Rewriting the Book on Plus Size Running

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05/26/23 • 45 min

Fantastical Fatty Podcast

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,"

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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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REWRITING THE BOOK ON PLUS-SIZE RUNNING!

MARTINUS EVANS | @300POUNDSANDRUNNING

"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!

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,"

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Forget Body Ideals and Find Body Joy!

FORGET SOCIETY'S BODY STANDARDS AND FIND BODY JOY!

FIERCE AND CURVY EMPIRE | @fierceandcurvyempire

At a certain point, we just have to stop giving a crap about other people's opinions (seriously, who cares?) and forget about trying to fit into society's beauty standards for the sake of finding our own body joy! Only then can we start to confidently take up space and be the best version of ourselves...the version that's changing the freaking world!
Queen K Says...

"Taking up space is not giving a damn what anyone else is thinking, to fully experience the moment and not have anything else take you away from that."

How much juiciness can we fit into one podcast episode? You're about to find out! I talked with the Queens of Fierce and Curvy Empire, founder Queen K and her crew Queen D and Queen C, and we dove into what it looks like when we buy into society's body ideals and thin beauty standards and why we have to STOP GIVING A CRAP about all of that and discover our own body joy!

Some of the highlights of our convo include,

Why we need to stop waiting to lose weight to feel worthy
Exploring dance in a plus-size body as a journey, not a destination
What happens when we move for joy, not maximum calorie burn
Finding body joy when life throws you a curve ball
The glorious concept of Fat Vanity?
No longer internalizing body shame that others carry and project onto us
Why fat representation matters for younger generations
The frustration of existing in a society that doesn't want to see fat people living their best lives
When someone tells a fat person they're so brave ... and why sometimes that feels awesome and other times totally sucks!

All Resources We Talked About

Meet the Queens of FACE!

Queen K created FACE, an all-inclusive full-figured dance company that provides a safe and strong community, and believes that everyone has the right to move their bodies and take up space. Queen K is joined by Queen D and Queen C to create a safe and encouraging community to bring out the fierce queen within YOU! This no judgement zone is where we will build each other up, straighten each other’s crowns, and show the world that we are not defined by our size.

Connect with the Queens

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Body Liberation through Fitness with Damali Fraiser

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

Coaches Corner Waitlist & Free 5 Tools to Reimagine Well-being and Movement Culture
"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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Fantastical Fatty Podcast - Rewriting the Book on Plus Size Running

Transcript

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if you think of a person listening to this right now and they're going, can I, can I be an athlete? Can I do these things? Can I face the struggle and do these things? What are some tips you would have for that person to help them shift into an athletic mindset when they don't perceive themselves as having an athlete's body or looking like an athlete? First thing I'll say is yes you can. I have this phrase of delusional self-belief, right? Yeah. Ooh, delusional self-b