Kathleen Engel - Turn On, Tune In, Get Fit: The Midlife Womans Easy Guide to Exercising and Eating for a Healthier Future

Prior to beginning any exercise program, you must consult with your physician. You must also consult your physician before increasing the intensity of your training. The information in this book is intended for healthy individuals. Any application of the recommended material in this book is at the sole risk of the reader, and at the readers discretion. Responsibility of any injuries or other adverse effects resulting from the application of any of the information provided within this book is expressly disclaimed.

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Copyright 2011 Kathleen Engel

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eISBN: 9781936910052

This is the book for the woman in midlife who wants to get healthier and who needs a boost.

Its for every woman in midlife who thinks she does not have the time, money or opportunity to live a healthful lifestyle and to be at her best.

You need to take that first step...to get moving.

In Turn On, Tune In, Get Fit, I help you do that. And I promise you, once you start this very simple exercise program, you will feel empowered. Because Ill ask you to notice the effort you are making and to appreciate yourself for it. No matter what you weigh or what size you wear.

Before you know it, youll start getting you back. Your energy, enthusiasm, and your vital, active, working mind. Because your body wasnt meant to be inactive.

If you dont have much exercise experience, its precisely for YOU.

Why me? Im female. Im 56. And I know how to exercise.

I understand you. Because Ive been where you are at one time or another. Unmotivated. Motivated, but clueless. Lacking direction. Feeling like I had no control.

You do, of course, have control, no matter how much it seems like you dont. I want to help you take control so you can help yourself.

I know it can be tough getting out of a ruteven if that rut is killing you.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is take one or two little actions to lift yourself out of that rut.

Thats the basis of this eBook. Take on one small thing at a time. Increase gradually.

You dont need complicated programs. You dont need difficult diets or expensive supplement plans. And you sure dont need trainers yelling at you or insulting you.

And, hey, youre not going anywhere. Youre going to be around another 3 or 4 decades, right? So youve got time to make steady progress. No rush!

Pick up a womans fitness magazine or go online. Do headlines about 6-pack abs, a tight tush, thin thighs or a bikini-ready body speak to you the way they once might have?

Sure, you still want to look good in your clothes. But now youve got more important things on your mind. Such as cutting your risks for cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke, osteoporosis and fracturing.

Thirty years ago, your family history of disease probably wasnt much on your mind. Now, your family history gives you pause. Maybe you realize youre approaching the age when your mother or grandmother got sick. Or maybe a friend or relative, similar in age, has gotten sick. You could be next, you realize.

Are you going to entrust your life and health to a personal trainer, magazine, book or web site that focuses on building a tight tush?

Your needs and challenges are different from what they were 10 or 20 years ago. Because your life is different.

Thanks to declining levels of hormones, it takes you longer to lose fat. Longer to build muscle.

Energy can be tough to come by. Maybe you tucker out sooner than you used to. And your spirits...they could be better. Twenty, thirty years ago, you remember having more drive, more endurance, more enthusiasm.

But you cant quit yet, can you?

The years that lie ahead of you will continue to present challenges. And unless you do something now, your risks for suffering the slings and arrows of old age are great.

So, I want to ask you...

How will you feel every morning that you wake up? Will you have a positive mind and good energyor will you hobble around, brooding about your better days and moaning about your misfortunes?

Will you walk stiffly or stooped, or upright, with vitality? Will you spend a lot of time at the doctors office or having procedures and surgeries? Will you spend your precious savings on prescription drugs?

Nobody likes to think of themselves as frail and sickly, but unless you do something about it now, that may become your reality.

Are you ready for the next 40 years?

Are you exercising regularly? No? Then you risk chronic disease: heart disease, hypertension and stroke, diabetes and some cancers, to name a few.

Are you eating a healthful diet? No? Okay, youre opening the doors wider: Chronic disease, here I am!

You may THINK you cant afford to eat well and exercise. The truth is that you cannot afford NOT to eat well and exercise.

So take a moment and consider the person you want to be. And let THAT image inspire you.

It really gripes me when I hear those ridiculous notions about women my age, including these two biggies:

Fact: The hormonal changes experienced by women in midlife make shedding weight and building shapely muscle difficult. Not impossible, but hard enough.

Its not surprising some women conclude midlife weight gain is inevitable. You might eat what seems to be a healthy diet and you may exercise regularly, but your body fights you!

Its quite possible that your old diet and exercise routine may need some tweaking. OR, that food sensitivities have kicked in to make losing weight painfully slow. OR, that things are happening INSIDE youlike a loss of important hormonesthat prevent you from making progress.

Fact: You CAN get slim and shapely!

You may decide your weight at age 25 is no longer appropriate, but you can get trim, fit, toned and STRONG! Im going to outline a strength training program in this eBook which:

1. Is simple
2. Takes no more than 20 minutes a workout
3. Will give you results

You can do it in 3 short weight-training sessions a week in your own home!

These will be combined with a little cardiobut that comes later.

Many think more is better. And many more think they have to take it easy on us. The truth is somewhere in the middle. You need to push, but with CARE.

As I have mentioned, at midlife, you are hormonally challenged.