Walking This Way

Welcome to Challenge 7! This fortnight's challenge is all about reclaiming movement in midlife through ten focused minutes of mobility work every single day for seven days. It's not about burning calories or heroics - it's about waking up your body, loosening what's stiff, and building a practice that keeps you moving, independent, and confident.

This Week's Challenge: The Daily Mobility Discipline
Your mission: Ten minutes of deliberate movement every day for the next seven days.

What this means:
  • Ten focused minutes - no distractions, no scrolling, no multi-tasking
  • Just you, your body and intentional attention to how it moves
  • Target key areas that stiffen in midlife: hips, ankles, thoracic spine, shoulders
  • Move slowly, deliberately, and pay attention to what your body is telling you
Why Mobility Matters
In midlife, our bodies change. Hips tighten, backs stiffen, shoulders shorten, and we lose subtle ranges of movement without noticing. Once it's gone, it's much harder to get back. Mobility isn't fluffit's what keeps us lifting things, keeping up with our kids, and yes, even getting out of bed without groaning.

Reflect on Your Experience
Once you've completed the seven days, take a moment to reflect:
  • How did your body feel before you started?
  • How does it feel now after the movement?
  • What did you notice about tension, stiffness, or surprise flexibility?
Write it down or record a voice note to share how you got on.

Share your success: Here's how to get in touch...
  • Follow the show and get all the links you need on LinkTree - https://linktr.ee/walking_this_way
  • Email us: walkingthisway@hotmail.com
  • Use the get in touch form HERE - https://tr.ee/r-ePylKE8H
  • Send us a voice message HERE- https://www.speakpipe.com/WalkingThisWay

Produced by The Good Studio - thegoodstudio.co.uk

Creators and Guests

Host
Lise Thorne
Host of Walking This Way and champion of midlife women
Producer
Tim Beynon
Podcast producer and Founder of The Good Studio

What is Walking This Way?

Welcome to Walking This Way - the upfront, no-nonsense podcast about midlife for women who are done with pretending it’s all fine.

Join Lise Thorne for honest conversations, unfiltered stories and a good dose of humour as she explores what it really means to be a woman in midlife - from shifting priorities and changing bodies to rediscovering joy, purpose and self.

Real talk. Real women. Real midlife.

Because this isn’t about surviving midlife - it’s about walking it your way.

Walking This Way is produced by The Good Studio.