Consistent Strength Training Is My Lifestyle Now

In this Video...
At 62, Coach Sheree rides, hikes, and stays active thanks to consistent strength training. She shares how this habit has become a foundation for her adventurous life, and how it’s possible for every woman over 50 to reclaim strength and mobility - starting small, building up, and never stopping.

Lifestyle |  Inspiration  |  Over 60

My Love of Adventure and Strength

So one of the things I love doing is riding my bike, and I do it a lot, but you know, one of the reasons I stay strength training to older age, I'm now 62, about to turn 63, is I want to stay having fun. I don't want life to be over because I can't move or I'm in pain. And for my 60th birthday, we went to North Queensland, we went diving for three days on the reef scuba diving, then we went and did some whitewater rafting, we did some tubing down some rapids, and it was so much fun.

Strength vs Activity

So this is the reason that I stay active and I stay strong. It's not just active, you can walk every day and still be in such pain because you've got areas of your body that are really weak and tight, and they cause you distress and cause you pain. And so it means you can't move as well, so we want to be able to move well, not just stay active, but move well into older age.

Real-Life Functional Strength

That's why I do what I do. So if you still like to get down the floor with grandkids, or you like to have an active life, or you still want to go traveling, then there's things you can do, and I've seen it happen time and time again, with people that start getting stronger, start getting their body in the way it was supposed to be, and suddenly they're doing things that they never thought they could do. They've gone traveling again, I remember one of my clients had to have a big back operation, and so we just started training her back and core, all of her body really, but she went back to the surgeon and he said you don't need that back operation anymore, your back is doing fine.

Client Success: Avoiding Surgery

And she was able to go overseas and do that long-awaited trip that she wanted to do, but never thought that she could. So never let the lack of strength stop you, because it is a lot that can be done, and so much fun to still be had in our 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, where we can get out there and enjoy life to the max. Enjoy life to the max, that's what we should be doing.

Building Strength Step by Step

So don't let anything stop you. Be able to start strength training, just go do small things, and then build on that, and build on that, and build on that again. I'll always say it that there's something for everyone, and we don't have to feel like we can't do it.

My Lifelong Strength Vision

My plan is to keep going right into my very late 90s if I can. I want to still enjoy bike riding, I want to be able to go scuba diving, or rock climbing, or abseiling. I want to be able to go and do whatever I want to.

Refiring, Not Retiring

I love kayaking in summer as well, so there's so many things I'm doing, but I love travel as well, and we've got a So as my husband always says, we're re-firing, not retiring. So if your body's holding you back, make a start, start to get it stronger, and you will be amazed at what that body can do for you into old, old age.