Building Muscle After 40 Is About Longevity, Not Looks | Senada Greca
episodePreviously titled “World-Renowned Personal Trainer: How To Lose Fat, Build Muscle and Improve Your Mental Health | Senada Greca” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 3, 2026
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My friend, welcome back to another episode of the School of Greatness. I am excited. We have Sonata Greta, who is Kim Kardashian's personal fitness and health trainer. And this is just not another episode about how to start off the new year with healthy habits. This is about how to really rewire your thinking around your body, your health, and your mental fitness all together. You're about to listen to a very raw and inspiring conversation with Sonata Greca. She immigrated to America as a teenager. She battled eating disorders to become one of the most influential figures in women's strength training. And she opens up about her remarkable journey of transformation, the struggles she faced as a teenager in her young twenties to where she is now with physical training, mental training, health and wellness, And as Kim Kardashian's personal trainer and the founder of the We Rise app, she's revolutionizing how women approach fitness by championing strength over aesthetics.
And this is a big challenge for a lot of men and women today. With social media and everyone filtering their photos and just posting six-pack abs or these perfect shapes of bodies, it's hard to not feel empowered. insecure. It's hard to not feel shameful about your own body when you see other people who just seem to have it all put together. And it feels like no matter how hard you try, you're never going to get the results you want in your physical aesthetics. I've been there. I've struggled with weight and my nutrition and health and wellness as a former professional athlete to then just consuming thousands and thousands of excess calories after retiring from playing sports and gaining a lot of weight to then trying to retrain but still eating a ton of calories to being addicted to sugar to all these different things that I've struggled with. It's challenging.
It's challenging for anyone of any type of background, especially if you're in social media at all and you see people posting stuff that just seems like, man, these people have either extreme genetics or they've just figured out the health and wellness hack. And I haven't, right? It's just this kind of, comparison shaming thing that might happen over and over. And if that's resonating with you, if that speaks to you in any way, then please let me know over on Instagram or anywhere on social media. Let me know if that speaks to you because it's a challenge. I get it. And there almost needs to be a way where you rewire your identity. You shift your identity. And it has taken me years to learn this process.
And it doesn't mean I'm perfect all the time, but it has taken me a long time to create a new identity with food, to create a new identity with training, and to do it from a place where I'm not obsessive over needing to look a certain way, but I've set standards for myself and boundaries for myself to set myself up for success. And I think you've got to figure out whatever's best for you. In today's episode, her powerful message about building muscle for longevity and mental health, rather than just appearance, is reshaping the conversation around fitness, specifically for women in general, who've always thought about not weight training because it's going to make them look bulky. They don't want to have big arms or big shoulders or things like that.
They don't want to look too masculine. There are so many different experts we've had on, menopause vet experts as well, who are saying, I wish I would have done more strength training when I was younger. I wish I would have built muscle when I was younger because it helps more than just physical appearance. It helps longevity and mental health. And that's what I think we need to be focused on. How can we have the best mental and emotional health possible? in 2025 and beyond. How can we weather any storm that comes our way? How can we weather relationship challenges, career challenges, family issues? How can we weather political challenges? How can we emotionally and mentally prepare ourselves for any challenge that's to come?
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