Dec 3, 2021
Today, I speak with IFBB Pro Christy Brown. Sh earned her pro card in her rookie year of competing in the NPC. She achieved this at the Teen, Collegiate & Masters National Championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in July of 2021. This was her 5th ever competition! She has a bachelors in Business Management and is a practicing Dental Hygienist, while growing her online coaching business on the side. Her dream is to eventually become a full time online fitness and posing coach where she can help lifestyle clients and new girls coming into the competition world with their journeys and posing.
She love macros and flexible dieting and is quite a wizard in the kitchen, creating new recipes. She is releasing a cookbook very soon! She live in Burleson, Texas with her amazing husband E, her daughter Kennedy, and two fur babies Charmin and Shelby.
Christy explains why she believes it’s important to work with a coach and how her struggles with depression have made her an empathetic coach herself. Celeste and Christy go deep in speaking about the importance of having knowledgable fitness professionals to to work with eating disorders. She also shares her experience dealing with food sensitivities and how she deals with them for prep.
We also get to hear some of Christy’s favorite strategies to hit macros with fun recipes that she has created! She shares how important her husband is to her success and mental-well being.
This is such an important conversation, you don’t want to miss
it!
Topics covered include:
-Working as an online coach
-Creating a positive experience for competitors
-Working with a coach
-Struggles with depression and eating disorders
-Macros and eating disorders
-Competing with Crohn’s disease and IBS
-Dealing with food sensitivities
-Food prep with a family and busy schedule
-The importance of a support system
-How competing affects her relationships
-Starting in fitness later in life
-Power of manifestation
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TIME STAMPS
[1:00] introductions
[5:19] pump up routines
[8:40] working as an online coach
[13:45] struggles with depression and eating disorders
[26:10] pros dealing with the same problems as amateurs
[27:50] Crohn’s disease and IBS and food sensitivities
[37:50] eating mostly whole foods
[39:34] planning ahead
[46:45] stress management
[53:40] Impact of competing on relationships
[60:00] family dynamics around food
[68:55] background in fitness and becoming a pro
[80:00] believing in yourself
[81:55] future plans
[84:06] advice for competitors
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