Episode 260
Untying the Knot of Fitness & Body Composition
When you think about your health, what is it that you picture? When you push yourself to workout, what do you say to yourself? Do you exercise because you hate your body and want to change it? Do you think about how you look or how many pounds you want to lose? If you find yourself focusing on fitness because it’s supposed to change your body composition, you may be missing the bigger picture of what health means.
This week Jenn is talking about untying the knot of fitness and body composition. Many times, we can get stuck in a cycle of obsessing over what we look like in the mirror, and the results will determine whether we are “healthy” or not. But what if we looked at all the other factors that go into health? During this episode, Jenn discusses how psychology plays into our feelings around our fitness regime, the hierarchy of movement, and what the other parts of health include. She describes how she utilizes tracking with her clients so they can see what their habits are when they are feeling their best. Tune in to learn how to reframe your thoughts around exercise and appreciate the miracle of the body you have.
The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.
IN THIS EPISODE:
- [7:28] Why is there confusion with fitness and body composition?
- [12:00] How does psychology play into our feelings around our fitness routines?
- [20:18] How can you determine what your desired outcome actually is?
- [25:29] What’s the first step to reframing our feelings around fitness and health?
- [28:35] What is the hierarchy of movement?
- [30:15] What are the other factors of health?
- [34:19] How does Jenn utilize tracking with her clients?
- [37:58] How can you separate movement from the way your body looks?
- [42:27] Jenn shares her thoughts around BMI and motivation.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
- Health isn’t just fitness and nutrition. Expand your definition of what it means to live a healthy life to include your mental health, happiness, energy, and sleep quality.
- To determine what habits set you up for success, track your stress level, mood, sleep, energy, confidence and then look to see on which days you felt the best, what habits you were doing.
- Your body is an absolute miracle. Creating awareness and reframing your thoughts around your body and appreciating all the things it does for you, allows you to look at a new narrative.
QUOTES:
- [27:04] “When I first start working with a client, we don’t talk about the movement component in depth for about a month and it’s on their radar anyway. It’s almost like by not hyper focusing on it, and giving them other tools and things that we’re building on each week, it inherently starts to diminish some of that importance on that activity or the intensity of that activity.” - Jenn Trepeck
- [28:01] “Just as we know it’s not human to be sitting all day, it's also not human to sit all day and go berserk for an hour.” - Jenn Trepeck
- [30:04] “There isn’t one thing we’re going to do for our health that is going to trump or outshine or outdo the other pieces of health.” - Jenn Trepeck
- [40:11] “What if during our movement, we could just sort of have a moment of wonder at how amazing this human body is, and thank goodness we don’t have to think about which muscles move to make a movement happen and to breathe and to make sure the heart beats, and all of these things, like the body is an absolute miracle.” - Jenn Trepeck
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