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Make Fit Simple

79. What Matters More: Function or Fat Loss

Make Fit Simple

Andrea Allen

Education, Fitness, How To, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today's culture we tend to put a great deal on the importance of fat loss. Andrea is challenging this thought process and offers ideas to shift our priorities and our mindset behind our goals in fitness. She explains the difference between fat loss and function with three real lifestyle examples with her personal trainers and clients. MOTHER'S DAY SALE on Diastasis Recti, Postpartum, and Pregnancy Guide Use code MOTHER for 20% off. Don't miss our on this once a year sale which ends Sun...

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0:00.0

Well, hey there, I am so glad you're joining me today.

0:03.4

As you know, on this podcast, I make it my mission to try to take health and fitness concepts

0:10.3

or even thought processes that we have around health and fitness and

0:14.8

simplify them. Kind of explain why we need those thought processes or concepts or

0:19.5

why we don't. So today I want you to think about your relationship with health and

0:27.2

fitness and food and exercise and even mental health and I want to ask you what are you focusing on? Do you focus mainly and do you care mostly about

0:38.3

fat loss? Is that why you exercise, worry about your diet or anything else or do you focus a lot on function

0:46.4

you may wonder what I mean by function but I mean how you move throughout the day if you can bend

0:52.0

jump sit how you mentally process information.

0:56.5

It really does matter.

0:57.8

It matters how we feel physically and it matters how we feel mentally.

1:01.6

So my question is, which one of those is priority? Is it how you

1:06.1

function or is it fat loss? And listen, I know that I'm a personal trainer. I know that

1:11.6

I take clients every month and myself and my coaches that I work with.

1:16.3

Our goal is to help shift their mind. Our goal is to balance their food intake. Our goal is to

1:21.5

create a solid workout plan so that they can feel good and in

1:26.4

turn for many of them they have fat loss. It is true that having too much fat on

1:32.1

your body can hinder you and more than just

1:35.2

looks because I know people care about it that way but legitimately how you

1:39.0

function how your heart pumps blood how your blood vessels get things, your lungs, how you move.

1:45.6

There's so many layers that fat can create issues for how we function.

1:51.4

Well I know fat loss is very important, I think sometimes people put it

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