45. LIFE AFTER SPORT.... NOW WHAT?

12/17/20 • 17 min

Live Your Personal Best - Workout Motivation and Routine Building For Current and Former Athletes

Did you want to move onto the next chapter of your life once you retired from competitive sports? Don’t we all...but you have to ask yourself if closing that chapter really is the best thing for your health. Think about it; you no longer have coaches, nutritionists, a training schedule, and all the other benefits that come with being a competing athlete. I would say you have an even bigger responsibility of taking care of yourself now more than ever if you ask me.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I talk about my book writing project which covers the topic of life after sport. Listen in to learn the importance of maintaining health and fitness in your life after sport.

Key Takeaways:

How exercise is first introduced to us as a sport.
The different unhealthy extremes during and after a sport, and why you should learn balancing in real life.
The importance of keeping the athlete’s lifestyle even after retiring from the sport.
Why you feel like you’re failing when you can’t take care of yourself every day as you did as an athlete.
Reapplying the same things you enjoyed in sports to the next chapter of your life.

Episode Timeline:

[3:41] How some athletes abandon their athlete identity once they leave the sport.
[5:47] Why you should learn to take care of yourself after your athletic career.
[9:59] I challenge you not to cut off completely your former sport.

Quotes:

“Your first task after you’re done with sports is taking care of yourself.” [5:40]
“How you take care of yourself as an athlete is different from everyday life.” [8:33]

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Key Takeaways:

How exercise is first introduced to us as a sport.
The different unhealthy extremes during and after a sport, and why you should learn balancing in real life.
The importance of keeping the athlete’s lifestyle even after retiring from the sport.
Why you feel like you’re failing when you can’t take care of yourself every day as you did as an athlete.
Reapplying the same things you enjoyed in sports to the next chapter of your life.

Episode Timeline:

[3:41] How some athletes abandon their athlete identity once they leave the sport.
[5:47] Why you should learn to take care of yourself after your athletic career.
[9:59] I challenge you not to cut off completely your former sport.

Quotes:

“Your first task after you’re done with sports is taking care of yourself.” [5:40]
“How you take care of yourself as an athlete is different from everyday life.” [8:33]

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44. Sick of Your Bad Eating Habits? Let’s Talk About Breaking the Cycle

How often do you find yourself in the vicious cycle of binge eating, overexercising, emotional eating, repeat? Urgh, how tiring! Don’t you wish you could find an eating pattern that allows you to eat healthily and for comfort without feeling guilty? The truth is that you do not have a problem with food, you only have bad habits that are formed throughout your life. You heard that right, you can get over binge and emotional eating.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I speak with Estelle Coombe-Heath, a leading expert in helping women who struggle with binge and emotional eating so that they can find food freedom and finally trust themselves around food. She shares how she overcame binge eating and overexercising to achieve food freedom and a healthy lifestyle.

Listen in to learn the importance of understanding your binge triggers to help curb your bad eating habits.

Key Takeaways:

The never-ending vicious cycle of working out and binge eating that does more harm to your body than good.
Stop living in food prison by releasing all forms of emotions around food especially guilt and shame.
Learn to listen to your body cues on what food it needs and release your stigma around cravings.
The importance of understanding your urges and learning to protest against the part of your brain that reaches for food to break binge eating patterns.
Teaching yourself how to have a neutral relationship with food.
Understanding your triggers when it comes to food through hunger, emotions, and habits.
How the restrictive mentality is stopping you from getting over binge eating.

Episode Timeline:

[4:14] Estelle shares her journey with unhealthy eating habits that led to binge eating and the support she got to recover.
[13:12] How to achieve food freedom by balancing your thoughts and feelings around food.
[16:33] How Estelle focuses on balancing energy eating and other foods to help her clients.
[18:34] Understanding where your urge for eating comes from.
[23:38] Steps on how to change your relationship with food to tackle binge eating.
[30:55] How Estelle helps her clients learn to trust themselves around food.

Quotes:

“Food didn’t make me eat it, it was mostly my emotions and habits that was triggering it.”- Estelle [27:21]
“Everything is about a middle ground, there is no such thing as perfection.”- Estelle [32:39]

Connect with Estelle:

https://www.instagram.com/wholesomelifestyleproject/

www.wholesomelifestyleproject.com/

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46. DITCH Your Shoulds & START Listening to Your Body

Feel like you’re always pushing for more, more, more? Too much of anything, even a workout routine is harmful to your body. Self-care also means letting yourself lay back and relax, not just actively working out. A healthy lifestyle should be a mix of what makes you happy!

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I speak with Samantha Kellgren, a certified health coach who used to be an avid marathon runner but got caught up in some of the extremes and lost her periods. She now helps others find their balance, stop obsessing, and start living. She shares her personal health and fitness journey from obsessive extremes to a balanced lifestyle where she gets to do what is good for her.

Listen in to learn the importance of finding and sticking to healthy habits that are good for you without comparing your progress with others.

Key Takeaways:

How fitness extremities can negatively affect your body in the long run.
How to find new things to enjoy to break the routine of fitness extremes.
Think of what you can cut back on or add to your routine to help you smoothly transition from intense exercising to gentler exercising.
The importance of doing what makes you happy rather than what you feel you should be doing.
Learn to do what is good for you and not expect to get the results of others.
The power of having control in workouts and eating habits you like.

Episode Timeline:

[2:09] Samantha narrates how she fell in love and enjoyed running since college and when it started becoming an issue.
[8:47] How she found and adjusted to new ways that she enjoyed outside of intense running.
[14:57] How to add or reduce activities in your exercising routine to change and find a balance.
[22:50] How Samantha learned and developed healthy eating habits.
[28:58] How to be comfortable doing the workout routines that are workable for you.

Quotes:

“Scaling back is seen like letting go when it can be what you need or what you want.”- Samantha [17:53]
“Our bodies are totally different and we have to do what is good for us and not expect to get someone else’s results.”- Samantha [22:14]

Connect with Samantha!

Website: https://simplywellcoaching.com/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/simplywellcoaching/

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