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Season 2 - Episode 300 - How much are you really moving? · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Welcome to the Good Morning From the Chicken Coop Podcast with
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  Kim Johnson, your creative strategist and mastermind set
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  coach. Filled with inspiration,
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  distinctions, perspectives, and possibilities, we help you to
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  cultivate a mindset that leads you to create the best version
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  of yourself you could ever imagine.
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  Join Kim every morning from one of her favorite happy places,
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  her chicken coop along with all her chickens.
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  Hey everybody, good morning. From the chicken poop you hear
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  all the girls in here like getting cranky.
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  An eagle just flew over and they all were running and the crows
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  were warning everybody ahead of time.
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  It looked like the the scene out here, it was something crazy and
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  the girls are all safe. So all worked out well.
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  OK. So this morning we are talking
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  about the fact that if you are. Not exercising.
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  If you are not moving your body, you are doing yourself a
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  disservice. Because remember, we're talking
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  about energy this week and we're talking about how to raise your
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  level of energy and one of the first things that people go to.
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  Typically is to, you know, put caffeine in their body to get
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  the energy level up. But they forget that one of the
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  most important things that you can do is to actually work out.
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  Like working out is such a huge part of staying healthy, can't
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  begin to express how what a big deal that is.
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  So for me, I walk all day long while I do my coaching sessions
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  with people. It works for me.
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  I love it. I get about anywhere from 20,000
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  to 28,000 steps a day. And I know that sounds like a
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  lot, but it's for me. It's just, it's easy now because
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  I've conditioned myself for it. And when I don't do that kind of
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  number of steps, I feel like crap, quite honestly, because my
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  body's conditioned to keep moving.
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  My body wants to go, go, go, go, go.
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  In addition to that, I have a stationary bike and I ride that
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  pretty much every day. I would guess at least four days
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  a week, sometimes 7, but not always seven I would say.
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  I'm a good solid 5 for the most part and taking the weekends off
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  just because. Most weekends I take it off just
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  because I need a break from having the routines of things,
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  because as well routines are great.
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  Sometimes you just need a little bit of a break for your body to
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  rest. So first and foremost you got to
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  check in and know how much am I moving?
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  Am I actually moving my butt? And this is a really hard
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  distinction for people because once they figure it out and they
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  see it, they're panicked because most of us, I think the last
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  number I saw on this was that most people, while the average
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  number that they tell you to step is 10,000 steps, which in
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  itself is an arbitrary number, but at least it's a target
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  number. Most people don't move 3000
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  steps in an entire day. Think about that.
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  That is like ridiculously low. They get out of bed, they make
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  their breakfast, they do their things, they're on their phone,
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  they get dressed, they get in their car, they drive to their
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  office, they sit in their cube, they work on their computer, on
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  their phone, they get up, they drive home.
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  You know, it's a very mundane, run-of-the-mill common
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  occurrence that does not fuel you for greatness.
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  What it does is it drains your body.
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  Because the more you get sedentary, the more your body
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  becomes used to being sedentary then.
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  So it's the more tired you get, the more tired you get.
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  That's like just the reverse. Like, you know, the more energy
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  you get, the more energy you get.
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  And it's worth the effort. Now I'm a huge unsolicited
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  Fitbit fan. I love my Fitbit because I know
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  I can't destroy the damn thing. I like that it connects to my
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  phone and I can check there too to check out more information
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  than it just gives me on the watch itself.
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  I prefer it over anything that I've ever used just because of
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  the size of it. I don't want it to do all kinds
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  of functions for me. I don't need that.
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  I have a phone for that. I just wanted to do the steps
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  and the heart rate. That's it.
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  Like that's what I wanted to monitor and it's really good at
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  that. So if you are not monitoring
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  your steps, I highly recommend figuring out a way to monitor
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  your steps so you can shock yourself like I did.
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  Because the first time I did this years ago.
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  And when I checked, like I said, I'm going to get a Fitbit to
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  find out how much I'm moving. And when I realized how little I
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  was moving, I was mortified because I was one of those under
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  3000 steps and I was sitting down while I was coaching and I
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  had no energy for my clients and.
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  And I hated it. Not that they knew it, but I had
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  no energy for them and I hated it.
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  And it made me feel like I did not like my job, which is in
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  itself something that can be taking place.
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  Because without movement and air going in, brain fog sets in
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  again. So this is all tied together.
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  Movement exercise. Going to the gym is great.
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  But it can't be the only thing, because if you just go to the
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  gym and you do a limited amount of exercise and then that's it,
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  you you're not doing anything else.
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  Let's say you got run in there and you do 30 minutes of
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  something, you better make sure you're tracking the rest of the
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  day because you can't just do 30 minutes of something and expect
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  change. You really have to hunker down.
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  This is in partnership with nutrition, it's an in
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  partnership with Movement and you've got to be on it.
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  So keep that in the back of your head while you're working
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  through all of this and really start figuring out where am I
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  focused with my exercise movement and what do I want to
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  increase. And really schedule it because
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  it won't happen unless you schedule it.
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  OK my friends, I will see you tomorrow for another talk on
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  energy stuff. Hope you have a blessed day.
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  Bye.