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Why Should You Care About Building Muscle? The StrongHer Origin Story
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Welcome to the very first episode of the StrongHer Collective Podcast! In this episode, I’m sharing the story behind why I created StrongHer Collective. As someone who learned to lift weights in my 30s and now helps other women do the same, I started noticing a pattern—so many of us were taught to exercise in order to be smaller, not stronger.
When some of my clients worried that lifting heavy would make them "bulk up," I realized just how deeply those messages run. This lit a fire in me to start educating and empowering women about the incredible power of muscle and what strength training can really do for us as women—not just physically, but mentally and emotionally too.
In this episode I take an evidence-based approach when talking about the benefits of muscle, and you expect nerdy research summaries to support the points that I make.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Welcome to the StrongHer Collective Podcast.
01:05 – Mission
01:39 – Inspiration for StrongHer Collective
05:45 – What motivates us to exercise?
10:27 – Muscle give us functional independence now and as we age.
11:34 – Muscle is a predictor of health. See Sarcopenia Is Associated with Mortality in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
14:00 – Strength is associated with cognition. See Association of Low Muscle Mass With Cognitive Function During a 3-Year Follow-up Among Adults Aged 65 to 86 Years in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.
16:20 – The act of building muscle can promote self confidence. See A grounded theory of weight lifting as a healing strategy for trauma.
19:22 – Resistance training helps prevent sarcopenia (muscle loss) and osteoporosis (bone loss), conditions that women are disproportionately affected by.
Connect with me on Instagram! I'm @strongher.collective.
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