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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, tip Pol.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land

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Speaker 1: on which I'm recording this podcast. There were hundred people

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Speaker 1: of the Cooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders

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Speaker 1: past and present. Today we're hitting up the second part

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Speaker 1: of the great question that was asked last episode. Steph.

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Speaker 1: It was such a huge time in my life to

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Speaker 1: have such and I still feel that pressure. I guess

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Speaker 1: when people are looking at my body, like whenever I

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Speaker 1: turn up to a shoot or I'm filming, or even

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Speaker 1: just walking in the street, people do comment, oh, you're

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Speaker 1: smaller in person, Oh you know, And I feel like

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Speaker 1: nobody can sit at a low fat percentage of like

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Speaker 1: seven to ten percent, which you need to show ABS. Right.

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Speaker 1: I have abs sometimes because I might exercise a bit

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Speaker 1: more and tighten up my nutrition and then have some ABS.

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Speaker 1: But then most of the time in real life, like

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Speaker 1: right now he's sitting talking to you, I don't have

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Speaker 1: ABS because I eat a healthy, healthy diet and I

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Speaker 1: exercise sensibly. But I also run a business, and I

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Speaker 1: have kids, and we have taekwondo after schools, and we

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Speaker 1: have basketball and weekends and we have birthday parties and

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Speaker 1: busy lives, and you know, my focus isn't to exercise

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Speaker 1: all day and live on white fish and salad, you know,

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Speaker 1: so I think we have to really this is what

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Speaker 1: this podcast is about. It's about educating people. If you

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Speaker 1: want to show your abs, you need to have a

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Speaker 1: really low fat percentage in your body, and that takes

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Speaker 1: a calorie deficeit, and that takes a lot of deprivation,

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Speaker 1: and that takes a lot of intense training. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really good to sort of debunk these myths that

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Speaker 1: you can just have abs by doing sit ups. You

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Speaker 1: know you can't. It's all about your nutrition and your

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Speaker 1: fat percentage. So I find that that pressure still follows

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Speaker 1: me around much better at dealing with it. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: much better with just thinking I'm going to educate people

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Speaker 1: around these myths that you can have a six pack

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Speaker 1: all year round. You really can't, especially women with their

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Speaker 1: hormones and their cycles. I'm really a lot more relaxed

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Speaker 1: about my body. Like there would have been a time

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Speaker 1: where I wouldn't do a shoot unless I had an

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Speaker 1: eight pack, But now I'm like, yeah, hell yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: do a shoot, I don't have abs, but that's even

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Speaker 1: better because, like I'm relating to even more women out

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Speaker 1: there and you know, putting out a healthy message that yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're exercising, and it's not about having a six pack.

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Speaker 1: You're exercising because it's for mental health and feeling good

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Speaker 1: and feeling wonderful, and I think that's so much more important.

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Speaker 1: So I feel like, personally, I've come a long way

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Speaker 1: with dealing with that pressure. And I don't think it'll

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Speaker 1: ever go away for me, having that pressure and people

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Speaker 1: commenting on my body, and if I get pregnant again

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Speaker 1: or if I have more children or whatever, it'll come again.

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Speaker 1: But I'm getting better at dealing with it. Step. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So just to touch on having abs, you've got to

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Speaker 1: understand when you see celebrities out there doing a movie

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Speaker 1: or on the cover of a magazine, they are doing

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Speaker 1: things specifically to get abs and to hold those abs

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Speaker 1: for maybe just that day, because as soon as they

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Speaker 1: have water, as soon as they eat something, they're going

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Speaker 1: to bloat. They're going to not have abs. You can

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Speaker 1: have an athletic looking stomach all year round, yes you can,

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Speaker 1: but to have that shredded six pack, look, you have

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Speaker 1: to go to extremes and that's not what I'm about.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I was on the cover of Women's

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Speaker 1: Health in two thousand and oh, twenty nineteen, I think,

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Speaker 1: and for that shoot to be on the cover, I

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Speaker 1: wanted a six pack, and so I was exercising more.

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Speaker 1: I was eating very clean, you know, no sources on

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Speaker 1: my veggies, like I love a bit of sol awesome

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Speaker 1: my you know meat veg you know, like no saucers.

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Speaker 1: I had pulled the salt out of my diet to

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Speaker 1: try and get the water retention out of my body

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Speaker 1: a bit more. And then leading up to those shoots,

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Speaker 1: and this is back in the day, I would water load,

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Speaker 1: so I would drink like four liters of water and

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Speaker 1: then the next day drink three lids, then the next

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Speaker 1: day two, then the next day one, then five hundred miles,

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Speaker 1: and then I'd go to SIPs of water on the

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Speaker 1: day of the shoot. And what happens is you water

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Speaker 1: load your body and your body goes, oh, I'm used

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Speaker 1: to four liters of water, and then within a couple

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Speaker 1: of days you strip it right back to just SIPs

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Speaker 1: of water, and your body freaks out and it releases

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Speaker 1: any excess fluid retention, and it's a way of just

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Speaker 1: stripping the excess fluid out of your tummy, because we

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Speaker 1: hold most of our fluid around our tummies, and it

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Speaker 1: then reveals the abs underneath. And I swear to God,

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Speaker 1: anyone who has a really toned six pack on the

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Speaker 1: cover of magazine or in a movie, they are water

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Speaker 1: loading and playing with diuretics and playing with their water

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Speaker 1: levels to get that look way back in the day,

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Speaker 1: in my twenties, and that like if I had photo shoots,

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Speaker 1: I would book it at certain times around my cycle

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Speaker 1: as well to make sure there was no bloating. I

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Speaker 1: would want to be in the follicular phase. I would

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Speaker 1: want to be make sure that I was not bloating,

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Speaker 1: but definitely not having my period, definitely not ovulating, definitely

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Speaker 1: not in the lutiel phase. So like I was full

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Speaker 1: on about this stuff. And on the day of the shoot,

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Speaker 1: I would eat lollies and sugar jellybeans. I'd even once

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Speaker 1: I when I was bodybuilding, I had a shot of

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Speaker 1: alcohol because what it does is the sugars blow up

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Speaker 1: your veins and make you look more veiny and muscular

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Speaker 1: and make your muscles look a little bit more plump

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Speaker 1: because you haven't had sugar for so long, you suddenly

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Speaker 1: have sugar, your body goes whoa and it just rushes

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Speaker 1: through your veins and you get all these beautiful, big

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Speaker 1: blue veins through your abdominals. And I mean, this stuff

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Speaker 1: is not normal. This is extreme. And I'm a fit person.

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Speaker 1: So if you were to take a photo of me, now,

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Speaker 1: I kind of have upper abs, no lower abs, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a bleaks, but like just a normal

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Speaker 1: looking tummy, bit of a bump, not really flat because

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Speaker 1: I'm not changing the water levels of my body. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sweating it out in a sauna. Every woman has

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a bump, a soft tummy because

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Speaker 1: we have a uterus, and you know that's okay. That's

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Speaker 1: like my body day in day out. But I think

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Speaker 1: I have a pretty lean stomach all the time. But

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Speaker 1: even I have to go to extremes to get a

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Speaker 1: six pack. And I'm a pretty fit person that it's

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Speaker 1: been exercising since I was a little girl, right, So

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Speaker 1: imagine what people have to go through like. And I

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Speaker 1: have worked with some big celebrities. I've trained some massive

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Speaker 1: celebrities in my time, and some of these celebrities are

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Speaker 1: held up as having the best physiques in the world,

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Speaker 1: the best physiques, and even these guys and these girls

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Speaker 1: have to go to these extremes to have a six pack, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: And I know that because I know their trainers. I

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Speaker 1: was one of their trainers. I've been around them, and

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Speaker 1: so it's not something that an average person can have.

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Speaker 1: You've got to strive for it. And then even when

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Speaker 1: you do drop your water and you sauna and you

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Speaker 1: do all these things, and you up your exercise and

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Speaker 1: you're eating a specific way and you pull out the

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Speaker 1: salt of your diet and you've got your six pack

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Speaker 1: for the day, as soon as you start drinking water,

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Speaker 1: as soon as you have some more carbohydrates, your six

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Speaker 1: pack's going to go because that's just what happens. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna conceal the six pack by bloating. And women different

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Speaker 1: to men. Men can have six packs a lot easier

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Speaker 1: than women. They don't store as much fat stores around

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Speaker 1: their stomachs. But for us women, we do. And it

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Speaker 1: is incredibly hard to have a six pack, And every

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Speaker 1: trainer out there will tell you it is an absolute

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Speaker 1: myth that you can have a rip threaded, hard six

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Speaker 1: pack stomach all year round. And if you are seeing

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Speaker 1: that on Instagram and you're following some influences where you're thinking, Wow,

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Speaker 1: she's got a six pack all year round, and I

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Speaker 1: just love her and I just think anything she says

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do because she has a six pack

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Speaker 1: all year round. Then they are taking performance enhancing drugs

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Speaker 1: and that is something that is rife in the industry.

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Speaker 1: That is rife out there now you can get them

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Speaker 1: so easily, and they are taking performance enhancing drugs that

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Speaker 1: make their tummies hard because it is not something that

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Speaker 1: you can achieve. It is not something you can achieve

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Speaker 1: all year round. Thanks so much for listening to Bounce Forward.

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