One area that Kelly is obsessed with helping women improve on is their relationship with exercise, because most women tend to have a story around exercise and it usually isn’t a positive one. For ambitious women, it’s important to figure this piece out because it can directly impact business growth, overwhelm and anxiety, physical health and relationships. Whether you find yourself obsessed with exercise in a way that is consuming too much mental and physical energy, or you find that exercise is another item on the to-do list that doesn’t get done (and therefore you shame yourself for it) - it’s important to do the work to shift your perception of what fitness can be in your life. 

In this episode, Kelly shares the history of her own rollercoaster relationship with exercise - and the impact it had on her life. She also delves deep into the reasons why exercise can be a toxic relationship for women and lays out four things you can do to shift your relationship with exercise in a way that allows you to keep yourself healthy on a day-to-day basis, avoid burnout, and have fun.

Kelly also has a free PDF for seven activities you can add to your nightly routine that will make you feel more energized and focused when you wake up the next day. You can grab your free guide here: https://kellythealth.lpages.co/nightly-routine-guide/

The Finer Details of This Episode:

- How Kelly came discover the sheer amount of fear and anxiety women have toward exercise.

- Why industrialization has had such a negative impact on the amount of daily exercise we do—and what you can do to compensate for it.

- The little things you can do to stay active throughout the day and avoid the kind of sedentary lifestyle that modern life enables.

- How Kelly’s own relationship with exercise has changed for better and for worse throughout her life.

- Getting honest with your personal fitness goals and accepting that they may be different from your friends’.

- Don’t feel constrained to just the gym: seek out other modes of exercise that get you outside, working out with others, and most importantly having fun!

- Remember that you need to pace yourself: you can’t exercise well if you go overboard and burn yourself out.

- TAKE ACTION: Decide the first step you’ll take to improve your relationship with exercise and do it!

Quotes:

“We need to identify what works best for us.”

“A little bit goes a long way.”

“We wanna be working with our bodies instead of against them.”

“I’m racing right now and training for races because I’m enjoying it!”

“However you feel best moving, that’s what you should be doing!”

“We have to have some goals, yes, but we also have to have some fun along the way.”

Show Links:

Dan Buetter and Blue Zones - https://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/

Free PDF with 7 things you can do to wake up feeling your best - https://kellythealth.lpages.co/nightly-routine-guide/

Kelly’s homepage - http://www.kellytravis.net

Ascend Mastermind - http://www.kellytravis.net/ascend