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Season 4 - Episode 7 - Lessons from the jump rope · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermind, set coach, creative strategist, and also
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  happen to be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good morning from inside the studio.
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  And we're inside the studio today because I'm sharing with
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  you progress on something. I talked last week about doing 1
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  new thing. Maybe it was a week before, I
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  can't remember, about doing 1 new thing every month.
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  Set yourself up whether it's a new food, a new project, a new,
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  you know, hobby, whatever it might be, do one new thing.
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  And so my new thing, one of them was the jump to do jump rope and
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  my ropes arrived and I have watched all of the app in the
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  beginning that you may be saying, why is she taking a
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  course to jump rope? Well, this person who's teaching
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  the course is incredible at jumping rope and I was never
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  able to jump rope. I mean, I could if I, I was able
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  to as a child. The problem was, wasn't like
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  someone was forbidding me from doing it.
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  I physically just could not figure out how to be coordinated
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  enough to do it. And it has always bugged me that
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  I was uncoordinated as a like I would trip often, I would fall.
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  I was not a sports kid. I didn't get picked for teams
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  except if they wanted to like have somebody to, you know, keep
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  count of things and whatnot. Just not me, all the artsy kid,
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  nothing to do with this other stuff.
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  But in any event, the jump rope was always a problem because I
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  couldn't participate. It just it didn't work with my
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  body. I was just too awkward with it.
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  So now I see this person doing these amazing jump rope trips
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  and I was like, okay, I'm going to take his course.
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  I'm going to support him and what he's doing.
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  People support me and buying my courses.
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  I'm going to do the same for this person.
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  I'm going to buy his course and I got it and my ropes arrived
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  and he's got it all broken down. Shows you how to, you know, set
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  the ropes up the whole thing. And I was really uncomfortable.
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  I want you to know I was really uncomfortable.
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  I have not told my family I'm doing this.
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  I'm telling the world I'm doing this.
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  But my, my husband, my son, nobody in my, my vortex knows
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  I'm doing this right now. And the reason is I didn't want
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  the question of how's it going? I just wanted to work on it.
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  And all of you knowing about it is going to be much different
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  than having someone right in your house know about it.
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  So here I am. Put the computer up, get the
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  screen up and I watch the first one and I'm like, oh, this, this
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  looks like it's going to be really hard.
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  Like I he's, he's so good. But all of a sudden he started
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  teaching it in such basic elements.
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  Making sure one, you have the right rope is all the difference
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  in the world. 2, making sure that it's the right length for
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  yourself. Three, making sure you
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  understand the difference of the bounces.
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  So he breaks it down to very simple steps.
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  When you see this, this is how you handle it.
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  When you do this, this is how you handle it.
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  When the rope comes around, this is what you should do.
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  And it was fundamentals. So it comes back to those basic
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  fundamentals. Do you have the fundamentals?
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  So my realization is 1. I never had the fundamentals. 2,
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  I don't know what it is when you're a kid.
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  Maybe people just see you and think, oh, you should
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  automatically be able to do it, just do it.
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  But no, it doesn't work that way.
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  And I, I, I watched the fundamentals video.
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  I'm not exaggerating when I tell you I watched it about 20 times.
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  It was a 3 minute video. I just kept going back and
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  watching it back and watching it back and watching it.
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  I wasn't even trying it at that point.
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  I was just taking in the information because I learn like
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  that. So if I really need to know
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  something I will just reread it. That's why I read books over the
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  same book over and over. That's why I'll watch the same
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  video over and over because I'm embodying what they're teaching.
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  So now I'm watching a professional who is super
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  successful and has millions of followers for his jumping rope,
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  and I'm watching what he's saying as fundamentals.
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  And I do that day one. I'm just watching, watching,
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  watching. So today is the first day of
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  skipping and I get it and I'm like, OK, I'm ready to skip my
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  rope is the right length. I've watched the videos.
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  I put on day one and it, you know, it's 15 minutes and it's a
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  minute of skipping, a minute break, minute skipping, minute
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  break, minute skipping, minute break.
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  And it goes on like that. And I am so excited to go in and
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  try it. And I start spinning the rope
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  and I was like, Oh my gosh, I can do this.
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  I'm listening to what he's saying.
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  And I watched the fundamental so much where my elbows were, how
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  my bounce was, how high my knees were going.
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  I was paying attention to all of it, my posture.
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  And I was able to go through the first day and I got halfway
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  through before I was like, wow, OK, this is a workout, This is a
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  workout. And I paused and I said, I'm
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  going to shoot the, the podcast right now.
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  So I got through the first day halfway and now I'm shooting the
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  podcast to share it with all of you.
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  I have and I was winded and I walk a lot.
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  I walked 25,000 steps a day roughly.
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  And I'll tell you I was winded and I what a workout.
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  I feel it in my shoulders and I was only halfway through so and
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  I was just doing basic bouncing. So the point of this is trying
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  something new leads to a whole bunch of different other things,
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  like potentially healing something from the past, which
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  is so exciting to me that I can be athletic and not be
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  uncoordinated. When you have the right
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  instructions and it doesn't, it always come down to that.
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  When you have the right instructions, when you have the
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  right things in line, everything changes.
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  So my friends, I'm going to go back and finish jumping rope
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  now, and I hope you have a blessed day with your whatever
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  your new thing is that you're trying, and I hope it helps you
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  move forward as much as mine did with me today.
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  All right, I will keep you updated on jump roping and I
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  will see you all tomorrow. Have a blessed day.
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  Bye.