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Generational trauma. What is it? How does it affect health even if you haven't experienced much trauma in your own life? I think it's super important to bring wider awareness to this and because it can and does impact health.   What you'll learn about in this episode:   • Epigenetics: a powerful tool   • The role of environmental toxins   • How trauma of past generations is stored in your body   •...

(This show has not been edited at all so please excuse the extra noise and stumbles.) I'm Kelly Wilson, owner of fitfizzstudio.com and I'm a personal trainer, nutrition coach, behavior change specialist, autoimmune disease educator and I've worked in the health and fitness industry for over 25 years. I'm here to help you ditch the gimmicks, finding strength through your struggles, give you the kno...

Today is the beginning of a short series on trauma. Before you click away or skip ahead, please, please hear me out on why this applies to every single one of you and why awareness of trauma is so important. If trauma doesn't affect you directly — if you somehow managed to have such a mega-privileged life that trauma hasn't affected you — then you need to keep listening so that you can grow your a...

Emotional eating. Stress eating. It affects everyone at some point in life. Some more than others. I'm here to tell you it's also natural. Today we're talking about when how emotional eating can become a concern and that is when the mental aspect is an issue. Emotional eating on its own is not "bad", but what can be not-so-healthy is the mindset. I'll explain all that and more in this episode.   W...

Today is about chronotypes. Are you a Lion, Dolphin, Bear, or Wolf? Listen and find out why you are the way that you are with your sleep habits. When you understand this and what your own body needs to operate optimally, that empowers you to use your energy more efficiently. Your chronotype is embedded in your DNA and so knowing your chronotype and learning to stop fighting against it can improve...

Are you one of those people on lockdown and worrying about "losing your gains"? A lot of people are concerned about this, but in case you don't even know what I mean by that, it basically just means losing muscle mass or strength, that you probably worked really hard for. You might be struggling to feel like you can do adequate resistance training or strength training at home in order to prevent t...

Hello FitFizz friends! Please note that this episode was recorded roughly two months before COVID-19 had America sheltering in place. So if anything we say doesn't quite sound aligned with how the world has changed as of April 2020, that is why. It was such a pleasure to interview Tim Rucinski! Tim is mostly retired, but he is also a health coach, certified personal trainer and also a freelance wr...

Hello, my FitFizz friends! How are you doing lately considering the drastic shift in the state of the world? It feels pretty surreal, huh? Today I'm not directly talking about COVID-19 but I'm talking about the impact that I've seen it have on regular lives and hopefully a bit of a new perspective if you've found yourself frustrated in any way with this shift. I see a lot of pointless judgments go...

Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Do you feel more energized or more depleted after being around other people? There are a lot of common misconceptions about introverts that extroverts REALLY need to hear. Being an introvert has nothing to do with being "quiet" or "shy" although many people often think that's what it means. The more I've thought about it, the more it astonishes me that this ki...

Joining me today to discuss some very personal things in his life journey is Kristian Johnson. Kristian is quite an experienced strongman competitor! From competing at The Arnold Sports Festival to winning a Pro Card, Kristian has been through a unique journey. If you speak to most serious lifters in the sport of strongman, you'll usually hear that people are very accepting of anyone who wants to...

Today we're focusing on the "ditch the gimmicks" part of what I always say in the show intro. We've all seen the news articles with headlines like "Coconut oil will lower your cholesterol", then a month later a headline reads "Coconut oil may be a leading cause of heart disease". It doesn't get much more conflicting than that, right? There are endless examples of this which all lead to mass confus...

This month's guest interview is with runner, Brian Dennison. He has accomplished quite a lot of things in both running and with his health. He is telling his journey of how he started running with the Couch to 5K app and wanting to improve his health, and now enjoys Ultramarathons. His health was one big reason that he stayed motivated and he surprised his doctors with his significant weight loss...

Is losing weight, losing fat, or losing inches really as simple as "calories in vs. calories out"? If you burn more calories than you eat, you will always lose fat or inches? It depends on who you talk to. The reason for that is because it SHOULD be that simple, but the reality is, we live in a world with more and more no-totally-healthy people, so there are often many other factors that need to b...

Today I'm focusing on one big, 4-way intersection that has to do with different eating styles. I'd love to know if you've heard of mindful eating and/or intuitive eating before or not. These two are quite popular but I don't think they've quite made it to where they're so popular that everyone has heard of them. If you *have* heard of mindful eating or intuitive eating, you're not alone if they st...

As I've been seeing lots of new people in the gym where I train, I've been taking notice of a lot of common dos and don'ts of the gym. I hope this will come in helpful for some of you, because I know that a lot of people don't reach their goals because they are not consistent, and a big part of consistency has to do with confidence. I didn't always have confidence in my body, or at the gym. Everyo...

The long-awaited first podcast interview is here! Today I am interviewing LaRoy Warner, owner of Iron Camp and personal trainer.    He trains all kinds of people to get strong and achieve their goals. He's been working in the world of strength and fitness for about 20 years. He has a lot of knowledge, and I know we see eye to eye on quite a lot of things. One reason why I wanted to have him on is...

Note to listeners: Shortly after the 10-minute mark, as I was speaking about calcium supplements, I accidentally said "grams" rather than "milligrams". I definitely meant to say milligrams! Happy new year! There is no other time of year that you should be more cautious about gimmicks with fitness and nutrition than this time of year. Lately, I feel like every time I look at social media there is s...

If you feel extra stress from these last few weeks of the year due to shopping, crowds, social gatherings, late nights, huge meals, traveling, having house guests or having to plan parties — that stress isn't just your body and mind feeling frazzled — it goes much deeper than that. The truth is, that feeling is your hormones screaming out for help. They're aware that you're in some state of "crisi...

I thought it was time for a show that's not so cerebral or scientific so today's show is on the lighter side but it will also give you some things to think about. If you've listened to me for any length of time you can probably notice a bit of a running theme that I tend to have a thing with semantics — or the meaning of words. Sometimes semantics are pointless or petty, but if we say words withou...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in America and it's pretty typical to end up having many social events from now until the end of the year where food is involved and I know that can stir up a lot of stressful feelings for people. So while I don't have anything groundbreaking to share, I'm hoping this will be some encouragement and some tough love for anyone who either has anxiety about food leading up to...

Micronutrients, which are more commonly called vitamins and minerals are all vital parts of health and nutrition. It can get pretty complicated though, and each person's individual needs are different. Most vitamins and minerals work in tandem with another one. So if one is low, the other might be high, or if you're deficient in one, another one won't be as effective. That is one very good reason...

It's pretty easy to find your typical stuff about gratitude this time of year while that's lovely and everything, I like to explore the grittier side of things. I was going through my massively long list of episode ideas, I came across some jumbled thoughts that I had recklessly typed out probably in early 2018 about gratitude and spiritual bypassing (I'll explain what that is in a bit in case tha...

Herxheimer reactions are something that most people have experienced but they probably didn't know it had a name. In short, it's when the body is having sort of a cleansing crisis and certain symptoms get worse before they get better. Since each person's chemical makeup is different, there is really no limit to what form a Herxheimer reaction will take but some of the most common types of Herxheim...

When was the last time you were at work, and someone said, "Hey guys, I think we should call a meeting to talk about all the destructive, unnecessary comments that I hear you make to each other around meals at work"? NEVER, right? Not even the HR department will take that initiative, although there is room to improve mental health in the workplace if they would. Today's topic is about so many thin...

If you've never heard of toxic positivity, this episode is especially for you! In order to bloom, we have to be willing to sit in the dirt sometimes. Have you ever gone through times when you were depressed, lacked any oomph for life or you were dragging through the days and not feeling upbeat about anything? I know I've had lots of those times myself. As recently as last week. Maybe you found the...