Viva Magenta!
Hellooo my friends~
I hope you had a wonderful holiday season.
As an artist, gardener, and designer, and especially as a coach I was so excited to learn about the The Pantone color for 2023. What an opportunity for a metaphor!
“Viva Magenta …a shade that encourages all people to live life boldly in the moment.”
It’s a color imbued with a strong, optimistic, and vigorous personality, and I’m all for it!
We have to change to stay strong.
Living life “boldly in the moment”, as Viva Magenta conveys, means being open to change.
I sometimes hear new clients sometimes say they want to “maintain”. I have to explain that it’s impossible.
Even if you’re functioning and performing really well right now, there is no way to maintain it for the long term by continually doing the same program.
Our bodies are changing constantly with age.
As we age everyone, every athlete is naturally losing muscle fiber every nanosecond, so if we keep doing the same things, it will naturally lead to decline in muscle and performance.
But if we keep training for strength with progressive overload, especially through menopause, (which means lifting heavy for YOU), you will keep your remaining muscle strong, and possibly even preserve muscle and slow the process of sarcopenia.
We need to change to help muscles stay strong, and to improve overall muscle function and mitochondria. This 12 month study on progressive overload in post menopausal women found overall improvement in muscle, and indicates that a longer term overload training program can continue to improve muscular strength.
The color Viva Magenta “really vibrates with vim and vigor, that demonstrates a new signal of strength, which is something we all need for a more optimistic future.”
Here’s to vim and vigor, and an optimistic future!
Try these core stabilizers for a strong back and entire posterior chain, which will provide the structure you need to perform every day.
Scale for greater or less ROM, resistance (with bands), lengthening or shortening the lever in the side plank and bird dog – with full side plank or knee down, and modified reach.
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