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The Dr. Shannon Show

#70: "Toning" and "tightening" workouts: what they are and aren't doing for your body

The Dr. Shannon Show

Dr. Shannon Ritchey, PT, DPT

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Fitness

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"Toning" and "tightening" are misleading terms to describe an exercise program. In this episode, we discuss why these terms are used in fitness marketing and what is actually happening to create a "toned aesthetic." 1:48: “But I just want to tone up” and the fitness marketing behind this desire 3:54: what are “toning” workouts? 5:00: Reasons why the workouts themselves are not contributing to significant fat loss 5:15: Seeing fat loss when you first increase your activity level 6:18: S...

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to fit body happy joints my name is Shannon

0:04.3

Today we are talking about toning and tightening workouts and kind of dispelling some myths talking about the science of it all the things and

0:12.8

before we get into today's episode I have some exciting news we have just

0:17.6

released our newest podcast totally different from this podcast it's called

0:21.5

meditations by Evelo so it's meditations and then the

0:24.4

X Evelo. And we have uploaded 39 10 minute meditations. They're all available completely

0:31.1

for free. All of them are led by Dr. Payton Busker. She's available completely

0:32.8

by Dr. Payton Busker.

0:34.8

She's an Evelo instructor.

0:36.2

She's a doctor of physical therapy.

0:38.1

And she's also a certified meditation instructor.

0:41.2

We wanted to make these completely accessible to the public because every time I take one of her meditations, not to be dramatic, but I feel completely transformed.

0:52.0

She has such a gift and I think that you know it's

0:55.4

important for more people to have access to these very very powerful

1:00.3

meditations. So go check it out, subscribe, if you like it, we would love to have a

1:04.9

rating again, these are completely for free and we will be releasing a new

1:08.3

meditation every single week. So go check it out. Okay, so let's get into this week's episode. It's going to be a

1:14.6

short-bous-sweet episode because I think that there's a lot of common

1:18.8

misconceptions that I want to talk about and a lot of my episodes happen to be

1:25.1

about like fitness marketing and what's true

1:27.3

and what maybe is misleading.

1:28.4

And this is a big one that I think is very misleading

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