256 | Tired but Toned: A Podcast Reborn

Five years after launching during the pandemic lockdowns, my podcast is shedding its old identity and embracing a name that perfectly captures both my audience and my philosophy: Tired but Toned. This transformation mirrors my own journey from corporate gym trainer to fully independent fitness professional, and brings with it a clearer vision for how I can best serve you.

Let's be honest – the women I connect with most aren't training for bodybuilding competitions or ultramarathons. You're juggling careers, families, homes, and a million other responsibilities. You're tired, but you still care about your health. You want fitness that actually fits into your life. That's exactly what Tired but Toned represents: showing up for your health even when life is chaotic, but doing it in a sustainable way that works for YOUR unique circumstances.

Having navigated my own fitness journey as "the chubby kid" without an athletic background, and managing Hashimoto's disease, I bring a perspective that's often missing from fitness spaces. I combine science-backed information from my nine years of professional experience with a conversational, nuanced approach that acknowledges a fundamental truth: what works for one person may not work for another. The podcast will deliver this balance through a mix of quick, actionable episodes and deeper explorations of important topics – all recorded simply on my phone because, like you, I'm prioritizing progress over perfection. If you're seeking fitness guidance that meets you where you are – tired but still showing up – this refreshed podcast is made for you.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introducing Tired but Toned
• 1:27 Going Independent in Fitness
• 3:35 Understanding My Client Demographic
• 5:13 The Meaning Behind Tired but Toned
• 8:05 New Podcast Format and Structure
• 9:27 Recording Setup and Closing Thoughts

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello everyone and for once, since this show has started in June of 2020, so that was almost five years ago, which is crazy this podcast is going to be introduced as Welcome to Tired, but Toned, instead of the Tea with Tina. It feels really good and this is something that I've been sitting on for a while. So I just wanted to give you some insight into the name change, why I changed it and what to expect from me moving forward. So let's get started. It's interesting to see how podcasts have evolved over time. For one, I think, like intro music and show music can be cool and pretty and fun, but, to be honest, I don't think it fits me or my demo. Like, if you've heard the podcast once, you know I know me. If I'm listening to a podcast and they have the intro music, I just fast forward to the meet and I skip the intro. And you know my people are busy and you know the last thing I want to do is, you know, throw a 20 second intro at you. You know where you're like oh my god, I've heard this 100 times already. So that's the first thing. We're just gonna have cold opens. Nothing wrong with that. We're gonna get right into the nitty gritty. We may be a little bit chatty, but we're gonna get into the nitty gritty.

Speaker 1: 1:26

The second thing is when I started the podcast, it was at the beginning of the pandemic, the panty, whatever you want to call it and I didn't really know what I wanted to do. You know, you were trapped in your house and I had the idea to do a podcast and it was going to be more of like a sit down chatty podcast and at the time, my inspiration to a couple of the podcasts that I listened to be more of like a sit down chatty podcast and at the time, my inspiration to a couple of the podcasts that I listened to were more like talk show style and they chatted about modern events, cultural things, but they did have like a fitness and nutrition base and that's kind of what I was going for, hence the tea with Tina. But as things have evolved since then, I have went independent for myself, tina Weil, and fitness is officially all me. I do not work for anybody anymore. So that has been a huge jump and I'm just full-time myself and with that I wanted my podcast to be more about fitness and nutrition. However, I want to find that balance of you know, educational, but I don't want it to be more about fitness and nutrition. However, I want to find that balance of you know educational but I don't want it to be like straight up, boring. You know I'm not a doctor. I am certified in many things and I have, you know, nine years of professional training experience at this point. So you will get you know science-backed educational content from me. But for me, as a person and my personality, if you know me, I'm someone that has a creative side, a critical thinking side, a kind of nuanced side where we get chatty and we explore other possibilities. So there's that science, but also the fun, chatty, exploring other possibilities. I know I just said that twice, but I love that and I love that combination and I feel like it's really me and it's been kind of fun to see the evolution and what I stepped into. And, to be honest, you know my clients most of my clients now, especially since I've decided to work for myself.

Speaker 1: 3:30

When you work for a gym I think I mentioned this in my previous podcast episode but when you work for a gym you kind of get everybody and anyone. You can't really turn people away. You technically can, but it is frowned upon. Right, you're going to work with the general population and I still do, but I tend to attract a certain demo and I attract women. I attract women that tend to be in their 30s to 50s. A lot of them are moms or maybe empty nesters, and they're busy, whether they have kids or not, they might have fur babies, they might just be people that like to keep themselves busy with hobbies, or they run a business or they're working two jobs or whatever it is, and they're trying to think about how fitness can work for them.

Speaker 1: 4:21

And I'm so passionate about that because, as somebody who has entered the fitness world and felt like they did not fit, you know my whole life. I was never athletic growing up, so I came into this like, not having an athletic background, I pretty much had to find something that worked for me. You know getting Hashimoto's and you know being the chubby kid growing up and trying to learn that fitness isn't all about just being super athletic and doing crazy things. You can still live a healthy life and be fit and challenge yourself in a unique way to you, and the same thing goes for eating oh my goodness. So there's a lot of different viewpoints that I feel like I bring to the table and I feel like that's just so important to teach the women and possibly men hello, if you're listening who listen to this podcast, because I just feel like it's not represented enough. It's definitely getting better as time goes on. I think there's a lot more unique perspectives now that more people are getting into the fitness game and we have social media and people can have a voice and a platform and things.

Speaker 1: 5:25

But it also comes with, again, that nuance. You have to be smart about what you listen to and who you take information from. Even my information this is, you know, take it with a grain of salt. Just because something is scientifically proven to work does not mean it works for everybody. You know the demo that I just described to you, those 30 to 50 something women. Most of this stuff will apply to you. But again, ask yourself everybody's different. If you have an injury or your stress is super high, maybe this won't work for you or whatever.

Speaker 1: 6:00

But speaking of stress, let's go back to the tired but toned name Tired but toned, or is it toned but tired? It's but toned. Oh my gosh, it's still new in my brain. Uh, you know, because I'm tired but tired but toned, stemmed from the idea that the women I do train like we are tired, right, because we're busy and we still want to show up. And I don't want to have that fear around like while I promote, obviously, rest and stress management, you can't avoid it.

Speaker 1: 6:31

The goal isn't to go in the opposite direction, be like, well, I guess I have to sit on the couch and do absolutely nothing. I'm afraid to push myself. Um, I'm never gonna push myself out of my comfort zone because if I do, bad stuff is gonna happen and I feel like that can happen in our brains. That's that very black and white all or nothing thinking. But you know, and I have Hashimoto's, I get it, I get flare-ups. I have to watch how much I push myself in certain things or I will get burnout. I will uh feel run down. So that's always a fine balance with myself.

Speaker 1: 7:00

But it is important to learn to do the work um, show up, messy action, um, and and do it tired. But I want us to not channel the like picture the shredded, I don't know, like military boot camp guy who's running like 20 miles a day, waking up at 3 am, throwing his face in a bowl of ice and telling you to just do it tired. Um, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about I'm talking about a routine that works for you as far as, like, getting your workouts in regularly, you know, eating the healthy meals to lose the weight, saying no to, you know, maybe going out on the weekends two or three times. You know you get one treat meal a week as opposed to, like I said, three, and you know you don't drink the whole bottle of wine. We drink a glass. It's little things like that, but for you and your goals can be a challenge. But it's all, again, relative, and that again is what Tired but Toned is all about.

Speaker 1: 8:05

And as far as what to expect from these podcasts, you're going to get a mix. Sometimes you're going to get bite-sized episodes, things that that might be five, ten minutes long. Um, little tidbits from me a lot of times, if an idea comes to me, I'm just gonna say it and and I'm gonna get it out, because if I try to plan ahead of time, it just like never works for me, um, in my brain. But then sometimes if there is a topic I really want to take a deep dive into, uh, we will have that too. You, you know you might have a little bit of a longer episode because it requires that more in depth. So again, you're gonna get that balance of the science based information as well as more kind of off the cuff. My personal takes things like that Okay. So kind of.

Speaker 1: 8:50

I just wanted wanted to introduce the podcast. Explain my reasoning behind changing the name. I'm really excited about it. It makes me feel like I have more of a clear direction. I felt a little lost there, I definitely this past year. I feel like I've been in a really big transition phase and it feels like things have finally been clicking. I feel in my groove in the best way. It was definitely not easy getting here. We have been through some things and, side note, I apologize if you hear obnoxious cars going through in the background.

Speaker 1: 9:22

Where I live, I live on a street that has like four stop signs and people just floor it to the stop sign and I'm just literally recording in my living room with my phone, um, using the voice memo app. I do not have a fancy podcast set up. I wish I did have a pretty little office that's another thing about me which had a pretty office with a nice background and a fancy podcast mic. But from a time perspective again, we busy and simplicity perspective, just whipping out my phone and recording and chatting with you guys. I think the audio quality is just fine. Most people that I know don't actually physically watch podcasts. You're usually driving, cleaning, doing dishes, whatever. So, yeah, that's where we're at. But, with that being said, I think I'm going to wrap the episode up here and I will see you in the next one. Thanks for tuning in, guys. Bye for now.