Ep 306 - Mental Health, Physique Sports, and Fitness Coaching (ft. Laurin Conlin)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this crossover episode of Iron Culture, co-hosts Danny Lennon and Eric Trexler are joined by fitness professional and fellow Sports Nutrition Association (SNA) advisory board member Laurin Conlin. Together, they dive into the complex relationship between mental health, physique sports, and fitness coaching. Laurin shares her personal experiences and insights on how disordered eating and body image issues often arise in competitive physique sports, and how these behaviors can permeate into the broader fitness space. The conversation highlights strategies for recognizing and reducing harmful behaviors, the importance of revisiting problematic terminology in the industry, and the value of maintaining a holistic perspective in coaching. Practical advice for fitness practitioners is grounded in evidence-based approaches like motivational interviewing, helping coaches better support clients navigating these challenges. The episode concludes with resources for learning more about the SNA and its initiatives in advancing sports nutrition practice.

Time stamps:
00:00 Introducing Laurin to this SNA crossover episode
06:05 What got Laurin into the mental health space and where does physique sport cross into disordered eating/body image disorder?
15:02 Recognising and reducing harmful behaviours and cognitions associated with competing in physique sport
28:20 Laurin’s personal experiences and physique sport behaviours permeating into general health and fitness
35:51 Problematic terminology and looking at the bigger picture
45:51 Advice for health practitioners to help clients in this area
Clifford & Curtis (2016) Motivational interviewing in nutrition and fitness. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-33705-000
58:22 Closing out and where to find more information on the Sport Nutrition Association
Website https://sportsnutritionassociation.com/
Board Members https://sportsnutritionassociation.com/advisory-board/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone today. I'm going to be co-hosting alongside Dr. Eric Trexler.
0:11.8	Eric, great to see you again. How are you, sir? I'm doing great. How are you doing?
0:16.1	I'm doing well. I'm doing well. And even better now that we have another excellent guest that we're going to be
0:21.4	chatting with today. Lauren Conlin, who has a very interesting background in the range of
0:27.5	subjects I think are going to speak to a lot of nutrition professionals in our audience today. Before we
0:32.6	get into any of that, Lauren, welcome and thanks for coming to talk to us. Thank you guys. I'm super
0:37.2	excited for this and I am also very. Thank you guys. I'm super excited for this,
0:38.4	and I am also very excited for these topics of some of my favorites, so I need to dive in.
0:43.7	So before we get to the topics, maybe can you give people some context to your background,
0:47.8	your work within the industry, some of the interests that you have, and anything else that
0:51.9	would serve as a good basis into some of the stuff we'll
0:54.8	discuss today. For sure. So I like whatever word you used to, what do you say? I have a lot of
0:59.2	interest. I was like, that nails it. Yeah, I have a lot of different interests in the space. But I've been
1:03.5	coaching for over 11 years now. And I started competing back in 2011. And so I had many, many years as an NFC amateur competitor, then also as an IFBBikini pro as well.
1:17.3	So I had the competitive background.
1:19.1	I went to Florida State from my undergrad and started a dietetics that switched to exercise science, did some undergrad research there with Dr. Mike Ormsby,
1:28.4	and then eventually went to do the master's program with Dr. Bill Campbell for exercise
1:33.0	science. But my research focused on how different types of diets affect weight loss and weight
1:37.6	regain. So it focused a little bit more on dieting and particularly the post-diet phase as well
1:43.2	as just eating behaviors. And then pretty much
1:45.7	since then I have just been coaching and speaking and educating. And then this past few months ago,
1:51.7	this past year, I started at back at USF for the clinical mental health counseling program.
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