Hot and Healthy — Thriving Through Menopause One Pound at a Time — Day 18 (2/28/2024)

I have been attacking my workouts randomly and thought it would be a good idea to see if structuring my workouts would be a better way to go.

Right now, it seems I do full body stuff every workout: Legs, arms, butt, tummy, etc. so I need to find out if structure is better.

My first Google question was: how should I structure my weekly workout to gain muscle and lose weight

I got this:

Source: Google Ask. To drop body fat, it’s essential to mix in cardio like running on a treadmill, jumping rope or HIIT exercises with weight and resistance training. So do push-ups, lunges, squats and bench press with weights.

Well that didn’t tell me how often.

I changed my question to: how should I structure my weekly workout to gain muscle and lose weight for menopausal women over 50

What I found, the first article I read, made so much sense to me. I am posting it in its entirety, so you read all of it. Read all of it!!

Here is the link: https://www.feistymenopause.com/blog/menopausal-women-need-unique-muscle-making-guidelines

“Postmenopausal women may not actually make muscle with moderate strength training…