How to Find the Best Workout For Your Body
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Do you need help separating working out from weight loss? Today on the pod, we chat with Weight Neutral Certified Personal Trainer, Lauren Leavell about shifting the narrative of why we go to the gym. Instead of focusing on weight loss & aesthetics, Lauren pushes people to hone in on the importance of movement and strength. As a HIIT and BARRE enthusiast, Lauren aspires to provide a space where her clients can move their bodies in ways that feel comfortable, safe and free of judgment. We chat with Lauren about the struggles to feel comfort in our own bodies, how to know our limits during our workouts, and how to approach fitness and health in a more body loving way.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- Lauren’s love of rescuing cats! MEOW
- Separating what we eat from how we move our bodies
- The importance of MODIFICATIONS during exercise
- Exercising for people living in bigger bodies
- How using household items for home workouts can be a game changer
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, I'm Wendy. |
| 0:04.1 | And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness. |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:22.1 | Today we are talking fitness with our girl Lauren LaVelle. |
| 0:28.7 | She is a weight neutral certified personal trainer, |
| 0:32.2 | group fitness instructor and content creator, Basin Philly. |
| 0:36.0 | And she has built her brand around inclusive fitness that's enjoyable and |
| 0:40.2 | challenging, which is pretty much non-existent. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm not going to say non-existent, but is super hard to find in the fitness world. |
| 0:47.6 | And so we were automatically drawn to our, like, we have to bring on the podcast |
| 0:51.8 | to talk about all the great work that she's doing. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, I felt that conversation was very helpful, |
| 0:56.8 | especially somebody who likes to work out and wants to think about goals outside of shrinking |
| 1:03.4 | your body. And she gave very concrete things that you can focus on, whether or not you're working |
| 1:08.6 | out just at home or with the trainer or in a gym. It was super helpful. |
| 1:13.5 | She also talked about her areas of expertise, which are bar and hit and how to make those |
| 1:20.0 | accessible and non-triggering, which is a huge thing. |
| 1:23.7 | And safe to it. |
| 1:24.8 | And then, yeah, and then helpful ways to deal with gym |
| 1:28.9 | timidation, right? Like where you go to the gym and there's all these messages about, |
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