S7 EP11: Tactic Nutrition With Alex Parker
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Nutrition is often the missing link in a person’s fitness journey. In today’s episode, we’ll talk to Alex Parker about finding that link. Alex is a former Crossfit games athlete and the owner of Tactic Nutrition. Her nutrition program is a fuel-based approach that stresses the importance of using food as a baseline for feeling great.
Listen in the episode to hear what Alex has to say about finding balance, setting rules for nutrition, and why restriction isn’t helpful.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Finding a balance and setting boundaries
- What success can look like with a healthy lifestyle
- Nutrition as the missing link for many people
- The rules that people set for nutrition
- Presenting nutrition in terms of priority
- Wanting to see results quickly
- Whether people need to cut things out to meet their goals
- Whether you can make up for a “bad day” of eating
- How important sleep is when it comes to health and nutrition
- One concept Alex really wants people to understand
RELATED LINKS
- Tactic Nutrition Website
- Tactic Nutrition Instagram
- The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
- The CVG Nation app, for Android
- Our Fitness FB Group.
- Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
- Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's amazing too, when you deliver something on Instagram, you can make it a little bit more targeted and not in a bad way, but it's hard for me to be one-on-one with a client and say, buy new shorts. |
| 0:11.8 | Like, I could say that, but it's a little bit, I think that the deliverable is a little bit softer when you're speaking to many people and somebody who might feel targeted can look at that and be like, |
| 0:22.4 | oh, I'm not the only one. Look at all these comments. Look at all these people who are like, |
| 0:26.5 | oh, I need it to hear this. And I think that kind of creates a little bit of community, |
| 0:30.8 | a little bit of comfort, that sort of thing. So like Instagram can be really powerful in that way. |
| 0:40.4 | The big question is this. |
| 0:44.4 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:53.0 | We are an army of hardworking women, changing their lives |
| 0:57.7 | through fitness and health. Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make |
| 1:04.9 | working out and eating well a part of your life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:13.3 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:18.3 | Hey guys and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Rachel. |
| 1:22.8 | And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:23.9 | Oh my God, you guys. |
| 1:25.8 | Alex Parker is here today. And Alex is a former Cresby Games athlete, now the owner of tactic nutrition. If you don't follow them on Instagram, you are missing out. It is amazing content. It's a fuel-based nutrition approach. And basically what Alex does is just educates clients on the importance of using food as their baseline to feeling great. |
| 1:52.5 | And it's balanced and it's funny and it's straightforward and it's relatable. |
| 1:57.6 | It's just what I love most about it is how much it busts up diet culture. |
| 2:02.7 | That's my absolute. I live for that. So Alex, welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 2:08.8 | Thanks for having me. Can you tell us a little bit or like tell everyone a little bit of your |
| 2:14.3 | background as an athlete and coach and what led you to start the brand |
| 2:18.5 | tact nutrition. For sure. So I, I guess we'll start my background in education is psychology. So I was |
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