MOTHERHOOD IN FOCUS: Annie Thorisdottir On Body Acceptance & Handling Negative Feedback
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Leading up to Mother's Day, I'm chatting with six extraordinary women. Some moms. Some not. But, each has a story to tell, forever shaped by the women that came before them.
Today on the show I’m talking to Annie Thorisdottir, CrossFit’s 2x Fittest Woman on Earth. The Reebok-sponsored athlete is, like Sarah Larson Levey who I spoke with earlier this week, a new mom of a pandemic-born baby. We talk about how Annie navigated critical feedback on her workouts during pregnancy as well as her timeline to getting back in the swing of things after having her baby Freya. She also shares the one thing that could make her withdraw from the 2021 CrossFit Games and she offers up essential advice to any new mom just trying to make it from day to day.
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| 0:00.0 | I am just going to put on the spaying soda and I'm just going to be proud of my body and I'm proud of |
| 0:04.5 | what I've done and there's nothing I would change. I have this baby role and that's what I want in |
| 0:10.4 | and I look the way that I look and if people need to judge they will just have to get to judge |
| 0:15.4 | for it and I'm proud of doing that but I also admit it was really really hard for me. |
| 0:30.5 | Hey everyone, Emily Abadi here bringing you another installment of this week's special |
| 0:40.4 | in focus series on motherhood. Leading up to mother's day, I am chatting with six extraordinary |
| 0:46.8 | women, some moms, some not, but each of them with a story to tell forever shaped by the women |
| 0:53.6 | that came before them. Today for the show, I am chatting with Annie Thoris' daughter. She is |
| 0:59.1 | CrossFit's two times fittest woman on earth. The Reebok sponsored athlete is a new mom of a pandemic |
| 1:06.4 | born baby. In today's episode, we talk about all of it from how she got into sport to what it was |
| 1:13.1 | like when she found out that she was pregnant. We also chat about how Annie navigated critical |
| 1:19.2 | feedback on her workouts during pregnancy as well as her timeline to getting back into the |
| 1:24.0 | swing of things after having her baby, Freya. She also shares the one thing that could make her pull |
| 1:31.0 | back leading up to the CrossFit Games and give some seriously helpful advice to any other new mom |
| 1:37.8 | struggling just to handle the day today. I want to thank her sponsor Reebok so much for connecting us |
| 1:44.3 | and they're doing something awesome. They are offering up one lucky herdler a pair of the new |
| 1:50.4 | NANO X1 as well as a pair for a friend too. To enter for your chance to win, head on over in |
| 1:57.6 | to Apple Podcasts, rate and review the show and make sure to send me a screen grab to hello at |
| 2:04.4 | hurdle.us. I'll be choosing one lucky winner next Thursday, May 13th at 9 a.m. Eastern time. |
| 2:13.9 | Before we get into it today, I do want to just take a second to say thank you. I feel so much |
| 2:19.6 | love from this community lately and I hope that you are feeling it from my end as well. If you aren't |
| 2:26.4 | a member yet, I would love for you to join the Secret Herdler's Facebook group there. There is |
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