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Lifestyle Strength
We discuss ideas, principles, and tactics that help people improve their position in life. With a background in fitness, Lucas strives to empower others by sharing amazing stories of challenge, transformation, and growth.
Lifestyle Strength
Logan Jolly (PART 3)
Have you ever wondered how an unexpected victory can shape a lifelong journey? Join us as we explore the inspiring story of a young athlete who discovered a passion for running with the support of family and mentors. Ariel and Lucas sit down with this exceptional individual to unravel the early days of school competitions, the initial thrill of winning, and the transition to embracing losses as powerful lessons. Our guest shares how setting ambitious goals, like breaking time barriers, fuels their drive and how being among elite competitors can elevate performance and personal growth. This episode is a testament to the evolving motivations behind the pursuit of athletic excellence and the constant quest for self-improvement.
We dive into the importance of body awareness and how small, mindful habits can lead to significant achievements in strength and athletic goals. Ariel and Lucas discuss the creation of positive feedback loops through achievable targets, emphasizing resilience and self-compassion when goals aren’t met. The conversation threads through the idea of using past successes as a motivational springboard, encouraging listeners to channel these experiences into everyday life. With personal insights and shared passions, we aim to inspire a mindset of continuous growth, urging our audience to embrace each day with renewed determination towards personal development and athletic triumphs.
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Welcome to Lifestyle Strength, your guide to mastering health and well-being in the real world.
Speaker 2:I'm Ariel, a massage therapist with over a decade of experience in holistic health, and I'm here with Lucas, a seasoned fitness coach, who's transformed the lives of hundreds in Northwest Arkansas.
Speaker 1:We're here to share real stories and expert insights about embracing a healthy lifestyle while balancing the everyday hustle.
Speaker 2:Join us as we explore practical ways to achieve wellness and thrive amidst life's challenges.
Speaker 1:Let's dive in.
Speaker 2:I know to circle back, you said that your parents kind of facilitated that your ability to, you know, get access to running and stuff like that. But where did it start? Like, were you the kid that? Like you were one minute your tummy time and then you forgot to crawl and then you were running.
Speaker 3:Or you know how, about that young um, I my earliest remember memory of coming into the sport is my p teacher noticed I was running pretty well in my jeans and tennis shoes in the p class, smile, uh. So she told my parents, hey, this is maybe something you should check out. Um, both my parents ran, so my mom ran in high school and my dad, he ran in high school as well, but then went on to run a marathon when I was young and so he was still running at the time. So he took me out on a couple runs, started doing some track meets I was seven, I believe ran a 5k and then some track meets have cute little pictures of me ready to ride my.
Speaker 3:Sophie, shorts and t-shirt. Um, but I didn't quit. At the age of seven as well. Um, I got beat in a race unexpectedly by like a foot, like she came from behind, didn't see her, and I didn't like that. So I said I'm done with this sport, quitting retired. Um, my parents didn't push me though. They were like all right if you don't want to do it like we're not going to push. I think they saw the gift, but they knew if they tried from a young age to push me into something it wasn't going to work. So I came back to the sport in sixth grade.
Speaker 3:I was able to run for my school for the first time and the coach knew I had a little gift, that he knew I was going to be good, but again didn't want to push me and so he bribed me with winning state rings and hanging out with the girls, everything not running Right. It kind of worked. I signed up and started running kind of miserable all summer trying to figure out how to run three miles. But we figured it out and slowly I got to the three mile barrier, which is like a 5k is the standard for high school cross country. At the same time I was entertaining competitive cheerleading, which was definitely more curly, like I don't know.
Speaker 3:Sixth grade me was like, yeah, I want to do competitive cheerleading but because I signed up for cross country, my parents were like we're gonna uphold that commitment. You need to go to a week of practice and then, if you don't like it, then you can do a competitive cheer. And when I went to the first week of practice I immediately fell in love with the sport, the team, just everything about it. And that was the start and I've literally been running ever since then.
Speaker 1:Was that the moment that you're like I'm going to do this one day?
Speaker 3:I don't know if it was that exact. It did take me a little bit to kind of dream and figure out where I could go in this sport. But by the end of my first season I was able to win the state championship and go on. And I don't know, I just kind of see, oh, maybe I can run in college and get a scholarship one day, and then maybe I can run professionally and nap for a living. You know right, travel the world. So it wasn't always running that motivated the dreams. Sometimes it was like getting to travel and nap, yeah, yeah, thanks, like. But it evolved and I think it was very systematic to see how I got to this point, that is that is awesome.
Speaker 1:Do you feel like winning has fueled your ability to to go forward with it further, or losing? Which which one?
Speaker 3:that's great. Okay, early on it was definitely the winning. So by the end of my first year I was able to, I think, win my first race, or a couple first races, uh. So that was like, oh, kind of like this um, my sport's very calculated, so every race has a time so you can see your progress. I love that. My math mind loves to be able to see the progress and, year to year, see how much better I'm getting. So that's another component that kind of fueled it.
Speaker 3:But when I got to college, winning was few and far between, because it's a lot higher level. So losing definitely started to fuel it, or just doing things not reaching my expectations. I would be like, well, I want to. How can I get there? Yeah, um, and then by the end of college I was more in a um, fitness level to start winning again, or at least competing for the win. Now I feel like I'm taking a step back just because the level of competition raises, and so maybe fitness wise I'm not back. But now I'm in a different ball game of runners, um, and so I'm figuring out okay, how can I get to that level like we talked about in the beginning? How do I get to the nine minute barrier, then I can try to win, win different ways. So it's a little teeter-totter of why, where are you at?
Speaker 1:and how can you fuel the fire? Yeah, you became like you were the large fish in the small pond. Yes, yes smaller fish in a bigger pond and then swam up. You know, you just kept upgrading your yes but I think that's to your point is you're surrounding yourself with people who excel and do it at the highest level, and that's how you also improve, right and I love that.
Speaker 2:So one thing I love she came back and she's like Ariel, like listen, I don't know if I calculated this right, but like the best of the best are running right now, like the times are like the best times that we've ever seen. Yeah, and you know, on one hand she could have told me, you know what that alone makes me want to stop, but instead it was like wait, I did that, I was running with the best of the best. So, heck, give me four more years, I'll be right there. I'm on beat all right. Like, like, really, and you know, some people could have just stopped, like like the seven-year-old you did, but you've really, like you mentioned, kind of evolved and shifted and changed into this person who now you see it and you go okay, cool, I'll join the party. Yeah, yeah, why not not me?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's where my consistency and just being healthy, like that's the name of the game. If I can stay where I'm at, stay in the conversation, some of the girls will just be like I'm done. I was happy with health where I got so easily. You beat them just because they quit Right and then if I get a little bit better, a little bit better, eventually I have to get there, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that, why not me?
Speaker 1:Even just staying on top. That's like the Kobe mentality. It is Right, the Kobe? Yeah, no matter how good you are, you're always practicing.
Speaker 3:It's tricking. There's always a little bit more to improve on. I have a checklist that's called the 1% and it's 1% better. It's all the little things, but they add up over time.
Speaker 1:What's on your checklist? What do you? What do you use?
Speaker 3:So this is where I do use my engineering. It's a little bit of a intense checklist.
Speaker 1:I'm okay.
Speaker 3:Let's start.
Speaker 3:So it's on Google sheets, so it's not just like pen and paper and I have some graphs and things and formulas know to make it all fancy. But I track my mileage, um, basically like the basics. So mileage, um kind of my weekly goal or intent. What shoes I'm training in, um, if I do strides post-run or stretching or recovery, if I have a snack, not what the snack is always, but just like refueling post-run, my sleep, my water intake, trying to go through the list as I go through Recovery, what's bothering me on my runs, like if my planner is hurt, I write that down just so I have track of it. Yes, and then let's see if I keep up with my training log.
Speaker 3:If I'm reading for me faith's a big component, so reading the bible, refueling my mind, um, because that's part of my purpose and intent um, kind of like it's a long thing, but that's pretty much the gist of it. It's like all the different realms of fuel recovery, running, everything. So I go through every day and I check it off and then I can see okay, what part am I missing out on? Am I not doing my recovery as well? Am I not sleeping good this week or drinking enough water or electrolytes, those kinds of things.
Speaker 2:So you know, what's really cool about that is because on my end, when y'all come in, especially my runners, I always tell them hey, I want to see a running log. I want to know that at mile one, your plantar started hurting you and you've written that you continued for two more minutes but it got worse, or you stopped completely, or you continued and you ran 10 miles and it relieved and you were fine, or what happened afterwards? You did the run, but what was the effect of it? Right? Um, and sometimes, even though most runners do you know a lot of them, especially high caliber, a lot of my marathon runners, for sure, you know, write it all down.
Speaker 2:Some of them are just kind of taken back, like what? And the reason it's important for me is because body awareness and it's going to wrap around back around to you, and so it's really cool to hear about this other than you know. You've turned it into this engineering. You've turned it into this engineering graph. You're saying, when I've told you, hey, let's work on XYZ, you're adding that it's your part of your recovery and your graph of like weight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would say over the last 10 years, ariel has really helped with the body awareness and that's one thing that's elevated from like college. You're busy, like you have time to run and you have time to go to school, but you don't have time for like little bitty things, so some of those suffer, and so that's what I've picked up in making this my job and being aware, and it's awesome. People think they drink water throughout the day, but if you're not tracking it or maybe just thinking about it, you probably drank 32 ounces and you're like I'm hydrated. So I have found like just tracking it makes me aware of where I'm like falling short. Um, some people that might not be good, at least in my profession. There are some very type a people and you can get a little crazy with it. I just use it as a checkpoint. I don't. If I miss something, I'm like, okay, I'll just tomorrow, I'll be better um yeah, I'm not going backwards by doing this.
Speaker 3:I'm only making myself better, and so it's the more I do, the better I can get at a faster rate. But I'm not going to hurt myself by not keeping track of my water for the day or something like that. Yeah right.
Speaker 2:Man, my brain like so in so many like small phrases, just important things that I feel like will be impactful for people who really needed like a visual kind of what we talk about on this show all the time, right yeah, or even just like the overall concept of it, like I you know, for people who it's not a full-time job, that might even sound daunting.
Speaker 1:You know, I just see that because I help the type a people who you can give them the data, you can tell them exactly what they do, and they're like I can do exactly that, please tell me. And they want to track everything. And then you have other people who've got three kids working full time, like all kinds of stuff going on in life, and they're just like, if I can trick my water, like that's, I'll do that. You know there's the one thing, but it's that one, that that one thing that maybe it can be just that, that piece of accountability cornerstone. There it can be that data metric that you can use to improve the next day and the next week, the next month and then and then it's just normal and it feels like you're just doing it because you've created a positive feedback loop right, you've done it, you've had some success.
Speaker 1:You've been a positive feedback loop Right, you've done it and you've had some success. You've been able to see what works, what doesn't work, and then you add the next thing yeah, but like you get to do it on a scale that is yeah.
Speaker 3:A little intense.
Speaker 1:It's that intense.
Speaker 3:Right, yeah, Just thinking about the water, though, I've learned I have a 30 ounce bottle, a 35 ounce bottle, so I know like which and which ones I need to drink. So even if you don't want to track it to the ounce, like if you create that habit of okay, I filled up my three bottles today and I need to drink all of them by the end of the day.
Speaker 2:You're at least aware and you know, instead of just drinking like plastic bottles through my mind and being like I lost count sorry, right, right, yeah, no, I'm the exact same, right, I know how my electrolytes are supposed to look like, but I'm a type A person, right, and there are people that aren't necessarily like that. And something I love that you said. You said you created this graph algorithm. You know log. That only helps you, and if you miss out that day on that water, it doesn't. It's not like you just give up and cry and throw a tantrum. You're just saying I'm going to do better tomorrow. I mean, how important is that phrase for for each of us just in life? Yeah, um, so, wrapping it up, I just want to know where are we headed. I know where we're headed. Okay, we're going to be at the Olympics, so you'll see both of us, okay, no, I'm just kidding. Um, but just within this next season, you know where are you headed, what's it look like? And, um, what's that year goal? Yeah, so curious.
Speaker 3:Now, that we've taken on back. Yeah, since we I talked about this a little bit early is strength, is my goal, just intent for the year um, so I'm upping my mileage, I'm trying to just be a really strong runner by the season, and I guess april to our uh, august, that's when it is um. So that's my focus for the year um, I think with the strength I'll be a better competitor. Um, and that's what we've talked about before too, is just being able to be there and compete when it matters. Yes, and the reason I'm putting some strength is because I think when I got a little bit tired, I wasn't as strong. That's when I fell off. So we can counter that with okay, let's get really strong, and so when those moments come, then I can work on my mind and competing. I think that's going to keep processing along.
Speaker 3:But, um, that's the here and now, and I think the word I'm trying to like zone in this year is undeniable. My coach likes to say that sometimes, um like you could not be denied. I think that's when I race. My best is when I have. This is what I'm gonna go do and you can't deny it of me, and so that's where I'm trying to get to. I'm not there yet, but just by the time I'm in the season I want to be like undeniable, like let's just go do it.
Speaker 2:You're leaving it all out there.
Speaker 1:I'm going to start using that word. I know you can't be denied, you can't be denied Like.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, like you're saying, I'm giving a hundred percent, I'm leaving it all out there and watch this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think that's why I've raced my best, and so why not learn from my best races and try to channel that to everything? It might not always play out that way, but I think if that's what I'm focused on, got to go better more times than not.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, wow, well, I mean, my brain, you know, is after this I think I'm gonna spend the day in a haze, but thank you so much for joining us. And really I think again, the reason I kind of want to do on here is just to show people like, even at the highest caliber, we're not all that much different from each other, and it kind of gives everybody a little bit of an idea and hopefully they can walk away with something and go. You know what? That really stuck with me? And tomorrow I'm going to wake up and I'm going to do this for myself and I'm going to do better for myself, yeah, so I love this conversation.
Speaker 3:Thank you guys. Yeah, it's been good you bring out all the good I've been working on internally, so I like to share it with other people and hopefully it helps somebody well, you're passionate.
Speaker 2:We love it and we'll see you next time, guys. Peace.
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