Episode 36Feb 4, 2026· 5:00
400 Classes and 26 Pounds Lost - A Lot of Fitness Influencers Are Selling You Crap
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After hitting 400 classes and losing 26 pounds, Ashley Grant is calling out the fitness industry's biggest problem: influencers peddling unnecessary supplements, protein powders, and quick-fix products that don't work. In this episode, she shares why consistent movement and effort beat expensive products every time, how she's dropped four pant sizes without buying into the hype, and why she celebrates every single…
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Full transcript
00:00
Okay, let's just face it. Some influencers are
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just full of crap. What's up, you guys? Famous
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Ashley Grant here. Welcome to More Movement,
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Please. This is the podcast where I hope to inspire
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you to move your body more. Last week, I hit
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two pretty significant milestones, to me, anyway.
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I hit 400 classes completed, and I hit 200 days
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of maximum effort. And the reason this is such
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a big deal to me, and I've said this before and
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I'm going to say it again, I plan to obnoxiously
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celebrate every single milestone in this fitness
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journey. And here's why. I feel like every celebration
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that you can do is a good thing. Everything that
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gets you excited and more pumped about your fitness
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journey, it's a good thing. So the more opportunities
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I have to celebrate the fitness journey. I will
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take every single one of them, every single chance
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I get. Because the more excited I get, the more
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I want to work, the more I want to do, and the
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better I'm feeling about the effort that I'm
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putting in. And it's not just about the scale.
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It's not just about how I'm looking. Y 'all,
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it is how I'm feeling. I am feeling so much better
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than I was six months ago. I have more energy.
01:16
I'm sleeping a little bit better. Any of the
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sleep that I'm struggling with, that's my own
01:20
stress. That's my own issues. But... the exercises
01:23
have been helping with the whole stress thing.
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And it's been helping me in so many ways. Like
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I'm down four pant sizes and I'm down 26 pounds
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and I have no plans on stopping anytime soon.
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As I told you guys, whenever I first started
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this podcast, this was not a challenge. Yes,
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everything I'm doing is challenging, but I didn't
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sign up. to do a challenge. This wasn't a 30
01:47
day challenge. This wasn't a, Oh, you know, a
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zero to five K challenge or a, you know, I've
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seen so many of them of like 30 planks in 30
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days or 30 miles in 30 days and all these different
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things. Right. But for me, this was not a challenge.
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This was about trying to implement a change in
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my lifestyle. And that is what I have done. And
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that is what I am so excited about. The funny
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thing is. The more that I am getting into fitness
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and the more that I am trying to make fitness
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a huge part of my life, the more crap I am seeing
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in my Facebook feed, my Instagram feed, my TikTok
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feed, all the things. I get bombarded pretty
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frequently with ads to become a gym instructor
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or to become a Zumba instructor or sign up for
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this nutrition course and you can be a certified
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nutritionist as well and all these things, right?
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The interesting thing to me though, is seeing
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just how many people are fitness influencers
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that are full of crap. I mean, so many of them
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are just pushing vitamins. They're pushing products.
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They're pushing weight loss drugs and so many
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different things. And protein powders. My God,
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if I see one more protein powder get pimped to
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me, I'm going to scream. Because the truth is,
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it's not just about protein. It's not just about...
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you know supplements don't get me wrong I do
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take my fair share of supplements especially
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ones that like I need for for some some of my
03:16
own health issues but some of the stuff that
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is getting peddled it just feels like snake oil
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and so the main thing that I want to share today
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is if you are starting your fitness journey and
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you start posting about it the way that I have
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been and you start trying to be like accountable
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and and make your your journey public You too
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are probably going to get bombarded with ads.
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And I just want to just encourage you that if
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you do, please do your homework. Don't just buy
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a bunch of crap. Don't just believe all these
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fitness influencers. Do your homework. Don't
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just buy a bunch of crap you don't need. Because
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I'm living proof that what you really need is
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to put in the work. Yeah, you might need to be
03:55
in a calorie deficit and you might need to diet
03:59
a little bit and all that jazz. but don't go
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crazy with it. Don't do what I did before of
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taking a bunch of shots and pills. There's a
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better way. Putting in the movement, putting
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in the work, doing the work, you will get so
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many better results than you would if you just
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buy a bunch of crap that fitness influencers
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are peddling to you. So I hope this helps someone.
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I hope this inspires you to just move your body.
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Onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you worked
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out today?
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