BOUNDLESS Fitness Frequency
by Alexa Rukstela
Meet your new BFF– the Boundless Fitness Frequency, designed for those who crave a fitness journey that extends far beyond the gym or physical transformation. They want it all—mind, body, and soul. They’re bored by surface-level conversations and crave true depth in themselves and others. This podcast was created for the part of the fitness community who views fitness as a gateway to a boundless life where exploration knows no limits. You can expect edgy, 'outside the box' musings on holistic, embodied fitness to spark the transformation into your favorite self. Tune in to dissolve your edges
Episodes
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The Body As The Metaphorical Basement
Hello! On this episode, I’m getting into something I think about constantly as a physique coach: being in the weird liminal space between the fitness industry telling you that body fat is a moral failure and the body acceptance movement telling you wanting to change means something is wrong with...
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Everyone wants to be a phoenix but nobody wants to get burned
Your BFF is BACK. Join me for a bestie conversation about the past 6 months. The crash out for the books. The heartbreak of realizing you’ve been living completely out of alignment. The messy and painful part of burning everything to the ground to start fresh. We get up close and personal, and I...
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Inside Self-Coaching Protocols and Decision Making
Hello! This episode describes my protocols going into my off season with descriptions of my training, nutrition, supplementation, and general considerations as I coach myself into my next off season. Examples: movement selection, high frequency training, power building, nutrition and meals, gut...
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Real Time Processing of Post Show Blues
I say cookies 10000x in this episode. This is an unscripted, completely off the cuff, and very personal description of the post show experience and how this looks for me right now. I hope you get something from this whirlwind of an episode Instagram: @alexarukstela
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On Growth: A Very Strange Comeback
On today's episode, you will hear a very strangely put together, slightly diary-esque podcast about the challenges I have faced in the past couple of months since I've last recorded a solo episode. It feels slightly like a monologue of a play, but maybe you guys will get something out of it.…
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On Yoga and Weightlifting: The Tool You Didn't Know You Needed
Here I get a lil personal and talk about my introduction to yoga and all the ripples it's had in my life since then. I talk about how yoga can be such a beautiful compliment to any weightlifting practice as well as a sneaky training technique that helps you in and out of the gym. For coaching,...
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On Transactional Training: How to do Fitness For LIFE
If you find yourself frustrated by lack of progress or counting down the days to the end of your diet, or just overall unmotivated--listen in to this podcast. We talk about: --Training for results instead of training for process --Why you have the goals you do --How to move from outcome-oriented…
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5 Minute Fitness: Fix Your Sleep To Make Better Gains & Lose More Weight
I share SEVEN tips in 5 minutes on how to improve your sleep TONIGHT! Yes, you can apply these right here right now and sleep 10x better. Enjoy and sweet dreams!
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On People Pleasing In Fitness
If you wanna hear me get heated and go on 100 rants in 20 minutes THIS IS THE PODCAST FOR YOU! People pleasing is rampant in our culture and the fitness space is no different. Here we break down what people pleasing is, why you do it, how it shows up in your fitness, and why it's holding you (and...
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5 Minute Fitness: How to Handle Cravings
We have all had cravings (if you say you haven't then I want to have a word with you). Here's how to know what to do with them when they sneak up on you! Nutrient deficiency website: Cronometer: Eat smarter. Live better.
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On Managing Hunger During a Diet or Contest Prep
If you're tired of eating 10,000 pounds of zucchini or pounding 5 packs of gum a day to get rid of hunger, you will want to hear this one. Here's a sneaky way to manage hunger that goes outside tea, gum, volume foods, and diet sodas. For online fitness coaching, click this link:...
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5 Minute Fitness: How to Train on Your Cycle
I share 3 tips to help you have better, more enjoyable training sessions on your cycle (actually just in general). Save these for later!
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On My Bone To Pick With Muscle Confusion & Biohacking
I'm sooooo tired of this lol. Here I break down how our constant efforts to confuse, deceive, trick, and manipulate the body into getting what we want is NOT getting us what we want (who would have thought?). Tune in to my noodle-brained, unplanned rant, and let me know what you think! For...
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5 Minute Fitness: Protein 101
Ever wondered how much protein to get in every day? How many meals to have? How to know if you're eating too much? Is protein powder safe? Here's a 5 minute crash course to stay in the know!
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On Navigating Getting What You Want by Using What You Have: Capacity and Desire
I knowwwww we talked about something similar but this topic is just too good to share only once. We dive into how we expand your capacity to reach all your wildest dreams from BOTH perspectives where capacity and desire are out of alignment. This builds off of the Self-Sabotage episode and is a...
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5 Minute Fitness: How To Break Your Plateau
If you're stuck and can't seem to make ANY more progress on your fitness journey, take 5 minutes and listen to this episode for the sneaky way you can break that plateau.
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On What I am Taking With Me & Leaving Behind in 2024
We don't believe in "New Year New You" over here. We believe in keeping the foundation and updating from year to year. This episode is a more personal reflection of what I have learned in 2023 where I share 4 things I am taking with me, and 4 things that I am leaving behind. Let me know if any of...
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On Setting Effective & Embodied Goals for 2024
In this episode we go over.... Why we even set goals in the first place Why typical goal setting tactics DON'T work (and why) And then I give you a brand new, done for you framework to help you set goals in the most EFFECTIVE and EMBODIED way possible to head into the new year (and really any…
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On Self-Sabotage: A New Perspective + How to Break Free
This episode covers the phenomenon that almost every human experiences: self-sabotage. But what if self-sabotage was not what you think? What if it wasn't this evil behavior holding you back from what you want? What if it was something else? We will go over this in depth with examples, as well as...
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BONUS: On Personal Dietary Choices: My Decision to Go Vegetarian
This episode was inspired by a listener asking about my personal decision to stop regularly eating meat as a part of my diet. We go over how this decision was made, how to get protein in as a vegetarian bodybuilder, and how to start making decisions for yourself regarding your nutrition. For...
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On Trauma and Bodybuilding: The Overlap and How to Navigate
Not many of us talk about some of the stickier feelings training can bring up in us, so today I discuss: --The difference between STRESS and TRAUMA --My experience with unwelcome sensations in training --How coaching can sometimes activate discomfort in those with trauma --Real and practical…
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On Coach Athlete Relationship Dynamics
Everyone and their goldfish are fitness coaches these days, but what happens behind the scenes in these relationships after the client signs up? We riff on: The current coaching space and the wounded relationship dynamics we experience as a collective. The abusive and absent coach dynamic ruining...
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On Body Image Issues
Having a poor body image, body dysmorphia, or simply just having a part of your body that is *not* your favorite is common in the collective right now, so we explore: What are these issues, really? Where do they come from? And what we can do about them right now, to live a more integrated and…
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Meet Your New BFF: Episode 1
In the pilot episode of the Boundless Fitness Podcast, I will introduce myself as your trustee host, describing my background and history of holistic fitness and setting the stage for why this podcast exists. This serves as the introduction for the juicy episodes we have planned moving forward....
About this show
Meet your new BFF– the Boundless Fitness Frequency, designed for those who crave a fitness journey that extends far beyond the gym or physical transformation. They want it all—mind, body, and soul. They’re bored by surface-level conversations and crave true depth in themselves and others. This podcast was created for the part of the fitness community who views fitness as a gateway to a boundless life where exploration knows no limits. You can expect edgy, 'outside the box' musings on holistic, embodied fitness to spark the transformation into your favorite self. Tune in to dissolve your edges
Hosted by
Alexa Rukstela