Brooke Burke is adapting. 'This stage of my life as a woman, Mother Nature is just dishing out challenge after challenge for us,' the television personality told Fox News Digital in a conversation about fitness and wellness. Burke, 53 in September, has incorporated compound exercises and heavy weights into her workout regimen, the latter of which women often stray away from.
want to speak to this quickly because most women are afraid of heavy weights. And there's this myth attached to it that we're going to get bulky. Not true. Like, we would have to consume so much protein and go so heavy and be so diligent about that program to really change the body,' she said. 'What I found, I'm in my 50s, no one prepared us for menopause and said, ‘Learn how to weight train.’ The reason we need to weight train is for bone density.
Depriving your body of what it needs – food – is something the former 'Dancing with the Stars' host recommends you don't do. 'I feel like we are in a phase in our country of a quick fix. And that fad diet and shocking the system and so much discipline that we're not enjoying our life. I am eating more. I'm leaner, I'm stronger, and I'm more satisfied. And I have more energy. I'm eating nutrient-dense foods, I'm eating more protein.