I wanted to talk about my relationship with working out.

So this is not necessarily a This is how I workout video as much as it is.

These are my tips to really starting to love the process of working out.

I think where I came from at the beginning, like when I was growing up, is that while I was sports adjacent, I just really wasn't in it for the right reasons.

Like one time I joined the tennis team and, you know, I went to sort of a smaller school.

So my tennis team had, like, 12 spots open in all 10 of us who tried out, made it.

Yours truly made the tennis team, and my first match honestly was me approaching the net and stuff with the ball and whatever.

And I honestly was like, What do I do?

I don't know what I'm doing here, and the girl that I was up against was like, Have you even played tennis before?

And the joke was on her because I hadn't.

So that was sort of my background with working out and sports and all that was I didn't have good enough justification for it.

So I want to talk through all of that in a little bit, but just wanted to kind of approach how I originally viewed fitness in general and how I've grown to love it today.

And so today I want to talk through my journey to fitness and also nine tips on how you like me could find yourself working out and actually loving it.

Even though you might not consider yourself an athlete, my first tip is to make it a hobby.

While I never even used to consider going to a gym and like being a rat on a wheel, more or less, I just have a really unhealthy view of that.

And now, like I have my own fitness equipment like this is a far far stretch from anything I ever thought I would even like to dio.

And how I got there is by finding work out activities that really just our fun, fun, fun.

So when Zach and I moved to Virginia, we ended up loving to go trail Running trails were right outside our house.

We had beautiful like mountain trails that we could just hop on, and it was like being in sort of a park environment.

You're running up and down like all of these inclines, which really helped because I don't know if you've ever worked out with your significant other, but it's not always.

It's not always equal playing field.

He's like a foot taller than me, and he's so much faster than me.

So by running up and down hills like it was just more fun, it was It was, honestly, just a really great time, and so something we look forward to that just enabled me to have really good form because you might run on a treadmill.

Okay, But if you're in the mountains and you're like going up and down out of fast pace, there is just no way that you can not trip if you have bad form.

Now I lift up my knees a lot more like I've got a really good strong pace, and that was not me the first day.

So the first day might be incredibly awkward.

Whatever you want to go and try to do.

I know a couple that goes kayaking down the Cumberland River here in Tennessee, like just find something fun.

So that's my first tip, is just make it a hobby.

Find something fun to do that is a little bit more active and just see how you feel about it.

It might be something you don't do forever, but having a really healthy relationship with just getting out there and having fun is the goal that leads me to my next tip, which is to just rip the band Aid off.

It is going to feel so awkward to get out there and try a new activity.

It might mean that you're a little bit less prepared then you otherwise would have been if you, your regular at something like the first day that we went trail running.

We were not ready.

Like now we carry Benadryl in case there's like a bee sting or whatever.

And now we're prepared.

We have the right shoes, the right equipment and day one.

You probably are not gonna feel that perfect, like you're not gonna have the right tools and all that.

So just get ready for not the perfect workout for not the perfect experience, but just to get in the habit of a new thing that you're doing makes running or working out or whatever it is that you're doing so much more fun, then just like going to the gym every day, like mix up your routine.

My next step is to get ready.

So there might be times where I'm just working out in my house.

And if I just look like a hot mess in the mirror, it's not gonna be quite as motivating as when you're looking through like Instagram under fits, Bo, And you're able to see, like all of these really inspiring, beautiful people.

And just to be able to look in the mirror and you have kind of, like worked on your hair a little bit.

Or, um, maybe you've put on a little bit more makeup like workout makeup, you know, like maybe a little lip gloss or something in your eyebrows or or something like that, where you just feel a little bit more confident in what you're gonna do when you look in the mirror, then say, Oh, I'm just gonna be a hot mess Anyways, I'm not gonna bother.

That comes through in my workouts.

If I've been looking the mirror and I feel just that much more confident.

That's a win.

That means I'm gonna work on my form Better, like everything just sort of falls into place.

Next comes with outfits, So same sort of principle where I want to find confidence in what I see in the mirror when you're working out.

It does tend to matter if you look in the mirror, especially if you're working out in the gym in its public environment and you find out that your leggings were just a little bit more see through than you thought like those moments.

I mean, it just makes such a difference when you can invest in your workout gear.

And so that's my next tip is to really just work on your outfit like make it something that you feel flattering in.

I know that when I like before I worked out, really, I hadn't invested in the right shoes or or in the right like tops and stuff.

So what would happen is my workout gear would be maybe a dingy old T shirt I had from like five years ago and maybe some shorts that really didn't fit me right in the first place, and I just work out in those You know what that ended up doing is it made me less confident.

And it made me less equipped for whatever I needed to d'oh next stick to it for 30 days.

I mean, actually, consecutively 30 days.

And when I've spoken about this in the past, sometimes I'll get pushed back like, Whoa, Bethany like it's not actually healthy toe workout for 30 days in a row where a year in a row or whatever it is that time line that you want to push work.

And what I would say is, yeah, I agreed.

But what I schedule off for that day, I have put in the amount of time that want to actually block off for every single date.

Right now, I'm doing two hours every single day, Monday through Friday and then my weekends, where I don't really have much flexibility.

I will add, like, 30 minute blocks for those two days, but I want 30 consecutive days of time where I blocked off to actually work out.

And that doesn't mean that I'm doing straight up like hard cored hit classes.

And like all of this junk every single day, like some days might be more on the yoga and stretching side than it is to hit those, like highest points of my heart rate as I can get it type of things.

I want to respect my body and, like, what is telling me?

I might want to back off from doing as hard of work out as I normally would, because I want to be able to do it tomorrow.

You know, I think a really healthy way to view this.

My friend's mom used to run all the time, and so I said, like, How do you do that?

Like, where do you find the motivation to wake up and just be like I'm gonna do it again today, even though it's pouring rain outside or whatever, and I want to go and run outside?

What she told me was, it's just like brushing your teeth.

It was part of her day as much as it was to wake up and brush your teeth.

She would wake up, put on her workout gear and just go and run one mile in a day, and that was what she did.

And I was like, That's game changing advice to just be able to be like it's just part of my routine.

It's just like brushing your teeth.

My next tip is music, so if you're doing something where you actually listen to music.

Meanwhile, I think that it's so powerful because even though I am not a qualified dancer at all, it is not rare for me to dance while I'm even running on the treadmill like I love a good beat.

I love a good tempo if I can hit my feet to the rhythm of just some song out there like that is what gets me going.

So I am really particular about, like the music, genre and stuff.

So be sensitive to like what you really, really love, like what songs you love.

And then you'll find yourself pushing just a little bit more than otherwise.

My next tip for working out if you really cannot find the energy to, is to make it a game, so that will push you through those moments where you just really don't wanna.

It's this idea in design that we have called Gamification, and that sounds like such a weird, nerdy way to explain this.

But briefly all it is is this idea of just not missing a day, this idea of carrying on a street, a lot of people when you when they designed a game to play, Whether it's like I don't know, Simms or whatever else, there's ways to be able to encourage people to keep going.

And that's why I would use any sort of tool that you have to your advantage that can either give you a push notification on your phone to remind you to go do that thing in 15 minutes that you said you were gonna or else I would say Thio even just have, like, a printed out calendar where you are literally giving yourself a gold star every single day that you work out.

And just not breaking the chain is a beautiful idea on how to encourage yourself through this idea of making it a game.

A lot of you guys asked me for my workout routine, so I'll briefly touch that here because it has to do more with Gamification than anything else.

I use a bunch of APS, so it really helps because of the push, notifications and the reminders, and also just to keep track of all my progress, so I use a couple workout apse.

One is the sweat up, and that's more for, like at home based workouts and keeping track of which cardio workouts have done.

And then it also helps me for, like, ideas on what sort of circuits to dio at home and also plugs in with my Apple music.

So that really works for me on.

And then we made a big shift in our lifestyle when we moved away from our Virginia trails, and now we're in Nashville.

It is not quite like I can just run out my door into the trail's anymore.

So Zach and I decided we would invest in the pellet on equipment.

But you can just use their app if you don't want to use the pellet on equipment or if you don't have space for it in your house like it does take up a good bit of space.

But having a workout room has really helped us and just having encouragement from the pallet on equipment.

It's so good because you can take life classes and the instructors like call you out, and that's like, so motivating.

And then it's also sort of a race because if you want to actually keep up with the leaderboard, you can.

And it also plugs in with my heart rate monitor, So keeping track of that is really good.

I'll get to that in a second, but just having equipment that encourages you has been really good.

I also use a nap called progress, and that's where I keep track of my measurements.

Ah, lot of you guys asked me for comparisons on Like it What's my weight and what's my height?

I'll gladly tell you on five foot one, but I don't even keep track of my own weight because I feel like it's just not a good measurement if you build muscle that's gonna influence your weight, too.

And it's not necessarily a bad thing.

Your weight.

You know, it's weird to sort of compare yourself on that metric.

So instead I use measurements.

I measured my bicep, my ways to my hips, my thighs on, and I do all that through my progress at so that leads me to my next point, which is to track your measurements.

I want to have a really healthy relationship with how fast I get my heart rate going during cardio, so I wear a really accurate little heart re monitor.

I can link you guys to this if you want to look into something like that.

But that helps me not go too hard.

And I think that it's easy to do that with some workouts.

And it also is very easy to not really put in very much effort.

And then you think that you are and that sort of it's all just like mindset, right?

And speaking of mine said, It's also mindset on things that I want to track.

I read a really good book.

I can link you guys too.

I can't remember a thing of it right now.

But it spoke Thio fitness and measurements as like one small chapter of the whole book.

And I loved the advice in this, which is to track your measurements more frequently rather than you know once every six months, because then it's not defeating, right.

So whatever sort of fitness goals that you want to track, whether that is taking your measurements or you know how slow you can get your heart rate working harder on sort of some sort of cardio.

Whatever it is you fill in the blank, the more frequently that you tracked that, the less defeating it will be.

And I just feel like it's much more likely that I if I don't take that advice I'm tracking like every six months.

And then I feel defeated.

So it's good to be able to track more frequently.

And my final tip, which is honestly, my top tip is to have a reason for working out.

So a lot of times when I didn't have a good relationship with fitness at all, or like going to the gym or any of that stuff I didn't see or why I didn't see a reason for it.

And now I've learned that it's not just about like looking good, right?

Like for some people case close, that's all it is for fitness.

But for me, like I just want to be more agile, like I want to be able to move without things creaking and clicking.

I want to be able to just be able to jump in and stuff when I'm like 80 90 years old, like I want to be able to be active so it's more for my future self than anything else that I really wanna work out.

So that's my why that's my reason.

And I also want to have fun doing it.

So going back to my first hip like make it a hobby, making something enjoyable, make it something that you look forward to.

And that, in a nutshell, is how I moved from being this sort of like a non athlete.

I'm still not an athlete, but I now enjoy working out.

I enjoy waking up and running is now part of my life.

I love it.

I even like biking.

I think I did a video last year.