s3/e31 Toxic Fitness Culture in Endurance Running with Coach Amanda Katz (@amanda_katzz)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What is toxic fitness culture? It's attitudes and beliefs in the "fitness" space (yes, including running) that promote unrealistic and unhealthy approaches towards exercise and fitness, and unfortunately, sometimes these things show up in the endurance running space as well. Running Explained Coach and Personal Trainer Amanda Katz joins the show to talk ALL about it!
-Toxic fitness culture in the wild
-Toxic fitness culture in endurance running
-Is more always better?
-Learning how to navigate the WHY behind certain behaviors
-Being "disciplined" vs. "disordered"
-Anxiety, guilt, and shame around not working "hard enough"
-Are your goals really YOUR goals?
-Evaluating where you get your info from
-and more!
Amanda Katz is a full-time fitness professional. She's a certified personal trainer, RRCA certified run coach — joining the Running Explained coaching team last year — and serves as a group fitness instructor specializing in indoor cycling, treadmill running and total body conditioning formats at Equinox in New York City. Her philosophy is based on the notion that all bodies deserve a fitness experience without punishment, guilt or shame. She approaches her craft with humor, real talk and ultimately, wants her clients feeling stronger and more capable in their bodies through movement. To learn more, visit Amanda on instagram at @amanda_katzz or via website amandaskatz.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner, or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:26.7 | Running Explains very own coach Amanda Katz. Amanda is a full-time fitness professional. She is a |
| 0:32.3 | personal trainer. She teaches at Equinox Gym in New York. And she also coaches one-on-one run coaching |
| 0:37.3 | for Team Running |
| 0:38.5 | Explained. Now Amanda's here today to talk with me about this concept of toxic fitness |
| 0:44.3 | culture and how it can show up in and probably ruin your relationship with endurance training. |
| 0:52.1 | What this looks like, what to look out for, stuff you probably haven't |
| 0:55.6 | even thought about, and how to insulate yourself against some of the, like I said, more toxic |
| 1:00.3 | elements of some of the messaging you might be receiving in order to become your best-running self. |
| 1:05.6 | Amanda, welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 1:09.6 | Elizabeth, thank you for having me on. So please introduce yourself. |
| 1:15.2 | Obviously tell us how did you become a runner? But then, of course, how did you become who you are today? |
| 1:22.9 | I don't know where to start. So I guess I'll start at the very beginning. So my name's Amanda Katz. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm a full-time fitness professional. |
| 1:32.1 | I'm a personal trainer. |
| 1:34.7 | I am a run coach. |
| 1:36.5 | I work on team running explained. |
| 1:40.8 | I am also a group fitness instructor here in New York City for Equinox. |
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