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FITMAS: Day 8 of the 12-Day: Cross Training Challenge · Do Hard Things™ with Siegfried Tiegs

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 1: On the eighth day of Christmas, my coach gave to me fitness.
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  Speaker 1: I keep saying Christmas is a fitness in Lacey Cosmet.
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  Speaker 1: Every time, on the eighth day of fitness, my coach gave to me CrossFit Challenge.
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  Speaker 1: All right, ladies and gentlemen, do-hard Things Nation.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to day 8 of 12.
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  Speaker 1: Today's challenge is about mixing it up with a cross-training activity.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a difficult one.
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  Speaker 1: Today, you get to choose an activity of your choosing that compliments your running and activity.
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  Speaker 1: It could be something cycling, swimming, yoga anything that you enjoy and give your running muscles a break and engage a different muscle group.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the challenge 20-minute session of your choosing.
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  Speaker 1: You get to pick what that cross-training activity is.
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  Speaker 1: While you're doing it, I want you to reflect on how this is going to work for you.
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  Speaker 1: You're running or your training, your typical training needs, all right, and then just share your experience with us.
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  Speaker 1: You're just going to take a photo while you're doing it and use the hashtag 12 days of fitness DHT.
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  Speaker 1: Tag us in your post.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: Today, after yesterday, I got some hate mail, but it was so good for so many people to do something outside of your comfort zone Cross-training.
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  Speaker 1: So why do we do it Well.
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  Speaker 1: It breaks up the gives you variety in your routines.
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  Speaker 1: It reduces the risk of injury.
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  Speaker 1: By mixing up your workouts, you reduce the strain on your running specific muscles and joints.
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  Speaker 1: It enhances your overall fitness.
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  Speaker 1: That way you can build a more balanced body.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to be the person skipping leg day, the chicken legs.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to focus on all areas of your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's an analogy there for you, not really an analogy.
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  Speaker 1: If you go to the gym, you'll see it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to balance out your fitness For those runners out there.
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  Speaker 1: It helps you improve areas that running by itself may not address.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It enables you to practice various forms of exercise to enhance your overall fitness.
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  Speaker 1: It reduces your risk of injury.
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  Speaker 1: Alternate your workouts so you stay focused on it.
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  Speaker 1: Avoid overusing specific muscle groups.
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  Speaker 1: For my runners it's an opportunity to get the heart rate up, but not overuse those running muscles in allowing that part of your body rest and recovery that it needs.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it just ensures that nothing is neglected.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 1: It's simple.
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  Speaker 1: It could be high intensity hit training.
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  Speaker 1: It could be something low impact like walking or cycling.
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  Speaker 1: Get to the pool.
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  Speaker 1: I would encourage you to do something different that you don't typically do.
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  Speaker 1: Today is completely up to you.
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  Speaker 1: Just 20 minute minimum.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to make this harder, then add this onto your normal routine or do a hit exercise as opposed to just scale it to yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Or if you want to go longer than 20 minutes, that's up to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you scale this one today.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: If you need help, if you don't know where to start you don't have a routine.
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  Speaker 1: I have an option for those that are looking to work out at home.
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  Speaker 1: This is for busy individuals.
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  Speaker 1: I've got in-home fitness solution for you that includes a variety of workouts, support, nutrition plans, easy to follow in-home workouts and accountability.
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  Speaker 1: Just DM me and I'll get you squared away on that.
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  Speaker 1: See if it's right for you.
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  Speaker 1: This is for busy professionals that just don't have a lot of time if they want to get the workout done at home.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I just want you to think about from a mindset perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You know there are days you just don't feel like it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I have days probably two days a week where I just wake up and I just don't feel like doing the workout, those moments where your motivation seems to have packed its bags and left.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you just simply got to get up and do it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You got to look at those moments as opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: They're not obstacles.
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  Speaker 1: They're opportunities to build a stronger, more resilient version of yourself by getting up and pushing through.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you cultivate grit and discipline.
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  Speaker 1: It's those moments that you don't feel like doing it and you do it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you grow.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you grow.
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  Speaker 1: That's what teaches you discipline.
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  Speaker 1: That's what teaches you about taking strength and putting your inner bitch voice in its place.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because you have this little voice inside of you that says oh, you should do this comfortable thing.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you should just take the morning off and take it easy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's not, it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's not always serving you, it's not always useful to you.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the opportunity where you get to put that little voice in its place and do the thing anyway, and just know that it's normal for people that are relatively that are always, that are active, to not want to do things.
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  Speaker 1: But you get up and do them anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Remember why you started.
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  Speaker 1: Commit to your own self growth and discipline.
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  Speaker 1: That's where discipline comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Discipline is doing it when you don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: If you live your life shooting from the hip and just doing things when you feel like it, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to ultimately have a miserable life by giving in to your comfort zone and that inner bitch voice, this is telling you to take the easy path.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so do it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Realize it's part for the course and have a strategy for when those moments come about, like when I have those moments where I just don't feel like doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Accountability I'll call a friend.
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  Speaker 1: I will use some supplements, like a pre-workout often helps.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they're just lacing up and getting started and sometimes you just may not have a good workout.
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  Speaker 1: But if you just go through the motions anyway and just do what you can, it's infinitely better than doing nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's your.
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  Speaker 1: So just just realize that it's par for the course to have days where you just don't feel like it, but you do it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So all right.
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  Speaker 1: So we have 12.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are crushing it.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting closer and closer to Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Get your holiday shopping done, get your gifts wrapped and, yeah, enjoy the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you guys tomorrow for day nine.
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  Speaker 1: Be ready.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, have a great day.