year ago, so why not focus on that positive instead?
A recent forum on eating disorders in Victoria raised the
alarming fact that eating disorders had the highest mortality rate of
any psychiatric disorder, and that one in five sufferers of anorexia
Lessons learnt from body image battles
An article in Dance magazine this year spoke to several professional
dancers about their body image battles. The same advice they shared
also applies to group exercise instructors and personal trainers.
‘Don’t let thoughts control your body language. Don’t show that you
are insecure and maybe you will fool yourself into being secure.’
Sarah Hay
‘You can always improve areas you are weak in. But there is
a limit to what you can do physically in terms of changing. Be
comfortable in your own skin. If you are insecure with your body,
nobody else is going to like it. You have to say, ‘This is who I am.’’
Xiao Nan Yu
‘I learned that imperfections are not to be feared. There is no one mould.
Embrace yourself as an artist; that’s what makes you feel beautiful.’
Rachel Sherak
nervosa commits suicide. The director of the
Butterfly Foundation, Christine Morgan, said
societal pressures, a fixation with dieting
and photographs of celebrity mothers with
washboard stomachs could be poison to
someone with a predisposition to anorexia,
bulimia or a binge eating disorder.
I view my role as a group exercise
instructor as an honour. I get to educate and
inform, but I also get to inspire and motivate
a diverse group of men and women every
day. It is my goal that they walk out of my
class feeling good – physically challenged,
perhaps a little sore, but also invigorated
and excited about what they’ve achieved.
Positive language and cues
This comes back to motivational cues and
focus. As a group exercise instructor, the
language you use is incredibly important in
engendering a positive body image.
While instructors are particularly prone
to idealising a super lean and muscular
body, we are not popular and successful
only because of our body size and shape.
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