1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Dwell impossibility instead of fear, and you just might catch 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:23,440 Speaker 1: a necessary glimpse of your own potential. Hey, Hurdler's Emily 3 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: and Badi here bringing you another installment of Hurdle Moment 4 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: from Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where I sit down 5 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: wins to how they've gotten through some of life's toughest moments. 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: On the show, you can expect vulnerability, motivation, and candid 8 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: discussions with everyone from top athletes to aspiring entrepreneurs on 9 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 1: what it really takes to follow your passions. My mission 10 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: is simple to inspire you to be your best self, 11 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: move with intention, and have some fun along the way. 12 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: Let me tell you I have been having a whole 13 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: lot of fun this week because, man, the feedback from 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: Monday's Day's episode takes me over the moon. Not to 15 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 1: mention that this week Hurdle celebrated a massive, massive milestone 16 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: which wouldn't have been possible without each and every single 17 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: one of you, and that is one million lessens. 18 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: If I had an applause machine, I would be using 19 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 2: that right now. 20 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: Anyway, this week, I am here to give you the 21 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: pep talk that maybe you've been looking for I have 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: recorded about being on the injured list before, but I 23 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: feel like, more than ever, so many of you are 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:44,119 Speaker 1: reaching out to me asking about how to cope when 25 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: you're not feeling one hundred percent, And today I've got 26 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: a pep talk for you. It makes sense, really, if 27 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: you think about it. You know that so many people 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: are so worried about being injured right now, maybe more 29 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: so than usual. You see before, when they didn't involve 30 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: social distancing or masks in public, or twenty four hours 31 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: spent within a five hundred square foot box. 32 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just speaking from. 33 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: Personal experience, it was perhaps a little bit easier to 34 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: find ways to cope with injury. Not that it didn't 35 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: make the injury itself suck less, but when you're able 36 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: to go out with friends for dinner, or leisurely make 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: your way home from the office, stopping in stores as detours, 38 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 1: or anything that just didn't have you sitting around the 39 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: house for hours on end with your thoughts, those things 40 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: all made it seem less overwhelming. But here we are 41 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: looking everywhere and anywhere for ways to deal with that 42 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:45,639 Speaker 1: anxious feeling, that's stuck feeling, and for so many of us, 43 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: that outlet is often activity, and when you're injured, well 44 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: it's tough. 45 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 2: Trust me. I know. 46 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: As I mentioned in last week's Five Minute Friday, I 47 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: am dealing personally with some unknown stuff in my. 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 2: Left tip region. I don't know exactly what is causing 49 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 2: me this pain. 50 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: It could be something like a versiitis or perhaps something 51 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 1: with my SI joint, which sounds fancy, but I do 52 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: know this. I am not running right now, and again, 53 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: when running is your coping mechanism for all things that 54 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable or hard, it is hard to figure out 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: how to better handle uncomfortable and hard things. You know, 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: we can draw a lot of comparisons between physical injury 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: and emotional wounds. Right physical and emotional pain, they hurt 58 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: in different ways, and many of us are for sure 59 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: experiencing one of those at least right now. Both prevent 60 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: us from going about as we once did, and oftentimes 61 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: they leave us wanting more, and of course both can 62 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: also have us changing our workout habits. I know I 63 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: have gone through some tough stuff in my personal life 64 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: that has made it hard to get out of this, 65 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: just like these days, waking up naturally at six point 66 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: fifty two and asking myself, if I'm not running, what's 67 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 1: the rush to go anywhere? But here's the thing, there's hope, 68 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 1: and today I am here to do you a solid 69 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:21,600 Speaker 1: I am here to be your hype man, your hype willman. 70 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes a little bit of motivation can help you turn 71 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: the corner, you know, And I may not have all 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 1: of the answers you're looking for, but I can encourage 73 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: you to find them and brace change and show up 74 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:37,920 Speaker 1: again as always. 75 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 2: Hit me up on social media. 76 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: It's at Hurdle Podcasts at Emily a Body on Instagram, 77 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook. 78 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: If you have a Hurdle moment of your own to share. 79 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: If this one really hits home, I'd love to hear 80 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: from you. Shoot me an email over at Emily at 81 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: hurdle dot us. And as soon as you are done 82 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 1: listening to this, if you haven't done so already, I 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: would be elated if you'd head on over to the 84 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: iTunes store, rate and review the podcast and make sure 85 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,280 Speaker 1: that you're subscribed. 86 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,040 Speaker 2: With that, let's get to heartline. 87 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: There are things we're gonna go through and they're not 88 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 1: gonna be easy. This injury, it's one of those things 89 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: like a bad first kiss or missing your subway stop. 90 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: It's anything but desirable. First and foremost, I'm gonna let 91 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: you in on something that maybe you've forgotten in all 92 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: of this chaos. You have a lot to offer beyond 93 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,679 Speaker 1: the thing that your injury is preventing you in doing. 94 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: I know, I know some days it doesn't feel like that. 95 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:01,039 Speaker 1: And let me tell you the things I would do 96 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: to tackle track repeats in this very moment, to sprint 97 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: all out and be totally breathless. But for just a second, 98 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: think about all the great things you bring to the table. 99 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: I'm sure you got a great smile, a warm heart, compassion, 100 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: and hey, perhaps a great sense of humor. If you 101 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: close your eyes in this very moment and pretend that 102 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: nothing is quote unquote wrong with your body, all of 103 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 1: those things, those positive attributes that make you, they're still there. 104 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 2: So let's start with remembering that. 105 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: I'm also gonna remind you, even though you may not 106 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: want to hear it, there is a reason that setbacks happen. 107 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,599 Speaker 1: Oftentimes we want to place blame, complain, We might not 108 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: choose to see the bright side. But for just a moment, 109 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: what if I reframed this particular injury as an opportunit tunity. 110 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: What if perhaps slowing down was something that your body 111 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: has been wanting for quite some time. As I record 112 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: this in the age of coronavirus, there's a lot of 113 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,119 Speaker 1: science that's coming out about how right now, the last 114 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: thing our bodies really need is loads of extra strain. 115 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: Right now, we just need to do the things that 116 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: make us feel good, not the things that have us 117 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: headed back to bed because we are so sore we 118 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: can't move a single centimeter. 119 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: So back to opportunity. 120 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,640 Speaker 1: When you are not focused on the thing that you'd 121 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: be doing if everything was quote unquote fine, what other 122 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: things can you take on now that you're not giving 123 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: your time elsewhere? Forget the injury for a moment, the setback, 124 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: think about what else it is? What else do you 125 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: want to do? Perhaps there's been something that you've been 126 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: avoiding that you need to do. If I had to 127 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:03,720 Speaker 1: estimate on average perk, I'd spend about seven hours running 128 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: seven hours That is almost an entire work day. Please, 129 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: who am I giving? Some days I do not even 130 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: work for seven hours. Okay, So if you decide that 131 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: you want to spend your time equivalent still moving, which 132 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: I'm not personally. You can ask yourself, what is it 133 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: that I can do that makes me better with this time? 134 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: For me, that's stability work, single like deadlifts and glop 135 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 1: bridges and core work and planks. It's so many of 136 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: the things that feel otherwise tedious, but right now I 137 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 1: know that they are a lifeline. But let's for a 138 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: second think beyond movement. Not that I'm saying that your 139 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 1: injury should stop you from moving all together. There is 140 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: always some way to move, even if it isn't the 141 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 1: way that you used to. 142 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 2: But what if you. 143 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: Took all of that time and started that thing you know, 144 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: you know exactly the thing that I'm talking about, the 145 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: thing that you've been thinking about forever, the. 146 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: Thing that you kept making excuses for. 147 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: What if now this injury it's happening to give you 148 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: the push that you need to show up for yourself again. 149 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: I know you might not want to hear it, but 150 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: I am here to tell it to you anyway. 151 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 2: You are great, You are capable. I know it's frustrating. 152 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 1: I've been there so many times that I am there 153 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 1: right now, But you have conquered so many hurdles before this, 154 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 1: and you will conquer this. You just have to start 155 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: by believing that you can. Thinking positive instead of negative, 156 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: being optimistic instead of hopeless. Hope is a beautiful thing 157 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 1: and once you choose it, the sky is the limit. 158 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: I hope for you is that you embrace the now, 159 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,079 Speaker 1: embrace this injury and learn from it. Open yourself up 160 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: to the possibility that you can be better. You will 161 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: be better. You are bigger than this. You are bigger 162 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: than this. Dwell in possibility instead of fear, and you 163 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 1: just might catch a necessary glimpse of your own potential. 164 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: Keep your chin up and as always, I am here 165 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: for you. This hurdle, the next hurdle, and all the 166 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: hurdles to come at Hurdle Podcast at Emily Abadi Another 167 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: hurdle soon to be conquered. 168 00:10:46,840 --> 00:11:00,079 Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time. He