Wits & Weights | Strength Training & Fat Loss Over 40

You've been told cardio is for a healthy heart and lifting weights is for building muscle. But what if strength training is itself a form of cardio ? What if you're ignoring one of the most effective tools for lowering blood pressure, improving cholesterol, and reducing your risk of heart disease? Philip breaks down the evidence showing that strength training lowers blood pressure on par...

Are hormones making you gain belly fat?  Is menopause really breaking your metabolism, or is something else going on? And does hormone replacement therapy help or hurt body recomp after 40? Body recomp, weight loss, hormone health, and women’s fitness all collide in this conversation with Dr. Maria Sophocles, a board-certified OBGYN and nationally recognized menopause expert with 30 years of clini...

Struggling with low T? The testosterone supplement industry wants you to believe your T levels require exotic herbs, pills, and "testosterone booster" powders. The TRT industry wants you to believe your hormones are the root cause. Many men over 40 with suboptimal testosterone don't have (primarily) a hormone problem. They have a lifestyle problem. Chronic under-sleeping, chronic di...

Do carbs make you fat? Are spikes in blood sugar and insulin a problem for health or weight loss? Maybe you've been cutting carbs or tried keto or carnivore, yet your strength training progress has stalled, your recovery feels sluggish, and you're still not seeing the body composition results you want.  The problem isn't your discipline. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of w...

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If what worked in your 30s isn't working anymore, it's not your fault. Your body and life have changed. The Fitness Lab app adapts to your sleep, recovery, and stress so you can actually build muscle and lose fat over 40. It also now syncs with Apple Health (iPhone version only). Podcast listeners get 20% off at bit.ly/fitness-lab-pod20 -- Does menopause cause muscle loss or make it hard...

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Get Fitness Lab (20% off for listeners), the #1 coaching app that adapts to YOUR recovery, YOUR schedule, and YOUR body. Build muscle, lose fat, and get stronger with daily personalized guidance. Now with Apple Health integration. -- Are biohacks keeping you stuck instead of helping you lose fat and build muscle? Why does body recomp feel so hard even when you are doing all the “right” things? Bod...

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Enjoying the show? Leave a rating (and review) in your podcast app to help more people discover evidence-based fitness information... and let me know if you want more bonus episodes like this one! -- This is my conversation with Zora Benhamou on her podcast Hack My Age . Zora is a gerontologist and menopause coach who works with women navigating perimenopause and postmenopause. We dig into why you...

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