Podcast Episode 295: 3 Ways to Sneak in Exercise: Finding Time When You’re Always Too Busy Transcripts

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JoAnn Crohn: So it’s all about, this idea of training for the life we want. That is what we are looking for in exercise. We’re training for the life we want. We don’t want to be held up by aches and pains and feeling like that we’re weak. 

Welcome to the No Guilt Mom podcast. I’m your host JoAnn Crohn joined here by the lovely Brie Tucker.

Brie Tucker: Hello. Hello, everybody. How are you?

JoAnn Crohn: We’re talking about something that I think a lot of people have this struggle, Brie. I know that we’ve talked about it a lot and I’ve tried to get you to come over to my side of it a Yeah. Yeah. It’s well, I’ve got a lot of baggage with it, but we’ll talk about that in the 

Oh, I’m interested in the baggage. So this is coming from a question that we received at our No Guilt Mom inbox, which is [email protected] by the way, if you have any questions that you want us to tackle on the podcast, but shout out to Emily for this. She said, how do I. Fit exercise into my busy schedule with kids and prioritize me.

And more importantly, get the motivation as I’m always going to do the other thing over this. I’m curious what you do to make it work with your schedule. And that’s exactly what we’re going to tackle today. Especially like how to do it when you don’t want to do it. That’s something I struggle with a lot, Brie. I know you probably struggle with it

Brie Tucker: Oh, a ton, because you know me. I hate. Exercising. I despise it with every bone in my body and nothing irritates me more. It’s like nails on chalkboard when people are like, Exercise gives you endorphins and endorphins make you happy! And it’s like, shut up. It does not.

JoAnn Crohn: It does

Brie Tucker: My body must be allergic to them then because it does not happen.

JoAnn Crohn: oh, I have a story about that. Okay. Well, we are going to get into all things exercise. So if you’re an exercise hater, like Brie, this is the episode for you.

Brie Tucker: also, okay, before we get on with the show. So this episode is not only for people like me, but it’s also for people like you. This literally is a episode where we are going to be like pro and cons and working it out together. So yeah, so this, this, no matter where you are

JoAnn Crohn: you say that and I’m like, I’m gonna win. no Gosh,

Brie Tucker: matter where you are in the spectrum of exercise, You are going to be invested in this episode. That’s what I got to say.

JoAnn Crohn: Yes. So now let’s get on with the show.

So we were talking about this the other day, Brie, about our events that we go to, like podcast conferences and we run the no guilt mom retreat and at these events, I completely like bonk out. Like, I mean, I’m like going, go and go in for two days, really high energy.

And then all of a sudden I hit the wall and I am done for, I mean, the best example is that the no guilt mom retreat where like. My back started hurting me and I was like under the table on the floor when other speakers were talking.

Brie Tucker: Well,

JoAnn Crohn: Yes. Cause I was so tired. It’s so like, just worn out from being on all day.

Brie Tucker: Right. And I was telling you like, so it was just the other day we had a group chat go in with you and me and a couple of our friends and I went to a rally and I was like, Oh my God, I am so tired. Like my body is just done and it’s a couple of things for me. One. I despise it because I feel like it’s a sign of getting older, because I didn’t used to have this problem, even like a few years ago, I will say the pandemic definitely did me in, in terms of it just completely wrecked My schedule, my lifestyle in terms of like doing things naturally. Like that’s how I got a lot of my exercise and was just like naturally doing things. And then when it all, yeah, yeah.

And when things just kind of stopped, like I just, I never was able to get back into it and now I’m at this point where I’m like at a deficit, I’m like, so, so like I just said, even going to a rally and having to stand up the no guilt bomb retreat that exhausts me too. yeah, like you’re just, you’re tired, your body aches. And you’re like, dude, all I did was stand for a few hours.

JoAnn Crohn: and like I’ve been talking a lot about like this backlash I have to the whole fitness movement about like lose weight and exercise to look good because I’m like screw you all like

Brie Tucker: Oh, I am with you on that one. Like, no, no, love me for me. I can put on weight and not have less worth. Can you hear the baggage? I’m dragging it behind me as I’m saying that.

JoAnn Crohn: Well, it’s also like people.

Brie Tucker: my worth is tied to my looks. Go on.

JoAnn Crohn: I know, I think a lot of people have that, that you’re worth it. I mean, I have that as well. I’m constantly fighting that in myself and there’s just so many different body types out there that are not honored for how they look and how they are and something that’s helped me a lot is following people online who do have those different body types and who are showing the real them when they’re gorgeous.

Like, I don’t know if you’ve heard of the birds, papaya. Yeah. She’s amazing. she’s constantly putting out content out there that shows her beautiful, wonderful body that is larger than societal norms. And it’s like, I want that. I want to be strong, but not have to fit the mold of being like this really thin, tiny body who can’t eat what she wants, because I like cookies and I like ice cream and I’m not giving those up at all. Anytime soon, but at the same time, we have those instances where we’re just exhausted and it becomes not fun. Like being under the table, with my back hurting at the no goat mom retreat, that wasn’t fun. I don’t want that.

Brie Tucker: no. I don’t like the idea of having a pop ibuprofen after going to a concert because I was at a venue that didn’t have a seat. I mean, yes, I am in my mid forties, but I’m in my mid forties, right? It’s like, yes, I’m not 30 years old anymore, but I am also not 60. Like I should be able to handle this and I love my husband.

He’s 10 years older than me and he doesn’t get as sore. Like the worst he has is like we go places he’ll constantly be like, slow down. My legs aren’t as long as yours. And I’ll be like, hurry it up. We got to cross the street. I’m like dragging him behind me. But when we go places like his body can handle it better.

And that’s definitely upsetting to me. Okay. And it makes me feel shame.

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah. So it’s all about, this idea of training for the life we want. That is what we are looking for in exercise. We’re training for the life we want. We don’t want to be held up by aches and pains and feeling like that we’re weak. And I want to go on vacation and be able to like do this adventurous stuff and not feel tired and worn down.

I think it’s interesting because Brene Brown, she talks about. This, when she goes on tour for her books, she has to start working out and exercising like three months prior so that she has the stamina to keep up

Brie Tucker: That’s interesting. See, okay, I’m going to say this right now because I kind of got the feeling that it was a all or nothing kind of thing. That like, you either had the energy and the stamina or you don’t. But did,

JoAnn Crohn: it’s all about producing that stamina. Way before you need it. it brings to mind also this other situation that we found ourselves in, in New York when we went to New York city, it was 2019 and it was me and my family, my son had just turned six during that trip. Like we celebrated his birthday there. My daughter was what? 11. And My husband and I, we’d worked out, been working out. He was actually doing CrossFit at the time. He was at his like prime level and I ran and I lifted and it was great. So that night, July 13th, 2019, it was my son’s birthday. That’s why I remember the date so well. New York city had a complete blackout. it was like half the island split right down time square. So that half a time square was just dark and black and nothing worked. And the other half was like lit up with all the lights. And. We were staying in the Marriott Marquis, which is right in the middle of Times Square. Very tall hotel. Like, we were on the 36th floor. This hotel had the slowest elevators in the entire world. you would wait there at the elevator, and it was a cool elevator ride. You would hate it, Bri, because it was glass. And, like, you could see all 36 stories go

Brie Tucker: Is it is it the Empire State Building you I think you were telling about that one of them has like this thing now We’re like as you go up it like shows that the changing of New York.

JoAnn Crohn: Oh, it shows like it’s building in like you look at the ceiling and it’s like building. Yeah. That is the first step building. They have that

Brie Tucker: Yeah, I’ve just seen that alone on video and it

JoAnn Crohn: Oh yeah. No, this glass elevator, I mean, the Marriott marquee has an open atrium with the room, so it’s like 45 floors and you could see every floor you go by and looking down in that glass elevator.

Brie Tucker: Wait, there’s a glass floor in the elevator. No, no glass floor, but it’s a glass wall. So you can look into and like, you could see everything anyways, slowest elevators in the world. And so we were here in the blackout. Of course, the elevators don’t work and us along with everybody else. We’re all kind of preparing to spend the night in the lobby.

JoAnn Crohn: It’s like 10:30 at night. The blackout has been going on for about five hours. And. It’s hot and my phone ran out of battery. So I wish I had video of all this. I do not, but we are just getting ready to like lay down. We found our corner in one of the lobbies when all of a sudden you heard the whoosh and all the lights go back on and all the power goes back on and people are cheering and then the rush to the elevators. And there’s this huge line for the elevators and we’re like, Oh my gosh, we’re not going to get to bed till like midnight or whatever. And so me and my husband, we decide to walk up all 36 flights of stairs with our kids

Brie Tucker: Everybody was on board with this plan. I mean, all four Crohns were like, let’s do this?

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah, because they were sick of being in the lobby. They wanted to be in bed and they’re like, okay, and we’re like, you know, we could do it real slow. We can take a lot of breaks. There was a gym on level 20. We could stop there for water. It’ll be fine. It’ll be

Brie Tucker: Okay, I got a story to

JoAnn Crohn: 20.

Brie Tucker: this

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah.

Brie Tucker: Go, go.

JoAnn Crohn: Okay. Anyways, we go up all of these stairs and it takes us probably about like 20 to 30 minutes to get to our room. it’s not too, too, bad. Hot and sweaty. It was 20 to 30 minutes and they’re the levels aren’t too large like they’re like your typical like I mean if you look in your house right now, it’s like that ceiling and We saw people huffing and puffing going up just the first few flights. Like they couldn’t make it. their only choice was to wait for the elevator. And it was that time my husband’s like, Oh my gosh, I see the benefits of being in shape now because things like this happen and you have options versus if you’re not in shape, you don’t have the option. To do it. You can’t save yourself. Other people have to save you. apocalypse. I’m out there. Like, I’m

Brie Tucker: like the, I’ll be the one that probably gets thrown. Like, you know that thing where they’re like running away from things? I will be the slowest runner in the pack. It’s sad. It’s

JoAnn Crohn: So after this, we’re going to tell you some really easy workable ways to work in more exercise into your life. And we’re going to do it right after this break.

Brie Tucker: To follow up on your story. Like I’m listening to you talking about this and you’re like, okay, well, there’s a gym on floor 20. We can stop and get floor 20. I remember when I was in college freshman year. So I’m going to say like, you know, you never think that you’re in good shape, like, especially as girls.

I feel like we just constantly think that we’re not. good enough, like in terms of how we look at everything. So when I was in college, I know I was in good shape, especially looking at myself. Now I lived on the fourth floor of my dorm and, Oh my God. I remember huffing it all the time being like,

JoAnn Crohn: That’s funny. I, I was on the fourth floor of my dorm too, room 409.

Brie Tucker: I don’t remember my room number, but I distinctly remember us being on the fourth floor and just constantly being like, Oh, we didn’t have an elevator in our building. Cause I mean, at rural Missouri, like we just didn’t have an elevator, but the fourth floor. So like hearing you say, Oh, we’ll stop at the 20th floor for water. I’m like, Oh my God, I would have been like. Nope. Come. I will be up there in two hours. See

JoAnn Crohn: exactly like what a lot of people think. And the thing with exercise is that the purpose is to stress your body just a little bit more than what you’re used to right now. And then your body adapts. And then it adapts and you stress it more and it adapts and adapts. So it’s not like one thing where like, you’re suddenly going to go from being able not to climb four stairs to like 36 flights.

it’s like a gradual process. So if you’re coming into it, you’re listening right now. And you’re like, Oh my gosh, I could never make that happen. Trust me, it will happen. It’ll happen, but let’s get into some. Tips that I found, I have three for you. So the first one is to start with something you like and you enjoy. And this was really hard for me at first because I tend to go all in on stuff real fast and then I like get burnt out on it and I never want to do it ever again. And that’s a personality thing with me.

Brie Tucker: A lot of people that have that personality thing in my family, it’s food. My daughter does that with food. Like she’ll find somebody she loves and she eats so much of it that like you’re later like, Hey, I got you that macaroni and cheese you love. And she’s like, Nope. Can’t touch it again. 

JoAnn Crohn: Yep, exactly. My kids are like that too.

Brie Tucker: Wait, So what is something that you’ve burnt yourself out on in terms of exercise? I’m

JoAnn Crohn: Oh, running for sure. For sure. Running because I was I was a marathon runner, you know, and I ran all the time. Barre. Yep. Totally. I was going to bar like all the time until suddenly like I have no interest in

Brie Tucker: I remember that. You dragged me there once. You dragged me there once at 5 a.m. I did not like you.

JoAnn Crohn: was good at the time. I just got, I got tired of it.

Brie Tucker: You get bored.

JoAnn Crohn: And I realized like, Yeah, I need a lot of variety, a lot of variety. Like right now walking the dog is good for me, except currently I

Brie Tucker: It’s so hot.

JoAnn Crohn: for the past month because it’s deadly hot out in Phoenix and not

Brie Tucker: Right? Like, so that’s been part of my problem too. So, last year, for the first time ever. well, okay. Let me back that up a tiny bit. Like I am sensitive to heat, but I don’t think I’m like overly sensitive. I’m more sensitive than the average bear, but I’m not like crazy sensitive. and the reason I would say that the average bear is just because like, I had a job for a long time.

You’ve heard me talk about my past life where I was a home visitor and you’d have to go out to people’s homes. And here in Phoenix, that meant that your 125 degrees from sitting in the sun. So I would, if I had to do too many visits in the summer. I would get heat exhaustion and I’d have to like take a sick day for the rest of the day.

So I had to find ways to work around that. But last year first year that, um, and how many, do you remember how many days we had of over 110 in a row? Okay. It was, it was over 30. I remember that. And anyway I started my husband and I would take walks with the dog. Like, well, cause we live in a townhouse and we don’t have a yard.

So we’d walk the dog in the morning and at night. And I had to stop walking with him in the morning because I was giving myself, like I was getting migraines no matter how much I would bring water with me. It didn’t help. It was just so over 110 degrees by like Eight in the morning. And I’m sorry. I just, I can’t do a 5 a.m. walk. I can’t. So, yeah, I had to stop doing that. And it’s, so I feel ya. I feel you. Like, it’s just too hot to be outside and do pretty much anything right now. Like, I don’t even get to go do my paddle boarding that I love. Cause it’s so damn hot.

JoAnn Crohn: It is so it’s good to like experiment and find things that you you do like yin yoga I really really like I like going to a studio and doing it too and I found

Brie Tucker: restorative.

JoAnn Crohn: It’s not, it’s not restorative. It’s holding poses for like two to three minutes, but they’re poses like you rest and relax in. So like, you’re totally supported in like, say

Brie Tucker: not like Pilates.

JoAnn Crohn: it’s not Pilates. You’re not moving everything, but you’re holding it. It’s like a, a very Big stretching class basically and your heart rate goes down and it’s really good to calm the nervous system And I like it. It keeps me flexible And then it helps me do other things easier like integrate more fitness into my daily life.

I do like weight lifting depending on the day Some days i’m like cursing the weightlifting instructors that I use on my little My Peloton app, which we’re going to talk about in the next tip. And I like walking, I can walk anywhere. And so I’ve, I have like a little mobile walking pad for my desk and I walk when I work and that helps my attention as well as gets exercise done at the same time, because it’s not like a, a time killer.

It’s something that like, Hey, I have this thing I have to do. I have to work, but I can walk. too. And I can get about 9, 000 steps in during the day. So, that’s working as well, but find something you like. I started marathon running when I was 22 years old, because I’d always wanted to run a marathon. And to add to your exercise causes endorphins comment, I did not get endorphins from running to begin with.

I didn’t like running. I hated it. And I heard about this runner’s high and I’m just like, Oh, it’s not for me. This runner’s high is not for me. And that’s what I believed. And then I started marathon training and for these runs, like during the week, I would need to run at a continuous pace for like, Six miles, usually about six hours, the pace I was going. And I would be like about 10, 15 minutes in the run. Like after doing this consistently, you start to see patterns and how your body reacts to things.

Brie Tucker: Okay. Can I just like say six miles?

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah. A marathon’s like 26. 2. So six miles was easy. It’s

Brie Tucker: are crazy.

JoAnn Crohn: well, it’s all about like moving your point of crazy

Brie Tucker: I I understand I understand that like I have an aversion But keep going.

JoAnn Crohn: It’s moving your point of crazy. So when I started the run, I usually felt good. And then like 10 to 15 minutes in, I’m like, this sucks. I hate this. I hate this so damn much. Like, what am I doing? Running everything aches. Like my knees ache. How am I going to be like six miles? And before I had that commitment for the marathon, I would have stopped right there.

I would have been like, I hate running. I’m going to walk. And I’m like, no. I go to group runs on Saturday. Everybody has to leave me cause I have to walk. I really want to see where this goes. And so I just kept running at like a slower pace than I would have before, just to say that I could keep running at 20 minutes.

Something happened where all of a sudden the run seemed easy. And I got like the smile on my face and I’m like, Holy crap. I think I’m getting a runner’s high and it took longer than I thought it would. They do kick in the endorphins do kick in. It’s just needs a, probably more of a sustained effort then you’re giving it is my story for it. So I know that they kick in now. But you have to really push through the little hard part of around 10 to 15 minutes for them to show up.

Brie Tucker: Yeah, I do believe that like I believe it’s there but like you said Getting me to the point of that. I’ve only had one time in my entire life where I feel like I exercised. I really stuck to a routine and enjoyed. Exercising. That was oddly enough. When you first met me, I lost about 40 pounds, between yeah, right before my son hit, kindergarten because, well actually no, it was right, right that time. It was, it was the year my son was in kindergarten because I, I took a year off from work and tried and was doing my own business thing.

So I had a lot more flexibility in time. And when I started working out, like we had a treadmill in our garage, I just, I was getting like immediate results. Like I would just go on the treadmill and every day I was losing like half a pound. And I remember my. Yeah, I, my ex husband was like, what the hell? That’s not fair. Like that doesn’t happen. It was so weird having like, cause normally it’s like, you know, men that can lose weight easier than women. Like my ex was just like, what the hell? That’s not fair. I don’t lose weight like that. And I’m like, I guess it’s just my body didn’t need a whole lot. It just needed me to get up off my butt and do something.

So that was the only time I ever actually enjoyed it, but it did get to a point where I was obsessed with it it got to the point where I was terrified that if I didn’t work out for that day, I was going to gain weight. And it was like, it was definitely right. And yeah. And that’s also part of like where a lot of this comes from. Like I, I had lost all that weight and again, ex husband is ex husband for a reason, so I don’t need to give anybody extra reasons to not like this person. But I will say that, that next year after I had lost, That weight, like we, we would used to go away all the time for our anniversary and we were in Palm Springs and whatever.

And he just says, I said something about like having lost the weight and I was feeling better and by the way, most of that weight was from my kids, That was the baby weight that I had just like, never lost because again, my oldest was five. Like. I know a lot of women. It takes, it takes a lot of years to lose the weight. And I had two kids back to back anyway, my ex tells me on the trip, like, Oh yeah, I was so glad you lost the weight. Cause like, if I, I just, you know, if you didn’t lose it, I was going to have to, like, I don’t think I could have stayed with you and I’m like, What? And he has weight

JoAnn Crohn: see me, I’m like making the face right now being like imagine lemon sour face

Brie Tucker: Well, this, this episode was airing in just like, two weeks. So yeah, it’ll, it’ll, anyway, like he, he has his own weight issues. Like he, his family has had like weight issues and so because of it, he has an unhealthy perception of weight. It was constantly terrified of gaining weight. So he had his drop, his baggage, he was dragging behind him, but then he was throwing his baggage at me.

JoAnn Crohn: Oh yeah.

Brie Tucker: Anyways, my point of the story is that because he said that. I became even more unhealthily obsessed with, I had to like lose weight, had to stay a certain weight or else he was going to see me as less than, and it did, it was, I mean, it was a true, I mean, he was being honest, but it was truly a thing.

a few years later, we ended up getting divorced. Like I had gained some weight cause I had had a knee injury, which had, made it so that I had limited mobility. And I think I gained like. 10 pounds. And I said something to him, like when we were getting divorced, like when we first, like, we’re talking like the first week talking about it. And I’m like, has some of my weight game been part of this? He’s like, well, it hasn’t helped. And I’m like, wow. Okay. 

And so now, but right. But now, now, it’s okay. It’s okay. But now everybody in podcast land can understand where that baggage comes from with me. We’re like, I feel some comfort and being out of shape and overweight, because then I’m like the way I see that for me at this moment. And this is not healthy either that I know that people still like me for me, not because I have this like perfect hourglass figure. And I’m, I’m tall and slender and whatever. Like I, if you are still my friend, you’re my friend because you’re my friend, even if I have gained weight. Like, so.

JoAnn Crohn: understand that.

Brie Tucker: And my spouse too, like my husband now loves me no matter what, like I have definitely gained weight since we first started dating and are now married and he doesn’t care, but I’m not happy. So , that does move me into this, like I’m with you on this. So like for people, I got to tell you, JoAnn, like when you brought up the whole point of training for the life you want to live. that has gotten me to shift.

JoAnn Crohn: Oh, cool. Well, we’re going to get into two more tips for you and how to find more time to exercise right after this.

So we went over trying to find something you like. And the next thing to do is trying to make it fit into your life. So like, Brie, all the things, knowing, like why you hate exercise the way you do. That’s really important to know.

Brie Tucker: It is. It is.

JoAnn Crohn: it’s important to figure out like priorities in terms of why you are exercising. So like training for the life you live. Yes. Training for a certain body type. Please don’t do that. No one do that. No,

Brie Tucker: you got to remember that those are two different things. Like you just said, the life you want to live is not the body.

JoAnn Crohn: It’s not the body. No, it’s the life. It’s being strong. it’s having a good VO two max, which is like how much you could work out like your cardio without feeling that fatigued without gasping for breath, that’s your VO two max. You try to get that up with more cardio, but in terms of actually feeling strong, the best thing that’s going to work for you is lifting and lifting weights. And going to the gym is not the easiest thing. I have. Taken out going to the gym from my life. I work out at home now, bear in mind, we have a gym in my home. Like we, so let’s just be out there right now. We have a,

Brie Tucker: for your family was like.

JoAnn Crohn: that was a priority. We put it in there when we moved about two years ago. And It just, it has everything we had. Like my husband is Olympic weightlifting. So he has those weights were short in our really hot garage. Now they’re in our basement, which are air conditioned. So it’s very nice. And we had a Peloton already, which was in our bedroom. Now that’s down there as well. Peloton, the pandemic purchase that I think everybody got, which is why the company like grew so much during that time.

So find something easy. So the thing I have set up for me is first of all, I do have a Peloton membership and you don’t need the bike to have a Peloton membership and they’re pretty inexpensive. It’s like 10 a month. What it is, it’s just an app on your phone that has all of these classes that you could take on it, and it’s overwhelming the number of classes on there so much so that me who has a trouble making decisions, I.

Can go like, if I go on there, I’m like, should I take this one? Should I take that one? Will that one be better for me? Well, that went like, I can’t. So I’m part of this free Facebook group. It’s called hardcore on the floor. We’re going to put the link in the show notes for you and hardcore on the floor, the woman who runs it, she makes a schedule of Peloton classes for you to take.

And the entire group is taking those classes usually at the same time. So you have that built in community and you have the classes that you’re supposed to take. So. Start with that, something like that. And what I have when I first start exercising is I have, you call it in like the business world, the minimum viable product, which is like, what can you put out there that is the least amount of work that will still get results.

I do that with exercise. I’m like, what is the minimum amount that I am going to commit to each day? And I make that real low and the minimum amount for me is a 10 minute core class. That’s it. 10 minutes. That’s all I push myself to do. Usually after those 10 minutes, I know straight away if I want to go into more and more in the calendar, or if I’m like, I’m good. So like,

Brie Tucker: is doable. I just need to

JoAnn Crohn: yeah.

Brie Tucker: accountable to that.

JoAnn Crohn: And you could do it whenever, like a 10 minute class. You don’t even have to like change into gym clothes. You don’t even have to go into a different room. You could just put it on your phone, plop down on your floor. Do it right there. That’s what I actually did during our whole New Zealand vacation. I just put it on my phone. I did it right there. Done. In my pajamas.

Brie Tucker: there

JoAnn Crohn: So those are two things to do. Another thing to do is I have a walking pad, which I talked about. And the walking pad is just a treadmill that you move everywhere. And I have a standup desk since I work from home. And so when I’m writing or when I’m organizing or doing anything, I pull out that walking pad. So I’m walking and working at the same time. So really about killing two birds with one stone.

Brie Tucker: Yeah, well, I mean, so that’s like how that used to it used to work that way for me because I always had jobs where I was up and moving around a lot, at home visitation, like you’re up, you’re playing with kids, you’re walking around a ton. The, I worked when I worked for the school district, I was teaching classes and I helped run a, resource center.

So in the resource center days, like there were some days where I never sat down. I was just running back and forth, back and forth, back and forth all day. and I think about it now and like, I wouldn’t be able to do that. so yeah. finding

JoAnn Crohn: probably build up to it. I remember when I was a teacher, the first week coming back to the classroom after summer vacation was real physically strenuous. Like I was tired and beat and achy. And again, with exercise, when you stress your body, your body learns to adapt. So like, trust that when you start exercising, you’re going to be sore. You’re going to be tired. give yourself like, of course that rest time And that recuperation time, but also like And compassion. Yes. But also know that you’re not doing anything wrong by being sore and tired. In fact, that’s your body sign that you’re adapting and doing exactly what you need to do.

So all it takes is like that minimum viable product and just get out there the next day. And when you keep doing that, you will see. The impact it has on your strength, on your, sleep, it really impacts my sleep. I get great sleep when I’m working out. My mood is so much calmer. I’m less jittery. I’m less like fear based, you know, that fear you have

Brie Tucker: Yeah, the anxiety, Yeah.

JoAnn Crohn: goes down.

Brie Tucker: Well, they do, like, all the psychiatrists and therapists that we’ve talked to, like, they all talk about how, like, just going for a walk

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah,

Brie Tucker: help your mental state. Just a

JoAnn Crohn: really, really helps, really helps. And then number three, and this is something that you can look forward to an exercise. Know that your actions really do impact others. Like when you start exercising, other people in your life are going to see it and they’re going to start doing it as well. I mean, it’s happened to me, So many times when I ran marathons, like all of my friends were like, Duane, you’re so crazy. Like, why are you doing that? Why are you running a marathon? My sister said I was crazy. My friends in LA at the time, it was Jodi, Beth and, Becca

Brie Tucker: Okay.

JoAnn Crohn: crazy, but I wasn’t.

Brie Tucker: Can we also point out that your sister now does marathons herself?

JoAnn Crohn: the, so like when I started marathon

Brie Tucker: Hmm.

JoAnn Crohn: about a year after my friend, Eva decided to do team for training for a marathon Becca and Beth. Beth actually started to be a triathlete. She finished the iron man Becca did triathlons. Jody did some triathlons too. Jody did some marathons. My brother in law, Nick did the 2007 rock and roll Arizona marathon with me. My coworker, Chelsea trained for a marathon with me that same time and did that marathon with me. And then she went to San Diego with me and did that marathon. So people in your life will come out and be inspired by what you do. 

Right now, my daughter was so pushing against these Peloton classes. She’s like, I just don’t want to do them, mom. That’s just not how I exercise. She came to my office yesterday after a year of pushback, and she’s like, how do I make this work How do I make the TV work? How do I do this Peloton class? I need to do something to move my body. And I’m like, okay, cool. Yeah, let’s, let’s do that.

Brie Tucker: Right?

JoAnn Crohn: impacts others and you will see it

Brie Tucker: It does. It does. I’m definitely a social person. So working out at home doesn’t work well for me. I do much better when I’m around other people and I’m enjoying myself. And like you said, like moving your body, having fun. Like some of my favorite workout classes I had, there was one called pound where like you had these drumsticks.

I really loved that one. And I liked, is it Zumba? Yeah. I liked that one too, a lot. And I do love yoga. So, but I am making a moment so people can hear us. Like I am going on live and saying, I am going to definitely start working out more because again, I’m finding that I’m not doing the things that I used to enjoy because I know I don’t have the physical stamina for it. And then that’s making me sad.

JoAnn Crohn: or I think time’s a huge issue. And I kind of want to address what I think is a limiting belief about you needing to be social and exercise at the same time.

Brie Tucker: Okay.

JoAnn Crohn: Because back to our second point to find something easy. It’s hard to get out of your house to find the time to go get into a class and like actually find a class, go do the class, pay for the class. All of those things. Those are really like things that are resistance that could keep you back from exercising. And I think that it’s a great thing to go and socialize and exercise, but just notice if you’re tying it to that and that’s holding you back from actually doing the

Brie Tucker: Yeah, that could be, yeah, I could see that. Like, you could be like, because I don’t have the time to find a class or I can’t find a class if it’s my schedule, I’m not doing it at all. I think in my case, that is a very good point because we do belong to a gym over here. And they do not have the classes at times that I would like to take them. that honestly, the only yoga class that I could make it to there are Fridays at five, who the F wants to go work out on Friday at five. It is the worst time for a class. So yeah. I think I’m going to try, I think I’m actually going to like, cause I know my husband wants to work out more. I think I’m going to try to really get us to commit to working out together. Cause I think once we get ourselves started, I know

JoAnn Crohn: even there, there’s the together thing again, like you could do this on your own Bri, you could do this.

Brie Tucker: can,

JoAnn Crohn: You could do it with just a 10 minute like minimum viable product. Cause when you say working out together, there’s an hour commitment right there. There’s the driving to the gym. There’s the figuring out when Miguel is like actually

Brie Tucker: oh no, I mean working out here at home together, but still, yeah, you’re right. Going to the gym too is tough.

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah.

Brie Tucker: go in the morning and I’m not ready to go work out in the morning. I may, I’m an afternoon person. Yeah. Yeah.

JoAnn Crohn: Yeah. May I suggest class pass class passes a great option instead of maybe belonging to the gym do a class pass and you can go Around to all the little yoga studios and find out something.

Brie Tucker: Yeah. I will definitely. I will. Okay. I have to. I have to digest all this and figure it out.

JoAnn Crohn: It’ll be good. I know I text you all the time. I’m like

Brie Tucker: having this conversation.

JoAnn Crohn: want to come You’re like, no, I can’t I have a meeting

Brie Tucker: I, know. I, know. I, that’s the other. Yeah. We all have crazy stuff. Like the last time you wanted to go to a thing, I was like, I can’t, I have an HOA meeting. And can I just say how annoying it is to live in a neighborhood that has two HOAs? Yeah.

JoAnn Crohn: yeah, No, that’s ridiculous.

Brie Tucker: yeah, yeah, like, and each meeting is like two hours. So like, that is four hours a month just in HOA meetings. Yeah, it’s kind of crazy. Not that everybody has to go to HOA meetings. Like I’m just going to, I’m on one of the HOA boards, so I have to go to one of them, which kind of makes it so by default, I feel responsible to go to the other one too, but, it kind of sucks.

JoAnn Crohn: Oh yeah, I wouldn’t do it I wouldn’t do it. So

Brie Tucker: I’m done.

JoAnn Crohn: hope that we gave you some tips that you could use in your own life and we want to hear the tips you use. So please come share with us on Instagram. It’s at no guilt mom or email us [email protected] and let us know how this worked for you

Brie Tucker: thought of this episode. Did it make any changes? Did it move your needle any? Again, Brie is, so I’m going to tell you right now, again, this is like accountability. I’m putting this out to the podcast world. I want to be able to go to a all weekend music festival. And I also want to go on a weekend paddle boarding trip. I’ve already got the trip, like figured out. I’ll share it with you. I want to go, to Emerald Cove and like do. Do all kinds of, but I know I do not have the stamina right now. So that is my goal to get to those things.

JoAnn Crohn: Got to get it. Got to get it. Mm hmm. I could give you some suggestions on what you could start doing for that. Okay.

Brie Tucker: I will because I do need some guidance for sure.

JoAnn Crohn: some walking pad. You need a walking pad. Totally. I know. I know.

Brie Tucker: All right.

JoAnn Crohn: Until next time, remember the best mom is a happy mom. Take care of you. We’ll talk to you later.

Brie Tucker: Thanks for stopping by.