54: Defining Success Beyond Before and After Photos
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The health and wellness industry has perpetuated a narrow and scale-driven perspective of fitness for years. The way we’ve been taught to measure our happiness and success is by the size of our jeans or a number on a scale. This shouldn’t define our success and there is so much more to our health and wellness than a number.
In this episode, Robin shares her fitness journey and how it inspired her to create a new approach to fitness. She discusses what drives her to create a more accepting and gracious atmosphere to help women embrace their bodies as they are. Join Robin in this episode to hear more about The Balanced Life’s mission to help women feel healthier, happier, and more confident.
Show Highlights:
- How Robin began teaching and entered the health and wellness space
- Why Robin wanted to change the focus from physical to mental results
- Looking past physical appearance goals in the fitness space
- Why Robin wanted to create a new approach to how we view fitness
- How to live from a place of freedom
- The impact of before and after photos and why The Balanced Life doesn’t use them
- Setting a positive example for others around us and changing the wellness culture
Links:
The Balanced Life on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:12.4 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all and provide |
| 0:22.8 | inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create your own uniquely balanced life |
| 0:29.6 | and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. Hi friends, welcome back to the |
| 0:36.5 | balanced life podcast. I'm so excited about today's episode. I'm going to be |
| 0:41.5 | diving into something that I don't really talk about that publicly that often, but it is something |
| 0:47.3 | that guides me and is really kind of important to me behind the scenes. And so I hope it's |
| 0:53.2 | interesting and helpful for you as well. |
| 0:55.8 | We're going to be talking about before and after photos. You know these photos. You see them all |
| 1:00.8 | the time in the health and fitness space, whether it's someone promoting or sharing about a new |
| 1:06.0 | exercise routine or a diet company sharing client testimonials. And there's always the before and after |
| 1:13.0 | photos, right? There's the before I did the diet and then the after to show progress. Well, |
| 1:18.7 | we're going to talk about before and after photos today. And I actually have a pretty unique |
| 1:22.7 | perspective on this as someone who has a business in the fitness industry, who is a Pilates instructor, |
| 1:31.4 | who works with people who are really working to transform their bodies. And this is not |
| 1:36.8 | something that I've ever shared publicly. So I thought it might be interesting to give you a |
| 1:41.5 | little peek behind the scenes of how we really do things differently than most fitness and health companies and why that is. I think it's helpful |
| 1:49.8 | to go back to the very beginning of my teaching career and how I entered the health and |
| 1:56.1 | wellness space and how I started choosing a different path from the very beginning. So I had considered pursuing |
| 2:04.0 | a career in fitness in many different ways. I thought, oh, I could be a personal trainer. |
| 2:08.9 | Maybe I want to be a nutritionist. I considered getting certified to be a yoga teacher. |
| 2:14.1 | And while all of those things interest me because I've always had a passion for health and |
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