WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:06.104 --> 00:00:08.324 Lindsay: Welcome to the Lifting Lindsay podcast. 00:00:08.324 --> 00:00:13.649 Today we are gonna be having i, I can't call it fast fit Tip Friday. 00:00:13.739 --> 00:00:17.849 'cause you just don't know with me how short or long this is going to be. 00:00:17.849 --> 00:00:18.299 Right. 00:00:18.689 --> 00:00:21.779 A lot of times I'm like, oh, this will take me 15 minutes and then 00:00:21.779 --> 00:00:24.389 15 minutes later I'm like, man, I really need to wrap this up. 00:00:24.929 --> 00:00:29.999 Earlier today I was recording an episode on decision Fatigue and 00:00:30.004 --> 00:00:32.729 it was so funny to me because, um. 00:00:33.224 --> 00:00:36.854 I thought for sure it'd be like a 15 minute episode, and it wasn't 00:00:36.854 --> 00:00:41.744 until my cat walked in and was like whining for attention and meowing and 00:00:41.744 --> 00:00:45.014 purring that I had to like wrap it up. 00:00:45.584 --> 00:00:53.564 But, um, I do want to talk today about this idea of snatching your waist. 00:00:54.109 --> 00:00:54.329 So. 00:00:55.094 --> 00:00:59.474 I have this love hate relationship with the new trend that we're seeing. 00:00:59.474 --> 00:01:00.194 Well, it's not new. 00:01:00.194 --> 00:01:03.524 It's, it's, it's existed for a while, but I feel like everybody 00:01:03.524 --> 00:01:06.644 is now seeing how well it does. 00:01:06.644 --> 00:01:08.354 And so they're all hopping on board. 00:01:08.984 --> 00:01:13.994 Um, and that is this trend of you take somebody's video and 00:01:13.994 --> 00:01:15.944 then you give a reaction to it. 00:01:16.434 --> 00:01:20.634 Oftentimes what fitness influencers will do is they, or even 00:01:20.639 --> 00:01:22.434 fitness educators, they will. 00:01:23.484 --> 00:01:29.334 Watch this video of somebody giving really bad advice and then they, 00:01:30.194 --> 00:01:31.784 will kind of give a reaction to it. 00:01:31.784 --> 00:01:37.934 Now, I have a love-hate relationship with these types of posts because 00:01:38.384 --> 00:01:41.024 I think that it can be done well. 00:01:41.399 --> 00:01:46.409 I think that it's important for us to talk about misinformation out there. 00:01:46.949 --> 00:01:53.069 I also think it's really important that we don't become a part of a toxic environment 00:01:53.279 --> 00:01:55.949 that oftentimes these can create. 00:01:56.429 --> 00:02:01.459 So oftentimes I will see influencers who, are, in my opinion, rather 00:02:01.459 --> 00:02:02.899 childish in their approach. 00:02:02.899 --> 00:02:04.099 They're very emotional. 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:06.649 Uh, they bully and they shame people. 00:02:06.949 --> 00:02:09.139 So it's no longer about the information. 00:02:09.139 --> 00:02:12.469 They discuss the information, but then they start shaming the person. 00:02:13.459 --> 00:02:16.044 I can't stand that actually. 00:02:16.044 --> 00:02:17.724 It's not my cup of tea. 00:02:18.354 --> 00:02:19.794 I feel like. 00:02:20.214 --> 00:02:25.794 It's important that we take an opportunity to correct misinformation 00:02:26.124 --> 00:02:28.224 but not at the expense of others. 00:02:28.224 --> 00:02:30.684 And some people are like, well, they have millions of followers, 00:02:30.684 --> 00:02:32.154 they can deal with it, or whatever. 00:02:32.604 --> 00:02:34.584 I'm like, you know, maybe it's 'cause I'm a mom. 00:02:34.589 --> 00:02:40.569 Maybe it's because, I have like this belief in goodness and kindness, 00:02:40.569 --> 00:02:41.829 but I just don't wanna spread that. 00:02:42.399 --> 00:02:43.089 I just don't. 00:02:43.629 --> 00:02:43.959 So. 00:02:45.654 --> 00:02:50.934 Today I'm going to, this is, this is my attempt to kind of counter some of that, 00:02:51.714 --> 00:02:56.874 um, and talk about the information and not the person, because I was really 00:02:56.874 --> 00:03:00.414 shocked the other day when I looked around Instagram and saw so many women, 00:03:01.074 --> 00:03:06.144 uh, talking about this is how you snatch your waist, so snatching your waist. 00:03:06.149 --> 00:03:10.744 For those of you who don't know what that is, a snatched waist is when 00:03:10.744 --> 00:03:13.894 you have this like really tiny waist. 00:03:14.224 --> 00:03:18.454 So it's this idea of giving yourself an hourglass look. 00:03:19.264 --> 00:03:21.874 We're gonna actually dive a little bit deeper into this. 00:03:21.994 --> 00:03:23.704 I kind of wish it was a YouTube video. 00:03:24.229 --> 00:03:24.349 I. 00:03:24.349 --> 00:03:29.579 I kind of wish I did YouTube, but it just takes so much time to, and, and I 00:03:29.579 --> 00:03:31.619 can't like, dress in my pajamas for that. 00:03:31.619 --> 00:03:35.009 So that's usually why I stick to podcasting. 00:03:35.499 --> 00:03:41.342 How somebody looks this hourglass waist, there's so many things that. 00:03:41.902 --> 00:03:48.682 Need to line up for this and in like a good part of it too is genetics. 00:03:49.432 --> 00:03:51.652 And so we're just gonna talk about this. 00:03:51.652 --> 00:03:57.787 So if you look up snatching your waist, oftentimes you will get somebody 00:03:57.787 --> 00:04:03.607 who has beautiful, this beautiful hourglass look with really low body 00:04:03.607 --> 00:04:09.787 fat percentage, and they'll be teaching like, these are the two, three exercises 00:04:09.792 --> 00:04:11.947 that quote unquote snatched my waist. 00:04:12.487 --> 00:04:14.917 And that's not a thing. 00:04:14.917 --> 00:04:17.857 So we know that we can't spot reduce, right? 00:04:18.187 --> 00:04:21.817 But a lot of times what they're referring to is deeper than spot reduction. 00:04:22.447 --> 00:04:22.927 So. 00:04:24.547 --> 00:04:32.617 It's usually they actually believe if I work my abs in such a way, then even when 00:04:32.622 --> 00:04:40.597 I'm not consciously contracting them and squeezing them in that I've worked them in 00:04:40.717 --> 00:04:44.742 in such this magical fairy dust way that. 00:04:45.982 --> 00:04:53.542 My waist will just always be small, even if I haven't lost body fat, even if 00:04:53.812 --> 00:04:58.792 I'm not consciously contracting my abs. 00:04:59.152 --> 00:05:01.552 So yeah, so that's not a thing. 00:05:01.927 --> 00:05:03.772 That is not a thing. 00:05:04.372 --> 00:05:10.342 And when people say that either they think that causation, they've 00:05:10.612 --> 00:05:13.192 misconstrued causation and correlation. 00:05:13.937 --> 00:05:18.437 So a woman decides she wants to snatch her waist. 00:05:18.767 --> 00:05:23.327 So she sees these exercises that these other women with quote unquote snatched 00:05:23.327 --> 00:05:27.137 waists have, and they say you need to do. 00:05:27.722 --> 00:05:32.252 So she simultaneously, because this other account also says, you 00:05:32.252 --> 00:05:33.512 know, you need to lose body fat. 00:05:33.517 --> 00:05:39.752 So simultaneously she starts into a calorie deficit and at the same 00:05:39.757 --> 00:05:42.062 time she starts these new exercises. 00:05:42.062 --> 00:05:46.472 Well, at the bottom of her cut, she's like, wow, I have this 00:05:46.472 --> 00:05:48.182 quote unquote snatched waist. 00:05:49.277 --> 00:05:51.617 Those exercises worked. 00:05:52.127 --> 00:05:57.317 Little did she know that it wasn't necessarily those exercises, 00:05:57.647 --> 00:06:02.267 it was the calorie deficit that reduced the body fat on her. 00:06:02.507 --> 00:06:10.547 So now she can actually, she looks leaner, uh, quote unquote toned more it. 00:06:10.607 --> 00:06:14.837 And that was from the reduction that was from the calorie deficit, 00:06:14.842 --> 00:06:16.127 the reduction in body fat. 00:06:16.907 --> 00:06:23.087 Not from those specific exercises, but if you don't know very 00:06:23.087 --> 00:06:26.957 much, you can mis correlate. 00:06:26.957 --> 00:06:30.227 You can say, oh, it's because of those exercises. 00:06:30.737 --> 00:06:36.647 And then if, if you decide you wanna start an Instagram account, 00:06:36.947 --> 00:06:38.567 what are you gonna teach? 00:06:39.467 --> 00:06:42.047 You're going, look at what happened to me. 00:06:44.387 --> 00:06:47.687 This is how I snatched my waist, and you're gonna really believe it. 00:06:48.257 --> 00:06:50.627 So there's those people that really believe it. 00:06:50.927 --> 00:06:53.867 Then there are those people who know better. 00:06:55.817 --> 00:06:58.787 They know it was the calorie deficit that got 'em there. 00:07:00.377 --> 00:07:03.917 They know it wasn't this magical exercise. 00:07:04.862 --> 00:07:10.337 But they also know through trial and error that if they post 00:07:10.337 --> 00:07:11.927 that it was the calorie deficit. 00:07:12.632 --> 00:07:17.732 That's not gonna get as many likes as if they say snatch your waist 00:07:17.732 --> 00:07:20.042 in 14 days with this exercise. 00:07:21.242 --> 00:07:27.752 I mean, I can tell you from personal experience of spending my time staying 00:07:27.757 --> 00:07:34.907 away from those types of trendy and misleading, uh, sales pitches. 00:07:35.927 --> 00:07:37.922 You are not going to get as many likes. 00:07:38.867 --> 00:07:40.847 You're not gonna get as many views. 00:07:41.597 --> 00:07:43.247 Realness usually doesn't. 00:07:44.417 --> 00:07:49.997 It's not sexy, it's not fast, it's not easy, but it's real. 00:07:51.887 --> 00:07:52.247 Right? 00:07:52.247 --> 00:07:53.867 So it, it's just unfortunate. 00:07:54.587 --> 00:07:58.097 So then what, what does contribute to this snatched waste? 00:07:58.097 --> 00:08:04.217 We talked about body fat percentage, but I do think it's also important 00:08:04.217 --> 00:08:07.847 that we talk about the genetics of the individual as well. 00:08:09.617 --> 00:08:17.447 Um, some individuals, they have that hourglass figure because they 00:08:17.447 --> 00:08:22.157 actually have, um, wider hips too. 00:08:23.477 --> 00:08:29.807 And then if you couple that with larger breasts, you are going 00:08:29.807 --> 00:08:32.837 to have an hourglass figure. 00:08:34.397 --> 00:08:39.527 And when you drop body fat, it's going to be more and more prominent. 00:08:40.547 --> 00:08:46.432 But, but there are individuals who their pelvis is far narrower. 00:08:46.912 --> 00:08:47.242 Mine is that way. 00:08:47.932 --> 00:08:49.072 It's, it's narrow. 00:08:52.057 --> 00:08:56.677 I can't just drop body fat and look like I have this hourglass. 00:08:56.917 --> 00:08:59.227 , This is where genetics really comes in. 00:09:00.007 --> 00:09:07.477 I'm just not gonna have that look to the degree that others who are promising. 00:09:07.957 --> 00:09:08.887 I'll get you that. 00:09:08.887 --> 00:09:09.217 Look. 00:09:09.217 --> 00:09:12.157 Let's just, um, you know, do. 00:09:12.892 --> 00:09:19.762 More like lateral leg raises, not understanding that this 00:09:19.762 --> 00:09:24.262 isn't a matter of muscle, this is a matter of bone structure. 00:09:24.562 --> 00:09:27.982 So they're like, well, you can have that hourglass if you just 00:09:27.982 --> 00:09:30.472 do more lateral leg, leg raises. 00:09:30.472 --> 00:09:32.722 Plus we'll snatch your waist. 00:09:33.052 --> 00:09:34.732 No, that's not a thing. 00:09:36.772 --> 00:09:42.082 There's still bone structure, body fat deposit. 00:09:43.612 --> 00:09:48.502 Even the, the size of our muscle and there's there, yes, we can control 00:09:48.652 --> 00:09:51.862 the size of our muscle to a degree. 00:09:52.342 --> 00:09:58.192 We can control how much body fat we lose, but there are things 00:09:58.192 --> 00:10:01.012 that are beyond our control. 00:10:01.012 --> 00:10:04.222 So this is why two women doing the same exact training program. 00:10:05.527 --> 00:10:11.107 Who even if they lose the exact same amount of body fat and put on the same 00:10:11.107 --> 00:10:18.247 exact amount of muscle, will still have vastly different looks as far as what that 00:10:18.252 --> 00:10:20.527 looks on them and their bone structure. 00:10:21.457 --> 00:10:25.897 'cause like I said, we have bone structure and we also have even just 00:10:25.927 --> 00:10:31.927 origin and attachment sites, and that can change the way the muscle looks. 00:10:32.917 --> 00:10:39.457 So I've talked about this extensively on, uh, Instagram and I give some really, 00:10:39.457 --> 00:10:47.167 really good examples of, look, even if I, I can't actually physically get 00:10:47.227 --> 00:10:51.727 a 24 inch waist even at my smallest. 00:10:53.452 --> 00:10:59.842 Well, I actually think I, my smallest was like a 24 and a half, but next to 00:10:59.842 --> 00:11:07.552 somebody with really wide hips and a 24 and a half, or even a 25 or 26 inch 00:11:07.557 --> 00:11:13.402 waist, they will still look like they have this hourglass far more than me. 00:11:13.762 --> 00:11:15.682 And that has to do with bone structure. 00:11:16.402 --> 00:11:22.702 So I, I really wanted to do this episode because I wanna remind you that your 00:11:22.702 --> 00:11:27.742 genetics are your own and you literally cannot compare to other people. 00:11:28.012 --> 00:11:33.382 I also wanna remind you that for those of you who don't know, educate you, for 00:11:33.382 --> 00:11:37.462 those of you do know and need a reminder that you can't snatch your waist. 00:11:37.822 --> 00:11:38.122 Okay? 00:11:38.272 --> 00:11:41.662 So there really are not these exercises that as soon as you do 00:11:41.662 --> 00:11:44.182 them, they just naturally, um. 00:11:44.767 --> 00:11:51.247 Change and without any contraction or squeezing your abs, you just 00:11:51.247 --> 00:11:54.157 have this now smaller waist. 00:11:54.162 --> 00:11:56.377 It, it, it actually doesn't work that way. 00:11:56.767 --> 00:12:03.367 Even those, uh, bikini competitors, when they step up on stage, talk to 00:12:03.372 --> 00:12:08.617 'em afterwards, they spend extensive amounts of time working on flexing 00:12:09.187 --> 00:12:12.547 and posing, and it's exhausting. 00:12:14.092 --> 00:12:15.412 It is work up there. 00:12:15.412 --> 00:12:18.592 They're not just standing there relaxed, being like, look at me. 00:12:19.162 --> 00:12:25.342 They are up there trying to flex and move in a way that keeps everything 00:12:25.347 --> 00:12:30.742 flexed and their waist tight, and they are engaging and bringing in 00:12:30.742 --> 00:12:32.452 their core as much as they can. 00:12:33.202 --> 00:12:37.942 Um, they are not up there just totally fully relaxed. 00:12:39.112 --> 00:12:44.872 A lot of times we think that they are and we compare to that or we compare to people 00:12:45.232 --> 00:12:48.052 who found just the right gym lighting are. 00:12:48.697 --> 00:12:52.807 Not only sucking in their waist, but also engaging their core. 00:12:53.137 --> 00:12:55.867 And they have a smile on their face and they're like, oh, look at me. 00:12:56.107 --> 00:12:57.397 You can get this too. 00:12:57.787 --> 00:13:01.357 And, and they actually look quite different when they relax and 00:13:01.357 --> 00:13:03.307 they're not under that same lighting. 00:13:03.877 --> 00:13:08.677 Or maybe by the end of the day they've eaten enough and their 00:13:08.677 --> 00:13:11.827 waste is now holding more food and doesn't look like that. 00:13:12.127 --> 00:13:17.407 And we compare our worst to their photo best. 00:13:18.217 --> 00:13:22.807 So today's just a reminder to you that you have your own genetics. 00:13:23.737 --> 00:13:29.227 Two people will do the exact same workout and it will turn out different for both 00:13:29.227 --> 00:13:34.507 of them, and you cannot snatch your waist. 00:13:35.527 --> 00:13:39.457 A lot of these exercises that people are doing on apps. 00:13:40.852 --> 00:13:44.752 They will strengthen your abs so that when you flex, you may be able to bring 00:13:44.752 --> 00:13:48.832 it in a little bit more when you flex. 00:13:50.152 --> 00:13:50.752 Okay? 00:13:50.752 --> 00:13:52.192 That's really, really important. 00:13:53.182 --> 00:13:58.162 It's not just you walking around, not flexing and, but yet you have like 00:13:58.162 --> 00:14:02.332 two inch smaller waist because you did these magic exercises that don't exist., 00:14:02.689 --> 00:14:05.929 Another thing too is let's just talk about ABS for a minute here. 00:14:06.869 --> 00:14:13.805 If you really want to build your abs muscles and hypertrophy them, you have 00:14:13.805 --> 00:14:18.575 to remember that at one point you will have to start putting them under weight. 00:14:18.575 --> 00:14:23.225 So that's why we do things like cable crunches, um, so that we can 00:14:23.225 --> 00:14:27.965 start progressing and progressively overloading them, putting more and 00:14:27.965 --> 00:14:31.115 more weight on them to build them. 00:14:32.225 --> 00:14:32.765 Now. 00:14:33.710 --> 00:14:35.960 Hypertrophy is to make bigger. 00:14:37.130 --> 00:14:44.810 So if you want to build out your six pack so it looks bigger, keep in mind 00:14:44.810 --> 00:14:47.450 that is going to increase waist size. 00:14:49.460 --> 00:14:52.310 But some people are like, I don't care about the waist size. 00:14:52.310 --> 00:14:53.720 I care just about the look. 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:55.910 I really want the look so. 00:14:56.285 --> 00:15:01.475 If you really want to see your six pack, it still comes down to nutrition. 00:15:01.475 --> 00:15:04.925 You still have to drop, uh, into a calorie deficit to be able 00:15:04.925 --> 00:15:07.325 to see a reduction in body fat. 00:15:07.625 --> 00:15:11.045 And your body genetically will just determine what, where it takes 00:15:11.045 --> 00:15:15.035 it off from first, whether that's arms, whether it's butt, whether 00:15:15.035 --> 00:15:17.010 it's boobs, whether it's abs. 00:15:17.405 --> 00:15:19.475 Your body has this genetic map. 00:15:19.880 --> 00:15:22.730 That it just decides where it's gonna take from first. 00:15:22.790 --> 00:15:26.840 That's important to understand because maybe the level that you want to see of 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:29.990 your abs isn't gonna happen in 12 weeks. 00:15:30.830 --> 00:15:36.410 Um, maybe it's after a few rounds, fat loss rounds, and then you can see it. 00:15:37.100 --> 00:15:43.430 Also building out your abs will allow you to see them better 00:15:43.430 --> 00:15:45.860 at higher body fat percentages. 00:15:45.865 --> 00:15:50.215 That's really important to understand is if you don't want to stay as lean 00:15:50.215 --> 00:15:52.615 around your stomach, sometimes we can. 00:15:52.975 --> 00:15:55.315 Um, and maybe it's a little mix of both. 00:15:55.315 --> 00:15:58.825 It's building out the six pack so it's a little bit more predominant 00:15:59.275 --> 00:16:03.025 and you can see it at a little bit higher body fat percentage. 00:16:03.355 --> 00:16:03.685 Okay. 00:16:03.805 --> 00:16:07.675 Maybe it's a know you like the size of your. 00:16:08.090 --> 00:16:12.770 Abdominal muscles, and now you just want to see them more than you're 00:16:12.770 --> 00:16:15.770 gonna have to drop your body fat. 00:16:15.830 --> 00:16:16.160 Okay? 00:16:16.640 --> 00:16:21.290 So there's just kind of these different elements that oftentimes aren't 00:16:21.290 --> 00:16:23.300 fully discussed on social media. 00:16:23.300 --> 00:16:28.670 Instead, people pull you in with great genetics and little information and 00:16:28.670 --> 00:16:33.800 falsify information and use words like snatching your waist without 00:16:33.800 --> 00:16:36.080 giving the full context of look. 00:16:36.865 --> 00:16:42.325 What might give somebody the look they want could actually 00:16:42.325 --> 00:16:43.795 be just lowering calories. 00:16:43.795 --> 00:16:46.765 What could give somebody else the look they want is no, you 00:16:46.770 --> 00:16:48.595 actually have to build and lower. 00:16:49.015 --> 00:16:53.455 Uh, so you just have to be more cautious of the people that you follow. 00:16:53.725 --> 00:16:57.745 It is a huge red flag when they're saying things like snatching your waist. 00:16:58.075 --> 00:17:03.445 Now, I used to believe in, well, I have people that I follow 00:17:03.475 --> 00:17:06.115 that they're just like, my goal. 00:17:07.510 --> 00:17:10.750 And I have people that I follow, that I get my information from, and I never 00:17:10.755 --> 00:17:12.370 get my information from the goal people. 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:16.240 And it got to a point in my life where I just like cut out the 00:17:16.240 --> 00:17:23.565 goal people because I realized we don't have the same genetics. 00:17:24.345 --> 00:17:29.615 So I'm chasing their body looking at them as a goal. 00:17:31.045 --> 00:17:31.495 There. 00:17:31.585 --> 00:17:38.605 I didn't realize it until later that I was holding myself to a standard 00:17:39.385 --> 00:17:45.535 or kind of holding them up as the standard, but in a way, because they 00:17:45.540 --> 00:17:50.335 didn't have the same genetics as me, it was like I was always chasing 00:17:50.335 --> 00:17:53.185 something that, and it was fueling this. 00:17:53.245 --> 00:17:55.405 You'll never be satisfied until. 00:17:56.425 --> 00:18:01.765 And it, it wasn't until I finally let that go and unfollowed him and just focused on 00:18:01.765 --> 00:18:11.695 me and my genetics that I felt, honestly, I started having a healthier approach 00:18:12.775 --> 00:18:15.417 because I was just focusing on me. 00:18:17.425 --> 00:18:21.745 My genetics and what I can do now, if you, if you can do that while 00:18:21.745 --> 00:18:22.915 following these people, that's great. 00:18:23.110 --> 00:18:28.195 I, I couldn't, I noticed that it was sneaking in and I was holding myself to 00:18:28.255 --> 00:18:31.495 a standard that it wasn't healthy for me. 00:18:31.675 --> 00:18:34.195 So just, just throwing it out there that, that's something 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:35.125 that you might be aware of. 00:18:35.345 --> 00:18:40.865 Anyways, I really hope that this episode has helped, and if you have any questions, 00:18:41.105 --> 00:18:42.725 please don't hesitate to send me a dm. 00:18:43.130 --> 00:18:46.190 On Instagram, follow me there at Lifting Lindsey. 00:18:46.340 --> 00:18:51.710 You can also join me in my community at be Strong dot lifting lindsey.com 00:18:51.710 --> 00:18:57.590 where we have training programs, recipes lives with me, um, and I really 00:18:57.590 --> 00:19:02.300 do love getting to know you guys and helping you all achieve your goals. 00:19:02.360 --> 00:19:04.070 You guys have a wonderful week.