85. Diet Culture in Pilates, with Jade Ritchi and Raphael Bender

TW: This episode contains content about disordered eating & body dysmorphia.

We acknowledge that this may be difficult and encourage you to care for your safety and well-being by talking to your healthcare professional if any of the issues in this show have affected you. 

Diet culture has infiltrated Pilates and is evident in many of the usual practices many of us do, like cueing, marketing our services and even encouraging our clients.

Jade and Raph try hard to disagree but basically fail; they talk about:

• What are diet culture and fatphobia
• Why fitness is a better measure of health than body shape or fatness
• Why fitness (or Pilates) challenges can be problematic, and how to reframe your fitness challenge so it’s body neutral
• Why we don’t need to focus on working individual body parts, how it can be problematic, and what to do instead to motivate your clients
• How to change your language to be more body neutral
• Why Pilates instructors shouldn’t be giving dietary advice
• The many incredible benefits of exercise that aren’t related to how you look
• And more

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Tally Rye book Train Happy here  
• Meet physical activity guidelines and halve your chance of dying of any cause in the next 10 years here
• Meeting physical activity guidelines reduces your risk of diabetes 39% and cardiovascular disease 60% here
• Fitness is vastly more important than fatness for heart health here
• Fitness is more important than body mass index for predicting someone’s risk of dying at any age here
• Run app link here
• Wendy Suzuki TED talk: The Brain-changing benefits of exercise here
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia here
• The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women here

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About Jade Ritchi:

Jade Ritchi is an Australian...