Speaker 1: Another podcast episode brought to you by the Transformation Station,
Speaker 1: where we're talking about empathy instead of stereotypes. Today we're
Speaker 1: talking about fitness through the generations. Welcome to the Transformation
Speaker 1: Station podcast. I'm Christina, owner, operator, and founder of the
Speaker 1: Transformation Station, and this is where we talk about getting
Speaker 1: stronger while navigating real life. If you're trying to stay
Speaker 1: consistent through the ups and the downs and everywhere else
Speaker 1: in between, this is for you. You can totally have
Speaker 1: two different people walking into the exact same fitness class
Speaker 1: and they have different fears, they're motivated differently, and they
Speaker 1: have different expectations of what they want out of the
Speaker 1: fitness class or out of their workout, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it comes from the generations that they grew up in. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I am I have my keynotes here. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I hardly can remember my own generation. So baby Boomers,
Speaker 1: those who are born from nineteen forty six to nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty four, they generally grew up with the mentality of
Speaker 1: no pain, no gain, and also exercise wasn't always part
Speaker 1: of everyday life. It was usually done in at school
Speaker 1: or in sports or also physically demanding jobs. Those members
Speaker 1: are more likely to push through pain like bad pain.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about muscle sword. Is they more value routine?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say more value, but like they value
Speaker 1: routine a lot. They're consistent and they show up. The
Speaker 1: different roadblocks that baby boomers again nineteen forty six to
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four may come up with in group fitness
Speaker 1: or in any fitness routine is going to be arthritis,
Speaker 1: joint replace. Fear of falling is a big one that
Speaker 1: I see in group fit as classes and also intimidated
Speaker 1: by newer styles of equipment. Normally, what motivates the baby
Speaker 1: boomers are having independence, living with independence, being mobile, and
Speaker 1: playing with grandkids if they have grandkids. It's all about
Speaker 1: the longevity for the baby boomers. Coming up next is
Speaker 1: Gen X generation EGGS EGGS nineteen sixty five to nineteen eighty.
Speaker 1: So this is what they call the busy Sandwich generation.
Speaker 1: They are with careers, aging, parents, kids. They often are
Speaker 1: the ones that put everybody else first, and they're usually
Speaker 1: very practical. Their roadblocks are most definitely no time burnout,
Speaker 1: and the number one thing that I do see with
Speaker 1: Gen X are people who feel guilty taking time for themselves.
Speaker 1: They put everybody else first, and then there's usually nothing
Speaker 1: left for them. They are very motivated to come to
Speaker 1: group fitness because they need stress relief, they want to
Speaker 1: prevent health issues, and they also want to feel capable.
Speaker 1: They like that big green check mark at the end
Speaker 1: of the workout. Millennials, Okay, this is where I fit
Speaker 1: in is the millennials nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: We grew up during diet culture. I remember having a
Speaker 1: spoon of slim Fast in my water. We didn't have
Speaker 1: shaker balls and shaker cups back then, Okay, so we
Speaker 1: drank chunky ass slim Fast out of the top cover.
Speaker 1: We didn't even have little scoops inside of our containers. Okay,
Speaker 1: we had a tablespoon out of the drawer. So that
Speaker 1: is where we came into play. The Millennials. We saw magazines.
Speaker 1: We saw the clean eating magazines. We were around during
Speaker 1: the heightened time of The Biggest Loser. We came in
Speaker 1: through calorie County. We're more likely to understand nutrition, but
Speaker 1: also have such a complicated relationship with food. Our roadblocks
Speaker 1: are going to be more like perfectionism. So being perfect
Speaker 1: all the time, that light switch mentality starting over repetitively
Speaker 1: because we are in the diet zone, and also information overload.
Speaker 1: There is so much information because we grew up during
Speaker 1: that diet culture. The way that we're going to be
Speaker 1: mostly motivated is going to be mental health, longevity, feeling confident,
Speaker 1: and also community. We like peoples. On that note, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you can hear my dog growling. She
Speaker 1: also likes people's I promise the next is going to
Speaker 1: be gen Z gen Z. Sorry, Jen said, oh that's
Speaker 1: my millennial gen Z gen Z. Oh my goodness, I
Speaker 1: will get it right. So gen Z is nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven to twenty twelve. Really, who's after gen Z? I
Speaker 1: thought gen Z were the youngest ones in the entire world.
Speaker 1: Twenty twelve. Okay, So gen Z grew up with TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,
Speaker 1: all the social media. They have learned to exercise online.
Speaker 1: They're comfortable trying all the different new trends that they see.
Speaker 1: They're much more open about mental health generally. Their roadblocks
Speaker 1: are going to be comparison, viral misinformation because there's so
Speaker 1: much everywhere, and they're also going to be the ones
Speaker 1: that are they want quick results, so that I always
Speaker 1: call people that want like quick results, like the microwave generation.
Speaker 1: They feel like everyone's watching them and they always have
Speaker 1: to perform. Also, due to the intense social media lifestyle,
Speaker 1: they are going to be motivated mostly by feeling good
Speaker 1: self expression, social social connection, and strength as well. They
Speaker 1: want to be incredibly strong. So every generation we always
Speaker 1: think like the next one has it easier. However, every
Speaker 1: generation clearly has it own unique struggles. Social media has.
Speaker 1: Social media has dramatically changed life, never mind just fitness.
Speaker 1: Everyone is a guru on the internet. So in my opinion,
Speaker 1: technology can be such an incredibly great phenomenal tool, it
Speaker 1: can also be very very overwhelming because also what worked
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty five isn't always wrong, and what works
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six isn't automatically better either. So there's
Speaker 1: all different ways that people are motivated, people are stressed out.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying like these are definite, like these
Speaker 1: are exactly cookie cutter, because this is just literally psychology
Speaker 1: seeing how generations have changed. I love people, which means
Speaker 1: I also love studying people and seeing what their habits are,
Speaker 1: how they speak to themselves, how they treat other people,
Speaker 1: and also what the trends are in people's behaviors, not
Speaker 1: just on social media. So one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: about the Transformation Station is that in any given class,
Speaker 1: you might have someone who's in their twenties working out
Speaker 1: beside someone in their seventies. And I mean, like, we
Speaker 1: have so much more everywhere else in between. But they
Speaker 1: may have they may have different generations where they are
Speaker 1: raised and brought up in what they've learned, but they
Speaker 1: might also have completely different reasons for being there, but
Speaker 1: they're still cheering for each other anyways. And that to
Speaker 1: me is why I say our community is the umbrella
Speaker 1: of kindness, because it doesn't matter. Like, sure, most of
Speaker 1: our members are over the age of forty, however, everybody
Speaker 1: is welcome in our space. If you're twenty years old,
Speaker 1: if you're twenty five years old, it doesn't matter as
Speaker 1: long as you are kind. Because I also as someone
Speaker 1: who I consider myself an old soul, So when I
Speaker 1: was twenty, I was really like I was fifty. You
Speaker 1: now that I'm almost forty, I'm really like I'm like eighty.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't mean that also to stereotype, because
Speaker 1: I know people there's seventies and eighties and they have
Speaker 1: more of a social life than I ever have. So
Speaker 1: shout out to all of you if you're listening on
Speaker 1: the way to going to a social event. So that
Speaker 1: to me is what community looks like is everyone can
Speaker 1: be there for a different reason, but everybody's kind. No
Speaker 1: one is comparing themselves to the person beside them, because
Speaker 1: like we don't. We don't want to become someone from
Speaker 1: another generation. We don't want to compare ourselves. But it's
Speaker 1: it's helping to understand where your own beliefs came from.
Speaker 1: Where your beliefs came from, with your healthy living, whatever
Speaker 1: that is, whether it's fitness, whether it's your nutrition, keeping
Speaker 1: keep keeping the ones that helped you, how you are
Speaker 1: brought up in your generation. That's going to be great. Also,
Speaker 1: keeping in mind that what works during one season doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it works for every other season of your life.
Speaker 1: You might have to shelf it for a bit, you
Speaker 1: might go back to it and vice versa. As long
Speaker 1: as it's not that light switch on and off effect.
Speaker 1: There's things that are going to serve you during a
Speaker 1: certain time of your life. It doesn't mean that a
Speaker 1: you have to throw everything out, and it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that you have to keep everything either at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it's learning about your own self, what
Speaker 1: your own needs are, taking what you know, and also
Speaker 1: evaluating like why do I have these habits? Oh? Right?
Speaker 1: And once we acknowledge those things, we can start to
Speaker 1: implement other things in other ways and other styles of
Speaker 1: thinking that are more likely to benefit us as we're
Speaker 1: on this crazy journey that we call life. Thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in. Everybody we are releasing by having me
Speaker 1: or I am actually having a guest another guest on
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you who it is. We
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