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[pinkmarshmallow]

Good morning

Do any of you have recommendations of online exercises to do at home to help through the menopause which are low impact? 

Struggling with getting back to regular exercising besides walking the dogs.  Thanks

[CLKD]

Morning.  We do have an exercise thread: swimming, cycling, yoga etc as well as gardening.

What do U like doing?  Is your dog walk flat or over stiles and up hills?  Do U walk with someone else?  Stretching can be good, from toes upwards. 

[Joaniepat]

My recommendation for online exercises is Lift with Cee on YouTube. This is weight bearing exercises with dumbbells, is low impact and is designed for the over 40s. Cee (Cheryl Coulombe) can also be found on Instagram, but any fb pages with her name are fake. (The dumbbells I use are MUCH lighter than hers  .)
JP x

[CLKD]

Criky Joaniepat - that's a bit extreme 

It depends on how I feel as to how much exercise I do each week as well as taking the weather into consideration.  Even housework can count  .  Apparently.  And certainly I'm moving around on days that I clean the bathroom/change bed linen/up and from the line to hang out laundry.  It's the Winter months that I lapse  .  Dance like no one iw watching 

[Penguin]

My recommendation for online exercises is Lift with Cee on YouTube. This is weight bearing exercises with dumbbells, is low impact and is designed for the over 40s. Cee (Cheryl Coulombe) can also be found on Instagram, but any fb pages with her name are fake. (The dumbbells I use are MUCH lighter than hers  .)
JP x

Ooh that's interesting, I have been debating between joining a gym or trying at home with hand weights. What weights do you use, is there a range you buy? And where did you get them from?

[CLKD]

Two cans of soup or two of baked beans should suffice.  That way U won't be spending out until U get into the habit of actually doing the exercise ;-)

[Joaniepat]

Penguin, I bought mine from Amazon, and Argos also do them. I just have the cheap ones. Being puny, and long in the tooth as well, mine are only light: 1.5, 2 and 3 kilos. Actually, it's time I bought some 4 kilos ....

CLKD, sadly one wouldn't build much muscle using tins of beans, they are too light, and it needs to be a bit of a challenge (just a bit, mind  !).

JP x

[Penguin]

Penguin, I bought mine from Amazon, and Argos also do them. I just have the cheap ones. Being puny, and long in the tooth as well, mine are only light: 1.5, 2 and 3 kilos. Actually, it's time I bought some 4 kilos ....

CLKD, sadly one wouldn't build much muscle using tins of beans, they are too light, and it needs to be a bit of a challenge (just a bit, mind  !).

JP x

That's great thanks, I'll have a look at argos and amazon.

[TJ1313]

There's a guy on youtube that does walking videos to all kinds of music, type in 'Get fit with Rick', great fun and low impact walking kind of exercise x

[CLKD]

The tins of beans are full though  and if 1 shops in COSTCO, 1 will see HUGE tins of bins for the catering trade 

[CarolineM]

Great way to increase your cardio while still being low impact is to put tins of beans etc. in a backpack and take it with you while you're out walking. Make sure there's plenty of padding on your shoulders, and preferably the backpack would have a waist strap too to take most of the weight on your hips.

I used to do a version of this with a bottle of Prosecco and a big hill 

[CLKD]

Oh that was U CarolineM  .  I can get round that because DH carries our rucksack, he would probably opt for cider 

I have wondered recently whether I should learn to ride a horse correctly, something that I enjoyed as a child.  Or begin singing again - both exercises that I enjoyed until the 1980s when Life took over.

Skipping?  French skipping?  Hoola hoop? Hop-scotch? 

[Penguin]

Oh that was U CarolineM  .  I can get round that because DH carries our rucksack, he would probably opt for cider 

I have wondered recently whether I should learn to ride a horse correctly, something that I enjoyed as a child.  Or begin singing again - both exercises that I enjoyed until the 1980s when Life took over.

Skipping?  French skipping?  Hoola hoop? Hop-scotch?

I now need to Google French skipping, never heard of it!

You could sing and do something else at the same time. Singing is meant to be great for anxiety, I should take my own advice except I sing terrible. My poor husband stuck between me and my mum at carol services 

[CLKD]

I think that French skipping is two people standing apart, facing each other with elastic for another person to jump on and over .

[Emma]

10 videos on our site
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/fitness-katie-morris.php

also a bunch of articles from our magazine
https://www.menopausematters.co.uk/magazine/articles-fitness.php