I've never felt like I've had the body of a PT

and why I don't let that bother me

I dig into body image a lot with clients.

In fact I've just completed my weekly review and plan feedback’s for the week and one lady has been to the beach wearing a bikini and also shorts the same day.

This is a win.

Not because she's worn a bikini but because she's progressed with her body image. 

Wearing a bikini isn't the goal here.

Feeling better in her body is.

And who doesn't want that?

You see we've been doing a lot of work on her body image (which is not what your body looks like but how you feel about your body.)

It will ebb and flow, it will fluctuate and it's not something that can just be ticked off and now you have amazing body image.

The work I do with my 1-1 clients is to make the base line body image higher.

Because there will be times where women don't feel great about their bodies but having tools and strategies available that they've learned to pull themselves out and go about living their lives is the outcome that we want.

If that sounds good to you then get in touch about 1-1 coaching here.

It's not about embracing your rolls, loving your body no matter what but about being present, living life on your terms without the preoccupation that comes from hiding your body, clothes that are uncomfortable or being consumed by thoughts about your body.

Take me for example - I very much practice what I preach, I've done the work on my own body image and continue to do so. My baseline is pretty high I would say now but it hasn't always been like that.

You see I've never had the "typical" PT body, there's no 6 pack going on and there certainly won't be ever!

When I started coaching 6 years ago I thought it didn't matter because I had a Sport Science Degree (there's not a lot of PT's out there who have that!), I was 30 and I had done 2 marathons, I played Regional netball and years of training under my belt.

But it did matter because all of a sudden I was in the game of aesthetics.

And what your body looked like mattered.

Fast forward 6 years and I've just completed a social media course - one of the "homework" tasks was to follow other PT's and see how they create content, I haven't followed other PT's for years and well let's just say I've unfollowed a lot of them now because they just don't align with me.

The amount of PT's who are doing photoshoots is just wild (I find the whole fitness photo shoot thing mad anyway...), who use their bodies as business cards, push diet culture even further, normalise disordered eating habits and mislead their audience on a large scale.

It's everywhere - I can see it because I know what I'm looking for but other people I'm sure can't.

But instead of sending me into a comparison trap this has just made me stand more in my power.

In my body and own it.

Because I'm not about big physical transformations - I'm all about the mindset ones.

The ones which allow my ladies to go about their lives feeling healthier, fitter and stronger, with food freedom and the knowledge, power, tools and strategies to sustainable look after their bodies and their minds.

I'm not the coach for people who want 8 week transformations - I'm in it for a hell of a lot longer because we live in our bodies forever.

Why not feel comfortable in them?

Please drop Chatting with Cara a listen if you want to hear me go a little ranty about this.

You can listen to it here on Spotify and here on Apple Podcasts.