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NWP Episode 249: Casey Zavaleta on Setting Strength Training Goals with Intuitive Eating

NWP Episode 249: Casey Zavaleta on Setting Strength Training Goals with Intuitive Eating

Casey Zavaleta is a strength coach, fitness educator, and nutritional therapy practitioner based in Toronto, ON. She began her career with Toronto FC in the High Performance Department where she created programs to improve athletes' high performance habits. As a personal trainer, she has found a passion for leading and coaching women to engage with fitness for better reasons than changing their body size. She is currently an educator with DTS Fitness Education, where she is the lead developer for DTS Habits Coach, a course that teaches trainers to help their clients improve their habits and change their beliefs about themselves.

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As a former dancer, Casey struggled for many years with her body image and disordered eating, and learned to define her worth based on how her body looked. After educating herself and doing countless hours of internal work, Casey came to a deep understanding that wellness is about much more than external markers such as the size of our bodies or the amount of weight we can lift in the gym. In this episode we help you explore what it looks like to set strength training goals for yourself that still honor and respect your Intuitive Eating mindset and practice.

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In this episode we discuss:

  • How Casey evolved to become a strength coach that practices in an IE aligned way and how she made that shift.

  • Tangible examples of what it means to stop obsessing about how we want to look and start focusing on how we want to feel.

  • Examples of what it looks like to set goals that are strength based that aren’t geared specifically towards weight loss

  • Questions you can ask yourself to help navigate the tricky part of movement routines of creating a habit and being motivated to move your body.

  • How Casey personally navigates being intuitive with her exercise routine while also progressing towards goals.

  • Casey’s podcast, How Do You Feel Podcast and her work.

  • How Casey practices wellness without obsession.

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Click here to download our free e-book, How to Eat for Hormones.

 

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Casey Zavaleta is a strength coach, fitness educator, and nutritional therapy practitioner based in Toronto, ON. She began her career with Toronto FC in the High Performance Department where she created programs to improve athletes' high performance habits.

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