{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Generations","title":"The Gym Is for Everybody","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2326,"description":"Aubrey is officially a certified personal trainer, and this episode is the story behind it: a childhood spent as a dancer who was the skinniest kid in her friend group and the biggest person in the ballet studio, and a decision at the end of high school to get strong instead of small. She and Peter work through what changed between generations — the cardio-only messaging women got in the eighties and nineties versus today's lifting culture — and where the myths still survive, from \"toned arms\" to five-pound dumbbells. Aubrey's mission is access: everyone deserves to take up as much space in the gym as the guy grunting with the heavy dumbbells. She closes with the benefits list straight out of her textbook, and her Astro Fact covers the Roman Space Telescope entering final commissioning.\nShow Notes\nAubrey passed her ACE personal trainer exam two weeks ago and already has her first client.\nShe spent most of her childhood as a dancer, where she was the skinniest person in her friend group and the biggest person in the ballet studio — a whiplash she says confused her for years.\nThat's what pushed her toward lifting: she wanted to be jacked, and to feel strong instead of just skinny.\nFive and a half to six years of strength training later, she calls it the thing that regulates her anxiety and emotions, not just her body — \"adults need to get the wiggles out too.\"\nHer mission is access: everyone deserves to take up as much space in the gym as the guy in the stringer tank grunting with the dumbbells.\nCertification route was ACE (American Council on Exercise), NCCA-accredited, base package, self-paced online coursework plus a proctored exam.\nShe bought the course in April or May and finished at the end of October, slowed by 40-hour weeks at summer camp.\nHer one complaint about the coursework: too much learning theory and psychology, not enough programming and exercise progression.\nPeter traced the cardio-only messaging women got in the eighties and nineties — Richard...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fY2KwwwQLffNbRBMXpqVwuEgdwUGJAS7XvG8Vw5c2Sk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOTc4/ZTM0MTY0MWQ0ODk4/OWI2OWU4YzhkYTdl/YWJiOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}