Kersten Kimura is a personal trainer and health coach that specializes in helping women overcome weight management, hormonal, and stress management issues.
She helps women work past misinformation and stigmas within the health and fitness industry that often keep them from achieving lasting results.
Kersten’s holistic coaching methods focus on long-term achievement and improvements in personal lifestyle choices by combining hormonal health and nervous system regulation with periodized macro-based nutrition tracking and personalized strength training programs.
She has developed a passion for everything she offers to the people she helps by way of her own health and fitness journey and the discoveries she’s made through over a decade of self exploration - from long distance running and strength training, to meditation, breathwork, psychedelic plant medicines, and cold exposure therapy… Kersten’s story is overflowing with wisdom from personal experience and this conversation is ripe with actionable information suitable for all humans - women and men alike.
Show Notes:
Book: Breathing Cure by Patrick Mckeown
Time Markers:
@Start - Introductions and Major Life Shifts - Kerten’s Career Change as a PHD Exchange Student After Coming to the U.S.
@16:11 - 22:25 You are not supposed to struggle: Misinformation and physiological misperceptions in Women’s Health
@22:25 - 30:46 Eating More to Lose Weight, What to do Before and After Dieting, & Missing Links in Women’s Weight Loss
@30:46 - 48:04 Underweight vs Overweight - Training and Lifestyle Tactics for Overcoming Trauma and the Coping Mechanisms Behind Eating Disorders and Food Addictions
@48:04 - 56:28 Discipline Vs Dependance - The Fine Line Between Healthy Habits and Obsession in Pursuit of Fitness
@56:28 - 1:00:00 Our Old Friend, Hitting Rock Bottom - Signs, Symptoms, and Positive Outcomes
@1:00:00 - 1:08:04 The Importance of Coaching & Kersten’s Biggest Lessons from 5 Straight Years of Working with Coaches
@1:08:04 - 1:41:42 Breathwork & Cold Exposure for Health, Wellbeing, and Personal Empowerment
@1:41:42 - Closing Thoughts
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