{"id":13477,"date":"2025-07-23T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=13477"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:46:25","slug":"effects-of-fitness-culture-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/effects-of-fitness-culture-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The effects of fitness culture on women with Dani Mondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Finding fitness, getting on stage and maintaining mental health in a culture of physical judgement, with Dani Mondo who discusses the effects of fitness culture on women<\/h2>\n<p>As the driving force behind Women\u2019s Fitness Education, Dani understands the effects of fitness culture on women as well as anyone. When JP (John Polley) discovered she had also competed in stage competitions in the past, he felt compelled to have the conversation no one seems to be having \u2013 are they good for you?<\/p>\n<p>Whilst this is a very much an \u2018opinion piece\u2019 and charts Dani\u2019s journey into, and out of, competitions, and beyond, it does bring some important issues into the spotlight. And just as importantly, how can we support the mental and emotional \u2018training\u2019 required to get on stage, and handle the aftermath, alongside the incredible physical dedication of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Join JP and Dani in this final episode in JP&#8217;s series of webcasts, exclusively created for FitPro.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finding fitness, getting on stage and maintaining mental health in a culture of physical judgement\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aL8UPzKOc_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Discover more of JP&#8217;s interviews with leading influencers in the fitness world, this one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/maria-teresa-stone-zumba-australasia\/\">Maria Teresa Stone<\/a>, the driving force behind Zumba AU\/NZ<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13478\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13478\" class=\"wp-image-13478 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dani Mondo discusses the effects of fitness and fitness culture on women \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/author-blog-size.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dani Mondo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/danielle_mondo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danielle Mondo<\/a> is a passionate fitness professional with over 10 years of industry experience. Her journey began with a love of training that led her to compete in bodybuilding, earning the title of INBA Fitness Model Overall Winner in 2014. Inspired by her own transformation, Danielle became a personal trainer and spent a decade helping women build strength and confidence. Today, as the Student Success Manager and Educator at Women\u2019s Fitness Education, she supports and empowers future female personal trainers through expert guidance, encouragement, and industry insight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding fitness, getting on stage and maintaining mental health in a culture of physical judgement,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3158,3074],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"category-webcast"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13477"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13506,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions\/13506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}