July 26, 2022

True Confessions of a Personal Trainer

22 minutes

So many personal trainers (and people who think they are) act like this fitness thing is SO easy. That anyone who doesn’t meet their definition of “in good shape” is lazy or undisciplined.

They lead us to believe that if we all just work out like they do and eat like they do that we’ll all have 6 pack abs and perfect butts and a thigh gap? I don’t even know what body parts are trendy anymore. I don’t care. All I know is that I need to shine a light on some of the bullshit.

Most personal trainers won’t share this stuff, but today I’m going to. I can only speak for myself, but I know a lot of people in the fitness industry and am 100% certain that many of these confessions are also true for others.

On this episode we talk about:

The real reasons why it's easy for me to work out.

How much genetics vs. behaviors play in to weight/shape/size.

How many fitness professionals hide behind "health" when they actually have an eating disorder.

How weird it is that we praise fitness as such a high accomplishment, but plenty of personal trainers like me are running around not knowing our multiplication facts and nobody cares.

The truth about what I actually eat and why I don't care what you do.

How privilege plays into all of this, and why it doesn't mean that I (we) don't work hard.

All sorts of other dirt about what goes on behind the scenes for many fitness professionals who seem to have it all together.

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By Jenna Jozefowski

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