#177 Fit Mindset & Body with Kathleen Trotter

Kathleen Trotter, MSc, is a fitness expert, media personality, personal trainer, writer, and author of Finding Your Fit. A Compassionate Trainer’s Guide to Making Fitness a Lifelong Habit and Your Fittest Future Self. Making Choices Today for a Happier, Healthier, Fitter Future You. Kathleen has been a personal trainer and fitness expert for almost twenty years.

Kathleen currently writes for publications including the Huffington Post, recently filmed an episode of The Zommer Report for Vision Tv, has a regular monthly segment on BT Montreal, makes frequent media appearances on other television shows, including Rogers Ottawa, BT Toronto, and CHCH Hamilton, as well as on podcasts such as The Tonic Show Podcast for Zoomer Radio, 40+ Fitness, Naturally Savvy, Fit Chicks Chat, and The Other F Word Podcast.

Kathleen holds a master’s degree in Exercise Science from the University of Toronto, a nutrition diploma from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, and a nutrition certification through Precision Nutrition. She is a C.H.E.K. Level 3 Trainer, a Level 2 Fascial Stretch Therapist, a Level 1 ELDOA practitioner, and a certified Pilates Equipment Specialist. Kathleen is currently working to become a life coach.

Kathleen’s unique approach to fitness and coaching—namely, that a person’s mindset is more important as the number of hours they spend at the gym—sets her apart from many of her peers. Her commitment to improving the overall wellbeing of her clients, rather than just helping them hit a number on the scale and leaving it at that, comes from a place of knowing what it’s like to hate your body, as she grew up overeating, sneaking junk food and using every excuse she could think of to get out of gym class. Eventually, she became her own health hero.

Some topics we touched on during the podcast include:

• Why a growth mindset is crucially important when you're trying to meet fitness (or any) goals

• How to understand and utilize your brain chemistry to work for you.

• Why Kathleen believes people should ditch motivation and willpower.

• How to set up systems to save yourself from your future self

• What is the importance of mindset; specifically, a growth mindset?

• Why tracking is important, how best to do it, and how it keeps you accountable to yourself

• Why understanding hormones—especially dopamine—is important to achieving your goals

• Why noting your small victories is crucial to staying on track

• Why aiming for consistency over perfection is the key to maintaining a regular fitness practice

• How learning to embrace your bad days makes your good days even better

SHOW LINKS:

Website: http://www.kathleentrotter.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FITbyKathleenT/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitbykathleent/

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