The Power in Motion Podcast

Excerpt: In my work as a personal trainer and nutritionist, the main goal I hear from my clients is to lose weight. When questioned about their desire to lose weight, the most common answer is “to be healthy”. We all want to be the healthiest we possibly can be, we understand that weight loss is the answer. Having a high BMI has been linked with diseases such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes, can...

Excerpt: Food is our lifeblood and eating is one of life’s greatest joys and yet it can seem so complicated. Everyone has an opinion on what is “good and bad”; the “healthiest” way to eat; what is the right amount to eat and even who is allowed to eat certain foods without guilt and shame. Our culture is obsessed with food rules and as such leaves us feeling pressured, confused, guilty and ashamed...

Excerpt: Why is it so hard to love ourselves? Well, it could be because we are listening to two very conflicting messages about how to reach a place of self acceptance. On one hand we have diet culture telling us that the only way to be healthy, happy, confident is to be thin. And only when we achieve this, are we worthy of our own love and acceptance. But on the other hand, is the body positivity...

Excerpt: Over 90% of women are unhappy with their body’s appearance, but we make the mistake in thinking that losing weight or changing our body’s shape is the key to happiness and self-acceptance. Body image begins with our thoughts and until we identify and challenge the limiting beliefs underneath our desire to lose weight, we will continue to struggle to accept ourselves. In this episode, I ha...

Most people begin the New Year with fresh goals - a desire to grow, improve and become a better version of themselves. Usually around this time though, the motivation and resolve you had January first starts to fizzle. We are either relying heavily on willpower at this point, or are feeling like a failure because the willpower has run out. 80% of New Years Goals are abandoned by February 1st, and...

Excerpt: “Pushing yourself” has long been seen as the objective behind exercise. But usually that comes from a place of wanting to fix ourselves - to burn more calories, to compete, to prove ourselves or in hopes that we’ll lose weight. Having a negative mindset about exercise and pushing through is a sure fire way to kill all joy for movement. However, when we participate in movement as a form of...

Have you ever looked at a runner and wondered why on earth they would want to do that? Any runner will tell you that once you’ve experienced the runner’s high, you’re hooked for life. The runner’s high is a chemical reaction that results in a feeling of euphoria, increased focus and mental clarity, decreased anxiety and ability to feel pain - and it’s not just for runners. This feeling can occur a...

Feeling a sense of belonging is known to be one of the top three factors that contribute to motivation. Having a group of supportive, like minded people to move with has a huge positive effect on motivation, and consistency. However, there’s no one size fits all approach to group fitness - each person’s needs and preferences for community are different. There are numerous benefits to being part of...

Rest is a very important part of a well rounded movement practice. Taking regularly scheduled rest days has the following benefits: Improves strengthPrevents muscle fatigueImproves your energy /performanceHelps you sleep betterPrevents injury. Beyond the physical benefits, giving your physical body a break allows you to take care of your mental, spiritual and emotional bodies as well. But sometime...

On this week’s episode, we’re talking about the 6th principle of joyful movement which is to stop relying on external validation. By that I mean fitness trackers, apps and even the scale to tell you that you are doing it “right” in terms of exercise. About 20% of people in north america wear a fitness tracker, but it’s interesting to note that about ⅓ of people who own one will stop wearing it wit...

For the majority of the people in this world, getting motivated to exercise or even beginning to exercise is difficult. But then there are a few of us who actually do the opposite of this… We exercise too much - we go too hard, too often. While moving your body and being physically active every day (or most days) is great, like everything else in life, too much of a good thing is actually a bad th...

The gym police are the loud, obnoxious voices in our head that scream at you all the fitness rules of how you “should” be exercising if you want to do it right. They highlight everything that you’re doing wrong, and make you feel terrible about yourself which often keeps you from doing anything at all. Gym police are thoughts; negative thoughts about our inadequacies and how we don’t measure up. T...

Welcome back to our series on the 10 principles of joyful movement. This week we discuss principle 3 - Just say no to punishment. No Pain, No Gain is the most common “motivation” saying from the fitness industry. As such, we’re conditioned to believe that the only way to get fit is to push ourselves to the brink 5-6 days a week. But it’s not working. Thinking that exercise has to hurt or that it h...

Traditional exercise and weight loss programs typically focus on the physical body or aesthetics - using restriction and punishment to try to shrink the body in order to fit into the societal ideal. We are actually made up of four bodies - the physical body, the mental body, the spiritual body and the emotional body. And when we ignore the needs of the whole self and spend our efforts on “fixing”...

Today begins our series exploring the 10 principles of joyful movement. Principle #1 is all about rejecting the diet mentality. Even though many women wouldn’t identify as dieters, exercise is almost always viewed as a way to earn or burn food or purely as a way to change or control the size and shape of your body. Viewing exercise in this way sets us up for a negative relationship with exercise a...

Description: Motivation is the #1 reason that women struggle to stick to an exercise regime. On today’s episode, we’ll explore the top 5 reasons why you struggle. We’ll expose the main motivation killer that we’ve all been brainwashed to believe should be our primary goal. We’ll review the behavioural science behind motivation and what research has proven to be truly motivating forces. In understa...

Hello friends and welcome to the very first episode of the Joyful movement show!! I’m thrilled to have finally jumped into the podcasting world - it’s been a dream of mine for a long time and while I can’t say I’m a 100% confident, I’m a believer in taking imperfect action because let’s face it - we’re never really ready to start something new, are we? But I know this - that there’s a whole lot of...