Join me today to check out 3 leg strength assessment tests! These fun tests call on the strength of our legs and posterior chain, plus our balance, flexibility and explosive power. Since we as women carry over half of our skeletal muscle in our lower body, keeping our muscle tissue and bones strong as we age helps us maintain our balance and functional movement over time. These tests are a great tool to help you check in to see where you’re at and if anything needs a little more attention.

We're covering….

⭐️ Taking care of little you and future you

⭐️ The sit to stand/sit to rise test

⭐️ Three moves that strengthen the muscles needed to come up and down from the floor

⭐️ The importance of staying limber and stretching regularly

⭐️ The wall sit test

⭐️ Standing broad jump test

⭐️ The importance of explosive power

⭐️ Training with good form and alignment

⭐️ The cortisol-cardio connection in menopause

Watch the video of this episode to see demonstrations for grip strength tests:https://thebettyrocker.com/3-ways-to-assess-your-leg-strength/

Links to follow up from this episode:

• Grip Strength tests podcast

• Betty Rocker training and eating programs

• The Ripped Rockstar Challenge

• Low Impact Challenge

• Free Foundations of Functional Fitness Workshop

Whether you're opening a jar or lifting your dumbbells, your grip strength is integral to your ability to do just about everything with your hands. Weakened grip strength is linked to risks for things like falls, fractures, prolonged recovery from illness, cognitive decline and more. Today I'm giving you 5 ways you can test your grip strength so you have a good benchmark of where you're at, and you can use that as motivation to stay strong!

Watch the video of this episode to see demonstrations for grip strength tests: https://thebettyrocker.com/5-ways-to-test-your-grip-strength-and-why-it-matters-to-your-health/

We're covering….

⭐️ What grip strength signifies for your overall health

⭐️ Correlations with mortality risk related to poor grip strength

⭐️ Correlations with cognitive decline related to poor grip strength

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dynamometer

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a household scale

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dead hang

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a dumbbell head grab

⭐️ Testing your grip strength with a farmer's carry

⭐️ Your grip strength and your overall strength

Links to follow up from this episode:

• Prognostic value of grip strength: findings from the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study

• My shocking accident and how my health habits saved me

• Protein Guide for women (part 1)

• Eating and Training Guides for Perimenopause and Post-menopause

• How much exercise is too much?

• Rock and Restore essential amino acids from Whole Betty by Betty Rocker

• Dynamometer (hand grip strength measurement tool)

• Watch this podcast as a video and see the demonstrations for hand grip tests

EMDR stands for "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing." It is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method that helps people recover from trauma and PTSD symptoms, and directly treats the way memory is stored in the brain. It is shown to be a helpful treatment for disorders such as anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, addictions, and other distressing life experiences.

Join me in learning more about EMDR and the wide range of people who can benefit from it with the founder of the Precision EMDR Academy Susie Morgan, LMFT, BCETS (who I worked with personally) to learn more about the benefits of this work, the vital importance of our memory storage network, attachment theory and how our sense of security forms the foundation for our sense of self.

We're covering….

⭐️ Where EMDR comes from and how it works

⭐️ How traumatic memories are stored in the brain, and how they impact us

⭐️ The way our early attachments affect our nervous system

⭐️ Finding the right therapeutic fit: what to look for

⭐️ How memory clusters can be key in unwinding difficult patterns

⭐️ Reflections on my own experience in EMDR

⭐️ The value of prep work done with your therapist at the start of EMDR

⭐️ How addiction is tied to traumatic memory and the complex layers that may be present

⭐️ Who would benefit from EMDR

⭐️ The EMDR Readiness Course (free resource)

⭐️ Precision EMDR Academy professional program

Leave me a comment, read the transcript, and get more resources on the shownotes page: https://thebettyrocker.com/emdr-therapy-and-mental-health-support-with-susie-morgan-lmft-bcets/

Links to follow up from this episode:

• EMDR Readiness Course (and free resource for EMDR patients or those preparing for EMDR)

• Precision EMDR Academy professional program

• American Psychology Association guide to EMDR

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• EMDRIA International Association website

• EMDRIA Directory to find an EMDR therapist near you