S3 EP16: A New Normal: Getting Back To The Gym
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Depending on where you live, you may be starting to notice businesses opening back up. In some areas, your local gyms may even be starting to come back. Are you ready to go back to the gym? And if you are, what is that experience going to be like? How will your body handle a gym workout after weeks of being cooped up at home, perhaps with limited access to exercise equipment? In today’s episode, we’re going to talk about making the decision to go back to the gym, and if you do decide to do so, how you can safely and effectively get back into your routine.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Making decisions about whether or not it’s safe for you and your family to return to the gym
- Learning from previous times you might have needed to take time off from the gym
- Leaving your ego at home
- Giving yourself grace if you haven’t kept up during the pandemic
- The difference between working out without equipment and working out with equipment
- Respecting your body
- Gym programming at home
- The value of any movement
- Taking your time about getting back into a gym routine
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And this brought up something that a woman in our group said when she listens to the podcast is she said something along the lines of. |
| 0:08.1 | I skipped a couple because I haven't been working out and I didn't and I felt like I was going to go to the principal's office or something. |
| 0:15.2 | I didn't deserve to listen. That's what she said. |
| 0:17.5 | Yes. Yes. It felt like scolding. She was going to feel like |
| 0:21.9 | scolded coming in. And any good coach and any good friend or anyone that loves you, we love you |
| 0:29.0 | no matter what. So I just want to throw that out there. You're like to hear my bad looks. |
| 0:37.7 | We love you no matter what. |
| 0:40.2 | If you are working out every day, we love you. |
| 0:43.4 | If you're struggling to get your fitness in or, you know, you're not getting any in. |
| 0:49.1 | We love you anyway. |
| 0:50.8 | And the podcast is about brain food. |
| 0:54.0 | So we are here to just discuss these things we're not |
| 0:57.4 | here to scold you we're here to talk through topics and work through something with you and |
| 1:02.5 | give our ideas on it and get your feedback and then we do another one to get your ideas and your |
| 1:07.9 | thoughts and you get to hear from us so i just want you when you're having this conversation with your coach to understand |
| 1:14.2 | them as humans who care about you and that are in your corner and aren't judging if you |
| 1:21.5 | have gotten a workout in during a world pandemic. |
| 1:25.6 | Okay? |
| 1:26.4 | And if they are, come on, guys, priorities here, priorities, right? |
| 1:31.9 | Like, let's remember what we just went through and not minimize that. |
| 1:40.0 | The big question is this. |
| 1:43.7 | In a world of fake Instagram models and fad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
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