- I have a feeling this video's going to be very interesting
for many reasons, one being somebody is hammering
in this building and they will not stop.
Please stop.
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Good morning, good life.
Welcome back to AmyTV, where we come together
to help you go after the life you want.
I am not in my usual spot.
This has bene more of my jam lately.
Why?
Because natural lighting is divine
and much easier to set up.
Of course, that probably means
the clouds are gonna go crazy
'cause that's always what happens when I do this.
Today I wanna dive into a little bit of a hot topic.
For those of you who are watching this video
who saw a recently vlog of mine,
you may have come to reiterate your views,
and to those of you who have decided so,
I invite you to just hang tight with me for a second
'cause I think I have a little bit of explaining to do.
But today I wanna talk about how to work out every day
at the risk of upsetting some people.
How to work out every day even if you don't feel like it.
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Okay, first, I feel like we need to talk about
this phraseology of working out every day.
Recently, I've learned,
I think I throw this phrase, working out, around a lot
and it means a lot of things to me.
I did a vlog recently talking about working out every day
and that one of my 20 for 2020 is to work out every day.
But when I say work out, I don't always mean, I think,
what a lot of people think of as working out.
I think it could a variety of things.
I actually find it to be synonymous
with the word movement in general.
If there is movement included in my day,
then I'm working out every day.
Here's why I say every day.
I am a check-the-box type of person.
Okay, I want to check that box so bad.
And to me, it's easier to continue the chain.
I used to think that I wasn't
a continue-the-chain type of person,
but when I can fill in every single box,
it brings me so much joy.
What I know for sure is that it's never going to happen,
but I can try.
So if I have a goal of working out every day,
then I'm probably gonna do better
than if I didn't have a goal of working out every day.
I feel the gray area is fewer and further between
if we just call it every day.
This doesn't work for everyone.
I would never suggest that this would work for everyone.
As a matter of fact, there might be some tips in this video
that'll be helpful to you whether you intend to do every day
or just a couple times a week.
But it's just how I need to process the ability
to build that habit 'cause, to tell you the truth,
I don't like working out, I don't like moving my body.
I like sitting on my computer and my phone
and doing my little things.
I don't wanna have to do it, but I know that I'm going
to live a healthier, longer life if I do.
So, it's kind of my way of programming my brain.
So if I program my brain that we're shooting for seven,
I will feel so good about the fact
that it is likely gonna be four or five.
But if I tell myself, "Oh, I have to work out
"two to three days a week," if I miss one of those workouts,
I'm gonna make myself feel so much worse
than if I didn't get to seven.
Like, seven is a lot.
But probably the most important thing to note here
is that when I say working out,
working out means a lot of things.
Okay, it could be cardio, it could be strength training,
it could be P.volve, but it could also be
just taking a walk, okay.
It could literally be meditative yoga for 20 minutes.
It could be a lot of things that don't even break a sweat.
But because I sit all day long, I have to do something.
Even if I'm not gonna break a sweat that day,
I have to do something
that's gonna take me out of my element,
and that's all I'm trying to check the box on.
So whether you're like me or not
and you sit at a desk and you need to correct the fact
that I don't smoke cigarettes,
I don't drink a lot of beer, but man,
sitting in this chair is totally going
to shave years off my life.
If you're like that, then this is just my approach to it
in addition to healthy eating and things like that.
So hopefully that should ease the minds of some of you,
regardless of what your workout plan tends to be
or how often you intend to move your body,
however you would like to phrase it.
I just have some tips for how I make that happen every day
even if I'm not feeling like it,
which is also every day, so there you go.
Really important, the first thing is to decide
why it matters to you.
I've tried to explain a little bit
as to where my head is on this already,
but everyone is different, and why you do something
is really important for actually following through with it.
That's why this was a big part of my book,
"Good Morning, Good Life."
You can have a morning routine.
Go you.
But if you don't have a good reason for it,
one that resonates with your soul, your heart, your mind,
it's not going to actually become a habit.
So working out every day, working out five days a week,
working out a couple days a week,
none of them are going to happen
if I don't have clarity on why it's important.
Looking good in photos ain't good enough for me.
I like carbohydrates way too much.
They make me feel way better in the moment
than a photo I have to post on the internet, okay.
I guess my priorities are just, you know, different.
But knowing that my heart health
is actually going to keep me on Earth longer if I do this,
or my body's going to be a little bit more flexible,
easier to walk around, easier to do the things
that I take for granted every day in my life,
just because I move my body from 20 to 60 minutes in a day,
that's why I'm doing it.
I wanna feel high energy.
I wanna be able to get out of bed
as energetic as possible even though
it's not the most exciting thing in the world to do.
I wanna feel like I can take it on.
I know from experience that when I eat a little bit better,
at least a little bit better,
and I make time to move my body every day,
I feel exponentially better in my day-to-day life.
My next tip is to schedule your workouts in advance.
What I like to do during my Sunday reflection routine,
which I've also done a video on
so check that out if you want to know,
I will go through and start scheduling things
and time-batching things and calendar-blocking things,
and workouts are a big part of that.
I know that I'm probably gonna work out at home
or somewhere in the vicinity most of the time,
so I need to schedule those workouts when I am at home.
Sometimes I'm commuting to an office,
sometimes I'm on the road, and so knowing that already,
I can look at my schedule of events
and say, "Okay, I'm gonna be able to work out
"at 8:00 a.m. on that day but it might not be
"until 4:00 p.m. on that day."
And being able to do that in advance makes it a lot easier
for me to take unnecessary decisions out of the process
of am I gonna work out today.
I already know because I put it on the calendar.
Also, if you're like me and you're trying to schedule
seven workouts a week, it's gonna be so much easier
to be okay with the fact that they're not all gonna happen
when you see when the other ones are on the calendar.
Like, well, this one had to fall off today.
It's just not gonna work.
I just can't afford to be sweaty and shower
and do my hair and my makeup all over again between shoots.
It's just not gonna happen, so I can't do it today,
but I still have six left on the calendar.
So if we end up at four or five at the end of the week,
I did really well.
This is why I love calendar-blocking
and time-batching so much because you can really see
whether or not you're using your time wisely.
And if you're moving your body,
you are using your time wisely.
Even if it's like, okay fine, this workout's gonna fall off.
Can we find a 20-minute walking meeting at some point?
Perfect.
Have that conference call
while you're walking around the block.
I mean, it's like 12 degrees outside here
so I don't know if I'm super pumped about that,
but I might try to find a treadmill if I can.
Schedule the workouts in advance.
They're much more likely to happen when you want them to
and more often, if you're trying to get to more often.
My next tip is to not let yourself
get bored of your workouts.
I know this happens to me all the time
so I have to have a variety of things.
I'll have cardio, strength training,
something that's just like stretching or low-intensity yoga
so that not every day is as challenging as the day before
or the exact same workout as the day before.
So if I hated doing planks the day before,
I know I'm probably not going to be doing it the next day
because I change up what I'm going to do,
and also, how long I'm going to do it for.
There's gonna be 60-minute days,
but there's also 20-minute, like, low, chill workout days,
and that could be the walk around the block
or just some stretching.
It is so, so, so, so, so, so, so important
to rest your muscles, but resting doesn't mean
you get to sit on the couch all day long and do nothing.
Sometimes resting your muscles still means stretching them,
moving them, and getting them to do something different.
So you really need to make sure
you should have all of these different types of workouts
covered throughout the week, and then, of course,
there is true rest days.
Like, I straight up didn't do anything
'cause I didn't wanna, and it happens.
My fourth tip is to KISS, keep it simple sweetie.
The more complicated I make my workouts,
the less likely that they're going to happen.
I have tried so hard to make most of my workouts
or movement times something I can do at home.
One of my favorites is P.volve,
and that's the one I wanna share with you today.
This one is fantastic because the actual equipment
is very different than anything
that you'll see anywhere else,
and I swear, it works your body
in ways that no other workout will.
Okay, so what is it?
Essentially, P.volve is a low-impact,
high-intensity workout that sculpts, tones,
and energizes the body, and it's all resistance-based.
They have this really amazing p.ball
which works your thighs, I swear,
in no way I have ever had them worked before.
And low-key, I definitely signed up for this workout
when I found out that the Victoria Secret Angels do it
before they walk on that fashion show stage, okay.
Aren't we all dying to know what they do to prep for that?
Yes, we are dying to know.
That is a high-pressure situation.
I've always been a really big fan
of trying to discover ways to work out
with just my body weight or the resistance
of different areas of my body
'cause I don't think you always need hand weights
or dumbbells or kettle balls or whatever.
I feel like our body is capable of so much.
Even just working out your own body weight
in the right way can make a huge difference.
And for most of us who are definitely interested
in a toning situation of our muscles,
this is an amazing way to do this.
It's so easy to do these workouts at home.
It's so simple.
I just pull up the streaming service for P.volve,
I put it on my TV, I pull out my p.ball,
I pull out my resistance bands,
and I just follow a quick workout with them
and I barely had to do anything, much less leave the house,
to make sure I got my workout in for that day.
I feel like on the days where I need to feel
a little bit more confident about myself
or I just wanna feel like I've really taken care of myself
before a speaking gig or before a photo shoot
or before anything really important like a party,
I will definitely do a P.volve.
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My next tip is to get together
with friends to do a workout.
My friend, Sarah, and I did this.
Before she got pregnant,
we always went to spin class together.
It was so much more fun to go with a friend
'cause it felt like you got that time.
You can't really talk in spin class, not gonna lie,
but still, being able to hold each other accountable
is a lot of fun.
So if you're someone
who definitely needs an accountability partner,
whether you need to hire a personal trainer
for a couple days of the week.
It would get expensive if you saw them every day
and I don't think I would recommend that.
That's, like, very strenuous.
But going to spin class a couple times a week
and doing it with a friend,
you get to spend more time together and it's quality time.
You're together, elongating your life.
It's fabulous.
My next tip is to keep track of your workouts
in your planner.
So maybe you use the Good Morning, Good Life planner
and when you check off your movement every day,
you can write what you did.
I like to do this.
I like to have a list of all the workouts.
Essentially, like, it's on my calendar
so I know when to do them,
but being able to reflect each week
and say, "Okay, how many times
"did I get to the gym this week?
"How many times did I do cardio?
"How many times did I do this?"
is a really good way to reiterate to myself,
okay, well, somehow you only worked out one time this week.
What happened?
How do we fix that?
How do we prevent that from happening again?
And also, being really proud of yourself
after you see what you did get done.
Oh my gosh, like, four days of working out
is way better than zero, and it wouldn't have happened
if you didn't plan accordingly.
So being able to look and track.
And if you're one of those people
that likes to check the box,
just give yourself 366 boxes
to potentially check this year.
See how many you get to.
I think that that's a lot of fun and it motivates me
'cause I'm a note taker, I'm a planner user,
and any other page I can add to my planner
or my bullet journal, I'm all about it.
And my last tip is kind of on that note,
but what to do after.
When you look at your reflection
and you see how well you did,
whether it's after a week, after a month,
after a quarter, after the year, celebrate.
Give yourself those milestones,
like, after a week of doing at least four
of my seven workouts or five of them,
you know, what's going to happen?
After a month of sticking with it, what's going to happen?
What about after a year?
How are you going to treat yourself?
Let me tell you something.
I am not online shopping right now
and it is because I do not want to buy things
that are not out of whack, okay.
I want to be on my workout game
before I get a new pair of jeans, okay.
Like, I don't deserve the new pair of jeans yet
because I have plenty of pairs of jeans.
Okay, let's be honest. (chuckles)
But I'm gonna get a fresh new pair
and it's gonna feel even better if it is my milestone reward
for the fact that I stuck with at least 15
of the 31 workouts that I had planned this month
or whatever your goal may be.
I would like to be north of 15,
but I think that's also a really good number,
like 50%, half of the month, you got your workouts in.
That's great.
You should be able to reward yourself,
maybe not with a glass of champagne
'cause that would be a very easy thing to do on accident
and totally mess up your diet.
Or would it?
I mean, come on.
Maybe a week of it in London was not the smartest idea.
One glass, probably okay.
Find the milestones that make sense for you.
Give yourself credit when you follow through
on what you say you're going to do.
No matter what you decide is your right amount
of working out or what working out looks like for you,
decide it for you.
It's your life.
So you should also be able to enjoy the fact
that you have reached certain milestones
and achieved the goals that you've set out for yourself
because every single day we are reminded
that we are not enough.
We need to remind ourselves that we are.
Okay?
That's really important for you to hear right now.
There's always more to do.
There's always a little bit more fat to get rid of.
There's always one less cookie you could've had.
All these things that we want to give ourselves
such a hard time for, when we could just be enjoying
the life that we've been given
and try to show respect for the fact
that we are directly in charge of making sure
that we keep it around for as long as possible.
We can't control the uncontrollable,
but we can control the controllable.
And however many workouts for however many minutes
at whatever level of intensity
is completely controlled by you.
And that's all I have to say about that.
(laughs)
Okay, tell me, what is right for you?
What is your goal in the movement of your body department?
Share that in the comments below.
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Sorry about the hammering man.
I don't know if, I don't know, there's literally nothing
I can do about that and I gotta make this video.
It's so important.
And now the hammering has come back.
Like, you know they're just hammering just for fun.
Like, they're not even doing anything. (scoffs)
Ding, dang, dern, dern.
Stop!