When Your Body Says No: Giving Yourself Grace Without Losing Your Momentum

For the third time in just a little over 220

days, my body said, oh, hell no. 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. But today

I want to talk about when I didn't want to move

my body at all. I've mentioned in the past that

there were two times in my wild ride of fitness

that I couldn't move. Like I could not get to

the gym. One of the times I even got dressed

to go to the gym, but then had to turn around

and go home because I was so sick. And last Sunday,

I kind of hit a wall and couldn't bring myself

to move my body at all. It wasn't burnout exactly.

It wasn't, you know, complete body shutdown,

but it definitely was a listen to your body and

do what it says situation. was literally revolting

at the idea of moving. And if you guys have listened

to this podcast, you know that Wednesdays and

Sundays, I usually do as my active recovery days.

And on those days, I'll do stretching and I'll

do walking. Sometimes I'll do stretching and

yoga. But for the most part, the whole goal is

move every day. Y 'all last Sunday, I could not

move like I could have if I'd really put the

effort into it. I will be honest. It's not like

I was sick to the point like I had been the previous

two times that I could not work out. But this

particular situation, it just you ever get one

of those moments where your body just basically

tells you if you do this, you will get hurt.

Yeah, that was the situation I was in. And I

chose to listen. And it was really hard, y 'all.

Like I felt a level of guilt that I haven't felt

in a long time over fitness. And it was it was

really depressing. Like it really, really bothered

me that I couldn't I couldn't bring myself to

do my workouts. Now, ultimately, I will say I

did, you know, give myself some grace and just

accept the fact that, yeah, for 220 plus days

at that moment, I had been moving every day with

the exception of two days. And it really bothered

me. to make it a third day. But it just was very

obvious to me that if I did force myself to work

out, it wasn't going to be good. And so I chose

not to. And so basically, this is another one

of those listen to your body episodes. I talked

in a previous episode about how, you know, I

don't exactly diet, but I am listening to my

body more in terms of like, if I'm full, I stop

eating. Or if I feel like I need more water,

I'll drink more water instead of so much soda.

That kind of stuff. But yeah, this was just a

situation where I had to listen to my body physically.

And I didn't want to do it, but I knew I had

to do it. And it's only because I listened to

my body that I was able to do my workouts that

I had planned for the rest of the week. So I

did go back to the gym the very next day. I used

the eights as my smalls and the 20s as my bigs.

And honestly, I think being able to do that wouldn't

have been possible if I had gone and worked out

on Sunday. But yeah, I just I promised you guys

that I was going to be raw and real. And so I

just wanted to talk about the day that I didn't

want to work out and chose not to. And like I

said, could I have forced it? Absolutely. But

I just recognized that there was too big of a

chance that I was going to hurt myself if I did.

And just all signs were pointing to don't do

it. And so I didn't. And so if you're in the

same boat where you've been trying to go hard

and really, really get wild with your fitness

and all that jazz there, you might hit that kind

of a brick wall yourself. And if that happens,

I just want you to do. what I had to do for myself,

give yourself some grace and make sure the next