Ep 38: Fitness with Kayla Itsines I’m certainly seeing on Instagram that more women are lifting Inside the episode: weights. I think it’s fantastic! I lift weights myself and I love it: it makes me feel strong and really confident. I feel like women should lift weights Hello you’re listening to me, Liz Earle, and shouldn’t scared of weights because back in the day it was “oh I with another episode of Wellness with don’t want weights to make me bulky” and that’s not the case at all! Liz Earle. Today our focus is on fitness, I don’t know if people know how much effort and work it takes to and who better to be talking to than become a body builder. I have so much respect for those people be- someone who has been named one of cause they are training for hours and hours, they’re eating a certain Time magazine’s most influential peo- way, they’re training to look a certain way and for them that’s how ple on the internet. Her Bikini Body they want to look and we say “I don’t want to turn into a bodybuild- Guide, fitness workout programme, er”. That’s not going to happen! has been hailed a worldwide move- ment with a Facebook following of 16 Does fitness need to be a daily thing? million and over 8 million on Insta- gram. She is Kayla Itsines an Adelaide In terms of working out, it can be something as simple as a walk. Put native who began her astonishing ca- your shoes on, put some music in your ears and walk 15 minutes one reer after frustration that the workouts way and 15 minutes back. That can be your workout. I work out 6 being shown to women just weren’t showing good enough results. times a week, but I’m only going into the gym to do a high intensity She began to research her own and shared them online, building the weights work out 3 times a week for 28 minutes. The rest of the days incredible empire that goes under the hashtag: #bbg. I’m just walking. How did you get started building this incredible following for fitness? More from Kayla: I began training clients in a women’s-only personal training centre. I noticed the way that women were training was not getting the re- Kayla’s Instagram: @kayla_itsines sults that they wanted in terms of how they felt: they weren’t feeling empowered and they weren’t feeling confident. I moved on to doing Kayla’s Twitter: @kayla_itsines mobile personal training. I was my own boss and I got to train wom- Kayla’s Facebook: @k.itsines en from all over Adelaide, it was fantastic, and I trained them with Kayla’s Website: www.kaylaitsines.com minimal equipment. Then I started up my own studio and started The Bikini Body Motivation Guide training clients with the equipment I wanted to help them feel em- 12 week BBG Stronger 2.0 Programme powered. We were training with weights and big box jumps..