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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Embrace reel podcast. Really, really excited about today's episode because we are chatting all about

cardio. I for years especially in college was considered a cardio bunny I loved my

cardio I thought that cardio was the only way to build the body that I wanted

and I know that so many other women are in the same boat as me just speaking with

thousands of women on a weekly basis and just kind of hearing like well is strain training going of And so I want to kind of break this down and my podcast today is all about five reasons why I stop doing cardio only workouts and I do want to say I still do cardio on a weekly basis. It's just a lot shorter than what I used to do.

And some honestly, some weeks I don't do cardio, but it's kind of just how I feel and

the fact of the matter is my workout routine doesn't revolve around cardio

anymore I used to literally spend you guys one to two hours a day doing cardio like

in college find me in the college gym on the elliptical machine or on the

stair master or on the treadmill at least a minimum of one hour, sometimes even two hours.

And so I know what it's like to feel enslaved to cardio.

And so I wanted to just kind of bring awareness to this.

And hopefully this will connect with some of you guys

and I now realize that it's honestly one of the worst things

that I could have done for the results

and for the things that I was looking to accomplish

in my health and fitness journey.

So in this episode, that's exactly what I'm going to accomplish in my health and fitness journey.

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