Ask a Swole Woman with Casey Johnston (2021)

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Coming out of Thanksgiving week, we thought it was a good time to reshare our first WITHpod episode all about fitness. Fitness guru, writer and self-described “Swole Woman” Casey Johnston has written, “a lot of health content is focused on blowing smoke up you’re a-- about jade eggs and vitamins and toxin-dispersing cellulite-curing silver-thread leggings.” But why? What makes lifting and working out seem so complicated? We’re constantly bombarded with get-fit-quick marketing perpetuated by “bros” who got fit overnight, but achieving real gains often just requires an incremental, consistent and methodical approach. Casey joins for an enlightening conversation about building strength, maintaining form and to answer the age-old debate: are machines or weights better?

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0:00.0	We have a real kind of almost meritocratic conception
0:03.7	of lifting that it's like either you are born
0:06.0	a football linebacker and you lift weights
0:08.8	or you're everybody else and you don't bother with weights
0:11.4	because there's no reason for you to be strong
0:13.1	which like nothing could be less true.
0:16.6	Everyone could benefit from like learning to squat
0:19.9	or deadlift 135 pounds.
0:22.0	You're like swear to God, your life would be completely different.
0:26.8	It would feel different every single day
0:28.9	if you just learned to do this.
0:30.9	And I think we could benefit from that
0:33.6	information sort of percolating a lot more.
0:39.5	Hello and welcome to Wise is happening
0:41.0	with me, your host Chris Hayes.
0:42.5	Well, this is a fun one today, something a little different.
0:44.8	I'm gonna tell you a story first
0:46.1	and then we're gonna talk to our guests.
0:47.1	The story is that in the fall of 2017,
0:50.8	we had got a house upstate,
0:52.4	which I've mentioned before,
0:53.2	that's where we were during part of the pandemic.
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