In this episode, Tina talks to Alison Jackson, a former bodybuilder and health coach who focuses on macro nutrition and holistic health for corporate working women. She discusses the importance of finding the right balance and prioritizing health over beauty. She also shares valuable tips for transitioning from macro tracking to intuitive eating and listening to your body.
Alison discusses:
- Why did she give up bodybuilding after ten years?
- Tips for transitioning from macros to intuitive eating
- Her attitude towards self-care is uncompromising
- How meditation fits into her life now
- Daily life as a full-time corporate woman
- Spirituality and Intuition as Healers
- Type A perfectionist
- Her favorite books and podcasts
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Tina Haupert is the owner of Carrots ‘N’ Cake and a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist (FDN-P).
Tina and her team use functional testing and a personalized nutritional approach to help women find balance in their diet while achieving body composition goals.
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About Allison Jackson:
Allison Jackson Fitness was originally founded in 2010 as FitMomsofNJ.com when Allison began realizing that many of her mom friends were either struggling to lose weight, looking for ways to fit exercise into their busy lives, or trying to figure out how to prioritize themselves weight. Stay healthy while taking care of your family.
Fitness is her hobby. When she was a teenager, she regularly read her father’s Muscle & Fitness magazine and tried lifting weights, working out in her unfinished basement with a weight bench and some dumbbells. Her mother would take her to jazz classes with her. She had always struggled with her weight, but it was during those early years that she became obsessed with fitness.
Before becoming a bodybuilder, she played field hockey in high school and college. In college, she became a certified aerobics instructor (they called it “aerobics” back then, and tights and leg warmers were all the rage). She is also certified as a personal trainer. She taught everything from step aerobics to kickboxing (who remembers Billy Blanks’ kickboxing?). Then she started running…she ran a 5K, a 10K, a half marathon, a few sprint triathlons, two marathons (NYC and Philly), a Warrior Sprint, and a Tough Mudder.
But she wanted more.
In the late ’90s, she discovered fitness competitions (think bodybuilding and beauty pageants), which included bodybuilding and posing. When she was 25, she took a gymnastics class filled with 9-year-olds. This is not what she likes.
Fast forward to 2012, she found a coach who was also an IFBB figure professional and was willing to prepare her for her first figure competition. With most organizations eliminating the fitness routine component, she was ready to finally take on the challenge.
She competed in her first competition in 2012 and continued competing until last year when she earned her pro card – four years in the making!
What she loves most is when people say they are inspired by something she does or are motivated to try exercise.