Speaker 1: Welcome to the Transformation Station podcast. I'm Christina, owner, operator,
Speaker 1: and founder of the Transformation Station, and this is where
Speaker 1: we talk about getting stronger while navigating real life. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to stay consistent through the ups and the
Speaker 1: downs and everywhere else in between. This is for you.
Speaker 1: Hey listeners, welcome back to another episode. I'm actually at
Speaker 1: the gym. I'm in the back back, not back back,
Speaker 1: but in the back back room off to the side.
Speaker 1: It's like a safety security slash, a lot of storage
Speaker 1: room at the gym because Annie's teaching a banging class
Speaker 1: Friday night on the other side of the wall. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I was here already to do a one to one
Speaker 1: coaching meeting, and I'm like, you know what, I really
Speaker 1: like being here right now. So I already have my
Speaker 1: things with me. I'm going to record this podcast episode.
Speaker 1: Things are just flowing. Thoughts are flowing. So today we're
Speaker 1: talking about August. Every August, this is what happens. It's
Speaker 1: like a trend. In December, we know what happens in December.
Speaker 1: In August, we know what happens in August. And people
Speaker 1: keep telling themselves they're gonna get back back on track.
Speaker 1: In September the same like in December, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and in December, I'm gonna like cancel everything I have
Speaker 1: to take care of myself just to enjoy life. And
Speaker 1: then in January, I'm gonna jump back on the wagon.
Speaker 1: So like in the fitness industry, we know that September
Speaker 1: is the new New Years for most people, and it's
Speaker 1: like summer. A lot of people think like, somehow, somehow,
Speaker 1: summer is they end all and be all right, Like
Speaker 1: they let summer activities get in the way of them
Speaker 1: being healthy, not just being healthy, but keeping what they
Speaker 1: did for the whole rest of the year. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that summer is the problem at all. I
Speaker 1: think it's the pressure that we put on ourselves when
Speaker 1: we do have those vacation plans, and like, I know,
Speaker 1: like there's sometimes in my past where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I have one meeting in the middle of the day,
Speaker 1: so I'm like, oh, my whole day is like oh,
Speaker 1: the one meeting, the one meeting, the one meeting. The
Speaker 1: one meeting is like a two hour meeting. So it's like,
Speaker 1: why are we like stressing twenty four hours when there's
Speaker 1: a meeting for two hours of the day and somewhere
Speaker 1: like we've created this whole idea with nutrition and fitness
Speaker 1: that if we can't stick to the routine perfectly, just
Speaker 1: like obsessing over that one meeting that we have for
Speaker 1: the whole day, sometimes we think there's no point of
Speaker 1: doing anything at all, so we skip our workout, we
Speaker 1: skip our healthy eating, we go for something that's like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna eat this now because we're heading to
Speaker 1: the cottage, or we're going out with friends, or we're
Speaker 1: gonna be eating or drinking at night time on a
Speaker 1: Friday night anyway, so we may as well, like not
Speaker 1: do anything. And if we feel guilty about the burger
Speaker 1: that we've had at the barbecue, like we promise ourselves
Speaker 1: we'll make it up. We'll make up everything. Once the
Speaker 1: kids are back in school, or it's not so nice
Speaker 1: outside we're in the winter, we're gonna start hibernating so
Speaker 1: we can focus on ourselves. Like that, to me, even
Speaker 1: just talking about it sounds incredibly not just exhausting, but
Speaker 1: also stressful at the same time. And we talk so
Speaker 1: much about stress management and managing stress. If you listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast episode yesterday, Martina from Chris Mahir. She's like,
Speaker 1: you need to just put your phone away for one
Speaker 1: hour of the day. And there's so many different ways,
Speaker 1: including that context that to me is a huge thing
Speaker 1: in order to manage stress and to get some of
Speaker 1: our fight or flight energy a little bit more similar
Speaker 1: down like where we're safe and things are going to
Speaker 1: be all right lower that court is all a little
Speaker 1: bit but like sometimes we don't always recognize where the
Speaker 1: stress is coming from because sometimes it's not just work.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not just even our finances. Those two things,
Speaker 1: Like we talk about work quite often, but a lot
Speaker 1: of people shy away from talking about finances, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people are going through the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the times too, it's not getting
Speaker 1: enough sleep. So like all those things tend to build
Speaker 1: up over time. And two sometimes it's like the pressure
Speaker 1: that we put on ourselves also create stress because we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we're doing enough. And when
Speaker 1: people are pausing their memberships for the summer, which happens
Speaker 1: everywhere and it's not really like a taboo thing, like
Speaker 1: don't feel bad for me because I have new members
Speaker 1: coming in and I have people that are pausing, and
Speaker 1: that's just going to be all right. I'm happy to
Speaker 1: see you back in September because I know you and
Speaker 1: I love you and I care about you. So it's
Speaker 1: not like a shame thing like tiss tisk. But there's
Speaker 1: sometimes when people are like, you know what, I just
Speaker 1: feel so stressed out trying to get to the gym
Speaker 1: five days a week that they forget sometimes that you
Speaker 1: can still stay active on the other on the outside
Speaker 1: of the gym and also maybe do two or three
Speaker 1: strength training workouts inside the gym. It's only forty minutes
Speaker 1: of the day, so if you are around or for
Speaker 1: this summer. I don't know why I didn't think that
Speaker 1: this in the last seven years, but I added that
Speaker 1: at home workout, so when you are at the cottage
Speaker 1: on vacation you're not able to step into the gym,
Speaker 1: you can still be accountable and supported in doing your workout,
Speaker 1: and then you can also get your stickier at the
Speaker 1: end of the month when you reach your check and champions.
Speaker 1: So like that also is a fun way to encourage
Speaker 1: you and make the summer fitness routine something that is
Speaker 1: positive and when you look back come September, you'll be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I had a more balanced summer. Everything's
Speaker 1: not always going to have to be balanced and perfect
Speaker 1: every single month, every single day, or every single week.
Speaker 1: But that's a nice way to say. I felt very
Speaker 1: positive about what I did over the summer because I
Speaker 1: did enjoy those things. And something about our clientele is,
Speaker 1: like we have the majority of our clientele they want
Speaker 1: to be healthy and they want to exercise, but they
Speaker 1: also want to live their lives as well. And actually,
Speaker 1: if you know our member Alex, this isn't a secret,
Speaker 1: and we all love Alex. Ill of Alex. If you
Speaker 1: haven't met Alex, just wait till you meet her. She
Speaker 1: is such a gift. I told her that today. I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: you are a gift, and I can't wait sorry for you.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait until your cottage closes so you can
Speaker 1: be back at the gym more regularly. You're five days
Speaker 1: a week because we all love you so much, and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you're enjoying summer because you spend
Speaker 1: the majority of the year putting in all that effort
Speaker 1: so you can enjoy your summer, so you can enjoy
Speaker 1: life on the outside of the gym. That to me
Speaker 1: is what it's about. I'm just being selfish and saying
Speaker 1: I just love seeing you every day, so please come
Speaker 1: back now. But like she's still kept her membership active,
Speaker 1: she still is here, like when she's around her extra
Speaker 1: fun things, like she is living her best life. So
Speaker 1: she still trickles in. She'll come in first stretch, she'll
Speaker 1: come in first strong fit. I might not see her
Speaker 1: for two or three weeks and then I'll see her
Speaker 1: two or three days in a row, or I might
Speaker 1: see her trickle in, she checks in, Okay, go on
Speaker 1: about your merry way, okay, but I love you, see
Speaker 1: you later. So like and lately, instead of been saying like,
Speaker 1: oh see you sued, I'll say hey, see you when
Speaker 1: I see you, because I don't want people to feel
Speaker 1: pressured either, And that, to me, that's the longevity, that's
Speaker 1: the consistency. And also when it comes down to pressure,
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's not just about never missing a workout.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's eating in quotation mark the right foods like
Speaker 1: that to me is not health at all, And that
Speaker 1: to me is more pressure. And I mean like getting
Speaker 1: the gym and doing your workouts and eating healthy food.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't feel like pressure. And sometimes we tell ourselves
Speaker 1: in our brain that it is pressure because you put
Speaker 1: so much high, high expectations on yourself. Like I've had
Speaker 1: someone say, like, you know what, working out isn't good
Speaker 1: for my mental health. I was like, what, How's working
Speaker 1: out not good for your mental health? So she doesn't
Speaker 1: want to work out anymore at all, not in the gym,
Speaker 1: not outside of the gym, not anything, because she doesn't
Speaker 1: believe in fitness. I was like, oh, dear, well, you
Speaker 1: got a few years for you yourself to change your
Speaker 1: mind on that. Quite a few years to change your
Speaker 1: mind on that. She was a little bit on the
Speaker 1: younger side. I was like, Okay, I'm like, if that's
Speaker 1: how you feel like, I can try to convince you.
Speaker 1: But if you say the sky is green, and you
Speaker 1: think the sky is green, then I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to convince you that the sky is blue. I
Speaker 1: care about you and have to tell you, you know what
Speaker 1: the skuy is actually blue, but you will have to
Speaker 1: figure it out on your own. But sometimes that's the
Speaker 1: stress that we put on ourselves to be perfect. Is
Speaker 1: that is what makes getting to the workouts feel so stressful.
Speaker 1: So what in the summer you can't make it to
Speaker 1: the gym five days a week. Can you make it
Speaker 1: around your schedule? Yes or no? If you're away and
Speaker 1: you know you know what, I'm going to be active
Speaker 1: I have. This is the summer I'm traveling so incredibly much,
Speaker 1: then that's gonna be okay too. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I am very pro choice. You do whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you need to do for your own schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now that if you are
Speaker 1: someone who has that high, high expectation on yourself that
Speaker 1: you have everything that you have to be perfect, and
Speaker 1: if it's not even remotely exactly perfect, that you throw
Speaker 1: everything away. That's exactly who I'm talking to. So to me,
Speaker 1: I think about, like, Okay, what is this summer going
Speaker 1: to be to seem different? Last year, I learned how
Speaker 1: to ride a bicycle. I spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: outside last year because I was incredibly stressed, so I
Speaker 1: picked up different things. This year, I focus on a
Speaker 1: few other things. I actually have this recurring not reoccurring,
Speaker 1: it's something in the last month, this knee thing. So
Speaker 1: I actually didn't ride my bike this year, and I've
Speaker 1: been taking it a little bit more easy on some
Speaker 1: of the more aggressive style of workouts that I've been doing.
Speaker 1: But I've been consistent in doing other things like doing
Speaker 1: my step and left and doing my tempo, doing like
Speaker 1: a little bit more of strength trading in the season,
Speaker 1: and in return, I am still getting results. I just
Speaker 1: adjusted my sales a little bit so I didn't think
Speaker 1: it had to be exactly what I wanted it to
Speaker 1: be as perfect. So there's other ways to keep doing things.
Speaker 1: So like when it comes down to summer, like Boots
Speaker 1: and Hearts is this weekend, Go celebrate your Boots and Hearts.
Speaker 1: If that's something you love, you will not catch me
Speaker 1: ever dead at Boots and Hearts. That is not my jam.
Speaker 1: I don't love as much as I love people, I
Speaker 1: don't love big crowds like that. And I don't love
Speaker 1: being in a space where people are out of control
Speaker 1: because I don't love to be out of control myself,
Speaker 1: So I don't love that for myself. You might love
Speaker 1: Boots and Hearts, and I'm gonna cheer for me and
Speaker 1: be like, yes, enjoy your Boots and Hearts, Go enjoy
Speaker 1: your vacation, sit on your dock, order your burger, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. But at the end of the day, keep moving,
Speaker 1: keep strength because like you're not trying to undo anything, right,
Speaker 1: but like movement is part of taking care of yourself.
Speaker 1: That's a natural thing. And health at the same time
Speaker 1: is not about avoiding your life. Like you don't have
Speaker 1: to halt your entire life because well, now I work
Speaker 1: out those two things can coexist. And to me, it's
Speaker 1: about having the strength and the energy and also the confidence.
Speaker 1: We're on a confidence role. Having not just your strength,
Speaker 1: your energy, and also your confidence. That to me is
Speaker 1: how you fully experience your summer. So, like there's people
Speaker 1: who build those lasting habits, like not like those like yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm excited and then I'm going to do it for
Speaker 1: a week and not do it, but like those those
Speaker 1: habits that are always become second nature to you, like
Speaker 1: brushing your teeth in the morning or putting on your
Speaker 1: socks or some people hate socks, but let's just use
Speaker 1: that as an example. The people who are building those
Speaker 1: lasting habits, they're not usually the people that expect life
Speaker 1: to be perfect all the time. And in earlier podcasts
Speaker 1: this week, I also talked about like consistency is having
Speaker 1: a plan but also rolling with the punches. It's not
Speaker 1: having five days a week Monday to Friday of your workout.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have that, you're not consistent. That's
Speaker 1: not how consistency works. It's when you keep going back
Speaker 1: to the thing when you can and when you're able.
Speaker 1: That's how you just like you simply just keep on
Speaker 1: ongoing because it's part of your routine. It's not like,
Speaker 1: oh I ran out of toothpaste today, so I'm never
Speaker 1: brushing my teeth ever again. Like there's implementing and having
Speaker 1: different things, so like you don't have to wait for
Speaker 1: September to do like a perfect routine, right, Like don't
Speaker 1: wait for September because you think that's when you'll have everything.
Speaker 1: Like this is my routine now, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be finally perfect because life will always be busy in
Speaker 1: one way or another. There's always going to be stress
Speaker 1: in one way or another. And also we're like, well,
Speaker 1: I just don't want to have any stress for this summer.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take it like like Bob Marley, like
Speaker 1: stress free, live life, enjoy life. But then sometimes when
Speaker 1: we get back to that, you're like, oh no, I
Speaker 1: enjoyed my life. Life a little bit too hard, So
Speaker 1: like take care of yourself in the middle of it.
Speaker 1: That way there is somewhat of a balance. Enjoy your summer,
Speaker 1: enjoy your life, take care of yourself and those like
Speaker 1: those habits that you build that become your second nature.
Speaker 1: Like it's like going to bed at a certain time.
Speaker 1: There's some days you're gonna go to bed a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier, sometimes a little bit later. It's what is
Speaker 1: it that you actually need and want that's gonna be
Speaker 1: good for your health in the long run. So take
Speaker 1: care of yourself amongst all the chaos and all of
Speaker 1: the fun, and that, to me is what builds those
Speaker 1: sustainable habits. Finish should make your life less stressful, not
Speaker 1: become another thing that's causing any more stress. We have
Speaker 1: enough stress in life. Finnish should be that thing that
Speaker 1: makes your life a little bit more pep in your
Speaker 1: step when you're done your workout at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. All right, this is short and sweet. See
Speaker 1: it tomorrow for another podcast episode. Again. If this resonates
Speaker 1: with you, please feel free to like, comment, share it
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Speaker 1: it's so fun to hear when people come into the
Speaker 1: gym and say, oh, listen to the podcast episode. This
Speaker 1: is what I got from it. Like that to me
Speaker 1: is incredible. So if you ever want to give feedback,
Speaker 1: there's something you want to hear about it. If you
Speaker 1: want to be a guest on the show, please contact me.
Speaker 1: You know how to find me, Christina with a ch
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