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 or questions or whatever you want. And if you're a listener that is not necessarily a fitness pro or in the industry, but you just want to talk to me or share something, share something about your journey or ask a question, I would love, love, love if you would drop me a voice note because I love hearing from you guys. I love the questions that you guys submit. And I just, like I've said a couple times now, I really want this to be a movement of movement.