# Forget the bikini body, exercise for your 'old lady body' – with Elizabeth Davies Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with-elizabeth-davies Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with-elizabeth-davies.md Podcast: [Age Better with Liz Earle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739) Published: 2026-05-15T01:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-liz-earle-wellbeing-show/episodes/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5e43fdd6e40bfc8e713b02ff/e/6a030ac5b4433645564d81b3/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739/episodes/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with-elizabeth-davies Duration seconds: 2543 ## Resource Exercise is vital for maintaining strength, independence and vitality well into our later years, but it's easy to lose your fitness mojo in midlife. Personal trainer Elizabeth Davies joins Liz to talk about the power of movement – and easy ways to get started. They discuss how fitness has been marketed as a way to lose weight or build a ‘summer body’, and why the focus should be on being strong, not skinny. Elizabeth also explains the importance of midlife fitness for heart and bone health, tips for navigating pelvic floor weakness and how to save time by cutting your workout in half.   In this episode: ·     The importance of training for our later years ·     How much cardio we really need ·     Protecting heart and bone health ·     How to exercise with pelvic floor weakness ·     Do we need to lift heavy weights? ·     Ways to cut your training session in half Links mentioned in the episode: ·      WHO guidance on physical activity   More from Elizabeth: ·      Follow Elizabeth on Instagram ·      Order Training For Your Old Lady Body   Get in touch with a question for Liz: ·      Email: podcast@lizearlewellbeing.com ·      WhatsApp: 07518 471 846 More from Liz: ·      Order Liz's new book – How to Age ·      A Better Second Half ·      Follow Liz on Instagram ·      Follow Liz Earle Wellbeing on Instagram   Host: Liz Earle Producer: Anouszka Tate (Fresh Air Production)  S… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739/episodes/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with-elizabeth-davies/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/age-better-with-liz-earle-1118739/forget-the-bikini-body-exercise-for-your-old-lady-body-with-elizabeth-davies.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.