1560: Woke Fitness Is Making You Fat & Unhealthy
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss how “woke” messaging with respect to fitness and obesity is not only disempowering, but is destroying health.
- The scary direction our culture is heading when it comes to diet and exercise. (1:53)
- The challenge with obesity. (9:20)
- Is the mainstream fitness industry to blame for this woke movement in the space? (11:46)
- Why Woke Fitness is Making You Fat & Unhealthy. (15:45)
- #1 – Your health is YOUR responsibility. (17:16)
- #2 – Obesity is NOT a disease. (24:12)
- #3 – Love is NOT a feeling, but an ACTION. (28:27)
- #4 – Obesity is NOT healthy. (39:04)
- #5 – You are NOT obese because of your genetics. (48:35)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
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- Visit Drink LMNT for an exclusive offer for Mind Pump listeners!
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- Mind Pump #1480: How To Find Peace & Meaning Amid Chaos With Bishop Robert Barron
- The Key to Fitness Success is Self-Love – Mind Pump Blog
- Mind Pump #1465: The Truth About Health At Every Size
- How Your Genetics Influence Your Muscle Building Potential – Mind Pump Blog
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- Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
People Mentioned
- G O R D A [she/they] (@fiercefatfemme) Instagram
- Bishop Robert Barron (@bishopbarron) Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | This is Mind Pump. |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, this episode is fire. |
| 0:21.0 | So in this episode, we talk about how walk culture is probably making you fat and unhealthy. |
| 0:29.0 | It's now permeated the fitness industry and there's some philosophies now surrounding obesity and fitness and health that's damaging. |
| 0:37.0 | It's actually quite damaging. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, all of us made our careers working with people like this. |
| 0:41.0 | We're very empathetic to this situation. |
| 0:43.0 | You're going to like this episode and believe me when you listen, you'll hear exactly what we mean, how we communicate these things, |
| 0:50.0 | and you'll hear our experience working with this situation quite a bit. |
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