Episode Details

You're in the gym four or five days a week. You work hard. You leave exhausted. And you still do not look like you lift. This episode is about the difference between training a lot and training effectively, and the leaks that sit between the two. For women over 40 who want to build muscle.
A session can feel brutal. Breathless, burning, completely spent. None of that tells you whether your muscles were given a reason to grow.
This episode is for the woman over 40 who trains four or five days a week and still does not look like she lifts.
What I cover:

• Why a hard session tells you how tired you got, not where the muscle was forced to adapt
• What actually makes a set effective, and the three places your training leaks
• Why most women are leaving four or five reps on the table and are certain they were at their limit
• How your range of motion shortens as you tire, and why you will not notice it happening
• Why adding weight every week is not proof you are progressively overloading
• What really gives out first when you chase high reps
• How to safely practise failure so you learn what it actually feels like in your own body
• Why adding more sets gives you more to recover from without giving you more muscle
• Recovery for the 40 plus woman, and why accumulative fatigue hits harder in your 40s and 50s
• The strength markers I use as a minimum standard for body change
• What I record with every woman in my mentorship, and why guessing costs you months
• Why you should not need to deload regularly if you are training properly

This is not about working harder. You are already doing that.