In this inspiring episode of Don’t Wait for Your Wake-Up Call!, Melissa chats with fitness expert Alicia Jones about helping women over 50 reclaim their strength, vitality, and confidence 💪🏼✨.
Alicia shares how her mother’s late-in-life fitness transformation inspired her mission to support women in midlife through strategic strength training, nutrient-dense eating, and sustainable habits that work with your body—not against it! 👟🥦💕
Key Takeaways:
🌟 Strength training is essential for women over 50 to maintain independence and muscle mass
💥 Ditch the "no pain, no gain" mindset—quality and consistency matter most
🥗 Focus on nutrient density, not calorie counting, for long-term results
🙅♀️ Avoid comparison—what works for your body is what matters
🎁 Don’t miss Alicia’s FREE masterclass with her 3-phase food & fitness formula!
Tune in to discover how to feel strong, energized, and empowered at any age! 🎧
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Episode Summary:
Alicia's background and motivation @ 00:00
Alicia shares how her experience with her 72-year-old mother participating in a fitness challenge inspired her to focus on helping women over 50 improve their health and fitness. She was motivated to shatter the limiting beliefs that many older adults have about their capabilities.
The importance of strength training for women over 50 @ 07:48
Alicia explains how hormonal changes like decreased estrogen production can lead to loss of lean muscle mass as women age. She emphasizes the importance of strategic strength training to maintain strength, independence, and quality of life in the later years.
Avoiding common fitness mistakes @ 20:59
Alicia cautions against the "no pain, no gain" mentality and over-exercising, which can be counterproductive and lead to burnout. She recommends focusing on quality, not quantity, of exercise and finding a sustainable routine that fits one's lifestyle.
Tailoring nutrition and fitness to individual needs @ 26:41
Alicia advises women over 50 to avoid comparing themselves to others and instead focus on finding an approach that works for their unique body, hormones, and lifestyle. She highlights the importance of nutrient-dense eating over calorie restriction.
Alicia's free masterclass @ 31:07
Alicia shares details about her free masterclass that teaches the "3-phase food and fitness formula" for women over 50 to melt away the midlife midsection, increase strength, and achieve optimal health.
Recap and call to action @ 32:19
Melissa encourages listeners to take advantage of Alicia's expertise and resources, including the free masterclass, to start improving their health and fitness. Alicia emphasizes that it's never too late to make positive changes.
About the Guest:
Since 2006 Alicia Jones, has helped transform the health and the lives of women over 50 through her fitness and weight loss strategies. Alicia is an expert featured in major outlets including Shape Magazine, VeryWellFit, and Aaptiv. She has a B.A in Kinesiology and adds many certifications to her list of qualifications, including National Coach of Canada (NCCP), Advanced Sports Nutrition, Certified Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Training Specialist: Canfit-pro and many others. If you want to learn more about her unique food and fitness formula, Join her free masterclass Link is in the description
Contact:
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AliciaJonesHealthyLiving
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AliciaJonesHealthyLiving
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajhealthy/
Linkden: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciajoneshealthy/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/ajhealthyliving
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherapy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you want to be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time. The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her own children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link
Melissa is also the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/yourguidedhealthjourney
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