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Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Embrace reel podcast. I am so incredibly grateful that you are here spending some time with you today. I'm really excited about today's

episode. This is one that I honestly wish I would have had a few years ago

when I was considering working out from home and in that moment I feel like

if I would have had a podcast like this that kind of just broke down the pros and cons of working

out from home versus the gym. I would have looked at home

workouts a lot differently because for years and years I would say I really got

into weightlifting and I really kind of started my fitness journey in the end of 2012 beginning of 2013 and I would say from 2013 to 2018 I really looked at home workouts as something that were wimpy. I didn't think that they were

good workouts. And I mean looking back now I think I laugh because I think about how long you know for the last three years now

I've been strictly dumbbell at home workouts and I'm in the best shape of my life

I feel the strongest mentally physically all physically, all of the things.

But in that moment and in that mindset,

I really did not think that home workouts were

something that would work for me in order to see results.

I thought that I had to work out in a gym and it would

honestly give me anxiety if I couldn't work out within a gym I felt like I didn't get a good

workout and even if I was doing like an intense climb or something outside I still had this mindset that the only

workout that counted as a workout was inside a gym and so I just kind of wanted to share this

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