Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

01/18/24 • 37 min

Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

Many people are moving to position body neutrality over body positivity and Damali believes it's both/and. As Damali says, "We are never just one thing and just as I am a fat black woman that may not always like every aspect of my "both", I wants to seek anything but neutrality when comes to my body!"
In this episode we dive into:

Defining body neutrality, body positivity and how in the end it's more so about body liberation
How we can achieve body liberation through fitness
What it really means to be inclusive in fintess spaces
Finding community and belonging in your body
Getting to the root of why so many of us hate our bodies
Brining equity, inclusivity, and plus size representation to the kettlebell industry

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"Inclusivity is not just that somebody is included because people can be included and still not feel like they belong. Getting past token inclusion and really making it about full community care, so that when people are there, they're included, they belong."

About Damali
Damali believes that coaching is meaningful and meaningful coaching is inclusivity. We find inclusivity in fitness through compassion and the practice of dismantling systems of oppression for every BODY. Damali is a former Muay Thai Fighter, Mother of 2, now a non-diet kettlebell and nutrition coach, owner of Lift Off Strength & Wellness (liftoffstrength.ca) who teaches kettlebells in an accessible size-inclusive approach. At Coaches Corner, she also offers coaches, of all modalities of movement, the opportunity to learn to teach kettlebells safely and confidently.
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About Fantastical Fatty
Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist, fat liberationist, and fat fitness lover. They believe fat people deserve to love their fat bodies and take up space!
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Stay Fat & Fantastic,
Lindsay 😘

Defining body neutrality, body positivity and how in the end it's more so about body liberation
How we can achieve body liberation through fitness
What it really means to be inclusive in fintess spaces
Finding community and belonging in your body
Getting to the root of why so many of us hate our bodies
Brining equity, inclusivity, and plus size representation to the kettlebell industry

Previous Episode

Rewriting the Book on Plus Size Running

REWRITING THE BOOK ON PLUS-SIZE RUNNING!

MARTINUS EVANS | @300POUNDSANDRUNNING

In a world where fat athletes are excluded from races, training, clothing, and all other forms of representation ... it just takes one crappy comment from a troll to piss someone like Martinus off enough to create his own size-inclusive world for plus-size runners!
Martinus Says...

"You need to have delusional self-belief. You have to believe in yourself so much, so hard that anybody else around you thinks you're crazy. "

Some of the highlights of our convo include,

When the Doctor Tells You You're Too Fat So You Decide to Run a Marathon
When Run Coaches Won't Train Fat People So You Become a Run Coach Instead
When the Haters Spur You On To Create an Entire Brand Around Their Mean-Spirited Words
Why We Need to Learn to Do It Afraid and Do It Alone
When Everyone's Worst Nightmare Comes True: Falling Off the Treadmill
Why You Need Delusional Self-Belief

Meet the Martinus!

Martinus Evans has run over eight marathons since his doctor told him to “lose weight or die” in July 2012. Since then, he’s also coached hundreds of runners and founded the Slow AF Run Club, a community of over 10,000 members worldwide. He is also the author of the book Slow AF Run Club: The ultimate guide for anybody who wants to run who enjoys speaking passionately about issues related to size-inclusivity, mindset, DEI and mental health.

All Resources We Talked About

Slow AF Run Club
Book: Slow AF Run Club
Get the First Chapter of Martinus's Book, "Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run,"

Fantastical Fatty Podcast - Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

Transcript

This really points to something that I know you talk about as well, which is fitness as community, but fitness is also inclusivity.

And we have to make sure we understand like that inclusivity is not just somebody is included, because people can be included and still not feel like they belong. So getting past token inclusion, and really making it full community care, so that when people are there, they're included, they belong, There's equity, they feel like there's justice for their exp