Episode 49 - Shame Free Fitness with FitPro Sadie Simpson
In this weeks episode, we chat with Group Exercise Instructor, Personal Trainer, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and fellow podcast host Sadie Simpson
We talk about
👉🏻 Re-defining "health" for fit pros
👉🏻 Understanding healthism and associating morality and elitism with a healthy lifestyle
👉🏻 Recognizing commonly admired behaviors among group fitness instructors and trainers that are often perceived as healthy but are actually signs and symptoms eating/exercise disorders
and so much more
Sadie Simpson is a Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer, and Intuitive Eating Counselor in Asheville, North Carolina. She helps other fit pros disengage from diet culture so they can improve program enrollment, engagement, impact & retention without shame, manipulation, & weight-loss-focused programming. With over 15 years in the fitness industry as an instructor, trainer, group fitness manager, health educator, local trainer for the YMCA of the USA, and Intuitive Eating counselor, Sadie merges her experiences to create opportunities for other health and fitness professionals to serve their members in a values-driven way. She is the founder of Shame-Free Fitness: a continuing education course for fit pros who are committed to doing things differently within the industry. Other services include virtual Intuitive Eating coaching and facilitating workshops for teams, businesses, non-profits, gyms, studios, and other community groups. Sadie also teaches weekly in-person Zumba & Aqua Zumba classes and is a personal and small-group trainer locally in Asheville, NC.
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Christine DeFilippis
Movement motivator, body liberator and unconventional fitness professional, Christine is the owner of Pop Fit Studio, a HAES & weight inclusive fitness studio in the US. She is also the creator of FitProEd, an online education platform for group fitness instructors that would like to expand their expertise. After close to 30 years in the fitness industry, struggling with eating disorders, weight cycling, body dysmorphia and a lot of unhappiness, Christine shifted her focus to joyful movement and created the Breaking Body Biases podcast to amplify voices of fitpros, dietitians and other wellness practitioners looking to destroy diet culture.
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