Synopsis
Did you know that muscle mass decreases approximately 3-8% per decade after the age of 30 for both men and women, unless we act to mitigate it? Or that osteoporosis affects one in three women over the age of 50 worldwide, an estimated 200 million women in total? Or that coronary heart disease, the main cause of heart attacks, was the single biggest killer of women worldwide in 2019?
For too long, social media and the fitness industry has prioritised aesthetics over our health, leaving us with a difficult relationship with exercise and body image while surrounded by an influx of misinformation. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether...
Introducing Training For Your Old Lady Body: an honest, no bullsh*t guide to help women (re)frame exercise as a way of safeguarding our quality of life into older age; moving our bodies now in a way which sets us up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as we grow older. This is not a six-week bikini body transformation, this a way of training for life.
Elizabeth will make the case for why we need to rewrite the narrative around women's fitness and how we can change our behaviour and form new habits. With a focus on:
- Muscle and strength
- Bone mineral density
- Heart health
- The pelvic floor
- Mobility, flexibility and stability
This is a groundbreaking, urgent call-to-arms designed to get women moving with a focus on the bigger picture.
For too long, social media and the fitness industry has prioritised aesthetics over our health, leaving us with a difficult relationship with exercise and body image while surrounded by an influx of misinformation. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether...
Introducing Training For Your Old Lady Body: an honest, no bullsh*t guide to help women (re)frame exercise as a way of safeguarding our quality of life into older age; moving our bodies now in a way which sets us up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as we grow older. This is not a six-week bikini body transformation, this a way of training for life.
Elizabeth will make the case for why we need to rewrite the narrative around women's fitness and how we can change our behaviour and form new habits. With a focus on:
- Muscle and strength
- Bone mineral density
- Heart health
- The pelvic floor
- Mobility, flexibility and stability
This is a groundbreaking, urgent call-to-arms designed to get women moving with a focus on the bigger picture.
Details
19 March 2026
9781785127069Imprint: Leap
Reviews
A gleefully frank, funny and galvanising guide for women tired of the bullshit around body size and strength. A fitness book that talks to women like humans with bodies that are built for living, not shrinking.
Elizabeth Davies' science-backed, no-nonsense, easy-to-follow advice on social media reminds her followers that they can and should choose to love their bodies less for how they look and more for what they can do. With her new book, she shares her own raw story of why she embraced lifting, and pulls back the curtain on the messages we're bombarded with about what it means to age as a woman and how we can push back against that narrative by taking up space. It's a refreshing reminder that going to the gym shouldn't be a punishment: the privilege of getting to do this as we age is in itself the reward.
