Episode 28Jan 14, 2026· 9:47
Your Fitness Questions Answered | From Hating Workouts to Actually Craving Them
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How do you go from dreading a workout to actually craving it? What about those 20-pound dumbbells that keep taunting you? When will you finally feel strong enough? Listeners asked and I'm answering.
In this Q&A episode, I tackle real questions from people following my fitness journey. You'll hear about my transformation from someone who couldn't finish 15 minutes of Zumba to someone who gets genuinely excited about…
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Full transcript
00:10
What's up, you guys? Famous Ashley Grant here.
00:12
Welcome to More Movement, Please, the podcast
00:13
where I hope to inspire you to move your body
00:15
more. Today, I wanted to do kind of a Q &A. I
00:18
have received some questions and I kind of just
00:21
wanted to have a conversation and tell you guys
00:24
the answers to some of the questions that I've
00:27
gotten. So one of the first questions that I
00:29
got was for someone who can only commit to, let's
00:32
say, three workouts per week, how would you structure
00:34
that to get the most bang for their buck? So
00:37
I have to say that I would choose a workout program
00:41
that kind of does the whole body. And that's
00:44
why I'm in love with low impact cardio and toning
00:48
and Tabata. Those two classes, we work every
00:53
single body part. And so if I could only do three
00:57
workouts a week. I would do two low impact cardio
01:01
and toning and the Tabata. Because like I said,
01:04
in those exercise programs, we work the whole
01:07
body. Now, the thing is, if you can't get to
01:11
a class like that, there are some pretty awesome
01:14
videos that I have found on YouTube that do full
01:17
body workouts. Some of them do no equipment.
01:20
Some of them do just. just dumbbells. Like if
01:23
you just have a set of dumbbells, some do resistance
01:26
bands, some do all kinds of different things.
01:28
But basically, if you only have time for three
01:31
workouts, I would just make sure that you're
01:33
doing something that works your whole body and
01:35
make sure that one of those days you're doing
01:37
something that involves lifting. And the reason
01:41
I say that, and it's funny that I'm saying that
01:43
because before lifting dumbbell, it didn't seem
01:46
to be that big of a deal, but I can actually
01:48
tell you it does have a dramatic impact on your
01:52
you're working out like it you can really feel
01:55
the difference whenever you start adding some
01:59
sort of weight lifting to you're working out
02:02
so that's the that's the main thing I would do
02:04
is but if you only have time for three workouts
02:06
do something that works your whole body let's
02:10
see what are some of the other questions can
02:13
you tell me what a typical training week looks
02:16
like for you right now the typical week usually
02:21
consists of Monday doing Zumba and low impact
02:24
cardio. And then Tuesdays I do low impact cardio
02:28
and now I'm doing abs and booty. Wednesdays is
02:31
usually a rest day for me. And by rest, I don't
02:34
mean complete rest. I mean active rest where
02:36
I'm stretching and I'm walking. And yeah, that's
02:40
more typical than what I'm doing this week. This
02:43
week, there's been some additional classes that
02:45
I've been taking because my favorite instructor
02:47
has been covering additional classes. But on
02:50
Wednesdays, normally I'm doing stretching and
02:53
walking. And then on Thursday, I do Tabata and
02:56
another stretch class. And then on Fridays and
02:59
Saturdays, I do Zumba and low impact cardio and
03:02
toning. Next question. How has your approach
03:06
to fitness changed over the past few months and
03:09
what made you shift your thinking? What made
03:12
me finally shift my thinking was just a light
03:17
bulb moment. I mean, that's honestly the best
03:18
answer I can give is when Rhonda said that phrase
03:21
to me on July 14th, the everyone is busy, but
03:24
it's a choice, you know. I that was that was
03:29
the light bulb moment, right? I had been hearing
03:31
her say different versions of that exact same
03:34
thing. But I guess where I had been working out
03:38
off and on for a little over a year and a half,
03:41
it it was finally like it finally clicked. It
03:44
finally made sense that I wasn't doing what I
03:48
needed to do to make the changes that I wanted
03:50
to make. And so when she said that and kind of
03:54
hit me in the face with it. I finally heard it.
03:57
I finally heard it. So honestly, it was just
04:00
making the decision to make the change. So that's
04:04
what shifted my thinking is that I drew my line
04:06
in the sand. And I, I highly recommend that if
04:10
you are thinking about starting to work out,
04:13
really examine your life, like really look at
04:16
what your current life looks like, what things
04:18
are going on. And if you are thinking about working
04:22
out, just. Make the decision. Like when you show
04:27
up for yourself, when you make the decision,
04:29
I am going to do this for me. You can't do it
04:32
for anybody else. When you make the decision,
04:34
I'm going to do this for me. It's interesting
04:37
how everything seems to shift. And you've got
04:40
to keep making that decision over and over again
04:42
until the point that it becomes a habit, till
04:45
the point that it becomes an addiction, and then
04:47
just keep going. OK, next question. What's the
04:49
most common mistake that you see people are making
04:52
when they're first starting their fitness journey?
04:55
It's definitely got to be not committing. If
04:58
you say that you're going to start working out
05:00
and then the very next day you don't work out.
05:04
You're not all in. You've got to really commit
05:08
to this. Like, that's the big thing that I had
05:11
to learn for myself is that. Sure, I said that
05:14
I was going to start working out, but until I
05:16
got serious to the point that I was putting it
05:18
in my calendar, that I was making the plan every
05:20
single week, that I was showing up every single
05:23
week, you're making a mistake if you're not committing
05:28
completely. So that's the biggest mistake I see.
05:31
And some people might tell you, oh, well, the
05:33
biggest mistake is that they go too hard or they
05:37
try to do too much or whatever the thing may
05:41
be. Definitely, in my opinion, the biggest mistake
05:45
that I see people make is not actually committing
05:48
to this. If you're serious, commit and show up
05:53
like that. That's the big thing. All right. Next
05:55
question. You mentioned you used to dread anything
05:58
involving walking or stairs. What's the most
06:01
surprising physical activity you actually look
06:03
forward to now? Wow, that one. It's kind of shocking
06:08
to me to say it's Tabata. I used to dread Tabata
06:11
like. I couldn't understand why so many people
06:16
said that Tabata was their favorite. It felt
06:18
like too high intensity. It felt too hard. And
06:22
I actually look forward to Tabata a hell of a
06:25
lot more than I ever thought I would. Because
06:27
one of the gals that I work out with, she says
06:31
that her favorite thing about Tabata is that
06:33
because it works out your whole body, that it
06:35
feels like she gets the most for her workout
06:38
effort. out of any of the classes that she takes.
06:41
And I can actually really see that. I still love
06:44
Zumba. I will not, this is the hell I will die
06:46
on. It is my favorite. I have loved Zumba as
06:49
long as I can remember. I mean, even back when
06:51
I was still living in Tampa, that was one of
06:53
the classes that I used to always try to attend
06:55
because I really loved to dance. But in terms
06:58
of actual physical ability and real training,
07:01
Tabata really has become my favorite. And I mean,
07:05
I love low impact cardio and toning, but. One
07:08
of the good things about that particular class
07:10
is that, you know, our instructor, she does include
07:12
some Tabata rounds in that class. And I just
07:16
that that's been the most surprising is that
07:18
I look forward to it more than I ever thought
07:20
I would. All right. Next question. You mentioned
07:23
the 20 pound dumbbells are haunting you. When
07:25
do you think you'll finally pick them up and
07:27
what's really holding you back from trying them
07:29
now? I actually am using the 20s occasionally.
07:34
I am not. fully committing to the point where
07:37
I am using them every single time I do kind of
07:40
hope that within the next month or so that I
07:42
will be using those permanently I'd love to go
07:44
to the 10s and 20s like 10s being my smalls and
07:46
20s being my bigs if I don't feel like I'm strong
07:49
enough though then I won't but I would really
07:52
like to get to the point where where that's my
07:54
my regular go -to I did have a In the last couple
07:59
of classes, where I was not feeling too well,
08:01
I did go down to the fives and tens because I
08:05
just, I couldn't even handle the fifteens for
08:07
a couple of days. And I'm told that that's normal,
08:09
that there are going to be days where I'm still
08:11
going to feel weak or feel like I just can't
08:13
handle the heavy weights. But I am planning that
08:16
at least by March, I will constantly be reaching
08:20
for the tens and twenties. That is my goal. I
08:23
think this has been a long enough of an episode
08:25
for now. I don't want this to be too terribly
08:27
long, but I really appreciate the questions.
08:29
Thank you guys so much for sending me questions
08:31
and feel free to keep sending me questions. I
08:34
would love to do more of these where I'm just
08:36
telling the truth about what I'm going through,
08:38
the fitness journey that I'm experiencing. And
08:40
I really love this. Like, I'm really loving being
08:43
able to tell people the truth about what I'm
08:45
going through and what I'm feeling, because I
08:48
think that. One of the things that I see too
08:50
often with fitness podcasts is people just trying
08:53
to cram it down your throat, all the reasons
08:54
that you need to be doing it. And yes, those
08:56
things are true. But at the same time, just hearing
08:59
real accounts of what people are going through,
09:01
that's what inspires me. That's what gets me
09:03
excited. But I feel like just when more people
09:07
talk about the truth about what's going on, the
09:09
better. And so thank you again for these questions.
09:12
And onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you
09:14
worked out today?
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