5-MINUTE FRIDAY: On Breaking Things Up Into Little Doables
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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This morning, I had to pivot and I was better for it. Today, I'm talking about accepting the shift, and how the lesson from my morning workout carries over into a lot of aspects of my life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Emily Abadi here coming to you from the AG studio. |
| 0:25.4 | You are listening to this week's installment of five minute Friday from hurdle. This week, |
| 0:32.4 | I want to talk about breaking things into little doables. And what got me thinking about |
| 0:39.0 | this was my workout this morning. I had set out to do a run that was going to be broken |
| 0:46.3 | up into three segments, so to speak. So you started with your warm up, then you had the |
| 0:52.4 | book of the workout, then you had the cool down. The book of the workout was meant to be three |
| 0:58.8 | different intervals running two miles, then one mile, then a half mile and resting about, |
| 1:07.0 | I think it was two minutes between each segment. And I was in the middle of the first set, |
| 1:13.5 | the first two mile block, and approaching the one mile mark when I kind of did this gut |
| 1:21.2 | check. And this happens from time to time during a workout where I'm like, either I'm just not |
| 1:27.4 | feeling this or, you know, I start to play some mental gymnastics. Sometimes I can work through |
| 1:33.2 | the mental gymnastics, but other times I just have to listen to my gut and call it for what it was. |
| 1:39.7 | And I felt as though during my morning effort, at that point, about to approach the one mile mark |
| 1:46.0 | that I would be better for breaking this one up into smaller little doables. And so without shame or |
| 1:55.2 | guilt or whatever, I just decided to do it. So rather than the proposed, as I might say, Rx, |
| 2:05.6 | I did one mile, I took a 90 second break, I did another mile, I took a 90 second break, |
| 2:12.9 | then I did three repeats of a half mile with 60 seconds in between each. And although it wasn't |
| 2:19.8 | what I started out intending to do, it felt really good to still go out there and get the same |
| 2:31.8 | training stimulus for the most part. Really work through some of the mental hurdles that I was |
| 2:39.4 | approaching, being like, I don't know if this is my day, I don't know if I can do this. And stay |
| 2:44.3 | the course. You know, there are so many times in life where we hope that things are going to be |
| 2:49.9 | one way and they end up another. And so many times, especially when it comes to activity that |
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