Workbook
What Is Your Relationship with Your Body
The Pre-Training Workbook for Anyone Beginning Fitness Work
This workbook produces a documented body relationship your trainer can actually build a program from.
For the person about to begin work with a personal trainer, physical therapist, or movement specialist who has never been asked what their body means to them — not what it looks like, but what it can do, what it has survived, what they want from it, and what "fitness" actually means for their life.
The Name It First Experience
Movement built on shame does not hold — this workbook tells your trainer what your body actually means. What Is Your Relationship with Your Body walks you through the questions a fitness intake form never asks: what your body has survived, what you have never asked of it, where shame lives in your relationship with it, and what fitness actually means for the specific life you are trying to build. It is for the person about to begin training who wants their program built on the full picture — who knows there is more than a goal weight and a current fitness level for a trainer to understand. You finish with a documented body relationship your trainer can work from — not just what you want, but where you are starting.
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Sample questions
- What is your relationship with your body actually like — not how it looks, but what it does for you and what you have asked of it?
- What has your body survived that changed your relationship with it?
- What does fitness mean to you, specifically — not the general definition, but what you actually want from it?
Research basis
Body image research / embodiment theory / self-compassion (Neff) / ACT / exercise psychology / Health at Every Size
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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