Hello for one welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints and I'm

Miss Shannon today. We're going to talk about if you should train like an athlete

I've been wanting to do this podcast for a long time. It's been on my list since I think April 2021 when I very first started this

podcast and I'm glad that we're finally getting around to it today because I think that this is such a common

mindset in the fitness world to want to train like an athlete.

And ultimately the idea that we should train like athletes comes from marketing and advertising, right?

And it's kind of morphed into our fitness culture

and even things like Cross Fit and F-45

and, you know, Olympic athletes selling their training programs.

All of this has kind of bled into fitness culture

and the idea that your workouts should be a sport

or should be super competitive is very very common. I also think that a lot of

us that grew up playing sports some of our first associations with physical activity was to win a game or to play a sport.

And although for some of us, that was fun, right? The goals of fitness and the goals of sports are very, very different.

And I want to talk about that today. I want to talk about how viewing your workout less as a competition and

less as performance. your goal is

is body composition and less as performance

and more as overall general fitness

if your goal is body composition and overall health

is to me more sustainable.

So the idea that we should train like athletes

really comes from advertising.

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