Keri Harvey Handled the TikTok Gym Bros

Keri Harvey Handled the TikTok Gym Bros9 apr33 min

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<html><h3>You are listening to Burnt Toast. I'm Virginia Sole Smith. Today my conversation is with Keri Harvey. </h3>Keri is an NASM certified personal trainer and a pain-free performance specialist specializing in beginner strength. She's a part owner of <a href="https://www.formfitnessbk.com/" target="_blank">Form Fitness Brooklyn</a> and has recently gotten into powerlifting. She just competed in her first sanctioned meet and won first place in her weight class. Keri began her career in personal training after her own fitness journey transformed from aesthetic focused to working on feeling strong and capable in everyday life, a very Burnt Toast trajectory. Her training style involves feeling less focused on the number on the scale and more on how people feel. She's a firm believer in setting performance-related goals, such as feeling less winded after the dreaded subway station steps. Keri was featured as one of Self magazine’s Everyday Athletes and collaborated as a fitness expert in Shape, Self, Livestrong, and Women’s Health magazines. Her ultimate goal is to help cultivate an inclusive and welcoming environment in the gym, and for all of her clients to leave each session feeling strong and powerful. Keri is hosting a pop-up strength class called <a href="https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/YRW44EMPUQMJS" target="_blank">Strong on Purpose</a> in Houston, Texas on April 11th.Keri joined me to chat about her relationship to fitness and movement, getting stitched by toxic gym bros on TikTok, misconceptions about fat personal trainers and so much more. We've also got answers to some of your listener questions. This is a great episode. I think you're going to get so much out of it.Here is Keri.<div>If you enjoy this conversation, a paid subscription is the best way to support our work! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/virginiasolesmith/join">Join Burnt Toast</a></div>🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈<h3>Episode 240 Transcript</h3>Virginia We are really big fans of yours here at Burnt Toast. For anyone who doesn't already follow you on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kharveyfit/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> or <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@kharveyfit?lang=en" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, why don't you just tell us a little bit about yourself, your work and your relationship with fitness and movement?Keri I am a certified personal trainer. I currently am a part owner at a gym called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/formfitnessbk/" target="_blank">Form Fitness Brooklyn</a>, which is a personal training studio. The reason that I'm here and the reason that I exist in this field is because there's not a lot of body diversity in the fitness industry. I wanted to be a part of helping other people feel seen.I live in a larger body and I show up every day in this body and do a lot of really cool things with it because I want to and because I want other people to feel like they can, as well. My relationship with fitness is one of exploration, being curious about what I can do and trying to approach it from a viewpoint of being balanced in acknowledging the fact that no one is ever at one hundred percent. I'm trying to make sure that I don't stress myself out too much trying to be perfect and just focusing on showing up as me and seeing what I can do. It has done wonders for my mental health and my physical health, because I'm showing up consistently.Virginia I love that. I was just watching a reel you did about working out with a migraine, which as a fellow migraine girlie, I found deeply relatable. That feeling of, This isn't going to be the best, but it's probably going to make me feel a little bit better. And