Why moving your body in midlife is about strong not skinny

If you’d told teenage me that one day I’d be a personal trainer, I would’ve laughed. PE was a source of stress, embarrassment and discomfort. I didn’t feel sporty, coordinated, or confident. Like so many women, I spent years believing that movement just wasn’t “for me.”

In my twenties, I joined a gym because I thought I needed to lose weight to feel better — to fix what was wrong with me. I didn’t enjoy it. I dipped in and out. I forced myself to go, but never really felt connected to what I was doing.