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

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

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

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

Welcome to More Movement Please, the podcast

where I hope to inspire you to move your body

more. So I have been stuck indoors for a lot

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

kidding. Okay. It has been several days since

I have been to the gym because I am looking at

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

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

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

so much ice on the road. Like I cannot believe

how much. ice there still is on the road and

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

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

working on an article about the fact that I actually

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

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

absolutely freezing but I figured I'd take the

opportunity, if I'm taking a picture of making

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

record a quick episode to share with y 'all.

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

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

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

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

and all that jazz. So basically, I live about

seven minutes from the gym. And unfortunately,

my neighborhood didn't really plow much. And

my tires have been encased in ice for several

days because not only did we get snow, we also

got some rain and all that pooled together, basically

made for a very icy situation. And today, since

I mean, they did they did start like salting

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

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

was refreezing. But instead of it being, you

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

My entire like street is an ice skating rink.

And I know this because whenever I came out here

to try to record this, I was slipping and sliding

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

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

Just because I have not been going to the gym

does not mean I have not been working out. I

have. Every single day I have been working out.

On Sunday, I took a Facebook live class that

Rhonda was teaching on her Facebook page. And

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

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

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

it was rough. Like I remember at one point my

husband was looking over watching me work on

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

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

started cracking up because this is like normal.

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

good stretch class. On Monday, I did a stretch

class again and I took a walking in place class.

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

I thought about it because I have been seeing

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

curious because they'll say things like walk

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

five hundred steps and blah, blah, blah. Like

it's just like all these different things or

walk your ten thousand steps of the day in an

hour long class. So I tried a couple of them

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

I really enjoyed them. It was cool to be able

to get that much movement in. The music was really

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

a link in the show notes to the the walking in

place. classes that I tried because they were

they were actually pretty good. I enjoyed them

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

cardio and toning class. And what's awesome is

these classes were actually taught by my favorite

instructor, Rhonda. She had recorded a bunch

of videos during the pandemic and she still has

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

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

many times on this podcast, Zumba is my absolute

favorite. And so absolutely, I really enjoyed

the fact that these videos were available. On

Wednesday, I did another stretch class and I

did another walk in place class. I really, really

cannot believe how much I enjoyed them. And then

on Thursday, I did a Tabata class online and

then I did another stretch class. And on Friday,

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

cardio and toning and then another stretch class.

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

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

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

all this craziness away. And I'm really looking

forward to being able to get back to the gym

because. Though I have loved the fact that I

can still work out online, there is nothing quite

like the magic of working out with people in

person in the group exercise classes. You guys

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

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

for you today. Onwards and upwards, my friends.

Have you worked out today?