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5-MINUTE FRIDAY: How I Finally Started Strength Training — Regularly · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Emily Abadi here coming to you from the
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  Speaker 1: AG studio. You are listening to another installment of five
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  Speaker 1: minutes Friday from Hurdle. I feel like it's been a
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  Speaker 1: moment since I've sat down and candidly talked to you all.
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  Speaker 1: Do you miss me? I hope your year is off
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  Speaker 1: to a good start. I said this to a friend yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I have been holed up like in
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  Speaker 1: my apartment, partly a little just anxious about all of
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  Speaker 1: the things gestures loosely with COVID, and then partly because
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  Speaker 1: I'm just working really hard to set a stellar foundation
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  Speaker 1: for what it is I hope to build this year.
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  Speaker 1: On that note of setting a stellar foundation, today I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you about something that I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been committed to. I would say arguably. I mean, with
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  Speaker 1: the caveat of physical therapy, I haven't been committed to
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  Speaker 1: this to this level since maybe like twenty sixteen. And that,
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  Speaker 1: my dear hurdlers, is strength training. You know, it's so funny,
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  Speaker 1: right identify as a runner and you'll hear runners say
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  Speaker 1: all the time, like I am going to strength train
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  Speaker 1: if I strength train and do single leg stuff and
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  Speaker 1: think about balance, then I will be a better runner.
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  Speaker 1: And because I have all of these lofty running goals
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to make it a priority. But like,
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  Speaker 1: how many times have you or at least I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I won't okay, I won't project on you, But how
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  Speaker 1: many times have I told myself I am going to
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  Speaker 1: do that, I'm going to make this priority, and yet
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  Speaker 1: I do the bare minimum just so I can get by.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I finally, just after navigating injury this marathon season, that
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  Speaker 1: I was going to commit to string training and to
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  Speaker 1: act on that goal and make it something that really happened.
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  Speaker 1: I took it to the next level and decided to
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  Speaker 1: start working with a trainer, not one on one in
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  Speaker 1: a physical setting here in New York, like inside of
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  Speaker 1: an equinox, but rather via the Future app. I wrote
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  Speaker 1: an article all about my experience. To read about it,
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  Speaker 1: you can click on over to the show notes and
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  Speaker 1: check out the link on GQ. But all this to say,
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  Speaker 1: I decided to commit to working with a personal trainer
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  Speaker 1: on an app that gives them to you on demand
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  Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty dollars a month, and by
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  Speaker 1: doing that I put more skin in the game. Is
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  Speaker 1: that the right saying here, I decided, okay, you want
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  Speaker 1: to take this seriously. When you've tried to quote unquote
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  Speaker 1: take this seriously in the past, it hasn't worked. So
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  Speaker 1: what can you do differently right now? And that act
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  Speaker 1: right me telling myself that first and foremost, that's the
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  Speaker 1: first step. Whether we're talking about strength training or we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about drinking more water. When you want to make
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  Speaker 1: a change, the first thing you need to do to
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  Speaker 1: make that change is admit what your current circumstance is.
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  Speaker 1: And that can be really challenging, right It can be
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  Speaker 1: really challenging and tough to admit to yourself when you
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  Speaker 1: maybe haven't done something as well as you had hoped
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  Speaker 1: in the past. It's all about removing that judgment. If
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  Speaker 1: you sit there and you get frustrated with yourself, that's
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  Speaker 1: really not going to do you any good period end sentence,
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  Speaker 1: exclamation point. So I want you to ask yourself, is
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  Speaker 1: there something that you want to do right now that
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  Speaker 1: you need to have a little bit more grace with
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  Speaker 1: yourself over something that you need to give yourself a
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  Speaker 1: little extra love to go in the direction that you
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  Speaker 1: know that you want to go in. I'm about a
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  Speaker 1: month maybe six weeks into the strength training journey, and
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  Speaker 1: if I had stopped myself before I started, right, if
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  Speaker 1: I had gotten frustrated with myself about my lack of
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  Speaker 1: dedication in the past and just believed that I was
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  Speaker 1: never gonna be quote unquote good at this, then hey,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't going to do me any good. Six weeks in,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying this, and I'm really proud of myself
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  Speaker 1: for dedicating this time to a new skill, to a
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  Speaker 1: new thing and seeing, you know what happens from here.
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  Speaker 1: My prompt for you this week where in your life
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  Speaker 1: do you need to get out of your own way?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want? Where in your life do you
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  Speaker 2: need to get out of your own way? And what
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  Speaker 2: do you want? And now a listener question.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, my name is Joey, and I've been listening
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  Speaker 3: to Hurdle pretty much religiously since your Kirsty Godso episode
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  Speaker 3: like over a year ago. And my question is, after
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  Speaker 3: you have gone through a hurdle and you learn you
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  Speaker 3: know some kind of lesson or something to keep you going,
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  Speaker 3: what is your best advice on keeping that lesson and
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  Speaker 3: keeping that hurdle in the forefront of your mind? So
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  Speaker 3: that it's not just a one and done lesson, but
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  Speaker 3: something that is really advising how you continue going through life,
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  Speaker 3: so you don't really find yourself going through the same
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  Speaker 3: problem or the same hurdle. Again, would love to hear
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  Speaker 3: your insight. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I love the name Joey for a girl. Just on
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  Speaker 1: the record, Hi Joey, thanks for your question. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: say this, just because you've been through one tough moment
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that it makes the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: difficult moments as you go on through your life less difficult.
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  Speaker 1: What it does mean is that by getting through one
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  Speaker 1: hurdle and living to tell the tale, as we all do,
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  Speaker 1: we then have the opportunities, as you kind of reiterated
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  Speaker 1: in your question, to implement what we learned from that
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  Speaker 1: tough time going forward. Now when it comes to remembering
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  Speaker 1: the lessons, I cannot reiterate this enough. It is so
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  Speaker 1: so important to reflect on what's going on, even when
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to reflect on, even when it hurts and
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  Speaker 1: it's scary and it makes your stomach turn. Right when
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  Speaker 1: you are going through a tough moment, a tool like
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  Speaker 1: journaling can be absolutely critical to help you process everything
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  Speaker 1: that's happening all around you. And maybe if you're not
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  Speaker 1: the kind of person that loves to write things down
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  Speaker 1: in a notebook, do something a little bit different. Then
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's voice notes for yourself, Maybe it's you talking
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  Speaker 1: to your phone just for you. Maybe it's writing in
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  Speaker 1: a private online blog, whatever way you can get out
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  Speaker 1: some of your feelings. It's going to be so helpful
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  Speaker 1: for you to be able to look back on these
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  Speaker 1: moments when maybe your perspective was shifted, all felt completely lost,
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  Speaker 1: and know, being a little bit removed, that you have
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  Speaker 1: the tools now to get through your deepest, darkest times.
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  Speaker 1: Ask yourself during these moments and as you go forward,
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  Speaker 1: what was it during that time that I was proud
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  Speaker 1: of myself for doing?
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  Speaker 2: What is one thing or two things, or maybe who
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  Speaker 2: knows a handful of things that you would have done differently,
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  Speaker 2: And don't approach that question with a lot of judgment,
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  Speaker 2: And then how can you harness these skills going forward
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  Speaker 2: to better show up to challenges as they continue to arise,
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  Speaker 2: And trust me, they will hurdle moments. They happen for
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  Speaker 2: all of us, but is up to us to show
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  Speaker 2: up as they come, knowing that you can make it
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  Speaker 2: to the other side. Also, one last thing to throw
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  Speaker 2: into the mix here, remember that even when you feel alone,
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  Speaker 2: you aren't alone. There's always going to be someone that
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  Speaker 2: you can talk to about what is going on in
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  Speaker 2: your life, whether it's a dear friend, a family member,
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  Speaker 2: a therapy. Pissed, so chin up and keep pushing.
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  Speaker 1: You've got this. That's it for this week. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: you're following Hurdle Over at Hurdle podcast. I'm over at
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  Speaker 1: Emily and Vadi another hurdle conquered. Catch you guys next time.