S11 EP6: 3 Ways You Are Overcomplicating Your Fitness
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
We all have more layers than a wedding cake and are capable of overcomplicating things pretty easily these days, including our fitness. It can be challenging when the fitness industry wants to sell you things and you forget why you are working out in the first place. And then life happens and shame comes to the party and you are no longer working out.
Today we look at 3 different ways you could be overcomplicating your fitness and how to move past them even when you think you are too tired, too stressed, or have too much other stuff to do. We talk about how to meet yourself where you are and find the best movement for you today, because exercise is vital to your health. Want to know how to live longer and with freedom of movement? Show up for yourself today. Listen for some ready made responses to doubt and shame to keep you moving. It’s a win every single day you get to move. It doesn’t matter where you are starting from. Start back up today.
(00:00:00) Welcome and generational commentary
(00:04:57) How does Kelsea stay motivated and get to the gym?
(00:08:40) Why we are making fitness so much harder than it actually needs to be
(00:09:46) The fitness industry’s role in overcomplicating fitness
(00:15:40) How to recognize the overcomplications and shame
(00:20:00) The first of three different ways you could be overcomplicating your fitness
(00:27:51) The second of three ways
(00:36:30) The third of three ways
(00:44:53) Different responses for how to stop overcomplicating and shaming
(00:51:58) Ask yourself: Would you live for your kids?
(00:57:00) Please start today. Don’t wait. Some ideas for you.
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SOURCES
10-Year Weight Gain in 13,802 US Adults: The Role of Age, Sex, and Race
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106499/
Exercise therapy to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10436316/
Long-term health benefits of physical activity – a systematic review of longitudinal studies
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1471-2458-13-813.pdf
Impact of Physical Inactivity on the World’s Major Non-Communicable Diseases
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645500/
Our Fitness FB Group.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the body that came in today with everything that you want to ignore when you get to the gym, |
| 0:06.4 | the fact that you've been sick or you're stressed at work or you haven't had much sleep. |
| 0:11.0 | All of these things are very real. |
| 0:13.5 | But the fact is, is that you are making time you showed up, you came in, |
| 0:18.2 | and whatever movement that you could get in today is good, |
| 0:22.3 | great enough, perfect. |
| 0:27.6 | Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick That I Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 0:31.9 | Hey, Kelsey. |
| 0:33.4 | What did we both go with the side part? |
| 0:36.4 | I know I was going to say that when we first came on to go with the side part today. |
| 0:41.2 | The Gen Z would be so disappointed. |
| 0:44.4 | Wait, I think that it's, oh yeah, Jen Z. |
| 0:48.9 | But then the one after them. |
| 0:51.2 | What's the one after them? |
| 0:54.0 | I feel like the one after they got a cool name. |
| 0:56.0 | They're old now. You can't call, you can't call Gen Z old. Yeah, yeah, they're out. They're not making the |
| 1:04.4 | fashion rules anymore. It's the new one. What's the new one? I can't remember. Isn't it such a cool |
| 1:10.6 | name though? Is it Alpha? I think it's Alpha |
| 1:13.3 | because I remember being like, damn, they got the coolest one. Yeah. Genzi's out. Alpha's in. |
| 1:20.9 | So I'm just listening to Alpha says is cool and they're bringing it. Yeah. And maybe we could play, we can't get that editors, play that clip of the guy. |
| 1:32.9 | Remember the girl that came on, the Jen Zier? |
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