Lindsay Parker (LiftingLindsay) is a nutrition and hypertrophy coach, specializing in biomechanics, exercise execution, program design, and mindset. She shares how her own weight loss journey sparked her interest and contagious passion for muscle building and biomechanics, because, like many, when she did lose weight… she didn’t look anything like she hoped or wanted.

Lindsay joins us to talk about her experience with intense back pain, starting where you are, pushing outside comfort zones and finding our maintenance calories, and how so many women are still feeling the negative effects of being in a calorie deficit because they’re scared to eat a little more and find a true, healthy maintenance. We talk about experiencing maintenance without the emotional attachment to the scale. We talk about choosing quality exercises for your goals, how to weed out some of the online BS, and nailing the basics before focusing on the specifics. We talk in depth about building confidence and keeping our power. We talk about important life checks and balances and keeping ourselves grounded while working for our goals, embracing all pieces of ourselves.

“I don’t want to be fine, I want to be amazing! I want to be wonderful! I want to love myself! I want to have confidence. Confidence only comes from pushing your boundaries, experiencing new things, and failing, and being okay failing. But you have to put yourself out there. That’s where confidence and real self-love come together.”

- Lindsay Parker

“As soon as you need people to give you compliments for you to feel good internally, that is a huge red flag that you have given up your power. As soon as you give someone else power to build you up, you also give them the power to take you down in a minute.”

- Lindsay Parker

This week on Tater Talks: Two Bitches Talk Fitness:

·       Choosing quality exercises for your goals and why it matters

·       How genetics really do play a role in our physique

·       The problem with copying everything someone does simply because you like the way they look

·       How comparison kills motivation and joy

·       The two major parts to physique change

·       How confidence is found by pushing outside our comfort zones

·       How we give away our power by relying on others for confidence

·       Embracing all pieces of ourselves

Where to find Lifting Lindsay:

·       Lifting Lindsay on Instagram

·       Lifting Lindsay website

·       Lifting Lindsay’s More than Fitness Podcast on Apple Podcasts

·       Lifting Lindsay’s More than Fitness Podcast on Spotify

·       BeStrong Membership

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