Exercise

[Aginplease]

I'm 50 this year and a few years into perimenopause.
I run a couple of times a week and started doing some light strength training, now I think I have started with frozen shoulder!
I'm after some sort of exercise that can help with weight gain, that doesn't involve weights. Thanks .

I run, swim and do yoga. Plus my job involves a lot of walking and flights of stairs (think 20 plus flights everyday carrying bits and bobs.) So far I have shifted nearly 10 stone in 7 months. I’m 53, but went through a surgical menopause in 2007.

@Alphabet1spaghetti2 that's good. I'm not a great lover of swimming, but don't mind walking.

my mindset for exercise is “do what you enjoy and makes you feel happy”. That way you actually do whatever the exercise is - walking, dancing, pickle ball etc. and it’s doesn’t become something to dread going out and doing, if anything, if it makes you feel good you end up doing more. But it needs to be in conjunction with some form of calorie control. No point in burning off 500 calories and then eating 1000 calorie snack/meal…

edit to add. I do walk between 11 thousand and 21 thousand steps daily at work in addition to my running/swim/yoga. Currently aiming for 100k running per month.

Are you having treatment for your shoulder? I've had shoulder issues for nearly a year, had 3 months of physio which seemed to make it worse, and after x-rays and an MRI to rule out anything else, I had a steroid injection, which worked IMMEDIATELY. I was able to do things I'd found too painful the day before.

@EmmaStone no, I haven't been diagnosed with it, I have self referred for physio, so just have to wait. Looking at symptoms I'm sure it's that though. I'm glad you are feeling better after the injection.

Can I ask if you take hrt ans what kind? Thank you from another early meno

I’m late forties and currently injured and my physio says there’s no replacement for weight training. I run and do yoga and Pilates.

so I’m back in the gym trying different exercises that don’t aggravate my current injuries.

I like weight training but technique seems really important.