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Tired But Toned
Tired But Toned is the podcast for busy women doing their best on low battery.
Hosted by fitness and nutrition coach Tina Wieland, this show is all about building real strength, managing stress, and creating habits that actually work in your real life — whether you're running on caffeine, chaos, or a solid eight hours (rare, but we dream).
Expect a mix of bite-sized tips and deeper dives into movement, mindset, hormones, recovery, and how to feel good in your body without burning out trying to “fix” it.
Whether you’re navigating autoimmune challenges, the weight of modern life, or just tired of the all-or-nothing fitness game — this podcast gets it. And more importantly, gets you moving in a way that lasts.
Because you don’t need more motivation.
You need a smarter strategy — even on your tired days.
Tired But Toned
255 | You Don't Need a 20-Step Morning Routine to Be Productive
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Do you really need to dunk your face in ice water at 3 AM to be productive? Absolutely not. This episode takes aim at those viral, over-complicated morning routines flooding social media and offers a refreshing alternative: doing what actually works for you.
After sharing some updates about the podcast's upcoming name change to better reflect my focus on busy women's fitness needs, I dive into why trendy, one-size-fits-all routines often fail the women I work with. Those 20-step morning rituals might look impressive on TikTok, but for most busy women in their 30s-50s, they create unnecessary barriers to productivity rather than enhancing it.
The truth is, personalization matters more than following trends. Whether it's creating ADHD-friendly systems like designated "dump spots" in your home, eating the same satisfying meal for years without changing it up, or developing routines that others might find strange but work perfectly for you – you have full permission to prioritize effectiveness over trendiness. What works for your unique body, schedule, and lifestyle will always outperform what's currently viral online.
Your fitness journey, morning routine, and productivity systems should serve you, not the other way around. Listen to your body's feedback, simplify where possible, and remember that consistency with something sustainable will always beat perfection with something unsustainable. Ready to ditch the ice baths and create routines that actually fit your life? This episode is your permission slip to do exactly that. Subscribe now and join our community of busy women designing fitness and wellness approaches that actually work!
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Hey friends, welcome back to the podcast. A couple little housekeeping things before we dive into today's episode. I'm going to be changing the name of this podcast. I'm not 100% sure what the name is, but I have a general idea it's going to be something about the Busy Women Fitness Podcast, because my Facebook group is Busy Women Fitness Driven and I love it.
Speaker 0:And over the years, as a trainer you kind of start out just training everybody, because you know, when you work in gyms you generally just train the general population, which encompasses everybody. I've worked with, you know, 90 year old men. I've worked with 13 year olds. I've worked with college athletes, I've worked with moms. I've worked with everybody and you know, as the years have gone, I've definitely refined who I work with. And I do love in working with busy women, particularly somewhere in their 30s to 50s. But you know you don't have to fit that mold exactly. But that's who I genuinely enjoy helping, because I think there's just this need the women are busy, they're stressed out and I think they need a little bit of a different approach than the traditional fitness way, um, for it to work for them and to get the best results. So that is where I'm at, and so I'm going to be probably renaming this podcast. I have been um, having some thoughts on how to work this into my schedule, because I have definitely been reworking my schedule. Maybe use this as a little um way. Relate to yourself.
Speaker 0:I love when people talk about, like, what's going on behind the scenes because it makes me think about my personal routine. Like I felt really overwhelmed and I like cut back to just the necessities, like serving my clients and everything. And it was weird because I didn't even like I haven't really been posting on social media either. Like, and I was really on a good streak there for a couple years and I felt very inspired and I don't know if it was just the turn of events that happened on social media Like everything just got crazy. Like it was more about like likes and getting numbers and who has the you know most eyeballs on their content versus is this content actually good? So I've been trying to navigate that and try to show up in a way that feels good to me, without feeling like I'm just posting for attention to get the likes per se. I want to make stuff that I genuinely like but also people will see. So I took a step back really to think about that and that's been simmering in the background um, coming up with new systems, and same thing with the podcast. I also want to put some love into my email list as well. I've been thinking behind the scenes of something that is enjoyable, other than just like random emails going out every now and then, like I want it to be something. So there's definitely been thought in that, um, but yeah, I've been essentially serving my clients in the meantime and working hard behind the scenes. I got certified in Pilates, certified in yoga, uh, right before the new year, so that was fun. And I'm teaching a Pilates class now, so that is fun. So we're doing all the things. But now let's get into the podcast topic.
Speaker 0:This was kind of something random, but it struck me and I wanted to chat about it. I've been seeing these trends on social media of these people that have their morning routines and there are people making fun of them. But there was definitely someone who started it and was dead serious about it, and this is what I'm talking about when I say my demographic does not fit the trendy. You know everybody like popular trends of fitness, like they talk about this guy who wakes up at like 3 am and he fills his bowl with water and puts ice cubes in it and he dunks his face in it and he's like you know they make fun of it and saying, like pretty much he does everything within like an hour. Like he gets everything done before like 5 am. It'll get ridiculous like and over exaggerated with some of these uh videos, you see. But and it got me thinking, like I was like it's kind of stupid, like listen, I'm not necessarily bashing the ice bath itself, like if that's something genuinely that you enjoy and you feel like it motivates you, like by all means, continue to do it. But like I feel like 99% of people do not need to get a bowl out every single day filled up with water, um, empty out their ice cube tray or, you know, your automated ice machine on your fridge. Like this just sounds so stupid. Now I'm thinking about it and dunking your face.
Speaker 0:I get it's like there's there's like an idea behind it and I'm like, oh, it wakes you up and the this and that. But I'm like do we really need to do all of this extra shit to be productive or do we just like need to actually just do it? Like why do we need this fancy like 20 step routine to get to the actual thing we need to do, when we could have probably already just gotten a head start on that thing instead of feeling like we need all these steps right? And I feel like sometimes we get caught up in that when it comes to morning routine, nighttime routine and again, don't get me wrong, everybody is different, but I've found that, for me at least, when you overcomplicate things, it doesn't go well. That goes in fitness as well, like with workouts and things Like. It's one thing like I always throw in some fun moves that are maybe not textbook science-y, but they're fun and you feel them because it keeps things interesting. But I also do keep the basics in there and foundations to make sure that you're getting a legit workout.
Speaker 0:So I encourage you to do that when you create a routine for yourself and this can be anything, like I said, a morning routine, a nighttime routine, a workout routine, just your general week. This always goes back to my overarching theme of knowing you, paying attention to your body and what feedback you get. Like when you try something like just because everybody else is doing it and you fucking hate it does not mean that you have to do it Like. That has been me my entire life. I've always been like, well, everybody else is doing it, but I hate it and it's like okay, I'm giving you permission today that you do not have to do what is trendy right now.
Speaker 0:If you have a weird way that you need to come up with your own system, your own routine, that is fine. I'm a part of a lot of, like ADHD groups and one thing they were talking about was like you know, when you have ADHD, it's hard to like put something away right, like when you come in the door to hang up your keys, so they literally have a designated dump spot like, which is weird to people who don't have ADHD right, it might be like, oh my God, you're just dumping everything in one spot in the house, but for their brains being able to do that is like amazing and it just works for them. So like if it works, it's your house. Nobody's like the police aren't coming over and being like, wow, you have this pile of random stuff I have to find you, you know, like that's not happening. So why don't you just do it like, as long as you're not hurting anybody and it's helping you do what feels good for you.
Speaker 0:Even people like I was just telling some of my clients today I'm like you have permission to eat the same meal as many times as you need. Like some people feel like they need to change up things just for the sake of changing things up, and like there's some fit people. You know they're like I've been eating the same meal for like five years, like I just haven't been sick of it. Yet it works for me. It's like if it's not working or if it's not broken, don't fix it right. If it works for you, keep with it. So that is going to be my little short message for today. So a little quick personal update with that New podcast name coming soon I don't know how soon, but soon it's on the to-do list and continue to tune into your body, listen to your body, see what your body needs in regards to schedule and flow and how things work to create the best routines for you. And with that I'm going to peace out. Chat with you soon, guys. Bye.
