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?