Nacho Fitness Coach

Caleigh and Sara
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Welcome to Nacho Fitness Coach! Co-hosts Sara and Caleigh set out to discuss, debunk, agree, and disagree on the many facets of fitness culture. Caleigh is a beginner, and Sara is an expert. They both love cheap wine and tacos. Each week, these two friends will cover a different topic to try and make sense of the loads of information (and misinformation) out there with the goal of bringing clarity, inspiration, and humor to you, wherever you are in your fitness journey! For entertainment, inspiration and opinions only. Consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting any new health routines! Follow us... Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website

  1. 18h ago

    Food Noise: Can You Ever Actually Turn It Off?

    Food noise finally gets a name on this one. It's that constant, low-level chatter about food that has nothing to do with actual hunger. Caleigh's had it for years without knowing what to call it, and it turns out there's a real difference between being excited about tacos and being unable to stop thinking about food at all. Sara doesn't have it, and never really has. She can eat the same three eggs for lunch, three weeks straight, without thinking twice. That gap between the two of them turns into a bigger conversation about whether everyone has food noise and it's just a matter of volume, why GLP-1 medications quiet it for some people and do nothing for others, and the one simple habit that's actually made a difference: loading up on protein early in the day. If you've ever wondered whether you're actually hungry or just bored, or if your brain won't stop bringing up snacks at the worst possible times, this one puts a name and a framework to something a lot of people deal with and never talk about. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Food Noise: Can You Ever Actually Turn It Off?

  2. Aug 12

    IG Scroll: Is Sharing Reels a Love Language?

    Instagram's algorithm took over the show again, and this one's a chaotic ride through everything currently living in the feed. There's a street interview response about fat people and plane tickets that gets more unhinged with every line, a viral story about a woman who ran three full-time jobs at once and ranked in the top 10% at every single one, and an ongoing debate about what actually counts as illegal versus what just gets you fired. On the fitness side, the scroll delivers some real talk too: protein brownies that taste like dried-out cat, why 180 grams of protein a day isn't necessary unless there's a bodybuilding show on the calendar, and the difference between wanting “Pilates arms” and just wanting muscle. There's also a debate worth having about whether weight loss and quality of life are actually two separate things or just two sides of the same coin. Add in a Florida man who wore 11 shirts through airport security to dodge a bag fee and a woman who faked not speaking English for six years until trivia night blew her cover, and it's another reminder that the internet never runs out of material. Reels get shared, screenshots get sent, and somehow it all ends up on the podcast. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    IG Scroll: Is Sharing Reels a Love Language?

  3. Aug 5

    Vogue Diet: Would You Survive a 1970's Wine and Egg Diet?

    Vogue printed an actual diet plan in the 1970s that comes down to three eggs, five ounces of steak, and a full bottle of wine a day, with a promise of five pounds gone in three days. Sara found it, read it out loud, and neither of them could believe it made it to print in a fashion magazine. From there it turns into a deep dive on the worst diet advice history has to offer, including a viral TikTok thread full of people confessing their most feral weight loss tricks: chewing ice for hours, calling a licked apple a lunch, HCG drops, 500-calorie days. Some of it's funny. All of it explains a lot about where diet culture came from. None of it holds up, and neither of them is recommending a sip or a bite of it. But if proof exists that the wellness industry has always been a little unhinged, this is it. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Vogue Diet: Would You Survive a 1970's Wine and Egg Diet?

  4. Jul 29

    Debate: Is Obesity a Health Issue or a Feelings Issue?

    The clips of Jillian Michaels going head-to-head with body positivity advocates has been all over social media, and Sara and Caleigh finally sat down to watch the whole thing. The setup: a moderator reads a claim, and whoever gets to the hot seat first gets to argue it with Jillian face to face. First claim up: obesity is not healthy, and pretending it is puts lives at risk. One woman used her turn to object to the word "obese" before ever addressing whether it was true. Another argued that exercise hurt her and dieting didn't make sense to her, without ever explaining how any of that made carrying excess body fat healthy. Jillian didn't blink: fat doesn't just sit on the outside, it wraps around your organs and works against you from the inside too. The real conversation isn't about semantics. It's about what happens when an entire movement convinces people that struggling to lose weight and struggling because you're overweight are the same problem. They're not, and pretending otherwise doesn't make either one easier. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Debate: Is Obesity a Health Issue or a Feelings Issue?

  5. Jul 22

    Dry Needling : Are You Poking Holes in Your Own Denial?

    It's been over a year since Sara's neck surgery, and there's still a marble-sized knot sitting in her shoulder that won't quit. Massages haven't touched it. Time hasn't fixed it. So instead of waiting it out any longer, she's back in the chair for dry needling, the treatment that helped her most before surgery ever happened. Dry needling sounds worse than it is: a needle taps into the muscle, and if that muscle is healthy, nothing happens at all. But if it's dysfunctional, it spasms, twitches, and resets itself, almost like it's shocking its own function back online. This round came with an upgrade too, a stem machine hooked directly into the needle, sending signal straight through the muscle. The real point isn't the needle, it's the waiting. A knot that doesn't go away on its own after a year isn't something to keep ignoring; it's something to treat. Cash-pay sessions, HSA cards, whatever it takes, sometimes fixing the problem is worth more than one more month of hoping it resolves itself. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Dry Needling : Are You Poking Holes in Your Own Denial?

  6. Jul 15

    Space Diet : If NASA Won't Skip Protein, Why Are You?

    Caleigh and Sara pull up a post from a dietitian friend breaking down NASA's Artemis II crew menu, and it's not the bland astronaut food you're picturing. 189 menu items. Barbecue brisket. Mac and cheese. Nutella. Real food, not restriction. NASA requires astronauts to hit 1.2 to 1.8 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, and every calorie is individualized per crew member, anywhere from 1,900 to 3,200 a day depending on size and activity. No blanket numbers, no cookie-cutter plan. If NASA won't send someone to the moon without hitting their protein, why are you skipping yours? The real takeaway isn't the menu, it's the system behind it. Astronauts don't eat on a rigid 7-12-6 schedule; they eat when the mission allows, inside a structure built to flex. That's the model: not more rules, just a system that bends around real life instead of breaking the first time your schedule changes. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Space Diet : If NASA Won't Skip Protein, Why Are You?

  7. Jul 8

    Energy Drinks : How Much Is Too Much?

    Sara's been doing an annual nutrition talk at the school where she coaches, and the numbers on energy drinks are becoming impossible to ignore: two-thirds of kids surveyed drink them regularly, and most already know exactly how many milligrams of caffeine are in the can. They drink it anyway. This episode gets into why that's happening and why it matters. The comparison is the real eye-opener. Alani and Monster run 200 to 300mg of caffeine per can, more than double what's recommended for kids in an entire day, in one sitting. Compare that to a 12oz Mountain Dew at 55mg or old-school Surge at 51mg, drinks that used to feel like the wild option. The bar has moved a lot further than most people are paying attention to. This isn't just a kids' conversation either. Adult tolerance builds the same way, and old habits, pre-workout, energy drinks, an extra shot in a latte, can quietly turn into a caffeine level nobody signed up for. The real ask isn't quitting caffeine. It's actually knowing the number before reaching for the next one. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Energy Drinks : How Much Is Too Much?

  8. Jul 1

    Alcohol, Again: What's It Actually Costing You?

    Alcohol is back on the table, again, because apparently once wasn't enough. Sara breaks down what a few weekend drinks actually do to sleep, testosterone, and fat-burning, and the numbers aren't subtle: up to 70% less growth hormone released during REM sleep, a 20-30% testosterone drop, and fat-burning paused for up to two days while the body deals with the alcohol first. But this isn't a "never drink again" episode. Two things can't be true at the same time. If the goal is peak recovery or real progress, the Friday drinks are working against it, whether that's comfortable to admit or not. So what's the actual move? Get honest about what's actually being optimized for, and stop pretending one drink is just one drink. Drinking on the weekends is a fine choice. Lying to yourself about what it costs is the only real mistake. Connect with us on social media! Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website This podcast offers health, fitness, and nutritional information and is designed for educational and entertainment purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, you should always consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have heard on this podcast. The use of any information provided by Nacho Fitness Coach podcast is solely at your own risk.

    Alcohol, Again: What's It Actually Costing You?
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Welcome to Nacho Fitness Coach! Co-hosts Sara and Caleigh set out to discuss, debunk, agree, and disagree on the many facets of fitness culture. Caleigh is a beginner, and Sara is an expert. They both love cheap wine and tacos. Each week, these two friends will cover a different topic to try and make sense of the loads of information (and misinformation) out there with the goal of bringing clarity, inspiration, and humor to you, wherever you are in your fitness journey! For entertainment, inspiration and opinions only. Consult with a qualified healthcare provider before starting any new health routines! Follow us... Instagram | TikTok | Threads | Youtube | Facebook | X (Twitter) | Website

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  • Creator
    Caleigh and Sara
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    214
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Nacho Fitness Coach 2022
  • Show Website
    Nacho Fitness Coach

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