151: Befriend Your Body Through Movement with Kim Hagle

Thrive Beyond Size

Friends, I’m excited to share this episode with you all because it’s on a subject I’ve been struggling with recently. We’re going to talk about movement. My relationship with movement has gone up and down, if you’ve been listening to this podcast from the beginning, and part of the struggle is that there’s part of me that still connects exercise to weight loss and that makes it feel a bit like punishment. So I keep researching movement and one of the people I’ve met who has been wonderful at helping and coaching me through this disconnect is my guest today: Kim Hagle. Kim is a size-inclusive fitness specialist, a non-diet nutritionist, and a body image coach who founded Radiant Vitality Wellness. She and her company offer weight neutral fitness training and transformational coaching and she also hosts the Power in Motion podcast on which I’ve been a guest! I’m so glad you get to meet her today, she is amazing.

The first thing Kim shares is her personal journey with fitness, sports, movement, and dieting and how it led her eventually to making her fitness career weight neutral and size inclusive. She had some powerful revelations in her own life that helped her get here. In our conversation, Kim and I talk about how most fitness facilities are not seat up for people in larger bodies, from the physical space to the imagery to the mirrors, and how we need to not assume everyone entering a fitness center has weight loss as a goal. Kim speaks to how movement can incorporate anything that gets us moving and contributes to health in our bodies, what clothing we can wear to work out so we don’t have to feel pressured into tiny spandex, having flexibility built into training goals, and the overall joy we should find in movement. Kim is warm and supportive and has helped change my perspective a lot, which I appreciate. Talking with her is so inspirational to me and I hope you all find similar inspiration from this episode.

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About Kim Hagle:

Kim Hagle (she/her) is a Size Inclusive Fitness Specialist, Non-Diet Nutritionist, Body Image Coach and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Size Inclusive Training Academy

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Learn more about Kim Hagle:

• Website: RadiantVitality.ca
• Podcast: The Power in Motion Podcast
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