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The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

S5 EP1: Learning To Lose

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Constantly Varied Gear

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Losing feels bad. Placing low on a leaderboard can be a negative experience. But that doesn’t mean that leaderboards and competitions have no value. In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea discuss leaderboards and the feelings around them. Listen in to hear what they have to say about feelings of inadequacy, accepting where you are, and finding joy in the accomplishments of others.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

  • The feelings around leaderboards
  • Feelings of inadequacy
  • How it feels to be at the top of the leaderboards, then not
  • Full acceptance of where you are
  • Facing your fears
  • Sitting with negative feelings
  • Winning is not the standard to being accomplished
  • The skill of learning to lose or fail
  • Finding joy in the accomplishments of others
  • Why you can’t avoid competition
  • What everyone wants the most
  • What you can learn from being uncomfortable with leaderboards
  • Hey, Girl Hey segment

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0:00.0

I can line up the long list of reasons why fitness took a really backseat, but the fact

0:05.9

is that that's what happened.

0:08.1

And I started refusing to compete in the open.

0:12.5

And I took my ball and I went home.

0:14.3

I'm not going to be at the top of it, so I'm not going to do it.

0:17.6

And just this year, I made my reentry back into the open. And it was not because I was working

0:26.7

out more. In fact, I'm working out the least I ever have. It was not because I got any fitter.

0:32.7

It wasn't because I prioritized it. It was because I started to really look at myself and say, like, what the hell are you doing?

0:46.6

The big question is this.

0:50.6

In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals?

0:59.0

We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives through fitness and health.

1:06.0

Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life.

1:15.6

Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere.

1:19.6

Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast.

1:23.6

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. I'm Rachel. And I love today's episode. I love today's episode. It's going to really make you think. Yeah. I like thought provoking episodes for sure or that even just open up the discussion to talk about something new and how we feel about it.

1:45.9

I love it. I think that today's episode is really important and I don't know, self-reflection,

1:55.2

I think is really important. And I think that this episode really turns the mirror and says, like, okay, what's going on here?

2:03.1

And I know that that's hard sometimes.

2:06.9

Well, we had talked about just because you said that we talked about one time in the past, one of the qualities, the top qualities for the most successful people was being self-aware.

2:20.7

And that is a really, we all know that's a really important quality. It's really important in our relationships and our life to be

2:24.9

self-aware first. But it's also something that is hard to practice. I agree. I want to start

2:33.4

today off by saying that this was a question that we got in our

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