The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

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S6 EP18: Meditation - Keeping Your Mind In Shape Mar 08, 2022

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What do weightlifting and meditation have in common? You’re not supposed to feel immediately comfortable with either one of them. Meditation isn’t necessarily simple, and just because it doesn’t come easily to you doesn’t mean that you’re bad at it or won’t get anything out of it. It’s actually normal to experience intrusive thoughts while trying to meditate.

In today’s episode, we’ll be joined by guest Ariel June. We recognize that keeping your mind in good shape is part of an overall good physical fitness strategy, and Ariel is a meditation teacher who has a lot to say about the practice of meditation and its benefits for the mind. Listen to the episode to hear what Ariel has to say about why meditation is so important, why you’re supposed to feel uncomfortable during meditation, and what role meditation plays in self-healing.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

What can be achieved through meditation
Why Ariel believes meditation is so important
The misconception that you’re not supposed to be uncomfortable during meditation
First steps for someone who’s never tried meditation
Techniques for quieting your mind
The role of meditation in the self-healing journey
How to get out of the ruminating cycle
Asking better questions
Advice for listeners

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Ariel's TikTok
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S6 EP17: Enough Is Enough - The Tough Love You Need Mar 01, 2022

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Life can be difficult and stressful. That’s especially true over the last few years. It’s totally understandable if you’re not ready for a heavy-duty workout every single time. You have to be able to give yourself some grace.

But that doesn’t mean doing nothing.

In today’s episode, you’ll hear Rachael and Kelsea discuss why inactivity isn’t part of self-care, and why movement is an important part of self-care. Listen to the conversation to hear them discuss momentum and motivation, the percentage of adults who are physically unhealthy, and why you should thank your body on workout days.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

How actions lead to more actions
The percentage of adults who are physically inactive
Feeling healthy in your body
Giving yourself some grace
The difference between self-care and inactivity
Getting in movement as part of your self-care
Thanking your body and mind
Having something to look forward to
Being clear about your goals and progress
Techniques to ensure that you have a contract with yourself

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Article about adults being physically inactive
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S6 EP16: An Inspirational Fitness Story Feb 22, 2022

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Physical fitness may be something that you are thinking about now, but will you still be thinking about it when you’re older? It can be easy to assume that you won’t be as active once you reach a certain age, but that’s not necessarily true. Today’s guest will talk about how she remains active, confident, and fit, and still continues to compete, in her 60s.

Nancy Bodet is a CrossFit athlete and a mother of five, wife, nurse, and lawyer. She’s competed in Wodapalooza and the Granite Games. Listen in to what Nancy has to say about what she likes about competing, what her training sessions look like, and why functional fitness matters.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

What made Nancy give CrossFit a try
Nancy’s favorite thing about competing
What a daily training session looks like for Nancy
What female athletes over 40 can do to maximize their training
Whether people must accept that getting old means no longer being able to be active
What it’s meant to Nancy to find strength through fitness
The impact Nancy is making on other women

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
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S6 EP15: Nutrition Made Easy Feb 15, 2022

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Can all foods really be on the table for you? What exactly is an all-foods approach to nutrition? In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea talk to Registered Dietician Sammi Haber Brondo, author of The Essential Vegetable Cookbook, about her all-foods approach to eating.

Sammi also talks about how to start creating a healthier relationship with food, why you might want permission to eat certain foods (but don’t need it), and what Sammi thinks of as the most damaging behaviors and languages around food. Listen in to hear more about Sammi and her experience working with clients on nutrition.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

Why being told “you need to eat” is scary for some women
The marketing of diets
Food as a source of joy
What the all-foods approach is
How Sammi starts with creating a healthier relationship with food
Why people might want permission to eat certain foods instead of trusting themselves
The most damaging behaviors and language when it comes to food
Can you still have aesthetic goals following the all-foods approach
Why women want to return to their high school body
How purposeful movement enhances the ability to eat intuitively

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
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Our Fitness Blog

S6 EP14: 9 Workout Hacks You Can Use Today Feb 08, 2022

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How can you improve your fitness routine quickly? Achieving your goals doesn’t happen instantly, but there are some things that you can do right away to improve the path that you’re taking to meet your fitness goals. In today’s episode, Rachel and Kelsea discuss the hacks that you can use in order to improve your routine, and maybe improve your day as well. Listen in to hear what they have to say about why you should be increasing your weights, tracking your workouts, and filming your movements, among other things.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

Disney characters and comparing different women to each other
Being present in your movement
More is not more
Not using weights that are too light
Having a workout where we’re coming in last
Tracking workouts
Taking deload weeks, and what they really are
Putting away your phone between sets
What you should be doing between sets
Filming your movements
Lifting with a friend

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
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S6 EP13: Can You Build Muscle & Lose Fat At The Same Time? Feb 01, 2022

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Gaining muscle or losing weight? Which one should you do first? Or should you do them together? Can you do them together?

In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea will discuss what you need to know about how these two actions happen in your body and what you need to know about doing both at the same time. Listen in to hear them talk about how your muscle affects your metabolism, what your muscles need to grow, and what body recomp means for you.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

The best way to get nutrients
Staying conscious of all ingredients when supplementing
Whether you can lose fat and build muscle at the same time
How muscle affects metabolism
Understanding why you’re asking the question about dieting vs. exercise coming first
How muscle grows
Factoring in all the things that are happening in your body at once
Body recomp
What happens when you try to just lose weight instead of build muscle
Why a calories in/calories out equation is too simple
The obstacles of building muscles for women

RELATED LINKS

The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog

S6 EP12: Suffer In Silence Or Share Your Story Jan 25, 2022

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Do you need to share everything with others? Is it OK to share good things without sharing personal struggles that you’d rather keep private? What about attention – is it so wrong to want it? In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea discuss how people share, what circumstances they share about, and how they’re thinking about the questions related to sharing or not sharing.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

Expecting everyone to handle things the same way
Criticizing the way a person chooses to share or not share
Whether the highlight reel is real
Whether people need to talk about it
Enjoying the things that other people share
Deserving attention
What a real body looks like

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog

S6 EP11: Weaponized Incompetence Jan 18, 2022

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It’s easy to end up feeling bad because you’ve gotten off track, but you may not be looking at the full picture. In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea will discuss the things that end up killing goals and why it’s important to look at the entire situation and see if there’s something going on that’s more than just not making the time yourself. Listen in to the conversation as Rachael and Kelsea discuss weaponized incompetence, how weaponized incompetence may play out in your life, and the importance of setting boundaries.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

Oversimplifying things
Goal killers
Weaponized incompetence
The counterproductiveness of lack of sleep
Different ways of weaponizing incompetence
How to deal with weaponized incompetence
The need to be useful and needed
Acts of service as a love language
Setting boundaries to avoid undesirable things
Looking for reasons why things will work instead of why they won’t
The importance of being realistic
Owning your choices

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
The CVG Nation app, for Android
Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog

S6 EP10: Worth And Value > Physical Beauty Jan 11, 2022

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There are many different definitions of beauty, but what is the impact of the focus on beauty? Why is thinking about beauty so automatic, instead of focusing on a person’s worth and value outside of any type of physical beauty? In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea discuss fear, beauty, confidence, and seeing your worth and the worth of others in ways that have nothing to do with beauty.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

The definition of beauty
Worth outside of beauty
How focusing on beauty can negate real feelings
The reason the fitness industry is built on suffering
Looking for balance instead of going to extremes

RELATED LINKS

The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
The CVG Nation app, for Android
Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog

S6 EP9: Be Bad At Something And Enjoy It Jan 04, 2022

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Is there something that you think is fun – or something you think would be fun – that you’re bad at? Can’t draw a straight line, but love to paint and draw anyway? Have no rhythm, but enjoy the feeling of dancing? Why not do it anyway? Don’t worry about getting better – just be bad at it and enjoy it! In today’s episode, Rachael and Kelsea will talk about why you should consider spending time doing something that’s never going to win an award or make a lot of money – why you should be doing things that you love just because you love them.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

How to measure accomplishment
Doing things you enjoy even if you can’t monetize them or become really great at them
Doing things for the pure love of them
The value of not having a goal to get better
Doing things you enjoy without having an end goal at all
Finding meaning in your life that’s just for you, not for other people
Hey, Girl, Hey segment

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The CVG Nation app, for iPhone
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Our Fitness FB Group.
Thick Thighs Save Lives Workout Programs
Constantly Varied Gear's Workout Leggings
Our Fitness Blog

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