"Strength training is important as you age, and I wasn't doing anything except a little bit of Pilates."
“I want to get stronger for the Mosman soccer boys. Every year I get older, they always seem to get younger!”
"I was really enjoying strength training but wasn't getting enough focus on that in the workouts I was doing previously."
"I managed to break my hip on my motorbike and I wanted to improve my strength, recover from that injury, and improve my bone density."
"I was reading a lot about health issues around getting a little bit older and into menopause, strength and how important it is as you age."
"I'd been running a lot and starting to pick up more injuries. I figured if I wanted to do well later in life, I need to focus on my strength, my flexibility, my mobility."
"I was worried about bone density. I'd had plantar fasciitis and just found I was losing my strength and mobility."
"I'd tried a few things before which hadn't worked, and I was in menopause. I wanted to get stronger for longevity."
"We have to keep our muscles strong because they slowly disappear."
"Everything I'd been reading was about women hitting perimenopause, and the importance of strength training for my future years."
"At a certain point in your life and a certain age you've got to take better care of yourself, and I wasn't doing a lot of that."
“The expression that your 60s are the new 50s did not seem to apply to me. I felt like I was in my 70s...”
“After a doctor’s appointment where I went to see the results of my annual blood test, I came to the realisation that my results were getting worse little by little each year.”
“Although I was fit with walking and being active aerobically, I lacked strength that only lifting weights can provide under proper instruction.”
“For as long as I can remember, Pilates and yoga kept me feeling fit. That was until I tore my hamstring a couple of years ago.”
“I’d never done weight training before and wanted to reach a certain level of fitness before my 40s.”