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Erica Jones Woolley Coaching Be Strong, Active, and Unstoppable into your 90’s!

Helping adults over 50 build strength, stay active, and thrive every day 💪
Start living your best F@&%ing life now!

Listening to fitness advice:Start where you are.Responding to fitness advice:Excellent. I will begin immediately after I...
10/17/2026

Listening to fitness advice:
Start where you are.

Responding to fitness advice:
Excellent. I will begin immediately after I:
Get in better shape...
Lose ten pounds. . .
Wait until Monday . . .
Wait ‘til January . . .

Meanwhile, your body is over there like:
“Could we maybe just go for a walk?”

You don’t need to start where you think you SHOULD be.You don’t need to start where you were ten years ago.And you defin...
10/12/2026

You don’t need to start where you think you SHOULD be.
You don’t need to start where you were ten years ago.
And you definitely don’t need to start where the person next to you is.

Start where YOU are.

Then practice.

That’s how we get stronger.

Keep saying yes.

10/10/2026

We aren't training for some imaginary version of ourselves. We're training for the lives we actually want to keep living today.

So start where you are and keep saying YES!

Confidence is physical.We usually notice it after we start losing some of it.You notice that you feel a little less stea...
10/08/2026

Confidence is physical.

We usually notice it after we start losing some of it.
You notice that you feel a little less steady than you used to.

You reach for the railing when you didn’t before.
You think twice about uneven ground.
You stop getting on the floor.
You hesitate before stepping up.
You start choosing the easier option.

Eventually, you may start saying no.

Physical confidence doesn’t come from telling yourself to be more confident.

It comes from practice.
Standing.
Stepping.
Balancing.
Carrying.
Getting down and getting back up.

Give your body reasons to trust what it can do.

Keep saying yes.

A research study changed the questions because the questions weren’t meeting people where they were. And I LOVE that.A 2...
10/04/2026

A research study changed the questions because the questions weren’t meeting people where they were. And I LOVE that.

A 2010 study published in Public Health Nutrition was looking at physical activity in adults over
65.

When researchers first developed their questionnaire, they asked about vigorous activity before asking about things like walking and sitting.

There was a problem.

Many of the older adults rarely participated in vigorous exercise, and during pilot testing, they were uncomfortable starting there.

So the researchers changed the order.

They started with sitting and walking because those questions better reflected the participants' real lives.

And my response when I read that was basically:
YEEEEEEESSSSSSS. Start where people are.

Start where YOU are.

We spend way too much time thinking exercise needs to begin at some imaginary starting line — particularly the starting line from 10-15 years ago!

It doesn’t.

Maybe your starting point is walking, or standing up from a chair, or practicing one step up and down, or standing on one leg and timing yourself (I promise if you practice you’ll be able to do it longer and longer).

Or maybe it is five minutes of continuous movement like a walk or a dance!

Find YOUR starting point and build from there.

Keep saying yes.

Reference:
Hurtig-Wennlöf, A., Hagströmer, M., & Olsson, L. A. (2010). The International Physical Activity Questionnaire modified for the elderly: Aspects of validity and feasibility. Public Health Nutrition, 13(11), 1847–1854. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980010000157

I've been thinking about my three teachers since I turned 57 recently.The first was my high school 11th-grade phys ed te...
09/16/2026

I've been thinking about my three teachers since I turned 57 recently.

The first was my high school 11th-grade phys ed teacher, who handed me the keys to the supply closet and asked me to lead my classmates through calisthenics and stretching exercises.
He gave me a chance to teach, and I loved it.

The second was my college professor, who asked a room full of young athletes, “What is fitness?” He taught me that fitness was being able to get through your day-to-day living successfully and without fatigue.
It took me decades to really understand that lesson.

And the third was the owner of the gym where I built so much of my career.
He believed deeply in “Empowering, Transforming and Saving Lives.” He taught those of us who worked with him to believe that what we did mattered and that this work was about so much more than exercise.

Three teachers at three very different points in my life.

One gave me an opportunity to teach.
One changed the way I understood fitness.
And one taught me to believe in the importance of the work.

At 57, I can see how much of all three I have carried with me.
And I'm still teaching.

One of my college professors defined fitness as being able to get through your day-to-day living successfully.It took me...
09/14/2026

One of my college professors defined fitness as being able to get through your day-to-day living successfully.

It took me years to appreciate how much exercise should support exactly that.

I want to know what we are training FOR.

For most of the people I work with, the answer has very little to do with becoming amazing at squats.

The squat is simply helping them stay strong for everything outside the gym.

Start , DM me now to get the first step!

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