Embrace Strength
A podcast hosted by Ashley Beatty, an experienced coach of 12 years. I work with active people who are dealing with nagging pain & get them out of pain FOR GOOD with a movement based approach. I also teach coaches how to do the same for their clients 👊🏼
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Embrace Strength
Episode #133 weekly recap 19/52
Hello. Hello. Welcome back to the pod, and here's my weekly recap from, oh, last week. So this'll be weekly recap number 19. So I usually post these on Fridays, but last week was a weird week for me because my sister came to town and so it was a. Shorter work week. They came in on Thursday, so I basically had to finish most things by Wednesday and it just like felt weird to already do my weekly recap, like Wednesday of last week. So I was like, I'll just do it on Monday. So I'm starting to, you know, sometimes I just have to flex these episodes depending on like when it makes the most sense. So. Friday or Monday these will come up. But this week I should be back to my Friday schedule. But anyways weekly recap of a last week. So last week was a really solid week, even though it was a shorter work week for me, I had to like cram things in the first half of the week. I ended up being able to get it all done and that felt good and grateful for the flexibility to be able to do something like that. And my body feels good in training. Like last week I got in a run the week before last week. If you listen to these, I like my knee was kind of bothering me two weeks ago after the 4th of July trip. So last week it was starting to feel better, so I did do a run. And it went okay. Like I didn't have any soreness after. So that is good to, good to see, good to feel. And then today, I. Hit a PR on 10 rep max back squat at the gym I go to. We've been on a cycle of like back squats and we did a 10 rep max like two months ago. So we retested again. I got 1 55 for 10 reps, which I was super pumped about, like I did 1 35 last time. And so. I definitely have gotten stronger there and that feels good. And yeah, just like feels good to push myself a bit again and I'm looking forward to seeing when I get on dumbbell bench press'cause that'll be a Wednesday, but like, I dunno if I'm gonna be able to PR on that.'cause I did, last time we tested that, I did 50 pounds for five wraps on the dumbbells for bench press. And I'm like, I don't know if I can. Do more. I'll be stoked if I could do 50 fives, but I don't know. We'll see. But anyways, so training feels good. And then mentally, I just still feel like a little bit of in a weird space like business wise. I feel like I'm just mentally in a hard season of business right now. And I'm trying really hard to not let that. Dictate my mood about my life or my day and like my, you know, actually real life. You know what I mean? Like when you have a business you have, but when you have a personal brand business, it's really hard to not let things going on in business impact how you act in your real life, if that makes sense. So I'm really trying to separate them the best that I can and like. Try and be solution focused instead of just being down on myself or whatever. I'm not gonna go into super detail about why or anything like that, but just figured I would share that. I'm just really trying to not let. Like, you know, if something doesn't work, not let it mean anything like about me or about what I'm doing and just trying to, like I said, be solution focused. But anyways, that's really all I want to say about that. On that similar note though, like I'm really trying to work on how can I be more present in my life and less worried. I am starting to value that so much more than I used to. And this is proving to be extremely, extremely difficult for me. And when I think about it. I've been in this pattern for like my whole life, so it's gonna take some time. But trying to be present in the present moment and not worried about things in the future or things that I literally cannot control, it's like, okay, what can I control? How can I be more present in this moment and like be where my feet are? I'm trying really hard to make that more of a default mode instead of having to so much actively think about it. But that's something that I'm kind of working through. And then one more thing I don't wanna mention in this recap is I am being more intentional about my time blocking this week. I always time block I have for over a year now it works for me really well to not let the day get away from me to make sure I have time for. The things I need to get done. And I just noticed last week I've been like more lazy about my time blocks and things are taking, letting some things take longer than they should, than they should. And I just shouldn't be letting that happen. So I'm tightening up my time blocks this week making time for some other things that need to happen. And yeah, just like trying to. Be a little bit more structured and strict on myself there. Especially if like the task doesn't need to extend on why am I making it last longer than it should? So anyways, I am looking forward to seeing how this week goes, what it brings. We still have almost two weeks left in July, so. Let's see what the rest of the month brings. That's all for this recap. If you listen to these, I appreciate you. If you listen to these and you don't follow me on Instagram, go find me, coach Ashley 1, 2 7. Give me follow, send me a dm. Let me know if you like these episodes. And I will talk to you guys later. Bye.