Speaker 1: Episode to nine Frugal Fitness Working Out on a Budget.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 1: save money, embrace simplicity, and live with your life. Here
Speaker 1: your host Jen and Jill. Mm hmm. That is Jill
Speaker 1: running towards a new episode of the Frugal Friends podcast.
Speaker 1: My name is Jen, my name is Jill, and we
Speaker 1: are talking about a topic that we are currently in
Speaker 1: the season of our lives very excited about, and that
Speaker 1: is working out, being a witness to the fitness. Fitness
Speaker 1: pizza in my mouth. No, I'm just kidding. Getting fit,
Speaker 1: not getting fit, being fit and living it and enjoying it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the enjoyment part is what has been so amazing for me.
Speaker 1: I've been in and out of various forms of exercise
Speaker 1: and working out, but never found anything that was sustainable
Speaker 1: until now. I have been exercising regularly about four or
Speaker 1: five days a week since Marche, so over a year
Speaker 1: now and so and now I've crossed this threshold of
Speaker 1: not just oh that, it's determination and discipline. I actually
Speaker 1: feel as though I can't go without it. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be harder to knock me off the wagon
Speaker 1: than to keep me going, which feels amazing. Again, never
Speaker 1: thought that I'd be that person. So this episode is
Speaker 1: really exciting to me. And I hope that we can
Speaker 1: do multiple things here today. Encourage those who have not
Speaker 1: yet found what works for them and give some ideas,
Speaker 1: and for those who already are in a rhythm and
Speaker 1: a routine but maybe struggling financially to figure out how
Speaker 1: this fits in, or just encourage you to keep going.
Speaker 1: If you found both things, you're you're doing it, and
Speaker 1: it works with your budget, then we're just here for
Speaker 1: you and you can jam out with us. But those
Speaker 1: are the different things that I'm approaching this episode with. Yes,
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Speaker 1: They both have a similar amount of physical activity, so
Speaker 1: they are opposite to what we will be talking about today.
Speaker 1: Travis does love disc golf, and he is a and
Speaker 1: he even got to the point of we had this
Speaker 1: conversation last night wearing polos because apparently that's one of
Speaker 1: the uniforms you can wear, but Jen hates polos, so
Speaker 1: they might be going mysteriously missing. He can have the disks,
Speaker 1: but he can't have the polos I and that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a I won't even go into it, but that's
Speaker 1: a hundred percent of rule in my house. So today
Speaker 1: we're talking about working out and I have worked, I
Speaker 1: have been. Jill and I work out differently, but we
Speaker 1: both work out quite a bit four to five days
Speaker 1: a week, and we're excited to kind of juxta position.
Speaker 1: I don't know, combine. I don't know. I'm doing this
Speaker 1: thing with my fingers. That's combining. We have. This's the
Speaker 1: same thing, but different approaches, and when we're excited to
Speaker 1: get both sides. Because mine is not what you would
Speaker 1: consider frugal, but because I use it so often, it's
Speaker 1: definitely one of my core values. So wherever you're at,
Speaker 1: you're going to find permission here. Yes, absolutely so. If
Speaker 1: you want another good fitness episode to cube, we have
Speaker 1: not done one of these in almost two hundred episodes.
Speaker 1: Our last one was episode thirty eight, where we talked
Speaker 1: with Amanda Walker from Feel Amazing Naked on Frugal Fitness.
Speaker 1: So head scroll all the way back to thirty eight
Speaker 1: and you will see our last fitness episode. And I
Speaker 1: can't believe we haven't done one that in for how
Speaker 1: much it's a part of our lives is kind of
Speaker 1: in we just kind of keep it separate. We're not
Speaker 1: going to talk about bad aspect over there, right, and
Speaker 1: we do. I I have planned a episode on diet
Speaker 1: culture and what diet culture costs us, especially as women,
Speaker 1: but for men as well, So this will be an
Speaker 1: episode to queue up after that one whenever we do
Speaker 1: record it. But I think it's it's important to separate
Speaker 1: fitness from like losing weight. So that's not what this
Speaker 1: episode is about. It's not about like getting fit or
Speaker 1: getting in shape, but really incorporating fitness into your life.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of This first article is ten ways
Speaker 1: all kinds of exercise can save you money, and that's
Speaker 1: really why we love fitness. We're doing it not to
Speaker 1: not for a certain image, but to be able to
Speaker 1: spend all the money that we save so that we
Speaker 1: live as live as long as possible and spend as
Speaker 1: much money as possible. Yes, So this first article comes
Speaker 1: from vantis Life and it talks about ten ways that
Speaker 1: all kinds of exercise can save us money. And I
Speaker 1: will say that this article is primarily advocating for the
Speaker 1: why behind exercising. So I don't think we need to
Speaker 1: spend a ton of time on here, but I know
Speaker 1: some of us might still be in that phase of
Speaker 1: what I feel okay or I look okay, or I
Speaker 1: don't have time for this. It just hasn't been important
Speaker 1: or a priority. And so this is kind of giving
Speaker 1: a few reasons of here are some things you might
Speaker 1: have not thought about before that could be a motivator
Speaker 1: for getting into a regular rhythm or routine of exercise.
Speaker 1: And I also want to reiterate at the start of this,
Speaker 1: there's some things in this list of ten that are
Speaker 1: just meant to me or we may not even talk
Speaker 1: about because I just we don't have to talk about.
Speaker 1: Also don't even totally agree with all of them. There
Speaker 1: can be a lot of shame wrapped up in exercise
Speaker 1: and fitness and body image and weight and b am
Speaker 1: I and that is not what we're talking about here today. Yes,
Speaker 1: there are some health and medical benefits, but I am
Speaker 1: not going to harp on that because I know that
Speaker 1: there are a ton of medical issues health concerns that
Speaker 1: have nothing to do with whether or not you exercise.
Speaker 1: And you could be as healthy as possible and still
Speaker 1: face medical concerns. So I really want to be so
Speaker 1: careful here and especially for you know, those of you
Speaker 1: listening in. This is not our aim to create shame
Speaker 1: in this conversation, but motivation, freedom, permission to find what
Speaker 1: works for you. Hopefully we can give you some ideas,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot. It was even hard to find
Speaker 1: articles that aren't gonna kind of create a hierarchy around
Speaker 1: what someone's weight is. And so I don't even want
Speaker 1: to go there, just fitness and health, not going to
Speaker 1: talk about how you might be able to get a
Speaker 1: better job because you look better, Like, no, that's not
Speaker 1: no that Yeah, there's some we're not going to talk about.
Speaker 1: What's the first one you will talk about? Chill? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So one that stood out is that by exercising and
Speaker 1: aiming at a lifestyle that is aimed at well being
Speaker 1: could reduce life insurance costs, and I have found for
Speaker 1: me personally, has also reduced health insurance costs as well.
Speaker 1: So being able to inform the life insurance agency or
Speaker 1: health insurance agency that you do exercise regularly and being
Speaker 1: able to give them some some blood pressure and that
Speaker 1: kind of a thing which can be positively associated with
Speaker 1: exercise could be a financial benefit to us as well
Speaker 1: a reason to be able to engage in this regularly.
Speaker 1: One that I like is that you will it says
Speaker 1: you won't need as many prescriptions UM, possibly because we
Speaker 1: have to realize that heart disease, diabetes, and lifestyle related
Speaker 1: illnesses are then are still the number one reason. Like
Speaker 1: there's still top of the reasons that people need prescriptions
Speaker 1: and UM and and pass away. So I think you
Speaker 1: can't prevent a lot of the different things they'll need
Speaker 1: prescriptions for with X size, But there are some things
Speaker 1: that are easily either diminished or helped with a regular
Speaker 1: lifestyle of exercising or just moving your body, so you
Speaker 1: can keep at bay a lot of these lifestyle induced
Speaker 1: illnesses by just moving your body sustainably. The other one
Speaker 1: that I appreciated on this list is that exercising and
Speaker 1: forming a regular routine around fitness can encourage other habits
Speaker 1: that are beneficial to us in other areas of life.
Speaker 1: And I can affirm that even from personal experience, that
Speaker 1: as I work on growth in one area of life,
Speaker 1: I can often see a ripple effect and that works
Speaker 1: both ways. Also with non beneficial decisions that I make.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there can be a vortex that sucks me into
Speaker 1: all right, well, I already did that, so I might
Speaker 1: as well just also make these other decisions that aren't
Speaker 1: the best for me. But it can work in both
Speaker 1: directions too. I have noticed for myself, now that I
Speaker 1: have found a routine of exercise, I'm also finding a
Speaker 1: routine of making smoothies for myself every morning that have
Speaker 1: a ton of amazing nutrients for me. And I'm getting
Speaker 1: outside more, which the sunshine and fresh air and seeing
Speaker 1: nature is good for me. And just so and then
Speaker 1: and then now that I've got a morning routine, then
Speaker 1: I'm having more quiet time. It's just each one can
Speaker 1: play into the other. So when we work on one aspect,
Speaker 1: there can be a domino effect that happens. So that's
Speaker 1: a that's a really important why as we continue to
Speaker 1: improve ourselves we could see even more growth from there.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, it's the same with money too, when you
Speaker 1: start getting hold of your finances and seeing, hey, I
Speaker 1: didn't think I could do this, but I'm proving to myself,
Speaker 1: I can you develop your growth mindset, you refine it,
Speaker 1: and then you start to work on other things and say, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe I can create a routine of fitness and healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1: So it is worth trying new things just for the
Speaker 1: benefit of continuing to grow. So yes, I I love
Speaker 1: that one too. Okay, so I don't like the one
Speaker 1: that says you can make more money at work, Like
Speaker 1: I don't love their reasoning, but I will say that um,
Speaker 1: working out does have beneficial effects for your brain and
Speaker 1: so you are more attentive and so this has really
Speaker 1: been helpful for me as a business owner. When I
Speaker 1: work out in the mornings, then I have sustained energy
Speaker 1: and focus for the day and I can get more
Speaker 1: things done in my business and so I can, you know,
Speaker 1: get more done and hopefully that means make more money
Speaker 1: for my family. But this could also be something that
Speaker 1: is beneficial in your career. If you are feeling fatigued
Speaker 1: at work, then this could be something that can maybe
Speaker 1: aid in in your efficiency getting your stuff done, so
Speaker 1: maybe you can get that promotion or raise that you're
Speaker 1: gunning for. And that ties into the other thing that
Speaker 1: they say on here that exercise and fitness can improve
Speaker 1: mental health, and I will absolutely affirm that as well.
Speaker 1: It is one of the low hanging fruits that we
Speaker 1: can be trying and implementing to our level of ability
Speaker 1: and interest level to move our body. Sometimes with my clients,
Speaker 1: I'll just talk about body movement, because exercise can have
Speaker 1: this connotation to it that just feels so dreadful, almost
Speaker 1: like when we pull out the word budget, like all right, well,
Speaker 1: taking control of your finances or whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, making a plan body movement of some sort.
Speaker 1: When when we exert energy and effort and when we
Speaker 1: get our heart rate up, it often can release the
Speaker 1: good hormones, the endorphins, the cortisol, which is going to
Speaker 1: be really helpful for our brains, especially if we're experiencing
Speaker 1: difficulty in our lives. That was something that I would say.
Speaker 1: I was also a personal experience for me, just going
Speaker 1: through the pandemic and having a hard shift in what
Speaker 1: my lifestyle looked like, not being on the go as much,
Speaker 1: and I realized I was really accustomed to a lot
Speaker 1: of stimulus in my life. I was going, I was standing,
Speaker 1: I was just very active, and suddenly I am working
Speaker 1: a desk job. I am at my computer all day long,
Speaker 1: and I was noticing just ant syeness and not just
Speaker 1: feeling all this pent up energy, which ended up kind
Speaker 1: of coming out as anger and bitterness, and it became
Speaker 1: a non negotiable that I have to pay attention to
Speaker 1: my physical needs and exercise being one of those that.
Speaker 1: It wasn't as if I could just be like, I
Speaker 1: don't feel like I need to exerc I don't want
Speaker 1: to like I had to, and I have noticed phenomenal
Speaker 1: results mentally, physically, emotionally. Again, it has tied into my
Speaker 1: whole personhood. So if anyone else out there can relate.
Speaker 1: If you're at a desk job and you're wondering what
Speaker 1: is going on inside of me, it could be that
Speaker 1: body movement is really going to make the difference for you,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to I will also say this,
Speaker 1: dispel this myth. It doesn't have to mean an hour
Speaker 1: start somewhere. To this day, I still only exercise for
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes, but I'll tell you what it has
Speaker 1: been sustainable. I have not quit for a year and
Speaker 1: a half. Now I only do twenty minutes a day,
Speaker 1: but I feel phenomenal and I'm seeing the results that
Speaker 1: I want to see. So it doesn't have to look
Speaker 1: like what it looks like for everybody out there. You
Speaker 1: can find what is sustainable for you, not these quick
Speaker 1: short bursts of yeah I did that for thirty days, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I tried that for ten days. We are more likely
Speaker 1: to do it if we're able to take it and
Speaker 1: bite sized pieces and build upon it if you want.
Speaker 1: But you don't have to start with the most massive goal.
Speaker 1: And this is such a cultural thing that we just
Speaker 1: think if we're going to do what, we have to
Speaker 1: go all in, we have to do an hour a day,
Speaker 1: five days a week. And it's if you're going from
Speaker 1: zero days a week, you're not going to go. An
Speaker 1: hour a day five days a week is not going
Speaker 1: to be sustainable. An hour a day for three days
Speaker 1: a week is not going to be sustainable. Doing it daily,
Speaker 1: I will tell you, is much Doing it short times
Speaker 1: daily is much more sustainable than saying I'm going to
Speaker 1: work out for an hour two or three days a week.
Speaker 1: Because to create habits, we have to do them daily.
Speaker 1: We have to do them over and over and over,
Speaker 1: and so it is much more If you want to
Speaker 1: work out fifty minutes, it's you're going to stick with
Speaker 1: much more if you work out for ten minutes a day,
Speaker 1: five days a week than one fifty minute. Uh, workout
Speaker 1: once a week. It's just how our brains work. It's
Speaker 1: it's going to be you're going to stick with it longer.
Speaker 1: And it it seems counterintuitive, like it seems like once
Speaker 1: a week is more sustainable than five days a week,
Speaker 1: but it's absolutely untrue. Our brain creates habits based on
Speaker 1: the number of times we do something, not the length
Speaker 1: of time that we're doing it. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the the sustainability portion is really the most important part,
Speaker 1: and that is what's going to really get you the
Speaker 1: money saving benefits of fitness. And and I'll add so
Speaker 1: I do cross fit, which is not a cheap way
Speaker 1: to work out. It is arguably, besides getting a personal
Speaker 1: trainer for every workout, one of the most expensive ways
Speaker 1: to work out. And I have to like, I'm not
Speaker 1: a great fitness person. I'm not. I can't do a
Speaker 1: pull up. I can barely do a push up. My
Speaker 1: body was not made for strength, but it was made
Speaker 1: for making money. It was made for talking about money
Speaker 1: for sure. Um, and so I will try and do
Speaker 1: these things that my body just really isn't made for
Speaker 1: because my pride tells me I should be able to
Speaker 1: do it. And uh, and I really do cross fit
Speaker 1: for the community. I love the community aspect of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking to compete or anything. I just love
Speaker 1: the community. That's a core value of mine. And that's
Speaker 1: why I've been able to stick with this fitness because
Speaker 1: I found a way to tie it into my core values.
Speaker 1: Fitness in itself not a core value of mine, community
Speaker 1: though very core. So I can't do what Jill does
Speaker 1: is work out every morning alone. I'd never I'd never
Speaker 1: sustain it. But I have to say, if I'm doing
Speaker 1: something that's maybe not agreeing with my boddie, like I
Speaker 1: work out to feel good and to extend my life,
Speaker 1: and if I'm doing something that could injure myself, like
Speaker 1: going from zero days a week two cross fit every day,
Speaker 1: like going from zero to a hundred, that can cause injury.
Speaker 1: And so don't don't trick yourself into thinking you have
Speaker 1: to go all in, because that could be get you
Speaker 1: the opposite of results of what we're looking for. We
Speaker 1: are not looking to injure ourselves or to do too much. Um.
Speaker 1: We're looking to do just enough, just just enough, just enough,
Speaker 1: just enough. So let's get into some of the actual
Speaker 1: tips on what fitness exercise could look like. And hopefully
Speaker 1: this will get some brainstorming going for all of you
Speaker 1: on what's going to make sense for you and how
Speaker 1: we can cut costs in this category. So this next
Speaker 1: article comes from Snacking and sna akers love some liberation
Speaker 1: and talk about how to exercise on a budget. They
Speaker 1: give twenty tips, but we're gonna pick our favorite top
Speaker 1: ten tips in here, and of course check out the
Speaker 1: article if you want to see all twenty that they
Speaker 1: list out. And I know number one is your favorite, Jill,
Speaker 1: so number one is my favorite. Sit back, Sit back
Speaker 1: and let Jill just go. So this is what has
Speaker 1: worked for me finding free workout videos online. As Jen
Speaker 1: has already mentioned, I'm not a public exerciser. I don't
Speaker 1: mind if people join me or watch me, but I
Speaker 1: can be self motivated to do this on my own.
Speaker 1: And I really loathe having someone yell at me while
Speaker 1: it's happening, whether you're yelling positive things or oh oh
Speaker 1: it might not. It might be positive things, right, you
Speaker 1: can do it, keep going. You got this ten more reps.
Speaker 1: I don't need that. I don't need you talking to me.
Speaker 1: And it's totally fine. It's so funny. I exercise with
Speaker 1: my one friend Leanna, and she and I have some
Speaker 1: similar personality traits, but she is definitely very fit. And
Speaker 1: we were doing wheelbarrows at one point. We were exercising
Speaker 1: as a group, so outside of my norm but you know,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be with the people that I cared about,
Speaker 1: and she was holding my feet while I climbed up
Speaker 1: the asphalt with my hands, you know, like a wheelbarrow,
Speaker 1: and she's like, okay, you got this jail, You're almost there,
Speaker 1: and I just paused. I knew that I was exerting
Speaker 1: a lot of physical energy just to stop there, but
Speaker 1: I just stopped with my hands on the asphalt it
Speaker 1: didn't keep going, and said I don't need that. Please stop.
Speaker 1: She's like, o hey, I forgot. I forgot. Okay, we're good.
Speaker 1: So so for that reason, working out at home doing
Speaker 1: YouTube videos works for me. I will also say that
Speaker 1: I have had enough exposure to exercise throughout my life
Speaker 1: that I understand proper form and I understand breathing. I can.
Speaker 1: I know that for a lot of people there is
Speaker 1: still that learning process, and so having a coach be
Speaker 1: paying attention to what you're doing, whether or not you
Speaker 1: are in proper form or reminding you to breathe is
Speaker 1: very helpful, very important, very necessary. So that is something
Speaker 1: to consider. If you are a beginner, you you at
Speaker 1: least want to consider the workout videos that are going
Speaker 1: to coach you through it. Hopefully have a mirror in
Speaker 1: front of you, or consider going to a gym at
Speaker 1: least to start out, or have a friend who kind
Speaker 1: of knows what they're doing be able to coach you
Speaker 1: through that, because learning proper form is going to be
Speaker 1: helpful for not injuring yourself and making sure you're doing
Speaker 1: it correctly. But once you've got that down, if you are,
Speaker 1: if what I'm saying is resonating with you, you don't
Speaker 1: want the encouragement, you don't want a ton of people
Speaker 1: watching you, and you understand proper form, then I think
Speaker 1: that's where the free workout videos online can work for
Speaker 1: you and for me to cutting out as many barriers
Speaker 1: as possible. I don't want to have to drive to
Speaker 1: a gym. Eric and I used to have a gym
Speaker 1: membership years ago and it worked for a time. We
Speaker 1: probably did it pretty regularly for two months, but eventually
Speaker 1: something knocked us off. It felt like too much to
Speaker 1: get dressed, get in the car, walk in, figure out
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do, what is our plan while we're there,
Speaker 1: come back shower. It was our evening. Whereas this a
Speaker 1: workout video online the first thing when I wake up,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't take up much of my day. So
Speaker 1: there was that factor too where I didn't want to
Speaker 1: also have to wake up super early. I just wanted
Speaker 1: this to blend into my normal lifestyle, and this is
Speaker 1: what has worked for me. So the article gives a
Speaker 1: few online people that you could follow that they recommend,
Speaker 1: and I've I've heard this from others and I've even
Speaker 1: checked them out myself. So I will affirm Fitness Blender
Speaker 1: can be a great one. Yoga with Adrian people love.
Speaker 1: I will also say yoga is a phenomenal form of exercise,
Speaker 1: particularly for those who are wanting to engage in physical
Speaker 1: fitness for mental health reasons. Yoga has some phenomenal benefits
Speaker 1: in the body movement, stretching, mindfulness space that if that's
Speaker 1: where you're coming at this from, you've got maybe a
Speaker 1: lot of trauma background or depression or various mental health concerns,
Speaker 1: yoga can be a really great place to start and
Speaker 1: have a lot of great benefits. I've got my favorite,
Speaker 1: but I know that this is going to come up
Speaker 1: in the lightning round. So I'm wondering if I just
Speaker 1: save it for the lightning round. Maybe Okay, save it,
Speaker 1: because then it'll keep people listening because I've got a
Speaker 1: lot to say. She does have a lot to say
Speaker 1: on this. I I mean so, and I will say,
Speaker 1: coming from the other end of the spectrum, I hate
Speaker 1: YouTube video workouts. I will put I tried it. I
Speaker 1: even I got a an exercise bike during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: not a peloton. I got one on Facebook market place
Speaker 1: because I was like, I'm not sure if I will
Speaker 1: like this, but I want to try it, and so
Speaker 1: I got one. And I tried one video on YouTube
Speaker 1: that was very highly rated, had a lot of views.
Speaker 1: It was not the YouTube video, it was me. I
Speaker 1: just I don't like working out alone, and so I
Speaker 1: love being yelled at and I love yelling at people
Speaker 1: all of the encouragement. And so the only thing there's
Speaker 1: two things that have really gotten me to stick with
Speaker 1: my fitness routine and make it a routine not just
Speaker 1: a sporadic thing I do. And that's the community is
Speaker 1: number one with CrossFit Number two is number two on
Speaker 1: this list running or walking, and I can even say
Speaker 1: that has to do with the community as well. While
Speaker 1: I do run, I'm getting out of running because it's
Speaker 1: not been kind to my knees and hips. Again, my
Speaker 1: body is not built to move. Uh. So I'm walking though,
Speaker 1: just as great and you can do so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: people really do underestimate the benefits of walking. And we
Speaker 1: actually somebody reached out to us with a podcast. He
Speaker 1: has a podcast on walking, and I will look this
Speaker 1: up the next time Jill is speaking and share it.
Speaker 1: I think it's Walking is Fitness from Dave Paul, and
Speaker 1: he just records every day that he walks. He records
Speaker 1: a ten minute podcast and he walks for ten minutes
Speaker 1: a day and it's had so many health benefits from him.
Speaker 1: So if you want to walk ten minutes a day,
Speaker 1: check out Walking is Fitness by Dave Paul. He did
Speaker 1: not pay us to say that, but so it is free.
Speaker 1: And they do say I saw this really funny reel
Speaker 1: on Instagram which is so true, and they're like pick
Speaker 1: up running. They said it'll be cheap. They said, all
Speaker 1: you need is a pair of shoes. They said and
Speaker 1: then behind him he has like oodles of running stuff
Speaker 1: like shoes and gels and compression socks and shorts and
Speaker 1: and it is funny but that you don't have to
Speaker 1: get all that to start. I also have a friend
Speaker 1: who wanted to get back into running. We used to
Speaker 1: run and half marathons together, and he he got out
Speaker 1: of it, but wanted to get back into it, and
Speaker 1: instead of just going for a run, he bought new clothes,
Speaker 1: new sneakers, new everything. Still has not gotten back into
Speaker 1: the actual habit of running, and so so often we
Speaker 1: will buy all the stuff as a procrastin nation to
Speaker 1: especially work out. I mean, that is really the number
Speaker 1: one thing I see. People will buy all this new
Speaker 1: stuff to work out, and it's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: I was so hesitant. Like at CrossFit, a lot of
Speaker 1: people have their own jump rope or um like back,
Speaker 1: like all of these different things. But the gym does
Speaker 1: provide some you know, all of everything you need, and
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't get I wouldn't even get cross fit shoes.
Speaker 1: I just used running shoes for the longest time and
Speaker 1: used all the gym equipment, and I avoided doing it
Speaker 1: for so long time. Such a long time, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be one of those people that
Speaker 1: buys things to procrastinate doing the work. All that to say,
Speaker 1: running and walking are fantastic ways to exercise. Do not
Speaker 1: require anything but a good pair of sneakers which you
Speaker 1: will spend d hundred fifty bucks on and will last
Speaker 1: you for a few years. And it has great benefits too,
Speaker 1: because usually that means it's getting you outside. So hopefully
Speaker 1: regardless of the weather, we can be prepared to get
Speaker 1: outside and walk. But there's some phenomenal mental and physical
Speaker 1: benefits to being out in nature. Breathing fresh air, seeing trees,
Speaker 1: looking at the horizon line, getting sunshine in our eyes,
Speaker 1: Vitamin D in our bodies. There's just the combination of
Speaker 1: things that can happen when we exercise, not even to
Speaker 1: mention playing sports. That's exercise, and that's also play, which
Speaker 1: also has some phenomenal benefits for bonding with other people.
Speaker 1: It's relational that releases some of those good hormones that
Speaker 1: are fantastic for our brains. When we're able to pair
Speaker 1: exercise with play, there's so many things that we can
Speaker 1: do that hits multiple things. It's like a it's like
Speaker 1: a two for one or a three for one. We
Speaker 1: love a bogo. Yeah, I mean, so I'm an Angiograham three,
Speaker 1: So I and I don't I hate. I don't label
Speaker 1: myself like that. But if you understand, you understand. And
Speaker 1: so I love accomplishing things. Running gives me that accomplishment
Speaker 1: every single time. When I set out to do a
Speaker 1: three mile run and I finish it, I've accomplished something
Speaker 1: for the day, I feel like I've done the day.
Speaker 1: Or when I did a half marathon back in February,
Speaker 1: that was a huge deal to me to complete the
Speaker 1: training for that and complete my first half marathon in
Speaker 1: seven years, like it was a real huge accomplishment for me.
Speaker 1: So if you're somebody like that and you are not
Speaker 1: feeling as many accomplishments out like in your regular life,
Speaker 1: doing something like running, I think is a fantastic way
Speaker 1: to feel those two to fill that core value in yourself.
Speaker 1: Number three on this list, which I also support wholeheartedly,
Speaker 1: especially for those just starting out and try and figure
Speaker 1: out or do I begin, is finding free training plans online.
Speaker 1: This is actually where I began. It was my entree
Speaker 1: way into a regular routine of just finding an infographic,
Speaker 1: there's so many. Whether you look at Instagram or Pinterest
Speaker 1: or just search Google for a thirty day challenge, usually
Speaker 1: it'll give you a rundown of what to do each day,
Speaker 1: and oftentimes it's something that you can do at home.
Speaker 1: Certainly if you do have a gym membership, then it's
Speaker 1: just a template, because just having a gym membership often
Speaker 1: doesn't give us what we need to do once we're
Speaker 1: at the gym, and who knows if we're doing like
Speaker 1: the best things for our body or doing things in
Speaker 1: a rhythm that makes sense, right, So if we're doing
Speaker 1: this regularly, we don't want to be doing the same
Speaker 1: thing every single day. We want to focus on different
Speaker 1: groups of different muscle groups and our body and and
Speaker 1: something that's going to be sustainable. So just knowing where
Speaker 1: to start. A lot of times those info graphics have
Speaker 1: to do with sit ups, push ups and jumping jacks,
Speaker 1: and it's a whole combination that can build on itself.
Speaker 1: But to build that habit, so that was my entry point.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic and I think it's something we can
Speaker 1: implement whether we are working out at home or if
Speaker 1: we're going to a gym. Yes, definitely. So my next
Speaker 1: one is number four. So number four is to explore
Speaker 1: town and city resources. So a lot of cities offer
Speaker 1: like fitness classes or or incentives for their citizens to
Speaker 1: get moving because that reduces costs for the city if
Speaker 1: there if their citizens are healthier, their hospitals are less overrun,
Speaker 1: so they have an actual financial incentive to offer these things.
Speaker 1: And some are some are free, but some costs just
Speaker 1: a little bit of money. I think if you can
Speaker 1: find anything fitness related for under ten dollars ten dollars
Speaker 1: or less, I think, me that's a good deal. And
Speaker 1: I it also meets like my values of like finding
Speaker 1: community and getting out and getting invested in the community.
Speaker 1: So for me that would be worth the money. But
Speaker 1: especially if you don't have a gym membership and you
Speaker 1: choose these you maybe do one or two um like
Speaker 1: a month, then definitely worth it. But so I know
Speaker 1: our city has um free yoga once a month. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, you can find so much yoga in our city.
Speaker 1: There is a free yoga class every day of the
Speaker 1: week from someone. So they say, for example, the city
Speaker 1: of Boston offers a free daily virtual fitness class, or
Speaker 1: it did through APRI that had classes like afro beats
Speaker 1: and strength training and zoomba. I here's the thing about me.
Speaker 1: Did I mentioned my body was not created to move?
Speaker 1: I oh, my gosh, so horrible at zoomba, hate yoga,
Speaker 1: like so many of these things that you have to
Speaker 1: have coordination for I am horrible at and do not enjoy,
Speaker 1: which is why like I'm in I'm in the CrossFit gym,
Speaker 1: just like lifting heavy barbells, because that the only thing
Speaker 1: I am capable of. Um, I'm not even a good runner.
Speaker 1: I'm a very slow runner. I have to run in
Speaker 1: intervals like I have to. I run for a minute
Speaker 1: and a half and then I'll walk for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's how I did My entire half marathon was intervals
Speaker 1: like that, thirteen miles. So like, I'm not created to
Speaker 1: move well. And I think one of the reasons I do,
Speaker 1: and one of the reasons I so enjoy fitness is
Speaker 1: because it gives me something to achieve and overcome and
Speaker 1: feel proud of myself about. Because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things I'm good at, and like you know law of
Speaker 1: diminishing return, and you know you can only like the
Speaker 1: things you're good at once. You achieve something, then that's
Speaker 1: no longer like you know, I guess maybe that's not
Speaker 1: a lot of diminishing returns, but like it's not as happy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't give you as much happiness. So like I
Speaker 1: have to find things. It's always good to find things
Speaker 1: that you're not naturally gifted at, because even small accomplishments
Speaker 1: are like huge to you. And that's what fitnesses for me.
Speaker 1: I'm so bad at it that like every small thing
Speaker 1: that I do is like, yes, I'm so excited. Like
Speaker 1: I climbed a rope yesterday. Like I did a rope
Speaker 1: climb in the workout, which I've done rope climbs before,
Speaker 1: but it was the first time I've done them. I
Speaker 1: did four in a workout. Normally I just do one
Speaker 1: and I'm done, But I did four yesterday. To people
Speaker 1: who are good at fitness, nobody cares. But I'm just
Speaker 1: like I did four rope climbs after ten years of
Speaker 1: cross Well, I think that's why you've got You've got
Speaker 1: personal best and we can celebrate the accomplishments that we
Speaker 1: know are a big deal for us. And there's freedom
Speaker 1: to find what works for you. I would never find
Speaker 1: myself in a cross fit membership or across fit gym,
Speaker 1: or doing what you're doing, and you would never find
Speaker 1: yourself working out at home or doing yoga. So like
Speaker 1: to each their own. So number eight on here related
Speaker 1: to saving money on fitness things correlated to what Jen
Speaker 1: said about sometimes we have this goal in mind or
Speaker 1: this fantasized self, and we just start purchasing the things
Speaker 1: in order to do that. Please try to resist that temptation.
Speaker 1: And when you do need to buy something, Number eight
Speaker 1: shop second hand. You've heard us talk about this before,
Speaker 1: and also for exercise clothing. For me, when I began,
Speaker 1: I wanted to show that I could do it first
Speaker 1: before I wouldn't invest any money into it. Chances are
Speaker 1: you have what you need at home to be able
Speaker 1: to exercise in. It might not be instagram worthy, you
Speaker 1: might not be coordinated in colors, but it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be fancy. We were sweating in it mostly so
Speaker 1: being able to identify what do I already have in
Speaker 1: my closet and then okay, once you've done it for
Speaker 1: a bit and you're realizing I might need to add
Speaker 1: this to my wardrobe if I'm going to be doing
Speaker 1: this regularly. Look at the thrift stores first for what
Speaker 1: it is that you need, or ask friends if they've
Speaker 1: got extra really you you don't need like ten exercise outfits,
Speaker 1: probably two will do it, So be realistic about that.
Speaker 1: But I love that tip shopping secondhand always. Yeah, still
Speaker 1: to this day, after ten years of working out consistently,
Speaker 1: most of my active wearies secondhand. I will get it
Speaker 1: either at goodwill or on threat up. And the only
Speaker 1: things that I buy new are bras and shoes and socks, shoes, socks,
Speaker 1: and bras. But I will wear my socks out until
Speaker 1: they have no elastic left in them. I am actually
Speaker 1: still wearing socks that don't have elastic left in them.
Speaker 1: I just can't wear them when I run. But if
Speaker 1: it's just a weightlifting day, I'll wear them. But yeah
Speaker 1: it is, and I will reiterate it again. Do not
Speaker 1: shop to procrastinate what you are trying to do, because
Speaker 1: that is the biggest thing I see in fitness. People
Speaker 1: will shop. They will buy all the things they need
Speaker 1: and then never use them. So don't buy the things
Speaker 1: you need until you've proven to yourself that you will
Speaker 1: actually do it with what you already have, and then
Speaker 1: you can reward yourself with the you know, with better
Speaker 1: quality things. The one thing I would say is it shoes.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be doing long distance running, you
Speaker 1: do need good shoes because not running in good quality
Speaker 1: shoes will backfire on you. But you don't really need
Speaker 1: to worry about that until you start getting up in mileage. UM.
Speaker 1: The next one is kind of tied into the exploring
Speaker 1: your city resources. Lots of great free city resources like
Speaker 1: trails and stuff, but also browsing Facebook events. That's how
Speaker 1: we find a lot of the running groups that we do.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm looking to get into cycling, so I'm
Speaker 1: browsing Facebook events for cycling, and you can find more
Speaker 1: casual things on Facebook then on things than like meet
Speaker 1: up and meetup dot com and like specific forums. So
Speaker 1: if you're a beginner, I really recommend like Facebook events
Speaker 1: for that because they're more frequent than maybe the city
Speaker 1: would offer and they tend to be more more casual. Um.
Speaker 1: There are some that are like pretty advanced, but they
Speaker 1: don't I tend to find like the more advanced ones
Speaker 1: don't have Facebook events. So yeah, I love Facebook events
Speaker 1: for finding that. Fitness classes, road races, yoga, guided trail walks,
Speaker 1: the even list, so Facebook events for sure nice. I
Speaker 1: also like number nine that talks about engaging in body
Speaker 1: weight exercises. I am a huge supporter of this, especially
Speaker 1: if you're going to be doing at home exercise. You
Speaker 1: are absolutely able to get in shape, experience wellness and
Speaker 1: well being without purchasing all of the things. Your body
Speaker 1: has enough to be able to engage in exercises, even
Speaker 1: at a variety of skill set levels. There are ways
Speaker 1: that you can make body weight exercises more challenging. And
Speaker 1: I love this because I think that it creates longevity, sustainability.
Speaker 1: There's an ease of entry knowing that I don't have
Speaker 1: to go out and get all the clothing, all the gear,
Speaker 1: all the weights, all the exercise stuff. We can exercise,
Speaker 1: and we can exercise long term without ever introducing those
Speaker 1: things into a part of the routine. You absolutely can
Speaker 1: and some people do and they love it, but also
Speaker 1: know that it's it's not even just for beginners to
Speaker 1: be able to do body weight exercise. One of the
Speaker 1: things that appealed to me in this sort of exercise
Speaker 1: is the fact that my life looks different. I travel
Speaker 1: a lot. Obviously, the pandemic squelch that, but it is
Speaker 1: starting in an uptick again, and I needed to find
Speaker 1: something that I could do on the road. I needed
Speaker 1: to find something that I could do regardless of the
Speaker 1: environment that I find myself in. And body weight exercise
Speaker 1: reduces a lot of those barriers where I could find
Speaker 1: myself in a hotel room or someone else's house and
Speaker 1: there are no excuses I can do it because it
Speaker 1: doesn't require me to have dumbbells and jump ropes and
Speaker 1: all sorts of machinery or treadmills. You can use your
Speaker 1: body and get a really good sweat. Yeah, definitely a
Speaker 1: body workouts are my least favorite because they are hard.
Speaker 1: They are definitely going to give you the what you need.
Speaker 1: And So continue on with my trend of finding group
Speaker 1: fitness because that's all that I do so six is
Speaker 1: to find cheap fitness classes on deal sites. So when
Speaker 1: I was in college, I found a city pass for
Speaker 1: like a gym pass on group on that gave you
Speaker 1: like one class at a bunch of different fitness like gyms,
Speaker 1: different types. And I got to try so many different
Speaker 1: types of fitness classes and I found one that I
Speaker 1: really liked. Um and so I kept with that, but
Speaker 1: I didn't waste money trying to get all of these
Speaker 1: trial um like memberships. I didn't waste time with a
Speaker 1: bunch of different week or month long trials, and it
Speaker 1: was really affordable to try all these different fitness things.
Speaker 1: Uh So this group on I think still offers these
Speaker 1: and I think you will be surprised how many different
Speaker 1: things they offer. I know our CrossFit gym, I think
Speaker 1: is on one because I've seen people come in for
Speaker 1: one class and never come back. I don't know, and
Speaker 1: I've talked to them and it was because they had
Speaker 1: this past, not because they didn't like the CrossFit. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a highly recommend it's fun. The last one on
Speaker 1: this list for me is number sixteen. Consider working for
Speaker 1: a free membership. I'm sure you've heard us talk about
Speaker 1: this before, but it's worth highlighting again. Many places will
Speaker 1: offer a volunteer program where if you clean the gym
Speaker 1: for or an hour a week, you get your membership
Speaker 1: for free. A lot of times yoga studios will offer that.
Speaker 1: Of course, you could even take it a step further
Speaker 1: and look for a part time job if you want
Speaker 1: this to be a little bit of a side hustle
Speaker 1: for you at the gym that you enjoy, so you
Speaker 1: could not only get a free membership, but maybe even
Speaker 1: make a few extra bucks. So consider negotiating with the
Speaker 1: place that you're already a part of, or maybe the
Speaker 1: place you want to be a part of. What could
Speaker 1: be done in order to have a discount or a
Speaker 1: free membership if you want to be a part of community,
Speaker 1: but paying the full price just might not be in
Speaker 1: the cards for you at this point. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: this one. You never know until you ask. If you
Speaker 1: are somewhere, everybody is looking for work like UM employees
Speaker 1: right now, everyone's hiring, and so you very well may
Speaker 1: be able to get say like, hey, I'll do this
Speaker 1: one job, you know, for an hour to a week
Speaker 1: for a discounted or free membership, depending on what the
Speaker 1: job is and how much UM the gym membership is.
Speaker 1: You don't know unless you ask, big or small, Jim,
Speaker 1: So take the chance. Don't be embarrassed, just ask if
Speaker 1: ask if it's a possibility. So, yeah, I really like
Speaker 1: that one. I know, we had Mrs Frugal Woods on
Speaker 1: the show, and that's something she did to get her
Speaker 1: yoga membership is that she ran the front desk in
Speaker 1: the evenings to um you know, while everyone was coming in,
Speaker 1: and then she was able to do yoga for free.
Speaker 1: She just would come out come into the class like
Speaker 1: five ten minutes late. My last favorite one on this
Speaker 1: list no one will be surprised is number twenty. Find
Speaker 1: an accountability buddy. So we all know there's strengthen numbers
Speaker 1: and accountability. I mean we know it in finance. It
Speaker 1: is just as important in fitness is to find somebody
Speaker 1: to work out with or to make friends at your
Speaker 1: gym or something. Just accountability relationships. Somebody that's going to
Speaker 1: motivate you to like show up in the morning when
Speaker 1: you don't want to, and that is so val and
Speaker 1: you could be that for somebody else. And you are
Speaker 1: going to motivate somebody to get out of bed in
Speaker 1: the morning when they don't want to. So do not
Speaker 1: choose a friend, I think would be my biggest advice,
Speaker 1: Like a friend that's going to say, hey, let's just
Speaker 1: go get coffee instead and and hang out like that.
Speaker 1: Choose somebody that's like really focused on their fitness and
Speaker 1: really is using you as an accountability buddy as much
Speaker 1: as you are using them. Mutuality and relationship reciprocity. You
Speaker 1: know what else has reciprocity and keeps us motivated that
Speaker 1: I am in a deep relationship with and use to
Speaker 1: my vantage the bill of the week. That's right, it's
Speaker 1: time for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe
Speaker 1: a baby was born and his name is William. Maybe
Speaker 1: you've paid off your mortgage, maybe your car died, and
Speaker 1: you're happy to not have to pay that bill anymore.
Speaker 1: That's bills, Buffalo bills, Bill Clinton, this is the bill
Speaker 1: of the week. Hi, Jen and Jill. This is Carrie
Speaker 1: from Alabama, and my bill of the week is a
Speaker 1: two parter. Last year in my husband and I decided
Speaker 1: to be very aggressive in paying down our mortgage and
Speaker 1: we sent nearly two tho dollars a month extra, a
Speaker 1: lot of money, and that was my favorite bill because
Speaker 1: I love tracking the progress on paying off our mortgage quickly.
Speaker 1: This year, we have some home improvement things that we're
Speaker 1: going to do, so we have stopped those extra payments
Speaker 1: and we are putting all of that money into savings.
Speaker 1: And that is the quote unquote bill that I am
Speaker 1: so excited to see grow uh and see us actually
Speaker 1: enjoy the house that we are so quickly paying off.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all you do, longtime listener, love your show,
Speaker 1: amazing Carry congratulations. That is such an amazing point of
Speaker 1: life and your financial journey to find yourself in where
Speaker 1: you're able to throw extra towards the principal payment on
Speaker 1: your mortgage and see some amazing progress, but then have
Speaker 1: the freedom to shift as your needs and goals shift
Speaker 1: that you can now put that to savings and invest
Speaker 1: more in your home on renovations and just see even
Speaker 1: more value increase on the home that you're living in.
Speaker 1: So excited with you for that double bill and being
Speaker 1: excited to put money in these different places that are
Speaker 1: going to benefit you long term, and you can enjoy
Speaker 1: the renovations longer by focusing a little bit upfront and
Speaker 1: paying down your mortgage but not waiting until you've paid
Speaker 1: it all off entirely. You actually get to enjoy these
Speaker 1: renovations for a longer period of time and while still
Speaker 1: feeling really good about the progress you're making on your mortgage.
Speaker 1: So kudos to you. Carry Yes, And if you all listening,
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Speaker 1: time for living round, Bob, all right, So for our
Speaker 1: lightning round, we are going to get more in depth
Speaker 1: about our favorite inexpensive way to stay consistent with fitness,
Speaker 1: to to stay moving our bodies. And Jill has been
Speaker 1: waiting for this one the whole fifty minutes that we've
Speaker 1: been here, So let it go, girl. This is a
Speaker 1: classic save the best for last. Anyone who has visited
Speaker 1: me in Florida or who knows me, knows about my
Speaker 1: girl Pam, and that is how I refer to her.
Speaker 1: She is my girl Pam. She is my YouTube go
Speaker 1: to and she's very very popular, so many of you
Speaker 1: probably do know her, but I do feel as though
Speaker 1: I discovered her victual YouTube channel. Her name is Pamela Reef,
Speaker 1: so you can discover her on YouTube by typing in
Speaker 1: Pamela Reef ri i F. But she also has an
Speaker 1: app that is just called Pam p Am Pamma. She's
Speaker 1: my girl Pam, and she is a beautiful German woman
Speaker 1: who is practically a robot. She definitely looks like she
Speaker 1: never breathes, and she does wear makeup when she exercises,
Speaker 1: so some of you might look her up and think,
Speaker 1: why do you like her so much? She fake? And
Speaker 1: I like her because I think she's the cutest and
Speaker 1: she doesn't talk to me all, which is some of
Speaker 1: the which is some of the critique that she gets
Speaker 1: that she's not really coaching you. It's music. You can
Speaker 1: watch her. She's got the timer up in the top
Speaker 1: and also the name of the exercise that you're doing,
Speaker 1: so you can know what's coming up next. You can
Speaker 1: watch what she's doing at each exercise and emulate that.
Speaker 1: So again you do have to have an understanding of
Speaker 1: breathing while you exercise and good form. I feel like
Speaker 1: I have that. So my girl Pam is amazing and
Speaker 1: I get Pam handled most mornings and she's been fant
Speaker 1: hand Yes, Pam handled and it. It has created sustainability
Speaker 1: for me. Her videos are mostly ten minute videos. Of
Speaker 1: course they're meant to be paired with other videos. Although
Speaker 1: I began with just doing the ten minute videos, now
Speaker 1: I'm in a rhythm of usually doing two videos. She's
Speaker 1: got an app where you can choose what what you
Speaker 1: want to focus on, whether you want a thirty minute exercise,
Speaker 1: or you want to focus on your your ab strength
Speaker 1: or your booty strength or whatever it is, your cardio.
Speaker 1: Then she gives you a plan what to do on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 1: And that's what I need now that I'm doing it regularly.
Speaker 1: I couldn't just do arms every single day. That's not wise.
Speaker 1: So learning how to focus on different muscle groups of
Speaker 1: my body, and she just gives you the plan and
Speaker 1: aspects of her app are free. She's not paying me.
Speaker 1: I just am obsessed with my girl, Pam. And I've
Speaker 1: also loved it because if you're in our membership group.
Speaker 1: I actually put this out to the group because I
Speaker 1: was struggling with hosting people so often interrupting my exercise routine,
Speaker 1: and I would do really well when I didn't have
Speaker 1: people in town, but whenever people came in town, I
Speaker 1: would also often push it to the side and received
Speaker 1: a lot of encouragement of just tell your guests this
Speaker 1: is what's happening. They're welcome to join you. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't take me that long, so keep up with it
Speaker 1: and I've done that, and what I found is many
Speaker 1: of my guests don't care and they'll sleep in or
Speaker 1: they'll join me, which has also been so fun to
Speaker 1: introduce other people to my girl PAMs. Some have caught
Speaker 1: the bug and they are now watching her and exercising
Speaker 1: with her and realizing, oh, this feels so attainable. You
Speaker 1: get a good exercise and you work up an amazing sweat,
Speaker 1: even just minutes will do it. And she's so cute
Speaker 1: to watch, and when she does talk to you, it's
Speaker 1: also so fun. She's so kind and she's been fantastic
Speaker 1: for me. So thank you Pam for doing what you've done.
Speaker 1: And when it's not Pam, it's play for me. Pickle ball, kayaking, biking,
Speaker 1: whenever I'm able to get outdoors move my body. Living
Speaker 1: in Florida has been fantastic for that because we are
Speaker 1: able to get outside practically year round, and it's something
Speaker 1: that I can enjoy doing with my husband and other
Speaker 1: people that we host. So whatever I can collect that
Speaker 1: just feels enjoyable and attainable and sustainable. All the able bowles,
Speaker 1: that's that's what's for me. Yes, and I have heard
Speaker 1: a lot about Pam. So this is Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: never tried PAM, but Jill, Jill is convinced we should
Speaker 1: get an app because she loves Pam's apps so much.
Speaker 1: And I just want to be PAMs like ten years
Speaker 1: younger than me. And I'll never attain to PAM status,
Speaker 1: but I mean I'll watch her and I'll try and
Speaker 1: emulate her. Yeah, well you look great girl. Thanks. Pam's
Speaker 1: doing it for you, she is doing it for me.
Speaker 1: It's really amazing. I've been like so many people have
Speaker 1: commented like your tone. I'm like, yeah, it's body weight,
Speaker 1: that's it, and ten to twenty minutes a day and
Speaker 1: that's it. Like that's it. It works. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean like your body looks great because your body has
Speaker 1: always looked great. You you look great, like your your
Speaker 1: face and your energy when we record in the morning,
Speaker 1: like after you've been pamhandled, you are ready to go.
Speaker 1: So that's what I That's what I mean when I say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I will say it's had a lot of benefits. Certainly,
Speaker 1: feel like seeing a physical tone to my body is honestly,
Speaker 1: like reason number five I keep going. I've had a
Speaker 1: lot of back pain throughout my life. I fell off
Speaker 1: a swing when I was sixteen and like messed up
Speaker 1: my elbowe and ever since then have had a lot
Speaker 1: of back pain. And I was always told by chiropractors,
Speaker 1: if you keep your core strong, you're gonna have less
Speaker 1: back pain, and that is true for me. So I
Speaker 1: have decreased pain. I'm sleeping better, my energy levels are better,
Speaker 1: my work day feels better, I feel better about myself.
Speaker 1: I'm not as restless, I'm not as anxious, I'm not
Speaker 1: as antsy. And it has only been ten to twenty
Speaker 1: minutes a day that I'm doing this, And so the
Speaker 1: last reason on that list is oh man, and then
Speaker 1: I get to see physical improvements as well. But for
Speaker 1: all the other reasons, I'm sticking with it. I am really,
Speaker 1: really amazed at what just a few minutes with consistency
Speaker 1: has done for me. I will scream it from the
Speaker 1: rooftop and thank you Pam for helping me find something
Speaker 1: that works for me. Nothing else has worked up until
Speaker 1: this point. I could say the same about cross fit,
Speaker 1: that this is inexpensive ways to stay in shape, so
Speaker 1: I will revert to running. It has been through the years.
Speaker 1: It's how I started with my consistent fitness journey. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's what kind of keeps me centered um And
Speaker 1: while I am moving on out of it because my
Speaker 1: knees and my hips don't take as well anymore, it
Speaker 1: is what got me started. It's the most efficient way
Speaker 1: I found to get my rings closed on my Apple
Speaker 1: Watch because it achievement focused. But I started with Couch
Speaker 1: to five K free free podcast. I don't even know
Speaker 1: when I started. If it was a podcast, I think
Speaker 1: I might have had to download it, um, But it
Speaker 1: is free couch to five K, and I used when
Speaker 1: I downloaded it, you couldn't have I think it's an
Speaker 1: app now where you can play your own music and
Speaker 1: they'll do the and you just have their sound over it.
Speaker 1: When I listened to it, it was his voice and
Speaker 1: you were listening to like very weird techno future touristic
Speaker 1: music while you ran. So I think we have evolved.
Speaker 1: But couch to five K is how I got started running.
Speaker 1: And I still do intervals. So I run for a
Speaker 1: minute and a half and I walked for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: That's how I do it. I'm not one of these
Speaker 1: go out and run six miles straight people, but it
Speaker 1: is my favorite inexpensive way to stay in shape. It's
Speaker 1: what I did during quarantine. I got back into more running,
Speaker 1: and it's why I signed up for the half marathon,
Speaker 1: which was not cheap, it was not inexpensive, but it
Speaker 1: was this huge accomplishment for me that was worth every penny.
Speaker 1: And you don't have to do these races in order
Speaker 1: to run or to feel the accomplishment. Every time I
Speaker 1: get out there and I say I'm gonna run three miles,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run four miles, and when I do it,
Speaker 1: I feel that accomplishment and it is so so great.
Speaker 1: Um so yeah, I would say it's start with walking.
Speaker 1: Even start with walking ten minutes in the morning. You
Speaker 1: just have to get up twenty minutes early, five minutes
Speaker 1: to throw your clothes on, not even that if you
Speaker 1: sleep in your workout clothes, five minutes to put your
Speaker 1: shoes on, walk for ten minutes and come in and
Speaker 1: then get ready for your day. Like that's all it takes.
Speaker 1: In short. It doesn't have to cost you money, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to look like everybody else. Thanks so
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Speaker 1: Eric Syrianni Oh Jen. Do you get yelled at at CrossFit?
Speaker 1: Do they do? They yell at you? Yeah? It's all
Speaker 1: encouragement though, and I do it to other people as well,
Speaker 1: and I love it. I absolutely love it. I love
Speaker 1: being yelled at. What kinds of things do you yell? Um?
Speaker 1: I'm like, you got this girl, great job, crush it
Speaker 1: finished strong? Love that like, yeah, I love I love
Speaker 1: that you do that and love it. So one time
Speaker 1: in college I was so many of you know, I
Speaker 1: got married my senior year of college. To be fair,
Speaker 1: I was a little bit older of a college student
Speaker 1: because I took some time off in my undergrad journey
Speaker 1: but still young, still still married young, so I was married, commuting,
Speaker 1: just trying to wrap up my degree so I could
Speaker 1: move on with my life. And because I had transferred
Speaker 1: universities so many times in my college journey, I had
Speaker 1: to take a fitness course that was one of and
Speaker 1: I had already taken a fitness course my my freshman
Speaker 1: year at the university I began in, but where I
Speaker 1: wrapped up my college education, they still required another just
Speaker 1: exercise course, which is laughable, but thank you liberal arts schools.
Speaker 1: And I chose a running course because it seemed like
Speaker 1: the most low hanging fruit, the least amount of like
Speaker 1: an effort involved, but did have to run. Most people
Speaker 1: did this course whatever they chose their freshman year, so
Speaker 1: it was mostly eighteen year olds. I was twenty three
Speaker 1: at the time, which not a huge age gap, but
Speaker 1: at the time it felt big to me because also
Speaker 1: I was like a full grown, married adult just trying
Speaker 1: to check this off the list. And the professor, which
Speaker 1: I also use that term loosely, uh, because all he
Speaker 1: did was like walk out from the gym and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta run, uh meet you back here. You do
Speaker 1: have to check in. You can't just go to your
Speaker 1: dorm room and and that's it. You got to come back.
Speaker 1: And he had a t a like a teacher's assistant,
Speaker 1: who took it upon himself to treat this course like
Speaker 1: a boot camp. I was just there for the credit.
Speaker 1: Did not need boot camp, did not need yelling, did
Speaker 1: not need anything but the bare minimum to get the
Speaker 1: college credit for this so I could be a social worker.
Speaker 1: So we start running, and he takes it upon himself
Speaker 1: to be running behind me, saying, pick up the pace faster,
Speaker 1: you can do it. I mean it was both encouragement
Speaker 1: but also yelling and like telling me what to do.
Speaker 1: I stopped dead in my tracks. Similar to my story
Speaker 1: with me and Yanna. This doesn't go well for anyone
Speaker 1: who tries to do this to me. I said, this
Speaker 1: is not gonna work for me. It's not going to
Speaker 1: go this way. You can yell at other people. I'm
Speaker 1: just here for credit. You do not need to be
Speaker 1: telling me to pick up the pace or to keep going,
Speaker 1: or that I got this polase go after someone else.
Speaker 1: I'm not your girl. He was so scared of me. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had never received that response in his life. And
Speaker 1: he did leave me alone. After that, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: just want to run by myself. I'm gonna do my thing.
Speaker 1: I will, I will accomplish the amount of distance that
Speaker 1: I need to accomplish. I will return to the quote
Speaker 1: unquote classroom, the gym, to the quote unquote professor. But
Speaker 1: you're not going to be yelling at me. And that's
Speaker 1: size story. I'm so sorry that happened to you. It's
Speaker 1: always the assistant that takes it upon themselves to create
Speaker 1: an atmosphere of restriction and oppression. Yeah, like it was.
Speaker 1: It was super like power hungry about it too. It
Speaker 1: felt it felt harass e, Like, no, you're not going
Speaker 1: to be running behind me, watching me, yelling at me
Speaker 1: to pick up the pace and lift my feet, do
Speaker 1: this and that, Like, no, that's not what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Go out there, some freshman. I'm sorry that happened to you,
Speaker 1: and I will never yell at you ever, Just never will.
Speaker 1: I can respond to encouragement in other areas of life,
Speaker 1: but obviously you can tell like what my pet Peeve is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a fine human being. We just
Speaker 1: weren't going to engage in that particular way. He was
Speaker 1: just not going to do that. You know, you train
Speaker 1: people how to treat you, and that day he received
Speaker 1: his own training. There you go, mm hmm