After years of illness, injury and well, the menopausal transition, I'm taking the reins back on my strength, balance and flexibility. I'm experimenting with some weights, exercise bands, and more in order to find exercises that fit my life and help me feel strong.
How Long Is Enough Movement in Midlife Exercise? S2E5
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I’ve been thinking a lot about a question that kind of annoys me.
How long do we need to work out for it to “count”?
There’s something about that framing that feels gross to me. Not because it’s a bad question. It’s a very practical one. Life is busy. Energy is finite. Time is weird in midlife.
But the idea that movement only matters if it crosses some invisible threshold feels off.
Still, I think about it a lot. Probably because I’m living it.
Most of my workouts right now are short. Ten to fifteen minutes. Dumbbells for arms. Resistance bands. Booty bands. The usual suspects if you’ve been following along for a while. I’ve also added some fascia work, though I learned quickly that thirty minutes of that was a little too ambitious for me. So now I’m doing about ten minutes there too.
And here’s the thing. I feel progress.
Not visually. Not in a mirror. But in what my Body can do. In how it feels during the day. In how it functions when I’m not “working out” at all.
That shift is kind of the entire point of this project. It’s not about how I look. It’s about what I can do.
But even with that mindset, this question keeps coming up. Especially in conversations with other midlife women.
How long do we need to move? How long do we want to move? And are those the same thing?
22 Oct 2026
What If I Want to Exercise While Sick in Midlife? S2E4
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I’ve been sick again.
Not dramatically sick. Not emergency sick. Just that low grade, lingering, frustrating kind of sick that doesn’t knock you out all at once, but quietly rearranges your days.
The kind where you’re technically functioning, but something feels off.
For me, that off feeling shows up as disconnection.
Because movement, at least the way I experience it, isn’t just exercise. It’s how I stay in touch with myself. It’s how I know where I end and the day begins. It’s how I metabolize stress, anxiety, and whatever energy doesn’t have anywhere else to go.
And when I can’t move the way that feels natural or good, even in small ways, I start to feel less like me.
This episode of my Body can started with a question that felt almost ridiculous to say out loud.
15 Oct 2026
A return to joyful movement with resistance bands in my 50's : S2E3
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I’ve been marinating a question lately.
What did I love to do as a kid, purely for the joy of it, that somehow disappeared when movement became serious?
Not productive. Not corrective. Not attached to a goal.
Just fun.
Somewhere along the way, movement picked up rules.
Timelines.
Expectations.
Results.
And I’m noticing how quietly joy slipped out the side door while no one was watching.
This episode, and this piece, came from remembering that movement doesn’t actually have to lead anywhere to be worth doing. It can just exist. It can meet us where we are. It can feel good in the moment and stop there.
Which is where bands come in.
Resistance bands. Loop bands. Long bands. Pilates bands. Even trampolines, if I’m honest. Springs are just metal bands with ambition.
They all do the same thing. They meet you halfway.
And once I noticed that, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
So this is a poem. To resistance. To bands. To movement that doesn’t shout.
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