Episode 34Jan 30, 2026· 5:17

Snowed In for a Week - How I Kept My Workout Streak Alive Without Leaving Home

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Black ice on the roads doesn't have to mean the end of your fitness routine. After being stuck at home for several days, Ashley Grant shares exactly how she maintained her daily workout habit using free online classes, from Zumba and Tabata to the surprisingly addictive walking-in-place videos taking over her YouTube feed. In this episode, recorded from her freezing car in 18-degree weather, Ashley breaks down her…

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Full transcript

00:00

Even when you're sewed in, even when you can't

00:02

get to the gym, you got to keep working out.

00:10

What's up you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here.

00:11

Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast

00:13

where I hope to inspire you to move your body

00:15

more. So I have been stuck indoors for a lot

00:21

of days now. It's been 47 years. No, I'm just

00:24

kidding. Okay. It has been several days since

00:26

I have been to the gym because I am looking at

00:29

black ice on my road. I am looking at not just

00:32

black ice, but where there's not black ice, there's

00:34

like a thin layer of, well, just ice. There's

00:38

so much ice on the road. Like I cannot believe

00:40

how much. ice there still is on the road and

00:45

I'm in my car right now and I'm absolutely freezing

00:47

I was taking a picture of my podcast setup I'm

00:51

working on an article about the fact that I actually

00:53

started this podcast from my car and so I'm sitting

00:57

in the car and it's 18 degrees outside and I'm

00:59

absolutely freezing but I figured I'd take the

01:02

opportunity, if I'm taking a picture of making

01:04

a podcast from my car, I'd also go ahead and

01:06

record a quick episode to share with y 'all.

01:08

And that's what I'm doing now. So yeah, that's

01:11

kind of what I wanted to do. I wanted to share

01:13

what I've been doing to keep working out, even

01:16

though I have been at home and what's been happening

01:19

and all that jazz. So basically, I live about

01:23

seven minutes from the gym. And unfortunately,

01:26

my neighborhood didn't really plow much. And

01:31

my tires have been encased in ice for several

01:34

days because not only did we get snow, we also

01:37

got some rain and all that pooled together, basically

01:41

made for a very icy situation. And today, since

01:46

I mean, they did they did start like salting

01:48

the area and all that jazz. But what's funny

01:50

is as the. The stuff was starting to melt. It

01:54

was refreezing. But instead of it being, you

01:56

know, snow, it's now it's an ice skating rink.

01:59

My entire like street is an ice skating rink.

02:03

And I know this because whenever I came out here

02:05

to try to record this, I was slipping and sliding

02:08

all over the place. But anyway, I digress. So

02:11

here's what's going on in terms of working out.

02:14

Just because I have not been going to the gym

02:15

does not mean I have not been working out. I

02:17

have. Every single day I have been working out.

02:21

On Sunday, I took a Facebook live class that

02:24

Rhonda was teaching on her Facebook page. And

02:27

it was like a variety class. And it was a lot

02:30

of fun. It was a lot of it was a lot of spicy

02:32

fun in the sense that it was it was hard. Like

02:34

it was rough. Like I remember at one point my

02:36

husband was looking over watching me work on

02:38

it. And he goes, I don't think I could do any

02:40

of those moves that you're doing. And I just

02:41

started cracking up because this is like normal.

02:44

But anyway, so I did that and then I did a really

02:47

good stretch class. On Monday, I did a stretch

02:50

class again and I took a walking in place class.

02:54

I took it to kind of test it out and see what

02:56

I thought about it because I have been seeing

02:58

them pop up in my YouTube feed. And I've been

03:01

curious because they'll say things like walk

03:03

a mile in eight minutes or, you know, get twenty

03:06

five hundred steps and blah, blah, blah. Like

03:08

it's just like all these different things or

03:10

walk your ten thousand steps of the day in an

03:13

hour long class. So I tried a couple of them

03:15

and I got to say, I was actually pretty surprised.

03:17

I really enjoyed them. It was cool to be able

03:21

to get that much movement in. The music was really

03:23

great and I really enjoyed them. So I'll leave

03:26

a link in the show notes to the the walking in

03:29

place. classes that I tried because they were

03:31

they were actually pretty good. I enjoyed them

03:33

a lot. On Tuesday, I did a Zumba and low impact

03:36

cardio and toning class. And what's awesome is

03:38

these classes were actually taught by my favorite

03:41

instructor, Rhonda. She had recorded a bunch

03:43

of videos during the pandemic and she still has

03:45

them up. And I have been using them a lot because.

03:50

I mean, Zumba, y 'all know, I've said this so

03:52

many times on this podcast, Zumba is my absolute

03:54

favorite. And so absolutely, I really enjoyed

03:57

the fact that these videos were available. On

04:00

Wednesday, I did another stretch class and I

04:02

did another walk in place class. I really, really

04:05

cannot believe how much I enjoyed them. And then

04:07

on Thursday, I did a Tabata class online and

04:10

then I did another stretch class. And on Friday,

04:12

which is today, I did a Zumba class, a low impact

04:15

cardio and toning and then another stretch class.

04:18

Next week, it's still looking like it's going

04:19

to be kind of snowy. And supposedly we're going

04:22

to get some rain next week that's going to wash

04:24

all this craziness away. And I'm really looking

04:26

forward to being able to get back to the gym

04:27

because. Though I have loved the fact that I

04:30

can still work out online, there is nothing quite

04:32

like the magic of working out with people in

04:35

person in the group exercise classes. You guys

04:38

know how much I talk about it all the time, how

04:40

obsessed I am with it. So that's all I've got

04:42

for you today. Onwards and upwards, my friends.

04:44

Have you worked out today?

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