Body Neutrality: What Is It and How to Use it With Your Clients

What was previously a binary model of thinking, either I love my body or I hate it, is now a sliding scale with a middle zone known as body neutrality. Fitness professionals regularly interface with participants in spaces where body critiques may be a consistent part of their dialogue. Body neutrality instead suggests that there are several ways we get to feel about the size or shape of our bodies but that those feelings do not determine our worth or our body’s purpose. Fitness professionals can make a difference in our participant’s experiences by modifying how we discuss body size, body image, and its relatedness to health.