27: Creating Your Optimal Health Routine with April Perry
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
We often overcomplicate exercise and eating healthy, but finding a balanced routine that benefits and compliments your individual needs doesn’t have to be difficult. In this conversation, April Perry interviews Robin Long on how to create an optimal health routine and integrating habits that honor your season of life.
Robin discusses how to build strength in all areas of life by using small wins to motivate and build confidence, as well as many other tips you can implement into your own daily routine. Join Robin and April in this enlightening and motivating conversation!
Show Highlights:
- Creating an optimal health routine that’s reflective of personal needs
- How to re-center when life throws you off balance and the many factors of finding a healthy routine
- Being conscious of your tell-tale signs of being off balance
- Integrating small steps to add more movement into your day
- How to establish maintainable habits and challenge yourself without getting discouraged
- Why Pilates so effective and beneficial for the body
- How to get started doing 15 minutes of Pilates a day
- Results and benefits you’ll see from incorporating physical activity in your life
- Learning to have a healthy relationship with food and nourishing your body
Links:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode number 27 with April Perry. |
| 0:03.5 | You actually can get similar benefits as well as like meditation when doing Pilates |
| 0:09.6 | because you're very present. |
| 0:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.9 | Right? |
| 0:12.1 | When you're really listening to what I'm saying or whoever your teacher is and you're |
| 0:16.4 | paying attention to your breath and where your knee is and where your hip is and where |
| 0:20.7 | you feel that |
| 0:21.3 | little burn in your muscle. It's like you are so present. You can't be checking your phone. |
| 0:26.2 | You can't be stressing about, you know, whatever you have to do tomorrow. And so you get those |
| 0:31.5 | benefits of kind of being present, meditation, clearing your mind, refreshing your soul, your spirit, just by also doing a |
| 0:40.4 | physical workout. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:53.9 | Here on the balance life podcast, |
| 0:55.7 | you'll find honest conversations with inspiring women, sharing the real story of how they make |
| 1:01.7 | their life work, what they do, and perhaps more importantly, what they don't do, what they |
| 1:06.8 | prioritize and what they let go of. From food and exercise to work in family, we'll cover it |
| 1:12.9 | all and provide practical tips to help you create your own sense of balance and become the |
| 1:18.8 | healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. Hey friends, welcome back to the podcast. How are you doing? If you're listening to this episode |
| 1:30.0 | around the time it releases, I genuinely want to know how you're doing. It's a crazy time, |
| 1:35.8 | isn't it? I'm at this point as I'm recording this intro. My family has been homebound for, |
| 1:43.1 | gosh, what is it? I don't know, maybe 16 days or so, 17 days. And we're doing |
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