#HURDLEMOMENT: How to Actually Like At-Home Workouts
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Change is hard. Right now, we're dealing with a lot of it. A great way to boost your mood and handle tough stuff? Work out! Not exactly the easiest thing when you may not have a lot of space and you're struggling to find the motivation. Today, I'm talking you through the approach to at-home workouts that's working for me, and offering you some best-practice tips that can make the whole thing a lot more enjoyable.
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| 0:00.0 | It's okay if it feels hard because honestly it is. Change is hard. There are going to be some days where you walk away halfway through. |
| 0:07.9 | But the important thing is that you're not so hard on yourself that you wake up the next day and you appreciate the opportunity to try again, to try something new. |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah. again to try something new. Hey, hurdlers, Emily Abadi checking in with another installment of Hurtle moment from Hurtle. |
| 0:39.1 | This week, I am chatting with you about how I am currently mixing up my workout routine, |
| 0:46.3 | not just because of this whole coronavirus thing, but because, as I mentioned, a few times |
| 0:52.7 | over the past couple of weeks, I am dealing with |
| 0:55.3 | some hip stuff. I'm trying to get stronger. I want to be better. And so I figured that sharing |
| 1:00.8 | the ways that I am diversifying my workout might inspire you to mix things up yourself. So I'll be |
| 1:07.9 | chatting about best strategies to stick with those at-corn workouts to keep it going. |
| 1:14.1 | The first hurdle I would say right now when it comes to fitness is accepting that things aren't as they have been and are going to be different for a little while. |
| 1:23.9 | Instead of wasting your energy on the things that you can't control if you focus on what |
| 1:28.9 | you can control if you go into this whole working out thing with a good attitude then you might |
| 1:34.8 | just be able to find some new habits that will stick to be honest I think for the first month |
| 1:42.2 | or so I was having trouble getting out of the, it would be so |
| 1:46.3 | great if I could just do X or Y mentality. |
| 1:50.3 | And once I kind of took a deep breath and I let that go and I opened myself up to new ways |
| 1:55.8 | and forms and functions and approaches, I'm starting to actually like my new way of doing things. As always, |
| 2:04.0 | at Emily Abadi, at Hurdle podcast on Instagram and Twitter. If you have a hurdle moment of your own |
| 2:09.1 | share, you want to say hi. I'm always available over email. It's Emily at hurdle.orgal.us. |
| 2:15.5 | I'd love to hear from you and know what is it that I can be doing for you |
| 2:19.4 | to support you in this time? What is it that you want more of? Are you liking the five |
| 2:23.7 | minute Fridays? Give me feedback. And of course, please make sure if you are not subscribed |
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