[00:00:00] Welcome to the UFFDA! podcast, hosted by Emily O'Connor and Jordan Rudolph. The UFFDA! podcast brings you a surprisingly fresh take on everyday topics in health, fitness, and everything in between. We want to open the door to explore new information and new solutions in a way that's easy for you to understand and apply to your own life.
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Introduction and Episode Overview
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Hello everybody. Welcome back to the UFFDA! podcast. I'm Jordan Rudolph. And I'm Emily Morris. We're joining you for season four, episode 46. Yes, correct. I know you just said it. It's okay. Episode 46.
Reflecting on Season Four
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Um, as we're wrapping up season four here, we've probably got an [00:01:00] episode or two left, uh, not including this one.
And then, uh, maybe including this one,
it is two, including this one, I believe. Two including this one.
So we got one more? Yeah. Okay.
Then you'll be able to go back and listen to all the previous ones if you Yes. Haven't, or start from the beginning, learn something new, all things
maybe we'll do, we'll do like an All star season, then we'll show like our most.
Like, we just look back and just repost like our most viewed, our most downloaded episode. Our most Listened to episode. Our most shared episode. Yeah. Like we just like do a little cheesy, just repost and Yeah. Revisit cheesy things. Yeah. Yeah. Or first episode. Um, yes. Maybe
not that one.
Yeah.
The Importance of Knowing Your Why
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Any who we are here, uh, today, kind of giving you a little bit more of a reminder or just like checking back into being where your feet are, uh, if you will.
And it's more so knowing why you're here. Mm-hmm. And as that relates to. Uh, a lot of different things in life, but specifically towards your health and fitness. Um, being where your feet are being present, but then knowing your why. Knowing why you're here, whether [00:02:00] it's at the gym or whether it's you in the kitchen making food and meal prepping.
Um, having a little bit of intention behind, uh, your actions and a little bit of awareness behind your feelings towards this as you are leading towards, uh, the goal of being better or the goal of achieving X, y, or z.
Right, and like you said, this can extend into all areas of life, but knowing the why behind it, and we've talked about knowing the why.
In previous episodes, probably in previous seasons of the podcast and how important that is, but really tying back into that big overarching why and also the why behind each and every, like if it's a session in the gym each and every session, right? What is the goal of that session? Some sessions might focus more on recovery.
Some sessions might be the time to push strength or do a max out or. Strength test, or maybe it's improving in a specific lift. It's more of technique based, right? There can be little mini why's along the way, and knowing the why [00:03:00] allows you to approach everything you're doing with intention, behind your movement, behind your actions, behind your words, behind every like instance that you take, your thoughts, even where then the outcome all.
Comes a little bit more or has a little bit more, uh, freedom, or maybe your actions have a little bit more freedom along that path. There's no questioning the why behind you're doing it if you're constantly reminded or reminding yourself of that along the way, so it ties you consistently back into that overarching big why.
When we can remember the little parts along the way as well.
I think it's considering everything, right, like you, you understand. Uh, that how you do anything is how you do everything. And you understand that how you think about everything is how you think about anything. So if we put that all into action and if you have a, have a goal or, [00:04:00] uh, you just said a word there and now I was gonna bring that back up.
Replaying what you said. Now I don't remember what it was, but if you had that thing, that thing that's striving towards, right. Everything, the little things. That, that all of this stuff comes into play, into play. And not that you have to be perfect either.
Perfection vs. Progress
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'cause that's the other part that we'll, we'll maybe have to squash here as we do every other episode of the All and Run thinking people fall into this trap of perfection, uh, for themselves.
And we might call something perfect. Like there's, there's like, I, I keep thinking of the. Uh, Ted lasso referenced when their diamond dogs are sitting in the office and they say like, oh, it's perfect. And then Coach Beard says, well, it's not perfect. And then literally like it goes around the horn with everybody in the room knit labeling things of perfection.
And he's like, okay, okay. That too. Okay, okay. Okay. You guys get what I'm saying? But when we think about perfect people, people themselves tend, they think to be [00:05:00] perfect to get something done well or done right. Mm-hmm. And that's not the case. Mm-hmm. This is just knowing. That no one got there by thinking that everyone gets there by doing.
Mm-hmm. So these little things end up mattering really, really well when, when you're going through it, obviously the big things matter too, and as you're going through and knowing your why and having that intention behind all of your actions, it's a big, big, big deal towards the next steps going forward.
Mm-hmm. Well, it allows you to open. Your mind and maybe approach a situation in a different way and looking at that more as a growth opportunity, right? When we think we need to be perfect about something, it often shuts us down from allowing ourselves to make the mistakes that will actually allow us to be perfect or to be better in the first place and in the big term.
So allowing yourself the opportunity to step back to be a beginner, to not be good. At something right away allows for that [00:06:00] learning and for that growth to happen, that might not happen as rapidly or as efficiently as if we just waited to be good right from the jump. Right? So knowing that, again, when we talk about the why, we talk about knowing why we're here.
Some of that why is to get better, most likely, and in some way, shape or form, and. By getting better. You're in the flip side of the coin saying you're not good yet. So we shouldn't expect some of that perfection right from the jump. So there does have to be that gray area, a less all or none thinking, uh, or zero all or none thinking and more living in the gray, if you will, from the black and the whites of either end.
This is, this is where general. Fitness routines or just general things?
Setting Intentions and Goals
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It's, it's really hard, like if you are, if you are working on maintaining, if you're working on just being okay with everything, that what is, and then if [00:07:00] something happens, um, you know, if there's no deadline, if it just, if it happens, it happens type of things, like where general stuff works.
Mm-hmm. And it can work if that's what you're okay with. But if you want something more, if you want something. Uh, better and more specific and has a deadline, has more specificity to it. Anything that it is, this is where the intention comes into play and you should know why you're doing what you're doing.
Or you should have an understanding of why what you're doing matters in that case too, right? We like, how do you show up better for your training session, your workout, uh, your steps that you're doing? Like everything's not there. There's not nothing there by accident. Right. Everything that you're doing is by design.
It's, it, it, the success that you have is, is intentional. It's what you thought you would have, um, by setting out, uh, on this goal. Uh, everything's kind of, uh, the success is kind of designed by results and, and there there's [00:08:00] no, it doesn't mean that you have to be perfect again on that. It doesn't mean you can't make mistakes.
It just means that we've considered all of that, but we're still moving forward with the design. Mm-hmm. And, and I think our big thing for the reminder of this episode was like showing up with that intention. Like understanding that today, like this battle today is not necessarily going to win the war, but you could win today.
And if you do that more often than not. You will win the war.
Mm-hmm. Right. Well, and again, it, it, it's that reminder of the bigger picture where we can look at the end result, the end goal that we want to achieve and work backwards to find the steps. Right. It's like it's what we do as coaches. It's.
Looking forward, seeing the end, and then working backwards to know what we should be doing for A, B, and C before we see, you know, we get to Z at the end finish line, but we might be somewhere along the middle and NOP if you will. And not really sure where we're falling. And that's the [00:09:00] why we want to tie into, that's the why that you should know along the way that will tie you back in and push towards that larger outcome, even if you're unsure of what that looks like.
Right. So knowing the why, and then from that side, not just knowing, but approaching, like you were saying, the actions with the intention behind them to drive the needle forward, to move the needle forward, to drive the ball forward, whatever. Analogy I wanted to make there to move forward towards the end goal so that you're not just sitting in the middle and you know, or falling backwards.
You know what you're doing, where you're going to be and what it's going to take to get there. Not kind of feeling like you're in the middle with no direction at all. It's, it's knowing where the direction is headed.
Consistency and Identity
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Yeah, and I think Steven Covey. Has a quote out there somewhere that says, when you know, then you will do so.
Therefore, if you do not do, you do not know. [00:10:00] So why bring that up in this scenario, like, if you know what you're after, if you're clear on what you want and, and you have a good vision of it, you, you have the description of it and you, and you have the clarity, um, you'll, you'll accomplish whatever it takes to get there.
If you're a little wishy-washy, if you're not really sure, or if you just don't really care, you're just doing because somebody told you this was supposed to be good, it, it's very unlikely that you'll follow through. Right? This is where a lot of times you see somebody that's having really good success at X Place or Y Diet and they're like, oh, you should try it, but it, it wasn't like necessarily meant for you in that circumstance.
And also that could be a completely dump big dumpster fire because it could be a tUFFDA!lly wrong environment or. A disaster piece of the diet for you. Yeah. Right.
Just because it worked for someone else, it will not work for you. 100% digress.
100%. And that's, that's the other point we have to make in saying that.
So, but if you look at it from the standpoint, like if you don't know, then you [00:11:00] can't really expect yourself to continue to do so. This part of knowing your why and having this intention behind just showing up, it become, all of these things come become a lot easier to do. Uh, on a regular or consistent basis, like it's theistic, part of it, like you can form habits quicker, but you're much more likely to build momentum and motivation behind it too, because you can take action.
You're not talking yourself out of it as much. You're not just doing it because, uh, I get some walks in sometimes. Yeah. I go and lift at the why. I do the same thing. I'm just not making fun of the why. This is just the saying that we have a lot of times. I've been a member at X, Y, Z. We are Y again
in insert any gym.
X,
A, B, A. Yeah. XAB, I can't even say the word Y right Now you're, you're a member at some place for however many years I've been doing a lot of strength training, but you've just been doing the circuits over and over and over. Same weights. I get 'em in three days a week. It's better than nothing. Yes. But your body's also not adapting anymore.
There's no progression. There's no actual said thing. So in that circumstance, you probably haven't been [00:12:00] consistent. You probably haven't done enough to stimulate your body over anything. And therefore, if you were to stop doing all of that, it's likely that not a lot would happen. I know that's harsh in some circumstances, but there's not enough there.
So again, dialing in, knowing your why, knowing that this is for, um, it's huge. I mean, this is something that we do a lot of times with people as they join. We, we don't take, I just wanna lose some weight for the answer. We don't take, I just wanna, I wish I was just a little bit stronger as the only thing we, we don't leave it there because a lot of times what people are coming in with is not the thing that they're following through with, or not the thing that keeps them following through.
And it's certainly not the thing that ends up keeping them here or reason why they stay. Mm-hmm. And if that part of it is this is something that you're struggling with, like, why am I doing this? Why am I going to the gym? Why would I do that? Why am I squatting? Those components all come into play with the [00:13:00] psyche behind this, and this is why we brought up this episode.
Mm-hmm. Like for you to dial in.
For sure. Well, it becomes then more than, like you were saying, not just what you're doing, but that's where to drawback to our earlier episodes and the be, do, have, and the identity shift. It becomes who you are. It just becomes a thing that you do as the person you are not.
Yeah. I go, I do the thing and then I don't really think about it until the next time that I'm asked to go do the thing. Mm-hmm. It becomes, your lifestyle revolves around that and that identity, not necessarily that as in the gym, right? Like the gym supports your life, not the other way around, but it becomes the thing that just as a human, your identity that you have is the person that.
XI was gonna say X, y, Z again too. That, that, that performs the habits and knows the intention behind and performs the actions that get you to your end goal. That the, the things that you know will get you there. YMA perform with [00:14:00] intention, Y-Y-M-C-A
is getting great plugs today.
I unintentional marketing, I suppose for the YMCA, but,
but yeah.
Not, not the point towards your intention is what we're, what we're after. Yeah. And, and, and this is just, why would we want you spinning Rowan circles? Like, if you're after something that matters to you most, why would you also want to be spinning around circles nor, or, or feel like that? Like, we don't want that, nor should you.
So as you dial that back in and you're looking for a little bit more edge or a little bit more pep in your step, uh, we recommend going back to looking at intention and why you started in the first place. Excuse me, hiccups, or what keeps you going? Like, why are you continuing to do this? Mm-hmm. And if, if you.
Vulnerability and Breakthroughs
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Allow yourself the moment, or even better get somebody else to bring in and ask you more questions about that and be curious around it. It probably uncovers you verbalizing something and bringing something that you've kind of kept in the dark, if you will, or maybe been, [00:15:00] um, you haven't felt, uh, like the ne the need or the necessarily like the, the, the goal or the the want to share it with somebody.
So you've kind of. Hit it, you, you've kind of buried it down a little bit. It's your chance to be vulnerable. And a lot of times when you can express something through vulnerable expression in particular, or get to a point where you can actually acknowledge these things, there's major, major action and breakthroughs that happen beyond it.
Mm-hmm. And if you say it out loud in front of people, it's even more powerful. Mm-hmm. So make sure you're doing that like often, I would say. But certainly if you haven't done it in a while, and especially when it comes down to like your health and fitness or why you do anything. Right. Like showing up to work, work each day, like that type of thing too.
Like all that comes into play.
Yeah, certainly. And that's where it extends beyond just the health and the fitness and the training and, and into everything. Right? It brings intention behind knowing your why, brings in tension behind all of the actions you take, not just how your workout goes or what you're eating or meal prepping or anything like that.
A [00:16:00] hundred percent. So.
Conclusion and Farewell
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