S8 EP4: We HAD To Address This
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Gatekeeping fitness is NOT the vibe and never will be. EVERYONE who wants to add health and fitness into their lives deserves to take up space and feel welcomed. On today’s episode Kelsea and Rachael chat about Equinox, a self proclaimed “luxury fitness club” who decided they “Don’t Speak January”. Well, we don’t speak elitism.
Tune in to hear our feels about this policy, the issues with elitism & gatekeeping fitness, and the message we think this “policy” sends to both new and established gym goers.
Other Topics in Today's Episode:
● Equinox’s January policy
● Gatekeeping in the fitness space
● The way we talk about diet and lifestyle
● How privilege should be used
● Messaging to the people who joined the gym some other day besides New Year’s
● Why people use their phones during gym time
● Taking a step back instead of judging people
● What building new habits can look like
● How someone chooses to take up space is none of your business
Related Links:
- 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 | Every person there deserves to take up space. |
| 0:02.3 | And how they're taking up space is not for you to decide if it's appropriate or not. |
| 0:07.1 | It's really not. |
| 0:08.1 | They're taking up space. |
| 0:09.1 | They're using a dumbbells at the time. |
| 0:10.3 | They're in use. |
| 0:11.2 | So like if it's better for you to think like they're in use right now, |
| 0:14.2 | I'm going to go do something else. |
| 0:15.6 | And like then I come back 20 minutes later. |
| 0:17.3 | Are they still in use? Like, this gym doesn't have enough dumbbells. But the fact is, like, how someone's taking up space is none of your business. |
| 0:28.3 | The big question is this. |
| 0:31.8 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:40.8 | We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:47.9 | 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. |
| 0:57.2 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thic Thighs Save Lives |
| 1:03.8 | Podcast. Hi guys and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Lies podcast. I'm Rachel. And I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:11.7 | Hey, yo guys, we had to just stop what we were doing because this one, |
| 1:18.5 | this one really rubbed me the wrong way. |
| 1:24.0 | We had to immediately stop what we're doing and make a podcast about this insanity because I think we should talk about it. |
| 1:33.1 | Equinox has decided that they don't speak January. |
| 1:37.9 | And they weren't allowing members to join their gym on January 1st because they just don't speak January. |
| 1:45.7 | They don't speak New Year's resolutions, and they are just above that. |
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