Live Your Personal Best - Workout Motivation and Routine Building For Current and Former Athletes

Did you want to move onto the next chapter of your life once you retired from competitive sports? Don’t we all...but you have to ask yourself if closing that chapter really is the best thing for your health. Think about it; you no longer have coaches, nutritionists, a training schedule, and all the other benefits that come with being a competing athlete. I would say you have an even bigger responsibility of taking care of yourself now more than ever if you ask me.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I talk about my book writing project which covers the topic of life after sport. Listen in to learn the importance of maintaining health and fitness in your life after sport.

Key Takeaways:

• How exercise is first introduced to us as a sport.
• The different unhealthy extremes during and after a sport, and why you should learn balancing in real life.
• The importance of keeping the athlete’s lifestyle even after retiring from the sport.
• Why you feel like you’re failing when you can’t take care of yourself every day as you did as an athlete.
• Reapplying the same things you enjoyed in sports to the next chapter of your life.

Episode Timeline:

• [3:41] How some athletes abandon their athlete identity once they leave the sport.
• [5:47] Why you should learn to take care of yourself after your athletic career.
• [9:59] I challenge you not to cut off completely your former sport.

Quotes:

• “Your first task after you’re done with sports is taking care of yourself.” [5:40]
• “How you take care of yourself as an athlete is different from everyday life.” [8:33]

Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC

Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s that time of the year again when you want to create new goals in the hopes of becoming a better you, right? Does that mean you’re going to ditch what you’ve already been doing so far because, well, it was an unprecedented year after all? But how about thinking of goals that make you feel most energized and fulfilled instead of following what your friend is doing.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I discuss that one key question you need to ask yourself before making those new health and fitness goals for yourself. Listen in to understand how your goals should be a bridge between where you are now and where you want to be.

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of reflecting on what you’ve been doing for your health and fitness before setting a new goal.
• Stop putting yourself down because of what you didn’t do, and instead take note of what did and didn’t happen to help you this year.
• How to let your goals be a bridge between where you are and where you’re going.

Episode Timeline:

• [1:09] Think of the goals you accomplished, adjusted, and what didn’t work for the past year.
• [4:20] How to set goals in relation to your ideal life.
• [8:31] Reflecting on my journey with ‘Girls Gone Healthy’ over the past year, plus 2021 plans.

Quotes:

• “You can’t make goals for the future without knowing what your ideal life looks like.” [5:26]
• “Usually, the days that you’re having the most fun is you’re doing something, you’re creating something.” [4:47]

Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC

Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We all love the snooze button, don’t we? Those extra 10 minutes feels like heaven, if only they could last a little longer... But what’s a few minutes compared to the rest of your day? Because the truth is, that morning hour can either make or break the rest of your day. Sacrificing a few morning minutes will make you feel better the whole day than giving in to instant gratification.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I talk about setting up a successful morning routine- and not the ten-step one you dread. Listen in to learn the benefits of having a productive morning routine.

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of following through with a morning routine to set up the rest of your day.
• Stop sabotaging your day and instead learn to push yourself in the morning to feel better for longer than satisfying instant gratification.
• Boost your productivity by convincing yourself to get up when you initially said you would and give yourself time.
• How to create your own morning schedule that doesn’t necessarily mean waking up at six or having a ten-step morning routine.

Episode Timeline:

• [2:11] Two morning scenarios that can either set or destroy the rest of your day.
• [8:57] Have a plan before going to bed so you don’t have the time to talk yourself out of it in the morning.
• [13:43] How to find your own schedule even when you’re not a morning person.

Quotes:

• “How are you spending that first hour of your day, because that can be a lot of wasted time.” [8:23]
• “Don’t give yourself so much time to think and talk yourself out.” [9:22]

Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC

Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don’t know about you, but I have this mentality of ‘I’m not trying to lose weight but I’m not trying to gain any either’ even though I enjoy eating healthy and working out. We live in a society that promotes thinness and anything other than that is treated unkindly. But think for a moment, what would happen if you took your weight out of the equation in your health and fitness journey?

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I have with me Megan Hadley, a nutrition therapist, and owner of Simple Nutrition. She has helped hundreds of clients recover from diet culture and believes that all bodies are good bodies and that all food is good food. She explains how she uses the principles of getting healthy on her clients without focusing on the weight.

Listen in to learn why most weight loss practices are not sustainable for longer periods. You will also learn about other issues related to food that you can manage other your weight.

Key Takeaways:

• The power of intuitive eating in helping you serve your body better and be less concerned about what you eat.
• Understanding why most weight loss practices are not sustainable for the long-term.
• How food freedom looks like- eating food while honoring your hunger plus moving your body in ways that feel good to you.
• How the right timing of meals can help you to enjoy food better.
• The strategy of approaching healthy eating without the goal of weight loss.
• Why the fear of weight gain is just as harmful as the weight loss pursuit.

Episode Timeline:

• [2:01] Megan describes what she does as a non-diet dietician who uses Health at Every Size informed practice, plus her personal journey with intuitive eating.
• [7:26] How Megan helps women see it’s the system of weight loss that’s not working, not them.
• [16:50] Helping people manage their other issues around food without weight loss as the primary goal.
• [21:13] Megan explains what the Health at Every Size movement means and how she helps her client address their weight gain/ loss issues.

Quotes:

• “We have a lot of these rules to follow as it relates to food and not in a positive way.”- Megan [11:51]
• “As long as weight loss is the most primary goal for a person, you’re always looking at external cues in order to drive your decisions when it comes to food.”- Megan [17:22]
• “There are other measures to health other than weight.”- Megan [23:49]

Connect with Megan: simplenutritioncounseling.com

https://www.instagram.com/nutritionissimple/

Come join the Girls Gone Healthy fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you build long-term habits that are going to help you achieve your goals? It is so often that we fail to achieve our goals simply because we don’t form the necessary habits to get us there. To achieve anything in your life, you have to strategically come up with winning habits that make it easy for you to start and be committed to them. It is also smart to reassess and elevate these goals to ensure you’re maximizing your potential.

Sponsored by Athletic Greens. Get 5 free travel packs and a year’s supply of Vitamin D with your subscription here: www.athleticgreens.com/liveyourpb

In this episode of the Live Your Personal Best podcast, I speak with Gabriella Rosen, a habit formation coach, and the founder of OM Community. She helps people unlock their true potential through habit formation.

Listen in to learn the importance of re-evaluating your habits when they are no longer serving you to get to the outcome.

Key Takeaways:

• The importance of clarifying where you want to go and why you want it.
• Think of the easiest thing you can do to achieve momentum to get to your outcome.
• How to use return on decision- assess what you will achieve with your decisions’ outcome.
• Learning how to strategically start on your goals and have the chance of achieving them.
• The continuous process of habit formation and why you need to continue reassessing them.
• How overcoming your negative chatter allows you to form a positive mindset and accomplish your goals.
• The power of being committed to your goals over being interested.

Episode Timeline:

• [1:41] Gabriella on how she discovered her gift in habit formation and nurtured it.
• [4:36] Gabriella’s three steps to help you form long-term habits.
• [9:23] The two ways to choose the best habits to start with, in your habit formation journey.
• [12:16] How to start slow with your habits and continue elevating them.
• [13:30] How the ‘monkey mind’ and not being committed will stop you from forming long-term habits.
• [19:57] The importance of reassessing and redefining your outcome to build momentum.

Quotes:

• “No matter who you are you need help with habits; it’s always going to take your life to that next level.”- Gabriella [2:31]
• “It’s all about that person that you’re trying to become; that person who finishes, that person who closes.”- Gabriella [6:09]
• “If you’re truly committed, then all the valleys you get along the way, you’re going to keep on going.”- Gabriella [17:36]
• “There’s always multiple methods to get you to your goals, to get you to accomplish your thing.”- Gabriella [22:02]

Connect with Gabriella:

https://www.gabriellaom.com

Join the community!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiCYot1soCZKP8lBkl1cIA

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liveyourpb/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/personalbesties

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices