Ep 62 // Ben Carpenter: Health vs. Fitness, navigating dietary advice on social media, body image & motivation.
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we got got the pleasure of sitting down with a talented friend of ours, Ben Carpenter; Personal trainer and author of the new book Everything Fat Loss. Ben has spent a greater portion of his life working in the fitness industry, answering questions with simple, unbiased, evidence based answers. We got the chance to chat with Ben about his own personal experience going from a fitness model to a health and fitness educator. We got a look at the reality of living at an extremely low body fat percentage and how it can take a toll on your mental and physical health. And we also got some sound advice from Ben on how to navigate dietary and weight loss advice on social media . After listening to this episode you'll learn about the importance of body image and motivation for successful weight loss and hopefully leave with a better understanding of how to set weight loss goals realistic for your own unique lifestyle. That just barely skims the surface of this incredible conversation, but we hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!
Everything Fat Loss by Ben Carpenter
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Timestamps:
(00:03:13) Sponsors: Legion Athletic, The Strong Inside
(00:09:48) Health vs. fitness
(00:15:00) Reality of being extremely lean
(00:18:19) Bodybuilding and disordered eating
(00:29:28) Who's dietary advice should you take?
(00:37:03) Health + Fitness red flags on social media
(01:00:46) Metrics of weight loss success
(01:15:39) Intermittent fasting
(01:22:25) body image and motivation for weight loss
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, everyone? Welcome back to the fitness stuff for normal people podcast. I am Tony, |
| 0:05.6 | and this is Mariana. We're cooped up in person in the Allo HQ over here in L.A. She just flew out, |
| 0:12.3 | and we're having a great time with it. Okay. Now, it's no secret. The fitness industry, |
| 0:16.1 | the one we're in right now, sucks. Whether it's the corrupt multi-billion dollar supplement |
| 0:20.1 | and weight loss industry or the |
| 0:21.9 | endless supply of influencers promoting anything to drive page views the bottom line is we're not just |
| 0:27.0 | trying to provide another fitness podcast but completely change the fitness industry for the |
| 0:31.0 | better by providing you with the knowledge and tools to give you the confidence in applying the |
| 0:34.9 | best possible training and nutrition into your |
| 0:37.6 | own life. Where today we actually just sat down with one of our, I would say good friends now, |
| 0:44.0 | Ben Carpenter with my most, I would rank this as my most enjoyed interview to date. |
| 0:49.5 | I think my most enjoyed episode probably. Yeah. Yeah. And we're not exaggerating here. It was it |
| 0:53.5 | was truly incredible. We got to sit down. We chattedatted him we showed him around this all the place we got a |
| 0:58.1 | cool little ice plunge coming in so i'm chattering my teeth until about halfway through the |
| 1:02.4 | episode but he if you're unfamiliar with ben he gives us a really unique look because he's been in |
| 1:08.2 | this industry for so long and really aligns with how we try and see things a little bit. |
| 1:14.3 | We talk not only on the research facet because he's one of the most evidence-based and consistent evidence-based trainers I think I've ever followed and had the pleasure of knowing. |
| 1:23.9 | And we got into a real big topic of fitness versus health and really separating those two because so many people just use them interchangeably, defining what they actually mean and really defining where we want to go with that along with. |
| 1:37.6 | I mean, we bubbled up probably 10 other things in this episode. |
| 1:40.4 | Yeah, we talked about evidence-based nutrition, fitness, health recommendations, how to navigate social media. |
| 1:46.3 | If you are trying to lose weight or get any sort of health advice, we talked about motivation, self-confidence. |
| 1:53.6 | A lot of stuff and I loved it. |
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