Welcome to the Un-Fuck-Your-Fitness Podcast . I am your host , Christy Castillo , and I'm here to give you real talk and cut the BS so you can actually enjoy building a body you love . I'm a personal trainer obsessed with giving you simple action steps to take you from feeling stuck to feeling sexy . Let's go .
Hey guys , what's up ? Welcome to today's episode . I want this one to be short , sweet and spicy per usual on a Friday , but I kind of want to do a little play off of the trend of . I'm mostly on Instagram , so I don't know if this is on TikTok or wherever else you guys get your social media information from , but there's been a little trend and I don't even know if it's still happening , but very , very recently there was a trend about like I almost forgot this was the whole point . It's basically , you know someone showing a very , very happy scene , a very , very happy life , or you know food freedom or working out in the gym and feeling confident , right , like just different ways that people are showing that through the hustle and bustle of life , through the hustle and bustle of this fitness community , however you want to spin it , you almost forget that this is the whole point .
Speaker 2It's like you start your health and fitness journey to become healthy and fit deep down . A lot of times we start the fitness journey thinking I just want to lose weight . I need to lose weight , I need to be smaller , I want to weigh this much . This is my goal , weight right . But what we really want is to be happy in our bodies and to not fear food and to not feel like if we go to a party , we can't have one cupcake because we're going to end up having six cupcakes . That was me , you know . There are so many things that we want inside of that . That really small goal of a really simple minded , maybe , goal of just weight loss , weight loss , weight loss what we really want is happiness and to be able to keep up with our kids and all these different things .
Speaker 2And this is coming from my
episode , a few episodes back , where I was talking about redefining fitness and defining fitness for yourself . I got a lot of messages saying , actually , that both episodes of that week that Tuesday and Friday episode were really , really resonating with people . And I think it's because we have come so far away from the point , we almost forgot this was the whole point , right , and I think I just got so many messages from women saying and a couple men , but like women saying right , I want to be active for my grandkids , I want to get through perimenopause and not kill someone Like , I want to be a better person . I want to be healthy and strong and muscular and have energy . I want to be able to do half marathons . I want to be able to love myself when I look in the mirror Like , what does fitness mean to you ? Is very , very much per person , and I got so many messages saying kind of the same things .
Speaker 2I mean what we want , because what we all want is food , freedom , is to look muscular and freaking strong and badass and sexy . What we all want is to have more energy . What we all want is to be able to get on the floor and play with our kids or grandkids or puppy dogs , and we want to be able to get up off the floor without throwing our backs out . What we want is to be able to go for a walk . When someone says , hey , want to go for a walk with me , two mile walk with me , you can say , yeah , I can do that right . If someone wants to go out for the day and go to a flea market or go to the zoo and you're like I can't really walk that far , I have bad knees or I can't , right , there are certain limitations that we would have if we don't get our shit together and become muscular and strong and healthy and have energy . But we all want different things and I want you to be very clear about what you do want and define or redefine fitness for you , because it makes it so much easier to stick to the plan .
Speaker 2There was a couple messages that I got on Instagram and they told me you know , hey , listen to your podcast and I wanted to tell you my definition of fitness , and they answered the questions that I had here on the podcast and it was so nice to read their answers . And I was , of course , going back and forth chatting with them and I asked like isn't it so nice to have this definition in front of you , to think about the answers to the questions that I asked how do you see , how do you want to feel , how do you want to look , how do you want to be , how do you want to show up , like all those questions all of them there were like four , but all those questions matter and to hear the answers and then to ask you know , didn't that really simplify it for you ? Doesn't that feel really good ? And every single one of them was like yes , like that was so needed to be able to define what fitness means for me . No one said I want to have bigger glutes . No one said I want to have bigger biceps . Yes , muscular , yes , toned , yes , look strong , but not specifically I want to have bigger glutes or I want to grow my quads . It's so much bigger than this . It's so much bigger than that physical piece , and that's what I want to talk about is this trend of I almost forgot this was the whole point .
Speaker 2So when you are doing your workouts and when you are eating and tracking your macros and you think , oh my God , it's such a pain in the ass to track my macros I can't take two whole minutes out of this 24 hour day sarcasm to track my macros . Shut up and do it . I can't make time for this workout or this 10-minute sprint interval that's in Fit Club . Yeah , you can Shut up and do it , because it's bigger than that . It's bigger than you're not just sprinting
to grow your quads . You're not just sprinting to lose visceral fat . You're not just working out to become stronger . You're not just tracking your food to shrink your body . You're tracking your food to know how much fuel you can have , how much food you get to eat . Track it out and fit as much in there as possible . Make every calorie count . You're sprinting to lose visceral fat and to be in better shape so that you can play with your grandkids , so that you can do a Tough Mudder race . Shape so that you can play with your grandkids , so that you can do a tough mudder race . So that you can .
Speaker 2I had someone message me a mom and she it was a mud run and she had signed her kids up for it , but her daughter didn't want to do the whole race so she ended up carrying her . I think she said 60 pound sorry , I'm really botching this probably 60 pound daughter through this mud run and people were complimenting her , saying like damn , you're so strong , that's really awesome that you're carrying her . That is awesome , right ? That is why you wanna sprint and walk and run and track your macros and feel your body . It's those things . That's the whole point . We're almost forgetting that . This is the whole goddamn point is to live a better life , is to live a longer life , is to be strong . Yeah , you're going to look good too , right . If you're weight training and you're running and you're doing all these things , you're going to look freaking so good . That's absolutely part of it and it's a huge part of it .
Speaker 2But when you really get down to it , what does fitness mean for you ? Define fitness because then you're going to show up to your sprints , because it's going to help you burn visceral fat , stomach fat , all kinds of fat . It's going to help you become leaner . It's going to help you look like a freaking badass . It's also going to help you keep up with your grandkids . It's also going to help you be able to run that half marathon . It's also going to be able to make you feel strong and like oh , am I a runner now ? Look at me , go right , there's so much more to it .
Speaker 2So when you are showing up for these things , for your tracking of your food , for your filling your water bottle 60 times a day , when you're peeing 60 times a day , when you're doing all of these things that feel so small and they feel like you don't wanna do it and you're like I can just miss my workout today , it's not a big deal . It is a big deal . It is a big deal because , if you're gonna keep skipping workouts throughout your life , each one of those workouts is an opportunity for you to become stronger , for you to become better , for you to keep promises to yourself . It's to have more energy . It's to show up for yourself in a way that matters . It's to look muscular . It's to go for runs with your kids . It's to be able to go for bike rides with your kids .
Speaker 2It's to be able to teach your kids how to eat healthy and to show your kids that , yes , I'm tracking my food because I want to make sure I'm eating enough food , not because I'm making sure I don't eat too much . Yeah , that's part of it , but you can spin it the other way too , right ? I want to make sure that I'm strong . If I'm going to go for a run with you child insert child's name If I'm going to go for a run with you , or I'm going to go play basketball with you , or I'm going to go throw pitches to you , or whatever it is , I have to eat food . I have to be strong enough to do that . I have to be fast , I have to be quick , I have to be in good shape , I have to be healthy . I have to show up for myself , because that's the whole point .
Speaker 2Otherwise , we're out of shape , we are overweight , we are feeling like shit because we're putting shit in our bodies . That's not the point . That's the opposite of . The point is , if we're not doing the things that we said we're going to do and we're not doing the things that are keeping us , yeah , maybe looking good and feeling fast and looking super hot , cool , but you're also making a better , longer life for yourself . That is the whole point . So , in redefining your fitness , or defining your fitness , if you haven't listened to that episode , go freaking , do that , because it's so good and a lot of people are like thank you so much for this . It brings it back .
Speaker 2And when we're unfucking fitness , yes , we have to do all the things . All the things , we have to do all the things . But why are we doing all the things ? What the hell are we doing those things for ? Yeah , because you want to look good , you want to feel good , you want to lose weight . It all matters . You know all those things , but what is the whole point ? What is the whole point here ? It's
to go explore and see the world . It's to have family , get togethers and be able to go run and jump and play and explore and go on vacations , and that's the whole point . That's the whole point .
Speaker 2I don't want to be someone who gets older and it's like oh , I have terrible knee problems so I can't walk and I can't get up and I'm not healthy and I'm going to doctor's appointments all the time and , yeah , sometimes that happens and we plan for it not to . But if I can do everything in my power to be the healthiest version that I can be and to be the most fun , energetic mom for my kids and give them a great example of okay , I always saw my mom lifting weights . I always saw my mom eating food that other people said was bad . I always saw my mom taking creatine . I always saw my mom taking creatine . I always saw my mom tracking her food and having a really healthy relationship with food . That's the point .
Speaker 2So redefine fitness for yourself or define it for the first time . A lot of us just don't ever define fitness for ourselves . We just see other people doing things and we think , yeah , that's what I should be doing . That person is cutting out carbs and doing keto . I should probably do that Based on what ? Literally nothing .
Speaker 2So define it for yourself and then get back to the point , because in the middle of your workout , when you were struggling , you're like I just really want to quit . I don't want to do this . I don't want to be here . This sucks .
Speaker 2What is the point ? Ask yourself what is the point and then get really deep . What is the freaking point is , if I finish this workout , I actually did the damn thing . I almost quit and I didn't . I can do hard things , I can show up for myself . This is building muscle , this is preventing bone density loss . Like this is really , really helping my body and this shit matters . My body and this shit matters . That's the whole point .
Speaker 2So short , sweet spicy today , but a very good reminder when you're unfucking your fitness and trying to remember to do all the things . Remember why . Remember what the point is . The whole point is not to be perfect . It's not to show up every freaking day and do every single thing . It's to show up consistently and make sure that you've defined fitness for yourself so that it really matters and really really makes a huge difference . I hope you enjoyed this episode . I hope it was very helpful . We like these short , sweet spicy ones . I do , anyway , and I know I get a lot of messages saying like we love this real talk , we love this . So I hope you love this one as well and I'll talk to you in the next episode .
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