Transcript
Well, Ashley, what shoes did you go with? What's
up, you guys? Famous Ashley Gert here. Welcome
to More Movement, Please, the podcast where I
hope to inspire you to move your body more. So
recently, I shared an episode that I was looking
for new shoes. And if you missed that episode,
there'll be a link in the show notes that you
can check it out. But basically, I was on a quest
to find the perfect shoes to try. I ended up
going with the Asics Nova Blast 5s. Since then,
I have seen a lot of articles that basically
I tried the wrong Brooks shoes or I tried the
wrong insert shoe here. And I did have one particular
person who was like, you should have gotten Rikers
and said that they were created for women. So
I wanted to explain why I went with Asics and...
that I'm still basically hunting for new shoes.
And here's what's going on. So the shoes that
I bought, the reason I needed them so urgently,
rather than giving myself time to do what I normally
like to do, which is research and thoroughly
review shoes before I commit to them, is like
I had mentioned in the previous episode, I started
getting holes in the other shoes that I had.
And so now that I've at least taken care of the
urgency factor of the fact that I needed new
shoes so badly. Now I intend to like thoroughly
research and review and see what my next pair
of shoes will be, because I don't remember if
I said it in the last episode, but I'm incredibly
hard on footwear. Like I'm I'm very hard on footwear.
I don't know if it's because of my arches or
or my my balls on my feet or what it is. It always
seems like the holes happen in the balls of my
feet on my shoes. I've never been to a podiatrist
about this to my knowledge. I mean, my mom is
a listener of this show and she'll probably correct
me if I'm wrong. But to my knowledge, I've never
really seen a podiatrist about my feet. I was
basically realizing like I needed to find a good
enough pair as quickly as possible. And I was
already wearing Asics. I had gotten a coupon
and I bought a pair of 50 % off at. I can't believe
I'm about to say this, at my local grocery store.
And so I went with Asics. And the reason I chose
the Asics Nova Blast is because my husband actually
wears Nova Blast 5s. And he was like, well, if
they have a female version of this, you should
try it. And so we went to Dick's and I tried
them and loved them. And of course, they didn't
have the color and the size I wanted. So we ordered
some. They came pretty quickly. And I... tried
them out for a little while to make sure that
I was going to be happy with these shoes. And
I've tried it out for several workouts and I've
been very happy with them so far. But now that
I've settled the urgency issue, I can't help
but wonder if maybe there is even a better shoe.
Since the time that I mentioned that I tried
the Brooks shoes and hated them, I have found
out that there are several other types of Brooks
shoes that are apparently much better. people
that are very active. Uh, I've been told to try
the, let's see, what were they? The Brooks ghosts
and the Brooks adrenaline. And what's interesting
is I just happened to find an article recently,
um, saying that those two shoes were considered
like the best walking shoes of ever. And so I'm
still looking because I still want to know more
about shoes. It might sound silly to someone
who's hearing this being like, well, You already
got your shoes. Why do you still want to be shopping?
And like I said, the thing is, since I am so
hard on my shoes and I know I will need to replace
these again, I don't want the urgency factor
to hit me next time like it did this time and
me just make a choice based on the fact that
I really, really need shoes. So I want to start
looking now before this. issue comes up again
and so basically I want to hear your recommendations
if you go to famousashleygrant .com backslash
feedback I want to know what kind of shoes you
wear and tell me why and you know I mentioned
in the last episode like hey if your companies
hit me up I would love to to talk to you and
try out all the different shoes like if you think
that your shoe is the best and you want me to
try it I would love to do a whole review series
on the different shoes that are available and
I'm totally willing to be a guinea pig and try
out all the things because I want to know the
truth like I want to know like is it all marketing
hype or are the shoes that I'm looking for like
really the best of the best I think it'd be fun
to to just try out a bunch of different shoes
and and see now that I don't have like a clock
on it really give myself time to really investigate
and find out what the best shoes are. And hell,
I'm even going to try the Rikas. So I'm going
to I'm going to just purchase a bunch of shoes
or like I said, footwear companies, if you are
interested in helping me with this project of
reviewing the best shoes, I would love to chat
with you. So I think it'd be fun. I think it'd
be a good time. And in other news this summer,
I will be going to Gen Con and I'm stupid excited
about it. I just wanted to. share about that
because there will be some interesting fitness
content coming to this podcast as a result and
so I just wanted to tell you guys about it in
case you don't know Gen Con is the largest tabletop
game convention in North America and it's held
in Indianapolis, Indiana and I will be heading
there at the end of July. My husband and I are
celebrating 20 years and it's our wedding anniversary
and so we were talking about all the things that
we could do and And we actually chose to do a
board game convention for our 20th wedding anniversary
because, y 'all, it is so us -coded. We are,
we're some of the biggest nerds you could meet.
We love, like, Star Trek. We love Stargate. We
love board games. Now, our favorite board game
together is Firefly. For those of you who don't
know, I'm obsessed with Firefly, the series.
Brown Coats for life. And, yeah, and screw the
Alliance. So we found Firefly the board game
and we actually have a habit of when we play
the game, we actually also have the series running
in the background. And so it just adds to the
extra layer of fun. We absolutely love board
games and we love card games too. And like my
favorite card game of all is Cards Against Humanity.
My second favorite is Exploding Kittens, if you
know, you know. And I just get an absolute kick
out of the fact that you can pay. one fee and
you can have hours upon hours of fun and then
you get to play it again and again and again
and again. I love games. I love to have fun.
I love getting together with people and just
goofing off and having a good time because I'm
a huge advocate of having as much fun in life
as you possibly can. I think that we only get
this one life. We need to squeeze every ounce
of fun out of it that we possibly can. Board
games is just one of those things that just brings
me an immense amount of joy. And so that's why
we're going to Gen Con. And the reason I bring
that up is because over the next few episodes,
you may hear me talking about my game plan for
how I intend to continue doing the fitness stuff.
In fact, I have quite a bit of travel coming
up this summer. And so I will be sharing how
I intend to keep working out on the road because
y 'all know I love my group fitness classes.
I'm going to miss them so much. I'm addicted
to them. But I've already been talking to my
instructor, Rhonda, about, you know, the fact
that I still want to be able to work out. And
so I actually asked her if she would put together
a custom fitness plan for me for while I'm gone.
And yeah, I'm anxious to hear what she comes
up with. She's already told me that it's going
to hurt and I believe her. So yeah, in the coming
days, you'll hear episodes related to the fact
that I will be going to Gen Con. And I can't
wait to share all of it with you because I...
intend to keep going with my workouts and I want
to share all the things that I will be doing
because I believe that just because I'm going
out of town doesn't mean I should let my fitness
fall to the wayside and I don't want you to either
so if you too are going to be traveling at all
this summer maybe these will inspire you maybe
these episodes will inspire you and maybe you'll
come up with some fun ideas that that you can
use to to continue working out on the road So
I'm excited for the things that are coming. But
yeah, I ended up with the Asics Nova Blast 5s.
That's the update on my shoes quest. And as I
find out about other shoes, and honestly, you
know what? I'm willing to be a guinea pig for
anything. So go to famousashtagrant .com backslash
fitness. And if you would like to participate
in the show, be on the show, I would love to
hear from you. And yeah, I think it'd be a lot
of fun to try all the things. Like if you're
a brand that does footwear or if you're a brand
that, hell, if you do snacks, like, I mean, I
want to try all the things. So famousaftergrant
.com backslash fitness. You will find the forms
there to either leave me a voice note to be on
the show or if you want to leave me some feedback,
there's a link there that you can leave feedback
about what you would like to hear, what you want
to know, all the things. But until next time,
onwards and upwards, my friends. Have you worked
out today?