Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. A health and fitness regimen should make you feel good about yourself. Yes, that sounds like a common sense statement, however … Obsession; deprivation; frustration; guilt. Those are not words that make you feel good about yourself, and we certainly wouldn’t choose to experience those feelings. But …
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You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. The health and fitness industry profits off the insecurities of women. Conveniently, many people and companies eagerly offer to sell us the solution. “You hate that fat on your body? Take this pill!”; “Unsightly cellulite on your thighs? Try this cream and simple procedure!”; “Hate seeing yourself in the …
[Read more...] about You Don’t Have to Love Every Part of Your Body
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. “What else can I do?” That’s one of my favorite questions to ask about my body’s abilities. And discovering the answers through consistent hard work is a rewarding, and empowering, experience. A couple years ago I set a deadlift personal record when I pulled 250 (double bodyweight) for 10 reps. …
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You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. I enjoy looking through years of workout logs to see the progress I’ve made, the personal records I set, the grueling sets of high-rep squats and deadlifts I’ve endured. Performance improvement is a critical component of any strength training program if you want to reap results from your efforts. But …
[Read more...] about Food and Fitness No Longer Dominate My Life
You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. Too many women have struggled, and depleted their sanity and happiness, from disliking their bodies and fighting the number on the scale. They’ve used exercise as punishment for overeating, to “fix” body parts they don’t like, to “earn” the right to eat dessert. And I have done all those things too. I have …
[Read more...] about When Was the Last Time You Weren’t Trying to Lose Fat?
Image credit: TotalShape You can listen to this article. Use the player below, download the MP3, or use iTunes. To be clear, this is not an argument against pursuing fat loss to improve your health, or confidence, or because you want to increase muscle definition. Problems arise, however, when fat loss turns into a dominating obsession. When it’s the only reason you exercise and make …
[Read more...] about 9 Ways to Know You Should Stop Focusing on Fat Loss
You can listen to this article: use the player below, download the MP3 or listen on iTunes. It’s pretty screwed up that feeling guilty after eating any food is even an optional response. Yet so many of us do it. The countless health and fitness sources creating information that feeds this terrible habit certainly don’t help. There’s the good/bad dichotomy used to label foods (e.g.: calling …
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Would you rather listen to this article? Use the player below, download it, or use iTunes. If it feels like you’re engaged in a relentless battle with the scale -- impatiently waiting for the number to plummet or you get discouraged and frustrated if it doesn’t budge or, what feels worse, it goes up -- it’s time for a change. (This can also apply to underweight individuals striving to increase …
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