Speaker 1: Hi, am, welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, Tifhoul.
Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land
Speaker 1: of which I'm recording this podcast, the Warunderie people of
Speaker 1: the Cooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders past
Speaker 1: and present. Julia messaged me, Hey, Tiff, what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on people filming content in public gyms? As someone
Speaker 1: who films a lot of your workouts for your community,
Speaker 1: what do you think about it being done in a
Speaker 1: public space.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: Now, I do film my workouts a lot, but I
Speaker 1: film them in my home, their home workouts, in my
Speaker 1: back garden. Occasionally I'll feel myself exercising in a gym,
Speaker 1: but if I do, my friend will film me. No
Speaker 1: one else is around, no one else is in the
Speaker 1: background of the videos, and I make sure that the
Speaker 1: timing is right.
Speaker 2: Famously, a Melbourne gym.
Speaker 1: Owner has banned he has banned tripods and filming in
Speaker 1: his gyms, and he's got a lot of gyms in Melbourne,
Speaker 1: and I just applaud him. He said, it's become an
Speaker 1: absolute circus where one day he walked into his gym
Speaker 1: and he nearly tripped over seven tripods, and even at
Speaker 1: the gyms that I train out, and I train around
Speaker 1: at different gyms because I've got a lot of friends
Speaker 1: and I've got a lot of colleagues and things, and
Speaker 1: they say come down and do a session, and I do.
Speaker 2: I love catching up with people. It's like very social
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: I can't believe how many like drink bottles and the
Speaker 1: lean their phones up and I'll just be trying to
Speaker 1: do a session and all of a sudden, I'm in
Speaker 1: the background of some influencer wearing tiny shorts that are
Speaker 1: all gathered up her bum crack and she's doing squats
Speaker 1: right over the camera, and I'm in the back there
Speaker 1: trying to do my workout, and I think to myself, Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, for one.
Speaker 2: It's a privacy issue.
Speaker 1: Not everybody wants people to know when they're at the
Speaker 1: gym or what they're doing. This is actually a safety issue.
Speaker 1: And I personally get upset because I work in the
Speaker 1: media in fitness. I don't want people knowing which gyms
Speaker 1: I frequent. I've had issues with stalkers and things like
Speaker 1: that in the past. I don't want to be in
Speaker 1: the back of your squat video, sweetheart, Like I really don't,
Speaker 1: and their trip hazards as well. If I'm trying to
Speaker 1: train and do more of a drill kind of thing,
Speaker 1: I'm tripping over it, I'm working around it. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: oh God, that guy's filming a wait till I can
Speaker 1: get on that piece of equipment.
Speaker 2: And I really do think it should be a blanket
Speaker 2: rule across all gyms.
Speaker 1: That if you want to film, then you either have
Speaker 1: to take it up with the gym owner and do
Speaker 1: it professionally where you tag the gym you have some
Speaker 1: kind of sponsorship deal, or you are doing it professionally.
Speaker 1: Like if I Tiffany Hall want to film in a gym,
Speaker 1: I have to approach the gym owner tag them. There
Speaker 1: may be some other thing I might need to pay
Speaker 1: to use the space. You know, I can't just film
Speaker 1: uploaded and just do whatever I like. Like people aren't
Speaker 1: even understanding how it works, and I am all.
Speaker 2: About banning this.
Speaker 1: I think that you go to a gym to have
Speaker 1: some peace of mind, a sanctuary away from always being
Speaker 1: on your phone.
Speaker 2: You know, people at you.
Speaker 1: You want to go to a gym and just kind
Speaker 1: of escape that, and then you're in the background of
Speaker 1: some person's video, and these influencers. I'm not an influencer,
Speaker 1: Please never call me an influencer. I'm a fitness expert.
Speaker 1: But these influencers without any qualifications are demonstrating bad technique,
Speaker 1: bad exercise selection, posting it, getting followers, promoting themselves as
Speaker 1: health gurus. And there's me in the background of their
Speaker 1: video and I think, gosh, you should be paying me
Speaker 1: to be in that video. You know, there's Tivy all
Speaker 1: up the bag trying to do some bicep girls, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, I don't want to be in your video,
Speaker 1: Like I do not endorse the horrible stuff that you
Speaker 1: just filmed, and it's not helping anybody.
Speaker 2: It really isn't helping anyone.
Speaker 1: We do not need, you know, these non qualified influencer
Speaker 1: content out there.
Speaker 2: We don't need it, so ban it.
Speaker 1: Anyone who is an expert will have their own gym
Speaker 1: or their own space, or do it from home, or
Speaker 1: like be professional about it and hire a space, or
Speaker 1: have relationships with gym owners where you can film out
Speaker 1: of hours or in quiet times at the gym where
Speaker 1: you're not interfering with other people. If I need to film,
Speaker 1: I will tell the gym owner and I will go
Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock when it's dead quiet, and I will
Speaker 1: film there, But you don't need to do it at
Speaker 1: peak times. It's just crazy, and these influencers are really
Speaker 1: grinding my goat.
Speaker 2: We just don't need it. We just don't need it.
Speaker 1: Kyle reached out to me and said, Tiff loving the pod.
Speaker 1: I'm trying really hard with fitness at the moment now.
Speaker 1: I took your advice with a Dexa scan and trying
Speaker 1: to focus on this instead of the scales. But I'm
Speaker 1: confused what body fat percentage should ideally be sitting at Okay,
Speaker 1: So ideally the body fat percentage varies widely depending on
Speaker 1: several factors, So your age, your sex, your genetics, your
Speaker 1: health goals. What's considered healthy can differ dramatically, and it
Speaker 1: might be optimal for athletic performance or aesthetic preferences.
Speaker 2: It's just so ough. But look, there are general guidelines,
Speaker 2: so I wanted to go through that today a little
Speaker 2: bit with you. So for women, essential fat you need
Speaker 2: between ten to thirteen percent, but ten to thirteen percent
Speaker 2: you're looking like a bodybuilder like, you're looking very lean.
Speaker 2: You're going to see the separation between the muscles you're
Speaker 2: going to see really lean, toned. It's very few people
Speaker 2: can get there, right unless you're dedicating your life to
Speaker 2: a certain way of eating and a certain way of training.
Speaker 2: Athletes sit between fourteen and twenty percent fitness, between twenty
Speaker 2: one and twenty four percent, which is where I think
Speaker 2: you should ideally aim to be healthy twenty five to
Speaker 2: thirty one percent, and obesity is considered anything thirty two
Speaker 2: percent and higher. So really twenty one to thirty one percent.
Speaker 2: You've got a big range there for men, essential fat
Speaker 2: men can get a lot leaner, so bodybuilders, if you
Speaker 2: really want to see the lines in the muscles, that
Speaker 2: definition the separation two to five percent athletes six to
Speaker 2: thirteen percent. Fitness is fourteen to seventeen percent, healthy eighteen
Speaker 2: to twenty four percent, and obesity is twenty five percent
Speaker 2: and higher.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 2: Women obviously we carry more.
Speaker 1: Fat stores for childbearing and all of that stuff, so
Speaker 1: they're very different from men to women. If you're an athlete,
Speaker 1: lower body fat percentages might be more beneficial for performance,
Speaker 1: so that comes into play there, especially in sports where
Speaker 1: you know excess body mass can hinder performance, and or
Speaker 1: if it's a weight category sport like taekwondo was for me. However,
Speaker 1: extremely low body fat percentages can be detrimental to health,
Speaker 1: so they can really impact your hormonal balance, your reproductive functions,
Speaker 1: and your overall energy levels. So you don't want to
Speaker 1: be really, really lean like a body It's not about
Speaker 1: getting the lowest body fat percentage you possibly can, Okay,
Speaker 1: So I don't want you thinking that for the general
Speaker 1: pop you really want to maintain a body fat percentage
Speaker 1: that is within that healthy range because either end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum can pose health risks such as increase metabolic
Speaker 1: syndromes at high percentages and hormonal disruptions at lower percentages.
Speaker 1: So you really do want to be sitting around that
Speaker 1: healthy twenty five percent mark. Body fat distribution is very
Speaker 1: different for men and women. Like I said, we're all
Speaker 1: so different, so you really do have to take that
Speaker 1: into consideration, especially women. And then there's genetic factors which
Speaker 1: play a significant role. And it's really important that I
Speaker 1: mentioned this because some people naturally settle at a higher
Speaker 1: or a lower body fat percentage than others, and no
Speaker 1: matter how much diet and how much exercise, they're just
Speaker 1: not going to get lower than that set point, and
Speaker 1: we all have a set point and the body is
Speaker 1: trained to be at that set point, so you just
Speaker 1: can't push it lower than that sometimes. So measuring your
Speaker 1: body fat percentage is really really good. The Dexter scan,
Speaker 1: fantastic skin fold measurements is also really good.
Speaker 2: I use that.
Speaker 1: I use the calipers, They're really good. I always love
Speaker 1: skin folds and the Dexter scans. Over weighing yourself. Professional
Speaker 1: guidance is also really helpful. So seeing a dietitian, a
Speaker 1: personal trainer, fitness professional, someone who can guide you if
Speaker 1: your goal is to lower your body fat percentage. And
Speaker 1: I really love this language that you're using, Kyle, that
Speaker 1: you're saying you want to lower your body fat percentage.
Speaker 1: You don't want to just lose weight. You know that
Speaker 1: you're having Dexa scans, that you're going about this in
Speaker 1: such a healthy way, and it's very specific and you
Speaker 1: are going to get the goals there because you are
Speaker 1: able to measure measure it so carefully. You're not just
Speaker 1: weighing yourself and losing the plot because you've put on
Speaker 1: a kilo of water weight or something. You know, So
Speaker 1: keep going with the Dexa scan, use the skin folds.
Speaker 1: Now I've gone through what weight percentages, what fat loss
Speaker 1: percentages you should be at. You've got a bit of
Speaker 1: a range and a bit of a goal there and
Speaker 1: it should help you absolutely get there. You will and
Speaker 1: make sure you let me know how you go. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening to Bounce Forward. I love having
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Speaker 2: Happy Days,