Transcript: Want to Quit Mid-Workout? Me Too. Here's What Keeps Me Going

Yes, believe it or not, there have been times

that mid -workout, I just wanted to quit and

go home. What's up, you guys? Famous Sasha Grant

here. Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast

where I hope to inspire you to move your body

more. So I received some more questions and I

thought it'd be fun to just answer some more

because whenever you guys ask me questions, it

actually helps me come up with ideas of things

I can talk about. Because let's face it, whenever

I'm sitting here in my car just recording stuff,

Sometimes I don't know what I want to talk about.

And so it's really fun whenever y 'all send me

questions to kind of get those wheels in my head

spinning so I can actually possibly give you

something that might help you. So one of the

questions that I received is, are there moments

that you ever want to just quit? And yes. Oh

my God, yes. There are moments that I just, I

want to quit mid -workout and just go home. Especially

on days where I'm feeling weak or I'm having

a bad mental health day or something like that.

I just... There there are moments like there

are absolutely moments. And I will tell you that

there have been a couple of times where I had

to walk out of the room and just take a breather

and then come back. In fact, there was one day

it was the day that I said I only did half of

a class because I was so emotional that day from

from some personal stuff that was going on in

my life that I literally just walked out of the

class and could not come back. I had to have

someone else put my stuff away and bring bring

my stuff to me. my gym bag to me because I just

I couldn't handle it and that is going to happen

sometimes right I mean we're human We're humans.

What did they say? We're a soul having a human

experience. And I've definitely had days where,

yeah, mid -workout, I just wanted to quit and

walk away. But what keeps me going most of the

time, I'd say 99 % of the time, is knowing how

good I'll feel after I complete the workout.

Even when it hurts, even whenever the pain gets

really real and I feel... feel so weak. Just

if I keep moving, I know that by the end of it,

I'm going to feel better. And the other thing

that propels me to continue going on is the other

people in the room. It's why I've said so many

times that I love the group fitness classes,

because when I'm looking around the room and

I see other people struggling too, knowing that

I'm not alone really helps with like the mental

aspect of feeling like, yeah, I can do this.

I got this. And the other thing that helps is

the music. I sometimes will just, if I'm not

feeling the workout that I'm experiencing, I

will focus completely on the music. And that

will sometimes be the very thing that I need

that will help me to continue on through the

workout. And another question that came in was,

what's the difference between a bad day at the

gym and a bad week? And how do you tell them

apart? So for me, I have to say that. The difference

between a bad day and a bad week. A bad week

is when you're not feeling it the entire week.

And I haven't really had that happen. I can honestly

say that the only time that I feel like I had

a bad week was whenever I couldn't get to the

gym. Those 11 days where I wasn't going to the

gym and I was on my own trying to do the workouts.

Those really sucked. I hated it so much. I could

not stand the fact that I couldn't be with my

gym buddies working out. And so that's really

the only time that I can feel like I had a bad

week. I know that there have been some times

where like I wasn't feeling well or like I had

a cold or. Something to that effect. I mean,

those I guess you could consider those bad weeks,

but I still went to the gym every day and I still

put in the work. And so whenever I was still

just going, it didn't become an entire bad week,

but a bad day. I mean, those can happen anytime.

Maybe you didn't eat something that sat right

with you, or maybe you didn't get good sleep

last night, or maybe you're menstrual, or maybe

you have a headache or something. Those can be

bad days. But for me, it feels like if I just

keep going and keep getting through the workout.

then I can turn a bad day at least into a little

bit of a better day. I'm not going to sit here

and sugarcoat things and tell you that, oh, if

you just work out, you're just going to have

a beautiful, wonderful day. No, sometimes whenever

you get out of the gym, you still have to face

life, right? You still have to face whatever

it was that put you in a bad mood in the first

place, but you will feel better and you'll have

better mental clarity to be able to handle whatever

it was that life threw at you that day. And I

think we have time for one more question. At

the risk of making this episode too terribly

long, I'll just answer one more question that

came in. And that is, what's the moment you realized

fitness had become a part of your identity and

not something that you were just trying? So this

is a tough one for me to answer because sometimes

I still feel like a girl that's playing, you

know, fitness Barbie, only because I'm not as

strong as I want to be yet. And I'm not. quite

where I want to be fitness goals wise. But I

think that my best answer to this was when I

hit the hundred days. Whenever I hit the hundred

days, it felt like at that point, it was truly

a habit. It was truly ingrained in me. And it

was truly the time that I could feel the days

where I didn't go as hard. I could feel the days

where I didn't work out as much as I wanted to.

And it's when I, you know, I started craving

going to the gym. I'd say within a good two weeks,

like when I first got started getting serious,

you know, July 14th, that first week I was, I

was loving it. But by week two, I was craving

it. And then by week three, it was like, I couldn't

get enough. And, but I didn't really feel like

truly feel like I, like fitness was my identity

at this point until about day 100. It was about

that time that, you know, I was three months

in and I was really feeling like. My favorite

place to be was the gym. It was starting to become

that thing where I knew people were either expecting

me to be there because where I was doing all

those accountability posts on Instagram, anytime

that I would not post or if I posted late, I'd

get a DM like, hey, where are you? Did you work

out today? And that really kind of struck a chord

in me and made me want to go that much harder.

And so, yeah, I definitely would say about day

100 is when I really felt like. fitness is my

identity. Fitness is my thing. It is the thing

that I am obsessed with now. And, you know, it's

been more than 200 days at this point. And I

cannot honestly imagine life without working

out at this point. I mean, I know that who I'm

working out with right now, I won't be able to

work out with them forever, only because they've

made it clear that, you know, there's going to

come a point where they're going to have to either

retire or slow down or whatever. But I cannot

imagine a single day where I don't move ever

again. I was sedentary for almost two decades

and I don't ever want to go back. I'm loving

just how good it feels to be moving. And so I

want more of that. And so no matter what happens,

I don't see any time in my life ever again where

I'm not including movement in my week. And so.

Yeah, fitness is part of my identity now. It

is one of the things I do. And I'm so freaking

grateful for it. I'm in love with the fact that

I can move my body. And I get excited seeing

how far I can push myself, seeing how hard I

can go. And, you know, I said earlier in this

episode, yeah, there are days that I want to

quit. There are days that I just don't feel it.

But at the end of the day, it's better to be

moving than not. It's better to be going to the

gym than not. And I love the people that I get

to work out with. I love being around other people,

working out with them. So my hope is that even

if I'm not working out with the exact same people

that I'm working out with right now, that I'm

always working out with other people. It's my

favorite thing to do. Group fitness is my favorite

thing to do. My second favorite thing is traveling

and walking. So, I mean, I do foresee a lot more

of that coming up in my very near future. But

yeah, that's the answers to the three questions

that I received. If you guys want to send me

more questions, you know, hit me up on Facebook.

You can find me at Famous Ashley Grant. Feel

free to DM me any of your questions or or add

a comment to any of my posts and I'll add them

to the queue. I would love to just keep answering

y 'all's questions because. Like I said, when

I'm sitting here and trying to figure out what

I'm going to talk about, sometimes I don't know

exactly what's going to resonate with people

or what people are going to want to hear. So

I love when you guys send me questions. If you

want to leave me a voice note and ask a question,

I'd love to have that too. So if you go to famousashleygrant

.com backslash fitness, there's two options there.

If you're a fitness pro or in the fitness industry,

you can drop me a voice note, offer your tips