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Learn When to Rest, Not Quit.

⁣Pause, seriously. Write it down. Yell it out. Adapt + live by these words if you are the queen/king/leader of “fuck it nation.”⁣
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No, no, no more. Not this year. We are better than this. We have grace. We set practical goals. We plan. We prepare. We make room for being human. When we mess up or miss or feel burnt out, we PAUSE, we rest, we recover. We do not quit.⁣

Already “fail” on your goals/resolutions last week? Or should I say — did your goals or plans fail you? First off — pause + breath. (Especially if you’re here in the US). Now take a moment to ASSESS what went wrong other than “I’m a failure” or “I don’t have enough self-control” or “I’m a POS.”⁣
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Where did you overshoot your goals? Try to do too much too soon? Did you try to do too much at once? Did your plans fail you?⁣
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How can you plan better this week? How can you break those big goals down into smaller actions? What is actually IN your control. How can you prepare better, so X or Y or Z happening doesn’t “derail you.”⁣

Now let me ask you…. what habit are you working on today?⁣
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Yup 🙋🏼‍♀️⁣
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Just today. I want to know what you’re doing today only to move yourself forward.⁣
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You can set the biggest, most badass goals in the world. And I encourage it!⁣
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But anyone can dream big. Arguably everyone — people who succeed and those who don’t all have similar goals.⁣
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But how will you act?⁣
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What is the smallest way you can move forward today?⁣
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I want to know what habit you are working on TODAY.⁣
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And then tomorrow.⁣

For me? I want to snatch 165, but that goal means nothing without a plan. I know that to do that, I must go train today. I must do my snatch skill-specific lift. I have it scheduled. I will focus just on staying back — the most significant skill gap that will hold me back from this goal.⁣
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That’s it.⁣
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And yes, I do this for other goals too. ⁣
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But I don’t call myself a failure if I miss. I ask where I went wrong. And I fix/address it.⁣
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So tell me — share to your story & tag me — what is your goal.⁣
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But, what habit are you working on today to get there!? ⁣

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Hey, I'm Lyss!

I’m Exercise Physiologist, sports nutritionist, weight lifter, and ultra runner. I am here to bring science to your training in a no-nonsense way. I have helped thousands of women crush big lifting goals, cross race finish lines, and even do both. I’m here to help you do the same!

That metabolic flexibility device you breath into?

That metabolic flexibility device you breath into? File it under “save your $”. RQ is cool and real, but the application of it is *meh* and not how this works in practice.

How does fat loss actually work in the body? Here’s a 90 sec snippet of what’s actually happening. It’s simply a balance of fat stored vs burned. BUT doesn’t mean hacking your fat burning will magically make you eat a ton of calories and burn them all. This is indirectly a way of teaching how “energy balance works”. Without a whole lot of other factors on the system. But really …. Most stuff works as long as it puts you in a negative fat balance each day 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Dissclaimer: this post isn’t me promoting fat loss or diets. You’re free to do what you want. My PhD is in fat metbaolism so if you would like to challenge me to a dual I will be available later this fall, and duel*** (what would I ever do without the spelling police letting me know!) are only legal in Argentina so I’ll see ya there.

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How to stop getting bot / scam / weird product emails as a business owner on here. Tips for getting mogel press to stop DMing you however, I do not have 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Are all those hills paying the quad growing bills?

Are all those hills paying the quad growing bills? Maybe a little. But if we want big legs or strong legs or muscular legs — you’re gonna wanna spend more time focused on heavy quad focused lifting. Anything else from cross training is a bonus, and not wasted, but not the main goal 🤙🏻💪🏻

Today I woke up to the comment “you got lucky wi

Today I woke up to the comment “you got lucky with good genetics too”. And I couldn’t help but laugh when I read it. From the outside looking in — sure. I was blessed with my fathers predisposition to muscle, and a family that loved sport.

But when we zoom in— I think back to the first declaration and limit ever put on my life less than 24 hours old. How I was told for the first time my body would never do what it does. Never become what it is. A twisted left leg, a viral infection, a brain infection, a 3 week NICU stint. My parents were told “she’ll be lucky if she ever walks normal let alone runs”.

When we zoom in we see the years of undiagnosed hyper-mobility, pain, discomfort, jiggly joints — and doctors telling me to quit sports. To get a back brace. To give up running.

We see a young girl who spent her youth in chunky shoes and custom insoles.

And we forget the 20 years of weeks of hours and hours of training. The saying “no” to the limits put on my body. Discovering strength which saved me.

So yes, sure. I got lucky with my parents and my potential of a quad split. You’ve got me there.

But if you stop there you miss the girl who never missed an optional practice. Who ran and lifted alone on her own effort after school. The only girl in the weight room. The girl driving an hour alone to play off season league with another school because no one from nerd wanted to play. The girl who ran both set of sprints with the team — not just her’s.

You miss the girl who only played 6 min total in 2 years of college lacrosse. The sport she loved with her whole heart — because she just wasn’t as good as the others — and walked away.

You miss out on the hours and hours spent lifting, and in gyms, and running, and training between a decade of class work and multiple jobs.

You miss the years of pain, discomfort, and constant little soft tissue injuries and flare ups from a body that doesn’t want to work the way I want it to. The $ spent on physical therapy. The time crying over the frustration that the thing I love most is so hard for me, when others couldn’t care about moving at all.

So sure, it’s genetics. And so — much — more.

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