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Jess Polnasek (00:05):
That's why we
change up the challenges every
month. We try to incorporate allthe different spheres of
wellness because it's not justone thing.
Sam D'Arc (00:16):
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It's becoming a fun tradition.So we're back with coach to the
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Zag, coach Jess.
Jess, welcome.
Jess Polnasek (00:41):
Thanks, Sam.
Sam D'Arc (00:42):
And then, of course,
our own Araya Daniels who's our
health champion, at large.Right, Araya? Welcome.
Ariah Daniels (00:49):
Thanks, Sam.
Sam D'Arc (00:50):
So as always, we're
here to celebrate the contest
winners from last month's AMWellness Health Challenge and
set up our next contest. Andlast month's contest, Araya,
reminded me of a contest fromthe past where, actually,
somebody got hurt, Araya. Sotell us, what what is our last
month contest remind us of?
Ariah Daniels (01:09):
Yes. So, last
month's squat challenge took me
back to the days of our lunchchallenge and I can't remember
if it was October or Novemberlast year, somewhere around
then, but Yeah. And it soundslike what we're about to hear in
a little bit from what Jess toldme, coach Jess said that our 2
top contenders were going headto head last minute yesterday,
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and
Sam D'Arc (01:30):
It was a battle.
Ariah Daniels (01:31):
See the results.
Yes. It was a battle for sure.
Sam D'Arc (01:34):
How do we find this
out? I feel like we should have
a way to know this, but we don'tknow this. So we'll have to do
some research. Alright, Araya.Should we do this starting with
the top, winners?
Let's bring that screen.
Ariah Daniels (01:46):
So our top 10
July winners, top top ten for
the squats challenge. I guess Itook 10th place. So
Congratulations. Happy to be onthere. And then, Nathan Krasno,
Troy Kennedy.
Sam, looks like you beat me out.So 7th place there.
Sam D'Arc (02:04):
It's
Ariah Daniels (02:05):
6 Monica Mackey.
Jess beat us both in 5th place.
Sam D'Arc (02:09):
Congrats.
Ariah Daniels (02:10):
Us. Great job,
Jess. Thanks. In 4th, Mark and
then our top 3 here AngelinaRodriguez, this was a surprise
to me, so Steve Macinger fromour Hoffman Estates team. He was
in first for a while and him andDon were going back and forth
and she wanted to win.
So congratulations to DonVankowski of our our Schaumburg
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team. It's, I'm looking at thesenumbers here, and this just
blows my mind. 24,307 squats,Dawn.
Sam D'Arc (02:42):
My goodness. July. So
They both have incredible
squatting capabilities rightnow. After doing 40 7,000 squats
between the 2 of them, coachJeff's strong legs. Yes?
Jess Polnasek (02:54):
Yeah. I mean or
they're in a lot of pain right
now.
Ariah Daniels (02:57):
Yeah. Yeah.
Probably both. Yeah.
Sam D'Arc (03:00):
You know, it was
interesting, Araya, when we did
the lunch challenge way backwhen, I remember what that was
like. Like, when you focus onone thing over that period of
time, just a month, the resultsyou see in the development you
see in that one area isincredible. And then it it goes
back if you don't stay up on it.Right? It's interesting.
Ariah Daniels (03:17):
Well, like,
physically, and I even think,
like, so mentally. Right? Like,back and forth to have the
competition with someone by yourside there, like, just pushes
you past the limits that youdidn't think that you were able
to to accomplish. Right? So I'msure that both Don and Steve
really appreciated that.
If I remember correctly, Stevewas also competing against, you
and I, Sam, for first place inthat lunch challenge. So Yes.
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Yeah. Physically physically andmentally. Right?
Being able to compete that way.
Sam D'Arc (03:44):
And Before we go into
the next month's contest, I I
wanna make just a quick littleside statement. So it's
interesting to me, 27 100 ishemployees. I don't know the
number of employees right nowthat are actively engaged in our
monthly competitions. But as apercent of 27100, it could be
higher. And here's one thingthat's fascinating to me, is
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once you engage in these once amonth and you see the benefit
all the way around because ifyou follow us through the course
of a year, if you follow coachJess and you follow a riot
through the course of a year,you're gonna come out a very
whole individual.
You don't need to do it. Youdon't need to just, like, become
great at one thing in 1 month.Just do all 12 months. Why do
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you thinks why do you think somepeople choose not to get in when
the benefits can be so big?We're stronger.
We're We're healthier. We'rebetter connected. We have more
energy. We can deal with thestress. Right?
Like, last month, there was somestress. There will be stress
this month and next month. It'sa political season. There's all
sorts of crazy things going onin the world. Mhmm.
What is the challenge to toeverybody saying I wanna be a?
Jess Polnasek (04:47):
You know, that's
my everyday Yeah. Is trying to
get people involved and engagedin their own health. And there
are so many barriers, so we tryand make things as simple as
possible and bring it to you.And that's why we change up the
challenges every month. We tryto incorporate all the different
spheres of wellness because it'snot just one thing.
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And, Sam, you're a testament to,participating in those
challenges every month, or Ithink you said the last 14
months and just the Yes. Thehealth benefits that you've seen
both physically and mentally iswhat everybody can see if they
just start somewhere.
Sam D'Arc (05:23):
And, you know, I
think some people lie to
themselves. We lie to ourselves.I did it to myself for a long
time. I sat on this call, and Iwas, like, I travel too much. I
work too much.
I'm you know, I don't haveenough time. Like, you can come
up with a whole ton of excusesthat are great excuses, but
they're all BS at the end of theday. Right? Like, all you have
to do is decide to commit. Andthen I love what they said, the
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the 1% guy who came and spoke tous at Ziegler University, I
forget his name, the speakerseries.
Yes. Like, just a little bitevery single day over a long
period of time, it changes. Itsomehow changes your DNA. So,
Araya, what do you have to addto that? Coach Jess, that was
great feedback.
I think, Araya, you
Jess Polnasek (06:02):
might Yeah.
Ariah Daniels (06:03):
I mean, to
piggyback off of that, I think
we don't know what we don'tknow. Right? And I was in the
same boat as you were, Sam,like, came up with every excuse
in the book that there ever was.And Yeah. Then I saw people who
were, I thought, busier than meand I'm like, okay.
Well, they're fitting this intotheir schedule, then I certainly
can. And I think until you don'tunderstand the benefits that
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come out of just taking care ofyourself and working out, trying
to make good intentional choicesabout your nutrition, like all
of it makes you feel better. Ithelps you show up better, and
you don't know that until itjust becomes something that you
start, you know, starting small,starting that 1%, those small
changes that you can make thatreally take you forward and
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catapult you into something evengreater. And you don't know
until every day you're justdoing it. And finally, you're
looking back and you realize, Icouldn't live without it.
But a
Sam D'Arc (06:52):
riot, it's it's easy
for you because you're fit. And
you wake up early in the morningnaturally and, like, you just
easily you just easily glide in
Ariah Daniels (07:02):
with us.
Sam D'Arc (07:02):
Right?
Ariah Daniels (07:02):
There's always
more. There's always more to be
done. I think we all sellourselves short of what we're
capable of, and there's stillthere's still way more, of what
I see in my potential down theroad, you know, physically
health and wellness wise. Right?I just think that there's
there's just so much more.
Sam D'Arc (07:17):
So the challenge to
everybody this month, because
we're about to announce thiscontest. Right? So this is the
month to get involved. At first,it's fun because it's something
everybody can do. It's superengaging because because
there'll be a team element here.
But if you've ever even justbeen on that fringe where you're
like, hey, I wonder if I couldbe pushed into it, get pushed
into it this month becausethere's always going to be a lot
of stuff going on. There is thismonth, but this month is that
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month. And the only differencebetween the way you feel now and
the way you are today and 30days from now is just taking
that first step and just going.Now I sound now we sound like we
sound like PBS television or,like, some sort of, like, a
fundraiser. Like, we're raisingmoney for Drive For Life or
something.
Jess, what do you think?
Jess Polnasek (07:59):
Hey. If we can
sell it, we're gonna
Sam D'Arc (08:01):
sell it.
Jess Polnasek (08:02):
Alright. There we
go.
Sam D'Arc (08:03):
Alright. So what's
our contest for August? It's the
Olympic challenge, Jess.
Jess Polnasek (08:07):
Yes. So to
celebrate alongside of the Paris
2024 Olympics, we wanted to dosomething fun and different. So,
we have an upper body exercise.We have a lower body strength
exercise. We have a coreexercise, and we have endurance
exercises.
So that's your walking, running,biking, swimming, rowing,
whatever it is. It all counts.So there's multiple ways for you
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to earn points. If one of theseisn't for you, that's okay. You
can pick a different one.
You can do multiple. You canstick to 1. You can go back and
forth. Whatever you'd like.Basically, the way the points
will work is you get one pointfor each exercise rep.
So if you do 10 push ups, youjust got 10 points. If you do 1,
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mile, you get one point. So onepoint for endurance mile. I
know. We're pushing straight.
Sam D'Arc (08:56):
Wait. Running a mile
is equal to 1 push up?
Jess Polnasek (09:00):
I know. Right?
We're pushing the strength
portion because we want you totrain like an athlete
Sam D'Arc (09:05):
I like it. Alright.
Jess Polnasek (09:06):
This year Very
good. This month. So, yeah, I
mean, push you to those thosestrength exercises. If you watch
my recorded call, today or thismonth, it's all about training
like an athlete. And, you know,even though you may not be an
athlete, whatever realm of lifeyou're in, whatever stage of
life in right now, there'scertainly aspects that can cater
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to you.
Yeah. So, yes, push ups for yourupper body exercise, lunges.
Don't get any PTSD with that,
Ariah Daniels (09:38):
for the lower
body. Yes. You do.
Jess Polnasek (09:41):
And Russian
twists for the core exercise. So
we're trying to hit that fullbody, and we can't wait to see.
I'm gonna be participatingalongside of you guys too, so
it's gonna be great.
Sam D'Arc (09:54):
Alright. We have to
add one more thing that you get
a point for. Alright. So I'vebeen talking about the benefits.
You know, this is coming, Araya.
I've been talking about thebenefits for 2 months, and
people have just been giving mea hard time of yoga. Right? Yoga
is awesome. It's interesting,and it's something that most
people would never think to do.But as I've started to become
consistent, like, I've seen thebenefits of it.
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Do we get points for a yogaclass? I think 1 yoga class, one
point. No.
Jess Polnasek (10:19):
Okay. We can add
that
Sam D'Arc (10:20):
in. Perfect. Perfect.
Araya, what
Jess Polnasek (10:23):
do you think of
that?
Ariah Daniels (10:24):
That's a bonus
point. I will say I did yoga
this morning, and in my yoga,there were lunges and push ups.
So you could get it inside theclass.
Sam D'Arc (10:32):
Point. Every cycle
where you do down dog, up dog,
whatever. Alright. That works.That works.
That's fair.
Jess Polnasek (10:40):
I can add that in
now.
Sam D'Arc (10:41):
You get multiple
points. So, Araya, what, how do
you wanna wrap us out on this?Last time talking
Ariah Daniels (10:46):
about excited for
this. I think just going back to
what you're talking about beinga team. Right? Like, team
Olympics, I think about team zOlympics. That's kind of what
we're calling and, talking aboutAugust for, and it'll be fun.
Go grab a couple people aroundyou and go have a, you know,
Russian twist off, I guess.Right? So go do what you can do
to log those points. Sounds likethe strategy would be to focus
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on some of those strength movesinstead of the endurance, if
you're really chasing gold. And,yeah, have fun doing it
together.
Sam D'Arc (11:18):
Coach Jess, closing
comments?
Jess Polnasek (11:20):
And just remember
too, we wanna meet you where
you're at, so we wanna make iteasy. You can do these anywhere.
You don't need equipment. Ifyou're like, oh, I can't do a
push up, do a push up againstthe wall. Do a push up on your
knees.
You can modify these exercises.Absolutely.
Sam D'Arc (11:35):
Alright, everybody.
Go out and, have fun with the
Olympics this month, and I willsee you, next month. Oh, so
Ariah Daniels (11:40):
I have a quick
quick reminder then. So if you
are not registered in the AMCoached app, go download it. It
is in orange and purple icon,and our invite ID is simply
Ziglar. Coach Jess will send youa welcome message, and you can
get in there immediately andstart logging today.
Sam D'Arc (11:57):
Wait. And can my
family members join if they
wanna join us?
Ariah Daniels (12:00):
Your family
members can join for free.
Sam D'Arc (12:02):
Yep. Awesome.
Alright. Very cool. Thank you,
Araya.
Thanks, coach Jess. See you,next month.
Ariah Daniels (12:07):
Thanks, Sam.
Thanks, Sam.
Sam D'Arc (12:11):
A special thanks to
all who contributed to this
week's podcast. Until next week,how are you driving vision
Ariah Daniels (12:21):
today?