S11 EP6: 3 Ways You Are Overcomplicating Your Fitness

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

We all have more layers than a wedding cake and are capable of overcomplicating things pretty easily these days, including our fitness. It can be challenging when the fitness industry wants to sell you things and you forget why you are working out in the first place. And then life happens and shame comes to the party and you are no longer working out.

Today we look at 3 different ways you could be overcomplicating your fitness and how to move past them even when you think you are too tired, too stressed, or have too much other stuff to do. We talk about how to meet yourself where you are and find the best movement for you today, because exercise is vital to your health. Want to know how to live longer and with freedom of movement? Show up for yourself today. Listen for some ready made responses to doubt and shame to keep you moving. It’s a win every single day you get to move. It doesn’t matter where you are starting from. Start back up today.

(00:00:00) Welcome and generational commentary

(00:04:57) How does Kelsea stay motivated and get to the gym?

(00:08:40) Why we are making fitness so much harder than it actually needs to be

(00:09:46) The fitness industry’s role in overcomplicating fitness

(00:15:40) How to recognize the overcomplications and shame

(00:20:00) The first of three different ways you could be overcomplicating your fitness

(00:27:51) The second of three ways

(00:36:30) The third of three ways

(00:44:53) Different responses for how to stop overcomplicating and shaming

(00:51:58) Ask yourself: Would you live for your kids?

(00:57:00) Please start today. Don’t wait. Some ideas for you.

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SOURCES

10-Year Weight Gain in 13,802 US Adults: The Role of Age, Sex, and Race

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9106499/

Exercise therapy to prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10436316/

Long-term health benefits of physical activity – a systematic review of longitudinal studies

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/1471-2458-13-813.pdf

Impact of Physical Inactivity on the World’s Major Non-Communicable Diseases

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645500/

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