⚡️MINI⚡️ 5-Minute Fitness Fixes for Busy Women

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Building the habit of fitness?

What really holds us back when it comes to our health and fitness, especially in midlife? Prioritizing ourselves! But, signifiant progress is all about those small, consistent habits that pack a punch over time. (It's not sexy, but it does work!)

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome to this on air withElla Minisode, a little bite sized
boost to your day.
Always quick, always thoughtprovoking, and always under 10 minutes.
Let's go.
I want to talk to real womenabout what to do.
Why is it hard?
Why do we, how do we make it harder?
What should we be doing instead?
Like, you work with a lot ofreal women now.

(00:24):
You look like you were cutfrom some sort of mold.
Like, if I put you in eightpotato sacks, I would be able to
tell that there was a physiqueunder there.
Like, you clearly have been alifelong athlete.
And I think that's so cool.
That's not everybody.
And I want to talk toeverybody today.
Haley and I want to talk aboutkeeping this real.
How to make habits, how to getout of our own way.

(00:46):
Okay, tell me this.
First of all, what do you hear most?
What is standing in the way ofwomen over 35, 40, you know, in,
in midlife?
What a stand standing in theway of us getting where we need to
be with our health and fitness goals.
I want to preface this and Iwant to say it so that women can

(01:10):
get the message because I'veworked with every kind of female.
I've worked with everyone,every demographic, a lot of countries,
you know, very famous peopleto whatever stay at home, moms that
live in a tiny, you know, farmtown in usa.
It doesn't matter who thefemale is.

(01:32):
It is the same.
And that is the lesson thatI've learned this year.
It is the same issues thatstand in the way.
Whether you have a lot of helpor resources or whether you don't.
And it usually comes down toprioritizing something for ourselves.
That is the biggest piecebecause you can have, you know, it.

(01:54):
It's either someone that hasfive kids and their husband is, you
know, they're a single mom ortheir husband travels all the time
or a se CEO that, you know islike, well, I don't have time.
I don't even have time to goto the dentist, let alone.
And I tried to have theseconversations very lovingly.
Have a female sit down and belike, listen.
We're all like, no one's lifeis getting.

(02:15):
I don't know anyone that'sjust cold kicking it with nothing
to do, you know, for like allday long.
I mean, I don't know anyone.
But if we look at this, I wantyou to, like, close your eyes and
I want you to picture yourselfin 20 years, in 10 years, in 30 years,
and the person that, whatyou're doing now and it doesn't have

(02:36):
to be elaborate.
It doesn't have to be, youknow, all of these crazy rules.
What you're doing now is goingto determine how the rest of your,
like, the last few decades ofyour life will be.
And I don't know anyone that'slike, I'm super cool being in a nursing
home and having my kids haveto do everything for me.
Like, that's a good way to go out.
Nobody does.

(02:57):
And so what we, we have,whether it's, you know, goals, resolutions,
making it harder on ourself bythis guilt of, like, perfection,
or if I can't do it all, thenI'm not going to do it at all.
Give yourself 10 minutes aday, 15 minutes a day.
I mean, I have a client that'slike, write me 15 minute workouts.
And I'm like, I think youcould YouTube this.
And.
But the point is, is like, ithas to start just like brushing your

(03:21):
teeth every single day.
It's like non negotiable.
And that time, everyone onyour team or in your family or, you
know, in your world knows thisis non negotiable.
This is Ella 2.0 time.
So I'm always like, you know,the 2.0 version of yourself is now
making time for you, whateverthat is.

(03:43):
It doesn't have to be everyday, but you have to prioritize something.
Hailey.
To me, the secret is so boring.
The secret is to start whereyou are and be as consistent as you
can.
So no matter how small thatmay be, consistency is so much more
important than these big sexy headlines.

(04:06):
Give me your take on thatbased on your experience.
Okay, so I've never stuck witha resolution in my entire life.
Maybe we're biased.
Yeah.
Ever, Ever.
And I have, I've had people onmy podcast and I'm, I'm gonna do
it.
I'm gonna set the intentionand I'm gonna do this new thing.
And then I'm like, yeah, whoam I kidding?
It's not gonna happen.

(04:27):
Yeah, it'll look still me.
Yes.
I mean, and you're right, it'snot like if we take away quick fixes,
flashy, sexy, doing this andthen that and then this.
Focus on one thing, one thing.
And just be like, I'm going todrink more water in the morning.
That's all I'm gonna do.
Or I'm going to decide that again.

(04:48):
Like, I'm gonna block out my calendar.
We all have an A phone withour calendar on there.
Block out whatever it is.
10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30minutes, and I'm just going to devote
that to me and I have tobelieve that I'm worth it.
And I have to stop using theexcuse of.
Because we're all guilty of this.
But, you know, I just have toget through this next business launch

(05:12):
or I just have to wait untilmy kid gets.
Yeah, like until my kid getsin full time school or when I get
this teenager out of the house.
Because we all have that.
But I mean, I'm here to tellyou I have a 20 year old, 18 year
old and a 14 year old.
And I kept saying, well, assoon as one of them gets off to college,
my life is going to be, youknow, it's going to mellow out.
Oh, as soon as the second onegets up, well, now both of them are

(05:34):
off.
And I'm like, well, yeah, Ihave a little bit more.
I'm not driving places as much.
But like, we all will fill upour day with different things that
are important to us.
Some that we need to do, likework, but that are important to us.
Why aren't we at the top ofthat pillar of being important?
Because we've kind of beentaught and raised, you know, I, I

(05:56):
was raised in a very Christianhousehold where you, you give everything
that you have to other peopleand you serve and you serve and you
serve and you serve and that'sall great, but not at the expense
of ourselves.
Because then when we start tohave things break down, which they
will in our 50s, 60s, 70s,whatever, that decade is where you

(06:19):
start breaking down, you'regonna wish that you would have prepared
a little or put yourself firstfor that little bit.
Because we can't, we can't go back.
Yeah.
I always say if you can't putyourself first for you, then do it
for everybody else.
Yeah, they need you and theyneed you in fine form.
So if you are not willing todo that for yourself, then do it

(06:39):
for the people who depend onyou and the people that you love
and who love you back.
Thanks for joining me for thismini episode of On Air with Ella.
Tune in for our full episodesonce a.
See you next time.