While it’s true that you can build muscle strength at any age, starting strength training in your 50s, 60s, and beyond comes with unique challenges that make the journey more difficult than it would have been in your younger years.

In this episode, I address the real barriers that older adults face when beginning their strength training journey.

What You’ll Learn:

Limiting Beliefs That Hold You Back

Discover how the stories we tell ourselves create invisible barriers to getting started. I share a powerful analogy about a spider trapped by a drawn circle, and explore how one course member’s breakthrough with a simple sit-to-stand test completely changed her perspective on what she thought was possible.

Overcoming Negative Past Experiences

Learn why previous injuries, unsympathetic trainers, or exercise setbacks don’t have to define your future fitness journey. I explain how to move past these experiences and find approaches that work for your current situation.

Working Around Physical Restrictions

From frozen shoulders to knee pain, I discuss how to modify exercises and find equipment solutions that work around your physical limitations rather than letting them stop you entirely.

The Menopause Factor

Get insights into how menopause-related symptoms like fatigue, tendon pain, pelvic organ prolapse, and hot flashes can make exercise feel overwhelming – and discover the surprising research showing how strength training can actually improve many of these symptoms.

The Power of Small Steps Learn why trying to exercise like you did in your 20s and 30s will likely backfire, and how making smaller, more gradual progressions can lead to positive experiences and long-term success.

I emphasise that while starting strength training later in life is more challenging, it’s absolutely possible with the right approach, modifications, and realistic expectations.

This episode will help you understand that your age-related challenges are valid, but they don’t have to be roadblocks.