The Tea with Tina
The Tea with Tina is going to be your new favorite weekly chit-chat that will feel like a good, juicy sit-down with your BFF. This podcast isn't your average (and boring) radio talk show-styled podcast. We dig deep, get personal, and have lots of fun along the way. Hear some relatable stories and a different perspective on various topics from health and fitness to pop culture. I am Tina Wieland, a certified fitness trainer and nutrition coach. Grab your caffeinated drink of choice, get comfortable, and be ready to hear the TEA.
The Tea with Tina
245 | Embracing Authenticity: Breaking Free from Social Media Trends in the Fitness Industry
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Have you ever felt like an imposter in your own industry? After years of trying to fit into the mold of social media trends, I’ve finally decided to break free and embrace authenticity in my content creation. This episode of Tea with Tina is all about the struggle between following the crowd and staying true to oneself. I share my personal journey of navigating the fitness industry and my shift towards a more genuine approach. From candid client conversations to spontaneous insights that hit me while driving, I’m experimenting with blending trendy topics with my own unique perspective, even if it’s not the most popular approach.
Get ready to redefine your perspective on authenticity as I take you through how this mindset shift plays out in real life and fitness. I recount a recent experience from my fitness class where we infused creativity with moves like wood choppers with a ball and a fitness-based sledgehammer. It's about finding the sweet spot between careful planning and spontaneous action. Grab your favorite drink, settle into your coziest spot, and join me as we embark on this journey of showing up authentically in every aspect of life.
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Welcome to the Tea with Tina, your favorite podcast, where we talk all things health, fitness, lifestyle and maybe a little bit of tea gets spilled.
Speaker 2:We chat all about this in a super casual environment, so grab your beverage of choice, sit back, relax and enjoy back, relax and enjoy.
Speaker 2:Hello friends, and welcome back to another episode of the Tea with Tina podcast. Today I have a little bit of a mini rant for you and I promise what I'm talking about is going to relate to your fitness journey and how you could show up and probably your life in some way. You may have experienced what I'm experiencing with a different situation right. So a theme that I've noticed over my life, particularly with the fitness industry. I've been in the fitness industry for quite a while, I'd say. I officially started working out consistently when I was 16, 17. I'm 29 now. I became certified as a personal trainer when I was 21. So it's been eight years that I've been certified and working with clients, and something that I've noticed is that there's definitely a divide in space, and I think that that goes for maybe any industry and anything in general.
Speaker 2:But particularly with social media, I've noticed that what is popular and what gets a lot of attention is not stuff that I align with or the way my brain works. You know, I feel like a lot of the stuff. You know, anytime I try to create the content that they say works well and will bring people to your business and draw eyes, it just it always feels inauthentic, it feels fake and it doesn't feel like me. And maybe that popular stuff does resonate with certain people, but it's just, it just never feels like me. And that's actually why one of the reasons that I took a little break from posting and creating content because I feel like I got kind of burned out on it because I was creating stuff that didn't didn't feel authentic. And the same thing came with podcasts. Anytime I've tried to script a podcast episode and like pick a topic to talk about it, it never works. It feels like such a strain to try to create something I much would rather share from what I'm experiencing in my everyday life. I love looking out for those little tidbits and challenging myself. That's actually where this podcast episode came from. So that's what I'm going to experiment with.
Speaker 2:Moving forward is trying to take whether a client said something, I saw something on tv. You listen to a podcast, you're driving and you think of something. Like it could be any scenario if I think of a concept that's interesting to share and build upon that idea. Um, that I get and and, and I kind of want the same to be with social media. I know it'd be much more time efficient to uh probably plan out and and and plan ahead, because it is very time consuming to try to come up with ideas, film, edit, uh, post stuff. I know that sounds really tedious to some of you because I know, like social media and and just uh people who post on there a lot, it gets a bad rep. But you know, for marketing perspective and educating perspective, you know it can be challenging on top of trying to run your actual business. So I'm gonna play around. I want to build my momentum back up and just start posting things that feel good to me and are mean. It may not be the most popular, trendiest thing, that's going to get a ton of likes, but it's going to feel good to me to post it. And that's just the direction I'm leaning into and I think there is going to be an element of planning. You know that will come with it. I'm trying to kind of mesh the two together. I think there's going to be an element of pulling in trendy topics but putting my own twist on it. But I think to get the ball rolling I'm just going to start with what feels good and that is where the tie-in leads into fitness. I actually created a post today.
Speaker 2:I did my fitness class, as always, I did a total body class and I do the class with them. It's always a great workout. We had a great time and I used a couple, you know, unique moves. I felt really good. You know, I did wood choppers with a ball and then we used a sledgehammer, which is newer, not a real sledgehammer, a fitness-based sledgehammer. The end of it's a little bit different. It's kind of more like a ball, so you don't hurt anything, and it's a little leather body bag that I think they use for like boxing maybe or like karate, but we used it to, uh, you know, the sledgehammer to hit the body and uh, I just was thinking about how it's more of a unique way of movement and uh, you know, if you're feeling I feel like a lot of us get bored or maybe we get in funks, um, you know, and we come into the fitness space.
Speaker 2:I know again talking about how the fitness space is divided. I'll tell you, it's like we have the science bros who are like well, you have to do this periodized program and it has to be squat, bench, deadlift, and you have to do the same thing every day for the rest of your life, because that's how you progress and if you do anything different, you're never going to make progress. And then we have the other end of the spectrum. That is like a ton of crazy different stuff all of the time. You know, maybe the fitness YouTubers they're like doing lat, raise, lunge, kickback, squat, dead bug, uh, deadlift in one move, right. So we, we have the both ends of the spectrum and, as always, I kind of like to mesh both.
Speaker 2:I always like to keep a key. I've talked about this in my other videos, like about group fitness and things. If you want to learn more about that, um, but I like to keep a base of. Hey, you know, like most movements are going to have some element of like the five basics like push, pull, squat, hinge and carry and some would argue that that carry like a farmer's carry. You can include core in there, like a plank or a rotation, you of all of those, I think for somebody who's a total newbie, like making sure the basics are right, or if you have a weakness and maybe your form's not great, yes, go to the basics, but if you have pretty good movement and you're confident in your movement, you know there's nothing wrong with doing a YouTube video.
Speaker 2:You know, I just made a post and I shared on the podcast the other day, that consistency comes before getting picky. So you know, if doing random workouts every day is what you need to do to get consistent and then you go, okay, so now let me do a little bit more of a structured program, then so be it right. I think if we try to start out like too perfect and try to do everything right, we can get bored, we can get confused, get discouraged and then we just end up not showing up at all. I always say that you could have the most perfect workout in the world, but if you never follow through with it, you're literally never going to get results. So you know, that's why I think doing movement that is enjoyable just like, for me, posting stuff that is enjoyable is important.
Speaker 2:And again, things come in waves, things come and go. Obviously, not everything is set in stone. There may be times that you kind of need to just put your head down and be a little bit more disciplined and sit through the suck. But like again, if you're feeling like me, I was just feeling very uninspired with social media. It felt like a chore. Um, like, literally, if I had to think of an idea, my mind was completely blank, no inspiration whatsoever. I was like, okay, we need to go back to fun. And if you feel that way too, it's like every day you try to go to the gym, or every day you tell yourself you're going to wake up and work out. And it's been weeks, it's been months, you're skipping it, you're avoiding it. The idea of thinking about working out disgusts you. Like. Maybe you need to go back to fun, right, fun, so do movement that brings you joy. Again, there's no right or wrong movement.
Speaker 2:There's so many ways to move, even outside of the gym. You know, we have our machines, we have our barbells, we have our dumbbells. But can you bike, can you swim, can you play a sport? Can you do functional movement? Can you walk and hike? Um, you know yard work, different things like that. Go watch rocky four, is it four? Rocky four, three or four, I don't remember the one with the russian guy and he goes into like the middle of the nowhere and it's snowy and rocky's like training with like logs and and all this crazy stuff. You can do it with nothing, you know, um, so you know, move in a way that feels good. Dancing there's so many ways cleaning, gardening so many options to move and I think we, like discredit ourselves and we think, oh, if it doesn't fit into this little box then it's wrong and I definitely was thinking that way with social media oh well, if it doesn't fit into the pretty box of everything that's viral and let me tell you you may not notice as a consumer, but I will say me as a fitness professional the space it's very repetitive, it's kind of annoying.
Speaker 2:I'm sure that happens with everything, like entertainment as well. But you know, someone sees one post that goes viral, then everybody copies it exactly and just you know it's their face now. But it's like it gets old and I just I don't like that vibe. I'd rather show up in my way and just let my creativity shine through, because I've noticed that even when I scroll for entertainment, there's a lot of um, you know unique, fun things that come up and they're not necessarily like following the social media rules.
Speaker 2:Where it's, you know, a beautiful background and you have perfect lighting on you and everything's scripted. Sometimes it's just a phone and somebody chatting to the camera, but but the message that they have is valuable, right? So it's not all the glitz and glamour, right? I even bought like light setups and a background and everything to try to make this perfect, and I never even used it. I think I'll use the lights in the future because I do like the lights, but I was just like, really, this is so stupid. So, yeah, I had all that going on, but yeah, again, same thing relates to your movement, yoga, mobility, lots of ways to move. Don't discredit just showing up and doing it right. So if you're feeling bored, stuck, uninspired, maybe just start with whatever brings you a little bit of joy, get the reps in and get the consistency. Then you can worry about being a little bit more zoned in. All right, so that is my message for you today. I hope you enjoyed and I will chat with you soon. Bye.
