Strong After 40

Welcome back. Getting stronger after 40, it is about more than just fitness. It is about confidence, consistency, and making yourself a priority. Wellness content creator and fitness enthusiast, Marquita Lucky, joining us this morning. And she recently celebrated one year of training with her fitness coach. She's sharing more on her journey, encouraging other women to get started as well. Marquita, glad to have you here with us. Thank you. Talk to us a little bit about what inspired you with your fitness journey. And congratulations as well as one year of consistency. So what has inspired me is taking my health as a priority. So I've always, you know, been into health and wellness. And I made a promise to myself that I will commit one year. I worked two days. I worked out two days a week consistently for one year. And that was a promise that I made to myself. And I said I was not going to give up. And I was doing this for myself. So this is self-care for myself. I love that. And what have you found in this past year of consistency when it comes to this and your fitness well-being, your mental well-being overall? How are you feeling? I feel great. Again, it motivates me every day the way, I mean, I get a lot of compliments. People are saying, look like you're a fitness trainer. Yeah, I thought you were. So it was just that commitment to myself and just how I feel overall for my mental. So it wasn't necessarily where I wanted to lose weight, but it was just a promise that I made to myself that I wanted to stick with. staying strong over 40 yeah and that goes a long way for people out there who are uh older than 40 you know sometimes they find themselves whether it's the day in and day out of the job family whatever it may be finding excuses to not get into the gym or whatever the fitness options may be for them so how do you find routine when it comes to your consistency so for me again i do two days a week i literally go to the gym right after work i keep my gym bag in the car so i don't have no excuses and I have a schedule so again I'm working out from 5 30 to 6 30 Wednesday and Friday those are the days that I work out and so I'm committed and I'm sticking to that and nothing gets in the way of that and again this is for me no one else but for me yeah so yeah I love that uh what about the motivation right because there's so many times when you get to the gym or before there you're like you know what maybe just today I'm gonna skip it and then that just kind of sometimes snowballs and accumulates, doesn't it? Yes. So having a personal trainer has actually helped me with this journey, guys. I mean, again, like I said, I have a schedule for 530, 630, Wednesday and Friday, I'm at the gym and he holds me accountable. So I've never said, look, I'm going to be late. I'm not going to make it. This was something that I made a commitment to myself. So for anybody that wants to start this journey, you have to make sure that you're going to be able to commit yourself to something. Start small. Start small and just take baby steps. And then it's okay to start, you know, at the beginning. And don't compare yourself to other people. And that's the thing. People compare themselves to other people. But remember, you're doing this for yourself. Yeah. What have you found when it comes to conversations with other people that you've spoken to, people that are over the age of 40, about your influence on them and how they've seen what you're doing and the inspiration that you are? Well, you know, the stories they say, like girl you are committed you are doing this thing like how do you do it and I keep explaining to them this is for me yeah since COVID and when the gyms had shut down this was stuff that I was doing at home you know I had my kettlebell I had my jump rope I had my sliders and again this was self-care for myself for the mental so it starts with the mental first and then the physical do you find that when you're doing some of your workouts looking back from a year ago you've seen that strength and that uh you know commitment that you've put in yourself and you see the numbers grow on the scale when it comes to what you know being able to lift heavier being able to run longer whatever it may be and that in itself is a pretty big achievement yes and actually i was talking with my trainer yesterday and we did a video where i've actually increased my weight i was doing i think 26 pounds i couldn't forget it i couldn't believe it but i had 15 right here so as you're going through the journey it's going to increase the progression and you look back and You're like, wow, I remember I couldn't even lift that. Or I remember I couldn't even do that exercise. So, again, you just have to take baby steps. Don't be hard on yourself. So that was one big thing is just taking it one day at a time. Absolutely. So what do you normally do? Is it more of a home routine type situation? So what I do, first I start off with a warm-up. I do my jump rope. I may start off when at the gym I'm doing 300 jumps with my warm-up, but I know for the sake of time we may do 100. And then I have my sliders and I have my kettlebell. So different exercises I may do with the kettlebell. so some of the you know 15 pounds here we might do some swing throughs you know with this and this is a 15 pounds so actually it's pretty light yeah what i'm used to that i may do the roundabout you know um so making it look easy i know uh lastly uh where can people follow you on social media for more inspiration and continue on with your fitness journey the health the health and beauty method on instagram tiktok you can find me most for living and then also subscribe to my youtube marquita lucky awesome marquita thank you for providing some inspiration for folks out there that are over the age of 40 uh getting stronger continuing to build that muscle because this is the only body we have right you gotta keep it healthy thank you so much for having me all right steve marissa i'll send it over to you thank you i guess you