Transform Your Body & Mind: Seneda Greca on Building Lasting Strength | EP 861

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

"Strength training is Queen. It's at the top of the list." - Seneda Greca As a sought-after celebrity trainer working with influential figures like Kim Kardashian, Seneda Greca is on a mission to revolutionize how women approach fitness and body image. In this powerful conversation, she opens up about her own journey of navigating beauty standards after moving to America as a teenager, and how she's now using her platform to champion strength training as the cornerstone of women's health and confidence. Drawing from her extensive experience, Greca shares how she's witnessed firsthand the transformative impact of strength training on both physical and mental well-being. The discussion delves deep into the evolution of women's fitness trends, from the "skinny" obsession of the '80s and '90s to today's emerging focus on building muscle and strength. Greca provides fascinating insights into her work with high-profile clients, revealing how figures like Kim Kardashian are helping to reshape beauty standards by embracing strength training and muscle building. She emphasizes how this shift isn't just about aesthetics – it's about setting new standards for women's health, injury prevention, and long-term vitality.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.5	There seems to be trends with women's body sizes and types and structures since I was like, you know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s.
0:25.7	It was all about being super skinny.
0:27.6	Then it was about, you know, curvy and voluptuous.
0:30.8	Then it's like it seems like it's going back to skinny.
0:32.6	Like it seems like there's these trends in the culture.
0:37.2	Why do you think that, first off, is that accurate that there are trends for women in their
0:42.0	way that their body is supposed to look?
0:44.5	If so, why does that change for women over the years?
0:49.3	There is definitely trending.
0:51.7	There's been, like you said, you know, I agree with you that there's been,
0:55.1	you know, the trend of being skinny and then curvaceous. And I don't know that it's
0:59.8	necessarily being thin again. I hope not. I don't want to be, I think there's a movement,
1:05.8	there's a true movement with being. Being like strong. Being strong.
1:11.6	And I love and appreciate all the doctors that are coming forward and sharing their data on how strength
1:21.6	and having as much muscle as possible is healthy for a woman,
1:28.3	not just quality of life now, but in their later years.
1:33.3	I think, yeah, I think a lot of these studies and these doctors that are coming forward
1:39.3	with women specific, because I think more, a lot of the studies have been done on men,
1:45.5	but with women's specific studies that show that important.
1:49.3	So I'm hoping that that's the new trend.
1:52.0	Yeah.
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