WEBVTT - Summer series: Liz Ellis is a dose of happiness & motivation

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Healthy is your podcast from Body and Soul.

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<v Speaker 1>I am your host of Felicity Harley. To celebrate summer,

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<v Speaker 1>we're dropping our top healthiest episodes of the year, the

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<v Speaker 1>ones you love now Wow you listeners adore Lizellas. This

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<v Speaker 1>episode went so well we did drop it back in

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<v Speaker 1>January where she was hosting Gladiators and the former netball legend.

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<v Speaker 1>She's actually the most capped Australian netball player in history.

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<v Speaker 1>Liz discusses how she unwittingly empowers many women by being

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<v Speaker 1>open and honest, and also she adds a few tips

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<v Speaker 1>on how she stays fit in her fifties. Make sure

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<v Speaker 1>you listening to our big sister podcast Extra Healthy Ish,

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<v Speaker 1>where she shares more about how she's embracing midlife like

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<v Speaker 1>a queen. Thank you for joining us on Healthy Ish.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for having me now welcomeratulations. Firstly on your new

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<v Speaker 1>TV show. Now, I almost think you're a bit of

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<v Speaker 1>a gladiator yourself. I mean, you've entertained audiences in various

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<v Speaker 1>forms over the years, but thanks to I'm a Celeb,

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<v Speaker 1>you've become this voice for women in their forties and fifties.

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<v Speaker 1>How does this sit with you.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess it's still a bit of a surprise.

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<v Speaker 3>I think the whole I'm a celebrity thing, I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>really give any thought to what it would be like afterwards,

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<v Speaker 3>and I literally just went into the jungle trying to

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<v Speaker 3>not embarrass my kids or my husband. I certainly didn't

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<v Speaker 3>go in there thinking I'm going to set myself up

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<v Speaker 3>as a spokeswoman for.

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<v Speaker 2>Women in their forties and fifties.

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<v Speaker 3>But I guess because I went in there just trying

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<v Speaker 3>to be honest, and I don't have much of a

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<v Speaker 3>filter anyway, but I just tried to be honest about

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<v Speaker 3>the things that, you know, that happened to us or

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<v Speaker 3>my life that I think it probably resonated with a

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<v Speaker 3>lot of women. So to come out and find that

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<v Speaker 3>lots of women really enjoyed hearing or enjoyed seeing someone

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<v Speaker 3>that was a bit like themselves, you know, that had

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<v Speaker 3>fertility issues or you know, trying to deal with the

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<v Speaker 3>kids as they head grow up and head towards puberty

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<v Speaker 3>and all that sort of thing that I'm.

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<v Speaker 2>Glad it resonated.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I didn't sort of set out for that,

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<v Speaker 3>But I guess if you find yourself on something like

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a celebrity and you're honest. People are either going

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<v Speaker 3>it's either going to resonate with people or they just

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<v Speaker 3>won't like you. So I'm glad it was the former

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<v Speaker 3>and not the latter.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I feel like we don't have enough

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<v Speaker 1>women out there in their forties and fifties telling it

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<v Speaker 1>how it is and you know, and being a real

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<v Speaker 1>and vulnerable about what they've been through. Have you always

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<v Speaker 1>been like this? Have you always been no filter putting

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<v Speaker 1>it all out there?

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<v Speaker 2>Always? Yeah, it does.

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<v Speaker 3>My husband's heading it's the opposite, so he's like, why

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<v Speaker 3>did you say that?

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<v Speaker 2>Like it's the truth, babe.

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<v Speaker 3>So you know, yeah, And I think also like we

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<v Speaker 3>don't hear lots of voices of women who are our

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<v Speaker 3>age out there. But also the platforms just st aren't there.

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<v Speaker 3>So when you get the opportunity on a platform like

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a Celebrity to say it how it is, at

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<v Speaker 3>the older I get, the less I care about what

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<v Speaker 3>comes out of my mouth in terms of when it's

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<v Speaker 3>about me, in terms of being honest. So, you know,

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<v Speaker 3>the other interesting thing about doing I'm a celeb was

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<v Speaker 3>that I chose share the dignity as my charity, and

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<v Speaker 3>it was really interesting getting feedback from Rachelle Courtney, who

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<v Speaker 3>founded WHO, said that when she first started Share the Dignity,

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<v Speaker 3>she couldn't get on to mainstream TV, especially breakfast or

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<v Speaker 3>evening primetime, because people didn't want to hear about periods. Right,

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<v Speaker 3>you couldn't talk about periods on time television or god

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<v Speaker 3>for me, breakfast television. And yet so she was happy

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<v Speaker 3>that we were able to talk about periods and period

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<v Speaker 3>poverty and menstruation and pregnancy loss and all the sort

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<v Speaker 3>of stuff that we often don't hear about because it

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<v Speaker 3>used to be deemed a bit icky for prime time.

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<v Speaker 3>Whereas you know, this sort of stuff affects half half

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<v Speaker 3>the adult population, so we should actually be talking about it. So,

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I think having getting the opportunity to go on,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm a celebrity. When I reflect on it now, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>really grateful that I've got that platform to talk about

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<v Speaker 3>the things that affect me, because I think they affect

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<v Speaker 3>a lot of people.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually, that's a good point. I mean, you know, I

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<v Speaker 1>suppose I've been in women's lifestyle publications for years, so

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<v Speaker 1>talking about periods and mens duration and miscarriages and IVF

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<v Speaker 1>is nothing new to me, but I do forget that

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<v Speaker 1>outside this, you know, Dome, I mean, in women's health

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<v Speaker 1>and well being, you know, I mean, people don't have

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<v Speaker 1>these conversations.

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<v Speaker 3>Now they don't, and I think it's something that we think.

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<v Speaker 3>I think traditionally has been oh, well, women should have

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<v Speaker 3>these conversations, But these are conversations through everybody, because you

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<v Speaker 3>need men to be and men get affected by infertility,

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<v Speaker 3>whether it's them that who are infertile, or it's their partner,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, it's and often we think it's women's issues,

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<v Speaker 3>but it's everybody's issues, you know. And the more we

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<v Speaker 3>think about the language that we use around these things,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, when you suffer pregnancy loss and it's

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<v Speaker 3>and you're part of a couple, it's deeply affecting for

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<v Speaker 3>both of you.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not just the women's issues.

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<v Speaker 3>So I do feel really grateful that we're able to

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<v Speaker 3>talk about it, and I'm grateful to Channel ten for

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<v Speaker 3>the way they handled it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. One of the things that came out of

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<v Speaker 2>that was.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, when Deb Lawrence and I were talking about

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<v Speaker 3>pregnancy loss, we didn't realize because we're in the jungle,

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<v Speaker 3>and we didn't know anything, but you know, Channel ten

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<v Speaker 3>put some up to Pink Elephants to the miscarriage Support Network,

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<v Speaker 3>and you know, Dev and I have both been in

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<v Speaker 3>contact with them since and done some things for them.

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<v Speaker 3>So I think it's not only having the platform, but

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<v Speaker 3>having that platform be sensitive to these sort of things.

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<v Speaker 3>That's so important. And I'm just super grateful that we're

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<v Speaker 3>able to talk about that stuff and it made it

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<v Speaker 3>to air.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly, and well, thank you for doing that. I

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<v Speaker 1>think you helped a lot of women, you know, feel

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<v Speaker 1>seen and heard now onto gladiators. I actually sat down

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<v Speaker 1>and watched this with the whole family, with my kids,

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<v Speaker 1>with my husband, and we couldn't get over it. Well, firstly,

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<v Speaker 1>how fit and incredibly strong everyone was. And actually my husband,

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<v Speaker 1>who you know, kept saying I would have been so

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<v Speaker 1>good at that back in the day.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my goodness. Yeah, Exa, you can't help yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, what do you think you you know,

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<v Speaker 1>how do you think you'd stuck up in a challenge?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh? Look, I was never particularly musty or anything like that,

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<v Speaker 3>but I had lots of mongrel, so I know I'm strong,

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<v Speaker 3>but I'm not like when you see them and they've

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<v Speaker 3>got six packs. No matter how hard I trained, I

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<v Speaker 3>never had a six pack. Might have had something to

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<v Speaker 3>do with the wine that I like. But you know,

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<v Speaker 3>like these gladiators and the contenders are so fit and

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<v Speaker 3>so strong, and the gladiats, particularly a superhuman. You look

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<v Speaker 3>at someone like Chaos and she's the strongest person I've

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<v Speaker 3>ever met, and that is saying something.

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<v Speaker 2>And Maximus and guys like that.

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<v Speaker 3>So I would have loved to have been a contender

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<v Speaker 3>because I think whilst I couldn't have matched them for

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<v Speaker 3>that muscular strength, I was pretty fast, but I just

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<v Speaker 3>had so much mongrel that it would have been so

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<v Speaker 3>much fun.

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<v Speaker 2>To take people like that on.

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<v Speaker 3>Having said that, now I'm much happy to be wearing

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<v Speaker 3>a nice suit and having hair and makeup done and

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<v Speaker 3>sitting on the sideline.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I can hear that.

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<v Speaker 1>I hear you on that one. How do you keep

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<v Speaker 1>fitting strong now in your fifties.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I guess I get a lot of incidental exercise.

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<v Speaker 3>So my husband's a farmer, which makes me a farmer

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<v Speaker 3>by proxy, So you know, jumping fences and climbing through

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<v Speaker 3>the cattle yards and jumping on the back of the

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<v Speaker 3>car and throwing out feed to the cattle is something

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<v Speaker 3>that the whole family does, so all that incidental exercise

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<v Speaker 3>is just so important.

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<v Speaker 2>But when I turned fifty, I really noticed.

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<v Speaker 3>That my muscle was sort of going and I didn't

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<v Speaker 3>have that much to start with, to be brutally honest.

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<v Speaker 2>So I just got a marketplace.

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<v Speaker 3>A couple of months ago, and I bought a little

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<v Speaker 3>home gym to put in the garage, and I bought

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<v Speaker 3>some dumbells, and I just make myself do twenty minutes

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<v Speaker 3>a day as I walk, you know, walk out to

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<v Speaker 3>the car to take the kids down to the bus

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<v Speaker 3>to go to school or whatever, just you know, a

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<v Speaker 3>little bit of weights. And I think that is something

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<v Speaker 3>that I just continue to incorporate. And the other thing

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<v Speaker 3>that I do wish I found out about when I

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<v Speaker 3>was playing is pilates. I do it at least once

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<v Speaker 3>a week, and I try to do it more and

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<v Speaker 3>I love it. It just it's just a missing link.

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<v Speaker 3>It just puts everything together. And the thing for me,

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<v Speaker 3>after being an athlete for so long, when you sort

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<v Speaker 3>of hit your fifties, things fall apart, and the parts

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<v Speaker 3>of your body where the cartilage has taken a battering

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<v Speaker 3>really do let you know, and my back had started

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<v Speaker 3>to give me some issues. So I did pilates and

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<v Speaker 3>I did it really all the way through both my pregnancies.

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<v Speaker 3>And you know, when I was pregnant with Austin, I

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<v Speaker 3>was forty three and I was still doing polarities up

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<v Speaker 3>to the week before I gave birth, and that really

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<v Speaker 3>helped me in my recovery. So that's something that I love.

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<v Speaker 3>That's a non negotiable. So that a little bit of weight.

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<v Speaker 3>So I played tennis occasionally, which is more hit and

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<v Speaker 3>giggle than fitness. And yeah, lots and lots of incidental exercise,

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<v Speaker 3>which I love.

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<v Speaker 1>Liz, thank you for coming on health Hitch.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for having me. Always good to chat to you.

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<v Speaker 1>He can catch it Gladiators right now on ten and

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<v Speaker 1>ten A play for anything else, Head to Body and

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