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If you want to postiviely reframe the narrative of weight gain - this is the episode for you! Today, we're speaking to the personal trainer, intuitive movement coach, content creator and podcaster Tally Rye. Tally shares her powerful journey of healing her relationship with her body image, food, and exercise. She opens up about moving away from the relentless pursuit of thinness and embracing a more compassionate, balanced approach to health and self-worth.We dive into the positives of weight gain, how it's impacted Tally's life for the better, and how she navigates conversations with people who don't quite see it the same way.This conversation was recorded back in October 2024 as part of our body image series - so if you haven't listened to that yet, head back and explore more insights from Tally and other incredible guests diving deep into all things body image.Follow @tallyrye on InstagramRead more about all of Tally's work hereIf you would like to get in touch - you can email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.comFollow us on Instagram:@shouldideletethat@em_clarkson@alexlight_ldnShould I Delete That is produced by Faye LawrenceStudio Manager: Dex RoyVideo Editor: Celia GomezSocial Media Manager: Emma-Kirsty FraserMusic: Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's 2024 and Jameela welcomes Tally Rye - personal trainer, podcaster & author of ‘Train Happy' - for a New Year conversation about democratizing exercise and making body movement's focus fun and playful. They talk about how we are overcommitting to change at this time of year, how exclusive & high pressure the gym & exercise classes have become, and how filming yourself (and others!) at the gym sets even higher aesthetic standards. Tally shares her approach on gentle encouragement when it comes to body movement, and the pair commit to helping change the narrative of fitness culture starting at I Weigh's 'Move For Your Mind' Event in London on January 19th, 2024. Find tickets for 'Move For Your Mind' here.You can follow Tally on her IG @tallyrye and her website tallyrye.co.uk You can find transcripts from the show on the Earwolf website I Weigh has amazing merch – check it out at podswag.comSend what you 'weigh' to iweighpodcast@gmail.comJameela is on Instagram @jameelajamil and TikTok @jameelajamilAnd make sure to check out I Weigh's Instagram, Youtube and TikTok for more!
This week we are joined by fellow podcaster and personal trainer Tally Rye to deconstruct body pressures in the fitness world. Here we go! Mental is the brain-child of Bobby Temps, who lives and thrives while managing his own mental health. Each Thursday we delve into a factor or condition that affects the mind and how to better manage it. Join our Subscription on Apple Podcasts for extended ad free episodes… We have a very blue website with loads of great resources HERE
In today's CIHAS episode, I'm speaking to online personal trainer and performance nutritionist, Michael Ulloa. Michael is on a mission to make the fitness industry a more welcoming and accepting space for all, which is exactly what we dive into in this ‘sode. We are unpacking some toxic myths about exercise, Michael spills the beans on his feelings about Joe Wicks, and we discuss what really goes into professional fitness models' photo shoots. Plus we answer loads of your questions like how to find a more joyful relationship with movement after a lifetime of using it as punishment for eating. Find out more about Michael's work here.Follow his work on Instagram here.Follow Laura on Instagram here.Subscribe to Laura's newsletter here.Enrol in the Raising Embodied Eaters course here.Here's the transcript in full:INTRO:Michael: The way that we're being sold health and fitness just isn't sustainable or achievable in any way and then people blame themselves and feel worse and then therefore they're more likely to spend money on all these other programs repeatedly and it's just a vicious cycle that just doesn't ever end.Laura: Hey, and welcome to the Can I Have Another Snack? Podcast, where we talk about appetite, bodies, and identity, especially through the lens of parenting. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm an anti diet registered nutritionist, and I also write the Can I Have Another Snack? Newsletter. Today, I'm talking to Michael Ulloa.Michael is an online personal trainer and performance nutritionist who is on a mission to make the fitness industry a more welcoming and accepting space for all. In today's episode, Michael and I are shooting the shit about the fitness industry, unpacking some toxic myths about exercise, and answering loads of your questions: like how to find a more joyful relationship with movement after a lifetime of using it as punishment for eating.Some of you have been asking for more episodes on movement and fitness, so I think you're going to enjoy this conversation. We'll get to Michael in just a second, but first, I want to tell you real quick about the benefits of becoming a paid subscriber to the Can I Have Another Snack? Newsletter and community.For just £5 a month, or £50 a year, you get access to the extended CIHAS universe. That means exclusive weekly discussion threads, links and recommendations, you get commenting privileges and access to my monthly Dear Laura column, as well as the whole CIHAS archive and a few other sweet perks, but more than anything, you're supporting independent evidence based nutrition information free from diet culture and anti fatness. I can't do this work without the help of paying subscribers. So if you get something out of being here, then please consider upgrading your subscription today. And if you're still not convinced, then check out this recent review I received from a reader. They said: "Laura's podcast and newsletter are always thought provoking, filled with care and compassion, and a respite from one size fits all health and nutrition advice."So if that sounds good to you, then head to laurathomas.substack.com and become a paying subscriber today. Alright team, let's get to today's episode, here's Michael. MAIN EPISODE:All right, Michael, I need to know what the deal is. Because you're like one of maybe five PTs who isn't pushing aesthetic or weight loss goals on us.Has that always been your deal? Or is this more of an evolution for you? Michael: Yeah, it's definitely an evolution and it's funny you mentioned that because I get a lot of angry messages from personal trainers that don't think that my approach is right, which is always quite funny to me. I don't know, it's, I definitely, when I first started off in the fitness industry... I've been a personal trainer now for nearly 10 years.And in terms of personal training, that kind of makes you a bit of a veteran because a lot of trainers are quite short lived on average. When I first started off, I definitely did have your typical, like, mainstream slightly bro approach to fitness and nutrition. And I know most people that maybe work in the kind of space that, like, you operate in, for example, there tends to usually be a reason or a thing that caused them to go down that path.But I didn't have that at all. It really has just been a really slow evolution of just actually reading the research, working with people on a day to day basis, getting feedback from clients about what is working and what isn't, and then just really tweaking things over a very long period of time. I've also had some very honest clients, which have been great too, who kind of really follow my content on social media and they would message me like, oh, that's not very helpful. How about approaching it like this? And i'm always open to feedback, I always want to improve my practice and my messaging and I was always just quite receptive to that and I don't know... 10 years later I now finally feel like i'm working with people in a way that genuinely helps them long term and i'm actually creating content that is useful for people rather than just almost creating content for other personal trainers, which seems to be what a lot of fitness professionals do.Laura: Tell me about the angry messages. Why are other PTs up in your shit about...? Michael: I really don't know. I wish I knew the answer. I think... I guess if you're attacking someone's entire being and their work and their ethos that they've believed in for so many years, then I guess that a lot of people will react to that in quite a negative way.I really don't understand it at all either. Usually male coaches too, are very angry in the way that I approach social media and some of the names and things I've been called are pretty grim, but I only... I wish I knew the answer to that, but some, for some reason people get very angry in the way that I am approaching fitness and nutrition.But yeah, I really don't mind. Like I, as I said, I feel like I'm really helping people now and I'm happy to keep championing that message. Laura: I mean, I'm just wondering if part of it is because that myth, certain myth of no pain, no gain. And that you need to like, basically punish yourself with exercise in order to achieve a particular body type.You're saying, actually, we don't need to do that. It's okay if you don't kill yourself with exercise. We shouldn't be weaponising it against ourselves. For me, it speaks to how deeply internalised people's anti fat bias is. You're challenging the fundamental sort of premise that their beliefs are resting on, which is that, you can't be fit and fat.Or you...yeah, like I said before, that you have to punish yourself with exercise or like that... it's somehow okay to exist in a body that isn't fulfilling this ideal that we have been told that we should not strive for. Michael: Completely. And I mean, if we're completely honest about it, the way that the fitness industry is set up now is way more profitable for these people too.So if you do start attacking the way that they're approaching their lives or their businesses too, then they're probably going to be a little bit grumpy about that. It's so much easier for me as a personal trainer to make money saying, here we go, come sign up for the six week program and we'll strip body fat off you in such a short space of time, rather than me saying, cool, let's work together for three, six, 12 months. And let's really work on those habits and have you feeling and performing better. Like it's just such a hard sell. I mean, especially for, as I mentioned, like, personal training tends to be quite a short lived career for a lot of people. And I appreciate that when people first start off, the best way to get clients is shock and awe, like showing before and after photos, like having the secrets or whatever it is. And the best way to get clients at the start is by doing that. So people are going to follow that path rather than doing it the right way. That is a bit of a slow burner. I know that a lot of coaches aren't really up for that, sadly. Laura: Yeah, no, I think you make a really good point when you're talking about... the financial aspect of things, because, yeah, there's no money to be made in being like, yeah, take a rest day or go for a gentle walk and look at the sky. Yeah, those like making huge promises of around body transformations and then making people sign up for some sort of like intensive bootcamp situation. Of course, that makes sense from like a business model perspective, but as so often is the case, anything that involves capitalism is probably not great for our health overall. Okay, so I am absolutely not in the fitness space at all. I've purged my social media account. I think I follow you and maybe a couple of other personal trainers, because I find it really annoying, honestly, watching fitness content.Michael: I strongly relate to that. And first of all, thank you for following me, but yeah, I honestly, I feel exactly the same way. Laura: And I think, especially since having had a baby and because I have some enduring physical stuff going on as a result of my pregnancy in terms of, like, pelvic health, even the stuff that is like geared towards women who have had babies and like postpartum stuff.It's just anyway, so I've just checked out of it. So I have no idea. What is going on in that space, really? So I need you to like, translate it all for me. What are some of the most pervasive and toxic fitness myths that you're seeing at the moment? Michael: Everything. Honestly, every topic is so toxic at the moment.It's really frustrating. And I speak to... There's a few coaches that I'm really good friends with, who I think you probably know as well, that I tend to follow their content, I like engaging with them and talking about the fitness industry, but I have also removed myself from a lot of the mainstream approach because...I don't find it motivating or helpful in any way. Like I think a lot of the... Laura: You don't even hate follow some people just to have like stuff to...? Because I hate feed a lot of big feeding. I hate-feed?! I hate-follow a lot of big accounts. I just have this folder on my Instagram called Ammunition.And I just save posts in there that I want to come back and get angry about at some point. What are you seeing from... I know you do it! But what are you seeing from those folks? Michael: So I do a little bit of that. And I, so I've also, I've got an Instagram account for my dog, but I started up ages ago. I don't post anything to it, but every time I see something pop up on, like, the explore page or I see another trainer share, I'll send it to her account. And then I'll use that as fodder for, like, creating content and coming up with ideas. But I do not, I don't hate follow that many people now because like I spent a lot of time on social media, right?And I know that because of that following these accounts and seeing them on a day to day basis all of the time does massively negatively impact my mental health. And I think if i'm feeling that way as a fitness professional who knows the research, knows what these accounts are doing to us and can see through the nonsense... how are everyday people feeling? When they're seeing this content and they don't really know if it's the truth or not. So I actually don't follow that many trainers. There's probably a lot of trainers who... . Laura: So very evolved of you. Michael: Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. There's a few trainers who, like, I know through just from working in gyms or whatever, I'll follow them, but I mute them so that I don't have to see their content.Laura: Yeah, that's smart. Michael: But yeah, I don't know. There's so many myths about every topic. Like you mentioned there about, like, women's health and pelvic health and anything pre and postnatal. The stuff around that is really gross because it's not even just the fact that they're spreading misinformation. They somehow always tie in with just losing weight, like this is pretty much what it all comes down to, right? Laura: Yeah. Yeah. That's the subtext. It's always there. Michael: It's always like improve your pelvic health and slim your waist, like it's everything. It just pushes people down the route of still obsessing about body weight and focusing on body weight rather than focusing on general health and wellbeing and health promotion, and it's infuriating.I guess the same as, like, building muscle. Like it's nearly always advertised by these guys that are absolutely jacked, clearly taking steroids, using images of themselves going... you can look like this if you work out like me and buy my programs and my nutrition plans, and you're just never going to look like these people. So you're always going to fail. Like everything within the fitness space is geared towards repeat sales and having people come back for more because the way that we're being sold health and fitness, just isn't sustainable or achievable in any way. And then people blame themselves and feel worse. And then therefore they're more likely to spend money on all these other programs repeatedly. And it's just a vicious cycle that just doesn't ever end. And that's why with my page, I'm trying to step away from any aesthetic goals. Like you'll probably see through my social media, I don't, I'm not against people having aesthetic goals. I just don't really ever talk about it because I don't think it should ever be the focus of someone's fitness journey. I mean, I think that's the bit that seems to piss people off. Laura: Yeah. And I mean, there's some interesting research that shows that people who exercise for aesthetic goals, they're less likely to engage in something that is sustainable for them.Like, it's more likely that they will give up. And I don't mean that in, like, defeatist kind of way, but it just won't be sustainable for them. Versus for people who are approaching, I don't know, a type of exercise or training or whatever it is from a place of maybe wanting to feel stronger or feel more comfortable in their bodies or because they have mobility stuff that they're working through or something like that.So it's really difficult though, because And we'll get to some of the listener questions in a bit where they're asking this, like, how do you uncouple the aesthetic goals from, those more internally motivated goals from the perspective that we are just constantly being drip fed, idealised images of people all over the internet? And then, like you say, half the time those images aren't even real, right? There's people on ‘roids. There are people who are like starving themselves, like making themselves dehydrated, like posing in particular ways. I don't even know what other tactics people use to stylise these images.But I feel like the sort of falsification of these pictures is huge in the fitness industry. Michael: It's honestly horrific. And I would probably go as far as to say, like, every professional fitness model has taken or is taking steroids of some form. That's like the level of manipulation that the fitness industry...I don't know, I don't think there's any issue with... having aesthetic goals. Like I always like to hammer this point home because I think sometimes with my content, I can... people misconstrue that I'm against anyone having any aesthetic goal at all. I'm not, it's just, I think that the emphasis needs to be elsewhere.For example, when I first started in the fitness industry, I was in that loop of must build muscle, have to build muscle to show that I know what I'm talking about and also to be seen as manly and capable or whatever, and I would do a lot of strength training. I would never do cardio because cardio is bad.It ruins your gains. Laura: It's for girls.Michael: Yeah, it's just exactly that. And it's so frustrating that I would... I spent years just, like, strength training, nothing but strength training, even when I was going through cycles of really hating it. Like I had to do strength training, got to build muscle. When I switched up my training... I still do strength training now. I enjoy building muscle. The challenge of building strength and muscle is really fun, but I also do a lot of cardio because I really enjoy it and it makes me feel great in terms of physical and mental health. And actually since switching up, dropping a bit of strength training that I was doing and doing more cardio, the exercise I really enjoy, I've made so much more progress with my strength building and muscle building gains.And I've just got such a better balance with it all. So if someone listening to this is really struggling of knowing like what they should really be doing, what should they be focusing on? Honestly, just like enjoyment and mental health, that needs to be the priority. And then everything else just tends to fall into line after that.And the fitness industry, just the tactics, as I said, like the trainers use. The one thing that really annoys me is a lot of personal trainers will, anyone who follows any trainers will... I've seen this in the past where a trainer goes through a really extreme cycle of dieting, exercise regime because they're training for a photo shoot - in quotation marks - Where they'll go and get professional photos done that they've dieted down to within an inch of their lives. And they'll get a little snapshot image of look how amazing I look and then they'll use that in all their advertising of promoting healthy behaviour change or whatever other nonsense. It's if you're not using healthy, sustainable habits in achieving your physique, then you should not be allowed to use that in terms of advertising it to say that you're going to help people improve their health and their life, their health and their lives.It's just, it's incredibly infuriating and... Laura: it's false advertising. Michael: Massively. Yeah. Massively. Laura: Need to get that fucking, is it ASA, advertising...? Michael: Yeah. Yeah. Standards Agency. Absolutely. Yeah. Laura: I'm on the case! But two interesting things that I wanted to pick out from what you were saying.First of all, I think there's some complexity and nuance around this idea aesthetic goals, isn't there? Because we are all aesthetically driven, right? We are all, like we're aesthetic creatures in some ways, like when you brush your hair in the morning or I don't know, you trim your beard, Michael, or like I chose clothes that I thought looked somewhat okay together. Like those are all aesthetic goals, right? And so I think it's really, like, hard for people to decouple aesthetic goals from their overall movement, exercise routines, whatever you want to call them. But I think what you're saying, and certainly what I would advocate is that the fitness industry has just blown... yeah, they've blown up aesthetics to be like the sole purpose that people should exercise, right? And that I think is the problem is that yeah, they've just coupled exercise and aesthetics to the point that it's like you were saying, people are engaging in disorderly eating behaviours. They're using illicit drugs, they are, like, punishing themselves to look a particular way, and that's when it becomes problematic, right? Michael: Completely agree. Laura: And you end up on that slippery, slippery slope to disordered eating and eating disorders. Michael: Yeah, it's so true the barometer of success or health or knowledge within the fitness industry is body fat levels. That's pretty much what it all comes down to. Like a trainer who is absolutely jacked and really ripped is seen as being an authority figure without really knowing anything about them. And whereas you'll have a trainer who's in maybe a naturally larger sized body who naturally carries a little bit more body fat, has a much healthier balance of exercise and nutrition, a far better trainer. Just look at the comments under the content that they push out there onto social media and people will criticize them and say they don't know what they're talking about. Like our barometer of success is leanness. I don't know what the answer is to trying to combat that other than just keep churning out content, calling out this nonsense.But unfortunately you feel like you take a few steps forward when it was like two, three years ago, when you see, started to see a lot more body diversity on fitness accounts and kind of big companies like Gymshark and Nike and stuff were using people in larger bodies to advertise clothing.That's now disappearing again because it's no longer.... and it's just toxic. And you just have to go on like TikTok, the latest platform, even though it's been around a few years, I felt like we were maybe making a bit of progress. Then TikTok just flips that again, and you just got to search the hashtag fitness on TikTok.And it's just white, slim, muscular people clearly taking steroids that are the main bulk of the content that you're going to see. It's infuriating. Laura: Everyone in the fitness industry really collectively needs to be speaking out against this, but I think there's a simultaneous thing that has to happen whereby we are amplifying and centering experiences and the work of fat fitness creators, right? And I'm using fat, for anyone who's not listened to the podcast before, fat as a neutral descriptor, as a reclamation of a word that is often used to weaponise and hurt people and harm people. So, yeah, I'm just thinking of some people off the top of my head.Like Intuitive Fatty, Jessamyn Stanley is fantastic for yoga content. Lauren Leavell does a lot of barre stuff, but there's loads. I mean, is there anyone that you would want to give a shout out to like anyone that's doing...? Michael: The Instagram handle Decolonizing Fitness? Ilya. The content is amazing. We're trying to set up a time for Ilya to come into our podcast to chat about this at the moment. And I just... there's so many voices that need to be amplified. And I know that I always have to check my privilege in the content that I'm creating. Like you see very few men within the kind of body neutrality, body positivity, space, whatever you want to call the area I'm working in.So I always like to acknowledge that, okay, I'm creating content for a space that isn't really for me, but I do think that can be really powerful. And we still need more voices of guys, especially within this space, calling it out because I rarely ever see male fitness professionals creating the kind of content that I am.They tend to go down the more mainstream approach. And I like to yes, fitness can look like me. I look how the fitness industry says you're supposed to look, but it doesn't have to look like that, right? This is one way it can look, but it doesn't need to be like that for everyone. And I think that can be really powerful whilst amplifying the voices of those who are marginalised and don't get the airtime that I do.Laura: Yeah, absolutely. And I think, yeah, you make a really good point about men in this space. Like just in body neutrality, body positivity and again, there are some really great people doing stuff in that space. I agree like it's still underrepresented, but like the 300 pound runner. I don't know if you've come across his stuff? Michael: yeah, Martinus Evans.Laura: Yeah, His stuff is really cool as well. But yeah, anyway, just wanted to shout out some accounts and I'll link to them in the show notes as well. Yeah, so you mentioned that fitness professionals will embark on this really extreme diet, they will really bulk up, they'll, probably restrict what they're eating for a really long time, and then they'll do all their photos, and they'll probably go back to whatever they were doing before that. And it just reminded me when... and this is it's like really sad, but do you remember when Joe Wicks was talking all about binging? He went to America, and then it ... he just started talking about like he was eating all this chocolate and pizza and like stuff that he obviously was restricting so hard that when he went to the States, he had this like backlash against all of that and his body was just like, fuck this, and he just started eating like all of the food that he'd been denying himself.It just made me think of that and how he's... how disordered like this space is and how normalised that kind of thing is like that just like binge restrict cycle. Michael: Yeah, I mean when your entire business model relies on getting people really lean. If you're not sticking to those rules and keeping your body lean 100 percent of the time, then your business model kind of goes to shit. And I guess that's probably why he was having issues coming to terms with that. Joe Wicks is a really funny one because I don't like his content at all. I'll throw that out there. Some of the nutrition stuff he's spouted has been... I was going to say nonsense, but it's actually just damaging some of the stuff he comes out with.Also, on the other hand, I feel like, maybe this is giving him too much credit, I always feel like his heart is in the right place, but he just goes about it in completely the wrong way. I don't know if you would agree with that. When I hear him being interviewed, I feel like he's a really passionate guy who feels like he's doing the right thing, but he's just absolutely not.Because all of his content is focused on being lean and weight loss. And I just wish that... he's got such a huge platform now. It's terrifying. That if you had someone like him who could start promoting like a balanced and sensible message, it's never going to happen because he makes too much money now, then it would just be so powerful.Laura: But I don't know, like this piece around heart in the right place. I think we say that about a lot of these actually quite problematic white men. Joe Wicks, Jamie Oliver, I'm just gonna say it, don't @ me. But, of course their heart's in the right place, but their heart's also in their fucking bank balance, right?Michael: Completely, 100%. Laura: So that's one part of it, but also, I don't know when we can, when someone is, like you say, promoting harmful messages around food and around nutrition. And I don't. I think it matters where their heart is. Michael: Agreed. I wonder whether this... Laura: A murderer could use that justification to be like, Oh, well, this man is really toxic to women, so I'm just going to kill him.But that's not the solution. Michael: I know. I wonder whether kind of in my head, the reason I use those words is because I think of kind of the fitness industry as like a huge, like a line of like how problematic someone is. And I feel like he feels he's trying to do the right thing despite doing it very badly.Whereas you have a lot of people within the fitness space that go far beyond that, who are intentionally doing the really bad thing, trying to make a lot of money, it's still very bad. And Jamie Oliver is one of those as well, where he's got such a huge platform, thinks he knows what he's doing is the best thing, but it's just not. Like trying to ban the buy one get one free offers when people are really struggling to feed their families right now.It's just, I feel yes, hearts in the right place, but just no, like they need to be more informed and go about it in a better way. Laura: And especially when they are being given this feedback, right? Like it's one thing if you fuck up and you say, I was really wrong about that and I've learned some new information now like you have, right? And like I have. And you hold your hands up and you say, yeah, I was really fucking wrong and I'm sorry that I've caused harm and I don't want to do that anymore. I'm gonna learn and I'm gonna do better. And Michael: that's the sign of a good practitioner, right? And yeah. Laura: But speaking of Joe Wicks... Michael: Oh god!Laura: So, so you are a new ish parent, right? You have a seven month old. Michael: Yes, my son is seven months old, yeah. Laura: How do you feel about the prospect of Joe Wicks teaching your kid PE someday? Michael: Oh, just no, like awful. Yeah it's terrifying, isn't it? And these people do wangle their way into every aspect of our society of fitness.And there's just no getting away from them now. Personally, I never watched any of his school fitness things throughout lockdown. I know they're very popular. What was his wording? Did you watch any of them then with your kids? Laura: I didn't cause my little one was just a newborn at that point. And he's only three now.It just wasn't on my radar. I've seen his books. He has the burpee bears. And I've written a couple of like book reviews. They're super like, just tongue in cheek. But it strikes me as really problematic that he feels that we need to teach specific moves like burpees or other things like that to children, like to young children, like primary school age kids, and I don't really have a good justification for that because I'm not a fitness professional that other than does a five year old need to learn how to plank? Right? Or should we not be focusing on embodied movement that is climbing on play equipment in the playground or running or skipping or jumping or like, all of these things that kids, depending on their level of mobility and ability that they would intuitively do?Michael: I am completely with you there. I don't think we need to be teaching a five year old how to do a burpee. It's a bit ridiculous, to be honest. Yeah, that's the way that movement should be promoted and advertised to kids, if you want to use those kind of technical terms. It should just be about play and fun and movement, and that's... what it should be. Like if a kid sees their parent doing burpees or lifting weights and they want to try a bit out and get involved yeah, absolutely. But it just, it shouldn't be the go to, right? Yeah, absolutely. Laura: Yeah. My kid has seen me do a downward dog and he like gets involved and we do the cosmic kids yoga. I feel like that's a slightly different thing because it's a, it's so gentle and b it's animal poses. I don't know. All right. So I got sent through loads of questions from listeners and I thought they were really fun. So I just thought we could go through them. I think we've touched on a bit of it already, but maybe you can just give me your quick fire answers.Michael: Sure. Yeah. Laura: So this is an interesting question that Gwen from Dieticians for Teachers sent in. She said she would like to know more about the messages in your formal training. I think we can take a good guess, but I guess what she's getting at is, like, what toxic messages were in your formal training?Michael: Unfortunately, when you're learning to become a personal trainer still so much of it is about weight loss, still. You'll get taught, right, this is what we're going to learn about nutrition and this is how you help someone lose weight. So that is still at the core. And I guess a lot of the training for personal trainers, in terms of nutrition anyway, It's still very like basic government guidelines, which you can take those as you will. Some recommendations are maybe okay, others not that helpful. The training for nutrition for personal trainers is so, so, so, so basic that I would encourage any personal trainer who has recently qualified and not done any further nutrition study from there to please sign up to another course and learn more because what you learn as a personal trainer at the basic level is just nowhere near good enough to work with clients in depth.Laura: I have a lot of thoughts about personal trainers and nutrition, but I'm going to keep them to myself! Michael: No, no feel free to talk about it! It terrifies me. And it's very rare now that... a lot of the people I work with have had personal trainers in the past. The large majority of them have had negative experiences, and it's quite scary that's now just the norm.And I'll ask questions of my clients in consultations whilst working together and they'll be like, Oh, I've never been asked that before. I've never even considered that. And it just blows my mind that these things are being missed out or neglected by coaches. But the training is just not there. Laura: It's so interesting that the focus, I mean, it's not surprising, but that the focus is still on body size and not like flexibility or mobility or like rehab or like any of these, which I'm sure they like get touched on, but it sounds like from what you're saying that the real central focus is not mental health or like overall wellbeing. It's here's how you try and get people shredded, which we know is like biogenetically, if not difficult, if not impossible for most people. Michael: Pretty much. Yeah. Like I'm sure... I don't want to call out every personal training course. Like I did qualify a few years ago now, but I know there's some personal training qualifications that are trying to shift that, but it is still a large majority.And that is why a lot of the coaches coming through now, it's still very much before and after photos, weight centric. Yeah, unfortunately. Laura: Well, it's good to know that maybe there are some shifts coming down the pipe a little bit and I guess it just goes to show why again, you need to keep, like, pushing these alternative messages.Okay. This I thought was a really interesting question. And so this person asked, is exercise truly necessary? I don't enjoy exercising, but I do move a lot during the day, running errands and running after a toddler, all while baby wearing a newborn. And then the follow up question is, and if it is necessary to exercise intentionally, what form of exercise is best for someone who wouldn't otherwise prioritise it? Michael: That's such a good question. And it's very nuanced as well, depending on the person's situation. I would say, I mean, no, it's not necessary if you're moving around a lot throughout the day. However, so many health benefits come from incorporating some form of like direct exercise that it would be really sad to not explore all the potential areas that people could incorporate exercise into their life that maybe might not be the mainstream approach, right? If you are someone who moves around a lot throughout your day, if you say running errands and your general movement and step count is actually really high, then you could argue that as long as you get your nutrition, right, you're doing pretty well.However, strength training. Every time someone comes to me, no matter what their fitness goals are, I try and incorporate some form of strength training that I can, but that can take so many different forms. Laura: This person is carrying a baby around! Michael: Right. Yeah, exactly. Which is strength training, right?Exactly. So it's... when I say strength training, a lot of people listening to this episode right now will automatically... they'll think, like, gym, barbells, dumbbells, heavy weights, and it can come in so many different forms and it can be with resistance bands, body weight, dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells at home. It can be like TRX, it can be like so many different ways that you might enjoy at some point. So don't just think, Oh, I'm not an exercise-y person. I've always hated it because there are so many different ways that we can incorporate exercise. That is a very vague answer. without me knowing much more about this person. However, if you can find a form of exercise you enjoy, that should be a priority because the health benefits are huge. Laura: I'm going to push back because this is my opinion, not necessarily based on scientific fact, but it does feel as though there is this tendency, and I'm also conscious of your bias as a fitness professional, that exercise is held up as the pinnacle of health.And it's like the one thing that we need to do in order to be healthy. And I'm not disputing that there are health benefits. I also am like curious about the magnitude of those benefits within the broader context of health and health behaviours, but also nesting that within sort of social determinants of health and like, how do we measure the effect size of exercise individually from, I don't know, sleep, other elements of mental health, community? I guess what I'm maybe trying to temper is like that there are so many, like, variables and factors that contribute to someone's overall picture of health and I appreciate that movement can be an important facet of that.Michael: Yeah, no I really like that point because it is so important and I think that's why it's important to approach exercise and hence why I said without knowing more about this person, it's hard to give an exact answer. I think it's important to look at all of those things in terms of context when you're trying to prescribe or recommend exercise to someone, right?Let's say that this person is, they're likely lacking in sleep right now at the moment, right? Because their life is very busy running around after small humans. If that person is exhausted and they have no free time at all. I'm not then going to say, right, you've got to go and exercise 30 minutes a day for three times a week, because it's just not going to be helpful. There's other areas of your lifestyle that we can focus on to improve your health. However, if there is a bit of wiggle room, if you have a bit of time, then maybe there are things that we could explore that you could quite comfortably fit into your day without it taking over your life like a lot of the fitness industry wants us to do. Laura: Yeah. I think that the, maybe the TL;DR there is you don't have to sweat it when you are running around after a small child and doing other, all these other things. But if it feels like it's something that you want to explore, and you're curious to give something a try, then yeah, you could have a think about some gentle movement or something, see how that feels and how that fits in the context of your life But yeah, it's tricky to prescribe something without knowing, yeah knowing someone's life and what they want to get out of it. Michael: So true and you're never gonna know if it was directly the exercise. It could be so many other things that then, yeah, that then causes the health benefit.I would just say, once again, like anecdotally, rather than looking at research, every person that I've worked with that we've tried to think, right, how can we incorporate exercising today in some format? The large majority of the time, everything else feels better and improves as a result.Laura: Yeah, no , it can, it has a knock on effect on like sleep and pain and like all these other things. So, okay. How can I move my body without shame and guilt driving it? These are two separate questions, but I'm just lumping them together, and then this, another person asked, how to find the joy in movement after a life forcing it?Michael: I think first of all, it's really important to, like, vet where you're getting all of your inspiration and information from is a really important one because a lot of the time, if we're following the kind of general societal recommendations when it comes to exercise and nutrition. It's always going to have quite a prescriptive image focused approach to movement.And if you can shift away, like what we spoke about at the start of this, you don't follow many personal trainers because you don't think that they're motivating or helpful to you. They actually just make you feel worse. I'm the same. When I constantly see gym bros. telling me that I have to lift weights X amount of times a week, and I've got to get shredded and have low body fat levels, it has the complete opposite impact on me. So if you can first of all vet where you're getting your information from, that is absolutely huge. And then, yeah, I guess also once again, it's not beating yourself up for having the more mainstream thoughts that you used to have. I know a lot of people when they're trying to shift into kind of taking a more intuitive eating approach or a more intuitive eating approach with like exercise too, as well as nutrition, we can sometimes feel really guilty when we start slipping back into older habits that maybe are slightly disordered.I'm just... like giving yourself a bit of leeway and a bit of space to grow and learn. I'm still doing that. I still probably get things wrong and have room for improvement, but I think by doing that, removing the pressure on yourself can be really helpful. Laura: Yeah. Two things that I might add to that are something that I've explored with clients as part of working on the relationship with food and body and movement often comes up as part of that, we might explore this idea of, what it feels like in your body where you've had a period where you haven't moved at all, right? Maybe it's because you're recovering from an injury or because you just were so burnt out with exercise that you just really didn't move. How did that feel in your body? Did you get any pain or did it feel nice to rest or what was that experience? And then also thinking about periods of your life where maybe you've been really deeply invested in fitness culture. And maybe doing the punishing exercises, maybe also getting injuries because of that, maybe getting ill a lot of the time, maybe losing your period, like all kinds of different things, like different experiences that you could have in your bodies.If you've got that framing of this is what no exercise feels like in my body, and this is what too much feels like in my body, then it can help you explore what some sort of happy balance might feel like. So that's something that I encourage people to think about. And I also just wanted to shout out Tally Rye's Intuitive Movement Journal.It's her book Intuitive Movement as well. It is isn't it? Clients have found that those are helpful resources for navigating stepping back from exercise and just exploring what rest feels like through kind of the framework of, or a similar framework to intuitive being. So if intuitive being resonates with you, then maybe Tally's work will as well. So I'll link to them in the show notes. All right, this will be our last question. And it is: I cut out all deliberate movement for a while, by which I mean, I walk to get places and that's it. I'd like to try some movement. and see how it makes me feel. But where on earth do I even start? Michael: Okay, once again, without a lot of context, this is very hard to give specific advice.So I would say think about where you would feel most comfortable exercising and start from there. So I know that for a lot of people, the gym environment can be incredibly intense and intimidating for many reasons. So if you think that maybe that feels a bit much and it's going to put you off. Let's write that off. Don't do that. So let's think, okay, maybe we could start some movement at home. Is there a form of exercise that you really enjoy? Do you like dancing? Do you like jump rope? Do you like bodyweight workouts? What is it that kind of you think, Oh, actually that sounds quite fun to me and start there.And then let's say that there's so many decent content creators online, depending on what you like that I could recommend. Feel free to reach out and just start from that point. If you're thinking that kind of back to my earlier point that, okay, strength training doesn't have to look like that in the gym. What can it look like? A set of basic resistance bands from Amazon for 10 quid, you've got a gym at home. Like you don't have to go to a gym. There's so many different ways that it could look start from that start from what gives you that, Oh, that's interesting. I might give it a try, and start really, really small and build from there and that's probably the best place to start. Laura: If someone hasn't done much movement other than, like, incidental daily movements for a while... there's obviously a lot of privilege in this question but I'm wondering if you would recommend like doing a couple of one on one sessions with a trainer, like a safe trainer that could help build up strength or make like a bespoke kind of program for someone or just help them with their form so that they... I'm maybe thinking of myself here, but I know that I have to be really careful what I do at home because I'm more likely to end up injuring myself just because of my like, specific needs and in terms of managing pain. And so what I've ended up doing... and again shitload of privilege in this but, I'm, after three years of pelvic girdle pain, I'm like, at my limit. So I've started seeing a physio one on one who does clinical Pilates. So it's like very much helping me build my strength, which I could do... like I was going to a barre class before that, but I was walking away with more pain, even though it was supposedly like a supervised class, like there were no adjustments. There were no like modifications for my body, like nothing. So I personally, I have found that trying to build my strength and reduce pain, like finding someone who's really specialised has been a game changer for me. Michael: Yeah, I would say... I was gonna say one of the benefits of COVID. That's not what I meant. I was gonna say for the benefits of kind of the lockdown that happened as a result of COVID is the fitness industry got pushed forward by about five to ten years in terms of the way that it can support people, especially on a tighter budget as well. There are now so many... Laura: oh, you mean like online?Michael: Online support, right? Because I know that personal training is an investment for a lot of people. It's not a cheap route to go down. If you can afford it, absolutely, yes. If you can have the support of a professional who's got years of experience, it does speed things up and it makes things a lot more kind of personalised and perhaps more enjoyable.However, the way that the online fitness space works now, it has improved massively. And for, kind of, much cheaper options, monthly options, you can get the support of a trainer online that will be able to do a video call with you to check your form. You can send them videos. Like I speak to people that follow me on Instagram all the time and they'll ask me a question. I'll say, just send me a video of you doing the exercise. I'm happy to give you some pointers. If you find people online that are truly passionate and care. If you send them a video of you doing an exercise, they'll happily help you out. So there are so many different routes that you can go down to get the support that don't cost a huge amount of money.Once again, even the cheaper forms are still an investment, but there are different routes that you can go down now. Yeah, absolutely. Laura: Yeah. Okay. I appreciate that. And then just to add to that, like I've done some sessions with this, like a one on one physio. And now I'm going to, like the group classes as well.So it's, I think, helpful to just... if you have any kind of rehab that needs to be done, or if you just want to feel more confident in the movements. Cause like Pilates can be tricky if you don't know exactly what you're doing to just be thrown into a class situation. So it's helped me at least like doing a few sessions, even though I've done Pilates before, but just having that refresher to then go into a class setting, it's just helped build up my confidence a little bit. And it's also, I'm not going to like this, like a gym. Sorry, I said that with so much disdain, realizing you're a personal trainer! Michael: Ugh, these disgusting personal trainers!Laura: It had, like, a visceral effect. Michael: It's so funny though, isn't it? That it's so sad that's what the fitness industry has become. And especially as a trainer who is one, every time I meet someone and they'll ask oh, what do you do? I have to like preface, Oh, like I'm not like the rest of them, but I'm a personal trainer, like it's really sad.Laura: I do the same thing, but with nutrition, I'm like, I'm a nutritionist, but I'm not that kind of nutritionist. Michael: I'm not going to sell you a cleanse, I promise! Laura: All right, Michael, this has been so fun to have you on and just shoot the shit about fitness culture. But at the end of every episode, my guest and I share something that they have been snacking on. So it can be a book, a podcast, a TV show. Yeah, just about anything that, that you feel like. So what are you snacking on at the moment? Michael: So one podcast I'm listening to, this is going to be a bit of a curve ball, there's probably quite a few people, especially in the UK listening to it... I don't like politics because in this country, it's so gross the way that politics is at the moment, but I like being well informed in what's going in politics because it has such a huge knock on impact to like societal changes.Laura: I was really glad that you said that, because when you said I don't like politics, I was like, argh where is this going! Michael: no, I do, but I get so infuriated by it because it's so important and I feel like coaches need to be informed because it does directly impact everything we're doing with our clients in terms of like socioeconomic impacts and food access and education and stuff, so I've been listening to The Rest Is Politics podcast. I don't know if you've ever listened to it. It's actually really good. It's Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Labour side, Tory side. They chat about all daily topics and I quite like that they disagree and argue. I, depending on what you think about those two individuals, I'm still very mixed on what I think of them.However, I think it's very good to have a nice balanced approach there. So that's the podcast I've been listening to a lot recently. I really like it. In terms of food. So I can't eat eggs and dairy. I'm lactose intolerant and intolerant to eggs as well. Laura: I think you were probably going to wait for like the bummer, yeah, for me to be like, oh, that's such a bummer. But I'm vegan, so I don't eat any of that stuff . Michael: Yeah, I know. I was saying, I'm like the worst gym bro ever. I can't have whey protein shakes and I can't eat like 12 eggs a day. So maybe that's another reason they all hate me. So I found a vegan chocolate bar from Aldi. I don't know if you've ever had it. I don't think so. What? So they do milk, in quotation marks, milk chocolate and a white chocolate. They do a dark chocolate too, but a lot of vegan chocolate is dark. Anyway, so I haven't even tried that but their milk chocolate and their white chocolate is so good .And i'm getting through far too much of this chocolate at the moment but I finally found a chocolate bar that tastes amazing. They're by far the best chocolate you can get that's vegan, hands down Laura: That sounds really good, but we don't have an Aldi near us. We have a Lidl. Michael: So it's worth commuting. Laura: Oh, is it? Michael: Yeah. Yes. Laura: Okay. Might have to go to the dark depths of Dalston too.Okay. So I'm actually going to do a podcast also, and it's Getting Curious with Jonathan van Ness, which everyone knows who JVN is, obviously. He's amazing. Yeah, love them. There was like a bit of a thing a while ago where on their Netflix show they talked about like food addiction and it was just really problematic and icky and fatphobic. But JVN seems to have really been on a bit of a journey with this stuff and the latest, well, at the time that we are recording, they've just come out with a podcast called... well, an episode of their podcast Getting Curious called What's the Cultural History of the Calorie? With Dr. Athia Chaudhry. They're a fat activist and it's immersed in like fat politics. So, yeah. I would recommend going and giving that one a listen, because yeah, JVN has been on a journey, it seems. Michael: That sounds awesome. And that is my afternoon listening. Thank you very much. Laura: I will link to all of those things in the show notes.Michael, before I let you go, can you tell everyone where they can find out more about you and your work? Michael: Of course, so, most of the content I create is through Instagram, so it's just my name, which is very hard to spell, so probably best if you check it in the show notes. Laura: Yeah, I will link to everything.Michael: Thank you very much. So it's @MichaelUlloaPT, and that's on Instagram, Threads, Twitter, TikTok, whatever platform, it's all the same. Laura: All right, Michael, I will make sure that... It's all fully linked in the show notes so that everyone can find you. Thank you so much for coming on and yeah, like I said before, shooting the shit with us about fitness culture was really fun.Michael: Thank you so much for having me.OUTRO:Laura: Thanks so much for listening to the Can I Have Another Snack? podcast. You can support the show by subscribing in your podcast player and leaving a rating and review. 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Send us a Text Message.Nina Manolson is a body peace coach, who help her clients end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their bodies, as they are now.*From the first second I started chatting with Nina, I was touched by her empathy and warmth. She was 100% present with me and was deeply invested in this conversation.I first came across Nina many years ago on the Fit and Fearless podcast on BBC Radio1 with Tally Rye, Victoria Niamh Spence, and Zanna Van Dijk.She read a poem on air called 'I feel fat' and she spoke about her therapist asking her,"but if you didn't feel fat, what would you be feeling?"Her words resonated deeply with me and since I started the podcast in January, I've been so excited to have her on as a guest.We talk about the following topics:- How do we be 'body current' and accept and find peace with the bodies we are in now?- Embodiment. How body image healing can only start to happen from the inside out.- How can we accept our bodies when the goalposts change through peri to post menopause?- How do we start feeling more like ourselves when our bodies start to change.- How getting curious about the body thoughts that arise can help us lead with self-compassion.- How to NOT compare our bodies to those of othersNina ends by reading a beautiful poem she wrote on the 'compare & despair' that we so often feel.Am I Bigger Than Her?Am I bigger than her?I ask my husbandAs a woman passes on the streetAm I bigger than her?I ask myself, as I walk into the roomMeasuring up all the womenAm I bigger than her?I look at a picture of younger meA “memory” on Facebook from years agoAm I bigger than her?I am asking:Am I less attractive?less powerful?less likable?less worthy than her?Comparing myself to her sizeAnd her sizeAnd her sizeIf I'm bigger than her, then I'm less than herIf I'm smaller than her, then I'm more than herAnd her size and her size and her sizeMy self worth going up and down with each comparisonScoring points in a game against myselfThere's always someone biggerAnd always someone smallerThere's no winning this gameIt's just reducing women to their sizeAren't we bigger than that?~Nina ManolsonYou can find Nina on Instagram or contact her through her website where all of Nina's Body Peace offerings are available.For free resources, click here to access Are you feeling stuck in the 'earn and burn' cycle with your exercise routine, or as summer approaches, are you feeling self-conscious about wearing a swimsuit on the beach? Maybe you just want to stop worrying so much about food or how your body looks.You are not alone and your body is NOT the problem Please reach out if you would like some support. We both have limited slots for Intuitive Eating Coaching, so get in touch with Christine or with Ela.AND if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write us a short review. It would honestly mean the world. Love to you all, Ela & Christine x
Fresh from the Lizzo concert, join Tally as she answers your burning questions. We chat BMI, putting mental health first and eating disorders. Send in your voicenotes to 07599927537---A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wellll it's safe to say our relationships with exercise are NOT the best. We grew up feeling like exercise was a punishment, something we weren't cut out for, or something to justify what we could eat. But after our episode with intuitive movement expert Tally Rye in season 1, we've been thinking more about how much movement could do for our mental health, relationships with our bodies, and just overall lives. Trying to improve our relationships with exercise is a really long and complicated process, but in this episode we wanted to give you an honest look at what that “journey” has been like for us so far. Plus, Lauren chats to us about trying her first ever dance class after putting it off for years! If you'd like to try the Virtual Yoga Studio you can head to virtualyogastudio.com/love, thand for £15 you'll get 3 months of access to daily classes that can be done at your own pace and from wherever you want. ✨NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY, CLICK SUBSCRIBE TO GET THE EPISODES FIRST!✨
*TRIGGER WARNING: EATING DISORDERS AND WEIGHT STIGMA DISCUSSION*Are you fed up of diets and intentional weight loss controlling your life, making you feel unworthy and less than?A few years ago I felt the same, and the catalyst for change was listening to a podcast episode with an anti-diet Dietitian just like this. And it has honestly changed my entire life.In this episode the lovely Aoife McMahon, a Specialist Food+Body Healing Dietitian, shares her knowledge, expertise and lived experience of why diets don't work, but also what does.We cover:* Why diets don't work and the research behind this* How our bodies react to food and weight restriction* Why we feel out of control around food* Why diet culture thrives on making you feel like you're the problem (BTW, you're not)* Explaining intuitive eating and the research behind this model* How you can begin to start healing your relationship with food* Exploring weight stigma* And, you guessed it…more!Check out the resources list at the bottom to support your journeyFind Aoife here:TikTokFree Road to Intuitive Eating WorkbookInstagramWebsiteContact me (Becca) here:Sign up for email letters+receive 2 free guides on food freedom and self-connectionJoin the Substack Community (first 2 weeks free+6-part Peace Of Body series))Send me a voice note Resources list:Start with these below and it'll lead you into a beautiful community and support system:POD'-Don't Salt My Game Podcast (by the Dietitian that changed my life)POD'-Train Happy by Tally Rye (also the title of her book on intuitive movement)BOOK- Just Eat It by Laura ThomasBOOK- Intuitive Eating by Tribole and ReschBOOK- Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne CrabbeIG- @alexlight_ldnIG- Beauty_redefined (also a great book called More Than A Body) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit missingpeace.substack.com/subscribe
The fitness industry - built to improve our health, our self esteem and ultimately our lives - or is it?This week we speak to intuitive movement fitness coach Tally Rye to find out whether the fitness industry truly has our health - or making healthy profits - at its heart.We ask - is it more lucrative to sell us the dream, unattainable body than encourage us to be happy in our own skin? And how can we tell who really has our best intentions at heart in the fitness industry?You can now watch the episode in full on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrI7PiVHJPnYSeIKpKccgwThank you to our sponsor Wealthify for powering this episode.With Wealthify, it's simple and affordable to invest as their team of experts will build your perfect Investment Plan and make all the decisions for you.And luckily for you, Wealthify is offering all Money Unfiltered listeners the chance to get an extra £50 boost into your investment pot. So, if you've been thinking about starting, now could be the perfect time to make the leap.So, what do you need to do? Simply open a Wealthify Plan and invest £50. Then after 12 months of the money being invested, Wealthify will pay an additional £50 into your Plan. How great is that?Now for the legal bit. T&Cs obviously apply, and this offer is open to new Wealthify customers only. It will only be available to the first 500 qualifying customers, and you will also need to claim the offer via the dedicated landing page and pay £50 into your Plan by 31st December 2022.Read the full T&Cs at: wealthify.com/moneyunfiltered.And remember, with all investing your capital is at risk and you could get back less than you put in. Wealthify is also authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
In this special bonus ep, we're introducing you to a podcast we KNOW you'll love -Tally Rye's Train Happy! We were on it this week, and chatted all about intuitive movement, representation, plus size fashion and so much more. This podcast is incredible if you want to learn more about intuitive movement and improve your relationship with exercise, so if you'd like to hear more, search for 'Train Happy' wherever you get your podcasts.
Do you find that you get caught in the cycle of all or nothing? Join Tally for a one on one look at how we can find a sustainable approach to movement that we can keep up long term, by looking at effort levels and keeping play within our movement. We also here from listener Leah, who is having trouble with motivation.Train Happy Trouper of the Week: DM @trainhappypodcast
On this episode of The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show, Liz is joined by Intuitive Movement Fitness Coach, podcast host and author of the book Train Happy, Tally Rye, to chat about how we can change the way we think about exercise, moving the narrative from one of self-punishment to one of self-care. Liz and Tally chat about body image in the fitness industry, intuitive eating and movement, and how Tally changed her own relationship with food, exercise and her body. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
For many folks unpacking their relationship to food and body, their relationship to movement is painful. It's complex and layered in ideas of 'exercise as a chore' and 'exercise to shrink yourself.' It's always such a privilege to witness clients moving away from these toxic and unhealthy ideas of movement that no longer serve them and into flexible, individual and caring ways that it does.In this episode, Intuitive Movement Fitness Coach Tally Rye and I, explore all of this including:What intuitive movement is and the fascinating parallels with intuitive eatingHow unconditional permission to rest is a critical part of intuitive movementThe pendulum swing of movement as all or nothing Are goals still welcome?Where does structure and discipline intersect with intuitive movement?How the ego can work against us How to chat with your personal trainer or coach about what you need Tally and I share a lot about our own journey's in this space to improve our own relationship to movement All episode links and notes hereInstagram @nadiafelschFacebook Community - Food and Body Freedom
HEYO - look who's back on the pod! Tally first shared her journey with us back in 2019 {listen to that here}. Since then she's published two books and completely shaken up the fitness industry, challenging the notoriously weight-centric, aesthetics focussed industry to move in ways that feel joyful and to prioritize rest (and not feel guilty about it!). She also joined us in 2021 to break down the principles of Intuitive Movement {you can listen to that here}. This episode was recorded back in January as part of a live Q+A we did (before things got weird). I decided to save this episode to share with you on International No Diet Day because it felt like the perfect way to celebrate! In this episode we cover: - The difference between exercise and intuitive movement- How we can approach rest without feeling guilty- Why I hate the daily mile in schools - Ableism in the fitness space- How to know if movement is motivated by self-care or coming from a place of wanting to control your body and your weight This is such a fun episode - Tally is a dream. If you enjoy this conversation then please don't forget to share and keep the conversation going over on our socials! *take £50 off any of the LCIE courses for 48 hours only using code NODIETDAY50* - SIGN UP HERE Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter Follow Don't Salt My Game on Instagram Laura's Website Buy a copy of Just Eat It | How to Just Eat It Sign up for a Learn with LCIE Course Buy an Intuitive Eating friendly guide to managing different health concerns Edited by Joeli Kelly Follow Tally on Instagram Listen to the Train Happy Podcast Buy Train Happy | The Train Happy Journal
“The best way to move your body is the one you enjoy.” The intuitive movement fitness coach Tally Rye joins the Joyful Drinker podcast to spread the word about the joy of movement. From her experience as a personal trainer, to authoring both the Train Happy book and the Train Happy Journal, Tally is unequalled when it comes to marrying the words “happy” and “training” in the same sentence. From examining and changing her relationship with food, to reflecting on how she felt about movement, exercise and training, Tally has oodles of tips for staying motivated to keep healthy and how to combat the extrinsic factors that affect your personal wellbeing. Whether it's simply finding the joy in fitness, ditching going to the gym over taking up a new hobby, or simply journaling to see your progress in terms of your mindset shift. In this podcast, Tally reveals how intuitive eating helped her to ditch the toxic diet culture, why intuitive movement brought more joy into her life, and the first-hand experiences she's seen of drinking to excess and the tools you can put in place to avoid the catalyst that drags you into a negative cycle of bad habits. Read out more about Train Happy, the Train Happy Journal and listen to the Train Happy podcast at https://tallyrye.co.uk/ (https://tallyrye.co.uk/) or follow https://www.instagram.com/tallyrye/ (@tallyrye) on Instagram. This week's non-alcoholic drink of choice is provided by Caleño's non-alcoholic spirits, infused with the sun-drenched flavours of Colombia. You can find Caleño on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/calenodrinks/ (@celenodrinks) or visit: https://calenodrinks.com/ (https://calenodrinks.com/) The Joyful Drinker with Ellie Webb is produced by Buckers at Decibelle Creative, find her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/decibelle_creative/ (@decibelle_creative) and here: https://www.decibellecreative.com/ (https://www.decibellecreative.com/)
TW: This episode contains content about disordered eating & body dysmorphia. We acknowledge that this may be difficult and encourage you to care for your safety and well-being by talking to your healthcare professional if any of the issues in this show have affected you. Diet culture has infiltrated Pilates and is evident in many of the usual practices many of us do, like cueing, marketing our services and even encouraging our clients. Jade and Raph try hard to disagree but basically fail; they talk about: What are diet culture and fatphobia Why fitness is a better measure of health than body shape or fatness Why fitness (or Pilates) challenges can be problematic, and how to reframe your fitness challenge so it's body neutral Why we don't need to focus on working individual body parts, how it can be problematic, and what to do instead to motivate your clients How to change your language to be more body neutral Why Pilates instructors shouldn't be giving dietary advice The many incredible benefits of exercise that aren't related to how you look And more Resources mentioned in this episode: Tally Rye book Train Happy https://tallyrye.co.uk/train-happy-book/ (here) Meet physical activity guidelines and halve your chance of dying of any cause in the next 10 years https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20418526/ (here) Meeting physical activity guidelines reduces your risk of diabetes 39% and cardiovascular disease 60% https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19135754/ (here) Fitness is vastly more important than fatness for heart health https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538467/ (here) Fitness is more important than body mass index for predicting someone's risk of dying at any age https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0838.2006.00626.x (here) Run app link https://apps.apple.com/us/app/5k-runner-couch-to-5k-trainer/id448357306 (here) Wendy Suzuki TED talk: The Brain-changing benefits of exercise https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuki_the_brain_changing_benefits_of_exercise (here) Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia https://www.amazon.com/Fearing-Black-Body-Racial-Origins/dp/1479886750/ref=asc_df_1479886750/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=353132197416&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4667768072122753381&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030971&hvtargid=pla-741171067815&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=70700047345&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=353132197416&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4667768072122753381&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030971&hvtargid=pla-741171067815 (here) The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Myth-Images-Against-Women/dp/0060512180/ref=asc_df_0060512180/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241983376253&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10555142779171947659&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030971&hvtargid=pla-453595935534&psc=1 (here) -------------------------------- About Jade Ritchi: Jade Ritchi is an Australian Pilates Instructor living in Los Angeles and is a current Breathe Education Diploma of Clinical Pilates student. Jade worked as a hairdresser for the majority of her career, but she has always had a passion for exercise and loves making people feel good. She described herself as a feminist, movement optimist and coffee snob. Jade has struggled with disordered eating for more than half her entire life and is passionate about making people aware of the perils of diet culture. How to Connect with Jade:Find Jade on https://www.instagram.com/movementbyjade/ (Instagram) and...
We don't know about you, but exercise has ALWAYS been made to feel like punishment. Like the only way we can be worthy is by eating less and moving more. Exercise can be incredible for mental health and stress relief, but it's hard to untangle that from allll the diet culture bullshit. Tally Rye created intuitive movement, inspired by the concept of intuitive eating. It's all about re-learning what it is your body actually wants, as opposed to what you think you should be doing, according to diet culture. So this week she joined us to explain what intuitive movement is, and how we can improve our relationships with exercise.
This week we are joined by fellow podcaster and personal trainer Tally Rye to deconstruct body pressures in the fitness world. Here we go! Mental is the brain-child of Bobby Temps, who lives and thrives while managing his own mental health. Each Thursday we delve into a factor or condition that affects the mind and how to better manage it. You can now join our Subscription on Apple Podcasts to support the show and get new episodes ad free… Petition to 'Get Mental Health Education on the School Curriculum' - Join us at bit.ly/MentalPetition Join the movement on: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram We also have a very blue website with loads of great resources HERE
Tally Rye is a personal trainer and class instructor and the author of two books - Train Happy and The Train Happy Journal. Stuart chats to Tally about how she found her place in the industry after initially struggling, why she no longer works with weight loss clients, alternative ways of marketing PT on social media other than using transformation pictures and how trainers can integrate a more intuitive movement-based approach with their clients. Find Out More About Tally: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tallyrye/?hl=en Website: https://tallyrye.co.uk/ Find Out More About LTB: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liftthebar/ Website: https://liftthebar.com/
We talk to Tally Rye about intuitive movement - and go off a few tangents. We celebrate training with joy and the changes in the industry, listening to clients and educating them as fitness professionals. We look at ways to challenge the norm and how to keep up with social media changes and new trends whilst building your community online.
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.This week I'm hoovering with fitness trainer, instagram superstar and creator of the incredible ‘Train Happy' book and journal, the magnificent Tally Rye. Helping me get my head around my relash with exercise especially in the midst of all the relentless annual new year ‘horror noise' about fixing our apparently terrible bodies. All of that over a delicious bowl of soup with crusty bread and cheese each. Yes mate. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Honourable Mentions/ LinksGet over to instagram now then and make sure you're following TALLY RYE and why not scoff up her BOOK and her podcast TRAIN HAPPY whilst you're there?Love this podcast generally? Thank you. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAMGo to PATREON to see what I swap your money for ace podcast related stuff like totally exclusive content and guest recipes. Come and see HOOVERING LIVE @ LEICESTER COMEDY FEST - 5.30pm on Sat 5th Feb You can BOOK TICKETS TO MY STAND UP HERE - I've got previews in Angel and Camden going ahead in Jan and Feb that I'd love to have you at Other things we mentioned:My soup recipe came from NIGEL SLATER's GREENFEAST AUTUMN/ WINTERHEINZ TOMATO SOUP and ROBINSON'S ORANGE & MANGO SQUASHMARSHMELLOW SPREAD and CHOCO LEIBNIZ biscuitsAnd the middle eastern restaurants in London AMBER and also FAYROOZSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hoovering. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week I am joined by me, myself and I as I answer your questions about dealing with dips in your healing journey and setting boundaries over the festive period! Thank you so much for all your support this year! This is the final episode of 2021 and I can't wait to come back with episodes in January. Pre-Order The Train Happy Journal: UK
Tally Rye is an advocate for intuitive movement, she's a non-diet, weight inclusive personal trainer, the host of The Train Happy Podcast and the author of Train Happy and The Train Happy Journal. We talk about prioritising how we feel over how we look and why we should all be getting more adult playtime in our lives. Find out more about Tally Follow Tally on Instagram Order Train Happy and The Train Happy Journal Getting help Find more information on mental health helplines here For information about private online counselling and therapists visit counselling-directory.org.uk If you need to speak to someone immediately, the Samaritans are available 24-hours a day on 116 123 and you can also email jo@samaritans.org Download the Happiful App here
Hello - and welcome to Unguilty Pleasure, a podcast where I, Chris Hall, explore any and every method for feeling good, spreading joy, elevating your mood, finding answers and loving yourself. In this series I am going to talk to guests about whatever it is they do to feel good, from their spiritual practise to their favourite midnight snack, I want to unapologetically indulge in the good, and learn and explore new and varied ways to find peace within. There's going to be some lessons, a lot of laughs, maybe some tears, but most importantly good vibes, without the guilt. Chris is joined by Tally Rye @tallyrye
This week I wanted to discuss what Unconditional Permission To Rest is and why it's so important for our relationship with exercise. I touch on the fear and guilt that people feel around rest and ways to overcome that. Books mentioned: Body Respect by Lindo Bacon & Lucy Aphramor, Food Isn't Medicine by Dr Joshua Wolrich, Train Happy by Tally Rye Become Train Happy Trouper of the week
Why We Love Tally: Tally is a Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, Content Creator and Author based in London. She has been working in the fitness space for over 6 years now and has had a wide range of experience from working on the gym floor, teaching in boutique studios and being a part of the UK's biggest fitness festivals. Her goal is to help you ditch diet culture and re-discover a positive relationship with fitness, food and your body so movement is no longer a chore you have to endure but a form of self care that you look forward to. On the Pod, We Discuss: How Tally got into personal training and specifically the intuitive movement space Why it’s important to question your relationship with exercise and the benefits outside of weight loss Making the shift from movement for physical changes to other benefits like mental health The connection between focusing on our external appearance and poor body image How measuring/tracking devices like Fitbits, etc. play a role in intuitive movement The fitspo scene and its impact on our relationship with movement and body image Body diversity and representation in fitness and why it’s so important Why you are the expert on your own body and what type of movement is best for you And much more Helpful Links: Visit Tally’s website Grab a copy of Tally’s book, Train Happy Follow Tally on Instagram Listen to Tally’s Podcast Watch our free masterclass to learn 5 Simple Shifts to End Binge Eating Join our private Facebook group Set up a free breakthrough session to see if our coaching program is a good fit for you Learn more about our personalized Intuitive Eating coaching program
Answering your questions! In this Q&A episode, Tally discusses the importance of Rest Days and how we can overcome feelings of guilt around them. She also talks about what it means to be a Personal Trainer who doesn't promote diet culture. Resources discussed: @againstweightstigma (Fit pros against weight stigma) @louisegreen_bigfitgirl Book: Big Fit Girl by Louise Green and Fitness for Everybody by Louise Green. Train happy by Tally Rye
We have spoken a lot on this podcast about intuitive eating but we thought it was time to officially introduce intuitive movement. We speak to Tally Rye, who highlights the fact that, like we often have rules around food, many of us tend to have rules around movement too which in turn can make something that is very beneficial for our health, become more of an obsession or have unhealthy connotations. Things we discuss:All or nothing attitude towards exerciseThe pressure to move in a certain way Guilt and shame around our workouts (or not working out)Exercise and weight lossPhysical vs mental health benefits Types of fitness goals How to start moving more intuitively How movement can bring you more joy Find Tally on instagram and check out her book Train HappyWe would like to thank this weeks sponsor @fab_flour who are currently running their #NourishingTheNation campaign to help reverse any negative connotations associated with eating flour-based products and to communicate the nutritional benefits of flour in general. We want to help them celebrate fibre in #FibreFebruary and spread the message that fibre is easy to add to what we’re already eating, e.g. crumpets have added wholemeal flour. This can also be done by upping our intake of products that are made with flour! If you would like to read more about Fibre February, please visit the Fab Flour website: https://fabflour.co.uk/fab-nutrition/fibre/fibrefebruary/Remember to submit your questions for future episodes via DM (@forkingwellness) or email (forkingwellness@gmail.com)As always, please rate, review, and subscribe, as it helps our podcast get seen in the charts!To order our debut book, Forking Wellness: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Health and Nutrition, click the following links...UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forking-Wellness-No-Nonsense-Health-Nutrition/dp/178255209X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1600848572&refinements=p_27%3ASophie+Bertrand&s=books&sr=1-1USA: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forking-wellness-sophie-bertrand/1137060340You can download our 30 day journal prompt here! https://sophieshealthykitchen.com/resources/ https://www.barithedietitian.com/forking-wellness-podcastWe would love for our Forking Wellness community to connect more - join our private Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/forkingwellness And don't forget to follow us on Instagram @forkingwellness, @sophieshealthykitchen, and @barithedietitian! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 11 of this series will drop on Tuesday 9th Feb! In today’s episode I’m talking to Tally Rye. Tally is a London-based Personal Trainer and Content Creator, who specialises in weight-inclusive, non-diet fitness. She is also the Author of the book ‘Train Happy’ and hosts the ‘Train Happy’ podcast. In this episode we’re talking in-depth about all of the principles of Intuitive Movement. Tally shares her experience and advice on how we can reframe exercise in a way that feels good for us, rather than it feeling like a punishment. In this episode we talk about: The principles of Intuitive Movement Reframing the way we think about exercise Ways movement can be a tool for self-care The problem with fitness watches/trackers How diet culture has co-opted mainstream fitness Why we might have a complicated relationship with movement Tally shares how one of the biggest benefits of Intuitive Movement is regaining valuable headspace that has been lost to diet culture; through numbers or counting or “rules”, and how we can channel that back into the really meaningful parts of our lives. Get your copy of How To Just Eat It! UK {Amazon} {Waterstones} {WH Smith} Australia {Booktopia) Worldwide with free shipping {Book Depository} Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_ Find me on social media: Instagram Twitter Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating Guest Information: Tally Rye - Instagram Website Book/Podcast
Highlight reel of our conversation:Jenna tells us a bit about her body movement journeyDiet culture in the fitness industry (heads up this is messed up!)How different fitness modalities have different flavours of disorderThe benefits of moving fitness away from appearance based goalsThe harm of transformation storiesHow to make social media better for youThe difference between body positivity, body acceptance and body neutralityBig warning about trainers and nutrition!Intuitive fitness in the intuitive eating framework (this was pretty neat)How to start an intuitive movement practice if you are already doing fitness. How to start an intuitive movement practice if you are a newbie to fitness.How values play a super important part in your fitness goalsLinksJenna's WebsiteJenna's InstagramTough Love Strength ClubMy website - Click here for the Better Body Image Book Club Jenna's Book RecommendationsThe Joy of Movement by Kelly McGonigalIntuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse ReschBody Respect by Lindo Bacon and Lucy AphramorThe Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
This week Tally is delving into the principles of Intuitive Movement and encouraging us to think about our relationship with movement, and if we're moving our bodies from a place of guilt or a place of self care? Read Train Happy: https://bitlink.me/AaZZg Resources: Episode #17 with Michelle Elman, Episode #1 and #33 with Laura Thomas, Episode #5 and #34
In this first episode of Series 2, I am joined by the wonderful Tally Rye.Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, Content Creator and Author based in London, Tally has been in the fitness space for over 6 years and during this time has gone on a personal and professional journey that has led her today to work as a Non-Diet, Weight Inclusive Personal Trainer who specialises in Intuitive Movement.Through her work she supports her clients and community to ditch diet culture and re-discover a positive relationship with fitness, food and body by shifting their relationship with movement from one of punishment to a form of self care, and to learn to train happy.In this episode Tally talks about journey into intuitive movement, working inclusively and towards positive change, the importance of investing in your mental health, body image and so much more.To find out more about Tally's work, book and podcast check out here website www.tallyrye.co.uk or follow here on instagram @tallyryeShow Notes: https://www.ljsprojects.uk/blog/tally-rye-show-notes
I just wanted to check in with you all before Christmas and say a big thank you for all the support for the podcast this year! Today we are celebrating your Train Happy Moments and discussing Non-diet related goals for the New Year! Follow @trainhappypodcast @tallyrye
Dear Listener, Today, join me Tally Rye for a conversation about intuitive fitness and how the principles of Intuitive Eating can apply to movement. Throughout our conversation, Tally provides many awesome tips for those looking to improve their relationship with movement! So if you're working to see movement in a different, non-diet light...this episode is a must listen
This week I am answering 2 of your questions. The first is about tips on how to heal your relationship with food when people think of you as 'the fit one'. The second is about reconciling the desire for weight loss and wanting to explore Intuitive Eating. Resources for Question 1: Ep #17 with Michelle Elman Michelle's Podcast: https://www.michelleelman.com/podcast/ Resources Question 2: Book - Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch Book - Just Eat It by Laura Thomas Book - The Fuck It Diet by Caroline Dooner Ep # 28 With Dr Joshua Wolrich Ep #22 with Lauren Cadillac
Check out the Calmer You Collective at www.calmer-you.com/collectiveThis week's guest is Tally Rye, personal trainer and author of Train Happy. We dig into:- What is intuitive movement?- How can we motivate ourselves to exercise (esp if our mood is low?)- Diet culture and how it's changing- Plus Tally shares why you don't need to hit rock bottom before getting therapy.Thanks so much for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week Tally is answering your questions about how to know when the difference between when it's a Diet and the Diet Mentality or if it's Intuitive Eating . We also delve into how to navigate family members exposing Children to Diet culture and how to set boundaries around that. Email in your Questions to: trainhappypodcast@gmail.com Question 1 resources: Intuitive Eating 4th Edition by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch. Episode #14: Intuitive Eating Myth Busting with Evelyn Tribole Question 2 resources: Episode #17: How to navigate Diet talk and set boundaries with Michelle Elman. Episode #25: Raising Body Happy Kids with Molly Forbes www.freefromdiets.org Episode #5: Building Body Image Resilience with Lindsay & Lexie Kite of Beauty Redefined www.morethanabody.org
This episode we chat with the very positive author, personal trainer and anti dieter, our dear friend Tally Rye. We did record this episode when roles were reversed - Melbourne we were in lockdown and London were in end of Summer bliss hence Tally speaking of the slightly normal life and freedom.Tally speaks about her personal and professional journey and feeling of needing to look the part which lead down an obsessive pathway. Along the way Tally has discovered intuitive eating and intuitive movement which encourages us to reflect on our mindset with how we exercise and why we exercise - exercise should be adult play time rather then a punishment or a reward so we can go and eat 'bad' foods on the weekend. We talk how diet culture has influenced what we eat, how we label foods and how we exercise all which motivated Tally to write her first book and her subsequent podcast - Train Happy.Follow Tally here@tallyrye@trainhappypodcastStay up to date with the Tully & Sarah @tullyhumphrey @spasini To shop Tully Lou visitwww.tullylou.com.au @tullylou See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week I answer your questions about overcoming guilt of not moving as much in lockdown and how to know the difference between working out for enjoyment vs to feel less guilty about food. Here are some of the resources mentioned in the show: Lauren Leavell online classes: https://www.laurenleavellfitness.com/ Joyn App https://www.joyn.co/ Kanoa Greene https://www.instagram.com/kanoagreene/ The Become Project https://thebecomeproject.com/
Join me for a bonus Q&A episode this week where I answer your questions! This week we discuss how to navigate lock down health kicks without falling into the traps of diet culture. We also discuss the emotional aspect of dealing with weight gain, and what the expression ‘feeling fat' really means. Question 1 resources: • Episode #17: How to navigate Diet talk & set boundaries with Michelle Elman • In All Honesty Podcast with Michelle Elman Question 2 resources: • Book: The Fuck It Diet by Caroline Dooner • Episode #7: Ditching Diets with Caroline Dooner • Episode #16: Feeling, Dealing and Healing with Tiffany Roe • Nina Manolson poem ‘I feel Fat' - ninamanolson.com
Is it unhealthy to focus on exercising to look a certain way? The way you think about exercise will be flipped on its head in this episode of Myprotein’s The Scoop. We're talking to two great guests: intuitive movement expert, Tally Rye, and bodybuilder, Lubomba Munkuli, about whether we should stop focusing on aesthetic goals when it comes to training. Listen and subscribe to get the scoop on whether working for that six pack is really healthy.
Episode 4 of the Hello Body! podcast with your hosts Melissa and Katy. In this episode, Melissa puts on her personal trainer hat to talk about the importance of conscious uncoupling when it comes to exercise and body size. We each talk about our different histories with exercise as dieters, and one of us did NO, what we now love about intuitive movement and what that looks like outside of the dieting paradigm. We also chat about fitness trackers and weight training — yay or nay? — and share some of our favorite Instagram accounts to follow. Recommended resources: Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Every Body by Tally Rye
What does exercise represent for you? For many of us, exercise is seen as a vehicle for weight loss, a way to manipulate our body shape and size, all about burning calories and earning our food. For many, it comes from a place of body loathing and a desire to change it. But what if you could transform your view of exercise towards appreciating the gift of movement? Dare we say, actually enjoying it for what it is? If we have any shot of doing this however, it's critical to disconnect the concepts of weight loss and aesthetics from exercise. When movement is wrapped up in diet culture, we’re robbed of all its countless benefits. Plus, we're less likely to continue with it.In this week’s episode, we're so fortunate to be joined by Tally Rye, a Personal Trainer who celebrates inclusivity and Intuitive Exercise. We chat with Tally about:Her journey to body respect and size acceptanceWhat Intuitive Exercise is The many benefits of exercise (that have nothing to do with weight)How the fitness industry and diet culture has robbed us of all the joy that exercise can give us The importance (and lacking!) of diversity and inclusion within the fitness worldWhat the first step to finding intuitive movement and to “train happy” isFollow @tallyrye and check out her new Train Happy Podcast and book - Train Happy.Remember to join our free community here and together let's change the conversation around food.You can also follow us on Instagram - @whatdoieat.thepodcastMonica - @monicafenwicknutritionNadia - @nadiafelschFull show notes on our website.
In this episode, Drunk Dietitians interview personal trainer Tally Rye. She is the author of the book Train Happy (available today on Amazon) and the host of the podcast Train Happy. Tally talks about the idea behind Intuitive Fitness and moving your body because it feels damn good! You can find Tally on Instagram @tallyrye
Tally Rye is a personal trainer working in central London. She is on a mission to help us understand that fitness and exercise is a small piece of the health puzzle along with Nutrition, Mental health and Lifestyle factors. And to help us figure out how we can put it all together so that we might become our own version of our best and happiest self.
Tally Rye is a Personal Trainer and Author of 'Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Every Body'. She's also the host of the Train Happy podcast and co-hosts the Fit & Fearless Podcast alongside fellow #GirlGains members, Zanna Van Dijk and Victoria Spence. In this episode we discuss everything from intuitive exercise to spirituality and the pros and cons of social media. This podcast is in partnership with ClassPass, the app that connects you to the best fitness experiences, wherever you are. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
EP58 - Fitness without Diet Culture with Tally Rye by Kirsten Ackerman, MS, RD
Tally Rye is a Personal Trainer and Author of the book 'Train Happy' which helps readers to have a positive and fun relationship with exercise whilst becoming more intuitive with movement. This podcast is going to explore the themes within Train Happy with leading experts in their respective fields. Each episode will help us to better understand the links with exercise and mental health, body image and food and why regular movement is so great for us. Please join us as we deep dive into what helps us to #TrainHappy and let us know what you would like to hear in this upcoming series by using the hashtag #TrainHappyPodcast. Find Tally on: instagram.com/tallyrye www.tallyrye.co.uk Train Happy Book: https://tinyurl.com/vlm388y
This week's episode features the awesome Tally Rye; author, health and fitness influencer and fellow podcaster. Becki, Sophie and Tally chat about drama school, the concept of intuitive fitness and the common default of 'people-pleasing' when navigating your 20s. We find ourselves in a world where are fitness and health ideals are dictated by social and peer pressures, rather than listening to our body, finding that balance and enjoying being healthy.
Join me as I chat with London based trainer and author, Tally Rye. Tally, along with her close friends Zanna Van Dijk and Victoria Spence founded the online community GirlGains to help educate, empower and inspire women to feel good about themselves inside and out. Most recently they have become hosts of the Podcast Fit And Fearless with BBC 5 Live. Her debut book ‘Train Happy: An intuitive exercise plan for every body' is currently out in the US and UK. It offers a fresh approach to working out, emphasizing mental and physical benefits over weight loss and body transformation. Tally shares her personal story and struggles with orthorexia and how she made the shift into intuitive eating and movement by breaking up with diet culture. She gives the how-tos of "training happy", joining or creating communities that honor body diversity, and validating ourselves...no matter what our bodies look like. We discuss weight stigma, Health at Every Size, and the need for a shift away from diet, wellness, exercise culture. Connect with Tally on her website: www.tallyrye.co.uk and her instagram: @tallyrye
This week, we chat to actor and writer Katie Arnstein about the final play in her It’s A Girl! trilogy, Sticky Door, which covers her year-long journey of sexual exploration. Journalist and author Susannah Cahalan tells Jen about her book The Great Pretender, about understanding “madness” and the blurring of lines between physical and mental health. In Jenny Off the Blocks, personal trainer and author of Train Happy, Tally Rye, tells us about giving #fitspo the middle finger, and it’s a right old pa-lava in Dunleavy Does Disaster as we scale the dizzy heights of Dante’s Peak. Plus there’s Brexit, Stateside shit-housery and sports bantz in the Bush Telegraph. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Welcome to HOOVERING, the podcast about eating. Host, Jessica Fostekew (Guilty Feminist, Motherland) has a frank conversation with an interesting person about gobbling; guzzling; nibbling; scoffing; devouring and wolfing all up… or if you will, hoovering.This week I’m talking, for the first time ever on a hoovering to a CBT therapist - not my one, one called Devinia Noel who specialises as intuitive eating counselling and who is better known on Instagram as at diet boycott - we met on the Hungry Feminist crossover episode and as you’ll hear is madly articulate when it comes to what diets really do to us. Amazing to get an expert perspective on something so important. Everything written below in CAPITALS is a link to the relevant webpage. Tickets to see Hoovering LIVE in 2019The next Hoovering live is in LEICESTER on 9th February as part of their excellent comedy festival! It’s an afternoon job and you can come and see my work in progress and then my Hench show afterwards on the same day. Anyway - click the big Leicester for hoovering tickets. Come come come! *Don’t forget, discount tickets available on PATREONThen on 13th May we’re up in Hull at the first and best ever official NORTHERN PODCAST FESTIVALHonourable MentionsIf you’re London based and looking for intuitive eating counselling then click on her name here for her website DEVINIA NOEL and of course she’s on Instagram as THEDIETBOYCOTT You can also see Devinia speak at last week’s guest the ANTI RIOT DIET CLUB which the next one of is this Sunday 19th Jan!And also Devinia highly recommends a book called TRAIN HAPPY by Tally Rye, a genuinely inclusive and body positive personal trainer and Devinia features in the book as a model. I would very much love to have you come and see my stand up show HENCH, which is at the SOHO THEATRE in London from now until 25th January and I’ve added extra shows on 24th & 25th because it’s really selling out, and then I’m off on TOUR all around the UK, IRELAND and MELBOURNE.Outside of that I’ll be doing new material gigs and I’m always sticking new dates on
In the new year, everybody seems to be back in the gym and working out more than usual. But, when it comes to exercise, what is best for us and how much variety should we be incorporating into our fitness routines? By now, intuitive eating has become a well know approach to many, but the philosophy behind it can be equally as effective when it comes to exercise. Why is it that we encourage ourselves to go to an intense spin class when actually what our bodies are craving is a yoga class, which could be so much more beneficial. Joining me to help us understand if there a feel-good way to love every single workout is personal trainer and author Tally Rye. For more information, visit Rhitrition.com (http://rhitrition.com/) and Instagram.com/Rhitrition (http://instagram.com/Rhitrition) .
In the new year, everybody seems to be back in the gym and working out more than usual. But, when it comes to exercise, what is best for us and how much variety should we be incorporating into our fitness routines? By now, intuitive eating has become a well know approach to many, but the philosophy behind it can be equally as effective when it comes to exercise. Why is it that we encourage ourselves to go to an intense spin class when actually what our bodies are craving is a yoga class, which could be so much more beneficial. Joining me to help us understand if there a feel-good way to love every single workout is personal trainer and author Tally Rye. For more information, visit Rhitrition.com (http://rhitrition.com/) and Instagram.com/Rhitrition (http://instagram.com/Rhitrition) .
In the new year, everybody seems to be back in the gym and working out more than usual. But, when it comes to exercise, what is best for us and how much variety should we be incorporating into our fitness routines? By now, intuitive eating has become a well know approach to many, but the philosophy behind it can be equally as effective when it comes to exercise. Why is it that we encourage ourselves to go to an intense spin class when actually what our bodies are craving is a yoga class, which could be so much more beneficial. Joining me to help us understand if there a feel-good way to love every single workout is personal trainer and author Tally Rye. For more information, visit Rhitrition.com (http://rhitrition.com/) and Instagram.com/Rhitrition (http://instagram.com/Rhitrition) .
with Tally Rye, Jessica Salter, Louisa Adams and Natalie Donovan
I'm sitting down with London-based personal trainer and author, Tally Rye to discuss all things fitness, weight loss VS weight neutrality, body confidence, body autonomy, diet culture and fat-shaming. Tally has been working in the fitness industry for over 5 years and is the co-host of the Fit and Fearless Podcast with BBC 5 Live and author of Train Happy (due out Jan 2020). She has shared the ups and downs of her own fitness journey online and is passionate about helping her community break free from diet culture and have a positive and intuitive relationship with exercise. In this episode we explore: The empowering VS problematic aspects of fitness culture and wellness Her choice to become a weight neutral personal trainer Adopting more intuitive approaches to health, fitness and living well The influence that privilege plays when talking about healthy living and accessibility Positive reasons to exercise that have nothing to do with weight loss Navigating society's fascination with thinness and fat-shaming as a moral high-ground The effect of before & after photos in fitness - positive or not? Why health and body confidence are NOT dictated by body size The nuances between body confidence, body positivity and body autonomy Why white able bodied women should not centre themselves in the BOPO movement CONNECT WITH AMY RUSHWORTH: Insta - @thisisamyrushworth Website - amyrushworth.com FREE ABUNDANCE BUNDLE - https://amy-rushworth.mykajabi.com/the-abundance-bundle Join Amy's OA Membership - https://amyrushworth.com/orgasmic-ascension Find Tally Rye via... Instagram: instagram.com/tallyrye Youtube: youtube.com/c/tallyrye Website: www.tallyrye.co.uk
Today I'm interviewing Tally Rye, Personal Trainer and author of Train Happy. We discuss the tricky subject of being authentic online and saying what we want, even when we're afraid of judgement and criticism. With some juicy topics and amazing take-aways, this is a fab episode to end Series 1: We cover: Being afraid to say what you want online, in case people call you out or judge you Putting on a persona on Instagram, saying things and using ‘formulas' to get engagement, instead of being authentic External validation and being people pleasers. How this can get in the way of speaking authentically about the things you want to Moving through a transition period knowing it's more important to stay true to what matters to you than chasing follower numbers Creating content for your ideal clients, without worrying about what your friends or family think (because they're not your target market) For episode show notes, resources and links, head to https://vickyshilling.com/juststartnow-podcast
Today I'm interviewing Tally Rye, Personal Trainer and author of Train Happy. We discuss the tricky subject of being authentic online and saying what we want, even when we’re afraid of judgement and criticism. With some juicy topics and amazing take-aways, this is a fab episode to end Series 1: We cover: Being afraid to say what you want online, in case people call you out or judge you Putting on a persona on Instagram, saying things and using ‘formulas’ to get engagement, instead of being authentic External validation and being people pleasers. How this can get in the way of speaking authentically about the things you want to Moving through a transition period knowing it’s more important to stay true to what matters to you than chasing follower numbers Creating content for your ideal clients, without worrying about what your friends or family think (because they’re not your target market) For episode show notes, resources and links, head to https://vickyshilling.com/juststartnow-podcast
An introduction to Intuitive Exercise, an anti-diet culture movement, with an interview with Tally Rye.
Tally Rye is a personal trainer, founder of Best Me Retreat Series, co-founder of Girl Games, and co-host of the Fit and Fearless podcast. In this refreshingly honest interview, Tally chats frankly to Alice about how her own relationship with exercise has evolved over the years, and how letting go of previous restrictive habits has opened her up to a world of confidence, truth and strength.
Joining Adrienne in the studio today is the wonderful Tally Rye! Tally is a Personal Trainer with 4 years experience, working 1-1 with clients in Central London. Along with Zanna Van Dijk and Victoria Spence, Tally founded the online community GirlGains to help educate, empower and inspire women to feel good about themselves inside and out. And most recently they have become hosts of the Podcast Fit And Fearless with BBC 5 Live!The Power Hour podcast gets to know other people’s processes to greatness. Join Adrienne as she invites guest speakers from coaches, creatives and innovators to discuss their daily habits and the key to achieving personal success and well-being.Whether you want to build a business, write a book or run a marathon, the Power Hour is going to help you get there faster!You can follow Adrienne on Instagram / Twitter / FacebookThis is a Studio71 production.Producer - Jack ClaramuntExec Producer - Tom PayneProduction Support - Phie McKenzieOutro music by Paul Herbert Music.Produced at Jamz Studio.Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tally Rye is a personal trainer and group fitness instructor in Central London. She trains with a weight-neutral approach and frames exercise as an act of self-care for the body AND mind. Her mission is to empower clients with the support to feel comfortable and confident in a fitness environment, and to change perceptions of exercise as a tedious punishment to something that can be intuitive and fun. She encourages intuitive training by intentionally directing clients to listen to their body cues. In this episode, Tally describes her transition from studying to musical theater to working in fitness, and her transition from a weight-centric to weight-neutral approach to wellness. She shares nuggets of wisdom and important realizations she has had while incorporating Health at Every Size and intuitive eating into her work as a trainer. Her perspective is highly informative for any trainer hoping to take a body positive approach to their work. Tally explains why rejecting “traditional” fitness marketing (based on shame and guilt) has ultimately helped her business to grow and helped her clients enjoy their sessions more. In this episode we talk about: Tally's path to becoming a personal trainer. Tally's shift from weight-centric to weight-neutral wellness How she educates clients on Health at Every Size and intuitive movement Reframing exercise as a form of self-care resources Jessi's Intuitive Eating Audio Guide The Nutrition & Body Image Coaching Course Tally's Website
Tally not only has her own message to share, but she’s not stopping until she spreads YOUR message too. Catch Tally training at Digme Fitness, co-hosting on her own podcast The Girl Gains, on her #BestMe retreats and all over social media, flying the flag of authenticity and building her empire. It was a real honour to interview this powerhouse of a woman on a true mission! She’s only just getting started. Listen in for Tally’s awesome tips on being Positively Selfish, taking care of you and including all of us along the way. Check Tally out: Instagram: @tallyrye Website: http://tallyrye.co.uk/
This week on the pod Laura speaks to Tally Rye - personal trainer, Girl Gains co-founder + host to multiple podcasts. They chat about Tally's relationship with food + her body and how this changed throughout drama school, training to be a PT, through to now. In this episode they discuss: ✨ Comparison + feeling like the odd one out ✨ Broadening our idea of what it means to be fit + healthy ✨ The pressure + toxic messages around bodies at drama school ✨ Intoxicating external validation that comes from being tied up with 'the fit one' identity + how this is actually unhelpful ✨ The difference between saying the 'right' things online + actually believing it for yourself ✨ The freedom that can be found through self acceptance Show Notes {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I’ll share international links when they become available!} {Tally on YouTube | Instagram | Website | Twitter} {Health at Every Size - Linda Bacon} {Big Fit Girl - Louise Green} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}
Put Yourself First Podcast | Self Care | Personal Growth | Goal Setting | Inspirational Interviews
Beyond body confidence! Self-love and the anti-diet revolution with Abby Russell and Laura Phelan. Enjoy and be sure to dive into the resources we share below as well. x Support Abby and Laura (& Beyond Body Confidence!) https://www.instagram.com/beyondbodyconfidence/ https://www.instagram.com/phelanwelll/ https://www.instagram.com/curvyliving/ Resources B-eat https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ Linda Bacon - Health at Every Size https://amzn.to/2QZ5Bp0 Linda Bacon - Body Respect https://amzn.to/2P9ayhU Megan Crabbe - Body Positive Power https://amzn.to/2P7Q74R Evelyn Tribole - Intuitive Eating https://amzn.to/2ExsZc8 BodyPosiPanda https://www.instagram.com/bodyposipanda/ Vicki Mellard https://www.instagram.com/vickimellard_pt/ Alice Liveing https://www.instagram.com/aliceliveing/ The Phit Coach https://www.instagram.com/thephitcoach/ Tally Rye https://www.instagram.com/tallyrye/ Listen to Tally's episode on PYF https://soundcloud.com/putyourselffirstpodcast/health-happiness-and-why-youre-so-much-more-than-what-you-weigh-with-tally-rye Podcasts Nutrition Matters https://www.positive-nutrition.com/podcast Don't Salt My Game http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/category/podcast/
Put Yourself First Podcast | Self Care | Personal Growth | Goal Setting | Inspirational Interviews
I'm with the fantastic Tally Rye on today's podcast. Tally is a personal trainer, fitness influencer and co-founder of the Girl Gains movement. We discuss: - Tally's journey to health, happiness and balance - Learning to value health over what you see in the mirror or on the scales - How you can find a body positive, weight neutral personal trainer - Why the fitness industry needs to change Thanks so much for coming on Tally! Go support her via these links: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tallyrye/ #BestMe Retreats https://www.replenishyou.co.uk/the-bestme-portugal-retreat/ Girl Gains http://www.girlgains.co.uk/ Fit & Fearless Podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05sssdk/episodes/downloads They WheyBox Podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-whey-box-podcast/id1321646645?mt=2 Tally's video on the fitness industry https://youtu.be/QC5HZA1bJAM Resources/People Mentioned: Louise Green https://www.louisegreen.ca/ Big Fit Girl https://amzn.to/2HV93w4 Health at Every Size https://amzn.to/2tcR1jD Intuitive Eating https://amzn.to/2techW3 Body Posi Panda https://www.instagram.com/bodyposipanda Nutrition Matters https://www.positive-nutrition.com/podcast Couples Therapy https://anchor.fm/couples-therapy Armchair Expert https://armchairexpertpod.com/ The High Low https://www.acast.com/thehighlowshow
In the Episode we discuss: Tally's big focus to educate people and the Fitness Industry on a Healthier approach to Training and how some Trainers are using their clients for marketing purposes rather than training them to achieve their goals. What are the biggest health issues people are sacrificing in pursuit of the so called "ideal" body. How Tally approaches finding her clients real "Why" for training and how she Educates them on a better way to train that is mindful towards Health. How Tally Educates, Empowers and boosts her clients confidence. Plus a host of other information as well. Tally's passion for promoting Healthy at any Size really shines through during our conversation and she provides a host of information on how Fitness Culture and the Industry needs to be changed.