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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Ep 6 / Fact or Crap: Pilates for weight loss and building muscle

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Let's learn the logistics of Pilates and why it isn't the "lean, mean, long muscle making machine" that the internet is perceiving it as. The current trends are encouraging us to replace our routines with Pilates altogether to get a model-like figure. Are you ready for Marianna and Tony to uncover the truth about this exercise?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning, everybody.

0:01.1

We know the last thing you need is another fitness podcast to catch you up on the newest trends,

0:05.5

fat diets, and fictitious fat blasting workouts that will be dead in the coming decade.

0:11.5

Enter us, myself, Tony, Mariana on the other end.

0:15.1

We made fitness stuff for normal people podcasts to make exercise and nutrition science practical.

0:19.8

Our goal is to expose misinformation in the industry by providing only evidence-based

0:23.7

education where today we are quickly jumping on the trend that is Pilates that we are

0:30.3

seeing on the internet that has been around for decades, but continues popping up.

0:36.0

So Ms. Mariana is going to lead us through. Mariana,

0:38.5

how are you? I'm doing great. I woke up this morning and realized that I'm going on my one-month

0:47.0

anniversary since I quit my job and became self-employed. That makes me so heavy to hear.

1:15.2

If you are thinking about quitting your job, have something else that you've been called to and want to do it, don't think twice about it and do it. Do it. Shaila Love, do it! Okay. So Miriana actually sent me some video, she said, we need to jump on this ASAP. So we're going to pull up with the video she sent me. It has been every other video. I feel like on FitTalk lately has been about Pilates.

1:21.9

We're going to dissect what's true. What's untrue? Why? And if it's worth doing it. I get tagged in these at least 10 times a day. And I covered it once, but I didn't do it justice.

1:27.4

So here we are.

1:29.3

We'll put it on the screen if you're listening, we'll explain it after.

1:33.3

But we are on YouTube too so you can go watch us there.

1:37.3

So it says Pilates for two weeks has changed my body more than lifting weights for a year.

1:44.6

I'm shook.

1:46.2

That's essentially the whole conversation is how I went from weightlifting to Pilates

1:50.9

and I'm finally seeing results.

1:52.9

I've been weightlifting.

1:53.6

I've never seen the results I wanted.

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