Weight Inclusive Thinking for Fitness Professionals

WIT FITS is our flagship educational offering: a free in interactive, self-paced online course designed for fitness professionals. It provides tools and strategies to recognize anti-fat bias, challenge weight stigma, and create affirming environments for people in diverse bodies.

Developed by an interdisciplinary team of educators and researchers, the course combines evidence-based content with real-world application to support inclusive, size-aware fitness instruction.

Weight Inclusive Research and Education

WIRED is a growing community of over 100 professionals committed to advancing weight-inclusive research, education, practice, and advocacy. Our members represent a range of disciplines—including kinesiology, public health, nutrition, and psychology—all working toward more inclusive, evidence-based approaches that honor body diversity.

We host an annual conference and quarterly virtual meetings to share emerging work, build community, and support meaningful change across academic and professional settings.

Whether you’re a student, scholar, or practitioner, we’d love to welcome you into the WIRED community.

A Free Online Course on Attribution Theory and Weight Stigma

Attributions, Weight, and Health is a free, self-paced online course designed for kinesiology students and health professionals. It explores how attribution theory — the way we explain the causes of events and behaviors — shapes attitudes toward weight and contributes to weight stigma in health and fitness settings.

Learners examine the controllability of weight, the relationship between health and body size, and how attribution retraining can be used to challenge weight-biased thinking in practice.

A Free Framework for Health  Education Teachers

This project offers a practical, three-phase framework for teachers to facilitate critical health education on weight inclusivity in their classrooms. Grounded in research, the scaffolded approach fosters students' critical inquiry and active engagement with cultural narratives about health, weight, and body size.

Supplemental teaching materials — including lesson plans, activities, and slides — are freely available to support classroom implementation.

This framework is described in detail in our peer-reviewed manuscripts. [Read Part 1] [Read Part 2]