EP 236: Ozempic, Diet Culture & Strength Training: What Fitness Is Getting Very Wrong

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Meet Caitlin Birnie! She was born and raised in Massachusetts, where she currently lives with her husband and 2 daughters (5 & 3) . She's a former athlete and marathon runner who fell in love with strength training. Now she's just trying to find the easiest way to balance training, running, nutrition and life. Caitlin has been in the fitness industry as a personal trainer & nutrition coach for 10+ years. And in 2020 her own business Footloose Fitness was born.

Caitlin coaches women to build simple sustainable habits that improve their relationship with food & exercise through macros and lifting so they can simplify fitness.

In this episode we chat about:

• When tube tops (and titty tube tops) came back in style and why gym fashion got weird

• Modest Mouse trauma and how nostalgia sneaks into millennial fitness culture

• Gym culture shifts: matching workout sets, wedgies, and the aesthetics-over-results era

• How to choose the right gym for your goals (and avoid fitness cults)

• What strength training is NOT (F45 and Orangetheory girlies, please listen)

• Have you tried actually nourishing yourself? Under-eating and its impact on workouts

• Is it food noise or are you under-fueled? How to tell the difference

• Macro tracking myths: why you don't need to track macros to get strong

• Why I told a client to eat a donut every morning (yes, this is nutrition advice)

• How to tell if you actually had a good workout (not just a hard one)

• Signs you had an effective workout without wrecking your body