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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: So This Is What It Feels Like To Be In Alignment, Eh? · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Emily here, and yes, I appreciate all of the
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: care and concern messages to those of you who may
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: have listened to Wednesday's episode.
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  Speaker 2: Good news, my voice is back.
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  Speaker 1: And I appreciate you for sticking with me as I
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  Speaker 1: recovered from cheering my heart out last weekend in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: I am so grateful to be back home. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a single flight booked at the moment, and as
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  Speaker 1: much as I love, love, love the opportunity to travel
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  Speaker 1: for what I do, it is so nice to be
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  Speaker 1: hanging out in Brooklyn and getting things done, catching up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. It's been an interesting week back here
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  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. I was able to finally get into physical
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  Speaker 1: therapy for the first time since the marathon. My foot
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  Speaker 1: is still presenting the same annoying plantar fasciitis pain that
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  Speaker 1: I was navigating before and after and during the marathon,
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  Speaker 1: and so we decided that it would be my best
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  Speaker 1: interest to avoid running for the time being, which makes
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  Speaker 1: this now more than ever, the perfect time.
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  Speaker 2: For me to be starting a new strength training program
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  Speaker 2: using the Future app on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, I know that I've talked about the Future
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  Speaker 1: app before on the show. Future Is about to come
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  Speaker 1: on as one of Hurdle's newest sponsors. It all really
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  Speaker 1: just kind of happened serendipitously, so I will definitely be
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  Speaker 1: sharing my experience with that app what it's all about
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  Speaker 1: out in an upcoming episode. I digress. There are a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things right now in my life that feel
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  Speaker 1: as though they are happening serendipitously. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: that my life coach, I feel like this all sounds
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  Speaker 1: so woo woo ee. Well, she calls it being in alignment. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's see if I can give you an example. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to plan a really large event for New York
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  Speaker 1: City Marathon week, and in the execution, in the first
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  Speaker 1: stages of planning said event, I was met with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of resilience and a fair amount of no Still,
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  Speaker 1: I promised myself that I would do anything and everything
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  Speaker 1: within my power to make it happen. I was at
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  Speaker 1: a meeting, let's say, the week after a slew of
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  Speaker 1: these no's, when I was telling a friend who happens
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  Speaker 1: to work for a sizable brand that I was dreaming
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  Speaker 1: of a space that would hold one hundred and fift
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  Speaker 1: to two hundred people and it would just pop out
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  Speaker 1: and be perfect for me, which, if you know anything
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  Speaker 1: about New York City, a space that can hold one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty to two hundred people.
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  Speaker 2: Is typically pretty pricey.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, out of nowhere, she goes, wait, we have a space,
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  Speaker 1: and I just looked at her and my mouth dropped.
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  Speaker 2: Long story short.
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  Speaker 1: A few meetings later, we've talked logistics, I got the space.
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  Speaker 1: The event is happening if you're in the New York
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  Speaker 1: City area and you will be during New York City
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  Speaker 1: Marathon week. Hold on your calendar November second, Wednesday evening.
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  Speaker 2: More details to come in the show.
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  Speaker 1: But that was just one of those things that I
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  Speaker 1: felt like when I put something into the universe, it
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  Speaker 1: just came back to me. And then I asked four
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  Speaker 1: different people to work with me on the event, and
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  Speaker 1: each and every one of them not only happened to
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  Speaker 1: be available, but was super stoked on the concept. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk more serendipitous things, I was literally
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  Speaker 1: sitting at my desk thinking of a friend I hadn't
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  Speaker 1: spoken to in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him not.
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  Speaker 1: All that long ago in Arizona, and I went to
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  Speaker 1: go pick up my phone to text him, and I
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  Speaker 1: got a call from him that he was in the
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  Speaker 1: city through the weekend and he wanted to get together. Truly,
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  Speaker 1: these are just two examples of I would say, two
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  Speaker 1: handfuls of ways that things are just.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of happening at the moment, and I.
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  Speaker 1: When life feels and easy is a weird word to
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  Speaker 1: use here, but I feel as though I have been
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  Speaker 1: through so many moments this year where life has felt
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  Speaker 1: really hard that when life feels like this, I just
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  Speaker 1: have such a grand appreciation for it. But I also
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  Speaker 1: take note and understand that there are things that aren't
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  Speaker 1: peachy right now for me. Right my foot is dramatically
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  Speaker 1: not it's no buno walking around throughout my day like
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  Speaker 1: there's some pain there. I think about some certain things
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  Speaker 1: that I'm dealing with in my personal life, and you
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  Speaker 1: know that's not all rosy either. But despite these struggles,
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  Speaker 1: I choose to look at the silver linings live my
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  Speaker 1: life focusing on feeling good and seeking the good, and hey,
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  Speaker 1: that's the best that I can do.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So my listener prompt for you this week is maybe
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  Speaker 1: more of a call to action. How can you choose
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  Speaker 1: purposefully to focus more on the good. How can you
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  Speaker 1: choose purposefully to focus more on the good and now
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  Speaker 1: A listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Emily, this is Becca. I'm from north of Boston.
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  Speaker 3: Love the podcast. My question for you is during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 3: I got into weightlifting for the first time and just
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  Speaker 3: due to COVID, I was doing it mostly at home
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  Speaker 3: and I recently rejoined the gym and have wanted to
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  Speaker 3: kind of start using their equipment at the gym and
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  Speaker 3: the first time I went to kind of get through
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  Speaker 3: this hurdle. Thanks, love the pod.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, Hey Beca, I love this question.
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  Speaker 1: The good news is that there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: options for you when it comes to following along with
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  Speaker 1: programming on your own time at the gym. My biggest
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  Speaker 1: tip would be to find a trainer that you really
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  Speaker 1: connect with and see where they're offering their programming. So
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's someone that you follow on social media. Just
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  Speaker 1: make sure that that person has appropriate and relevant certifications
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  Speaker 1: that they are actually knowledgeable in the material that they
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  Speaker 1: are coaching you on. You're going to look for a
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  Speaker 1: certified trainer, a certified strength and conditioning specialist, physical therapist,
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  Speaker 1: someone that really has the knowledge to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: they are keeping their clientele, including you safe. Now not
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  Speaker 1: everyone has the budget to do one on one training.
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  Speaker 1: This is where an app, again like the Future app,
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  Speaker 1: can come in, which really makes it more accessible at
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  Speaker 1: a lower price point. But beyond that, there are so
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  Speaker 1: many other on demand workouts, many of which do have
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  Speaker 1: options that involve strength training.
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  Speaker 2: The last thing I.
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  Speaker 1: Will say is that if you really are focused on
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  Speaker 1: strength training, on progressive overload over time, which is essentially
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  Speaker 1: increasing the demands on your muscular skeleton system to continually
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  Speaker 1: make gains in muscle strength and size and endurance over time,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to really want to seek out someone
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  Speaker 1: to create custom programming for you.
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  Speaker 2: You are going to want.
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  Speaker 1: A program that does progress instead of just selecting ran
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  Speaker 1: the fun strength workouts here and there.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, if you have any more questions on this topic,
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  Speaker 1: if you need anything else, you can always call in
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  Speaker 1: and leave a voice message. I am always hunting listener questions.
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  Speaker 1: The link to do that is in the show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you're following along with Hurdle over on social
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  Speaker 1: It's at Hurdle Podcast and I am over at Emily
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  Speaker 1: a Body Another Hurdle Conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time.