Today’s episode comes to you from the lovely drive home to Illinois where I will be suffering through final exams (not dramatic at all). With the semester coming to a close I’ve been pondering the notion of what it really means to be an expert. A term that once seemed rare and highly esteemed, in my experience is getting a bit fuzzy and certainly overused in the fitness world. Here I discuss a famous paper on research that led to what’s now known as the “Dunning-Kruger Effect”, how that applies to fitness and examples of such from my own personal training experience.

Resources:

Kruger, Justin, and David Dunning. “Unskilled and Unaware of it: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Dec. 1999.

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Throughout the years, I’ve caught whiff of a certain subset of marketing that comes out around this holy jolly time of year. And it ain’t so jolly. Rather, it’s sprinkled with subtle hints of shame around this thing we’ve named holiday weight gain. There’s even a study about it and guys, it’s not that bad (see study here). Check out today’s episode and join me in chilling the heck by sticking to what we already know.

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By now we’ve all heard the importance of self love. But, I for one would like a concrete definition as to what this actually means. Join me as I dissect these definitions and explain the variety of ways self love can and should look like in the real world.

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Today is a short and sweet rundown on the best thing to do when you start weight training accompanied by the straight science behind the purpose of rep x set variation.  Deciding what range to work in does matter, but it does NOT have to be complicated!

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Hello my people. In light of a crazy last couple of weeks and an gradual rise in school work, I've decided it's best to move this podcast to drop every other week. This is my passion project and it needs to stay as such. My worst nightmare is to turn something I enjoy into another thing that needs to get done by the end of the week. I do suspect to move back to weekly once I begin my clinical year, but right now my energy is better spent on content quality over quantity. 

Thank you for your understanding and support!

Last week we had an interesting assignment in my movement of psychology class… we watched TV about kids at fat camp. Yes, you heard me correctly. And let me tell you, I had some opinions on the approaches of the staff.

Is fat camp a bad thing? Not necessarily, BUT it seems to easily become a breeding ground for the messed up ways in which we’ve come to view fitness and weightloss. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take a summer fat camp to receive these same destructive beliefs.

Nerd Alert: There will be research & data in this episode.

Citations:

Kelly, K. P., & Kirschenbaum, D. S. (2010). Immersion treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity: the first review of a promising intervention. Obesity Reviews, 12(1), 37–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-789x.2009.00710.x

Mcgregor, S., Mckenna, J., Gately, P., & Hill, A. J. (2016). Self-esteem outcomes over a summer camp for obese youth. Pediatric Obesity, 11(6), 500–505. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12093

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Today you'll hear where my head was at as it related to exercise and wellness during quarantine , what that led me to do, and not do. If you're feeling any sort of shame for having trouble getting regular movement in when quantine hit, or if you continue to struggle during this ongoing pandemic you are not alone. Listen in as I offer a simple but effective strategy to help you enjoy movement during this bizarre time. 

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Dance.  A world where you can simultaneously love how your body moves with the potential to learn to hate how it looks. Today, you’ll be hearing my first ever podcast interview with my classmate discussing how her dance has fundamentally shaped how she views movement and exercise. We go everywhere from the stereotypes of body shaming in the dance world to how much this student physical therapist hates the gym. 

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Self-love/body positivity is becoming a movement, it’s about freakin’ time. However, with these new waters I want to make a couple things clear. This week’s episode I’ll explain how it’s perfectly possible to accept yourself for who you are, as you are, while simultaneously working toward your health & fitness goals, whatever those may be.

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This week I will be reading two posts from Facebook weight loss groups to illustrate how the oh so common 1,200 calorie weight loss diet has led us down a destructive path. Let me be clear, this is NOT a personal criticism to those who posted in any way shape or form. Instead, this is my commentary on two real yet common examples of how many of us have fallen victim to the perpetuated idea that 1,200 calories is the “right” amount of energy for every single person who wants to lose weight. Hint: It’s not.

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