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#HURDLEMOMENT: It's Time for a Pep Talk · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Dwell impossibility instead of fear, and you just might catch
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  Speaker 1: a necessary glimpse of your own potential. Hey, Hurdler's Emily
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  Speaker 1: and Badi here bringing you another installment of Hurdle Moment
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  Speaker 1: from Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where I sit down
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  Speaker 1: with inspiring individuals to talk about everything from their big
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  Speaker 1: wins to how they've gotten through some of life's toughest moments.
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  Speaker 1: On the show, you can expect vulnerability, motivation, and candid
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  Speaker 1: discussions with everyone from top athletes to aspiring entrepreneurs on
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  Speaker 1: what it really takes to follow your passions. My mission
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  Speaker 1: is simple to inspire you to be your best self,
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  Speaker 1: move with intention, and have some fun along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you I have been having a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun this week because, man, the feedback from
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  Speaker 1: Monday's Day's episode takes me over the moon. Not to
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  Speaker 1: mention that this week Hurdle celebrated a massive, massive milestone
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  Speaker 1: which wouldn't have been possible without each and every single
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  Speaker 1: one of you, and that is one million lessens.
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  Speaker 2: If I had an applause machine, I would be using
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  Speaker 2: that right now.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, this week, I am here to give you the
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  Speaker 1: pep talk that maybe you've been looking for I have
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  Speaker 1: recorded about being on the injured list before, but I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, more than ever, so many of you are
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  Speaker 1: reaching out to me asking about how to cope when
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  Speaker 1: you're not feeling one hundred percent, And today I've got
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  Speaker 1: a pep talk for you. It makes sense, really, if
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  Speaker 1: you think about it. You know that so many people
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  Speaker 1: are so worried about being injured right now, maybe more
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  Speaker 1: so than usual. You see before, when they didn't involve
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  Speaker 1: social distancing or masks in public, or twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: spent within a five hundred square foot box.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just speaking from.
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  Speaker 1: Personal experience, it was perhaps a little bit easier to
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  Speaker 1: find ways to cope with injury. Not that it didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the injury itself suck less, but when you're able
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  Speaker 1: to go out with friends for dinner, or leisurely make
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  Speaker 1: your way home from the office, stopping in stores as detours,
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  Speaker 1: or anything that just didn't have you sitting around the
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  Speaker 1: house for hours on end with your thoughts, those things
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  Speaker 1: all made it seem less overwhelming. But here we are
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  Speaker 1: looking everywhere and anywhere for ways to deal with that
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  Speaker 1: anxious feeling, that's stuck feeling, and for so many of us,
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  Speaker 1: that outlet is often activity, and when you're injured, well
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  Speaker 1: it's tough.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me. I know.
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned in last week's Five Minute Friday, I
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  Speaker 1: am dealing personally with some unknown stuff in my.
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  Speaker 2: Left tip region. I don't know exactly what is causing
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  Speaker 2: me this pain.
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  Speaker 1: It could be something like a versiitis or perhaps something
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  Speaker 1: with my SI joint, which sounds fancy, but I do
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  Speaker 1: know this. I am not running right now, and again,
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  Speaker 1: when running is your coping mechanism for all things that
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  Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable or hard, it is hard to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how to better handle uncomfortable and hard things. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we can draw a lot of comparisons between physical injury
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  Speaker 1: and emotional wounds. Right physical and emotional pain, they hurt
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  Speaker 1: in different ways, and many of us are for sure
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  Speaker 1: experiencing one of those at least right now. Both prevent
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  Speaker 1: us from going about as we once did, and oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: they leave us wanting more, and of course both can
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  Speaker 1: also have us changing our workout habits. I know I
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  Speaker 1: have gone through some tough stuff in my personal life
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  Speaker 1: that has made it hard to get out of this,
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  Speaker 1: just like these days, waking up naturally at six point
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  Speaker 1: fifty two and asking myself, if I'm not running, what's
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  Speaker 1: the rush to go anywhere? But here's the thing, there's hope,
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  Speaker 1: and today I am here to do you a solid
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  Speaker 1: I am here to be your hype man, your hype willman.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes a little bit of motivation can help you turn
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  Speaker 1: the corner, you know, And I may not have all
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  Speaker 1: of the answers you're looking for, but I can encourage
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  Speaker 1: you to find them and brace change and show up
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  Speaker 1: again as always.
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  Speaker 2: Hit me up on social media.
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  Speaker 1: It's at Hurdle Podcasts at Emily a Body on Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a Hurdle moment of your own to share.
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  Speaker 1: If this one really hits home, I'd love to hear
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  Speaker 1: from you. Shoot me an email over at Emily at
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  Speaker 1: hurdle dot us. And as soon as you are done
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  Speaker 1: listening to this, if you haven't done so already, I
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  Speaker 1: would be elated if you'd head on over to the
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  Speaker 1: iTunes store, rate and review the podcast and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that you're subscribed.
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  Speaker 2: With that, let's get to heartline.
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  Speaker 1: There are things we're gonna go through and they're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be easy. This injury, it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: like a bad first kiss or missing your subway stop.
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  Speaker 1: It's anything but desirable. First and foremost, I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 1: you in on something that maybe you've forgotten in all
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  Speaker 1: of this chaos. You have a lot to offer beyond
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  Speaker 1: the thing that your injury is preventing you in doing.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know some days it doesn't feel like that.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you the things I would do
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  Speaker 1: to tackle track repeats in this very moment, to sprint
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  Speaker 1: all out and be totally breathless. But for just a second,
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  Speaker 1: think about all the great things you bring to the table.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you got a great smile, a warm heart, compassion,
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  Speaker 1: and hey, perhaps a great sense of humor. If you
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  Speaker 1: close your eyes in this very moment and pretend that
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  Speaker 1: nothing is quote unquote wrong with your body, all of
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  Speaker 1: those things, those positive attributes that make you, they're still there.
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  Speaker 2: So let's start with remembering that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also gonna remind you, even though you may not
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  Speaker 1: want to hear it, there is a reason that setbacks happen.
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  Speaker 1: Oftentimes we want to place blame, complain, We might not
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  Speaker 1: choose to see the bright side. But for just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: what if I reframed this particular injury as an opportunit tunity.
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  Speaker 1: What if perhaps slowing down was something that your body
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  Speaker 1: has been wanting for quite some time. As I record
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  Speaker 1: this in the age of coronavirus, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: science that's coming out about how right now, the last
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  Speaker 1: thing our bodies really need is loads of extra strain.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, we just need to do the things that
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  Speaker 1: make us feel good, not the things that have us
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  Speaker 1: headed back to bed because we are so sore we
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  Speaker 1: can't move a single centimeter.
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  Speaker 2: So back to opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: When you are not focused on the thing that you'd
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  Speaker 1: be doing if everything was quote unquote fine, what other
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  Speaker 1: things can you take on now that you're not giving
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  Speaker 1: your time elsewhere? Forget the injury for a moment, the setback,
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  Speaker 1: think about what else it is? What else do you
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  Speaker 1: want to do? Perhaps there's been something that you've been
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  Speaker 1: avoiding that you need to do. If I had to
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  Speaker 1: estimate on average perk, I'd spend about seven hours running
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  Speaker 1: seven hours That is almost an entire work day. Please,
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  Speaker 1: who am I giving? Some days I do not even
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  Speaker 1: work for seven hours. Okay, So if you decide that
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  Speaker 1: you want to spend your time equivalent still moving, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm not personally. You can ask yourself, what is it
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  Speaker 1: that I can do that makes me better with this time?
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  Speaker 1: For me, that's stability work, single like deadlifts and glop
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  Speaker 1: bridges and core work and planks. It's so many of
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  Speaker 1: the things that feel otherwise tedious, but right now I
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  Speaker 1: know that they are a lifeline. But let's for a
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  Speaker 1: second think beyond movement. Not that I'm saying that your
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  Speaker 1: injury should stop you from moving all together. There is
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  Speaker 1: always some way to move, even if it isn't the
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  Speaker 1: way that you used to.
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  Speaker 2: But what if you.
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  Speaker 1: Took all of that time and started that thing you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know exactly the thing that I'm talking about, the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you've been thinking about forever, the.
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  Speaker 2: Thing that you kept making excuses for.
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  Speaker 1: What if now this injury it's happening to give you
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  Speaker 1: the push that you need to show up for yourself again.
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  Speaker 1: I know you might not want to hear it, but
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  Speaker 1: I am here to tell it to you anyway.
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  Speaker 2: You are great, You are capable. I know it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there so many times that I am there
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  Speaker 1: right now, But you have conquered so many hurdles before this,
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  Speaker 1: and you will conquer this. You just have to start
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  Speaker 1: by believing that you can. Thinking positive instead of negative,
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  Speaker 1: being optimistic instead of hopeless. Hope is a beautiful thing
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  Speaker 1: and once you choose it, the sky is the limit.
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  Speaker 1: I hope for you is that you embrace the now,
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  Speaker 1: embrace this injury and learn from it. Open yourself up
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  Speaker 1: to the possibility that you can be better. You will
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  Speaker 1: be better. You are bigger than this. You are bigger
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  Speaker 1: than this. Dwell in possibility instead of fear, and you
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  Speaker 1: just might catch a necessary glimpse of your own potential.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your chin up and as always, I am here
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  Speaker 1: for you. This hurdle, the next hurdle, and all the
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  Speaker 1: hurdles to come at Hurdle Podcast at Emily Abadi Another
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  Speaker 1: hurdle soon to be conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time. He