hotter & smarter in 5:: what to focus on in your 20s so your 80 yo self will thank you!

I just turned 30, so it is time to wellness girl chat of what to focus on in your 20s (& 30s) to protect your body in your 80s! Did you know that so many variables of our health and fitness peak in our 20s and 30s? What can we do to make sure we optimize those variables? We chat about skeletal muscle, strength, endurance and cardiorespiratory fitness, bone mineral density, and reaction time/balance and what we can focus on to maximize all of these variables in our workouts!

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00:00- 00:43 intro

00:44-01:29 skeletal muscle mass in women

01:30- 02:37 bone mineral density in women

02:38-03:31 balance, reaction time, and neuromuscular control

03:32-04:30 cardiorespiratory fitness & endurance in women

04:31- 05:28 what we can do in our 20s to protect our 80 year old self!

05:29-05:56 outro

Resources::

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5830901/

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00798.2022

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3874224/#:~:text=Muscle%20Fiber%20Type%20Distribution%20With,fibers%20compared%20to%20type%20II.&text=Similarly%2C%20general%20muscle%20strength%20decreases,tension%2Dproducing%20type%20II%20fibers.

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002817

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