Working Out After College Sports + Learning to love movement again

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

"Am I still an athlete even if I'm not on a team anymore?" In this week's episode, Victoria dishes on her journey to embrace working out and movement after college sports.

After a post-grad workout hiatus, Victoria's spent the last four years totally revamping her relationship with fitness! From redefining what counts as a workout to her clever "3-a-week" consistency strategy, Victoria opens up about shifting her mindset on movement. Now, she focuses on enhancing her life, rather than changing her looks—kicking the toxic societal pressures to the curb.

BIG thanks to Nike Women for sponsoring this episode. So head on over to Nike.com today to discover all the ways that Nike helps you feel your all.

Whether you're fresh out of college athletics or just ditching society's unrealistic fitness standards, this value-packed episode is a must-listen!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.9	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host Victoria Garrick and this is the podcast where we hold nothing
0:09.6	back. Oh, so we're getting deep huh? I've really cried for 12 days straight. Why do I want to be
0:15.5	perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect. Every week I'll bring you honest, unfiltered
0:20.7	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:26.3	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my god, am I going to cry? Let me just
0:30.6	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:46.1	Alrighty everybody, welcome back to RealPod. I don't know how I haven't done this episode sooner because
0:53.3	it's just something that every athlete experiences when they retire, quit, move on from sport.
1:02.8	And there's not really a perfect way to go about it. It's sort of an individual journey for everyone,
1:10.0	just depending on your relationship to sports, fitness, working out. And I thought I would hop on
1:16.0	and just share what it's been like for me in case that would help some of you because I remember
1:22.7	feeling like what is going on? Before we dive in, I want to give a big special thanks and shout out
1:29.5	to Nike women for sponsoring this episode. Nike, you guys know I love Nike. I'm literally wearing
1:35.8	gongs right now. My cute gray cream ones. You got to have forces. Nike is not just for athletes.
1:43.2	It's for every woman, every occasion. And I just love Nike's mission, which celebrates all women,
1:49.2	all forms of movement. I wore Nike for four years at SC and I still wear it now. So thank you,
1:54.7	Nike women. I think I'm going to start by where my head was at the second that I played my last
2:01.9	volleyball game ever because that's really the start of life after sport, specifically fitness after
2:08.2	sport. Coming out of my final year at USC, I was in this state of mind where I didn't even want to
2:17.1	think about working out. I didn't even want to sweat. And if someone was working out, I'd like,
2:23.3	don't look at me. Like that's how off put I was by any sort of fitness because I was coming from
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