell.
so, regarding injury, my (hopefully) only significant gym injury in the past 3+ yrs of regular gym going was a partial achilles tear, done during step-ups for speed, so there's that
@@skdjirrrdjdm3926 oddly enough, the initial injury didn't hurt at all, just felt like something smacked me in the back of the heel; putting weight on it later was unpleasant, and then there was tripping over a treadmill at work, that hurt like a mother, because I needed a sprained ankle on top of the partial tear :/
It is interesting to hear that some people don't feel what muscle is working or feel it in wrong places. I have a friend that does a shitload of crunches and sit-ups yet her belly never gets hard or hurts during exercise, only the next day. I though that was not normal as I felt the muscles right off the bat. It is hard and painful, getting even worse for next two days. Turns out I am the one the that is not normal. Dr. Mike is going to be jealous a lot XD
Wait what did he mumble about doimg a better exercise for hip thrust cause fudge i have the biggest hate love relationship for hip trust .. but inknow they target my glutes like no other.. very low fatigue
He for example recommends Smith Machine Front Foot Elevated Lunges instead. Problem with hip thrusts is the ROM is terrible for the glutes as well as only focusing on the peak contraction and no focus on longer length.
Not sure which specific part you were referring to. But he mentioned deficit deadlifts, front foot elevated lunges, glute style squats, glute style deadlifts from a deficit. By glute style I take it he meant sumo stance.
Hip thrusts - yeah olybar right on my illiac crests, noooo. No idea how to not hurt my flesh balancing it on my body. I'm already missing a part of my bone because they used it for my spinal fusion.
It's really up to the individual. If you're sitting there bored with a stable heart rate, you are probably ready to get into it again. If you're still racing and breathing hard, probably wait
Any advice on how I can find someone to help me learn how to safely lift weights with lumbar spine defects? What specialty or occupation would be best to help me? I need to find someone to teach me proper form (that will work with my defects) so I can lift weights and get stronger without injury. (Disc bulges at L3, L4 & L5; spondylolisthesis at L5 and arthritis). 50+ female. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
I am rebuilding my back, gluetes and hips from the inside out. I learned proper form from my Pelvic Floor Therapist who helped me rebuild/retrain the muscles that stabilize my spine. She walked me through stretches (to lengthen muscles and release tension) , exercises (to strengthen), and unweighted lifting techniques so that I could get the form down. Then I pursued PT for my glutes and hips. That physical therapist is helping me train the deep muscles that are very weak, with light resistance, paying attention to form. So, look into Pelvic Floor Therapy to start to help your spine support itself.
It's likely from being stronger in your legs vs what your lower back can support. One potential solution is things like separate out legs by doing presses and hack squat and the focus on lower back strength training separately, good mornings, seated good mornings, deadlifts, extensions... Etc. Then revisit classic squats once your back feels stronger.
Bracing your core properly is one key, impeccable form (depending upon your anatomy) is another. Ankle mobility can come into play quite often for many people.
@@doryfishie2 It actually got worse when I had a trainer 'correct' my form. 😅 I've switched to single leg presses. I feel like it works my legs better as I can focus on the muscles more, rather than worrying about form and my back.
@melissamyers7035 , 37 yrs doing massage therapy. People soooo ignore ankle mobility! So important for knee health, balance, gait. We gotta teach it. Btw, hip mobility equally as important for knees.
I feel awful after lifting weights. I never feel strong just tired and tight. I know how to program and lift but it never feels good anymore. So frustrating
