Episode #124 weekly recap 15/52

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Hello. Hello. Welcome to weekly recap number 15. It's been over three months. I've been doing these recaps. I'm still really enjoying them. If you listen to these, I hope you're enjoying them. And let's get into my week. So. This was a bit of a weird week. It went by really fast for me because we had a family coming into town last weekend and they left on Monday and Patrick had Monday off. So I still did work on Monday, but it was definitely just different for me. So I felt like I was living in like a day behind, so like Tuesday felt like my Monday and Wednesday felt like Tuesday, and now all of a sudden I'm like, oh, it's already Friday. So it was kind of one of those weeks, but. Overall this week has been really good. It's been interesting. I know on my last recap I mentioned that I had gone for a run and I was starting to build up, try to build up some running capacity. So my update after last week was, I think I still did too much volume, even though I did not do that much volume at all. I think it ended up being like 1.5 miles, but it. Ended up flaring me up a little bit and it also didn't help that we walked so much on Saturday. I got like 18,000 steps on Saturday. And then Sunday, not as many steps, but still just kind of like on my feet all day. So my foot felt pretty pissed off over the weekend, if I'm being honest. So I adjusted my running progressions and I'm like, okay, clearly that was a little bit too much. So I'm gonna peel back here, actually make a, make sure I do a little bit more warming up and see how I feel there. So. Today got up, did mobility work, did a running warmup, then went out and ran only about literally 12 minutes total, and the total mileage was like 0.87. And so. I trying to remind myself, okay, that's not nothing like, this is probably where I'm gonna have to start and increase very slowly. So we'll see how my foot feels over the next couple of days after doing the run today. Like last week, I did not feel any issues until the following two days. So we will see how the next two days go, and then I will adjust from there. All right. Sorry about the dog barking. I am recording this downstairs'cause I wanted to sit with the dogs for the rest of the workday, so, or like down here. So sorry about me barking, but whatever. These are real, oh gosh, now Ben's getting wound up. Okay. Anyways, so that's my update. Okay. I think we are calmed down now on the dog front. So let's get back to my update. Okay, so training, update.'cause I haven't talked about like a training update recently. So I decided to that I'm gonna go. Two group class at the gym two days a week for the strength class, and then I'll do an additional one to two lifts at home. In addition to my mobility and cardio stuff. I was really going back and forth with doing two days a week or three days a week at the gym. But honestly, I think that two days a week is gonna be most ideal slash most sustainable because my body still does need a lot of customized work in terms of like. My foot and ankle, my back, like, I just don't know. Like my back was kind of bothering me over the past couple weeks with doing the three days. So I was like, you know what? I feel like two days could be a good balance with that. So that is what I decided there. So looking forward to that. And yeah, so that's kinda like. Fitness update something like mentally that I was kind of working through this week that I wanna cover here. For one, I am really noticing that for the first time and as long as I can honestly remember, I don't have to be. In a fucking rush, like, I don't know about you but my life, I always felt like I've been in a rush and like overly stressing myself out about my work life, about my situation. I should be doing this, not doing this. Like what am I gonna do about this? Like, and for the first time I have. Finally created a situation for myself where it's like literally I have one job almost my entire adult life until like until I went all in on just my business over a year ago now. But like, other than that, I've literally always had two to four jobs at the same time. I was a little for like, so like the majority of my coaching career was always multiple jobs. And just like. You know, even before I was a coach, working at multiple dance studios, doing other things, trying to make all the ends meet. And so like my entire adult working life has been, has felt extremely chaotic because of, you know, making everything work basically. And. Finally, I'm in this place where it's like, okay, I am working for just me. And it has been that way for a year and a half, but like I was noticing like, Hey, I really don't have to be in a fucking rush all the time. Like I don't have to go from thing to thing. Like the whole, one of the biggest reasons I wanted to just, build my business to a place to where I could do this was so that I wouldn't have to be in a rush so I wouldn't have to be on the floor 20 to 25 hours a week so I wouldn't have to be in 20 meetings a week. So I wouldn't have to feel like I'm always running with a, like a chicken with my head cut off. And it's like, it's just now hitting me that like, wow, like I did that. But there is a lot of conditioning because like I said, I've, this has been my experience my entire. Working life. And like I got my first job when I was 14, so it is like ingrained in my nervous system to always be in that state. And so it is really taking a lot of conscious effort to be like, Hey, like I don't have to be rushing like this. Like I don't have to. Put all of this extreme pressure that I'm just feeling all the time. Like it doesn't have to be like that. So that's just something interesting that I have been noticing because, and the reason I'm noticing it. It's because I finally have the freaking space to notice things like that. And if you are somebody who has an extremely busy work life, or especially like if you're a coach, I feel like this is most applicable to coaches. Like if you have a nine to five, you're gonna be like, what? What do you mean? But for coaches. Like it is a freaking grind, especially if you're still working on the floor and you always feel like you're going from this to this to this. Oh, and your own training. Oh, and this and oh, what about this goal you're moving towards and oh, whatever. So it is really going to be a learning experience or unlearning experience because I don't want to always. I don't wanna continue feeling like that. It is stressful. It's hard on your nervous system. It's hard on your body. Like we're not meant to live like that. And it also involves like being more present, like, Hey, what am I doing right now? Am I fully focusing on being here? Or am I worrying about something that either happened in the past or I'm worried about what's gonna happen in the future and is like. I don't wanna be that person either. Right? So just kind of a lot of those types of thoughts that I'm working through this week. And I'm excited to continue to work on this because I've noticed myself being so much happier and like relieved. So that's been cool too. And I am not talking to the people who maybe like. You struggle with like working you struggle with like showing up and doing the things. Like I'm not talking to those type of people. I'm talking to the people who show up and do the things like to a detriment. And yeah, it just. I don't know, you know, if I'm talking to you like those people who are just like grinding so hard on yourself, like all the time type of thing. And I just wanna like pull back a little bit because like, yes, I have goals that I'm working towards, but how I work towards them is so important and. Yeah, so anyways, that's all for this recap. Sorry about Murph in the background. Talk to you guys later.