Chanel here. Welcome to Menopause Nutritionist.
I believe women can thrive in menopause and
have the body composition of their choice
if they must have been nutrition and lifestyle.
Today I want to talk to you a
little bit about the methodology
behind my madness
and if you were tuning into my stories
today on social media, you would have heard
me talk about the down under qualifier that
I was doing last week, or maybe you're
already following me on social media and you
saw me doing some of those workouts
last week. And I also have high rocks
coming up that I was talking about. So
I wanted to give you some insights into
why I do some of these things,
but before we get started I just want
to remind you about the wait list for
my September program. This will be the last
time I run the program this year,
and that is the place to be. I
was looking at my calendar today and I'm
like, maybe it's time to run another free
protein challenge.
So this is where you'll stay up to
date with everything that I'm getting up to.
So that is where I recommend you go.
I'll pop the link here so after we
finish chatting, you can jump on and, you
know, make sure you're on the wait list.
You will get a decent discount as well
if you do join the September program. So
that only comes through that link,
and you'll get bonuses and bits and pieces
as well. So really a decent place to
be. Or maybe you're tuning in and actually
you wanna get started straight away. I also
do have one spot left for my 1
on 1 coaching.
So actually there might be a couple more
coming up because next month is a new
month. Would you believe it? So
we should jump on a chat,
a call, a chat, chat and have a
call.
Jump on a call, have a chat is
what I was trying to say,
and then you can see how things work
there. And,
if we're a good fit,
that would be the best place. So I'll
drop my calendar link there too. If you
wanna look into the 1 on 1 coaching
and get started straight away, you don't wanna
wait till September.
So those are the options
to get us going and
I'm excited.
Okay. So like I mentioned
last week, I was doing the down under
online qualifiers, which is probably
the 2nd big biggest CrossFit competition in Australia
behind the Torian Pro, which actually they didn't
have masters at this year. So I guess
this is the biggest competition for masters this
year.
And it's a very difficult competition
to qualify for because so many people do
it. So I gave it a crack, I
wasn't sure because the age groups are quite
big,
but I did. I got in which is
exciting and
scary at same time because now I'm pretty
sure I'm the oldest in our age group.
Age does not matter. So
here I
am sucking it up. Age doesn't matter. I
might be the oldest in the age group.
It is what it is. I just have
to do the work now. So I have
that in October, so that's pretty exciting.
But before that in a couple of weeks,
I'm doing the Brisbane HiRox.
Now for those of you tuning in and
you don't know what HiRox is, it's like
it's actually a pretty new
thing that I think it's only been going
a couple of years at the most.
I heard about it when I was in
the UK about 18 months ago. It's very
big in Europe. So it's to me, it's
like the Ironman of CrossFit.
It's,
it's like a more of an endurance race.
So it's got 8 k's of running in
it. You do one one kilometer then you
come back and you do like another movement
and you go and run another kilometer and
you come back. So it's gonna take a
while, but
I've actually signed up for the pro division
because the ladies division was sold out. So
it's going to be a real challenging event.
So I've got that in a few weeks.
So I wanted to talk about why I
am doing these things,
because clearly I don't have to do
them but
the reason that I do them and sign
myself up for them because even like the
high rocks I'm like, why am I doing
this? It's gonna be really hard
because it gives me purpose. So for the
next 3 weeks I have a very strong
purpose
to get myself to training, to do the
things,
I have created a reason and a purpose
for myself.
So for me, I don't ever want to
get into that place where I can't be
bothered because
truth be told
when we,
you know, get to this stage of life
or we're adults nobody is telling you what
to do. You have to create that motivation
yourself and if you listen in over here
you'll hear me speak and talk about this
all the time. We can't trust our feelings.
So motivation, it just it's a feeling, It
comes and goes. We have to actually
put things in place
to
make sure that we're doing the things
and I create I call them my nonnegotiables.
So one of my nonnegotiables
is that I lift heavy weights,
I exercise, I make sure my heart is
healthy.
That's one of my non negotiables.
And my reason for this, like this is
where getting into this conversation is that we
need to have a purpose and my purpose
is truly
to
not like, yes I'm gonna go to the
Down Under Championships and I want to do
my best but my real purpose is to
live like a long time and be healthy
and strong and be able to do things
with my grandkids like maybe go snowboarding with
them when I'm 70 or,
you know, travel the world with them or
do things with them, like, you know, not
just go watch them do things maybe that
they'll do high rocks with me, you know,
like I
recently
was having a little bit of a panic
attack about this high rock situation and I
came across this lady,
she's 70 years old in the UK,
doing the High Rocks event. She was passing
this young boy. He was, like, in his
early twenties. He was, like, standing still and
she was lunging past him. And I was,
like, that's what I wanna do. Do. I
want to be 70 and still active and
strong
and living to the fullest.
Now the reason that I put things on
the radar before
70 if you like is because
like, you know, it's hard to be motivated
about something that's going to happen in 20
or 30 years. So for me, I find
having
shorter term goals
makes me
able to focus
and then
do the work even on the days where
maybe I'm tired or I don't have the
motivation because, like, when we know we can't
trust the motivation, we can't trust our feelings.
So then there's a bigger purpose
that makes me
get myself in together because now
I have a timeline for this this competition
and so I need to do the work
and the same as the HiRox. It's like
it's it's coming up fast. I need to
do the work
to, you know, make myself proud. So
this is kind of some of the
the thought process and methodology
around why
I
find things to
have a goal for and
this just makes you then have, like, a
stronger purpose in the shorter term because sometimes
it's, like, hard to just,
you know, get yourself out of bed just
to go, like, lift weights because, you know,
building muscle is good for you and we
all know that, you know,
but that is not always what's gonna drive
your ambition, right? So even though you know
you feel better and your body is is
like, you know, gonna work better and it's
gonna boost your metabolism and you know all
of the benefits of building muscle, it's still
sometimes not what pushes your buttons to make
you do it. So this is why you
see me doing these things
because
I never ever want to have an I
don't care attitude where
if today I don't care,
like I can't be bothered,
Tomorrow I don't I can't be bothered. Then
a whole week is gone and I haven't
been bothered and then a month's gone and
I haven't been bothered and this is what
happens. And this is where
you see it happen a lot at this
stage of life
where we then start making excuses like I'm
too busy, work was too busy, like you
know
x y zed this happened and this is
where the slide happens and
when you have that slide
it's so much harder to get back. It's
so much harder to get your get your
fitness and your strength back. It's way easier
to
what you've got right now, build on that,
like, and keep it, like, because we are
fighting the losing battle
every
day, like, every year we're losing a 1%
of muscle if we're not doing anything about
it, and that matters. It makes a big
difference.
So overriding that with having small goals and
for you it might be that you, you
know, you grab your friend and you do
a little challenge together. You don't have to
be doing high rocks or, you know,
CrossFit championships.
If you don't want to, just find something
for you that is going to motivate you
to
give you that purpose
to get yourself moving
and doing the things so then it
just
mixes things up a bit really too to
be quite honest. Like I think that's the
thing like before I started
CrossFit, I did dabble a little bit in
weights.
Not very well. Like I kind of laugh
at it now like considering how strong I
am now.
But Gary kind of has always been into
weights and so we had some hair and
he you know, I used to go down
there and do some bench and it was
really
like probably not even what I warm up
on now. But
the reality of the matter is it just
I just got it was boring like I
just got bored with it. And so the
reason I love CrossFit is because every time
I walk into CrossFit it is different like
every day
is like different and that variety is what
I think
really
ignites
it for me like I love it.
So finding that and if you're doing a
program maybe mixing it up like working at
how you can mix it up
so you don't get bored,
and you keep it fresh and exciting. So
if you're working with a trainer or you're
following a program
maybe ask for them to
mix it up so you don't fall into
that kind of like you never want things
to be boring.
So anyway, that's a little bit of insight
into
why you see me
like freaking myself out doing these things because
I think when you push yourself out of
your comfort zone as well that's
actually where you can see what you're capable
of. Like I honestly wasn't sure about qualifying
for this,
this this competition
and
I did it. So
I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't
have tried. So so
sometimes it's good to put ourselves in that
situation where we can actually make ourselves proud
by giving it a shot
and seeing what's capable. If I hadn't have
qualified, it wouldn't have mattered anyway because I
gave it a shot, you know? So we
never know unless we give it a try
and
we always are learning so,
you know, doing it and if I hadn't
have qualified regardless, I still learned a lot
of things along the way and I think
that's what life is all about too. So
we're always learning, we're always
evolving and trying to become a better version
of ourselves. So yeah, that is
a few of the insights into the workings
of this brain anyway because for me
I now have a couple of very strong
goals that require work
and guess where I'm going today to the
gym because I have to
quite frankly. But it's good because I have
a really strong focus. So,
so yeah, I'm excited. So this is what
I'll probably continue to do. So
I have little goals inside of my big
20, 30 year goals of being that fit
grandmother. Well, I think I'm gonna be a
nana. Have you thought about that nana grandma?
I don't know, I think I'm gonna be
a nana because I had nanas.
But yeah, I can't wait it's gonna be
awesome and I think
truly
every year should be awesome
and we have the capability of doing that.
You know, if we can keep muscle on
our body
then
we can do whatever we want. And that's
some of the
probably focus that I've always had is that,
like, our family are going snowboarding again next
week, next year, you know, I can go
wakeboarding, I can go windsurfing, I can go
wake surfing like I can do whatever I
want if my body is strong and fit
and that makes me happy. So I wanna
hold on to that forever
quite frankly.
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