Transcript: Still Moving: The Truth About My One-Year Fitness Anniversary

Sometimes whenever we make plans, it's like God

laughs at us. What's up my movers and shakers?

Famous Asha Grant here. Welcome to More Movement

Please, the podcast where I hope to inspire you

to move your body more. So today I want to talk

about my day 365. challenge that I'm doing for

myself. And I've told you guys before that I

record these episodes in advance. And so, but

this one feels timely and feels like I need to

get this one out first. So if you hear some things

that seem a little bit out of order, if you're,

you know, hearing them and it sounds like I'm

talking about day 30 and now I'm talking about

day 21 or whatever, I just wanted to kind of

explain that's why sometimes the continuity just

isn't going to happen whenever I'm releasing

episodes based on timeliness factor. So just

wanted to give that little, I guess, heads up

so that if you guys hear this and then later

you hear me talking about a different day, that's

why. But the reason I feel like I need to get

this one out immediately is because of something

that I'm currently dealing with and I want to

talk about it. I had given myself a challenge

that as I was leading up to day 365 of maximum

effort of this year milestone of really putting

in the effort and fitness that I wanted to do

365 additional minutes of exercise in addition

to the workouts I'm normally doing leading up

to the one year milestone. is not going to allow

me to do that. I am working out as much as I

can. I am still moving about an hour a day at

the minimum. But I'm having some physical issues.

And I won't get into them because, you know,

even though I said I was going to be transparent,

there's also this lovely thing called TMI. And

I don't want to bombard you guys with too much

information. So, but Reader's Digest version,

I'm having physical issues. And they are making

it very difficult for me to work out as much

as I want to. Now, this is not to say that I'm

not moving. I want to make that very clear. Again,

I'm moving at least an hour a day and sometimes

more I'm trying to get in as many of my normal

workouts as I possibly can. I'm doing Tabata

when I can. whenever we can't go hiking I am

still doing the hiking with my husband we're

still doing our stretch classes as often as we

can Mondays Fridays and Saturdays are still my

Zumba and low impact cardio days but yeah just

physically I'm having some issues and so it's

not that I don't want to celebrate the day 365

I do and I'm trying really hard to get in as

much movement as I can but I just don't think

it's feasible to do the additional 365 minutes

of movement as I had initially planned. However,

that said, on day 365, I'm going to move heaven

and earth to make damn sure that I get all the

classes that I have in my calendar done that

day because I really want to celebrate the fact

that I succeeded in this year of craziness. And

I also want to reiterate something because I

got a message from someone basically saying like,

oh, once you hit your milestone, are you slowing

down? No, that is not the plan. I don't intend

to slow down further than I already have been.

The only way that I will not do as much movement

as I'm doing is if physically I just literally

cannot. That's what's going on is I'm trying

to figure out things with my health, trying to

figure out where I'm at. health wise and and

be safe obviously that is that is my number one

goal is be safe but also continue the movement

because i do feel better when i work out i i

do feel like it's helping with the physical symptoms

that i'm dealing with so i i have no intentions

of of stopping and though i won't be counting

daily anymore probably um i do fully intend to

keep celebrating milestones like i i do I'm very

proud of myself that I've gotten as far as I

have. And I want to do more. And I do still have

some significant weight loss goals and fitness

goals. So that won't stop anytime soon. But yeah,

I just kind of wanted to let you guys know what's

going on with me and why I haven't been talking

so much about the. 10 minutes extra per day that

I was trying to get in as I was leading up to

day 365. I'm not stopping though. I'm going to

keep working. I'm still working on my body and

I still plan on celebrating my milestones as

obnoxiously as possible because I want to keep

building the momentum and having fun and getting

excited about movement because that's important

to me. But just wanted to give you all the heads

up as what's going on. Also, since I'm discussing