{"id":9630,"date":"2025-09-09T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9630\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:59:11","slug":"why-i-feel-more-confident-in-my-body-at-53-than-i-did-at-20-workout-queen-of-middle-england-caroline-idiens-shares-the-fitness-routine-that-transformed-her-and-why-it-can-help-all-midlife-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9630\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I feel more confident in my body at 53 than I did at 20: ‘Workout queen of middle England’ Caroline Idiens shares the fitness routine that ‘transformed her’ – and why it can help all midlife women"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fitness influencer who found fame during the Covid-19<\/a> pandemic has revealed\u00a0how she’s feeling more confident in her body at 53 than ever before.<\/p>\n

Personal trainer\u00a0Caroline Idiens from Berkshire, England, who soared to online renown with her energising lockdown<\/a> workouts, has said ‘midlife’ has not slowed her down in the slightest as she credited strength training for her unstoppable confidence – and urged young women to start early.<\/p>\n

She became an inspiration for women in their 40s and 50s, with more than two million Instagram followers thanks to the success of her\u00a030-minute routines – which can easily be done at home.<\/p>\n

And now the social media sensation has opened up about\u00a0how lifting weights transformed more than just her body in a new interview with Women’s Health UK.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘I’m definitely more confident in my shape now than ever before,’ she shared. ‘And I noticed that when I was on holiday – because on a holiday, you’re always quite critical about how you look, aren’t you?<\/p>\n

‘And I think, actually, I just feel, at this age, probably the best I’ve felt.’<\/p>\n

Caroline said she still remembers the exact moment everything clicked for her – in the class that sparked a lifelong passion with fitness in her late twenties.<\/p>\n

‘It was Les Mills Body Pump, which was 45 minutes of lifting weights, led by an instructor and I absolutely loved it,’ she recalled.<\/p>\n

\"Fitness <\/p>\n

Fitness influencer Caroline Idiens, from Berkshire, England, has revealed how she’s feeling more confident in her body at 53 than ever before in a new interview with Women’s Health UK<\/p>\n

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Caroline still remembers the exact moment everything clicked, the class that sparked a lifelong passion with fitness in her late twenties<\/p>\n

‘It was the first time I’d lifted weights and the thing I loved wasn’t just how it changed my physique, but the feeling that I got from being stronger \u2013 the sheer confidence it gives you in what your body is capable of. It’s your posture, the way that you walk, the way you carry yourself.’<\/p>\n

And when it comes to her own programme and audiences, Caroline said she knows exactly where their concerns lie. Her community, made up largely of midlife women, aren’t chasing six-packs.<\/p>\n

Instead, she explained, they are hoping to ‘preserve muscle, look after joints’ and take in ‘the balance of cardio versus strength training’.<\/p>\n

The people who do Caroline’s workout are ‘thinking about bones and osteoporosis [a condition characterised by the thinning and weakening of bone, often caused by the loss of oestrogen during\u00a0menopause<\/a>]’.<\/p>\n

‘A lot of them are hugely frustrated by weight gain in menopause,’ she continued. ‘So, we’ll talk about the fact that they’re not alone, that the decline in oestrogen means the body holds on to fat around the middle and the value of strength training at this time.’<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Caroline admitted she is excited to see younger women ‘future proofing their bodies’ with strength training.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I think what’s exciting is that this conversation about preserving healthy skeletal muscle and building up your muscle as a kind of armour as you age is now being had by younger women who are thinking, “Why wait?”,’ she said.<\/p>\n

‘I’ll go and watch my daughter play hockey at school and they’ll be doing strength and conditioning sessions before their matches \u2013 squats, planks, press-ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"The <\/p>\n

The personal trainer, who found viral fame for her energising online workouts during the Covid-19 lockdown , is proving once and for all that midlife is anything but a slowdown as she credits strength training for her unstoppable confidence<\/p>\n

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Dressed in form-fitting activewear that shows off her enviable physique, Caroline beams with pride as she opens up about how lifting weights transformed more than just her body in a new interview with Women’s Health UK<\/p>\n

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When it comes to what her audience wants, Caroline admitted she knows exactly where their concerns lie. Her community, made up largely of midlife women, aren’t chasing six-packs<\/p>\n

\"When <\/p>\n

When the pandemic hit and gyms shut their doors, Caroline revealed she didn\u2019t just pivot, she was forced into the unknown as she had to take her fitness sessions online<\/p>\n

‘They’re 17 or 18 and they’re all lifting weights \u2013 I just love that because we weren’t thinking about this stuff at all back then.’<\/p>\n

When the pandemic hit and gyms shut their doors, Caroline didn\u2019t just pivot, she was forced into the unknown as she had to take\u00a0her fitness sessions online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She explained: ‘I had one session with Instagram where it was like: what’s a hashtag? But then I was completely self-taught.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I’d worked in advertising, of course, but we didn’t do social media marketing back in 1995, so I had to learn very quickly what works and what doesn’t.’<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the secret behind the roaring success of\u00a0Caroline\u2019s Circuits? According to the fitness guru, it\u2019s not just the workouts, it\u2019s the\u00a0connection with her audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her classes aren\u2019t filmed in glossy studios with staged lighting and intimidating gym gear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, they take place in her own family living room, with her dog often snoozing in the background.<\/p>\n

She explained: ‘The fact that it’s at home. People say it feels like [having] a PT in their sitting room. They may be someone who’s too intimidated to go to a gym, so they really want to do this online, at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘And not only am I doing the classes with them, I’m there as support. So it’s about creating that connection \u2013 and I’ve been doing that for 20 years\u2026<\/p>\n

‘It comes back to the fact that I’m 53. I really am of this demographic\u2026I’m not 20 years old and doing these workouts in a studio. I’m in my family living room, doing it with them \u2013 and I’m telling them when it’s hard.’<\/p>\n

The full interview is available in the October issue of\u00a0Women\u2019s Health UK on sale now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fitness influencer who found fame during the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed\u00a0how she’s feeling more confident in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[539,540,10101,499,103,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-9630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-femail","10":"tag-femailfitness","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}