Ep #407: A 30-Day Reset for Women Who’ve Had Enough of Starting Over

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Hey friends, and welcome back to the Not Your Average Runner podcast. I’m gonna cut to the chase. If you have started and stopped a workout plan more times than Ross and Rachel broke up, this episode is for you. So listen up because I created something specifically for you. It is called the Midlife Movement Makeover, and it’s a 30 day reset that finally gets you off the hamster wheel of starting and quitting and hating yourself and starting again.

Today, I’m gonna tell you exactly why you need it and how to get it. So here is the truth. Every time you have failed at a fitness plan. It was not because you’re lazy, unmotivated, or broken. It is because the rules you’ve been fed your whole damn life. Don’t work for midlife women with real responsibilities.

Alright? These rules are written for college athletes, Instagram influencers, 20 somethings with no kids and no hot flashes. And then they tell you with your full-time job and your aging parents and your menopause and your joint pain, and maybe even teenagers under your roof, that if you just had more discipline, you’d be able to stick with it.

I call bullshit because here’s what happens. You go all in, you crush it for two weeks, then life smacks you upside the head and you miss a workout, and then you miss another, and suddenly you’re in that shame spiral. You quit, you restart. It’s over and over and over again. Does this sound familiar? If it does, I want you to know it’s not you.

Again, it is the system and it’s time to burn that system to the ground. Here’s what actually works. When you’re in your forties and fifties and sixties and beyond flexibility, life is gonna interrupt your plans. It’s a, it’s, you can count on it, all right? Your system has to bend so that you don’t break.

You also need supportive movement, not punishment for what you ate, not trying to earn your dinner. You need movement that makes you feel calmer, stronger, and more alive, and sets you up for activities of daily li living rather than just going ham on some kind of 75 hard thing that’s not really gonna help you in life at all.

You also need permission to go small. Five minutes counts. I promise you it does not need to be 30 minutes or an hour. Five minutes can make a difference. Stretching while you’re watching Netflix counts, dancing in your kitchen counts. And finally, you need to learn that consistency is so much more important than perfection.

Let’s be real. Perfection is a lie, and consistency gets results. Consistency does not mean you have to be perfect. Now what do you not need More? Shame. We don’t need more. No pain, no gain. We don’t need more bullshit rules. Rid by skinny dudes who have never tried running with boobs. All right. That is why I built the midlife movement makeover.

All right. This is a 30 day reset for women who are done playing by the rules who are done starting over, who are done beating themselves up, and who are ready to find something that works, that is sustainable, that they can good about. Here’s what you get inside the program. You get the guide that I made just for you, which has short, easy lessons that break down the four keys to consistent movement.

You get 30 daily sparks, which are quick mindset, react, resets, and actions that you can take right now, no matter how messy your day is. You get 21 super short and simple workout ideas that don’t require you to be fit right now. And they don’t take more than 10 minutes. There’s no gym, there’s no burpees, there’s no fancy bullshit, okay?

And you also get weekly emails from me helping you implement, cheering you on, and, and letting you know that somebody is on your side because. Let’s be honest, right? Buying a program and never opening it is peak midlife energy. So I will be in touch with you after you sign up to help keep you on track and remind you to actually use the damn thing.

All right? This is not a bootcamp. This is not a 30 day fitness challenge. It is not a drop. Two sizes in a month program. It is a system that helps you stop quitting on yourself. Why does it work? Here’s the secret sauce. I call it the least because instead of trying to do the most all the time, which you have figured out does not work.

Instead, we figure out what is the least you’re willing to do. Consistently, and then that becomes your anchor. So maybe your baseline is five minutes a day on those crazy ass wild days, you can still hit your five because you’ve set it up that way. On good days, you might do more, but you don’t have to.

But the thing is, when you set up your least. You don’t have to stop. You don’t have to quit, and because you’re not quitting, you never have to start over again. Doesn’t that sound like fun? Because that is how habits actually get built. They don’t get built by white knuckling a 12 week challenge. They don’t get built by earning your carbs.

They get built by making it so damn easy. You cannot fail. One of my clients, she started with five minute walks at lunch. That was it. No special shoes, no schedule overhaul, just five minutes. Someday it was in, sometimes it was inside, sometimes it was outside. But six months later, she was training for a 5K.

And not because she forced herself, but because her five minutes grew into 10 and then they grew into 15, and next thing you know, she was running three days a week. Okay. That is the power of the Midlife Movement makeover. It meets you where you are right now instead of shaming you for not being someplace else.

So here is my straight up pitch. If you are tired of hitting, reset, restart, this is your sign. The Midlife movement makeover is just $29 right now. That is less than one Uber Eats order. It is less than the leggings that you bought and never wore. But unlike those leggings, this program is actually gonna change the way you think about movement.

It is self-paced. You can start today and by this time next month, you will actually feel like someone who moves her body because she wants to, not because she has to. So head on over to not your average runner.com/midlife. Seriously, hit pause, grab your copy, and then come back. I will wait. That’s not your average runner.com/midlife.

I’m also gonna have a link in the show notes for this episode. Then let’s go. Let’s do this thing. All right. Okay. My friends today was short and sweet. That’s all I’ve got for you. The rules of fitness were not written for us, so I say, fuck those rules. You just need a reset one that is built for you, your body, and your life, all right?

That is what the midlife movement makeover is, not your average runner.com/midlife. Let’s make these next 30 days the last time you ever have to start over. I’ll see you there, and I will talk to you next week.

Real quick before you go, I’ve got a fun challenge for you. Take my exerciser personality quiz to find out exactly what kind of exerciser you are and how to make running feel easier and more enjoyable.

Just head over to not your average runner.com/quiz to take it and get your results. That’s not your average runner.com/quiz.