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Okay, real talk.
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If you started a workout this week and didn't finish it, I want you to pause before you start beating yourself up on that.
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It's not a loss.
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I want to dig into what it actually looks like to lock in, especially when you're the one holding everything together.
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So grab your coffee, put in your AirPods, and get out for that walk'cause we are gonna dive into all of this.
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Welcome to MilesFromHerView, the podcast powered by KatFit Strength, where busy women like you find practical solutions to fuel your fitness journey with authenticity and resilience.
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I'm Kat, your host, a mom of two active boys, a business owner, and an ultramarathon runner, and a strength trainer in her 40s.
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With nearly two decades of experience, I'm here to help you cut through the noise of fads, hacks, and quick fixes.
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This is a space where we celebrate womanhood and motherhood, all while building strength and resilience and reconnecting with you from a place of self-compassion and worthiness.
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Whether you're lacing up your running shoes to go out for a run, driving your kids to practice, or squeezing in a moment for yourself, I'm right here in the trenches with you.
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Let's dive in.
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Welcome back to MilesFromHerView.
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I am Kat, your host.
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If you are new here, welcome.
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I am so happy that you are joining.
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If you have been a longtime listener, welcome back.
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Today, we're really gonna go into what it means to lock in with working out.
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I work with clients, and I am also in this category where I'm the one that holds the calendar together.
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I am the person who makes sure that everybody else has their needs met in my house, who- that they get to where they need to go, that they are set up for success.
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But then where do you fall in?
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It is often that I hear from women that by the time that they're done typing the work email with one hand and packing the lunches with the other, every single appointment, every practice, and you're the person who shares that information with everyone, and the person who is reminding each person as they walk out the door e- to ensure that they have their practice equipment, their instrument, their...
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anything that they need, you're exhausted by the time it gets to you.
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So the thing about locking in isn't about cramming more into your day.
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It's about deciding you deserve to be on your own list.
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And it's actually making a plan for your own wellbeing instead of hoping you get the time, the energy, the motivation, all of those things.
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Because honestly, no one is gonna give you the time.
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You have to claim it for yourself if you've started a workout, maybe it was this week, maybe in the past, and life pulled you away before you finished, it's not a loss.
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Say it out loud.
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Those workouts were not a loss.
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They are not a loss, and they never will be, because it will not be the first time that life is gonna interrupt you and you're going to leave a workout unfinished.
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I still leave workouts unfinished.
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I have clients that leave workouts unfinished, and we will talk about that more and how to handle that.
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So that is one of the things I hear from women a lot is they want to be able to finish their workouts, and they want...
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They have this vision of themselves that they will get to a point where a workout will never be interrupted.
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They will get to a point where they will always be doing workouts flawlessly.
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We need to change that mindset.
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Instead of grading yourself on that workout that you didn't finish, look at what you did.
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If you got two lifts in before an important work call, a child needed something, you needed to get out the door, you took a walk and then a pop-up meeting happened, so you had to cut that short, it all counts.
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So we need to stop measuring ourself by some perfect standard that doesn't fit your actual life and start celebrating what you managed to show up for.
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And trust me, whenever you tune into social media, it's going to look and you're going to hear people say,"If you can't show up for a full workout, then don't show up at all.
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You're stopping a workout early, you're not committed." You're gonna hear this messaging time and time again.
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But that is preventing you from moving forward.
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You're juggling a million things, and this is your nudge to give yourself a pep talk that you can build the plan, protect your plan, and lock in.
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This is all tied to what we were talking about last week, getting rid of the idea of falling off the track that anytime something comes up, a work travel, a holiday a big project at work kid illnesses, illnesses for yourself, aging parents.
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You just insert anything here that may knock you off or cause you to fall off track, is it's not falling off track.
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And now we are here in the middle of August, and August is not a deadline.
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You may be returning from your vacations, a slower-paced time at work, kids gearing up to going back to school.
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We're bracing ourselves for the busyness because after all, at least I feel this way, when kids get back to school, it's like happy new year.
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September starts and it's January already.
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But August is a hinge month.
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It's a pivot point.
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Let's get into this practical stuff because the'don't think an all or nothing' term sounds nice, but what you do on a random Tuesday when you're tired and the workout just isn't happening, here's the real how-to.
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So we're gonna go into five ways to keep your fitness in your life without letting it take over or become another thing to stress out about.
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So number one, schedule it like it matters, because it does.
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Surely, you may have heard this before, but we're gonna reframe this.
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Put it on your calendar.
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Put it on your schedule We need to stop treating them, whether we acknowledge it or not, that it's just a bonus.
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It's just a what happens when I'm feeling motivated, when I have energy, when I have time.
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Because to be honest, all three of those things are not going to intersect at the same time.
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If they do, you've hit the jackpot.
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Put it on your calendar, just like you would with anything else, for your career, your kids, your home life, everything.
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Put it on and block it out.
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I do understand, and we will cover this, that things come up, and this is where we celebrate those unfinished workouts, getting two reps in, getting two sets in of a exercise, getting two exercises in, walking for two minutes, walking for twenty minutes.
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Okay?
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But you need to start by scheduling it on your calendar and making it a non-negotiable.
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Now, I'm gonna put a little asterisk with that non-negotiable, okay, is we need to frame it out that this is the time that we are working out.
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And again, we're not focused on this all or nothing, at all costs.
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So it's the time dedicated for you to work out.
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So plan around that.
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You plan this for your family, you need to plan this for yourself.
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So the action step here is open up your calendar and block out your sessions for the next week.
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Number two, build a minimum viable workout I've talked about this one before.
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We have to plan the bare minimum.
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That does not mean that you cannot do more than that, but why we plan a minimum viable workout is life is going to happen.
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And this is where this idea of we're raising the floor to meet yourself where you're at.
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Oftentimes we hear,"I hold myself to high standards." You can absolutely do that.
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If you are a person, and this is how I function, I'm an achiever.
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I am someone who likes to push myself.
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I am someone who, to be honest, does not like leaving sets and reps on the table.
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However, when I have been in moments where I forced myself to complete a workout or fit it in at all costs, it comes back to me in a negative way.
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Or I don't do the workout, and I put myself on that one-way ticket to Guiltville and Shameville, and those are not places we want to go to.
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And it then further, using the term, causes me to fall off the track because I'm living in Guilt and Shameville of saying,"If I could've, I would've, and I must not be that dedicated." So having a minimum viable workout is this idea that it's a workout that we know that we can do it in the smallest amount of time, that if our energy is low, if our motivation isn't there, that we can do some exercises and it counts.
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It is planned out.
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So let's go back to point number one.
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You schedule out your time.
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Let's say it's an hour.
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You need to now pick up a child or address a work email or an, a meeting that's gotten planned.
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Something has interrupted or reduced your amount of workout time, and you now have twenty minutes.
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This is where that minimum viable workout comes in.
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This is where that non-negotiable idea of intention of addressing yourself so that your wellbeing is taken care of.
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So the non-negotiable isn't I have to fit it in at all costs.
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It's I'm putting it in on my terms, still putting myself as a priority here.
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So the action step here is for every workout this week, write down the full version and the 15-minute version.
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This is something I do for my clients.
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This is something that in their workouts, the way I program it, they know if they only have time for the first two exercises, it's going to help them maintain and also help them build strength.
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It doesn't mean that's all they have to do and all the e- other exercises don't count.
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What it is it's a strategically written plan that they don't have to think about,"What is my minimum viable workout?" They are responsible for scheduling out the time for the workout.
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They have the authority over their schedules.
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I am the one who puts in a well-written plan that they are able to adapt it to their own terms.
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They can move it on different days.
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They know that,"Okay, if I have to do the minimum viable workout, it is going to help continue to progress me to my goals." Number three, anchor it to something you already do.
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So this one is really important because It's easier to fall into a rhythm with something if we put it towards an action that we're already doing.
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For example, I have clients who work in a home office, and when they open up their office door, they are greeted with the rest of their life.
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And it makes it harder for them to maybe traverse the steps downstairs to the basement where their workout equipment is, or maybe go into another room because in those ten steps, they get all the questions because they are the person, the calendar holder, the know everything, the person that everybody goes to.
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So by the time they address everyone, and even if they have their time scheduled on the calendar, they have your minimal viable workout, it-- all of that gets eaten up because they get deviated from where they're going.
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So what they will do is they will keep their workout equipment in their office and their blocked out time for working out is either maybe on a lunch break, or they go to work a bit earlier or they stay at work later, and they get their workout done in their office.
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And then when they open that door, they've not only, moved their career along, but they've also addressed their wellness and then they can attend to everybody else without feeling like,"I never got into my workout." So your action step is pick one thing you do every day and stack your workout right after it, before it.
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Not I'll fit it in, but it is after this I will do my workout.
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Or maybe it's before.
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Number four, Sunday setup, not Sunday guilt.
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Take ten minutes at the start of every week.
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Look at your calendar.
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Decide where your workouts fit.
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It's not about creating a perfect plan and then beating yourself up when it changes.
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It's about making the week easier.
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So when I work with clients, I want to know the best days for me to schedule workouts.
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They can always move their workouts because life is just organic, it's ever-changing, things happen.
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But I always stress to them I don't want you to plan a workout on one of your busiest days.
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So if you have a day of the week, let's just pick Tuesday.
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Tuesday, there's four different activities that you have going on, or that's your day you work late at work.
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Maybe we're not scheduling a workout on that day.
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Maybe it's mobility.
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Maybe it's a rest day.
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There is no rhyme or reason as to what day you need to work out.
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There's no scientific reasoning that if you don't get a Monday workout in your whole week is spoiled.
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No.
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You need to align it with your week with what makes sense for your schedule.
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I encourage my clients, don't put a workout on one of your busiest days.
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For some, that works for them.
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For others, it doesn't.
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So we want to schedule our workouts that align with our overall schedule.
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The action step, same day, same 10 minutes every week.
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So place your workouts in a realistic spot and time of day that you know you'll be able to show up for number five, consistency is a trend, not a streak.
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So the misconception about consistency is that you're never missing a workout, that you're always showing up, and consistency somehow has evolved into seven days a week, fifty-two weeks of the year.
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That is not what consistency means with your workouts.
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I have some clients where their consistency is one workout a week.
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I have some clients where six workouts a week is their consistency.
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Neither client doing one workout a week or six workouts a week is the supreme.
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That's what works for them and their schedule.
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Yes, based on research and physiological aspects of building strength, I would like clients to be able to do two to three strength training workouts per week.
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However, in particular, this client who's doing one strength workout a week, this is what works for her lifestyle now.
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Because zero strength workouts a week versus one we want to have at least one, and this aligns with her life at this current season.
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Is she capable of doing more?
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Surely, when her season changes.
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So with consistency, and this goes back to understanding your schedule, is maybe your life right now can't handle six workouts.
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Maybe it's three workouts, maybe it's one, maybe it's between one and six.
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Whatever that looks like, that is your consistency.
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Now, going back to this client who's doing one strength training workout a week- She finds herself in some weeks doing two, and other weeks doing one, another week doing three.
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That does not mean she's inconsistent at all.
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Her consistency is different than other people's.
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So we want to avoid shaming ourselves where our minimum viable workout weeks are one.
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There are times where the client who is doing six workouts a week needs to drop down to four.
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That doesn't mean she's ruined her consistency streak because it's not a streak.
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It is following with showing up on your terms, not when you want to, but being disciplined, scheduling out that time, and knowing that this is important, this is a priority.
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So the action step here is at the end of the week, don't ask,"Did I do it all perfectly?" Ask,"Did I move in the right direction most days?" So that's the real measure here is are we moving in the right direction most of the days?
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Because even as someone like myself who is in the business, who has set my life up around working out, not the sole reason why I'm on this earth, but where I am training for ultramarathon distances, there are days where I can't get a run in even if it's scheduled.
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So what I do is adjust, I pivot, or I do a minimum viable workout So nothing here requires more grit or willpower.
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It's just fewer in-the-moment decisions and defining what counts as success.
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Schedule it, build your floor, anchor it, and set it up weekly, and l-look for that trend.
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That's what we wanna do here.
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There's no one-way ticket to Guilt or Shameville if you leave sets and reps on the table.
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Celebrate that you showed up.
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Celebrate that it was a minute, two minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes.
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This is how you build the consistency.
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I've shared before on the podcast when my children were younger, I deemed myself super inconsistent with my workouts because I wasn't working out six days a week.
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Now, I was working out more like the client I have who is doing one workout a week.
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I have now built myself up to where I'm doing anywhere between five to six workouts a week, two to three strength training sessions, and five runs a week, and a cross-training spin workout, and then there's mobility on top of that.
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That does not mean this is the marker of success and the golden rule in what everyone should strive to.
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No, this is what, for me, in my training season for ultramarathons, I'm doing.
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It will change.
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It has shifted and changed where I've reduced running and increased cross-training.
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There's no hard, fast rule that states that you will not see success or build strength if you're not in the gym twenty-four/seven.
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That is not how it works.
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What we are focused on is the actions that are going to help us move in the right direction.
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That's showing up for ourselves and prioritizing our health and well-being and knowing that we are human, and some days life is gonna get lifey, and it will win.
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But that is no reason to purchase a one-way ticket to Guilt or Shameville because you are human, and it is okay to miss a week.
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But what it is not okay is to guilt and shame ourselves or compare ourselves to the curated feed of a fitness influencer or even a fit professional.
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And if they are a true fitness professional, most will say,"Hey, life happens." It happens with them, and they will be transparent about it That is all I have for you today.
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Okay, real talk.
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If you started a workout this week and didn't finish it, I want you to pause before you start beating yourself up on that.
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It's not a loss.
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I want to dig into what it actually looks like to lock in, especially when you're the one holding everything together.
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So grab your coffee, put in your AirPods, and get out for that walk'cause we are gonna dive into all of this.
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Welcome to MilesFromHerView, the podcast powered by KatFit Strength, where busy women like you find practical solutions to fuel your fitness journey with authenticity and resilience.
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I'm Kat, your host, a mom of two active boys, a business owner, and an ultramarathon runner, and a strength trainer in her 40s.
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With nearly two decades of experience, I'm here to help you cut through the noise of fads, hacks, and quick fixes.
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This is a space where we celebrate womanhood and motherhood, all while building strength and resilience and reconnecting with you from a place of self-compassion and worthiness.
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Whether you're lacing up your running shoes to go out for a run, driving your kids to practice, or squeezing in a moment for yourself, I'm right here in the trenches with you.
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Let's dive in.
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Welcome back to MilesFromHerView.
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I am Kat, your host.
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If you are new here, welcome.
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I am so happy that you are joining.
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If you have been a longtime listener, welcome back.
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Today, we're really gonna go into what it means to lock in with working out.
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I work with clients, and I am also in this category where I'm the one that holds the calendar together.
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I am the person who makes sure that everybody else has their needs met in my house, who- that they get to where they need to go, that they are set up for success.
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But then where do you fall in?
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It is often that I hear from women that by the time that they're done typing the work email with one hand and packing the lunches with the other, every single appointment, every practice, and you're the person who shares that information with everyone, and the person who is reminding each person as they walk out the door e- to ensure that they have their practice equipment, their instrument, their...
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anything that they need, you're exhausted by the time it gets to you.
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So the thing about locking in isn't about cramming more into your day.
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It's about deciding you deserve to be on your own list.
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And it's actually making a plan for your own wellbeing instead of hoping you get the time, the energy, the motivation, all of those things.
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Because honestly, no one is gonna give you the time.
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You have to claim it for yourself if you've started a workout, maybe it was this week, maybe in the past, and life pulled you away before you finished, it's not a loss.
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Say it out loud.
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Those workouts were not a loss.
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They are not a loss, and they never will be, because it will not be the first time that life is gonna interrupt you and you're going to leave a workout unfinished.
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I still leave workouts unfinished.
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I have clients that leave workouts unfinished, and we will talk about that more and how to handle that.
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So that is one of the things I hear from women a lot is they want to be able to finish their workouts, and they want...
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They have this vision of themselves that they will get to a point where a workout will never be interrupted.
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They will get to a point where they will always be doing workouts flawlessly.
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We need to change that mindset.
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Instead of grading yourself on that workout that you didn't finish, look at what you did.
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If you got two lifts in before an important work call, a child needed something, you needed to get out the door, you took a walk and then a pop-up meeting happened, so you had to cut that short, it all counts.
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So we need to stop measuring ourself by some perfect standard that doesn't fit your actual life and start celebrating what you managed to show up for.
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And trust me, whenever you tune into social media, it's going to look and you're going to hear people say,"If you can't show up for a full workout, then don't show up at all.
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You're stopping a workout early, you're not committed." You're gonna hear this messaging time and time again.
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But that is preventing you from moving forward.
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You're juggling a million things, and this is your nudge to give yourself a pep talk that you can build the plan, protect your plan, and lock in.
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This is all tied to what we were talking about last week, getting rid of the idea of falling off the track that anytime something comes up, a work travel, a holiday a big project at work kid illnesses, illnesses for yourself, aging parents.
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You just insert anything here that may knock you off or cause you to fall off track, is it's not falling off track.
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And now we are here in the middle of August, and August is not a deadline.
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You may be returning from your vacations, a slower-paced time at work, kids gearing up to going back to school.
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We're bracing ourselves for the busyness because after all, at least I feel this way, when kids get back to school, it's like happy new year.
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September starts and it's January already.
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But August is a hinge month.
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It's a pivot point.
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Let's get into this practical stuff because the'don't think an all or nothing' term sounds nice, but what you do on a random Tuesday when you're tired and the workout just isn't happening, here's the real how-to.
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So we're gonna go into five ways to keep your fitness in your life without letting it take over or become another thing to stress out about.
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So number one, schedule it like it matters, because it does.
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Surely, you may have heard this before, but we're gonna reframe this.
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Put it on your calendar.
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Put it on your schedule We need to stop treating them, whether we acknowledge it or not, that it's just a bonus.
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It's just a what happens when I'm feeling motivated, when I have energy, when I have time.
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Because to be honest, all three of those things are not going to intersect at the same time.
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If they do, you've hit the jackpot.
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Put it on your calendar, just like you would with anything else, for your career, your kids, your home life, everything.
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Put it on and block it out.
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I do understand, and we will cover this, that things come up, and this is where we celebrate those unfinished workouts, getting two reps in, getting two sets in of a exercise, getting two exercises in, walking for two minutes, walking for twenty minutes.
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Okay?
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But you need to start by scheduling it on your calendar and making it a non-negotiable.
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Now, I'm gonna put a little asterisk with that non-negotiable, okay, is we need to frame it out that this is the time that we are working out.
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And again, we're not focused on this all or nothing, at all costs.
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So it's the time dedicated for you to work out.
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So plan around that.
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You plan this for your family, you need to plan this for yourself.
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So the action step here is open up your calendar and block out your sessions for the next week.
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Number two, build a minimum viable workout I've talked about this one before.
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We have to plan the bare minimum.
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That does not mean that you cannot do more than that, but why we plan a minimum viable workout is life is going to happen.
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And this is where this idea of we're raising the floor to meet yourself where you're at.
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Oftentimes we hear,"I hold myself to high standards." You can absolutely do that.
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If you are a person, and this is how I function, I'm an achiever.
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I am someone who likes to push myself.
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I am someone who, to be honest, does not like leaving sets and reps on the table.
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However, when I have been in moments where I forced myself to complete a workout or fit it in at all costs, it comes back to me in a negative way.
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Or I don't do the workout, and I put myself on that one-way ticket to Guiltville and Shameville, and those are not places we want to go to.
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And it then further, using the term, causes me to fall off the track because I'm living in Guilt and Shameville of saying,"If I could've, I would've, and I must not be that dedicated." So having a minimum viable workout is this idea that it's a workout that we know that we can do it in the smallest amount of time, that if our energy is low, if our motivation isn't there, that we can do some exercises and it counts.
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It is planned out.
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So let's go back to point number one.
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You schedule out your time.
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Let's say it's an hour.
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You need to now pick up a child or address a work email or an, a meeting that's gotten planned.
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Something has interrupted or reduced your amount of workout time, and you now have twenty minutes.
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This is where that minimum viable workout comes in.
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This is where that non-negotiable idea of intention of addressing yourself so that your wellbeing is taken care of.
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So the non-negotiable isn't I have to fit it in at all costs.
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It's I'm putting it in on my terms, still putting myself as a priority here.
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So the action step here is for every workout this week, write down the full version and the 15-minute version.
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This is something I do for my clients.
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This is something that in their workouts, the way I program it, they know if they only have time for the first two exercises, it's going to help them maintain and also help them build strength.
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It doesn't mean that's all they have to do and all the e- other exercises don't count.
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What it is it's a strategically written plan that they don't have to think about,"What is my minimum viable workout?" They are responsible for scheduling out the time for the workout.
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They have the authority over their schedules.
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I am the one who puts in a well-written plan that they are able to adapt it to their own terms.
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They can move it on different days.
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They know that,"Okay, if I have to do the minimum viable workout, it is going to help continue to progress me to my goals." Number three, anchor it to something you already do.
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So this one is really important because It's easier to fall into a rhythm with something if we put it towards an action that we're already doing.
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For example, I have clients who work in a home office, and when they open up their office door, they are greeted with the rest of their life.
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And it makes it harder for them to maybe traverse the steps downstairs to the basement where their workout equipment is, or maybe go into another room because in those ten steps, they get all the questions because they are the person, the calendar holder, the know everything, the person that everybody goes to.
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So by the time they address everyone, and even if they have their time scheduled on the calendar, they have your minimal viable workout, it-- all of that gets eaten up because they get deviated from where they're going.
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So what they will do is they will keep their workout equipment in their office and their blocked out time for working out is either maybe on a lunch break, or they go to work a bit earlier or they stay at work later, and they get their workout done in their office.
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And then when they open that door, they've not only, moved their career along, but they've also addressed their wellness and then they can attend to everybody else without feeling like,"I never got into my workout." So your action step is pick one thing you do every day and stack your workout right after it, before it.
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Not I'll fit it in, but it is after this I will do my workout.
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Or maybe it's before.
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Number four, Sunday setup, not Sunday guilt.
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Take ten minutes at the start of every week.
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Look at your calendar.
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Decide where your workouts fit.
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It's not about creating a perfect plan and then beating yourself up when it changes.
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It's about making the week easier.
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So when I work with clients, I want to know the best days for me to schedule workouts.
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They can always move their workouts because life is just organic, it's ever-changing, things happen.
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But I always stress to them I don't want you to plan a workout on one of your busiest days.
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So if you have a day of the week, let's just pick Tuesday.
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Tuesday, there's four different activities that you have going on, or that's your day you work late at work.
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Maybe we're not scheduling a workout on that day.
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Maybe it's mobility.
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Maybe it's a rest day.
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There is no rhyme or reason as to what day you need to work out.
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There's no scientific reasoning that if you don't get a Monday workout in your whole week is spoiled.
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No.
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You need to align it with your week with what makes sense for your schedule.
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I encourage my clients, don't put a workout on one of your busiest days.
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For some, that works for them.
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For others, it doesn't.
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So we want to schedule our workouts that align with our overall schedule.
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The action step, same day, same 10 minutes every week.
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So place your workouts in a realistic spot and time of day that you know you'll be able to show up for number five, consistency is a trend, not a streak.
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So the misconception about consistency is that you're never missing a workout, that you're always showing up, and consistency somehow has evolved into seven days a week, fifty-two weeks of the year.
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That is not what consistency means with your workouts.
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I have some clients where their consistency is one workout a week.
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I have some clients where six workouts a week is their consistency.
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Neither client doing one workout a week or six workouts a week is the supreme.
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That's what works for them and their schedule.
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Yes, based on research and physiological aspects of building strength, I would like clients to be able to do two to three strength training workouts per week.
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However, in particular, this client who's doing one strength workout a week, this is what works for her lifestyle now.
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Because zero strength workouts a week versus one we want to have at least one, and this aligns with her life at this current season.
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Is she capable of doing more?
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Surely, when her season changes.
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So with consistency, and this goes back to understanding your schedule, is maybe your life right now can't handle six workouts.
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Maybe it's three workouts, maybe it's one, maybe it's between one and six.
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Whatever that looks like, that is your consistency.
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Now, going back to this client who's doing one strength training workout a week- She finds herself in some weeks doing two, and other weeks doing one, another week doing three.
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That does not mean she's inconsistent at all.
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Her consistency is different than other people's.
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So we want to avoid shaming ourselves where our minimum viable workout weeks are one.
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There are times where the client who is doing six workouts a week needs to drop down to four.
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That doesn't mean she's ruined her consistency streak because it's not a streak.
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It is following with showing up on your terms, not when you want to, but being disciplined, scheduling out that time, and knowing that this is important, this is a priority.
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So the action step here is at the end of the week, don't ask,"Did I do it all perfectly?" Ask,"Did I move in the right direction most days?" So that's the real measure here is are we moving in the right direction most of the days?
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Because even as someone like myself who is in the business, who has set my life up around working out, not the sole reason why I'm on this earth, but where I am training for ultramarathon distances, there are days where I can't get a run in even if it's scheduled.
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So what I do is adjust, I pivot, or I do a minimum viable workout So nothing here requires more grit or willpower.
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It's just fewer in-the-moment decisions and defining what counts as success.
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Schedule it, build your floor, anchor it, and set it up weekly, and l-look for that trend.
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That's what we wanna do here.
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There's no one-way ticket to Guilt or Shameville if you leave sets and reps on the table.
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Celebrate that you showed up.
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Celebrate that it was a minute, two minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes.
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This is how you build the consistency.
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I've shared before on the podcast when my children were younger, I deemed myself super inconsistent with my workouts because I wasn't working out six days a week.
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Now, I was working out more like the client I have who is doing one workout a week.
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I have now built myself up to where I'm doing anywhere between five to six workouts a week, two to three strength training sessions, and five runs a week, and a cross-training spin workout, and then there's mobility on top of that.
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That does not mean this is the marker of success and the golden rule in what everyone should strive to.
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No, this is what, for me, in my training season for ultramarathons, I'm doing.
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It will change.
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It has shifted and changed where I've reduced running and increased cross-training.
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There's no hard, fast rule that states that you will not see success or build strength if you're not in the gym twenty-four/seven.
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That is not how it works.
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What we are focused on is the actions that are going to help us move in the right direction.
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That's showing up for ourselves and prioritizing our health and well-being and knowing that we are human, and some days life is gonna get lifey, and it will win.
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But that is no reason to purchase a one-way ticket to Guilt or Shameville because you are human, and it is okay to miss a week.
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But what it is not okay is to guilt and shame ourselves or compare ourselves to the curated feed of a fitness influencer or even a fit professional.
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And if they are a true fitness professional, most will say,"Hey, life happens." It happens with them, and they will be transparent about it That is all I have for you today.
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