Episode 036: Welcome to another episode of Real Health Radio, this week I’m interviewing Jodie is the director of Healthy Balance Fitness a multi-award winning group fitness business based in Melbourne, Australia, and the co-founder of The Moderation Movement.
Jodie is spreading the word that quitting foods you enjoy, and forcing yourself to do exercise you hate, is not the way to a healthier, happier life. After 18 years experience, Jodie is on a mission to make the fitness industry less about aesthetics and more about true health outcomes.
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How she started as a personal trainer
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Her relationship with exercise through her life
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The message young people get about changing their body
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The work she does with The Butterfly Foundation
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What the Moderation Movement is all about
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Why it has been so successful
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The problems with weight stigma
00:17:20
Why body respect can be a better goal then body love
00:29:40
Negative body image isn’t necessarily about size
00:33:45
How social media has changed “fitness”
00:36:40
What you should think when you see pictures on social media
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Gyms should do more to combat over exercise and disordered eating
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How to get into exercise
00:49:05
How she gets the best out of group exercise
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What exercise areas she teaches
00:54:20
The exercise that she most loves
00:56:30
The problems with trying to live up to being a “fitness trainer”
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