Transcript: Stop Skipping Workouts When You're Running Late: Why Showing Up Matters Most

What's up you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here

and welcome to More Movement Please. I don't

know about you guys, but I'm still riding the

high from last week's amazing interview series

that went live from Rhonda Good, my fabulous

instructor. If you haven't heard the series,

I highly, highly, highly recommend you check

it out. I'll leave some links in the show notes

to the three -part series. It was so good. It

was raw. It was real. It was vulnerable. And

it's what everybody needs to hear if they're

considering starting their workout journey. And

so I highly recommend that if you haven't heard

that yet, you go check it out. But today what

I want to talk about is running late. And the

funny thing is, today I'm actually on time. Not

just on time, but I'm early. Today I woke up

early. I woke up... ready and raring to go. And

because of that, I'm getting to the gym a full

12 minutes early. There have been days though,

especially lately where I've been getting to

the gym five, 10 minutes late. And I used to

allow that to be an excuse to not go to the gym.

And I know that's one of those things where when

you feel like you're running late and you feel

like you're going to walk into a class that's

optional. you don't want to walk in. You just

feel like, okay, well, this was just a sign or

a reason that I shouldn't be going into the gym

because you don't want to be that person that

walks in late. If you listened to any of my previous

episodes, you already know what I'm going to

say. You should go anyway. If you are serious

about working out, go anyway. Because every time

you give your brain excuses to do something different,

you're training your brain that it's okay. So

those days that I'm running late, if I allow

myself to just stay home or talk myself out of

going to the gym, that means every time something's

not going exactly perfectly to plan, I'm training

my mindset that it's okay. I'm allowed to skip

the gym. And the thing about being committed

to something is whenever you Pick away at those

commitments when you break down those walls of

being committed to something. At some point,

it's no longer a commitment. It's just something

that you say will be your someday. Someday I'll

be on time. Someday I'll start going to the gym

again. And I don't want that for you. I want

you to show up anyway, even if you're 15, 20

minutes late. Getting a little bit of a workout

is better than getting no workout at all. And

here's the thing. If you are running a little

bit late and you get into gym class and you only

get about 20 minutes of workout, well, you could

stay a little bit longer and maybe work on some

dumbbells, maybe use the bike machine, maybe

use the stair climber or some other thing. So

basically, the main point of this is I just want

to encourage you that if you're running late

this morning and you're like, man, I'm going

to be a couple minutes late to the gym, maybe

I should just forget about it. And go do something

else. Instead, go to the gym anyway. Just get

those 10, 15, 20, 25 minutes of workout in. Because