Why Getting Fit After 40 Is About More Than Looks

Nikkiey: Real quick, the only ask I could ever have of you guys is to help spread the word so we can help more women lose body fat, build muscle, reach their goals, and feel insanely confident. The only way we can do that is if you rate, review, and share this podcast. So the single thing I ask you to do is leave a review. It will take you 10 seconds, and it will mean the absolute world to me and may change the world of someone else.

When you have women around you with a can-do attitude, guess what? You're going to have a can-do attitude.

You have to have your mindset on board in a supportive way in order to take the actions you want and then follow through on the results you want to achieve. It has to be supportive. It cannot be non-supportive.

If you are somebody who constantly says you are too busy on the reg, like every single one of the 365 days of the year is just busy in general, look, I challenge you to do this one thing. I challenge you to look at your screen time on your phone. I challenge you to look at how much time you're spending scrolling on social media. Right then and there, I can tell you, I just found you time. I just found you your time.

It's not going to be, "Here are your macro numbers, and here's your workout schedule to follow." These are mental things you have to work through to create longevity, and to keep taking action when the slow months come.

Because these are all things you know you need to do. You know you need to eat better. You know you need to move your body. You know you need to work out X amount of times a week. You know those things. So it's just on you to take those actions. If you're starting out on your journey, you know you have to figure out how to eat better and get rid of the things in your environment at home that are not supporting you. You know you have to choose better options in order to reach a goal. You know that if you want to build more muscle and you're just starting your fitness journey, you need to go hit up the weight rack.

It's not just about appearance. While many people focus on fat loss for aesthetic reasons, it's also so freaking important for your overall health, you guys. Starting out, for sure, we all do this. We want fat loss and to feel better in our skin for the looks. There's nothing wrong with that, by the way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. However, it's not what it's all about. What you do now matters.

How I changed my life around at 25, from the habits I was stuck in to the new habits I've created, will forever change the trajectory of my health for the rest of my life. So sure, at the beginning, 100%, we all do it because we want to feel better, look better and feel more confident. But it's not just about that. It's not all about that, you guys. It is so important for your overall health to kick any bad habits, like not eating enough, or not having much muscle tone on your body when you hit a phase of life like menopause, where it's really important to strength train, because it literally paves the path of your future health trajectory.

You could be in menopause and never have worked out a day in your life, and that's going to pave the path of where you are at in 20 years. Are eating right and working out going to help me for the better of my future? The answers are yes. If it's not going to help me for the better of my future, it can't help me for the better of my future.

It's totally okay to have those doubts, especially if you are a strong individual. I'm a very strong individual. Did I have thoughts about whether I could actually do this along my journey? Absolutely. Did I have some doubts? Absolutely. But I kept strong in myself and was my own support system, because I wanted so badly to accomplish this and do something outside of myself. Those were the things I had to work towards, build and develop within, and achieve.

Things I'd never done before. So of course you're going to have those doubts. But you can't allow multiple people to come at you with their own opinions or concerns about things that are actually the right thing for you to be doing. You will get where you want to be. But your journey is going to be so much harder when it comes to taking action, going to the gym and eating the right foods. You will self-sabotage in so many ways if you are sitting in that low vibration and that low energy of "I can't."

So just switch your mindset, and these books are going to dramatically help you with that. They may not have any relation to fitness, but they can help you so much to frame your mindset in a way of "I can do this."

Real quick, the only ask I could ever have of you guys is to help spread the word so we can help more women lose body fat, build muscle, reach their goals, and feel insanely confident. The only way we can do that is if you rate, review, and share this podcast.

So the single thing I ask you to do is leave a review. It will take you 10 seconds, and it will mean the absolute world to me and may change the world of someone else.