Ultimate Guide to Overcoming Exercise Avoidance | How To Embrace a Healthy Relationship with Fitness
Are you struggling with exercise avoidance? Maybe you've had bad experiences with exercise in the past, felt ashamed to be seen working out, or are nervous that you'll fall back into compulsive patterns if you start a fitness journey again. Whatever the case may be, exercise avoidance is just as common as compulsive exercise and deserves to be addressed so you can have a healthy and peaceful relationship with exercise again.
In today's podcast I go through:
-What exercise avoidance is
-Some common reasons why people avoid exercise/struggle with exercise avoidance
-Signs and symptoms you might be struggling with exercise avoidance
-Why tackling exercise avoidance is important
-The benefits of having a healthy relationship with exercise and healing your exercise avoidance
-Step-by-step guide to overcoming exercise avoidance and reintroducing physical activity safely and peacefully back into your life
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Here are some key moments from the episode you won't want to miss:
Exercise Avoidance Defined [00:01:21] Explanation of exercise avoidance, its common reasons, and its association with disordered eating and hypothalamic amenorrhea recovery.
Common Signs of Exercise Avoidance [00:05:13] Symptoms of exercise avoidance, including anxiety, fear of overexercising, avoidance of certain activities, negative body image triggers, and excessive rule setting.
Steps to Overcome Exercise Avoidance [00:09:18] Tips for improving the relationship with exercise, starting to exercise again, and making it an enjoyable part of life while addressing triggers and beliefs.
Step 1: Understanding why you're avoiding exercise [00:10:26] Exploring the reasons behind avoiding exercise and the importance of self-reflection.
Step 2: Identifying barriers to adding exercise back in [00:11:43] Recognising potential obstacles and concerns when considering reintroducing exercise into one's routine.
Step 3: Brainstorming ways to overcome obstacles [00:13:25] Generating strategies to address and overcome the barriers identified in step 2.
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Sarah, do you think that light walking of about 1 hour or 45 minutes per day could be too much during recovery, especially if our job demands physical movement? It's the only way to destress, if we cut that off too it's going to be a lot harder mentally... :(
@sarahlizking
8 ай бұрын
I can’t give specific personalised advice over KZread, but what I will say is that it’s incredibly important to start experimenting with other ways to destress. We create this belief system over time that walking may help us to feel better, but if it’s not available to us for any reason (for example, we’re too tired or sick or injured), we need to know we can destress in other ways AND not compensate with any food changes🩷
@ioannadrosaki6810
8 ай бұрын
@@sarahlizking Great advice and of course you immediately got the point about not having to cut back on food if we can't do cardio for some reason! Thanks so much!