All About Body Positive Personal Training – Interview with Natalie Carey

Today I want to bring you my interview with a personal trainer and absolute rockstar Natalie Carey. But she's not just a personal trainer — she is a body positive personal trainer. 

Maybe you've always thought that fit bodies should only look a certain way. If you don't have a lean body, visible abs and bubble butt, you cannot call yourself fit…

This couldn't be further from the truth. I learned it the hard way, when I realized how much damage I had caused myself after years of overtraining and under eating… More about overtraining here.

Natalie has been through a big transformation from a ballet dancer with really restrictive eating habits and body image issues, to a body positive personal trainer for whom fitness means much more than just looking a certain way.

In this interview, you'll learn why body positivity in fitness matters, how to find yourself a body positive trainer, and how to start liking your body.

Here's the interview — I hope you enjoy it!

Here are the timestamps for this video:

01:30 Natalie introduces herself and tells us how she became a body positive trainer

02:50 Why and how Natalie changed her approach to fitness, from never being happy with her body, to becoming more body positive

05:20 How Natalie made the decision to start loving herself the way she was

07:05 How to cultivate healthier approach to health and fitness

08:05 Why it's normal to want to eat sometimes cupcakes, sometimes salads!

09:00 Remove triggering things that make you feel bad about yourself

10:40 How body positivity shows up in Natalie's work with her personal training clients

11:30 How to know if your trainer is really body positive

16:35 What are the things that Natalie would like to change in the fitness industry

19:20 The truth behind the popular before and after pictures

22:15 Natalie's core beliefs about health and fitness

23:15 Calorie and macro tracking: good or bad?

25:50 Managing anxiety

28:10 Something that Natalie is super excited about right now.

Thank you for the interview Natalie!!

 

Learn more about Natalie:

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