In this weeks’s episode of Real Talk I have the utmost pleasure of speaking with strong woman girl crush Amy Thompson. People often ask who I look up to in the health and fitness industry and few names come to mind - even fewer female names. One person who I have admired for her physical strength and no-nonsense approach for many years is Amy.
I so love how unapologetically strong she is and how she creates her own no BS approach whilst embracing and embodying her own feminists at the same time. It’s a rare quality to see in someone and it made this podcast even more special for me to record.
Given it’s the time of year we typically get into the gear of goal setting, I wanted to get Amy’s perspectives on what it really takes to create a lasting physical transformation as all too often we are sold and thus sign up to quick fixes such as 30 day challenges, fad diets, juice cleanses, ‘detoxes’, 6am bootcamp sessions which prioritise the production of sweat over quality of movement etc.
When you work with someone who knows their shit and who helps others to create transformations for themselves, you are sometimes met with hard realities to face e.g. it’s going to take you closer to 2 years of consistent work to get to where you want to be and in the process, you will have to work on creating about 10 new healthy habits in order for you to continue to live a healthy life long after you have reached where you want to get to. The people who face these hard realities and who partner with said experts not only get the results, but they keep them too and in the process, avoid several headaches of stopping and starting and stopping and starting and stopping and starting time and time again.
In this episode, myself and Amy discuss some of the challenging conversations we have when people turn to us for our expertise in creating lasting transformations and highlight some of the ‘ah-ha’ moments people have or NEED to have in order to create lasting change. Chances are, there is far more to losing 10kg than just a sustained caloric deficit. People are quick to forget that people are not robots and they are not light switches. Life is not linear nor is creating long term behavioural change. Many thanks again to Amy for her time and valuable insights! The first of many more conversations to be had no doubt. Please connect with her on the following:
Instagram: @amythomps0n
Website: www.recomphq.com.au
