Ep 84 Lift Yourself with Laura Hoggins
The Calmer You Podcast - Ein Podcast von Chloe Brotheridge - Montags
On this week's Calmer You Podcast, I really enjoyed speaking with Laura ‘biceps' Hoggins, PT & Head of Brand @foundryfit. She has introduced a form of fitness that celebrates effort over results and empowerment over appearance.We chat about:* How to overcome gymtimidation * The mental and physical benefits of lifting weights (some of these will surprise you)* Getting back into exercise after a break * Weight lifting for anxiety and confidenceMy confidence challenge is coming up at the end of Feb: 5 days to become more confident, connect with others of the same path and have fun. It’s one of my favourite offers and totally free. Join at www.calmeryou.com/confidenceTranscriptChloe B.: Hello, and welcome to the calmer you podcast. This is your hostChloe Brotheridge, I am a coach and a hypnotherapist, and I'm the author of theanxiety solution and brave new girl. Thank you so much for listening today. I'mtalking to you, Laura Hoggins, and she is sharing all about the power and themagic of weightlifting and why it's so amazing for us, particularly if we arestruggling with anxiety and confidence.GymtimidationAnd she gets into telling us abouthow to overcome gymtimidation, because this is a real thing guys, I'veexperienced it myself. A sense of walking into the gym not knowing what to do,intimidating people everywhere how do we overcome that and start to feelconfident enough to go into the weights rooms and try something new, and wetalk all about that. We also get into what are the mental and physical benefitsof lifting weights, and some of these actually really surprised me, I wasn'texpecting one or two of these. And as a way of hopefully motivating you to wantto give it a try.We talked about getting back intoexercise after a break; this was just a personal thing that I'd experiencedrecently. It can be so difficult if you haven't worked out in a while to thenget going again. How do we overcome those barriers and struggles? And Lauratells us exactly how to do that. And we also get into weightlifting for anxietyand confidence specifically, and what is it about weightlifting particularlythat can really change our perception of ourselves and our bodies, and how wefeel about ourselves, and calm us down in a different way than other types ofexercise.So I think you're going to love thisepisode. If you're looking to grow your confidence in 2020, I'm running a freechallenge in the next couple of weeks, the brave New Year confidence challenge.The last time I ran it, I absolutely loved it. Seeing you guys, helping each other,taking action, growing your confidence noticing real shifts in how you'respeaking to yourselves, and how you're feeling about yourselves in the world.It was really moving for me, and I'm so excited to be able to offer this again.It's a free challenge, you can enter your details at Calmeryou.com/confidence,and you get all the details of when that's starting and how to get involved. Solet's get into the interview with Laura Hoggins.Chloe B.: &... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.