Synopsis
'Simply the best book I've read on women's fitness and health' PROFESSOR ALICE ROBERTS
'A roadmap for being strong, capable, and free in our bodies at every age' JAMEELA JAMIL
'Witty, data-driven and realistic . . . the only way exercise should be written about!' JENNIFER COX
What comes to mind when you picture your older self?
For too long, social media and the fitness industry have prioritised aesthetics over our health. Every year, we are bombarded with the message to 'train for our bikini body', warping our relationship with exercise and flooding us with misinformation. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether.
When Elizabeth Davies wet herself during an exercise class, she realised she knew next to nothing about her body. Ditching her law career to become a personal trainer meant she discovered some real home truths along the way. Like learning that muscle mass decreases by approximately 3-8% per decade after the age of thirty, or that osteoporosis affects one in three women over the age of 50 worldwide.
Finding the best products to fight wrinkles might make you look younger, but they won't protect your muscles or your bone density. And what about mobility? Your pelvic floor? Your heart?
Introducing Training For Your Old Lady Body: learn how to move your body now in a way that sets you up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as you grow older.
This is not a six-week bikini body transformation. It's a way of training for life.
'A roadmap for being strong, capable, and free in our bodies at every age' JAMEELA JAMIL
'Witty, data-driven and realistic . . . the only way exercise should be written about!' JENNIFER COX
What comes to mind when you picture your older self?
For too long, social media and the fitness industry have prioritised aesthetics over our health. Every year, we are bombarded with the message to 'train for our bikini body', warping our relationship with exercise and flooding us with misinformation. It's easy to feel overwhelmed, or worse, give up on your fitness journey altogether.
When Elizabeth Davies wet herself during an exercise class, she realised she knew next to nothing about her body. Ditching her law career to become a personal trainer meant she discovered some real home truths along the way. Like learning that muscle mass decreases by approximately 3-8% per decade after the age of thirty, or that osteoporosis affects one in three women over the age of 50 worldwide.
Finding the best products to fight wrinkles might make you look younger, but they won't protect your muscles or your bone density. And what about mobility? Your pelvic floor? Your heart?
Introducing Training For Your Old Lady Body: learn how to move your body now in a way that sets you up to stay strong, active, independent and resilient as you grow older.
This is not a six-week bikini body transformation. It's a way of training for life.
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.
This is a fantastic book which reframes physical activity and aging in a way which is meaningful and relevant. A must read for every woman.
"I have loved Elizabeth's message for many years now and this is one of the few fitness books I'd happily recommend without caveats.
Training for Your Old Lady Body does something the fitness industry is still incredibly bad at: it stops treating bodies as aesthetic projects and starts treating them as things we actually have to live in. For decades.
Elizabeth cuts through diet culture in a refreshing way whilst combatting the belief that exercise only counts if it shrinks your body or makes you visibly sweaty. By reframing the way we view exercise and putting the emphasis on strength, bone density, heart health and quality of life... finally we are focussing on the stuff that really matters (but rarely gets airtime on social media).
For far too long women have been let down by mainstream fitness messaging, and so much harm is done when health is reduced to how our bodies are supposed to look.
If you're tired of fitness feeling judgemental and performative (or like another thing you're failing at), then this book is for you. It reminds us that moving our bodies isn't about fixing ourselves. It's about looking after the future you."
