Hi, I’m Marie.
I read primary literature on midlife physiology for a living, and I lift. LiftHerUp is where those two things meet — research turned into training women 35+ can actually run.
Most fitness advice for women in midlife is either recycled or invented
I started LiftHerUp because I kept hitting the same wall. I’d read a study on resistance training and bone density in postmenopausal women, then go looking for someone who’d turned it into a program — and find a listicle that got the mechanism backwards.
So I started doing the translation myself. Every article here starts in the literature: I read the papers, check whether the population actually resembles the women reading this, and write down what it means for Tuesday’s session. When the evidence is thin, I say so. When something is a mechanism-based guess, I label it as one.
The training I build follows from the writing, not the other way round. That’s the whole method.
Want to get in touch? Contact me.
PhD, computational chemistry
Where I learned to read a methods section properly.
ML engineer, femtech
Building models on women's health data, with a background in clinical AI.
Certified strength coach
The part that makes the translation applied rather than academic.
How I write
Primary sources only
Every claim traces to a paper I've read, linked so you can check it. No citing an article that cites an article.
Population matters
If a study ran on 22-year-old men, I'll tell you and explain what does and doesn't transfer to a woman of 47.
Uncertainty stays visible
Midlife physiology is under-researched. Where the evidence runs out, the article says so instead of guessing confidently.
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