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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
day you get back to it. Because that was the
big thing, right? Is, you know, previously before
I was getting serious about fitness, I would
have just let it go. And I would have let one
day turn into two and two days turn into three.
And, you know, the funny thing is when I went
back on Monday, I still wasn't feeling great,
but I knew I was actually able to at least do
the workout and that I wouldn't get hurt, that
I would actually be able to handle it. So I guess
that's the big takeaway is if you're considering
skipping a workout, really ask yourself why you're
skipping it. And if all of your signs point to
you really should just give yourself the grace
to go ahead and skip it. But don't let that give
you the excuse or the green light to keep skipping
your workouts. Get back to it. Go back to go
back to your regular routine as quickly as you
can, because that's exactly what I did. So, yeah,
that's just the big thing is listen to your body.
Pay attention to what it's telling you. But also
don't let yourself just completely crap out on
your workouts. You have to make sure that you
get back to it as soon as you feel like you are
physically able. And so that's that's all I've
got for you guys today. I hope this was helpful.
If you guys want to leave me a voice note or
if you have like any tips that you want to share,
if you want to share. how you're doing on your
fitness journey with me, I would love to hear
from you. Go to famousashleygrant .com backslash
fitness. You can leave me a voice note there.
I love hearing from you guys. So again, that's
famousashleygrant .com backslash fitness. Thank
you so much for listening. Onwards and upwards,
my friends. Have you worked out today?