I'm the founder of This Woman Lifts, a personal trainer, mum of three and the author of Training For Your Old Lady Body.

I spent years exercising because I wanted to make my body smaller. Now I train because I want my life to be full and my body to be strong, capable and resilient.

That's the idea behind everything I do here.

I want women to stop treating exercise as something we do to burn calories, earn food or fix bits of ourselves we don't like - and start seeing strength as an investment in the bodies we're going to be living in for the rest of our lives.

That doesn't require living in the gym, a complicated programme, never missing a session, always feeling sore, or punishing yourself.

Here's to playing the long game

Elizabeth xx