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Holiday Hustle: Celebrating Traditions with Fitness Challenges and Festive Feats
What's that jingly sound? You guessed it, the holidays are upon us and we're pulling out all the stops to celebrate. Strap on your running shoes and get ready to feel the holiday cheer with our final challenge of the year - a holiday-inspired workout followed by four sets of five-minute tempo challenges.
Can you feel that fire burning? That's your motivation igniting!
Are you a turkey or gravy kind of person? It's a weird question, right? But it's just one of the fun conversation starters we've got lined up in our holiday-themed chats.
We'll share our traditions, from the turkey-roasting of Thanksgiving to the Shamish shining on the menorah. And as we talk about our families' ways of celebrating Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and New Year's, we'll also tackle the big questions.
Like, would you rather eat an entire turkey alone or finish all of the Thanksgiving stuffing singlehandedly? And let's not forget the eternal debate - is it dressing or is it stuffing?
But the holiday fun doesn't stop at mere conversational debates. As the year winds down, we'll take a look back at our running journey, highlighting the importance of resilience, hard work, and commitment in achieving our fitness goals.
Join us as we ponder on quirky conundrums, like if you'd rather say Happy New Year in 100 languages or answer 1,000 random trivia questions.
And as we prepare ourselves to accomplish our goals for the New Year, we'll chat about the joys of giving gifts of wellness and our LAST challenge group of the year. We will be closing signup within the next few days so be sure to grab your spot HERE.
So, grab your shoes, join in, and let's end the year on a fun, festive, and fitness-filled note!
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Hey friends, coach Shelby and coach Christine, welcome to meeting you in and letting you know it's time for brunch. We're here. At brunch there's always an open table, a hot cup of coffee and endless running fun to keep you moving and grooving. We are going to have a fun filled, festive workout. So lace up your shoes, put a smile on your face and let's log some miles. We are garing up for our final challenge of the year.
Speaker 1:Our 28 days slay the holidays and we're getting fired up. So it kind of inspired this week's workout. If you're not out for a run, no worries, come, grab a seat at our table and enjoy the festive frivolity that is about to start. The rest of you, let's get ready to go into our walk and warm up in three, two and one, regardless if you're staying home for the holidays or going to be on the go. This time of year feels like it's stuff turkey, it's stuff full of all of the things, and while we're busy making it special for others, we often fall short and fall off the list, and I don't even think I've gotten a lump of coal. So today's workout will give you a little extra fun, light your fire and get you ready to shine bright like a shawmish on the menorah and Christine, this workout is one of those. I feel like we break out 365 all the days of the year.
Speaker 2:I mean, this is one of the fun things because, again, I love being able to challenge ourselves in a way that feels doable. So this is exactly what I feel from this specific workout. Now, that doesn't mean that you're not going to leave it and be like what were they thinking? And I don't think I ever want to talk to them again, but you'll love us later. We've trust us on that, friends, so I can't get. I can't wait to get into it. I'm also super excited, coach, because it's been some time that we've done a fun. Would you rather here Now? We've done it for our premium podcast, of course, and our challengers, but we know that for brunch. It's been a little bit of a time for us to be able to bring that forward. So I'm looking forward to that, because I feel like nothing quite says Wow, they really are different, as would you rather, because I don't know that we tend to pick the same responses. Sometimes we do, but that team sweet, team savory comes out a little bit more with the, would you rather?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, so if you have subscribed which if you haven't already, please do to our newsletter, you got your own little bit of what you rather a game, and make sure you fill it out, post and tag us on social media so we can all have a little healthy debate of what is this or what is that. But it's going to be so funny to see I there's a few questions I already know your answers for, but we're going to get you know oh yeah, there's some for sure, but as we put together.
Speaker 2:I want to guess for you.
Speaker 1:Oh, oh well, I won't get away the ones that I think I know, okay, but as we're getting warmed up, definitely take a moment, friends, to shake out any of those little bit of frosty, feisty pieces of your body. Maybe roll your shoulders a little bit, maybe stop and do a hamstring stretch or two, because this workout is going to test you. And don't worry, we'll go ahead and give you the workout and distract you so you can just plow away. I'm trying to make a snow pun, but I feel like us Floridians, it's like not in our jurisdiction to make snow puns.
Speaker 2:I feel like, yes, we get called out a little bit. We get, we get called out to the I don't know what you would call it the winter holiday kind of thing. But you know, we do have our version of winter down here, friends, and you guys should just come join us for it, because it's pretty fabulous. But with that said, coach, I am super looking forward to exactly like you said, this workout because hopefully you guys are going to definitely get really nice and warmed up and get limbered up, especially if the weather has turned a little frosty on your side of the world. So if you need to take a little bit longer to warm on up, feel free to do so. But once we're done with the warm up, we are going to roll into two halves of the workout. So the first half is going to have four sets of five minutes where we're going to ask you to challenge yourself and bring your way up into a tempo or even a more of like a threshold and a rebex threshold, and that's six to eight on that RP.
Speaker 2:Now for the first few sets.
Speaker 2:I would definitely say, friends, you're going to want to hang out around that six, which is the lower part of your tempo pace and that's something you can comfortably hold for about 60 minutes, but you're not really comfortable. You're going to be working at sentence pace, so you're not going to. You're probably going to be able to answer, or would you rather, but you wouldn't be able to get in a whole conversation with us. Don't worry, because it's five minute blocks and then two minute recoveries where you're going to pull it back into what you prefer a white, a walk, a light jog or a conversation pace and then we get to repeat that again. I'm going to say, friends, I'd love to see you guys challenge yourselves right here and now with making that happen. So we're going to see even a little bit of a progression where you're a bit more conservative for the first ones out of the gate and then push into a little bit more of a faster pace towards a little bit of fire, creating that heat towards the back half of this workout.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and we're coming to the end of our walking warm up. So if you want to go ahead and take these last 30 seconds or so and get yourself into a nice light jog, we are not going to be grinchy about it. We're all here for doing what we need to do to get up and get moving a little bit more. Again, if you need to stop doing any last minute stretches, we want to make sure your tinsel is not entangled. So, getting into that light jog here, taking a minute, doing that tip to toe scan, checking in, and we're going to go ahead and get into our first block of our five minutes at that, six to eight RPE Heating, coach Christine's advice, starting out a little bit more on the conservative side, getting yourself worked into the workout so it does not work over you.
Speaker 1:So with that let's embark on our first of our five minute blocks in three, two and one, gradually speeding up a little bit, making that foot turnover a little bit more and a little bit more getting nice and settled in. And I feel like I should let you go first as we dive into our this or that, as our athletes here go ahead and dive into their workout.
Speaker 2:Well, first I kind of want to talk about why we're even getting into these with you rather is a little bit is because we're going to be highlighting all of the incredible one to holidays that you love, and I think you look forward to this time of year more than any other time of year, but I know you love these winter holidays and of course they're all going to be highlighted during our slay, the holidays challenge. So I'm curious, coach, before I get into it, would you rather I guess it is a little bit Tell me your favorite if you had to pick one of these, which one?
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's between Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's.
Speaker 2:Yes, you have to only have one. I feel like that's so mean. I can already hear your brain like you're already doing like a bracket style. So I think that New Year's is going to get knocked out. I think you're going to probably battle. I think it's going to be the last two. Battle is going to be Hanukkah and Christmas.
Speaker 1:That's exactly that's exactly what bracket I'm going between now, I think, because in my family they are so interwoven, which I know sounds pretty different considering they're technically two religious holidays. Oh, I'm going to say Christmas does edge out Hanukkah a little bit.
Speaker 2:So do you guys celebrate Christmas.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we basically have Christmas we actually do. Instead of presents per se for Hanukkah, we've always given Christmas ornaments for Hanukkah to then put on our Christmas tree, and that's how we always just worked the two. It was a very copacetic relationship and there was one year that Thanksgiving and Hanukkah did intertwine and that was hecke fun.
Speaker 2:But I kind of like the idea of when they're not intertwined. To be honest, it feels to me like you can keep the celebration rolling the entire month. That's exactly what we're going to do with the challenge. The 28 days were the challenges.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say, like maybe that's why I love this time of year, because it's just one party after another, after another. But even with the challenge, it all really is and copacetic is going to be my word of the day, I guess because it all really does interweave, all together and make it to where each week is like a party in itself.
Speaker 2:So with copacetic, does that mean that we're going to have an extra challenge? Do we need to have anybody do like any snowman freezes whenever you say that word, or do they have to pick up the pace or something? We're not going to torture them quite that much, this particular workout.
Speaker 1:I think we'll save that for the premium podcast, maybe we'll. Maybe we'll add a little extra snowflake dusting to those workouts for that. So be prepared, people, be prepared.
Speaker 2:Well, with that said, we're about three minutes in friends. This is a great time before we do an official, would you rather? We would rather you guys right here now do a tip to toe check in, make sure you're rolling through here nice and tall, you're keeping that core engaged, you have a light smile on your face, you're relaxed, you're moving your groove and you're enjoying this Again, remembering that we're working in the upper level tempo here, or maybe even a little bit faster if you so wish to, of course. But we see that recovery coming down the pike. It's here in less than well, just a little bit over 90 seconds. I should say Okay, coach, I feel like I really did. I kept it going for some time, but now I'm going to ask would you rather always smell like turkey or always smell like gravy? Oh man, that's a hard one, that is neither.
Speaker 1:That's the right answer. Actually, I'm going to go with turkey because my mom puts a turkey rub and it's like paprika and soul and pepper, very minimal. We don't brine our turkey, we don't do any of that, even in my turkey eating days. But I would rather smell like that because to me that smells like home, that smells like the holidays, and I love paprika. I am a paprika fiend, which, again, really weird thing, but I would definitely I feel like paprika has that much of a smell and I don't think it even has that much of a taste Like.
Speaker 2:I like the Hungarian paprika because it's a bit spicier, but I don't think I've actually really I'm going to have to go sniff some paprika after that.
Speaker 1:Now we're going off of the rails.
Speaker 2:So yeah.
Speaker 1:I would rather smell like turkey, I think, than gravy.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, one of the wonderful things again is that, for folks that would rather smell like turkey, we're going to have our very own turkey trot for the premium podcast, of course with the first week, because we are kicking off the challenge on November 20th and we definitely would love to have you guys join us just a few days away from when this episode drops. You definitely do not want to be late to it because of course, we will close and then we'll have to get that slay a go in. So we want you guys to join on and on the fun, and right about here is also a great fun time for you to pull it back in three, two, one into your recovery of choice. But what I'm going to ask you is not to automatically stop. Let yourself roll through, pull back a little bit nice and gently into your preferred recovery, be it a walk or a conversation piece or a little bit of a walk. I'm a big fan of the walking dog or wobble till you gobble.
Speaker 1:Yes, I, every time I hear wobble, I think of the song baby wobble, wobble, wobble, wobble. You know that song Everybody does yeah. Absolutely Well now we're going to have to know. This isn't an official this or that question, but do you in fact know the wobble song?
Speaker 2:Are we talking about? Is there a different wobble song versus, like the hip hop one? No, it's the hip hop one. Oh yeah, I know, I definitely know that one. I don't like know the artist and they're not probably going to be my besties. But I can't say whether or not it'll be on my wrapped playlist, but I think it might be. We'll see.
Speaker 1:I mean it could be there's a turkey version. That's really funny too. But now I have a this or that question, because when we did the recording for our turkey trot episode, I learned something about you that you don't like stuffing or in some areas people call it dressing. So, would you rather eat an entire turkey by yourself or eat all of the Thanksgiving stuffing by yourself?
Speaker 2:I think both of them are sure fire way of ending up at the hospital. I mean that's what I feel like I'm hearing.
Speaker 1:Or in a really deep sleep from the turkey, whatever that sleeping thing is, and the stuffing from carbs on carbs.
Speaker 2:Turta fan.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had that you wouldn't know that you wouldn't know it.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Gosh, that's a hard one, I guess. I honestly all I think of when I think of eating that much meat is like back to the like when I used to watch the food channel obsessively and then talking about the meat sweats. That looks like not an enjoyable way to spend the holidays.
Speaker 1:I'm going to talk about the meat sweats, but I didn't know. If you have any idea what I was talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I don't know I'm going to answer this, friends, but first I'm going to ask you guys to take it into your next set. You're pulling up that pace in three, two and one. Of course I will use anything I possibly can to give myself more time to answer these very difficult would you rather questions? And, of course, friends, we really do want you guys to share along with us. So you're right about now working your way through getting into that tempo pace. A few more seconds, give it a little bit more and then just lock it in right here and now, and we'll let you know when it's time to pull back for recovery.
Speaker 2:So gosh, gosh. I think I do not like stuffing or dressing, but I think it would be. This is the logical version of me. The logical version of me thinks that it would be easier to digest and I'm all about trying not to have GI distress for a week after the holidays. So I think I'm gonna go with the cornbread stuffing because I think I could handle the digestive better, like how do you eat a whole turkey?
Speaker 1:I'm not exactly. How do you do that? I'm gonna accept the answer, but I love how you also added extra detail if it's specifically cornbread stuffing.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah. So if I'm gonna have stuffing, I'm gonna get cornbread for the record.
Speaker 1:See, we don't use cornbread, we actually use potato bread as part of our stuffing. Oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 2:That kind of it's delicious.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does make sense, which is funny because it's a little bit sweeter, so it's a sweet savory.
Speaker 2:I think that most people do like that sweet savory. It kind of dings in the brain a couple different ways and it throws off some of those pleasure sensors. So I could see that. But honestly I think, yeah, I think I'm gonna have to do that. But I'm curious, what would you do?
Speaker 1:I mean, would you have a toe furky, I would know I would eat this. I love stuffing. Well, technically again, we talk about this at Nozium during the Turkey trial, so be prepared, if you're signing up for the challenge, to hear a lot about our debate over dressing or stuffing. I love dressing. I could eat dressing all day, every day, if I had my way.
Speaker 2:I loved that episode because I feel like I learned a lot about you and I think I learned a lot about myself, so much so that I actually ended up having that conversation on the next run with my run buddy.
Speaker 2:I'm like I guess I didn't realize these things about myself and I literally just learned them because we were recording the Turkey trial episode. So I think it's definitely a lot of fun to have those opportunities. And what's also a lot of fun, friends, is that you're almost at the halfway point of this little interval here, and this is what's so great about these style of workouts, right, is that we're talking you through. So you have a way of just kind of getting into that groove and then you kind of just do hit that cruise control and where you would normally, if you were on your own or maybe even listening to music, you might start to kind of let that inner talk, that inner dialogue, tell you to slow down, but you're not even noticing how hard of an effort you're going at, because you've got us to kind of keep you going and flowing. So, coach, what are you suggesting folks do when they're wrapping up this interval? For about two more minutes, a little bit over two more minutes, which they do to make it as easy as Thanksgiving pie.
Speaker 1:Well, it depends on which pie we're talking about.
Speaker 2:We should talk about that too.
Speaker 1:But really, as you're getting into the latter part of this specific rep, focusing on that recovery, this is a great time to kind of check in to how it's feeling, because now we're going to have two reps under our belt, hat pun, and, yes, I call out my own puns, which I don't know if that's actually a good thing. Anyway, sorry, off track. Coming back, we're going to do what I should have done is take a deep breath, refocus, take inventory and focus on putting up just an extra little notch for the next two reps. Again, this should be only a slight percentage difference when it comes to actual pace, but just putting in our mindset and saying, okay, I'm going to turn up the heat just a little bit more. Maybe that's turning in the oven from preheat to full on cook, it is up to you. But again, just taking these last few minutes focusing on your cadence and then really honoring that recovery coming soon.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm excited about that, but you know what I'm also excited about. I really actually cannot wait to hear this answer, because I do think that we're going to be very different on this one. So I want to know would you rather be in a Thanksgiving Day parade or be one of the hosts commenting on the parade? And we talked ad nauseam about the parade and the Thanksgiving turkey trot as well.
Speaker 1:I'd want to be in the parade. I think, which is probably. I know this is going to surprise you. I was shocked. I am so shocked. I love the hosting. I mean obviously hello podcast, yeah, but I would want to be in the parade and like trying candy and dancing and all of that funness. I have a hard time sitting still in our seats when we're doing our recordings.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:To where if I had to do that during a parade. I know I want to be on the ground. I'll take a mic with me, but I want to be on the ground.
Speaker 2:Well, folks, you won't have to be on the ground because that recovery is coming your way, so just keep pushing through for 10 more seconds. We know that you've got what it takes. Put that little bit of I don't know tricky burn to your feet as we go ahead and pull it back right here and now into your recovery in three, two, one, two minutes. Here we are just flying through this and I am so excited, coach, and now I want to like there's so many great questions that we're going to have to.
Speaker 2:I don't even know where to go next because there's like I want to know all the answers to these.
Speaker 1:All right, I want to know this one, because this one made me giggle and I'm honestly not really sure which one I would pick. Maybe it's because neither would bother me that much. Would you rather eat an entire Thanksgiving meal with just your hands or have to open all your gifts using a fork?
Speaker 2:That one's actually pretty easy for me. Really, yeah, absolutely. I am, without a doubt, opening my gifts with a fork. Really, yes, absolutely, like. How do you eat any of the things except for the turkey with your hands? Like, well, so I guess we should talk about like holiday traditions. I don't have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, so we have like pasteles or arroz con andules. I'm not eating that with my hands. How do you do that?
Speaker 1:You make little punches, Like you take your pointer finger and your thumb and you just pinch and pick everything up.
Speaker 2:I mean, maybe if it was more like I know that there's an Ethiopian dish bread, a style bread, where you could pretty much use that almost as a utensil. If there was something like that on the Thanksgiving dinner, I might use it. But I'm really OK with using a fork to open my gifts. I'm pretty positive I could figure that out really really easily.
Speaker 1:See, I don't think either would really bother me, but I probably just eat with my hands like an animal. Ok, I'm OK with it, it doesn't really bother me. Like, the only thing that would be a little hard would probably be the gravy, but then I would just use everything else to sop it up.
Speaker 2:So I feel like medieval times is kind of like your jam, Like I feel like you could definitely go to that. Is that still around that medieval times seemed?
Speaker 1:Isn't that up near you, mm-hmm, I don't know. Now we're going to have to.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's still around For friends that don't know what it is. We'll tell you guys about it as you go into your next interval where you're pumping it up, that RP six to eight. Let's go in three, two, one. If you've been hanging out of that six, this is that time I'm going to tell you. You can challenge her. So I think you could put a little bit of extra turkey spice, maybe even I don't know paprika there on there, if you wish. So let's keep going, keep moving, keep grooving, keep pushing all the way through, knowing that you have a recovery waiting for you on the other side of this and right about here you've hit that pace. Let's lock it in. Coach. I don't know if there's a medieval time, but what it is is. It was a dinner show here around these here parts, and I'm curious if folks have it in other parts of the world and you get to eat with your hands. Actually, it was mandatory to eat with your hands, so I feel like it kind of is a Thanksgiving feast without utensils.
Speaker 1:I would only do it in my own home. But again, germaphobe Shelby, I would need to wash my hands before or anything. But I mean, I even eat my locker with my hands. I very rarely use a fork, I just scoop up the applesauce or the sour cream and call it a day.
Speaker 2:That feels like it is more of a. I could see that being more of like a finger food.
Speaker 1:Fork and knife it.
Speaker 2:I do personally, but still I could see where that one is a little bit easier to get away with. I just I think it would be definitely like a mashed potatoes. I can't even fathom how you would do mashed potatoes, unless we put them on like a bread roll.
Speaker 1:Oh, now we're carboloading. Now I'm like in your style.
Speaker 2:OK, my friend, this one. I think it's super interesting because I am curious. I feel again like I'm asking you questions that I think that I know the answer to and I'm curious if it's being correct. Would you rather cook and clean up Thanksgiving dinner or shop for everyone in your family on Black Friday?
Speaker 1:Oh, I would rather cook and clean Thanksgiving dinner See oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:This goes to show I know nothing. I thought you loved shopping.
Speaker 1:I hate Black Friday with an undying passion.
Speaker 2:OK, so you like shopping the rest of the year. This is the one you don't like shopping.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want to people on Black Friday. I don't know if it's just from working in retail in my previous life or not, but no, I do not want to be out on Black Friday. Even though one of the workouts I will be designed for the challenge I had in mind specifically for those doing Black Friday and being able to get like a little many workout in the line, I will not be doing that workout in a Black Friday line. I will be doing it from the comfort of my own home.
Speaker 2:OK, I got you, girl, I do. I personally avoid Black Friday at all costs, so that's definitely not happening for me, and I have cooked and cleaned for an entire. I have hosted Thanksgiving dinners multiple times. Can't say that I'm doing that anymore either.
Speaker 1:But now, talking about gifts that kind of does lead me into, because right after Thanksgiving we do have Hanukkah, which, for those who might not be familiar with Hanukkah, it is the Festival of Lights, the miracle of eight days of Hanukkah. So traditionally you have Laka, which are shredded potato pancakes, yummy. You have jelly donuts. You have the menorah that has the eight days of candles, not including the Shamish or the, the leader candle that you use to light the other candles. If you had to pick, if you were to celebrate Hanukkah, would you rather have eight days or eight nights of small gifts or would you just want one large gift?
Speaker 2:That's such a really good question. It depends on like do the small gifts come from?
Speaker 1:Tiffany's.
Speaker 2:Or is the one large gift kind of more like something I wouldn't ever want to use like a lawnmower. So that's a very depends question, but I'm actually so excited for gifts anyway that I can imagine that I would. I don't think I would care. I would really want the gift that people would want to give me, if that makes any sense. Whatever would actually, I think I do prefer one large gift because I'd rather it be large, small, medium, it doesn't matter but meaningful, something that actually seems like okay. This is something that speaks to me. It reminds me of you, something I think you'll love, versus just kind of like throwaways, like that's why I don't think I'm a big fan of stalking stuffers. I feel like those end up becoming kind of disposable.
Speaker 1:Yeah, see, I'm the opposite. I would rather have like eight small, like fun gifts than like one big gift, and maybe that's just because I feel really awkward getting gifts. But we'll talk about it more as we talk about Christmas. But I do love my stockings. But yeah, for Hanukkah we always got a small gift, we always got the Christmas ornaments leading up to Christmas. So maybe that's why I would also pick the eight small gifts.
Speaker 2:I don't know we can ponder that. I think it's a super special way of incorporating those two. I do love that, and I think that another thing that people are gonna absolutely love here is that next recovery is up in three, two and one. So, coach, people have smoked on through three sets. We have one more here before we have a two minute break and then we have the back half of this conversation.
Speaker 1:I am very, very impressive. Everybody, even though I might not be able to see you, I do know you are getting the miles in and laughing along because, again, a little bit of laughter goes a long way and it helps your breathing as you're going through these harder efforts. So again reminding everybody take a big deep breath, shake out your arms, maybe do a little neck stretch if you need to, as we're in this recovery, before we go into that fourth set and slay some more of these holidays, this or that, because I do love this or that. It's probably one of my favorite games we play.
Speaker 2:So it is my favorite, for sure. But you know, what I also think that's one of my favorites is the fact that this specific week in the challenge is really like what I would consider very much a random acts of kindness. But I don't know a lot about Hanukkah, so I'm learning a lot more about it from you, so could you explain kind of a little bit about how that's going to be incorporated into our challenge?
Speaker 1:Right. So for the week of Hanukkah, our miracle workouts and Mitzvahs. And if you're not familiar with the Mitzvahs, we touched a little bit on one of the up there episodes, but it's an act of good nature, good deed, something that you do to spread joy, and it's called a Mitzvah. So the entire miracle workouts and Mitzvahs are going to, of course, play on a little bit of the eight days of Hanukkah and talking about the Festival of Lights, and we're also going to be having our Mitzvahs for ourselves as well as others, to spread some holiday cheer, because we can all get a little grinchy as the weeks and the days go by. But what we want to show up for others, we also want to show up for ourselves. So introducing the miracle of Mitzvahs is a fun way and something that I'm really excited to dive more into during that week because, again, good cheer never goes out of style.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love that would also goes. Never goes out of style is to be kind to ourselves, and that's what we're going to do, by showing ourselves that we've got what it takes for one more set in three, two, one. Let's do it, my friends, pull on up five minutes on the clock for you to show you what you made of while we learn a little bit more about Hanukkah. Would you rather because, coach, I'm not going to pretend like I know how to say the official term, but I do can I cannot stress you how much I love potato latkes. I could have those 3,365 days a year, for sure. So would you rather eat latkes or the jelly filled donuts? And this may be the one and only time that you may come on over team sweet? I'm curious, maybe.
Speaker 1:Nope, I am a latke girl. Okay, I've never been into the jelly donuts and I I actually cannot say the official name of it. I'm going to try, but I'm not sure. Again, I feel like there's one Brentsure that's going to message me and he's going to be like this is how you say it. He's going to let me know the entire.
Speaker 2:I feel like you're going to get two brunchers. My friend, You're going to get a couple of brunchers and be like hey, this is how we do it, I'm okay with it.
Speaker 1:I am okay with it. I again, I have very different ways that we celebrate the holidays as a whole. But yeah, I have potato latke all the way. I don't like jelly, so just the deli donuts in general have never been um they don't appeal to you at all.
Speaker 1:No, I do like I will say. There is another jelly filled dessert, um humatation, and it's kind of like a cookie with some jelly, so it's called a humatation. Again, might not be pronounced Santa great, but I do love some rugga and that is a sweet I can get down with. They have apricot filled ones, they have nut filled ones, they have cinnamon, they have chocolate. That is absolutely on my table. I went off on a tangent, but you got me on the, you got me on the food, and that's where I play.
Speaker 2:I was going to say, food is truly one of the things that we can talk about, where it's all about that love which, again, that's what the Hanukkah week will be all about is that love of yourself, with giving yourself some extra time in a way that feels manageable, and, of course, the love for others, which may be in that way of of showing them some, some of your latke love and sending them a couple latkes. I'm basically making my pitch that I want coach Shelby to send me latkes. But another thing that we could definitely pitch here, friends, is that you're about halfway through this set. So maybe you've been hanging out at that tempo at six, maybe you've been working in that anaerobic threshold around seven or eight, but knowing that you've got what it takes to keep pushing on through. So this is also a great reminder to check on in with that form.
Speaker 2:Sometimes about here is when you could start to get that shoulder creep, and by that we mean those shoulders start to tense up. You actually are tensing in your back a little bit. You're pulling those shoulders up to your ears and we want you to go ahead and pull those shoulders down and back, keep that chest nice and open, continue breathing through, knowing that you have just a little over two minutes to go. So, coach, with that said, I'm going to ask you another question. Okay, would you rather play Dreadle, and I think I know that's going to be the answer. But play Dreadle with chocolate, gelt or real money? Ooh, the answer. She just wants to play Dreadle. Yeah, I just, I love Dreadle.
Speaker 1:That was the entire inspiration between the fitness Dreadle workout that we're going to be doing. The challenge is that I love Dreadle. I think it's so fun. It's actually a very simple game once you learn the the signs and the rules, but I want to gimmel it all to me. I'm going to go with chocolate coins. Though you are, I am more festive and holidayish to you.
Speaker 1:Yes, exactly, I've never. I've always played with gelt or chocolate coins. I've never actually used real money. And it's really fun too when you're too busy grabbing them from everybody, like when you get the hay and the gimmel and they get all melted and then it just, I know it's, it's a lot of fun. So that's where I go with that, with that portion of it.
Speaker 2:I also feel like I could see you because, again, coming to know you more, I could see you repurposing that a little bit, where maybe you melt down the chocolate coins and make your own famous strawberry chocolate covered strawberries that I've heard about. So is there? A little bit of that going on, or not really.
Speaker 1:And no, I never thought of it that way, because usually that gelt is not the great for melting, but I like where you're going with that.
Speaker 2:OK.
Speaker 1:OK, I accept that thought process.
Speaker 2:OK, so we're learning here as to what chocolate works best, of course, and I think the answer is all chocolate is good, chocolate right, except for white chocolate. That doesn't count, that's fake chocolate.
Speaker 1:Oh, my sister-in-law would completely disagree. She loves white chocolate.
Speaker 2:Well a harkening back to a couple of episodes ago. Great reminder that it's mind your own plate. So I'm not going to necessarily say that white chocolate is not not good chocolate, but if that's what makes you feel good, then friends, feel free to eat it. I'm personally not a fan of it. So, coach, you have already mentioned that you kind of do Christmas car, but would you rather have a really big Hanukkah party with all your friends or a quiet celebration with the family?
Speaker 1:Quiet celebration all the way through. I love a good party, but we always had Hanukkah just with our immediate family and when my grandma was around she obviously would participate, so for me that always just feels right. But I do know quite a few of my friends who do big, elaborate celebrations and they love them as well.
Speaker 2:Well, I know what you guys are going to love, right here now again, is that we're going to have that big elaborate recovery in three, two, one, pull it back for two minutes here and to that walk or that nice easy peasy conversation pace, we're going to have another two minutes to walk it out completely after you're done with this. So take that into consideration and then we'll have the back at the back half of this workout. So you guys already know what to expect, right, and keep that fun rolling on through.
Speaker 1:Now I have one final this or that Hanukkah question for you, as we're in this recovery, because I feel like this one's going to be polarizing. Would you rather have potato doughnuts or Boston cream Laka?
Speaker 2:they both sound not good. Right, I feel my ancestors going.
Speaker 1:Are you kidding me right now?
Speaker 2:I would be like what in the hipster did you guys do to our traditional food Right? Because I, I don't, I don't know my friends, like I can't fathom it. So I think that that's like is the potato doughnut? Basically just potato flour, and it's still going to be sweet because I mean flour essentially once you mix it. And then what does the Boston cream? What does look like? Is it the? Is that potato with Boston cream on top? I, this is I need more details. Can you give me an ingredient list?
Speaker 2:that I can make my decision from there, I think, I think, I guess, I think I want to go with potato doughnuts. Might sound safer.
Speaker 1:I feel like that seems the most logistically possible. Boston cream vodka for me sounds like it just seems like so we can have the filling and then doubt some in the chocolate. I mean again like some sweet and savory can go together, because people do have the whole debate sour cream versus apple sauce on the vodka, Both of those are delicious. I say both just have two plates separately yeah exactly I would think the potato doughnut going back to my stuffing with my potato bread. I think that would be more realistic.
Speaker 2:Yes, what's also really realistic and super, super incredible is you guys have made it to the exact halfway point, so let's put it back in. Three, two, one. We're two minutes here. We're going to suggest that you walk it out or shake it out a little bit, maybe even do a little bit of that weeble, wobble inspiration that coach has waiting for us for the Thanksgiving workouts. But you're going to go ahead and shake out those legs a little bit, maybe even roll those ankles, not like you roll it through, just roll them nice and easy. This like release any kind of tension that you may have built out in your calves, and then you are going to consider this the halfway point. So if you're in, out and back, this is your turn around Reminder. If not, you keep rolling and you keep doing. You, my friend.
Speaker 1:I am really pumped though, because, like you were saying before, all the holidays kind of run into each other. It's a great time because we have for us that celebrate Hanukkah. We have Hanukkah and then going right into that beginning of the true week before Christmas and getting all of that Fa la, la, la fun, which I mean the workout of the week. That week is going to be a fart lick. I don't think we've done a challenge yet where we haven't done a fart lick, because we really do love fart licks.
Speaker 2:There's. So they're incredible. And so for you guys that maybe talking might be thinking what are you guys talking about? Maybe you're you've not yet heard it, or you've heard the term and you've been too embarrassed to ask someone. You weren't sure if it had to do with digestive issues from eating an entire turkey. Maybe it really just is a unstructured or it's a structured.
Speaker 2:Speed play is the way that we're going to tackle it. But most speed play or fart licks are just unstructured, where you kind of just go through all the paces. It's a lot of fun, it's really almost a joyful expression of speed. So that's kind of what I think of when I think of fart licks. But that one I am super deeper looking forward to and that may have been a little bit of the inspiration of this workout here with the, which you rather. So it's going to be an interesting one. Can't wait to have you guys very interactive, which we've learned throughout all of the challenges how to make things a bit more interactive. So we have a great time with that. So, friends, we're going to go ahead and bring it into that next set. We're starting the back half in three, two, one, five minutes here.
Speaker 1:Taking that big deep breath again, not going out too hard, too fast, getting back in, letting your feet speed up a little bit, relaxing the shoulders, looking ahead and, of course, just fall, falling into that perfect presence of paves. And maybe you're singing some jingle bells, maybe you're singing the dreidel song, maybe you're throwing a little Adam Sandler with the Hanukkah song, which I didn't actually come to find out about until many, many years after it was popular, have you?
Speaker 2:ever heard that song? Yes, I think it's. I think it's actually in our last year's holiday challenge playlist.
Speaker 1:It might be.
Speaker 2:You can't have a holiday challenge without having that song as part of your playlist, so I think it's actually a lot of fun personally, so I also think that this next week that we're going to be doing that front leg is also going to be a lot of fun, and I know that we're going to have a lot of different aspects to it, and I think again that what it is is like.
Speaker 2:Having opportunities to see workouts is a little different in terms of being in those really monster workouts or able to kind of make them a little bit more digestible, or, as we call them, exercise confetti. So I'm looking forward to that because, again, as we start to get into Christmas, in the Puerto Rican traditions of celebrating Christmas, it is a month, month long tradition to celebrate the entire month, and when I think of it I think of all of like the joy and the expression of like barandas, which are like typical to like Christmas caroling. So I would love to know, coach, again, I know I asked you to have your favorite holiday, but if you had to celebrate one holiday for an entire month, would it be Christmas as well?
Speaker 1:Oh well, that's a really hard one.
Speaker 2:I mean like you could only have the traditions that are surrounding Christmas.
Speaker 1:I'm going to say no, I'm going to say I'd switch to Hanukkah because it's already eight days long. So I feel like I could cheat and it would work. I think I'm going to go with Hanukkah, with that one versus Christmas, because I feel like the Christmas, I feel like Christmas is like a couple of days but it's sprinkled out. People always ask if I want like Christmas to last two days. I'm like, well, it kind of already does.
Speaker 2:I think I mean again. So all you have to do is head to Puerto Rico. You can have it for the entire month, all the way to January 6th, because Three Kings Day is very, very. It's kind of Three Kings Day is the official ending, I would say, of that Christmas season. But I'm curious now would you prefer to have, or would you rather have, a traditional eggnog, or would you rather a traditional coquito, which is a coconut milk based eggnog that is very well loved in the Caribbean?
Speaker 1:Ah, ok, I do have a follow up question after I answer this, because I thought a coquito isn't the coquito the frog.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a cookie. Which is the frog? That's the actual official animal. If you will, I'm using air quotes, friends. I can't see Puerto Rico because it's native there and makes a very similar, makes a sound that sounds like a cookie.
Speaker 1:Oh, ok, I'm going to probably have the coquito, because coconut sounds delicious and it's like silky and I'm not a huge dairy person and the whole name of eggnog really throws me off, so I'm going to go with a cookie.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, good choice, my friend. It is delicious, it is so good. It's again one of the things I look forward to this time of year, for sure, along with my turon, which is that almond nugget pastry kind of. It's not a pastry, it's like a hard. It's all delicious, though. So with that said, friends, what's also delicious is that you guys only have about 75 seconds left here before we have that two minute recovery waiting for you, knowing that after you get into a recovery, you just have three more sets and then we'll have a cool down on the other side. So you guys definitely have done a phenomenal job with this workout. Coach, what are you recommending folks Maybe focus on as they wrap up this set?
Speaker 1:Even if you aren't feeling like there's another gear to shift up to, I want you to focus on staying even with this effort and not letting it dip back. Now, if you're having any little soreness and the little niggles, that's OK, you can go ahead and I was going to try and make a cookie joke but that didn't really work. So you can go ahead and shift down. But if it's a mental portion of you just getting tired, try to take this recovery reset and then go right back in to match the effort of this last rep and not let yourself kind of slide back in the sleigh.
Speaker 2:Because, of course, we're going to slay all the way through this entire holiday season. So, with that said, Coach, I think that's great advice for folks and right about here is where we're going to say friends, it's that time to pull it back a little bit. Pull back on those reindeer reins in three, two, one and pull it back into your walk, your jog, your walk or a conversation pace, whatever feels good to you.
Speaker 1:Now, as everybody picks their how or their walk or jog, or maybe just that conversational pace, I'm going to give you a this or that, but I feels like going to be more of an and than an or. Ok, and this is what I think is going to make you giggle. Would you rather have Christmas tree tinsel for hair or have fingernails light up like Christmas lights?
Speaker 2:Of course it's going to be, and I feel like you already have to, like you have tinsel year round.
Speaker 1:That was exactly why I'm like I have to ask her this one. I do actually have very hair which is basically tinsel in my hair year round. So, yeah, this is a no brainer. For me it's going to be an and, but I didn't know for sure it was going to be an and for you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, how could you say no Sounds it says incredibly festive. I am curious do you, have you ever gone to like an ugly sweater Christmas party? No, but I want to be invited to one. Ok, they are a lot of fun. And that's where, when I think of maybe having those fingernails that light up like Christmas lights, I feel like they are the perfect accessory for an ugly Christmas sweater party kind of thing.
Speaker 1:So I would do it for my day to day life OK.
Speaker 2:I might make. It might make a little of the like day to day life a little bit more difficult, I think with all of those little bubbles on. I know you're adding bubbles and bows to the holiday challenge, but bubbles and bows on your fingernails may make average day to get life a little harder, but that's OK.
Speaker 1:When I do the, when I do the ball of stress workout, with the challenge those nails would get in the way, because even if I'm not having to actually use a ball and I'm just using like I can, or just doing body weight, I feel like I'd get distracted, be like oh shiny, oh it comes back. Maybe I would have to like use a snap checklist that we're going to be having to help me not get distracted by my pretty nails.
Speaker 2:That's exactly what I think. And with that said, friends, let's go ahead and not get distracted by the nail talk or the like pretty sparkles, let's get right into it. Going to our second set in three, two and one. Again, you're taking that to that RP of six to eight. So, knowing that that six is more of that sentence piece, that tempo pace where it's more like a half marathon pace, and that seven and eight starts to get into more of that one to two or maybe three words, usually you're working really hard, maybe more like a 10 K or a five K pace, but we know that you're moving your groove in or gross or whatever it is for you. So we are excited right about here is we're going to lock it in for the remainder of this set.
Speaker 2:Coach, I am really curious because I think that you would probably be very hungry if you had to choose between one of these two. But would you rather eat fruit cake or candy canes? But that's the only food you can consume for two full days. That is not recommended for the record. We are going on the record here as coaches to say please don't do that.
Speaker 1:I knew you were going to ask me this one. I knew it.
Speaker 2:I have to, so I go for it. Friends, you could talk yourself through it. I feel like I could talk myself through it. You have to go. Fruit cake. There's nothing. I mean, what would you literally get from the candy cane?
Speaker 1:I don't know if you actually even know this. I'm not a peppermint person. I don't like candy canes. What I don't? I don't like the peppermint extract. I don't like candy canes. I don't like candy canes with chocolate. I do not like them, sam I am. So, by default, I'm going to have the fruit cake, but I also don't like dried fruit, so I'm going to be picking out a lot out of my fruit cake.
Speaker 2:OK, so does that mean that we can't do any seasonal taste testing of the fuel that's peppermint focused?
Speaker 1:I mean I'll stomach it, but I really don't. I don't like peppermint, like even peppermint patties are a stretch. Wow, I know I didn't. I realized like we have never disclosed this in our relationship before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I love peppermint. So, for the record, my treat this time of year is switching over from my regular espresso based drink all year round. I look forward to that peppermint mocha. I, you guys, can keep PSL for the rest of your lives. I do not need a PSL at any point in my life. And after our pumpkin tasting or pumpkin tasting, I really am going to go on the record and say I really only want my pumpkin spice and my baked pumpkin bread. But peppermint and chocolate, I feel like they're just like this little love baby that should have been to go the entire time and I'm shocked to hear that somebody wouldn't like it Is a latte.
Speaker 1:So is a PML that you?
Speaker 2:it should be why. Starbucks, my friend? No, we need to find it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do a S, so it's PMS. I'm just having my PMS, sorry guys.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. Well, they can I mean, but I will tell you if you get me more PMS, my PMS symptoms are usually a lot lower.
Speaker 1:So maybe that's what the holiday is. It's like one long time of PMS and we're just trying to save you from being that miserable and PMSing the entire holiday season.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, especially with the support of the team, if you guys join an NTFV training. Why did we make that?
Speaker 1:part of the marketing.
Speaker 2:I mean kind of kind of are right here and now we're telling you I mean, we're not going to necessarily send you guys, pms or PMLs, but so no candy canes for you and you'll pick out. It sounds to me like what I see in my head is that you're literally just picking out all of the fruit from the, from the bread material, the fruitcake. Does that sound about right?
Speaker 1:It's about it, even though I believe it's all in brown actually apparently makes a great fruitcake and he gifts it to everybody in like the Food Network family and they all wait for his coveted fruitcake. So maybe, if all in browns listening, if you want me to try your fruitcake, I will sacrifice my taste buds for the art of science.
Speaker 2:So I'm surprised Is he one of your favorite? Because I feel like he's more sciencey. But do you like the way that he approaches his food in a science way? Yeah, I can't know.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm going to go back. I don't know if it's Tim Allen or Alton Brown. Ted Allen, Ted Allen, not Tim Allen. Tim Allen is Santa Claus, OK.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's that's on theme for sure. Well, with that said, we have 30 seconds left here before we pull it back into our recovery, so I do think it's time for another, would you rather?
Speaker 1:All right, I think I'm up. So would you rather have to loudly sing the chorus of Jingle Bells every time you walk into a room for an entire week, or wear a Santa suit every day for a week?
Speaker 2:I'm wearing a Santa suit. I'm going to rock that Santa suit. It's going to be so fabulous, along with that tinsel for my hair and the light up nails. I am so looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:Yes, you're going to spit. You know how hot that thing is. You're going to say I had to be a traditional Santa suit.
Speaker 2:I'm making it my own. So we're pulling back in our recovery in three, two and one You're going to spit.
Speaker 1:You're going to need a plot. You're going to kind of get all the Yiddish.
Speaker 2:I don't know what a plot is. What's a plot?
Speaker 1:plot, so you know what spitting is.
Speaker 2:Yes, I totally know what that is. I've used that terminology, but I've never used plots.
Speaker 1:You've never used plots.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 1:All right, I have to. I'm going to have to look up, like the traditional, the traditional definition of it. But I got a plot, like I got to, like wipe away the sweat like you're pausing like a blotting, but plotting instead of blotting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. Ok, I got to be honest with you. When you say I've got a plot, it makes me think you have to go to the back. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. That's what it made it sound like. I was like I know we were talking about eating fruit cake and you don't like fruit cake, so maybe you have to go to the bathroom now. I don't know my friends.
Speaker 1:So no, I did, I did not know that turn, even though I guess technically I've been using it wrong and, like again buttering my biscuit, I use that saying wrong. So the official definition of plots is to collapse or faint, as as from surprise, excitement or exhaustion. I always thought like I'm plotting, like I'm wiping the way of the sweat, so I am not up in my Yiddish apparently.
Speaker 2:I think there's the Shelby version of Yiddish and it should come with its own translation book.
Speaker 1:for sure, there's a Shelby language for everything, not just Yiddish, though.
Speaker 2:Well, with that said, friends, it is that time, about 30 seconds. We're going to take it into our next set. So I want you to check in with yourself. How do you feel about the previous sets? How do you feel about where you are now? There is some fatigue likely settling in, and this is maybe where you're thinking I don't really need to follow with this workout, I'm cool just staying right here in this walk or this recovery. But we're going to challenge you to push it on up, knowing that you just have two more hard efforts and then a whole lot of beautiful recovery in between. So let's make it happen. Show up for yourself right here now, in three, two and one.
Speaker 1:Hopefully you're not plotting now, but I know the proper definition.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's definitely no plotting out there. So let's see, friend, with Christmas there's so many good with you. Rather, there really are, oh goodness. Oh, there's a good one, there's so many good ones.
Speaker 1:See, we don't pre-pick these. We literally scroll through and pick them on the fly.
Speaker 2:So for optimal possibilities of getting the most authentic reaction, yes, ok, I definitely. I definitely want to know this one Would you rather not celebrate Christmas or not celebrate your birthday?
Speaker 1:Oh, I would rather not celebrate my birthday. I don't really celebrate my birthday to begin with, so not really I know. I know, ok, don't don't air they go, oh, at the same time like I celebrate my birthday. But we've never been big into birthdays, and also my sister and I our birthdays are one day apart, so we always had special things to make our birthday special as singulars, but a lot of times we would go on a trip for like both of our birthdays, so that was just an excuse to go to Disney, though.
Speaker 1:So I love experiences not to have Christmas, especially with a kiddo. Now, to like see the magic through their eyes, I I would. I would pick Christmas. Plus, there's more fun decorations and I get to keep them up for longer.
Speaker 2:There's. I mean you could always have fun decorations for your birthday. There's nothing to say that you don't throw yourself a Christmas themed birthday.
Speaker 1:Oh man, if I had a Christmas birthday, it would be lit.
Speaker 2:Oh no, it wouldn't. Let me tell you what it would not be lit because you're basically everyone's busy, you can't have anyone around and lots of things are closed. I think that sounds like a dream.
Speaker 1:Like you just explained, my best birthday. But I am a homebody for Christmas, but I'm even more of a homebody for New Year's. I don't go out and celebrate New Year's. I don't like driving around New Year's Eve, I don't like any of that. So, while I love the magic of New Year's, I don't actually like the celebration. What about you? Because I feel like you'd be going out and like toasting at midnight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I used to celebrate the day before in terms of going out and getting all dolled up or rits up, if you will, or anything to bedazzle for sure. But I'm not necessarily big and going out that night just because I love my tradition of starting off the next day, starting off the New Year with a really beautiful, reflective, inspiring run, which I mean I've been doing it since I became a runner. I can't. There's nothing that I'd want to do New Year's Eve night that I would want more than that first run of the New Year. It just makes me so happy. I feel like it sets the mood and sets the tone for the New Year in a way that I really like on the right foot, if you will.
Speaker 2:So I love New Year's it is actually one of my favorite times of year and I don't love the arbitrary New Year, new you that comes into play. But what I do love is kind of what we're doing in this, say, the holidays challenge with our final week, where it is an opportunity. It's a beautiful time to kind of rethink things through, reframe as you wrap up the year. You start to have a lot of reflection, a lot of chances for you to really see like give yourself that pet in the back on all the winds, see where maybe you can and have helped you focus for the new year. So I love that. I love doing that with folks this time of year too and hearing people talk through what they want to get out of the next year as we roll into it.
Speaker 1:OK, so now, talking about the challenge and talking about the reworking and the reframing, we're going to be obviously doing some reflective questions and I have an interesting question for you to have for this or that Would you rather live this past year over again or skip ahead 10 years?
Speaker 2:Wow, why would anybody skip ahead 10 years?
Speaker 1:And that's the interesting thing, I wonder even for people and this is actually a true thought-broken question like this isn't a setup for a pun Right. But as we are getting through these last few sets, as you're thinking ahead to the year, I think it's actually a really awesome question to ask, because it's a twofold. We're going to be thinking about this year the good, maybe the not so good, and then you're also going to be envisioning where you would be in 10 years. So I view it actually as a really good question versus a true this or that. It kind of all melds into one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to definitely talk more about it when we get into this recovery in three, two and one, Because I think that what we tend to do is that one's very stark Like that's like why would I wish away 10 years? But we do tend to wish away day to day where I can't wait to get through this workout, I can't wait to be done with this, I can't wait to get done with this project, I can't wait for this week to be over. So you hear a lot of that and essentially, while it doesn't sound anywhere near as shocking as while you're getting rid of 10 years because you're skipping ahead 10 years, it is essentially wishing away your time, and that's really the best gift that we all have. So I love the opportunity of actually utilizing our time.
Speaker 2:Looking at it from a OK, what happened this year? What would I like to bring into in the new year? What would I like to bring forward into the new year? So I think I mean, I think, hands down, I'd rather relive another year. Gosh, any chance that we get of having more time on this beautiful merry-go-round of life.
Speaker 1:I'm going to take that and I think and that's really kind of like when I saw that question, that's kind of how it struck me, especially after putting together the workbook and us thinking about what it actually looks like for that final week of the challenge as we start heading into the new year. It's a time to where everybody kind of focuses on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but we've talked about it, we like building up into that time. So we go into the new year with a good idea and we're both into our words of the year, which definitely changing my year, my word of the year, up, because it's not going to be resilience again. I had my fill. I was resilient AF and I'm not going there again.
Speaker 2:Is it the movie Was it called Bruce Almighty? Where Morgan Freeman played God, yes, ok where he talks about that exactly where? Like, do you think that when you pray for these things, that you're going to get it exactly the way you see it, or is it an opportunity for you to actually really work through it, which is what we're going to do right here Now? We're going to really work through it and show ourselves that we've got what it takes to be a stronger runner, which we all want to be in three, two and one. So I think that that actually shows like resiliency it's gosh, so much stuff can happen to show that we are resilient when we're working at getting stronger or faster or focusing on our goals when it comes to our running.
Speaker 2:You're not going to get there without that challenge, and that's exactly what this challenge is of pushing yourself into this workout. So, if you've been kind of holding back and playing it safe, maybe you've even been dipping into conversation pace a little bit. This is your time, my friends, because to be better, to soar higher, to rise to the occasion, you kind of have to get through the nitty gritty, the hard parts of it, which is what's so exciting about the challenge as well is that what we hear from so many folks is that they know that they are better runners, they're stronger runners, they're more efficient runners when they do hill repeats or they do incline work, but it can be hard to do so. So we have heard time and time again that our treadmill workouts are so much fun A little bit of a booty burner and enjoy it. And I think with this time of year, we're looking forward to having you guys join us to rise up to the occasion with our little bit of our incline workout and hitting that treadmill as well.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, and again we're going to bring it up as the ball starts to get ready to drop. So a little play and everything. I do have to laugh when you're saying about going indoors, because one of the best for that questions would you rather have snow on January 1st or a warm 80 degree day? And I'm like obviously obviously this person made the list and not live in Florida, because we only get one option and plus for us that's a cool 80 degree day Like, oh, it's a little chilly out here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely, but I do want to know this one, because I think this one would come in handy for us. Would you rather be able to say happy New Year in 100 languages or know the answer to 1,000 random trivia questions?
Speaker 1:I mean who I fake, knowing all these languages, and I also know a lot of random trivia. So which one would I like to be like? Have the full full on, I'm going to say I'd probably want to say happy New Year in 100 languages.
Speaker 2:That's incredible. I mean, I love languages and I love, like I think also you are very courageous in your language expression. So even if you can't say it exactly, you're willing to at least try it, which is what it takes to be able to learn anything new. So I think that's absolutely awesome. I would love to have a thousand random trivia answers like really have them like at my disposal, because whenever we have done trivia fun with folks, it's amazing how they even retain that information.
Speaker 1:I mean I will say my sister has a gift of useless trivia at her disposal. It's just her way, her brain it just stores it and it's amazing.
Speaker 2:I want to kind of computing abilities in my brain, but so far it does not hold a lot of random trivia. It holds random like segments of stuff, but not necessarily trivia focus. But again, that's what it's all about is celebrating our unique aspects, and that's where I think that that reframe and refocus week to wrap up our challenge really allows us to kind of see our unique traits, our unique strengths and how we can continue to harness them in into the new year. So very excited about that.
Speaker 1:And kind of like the this or that it's going to be, do I want this or do I want that? And while there will be opportunities to have ands, sometimes you do have to make those harder finite decisions to really propel yourself forward, and this one's going to get a little mean, though. So are you prepared for this, this or that?
Speaker 2:I'm ready.
Speaker 1:Would you rather make a resolution to give up sweets this year, or give up showers and baths.
Speaker 2:I'm definitely giving up sweets, really. Oh my gosh, I take like three showers a day. I cannot bother not being able to shower. That is the hardest reason why, like any of the Ragnar relays or any camping comes into mind, because the first thing that comes to mind is not when am I going to eat, or how am I going to eat or hydrate. None of those things come to mind. My only concern is how am I going to shower? So yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Like a team. Sweet sweet is giving you guys up apparently.
Speaker 2:No, just sweet the captain. I am definitely going to take captaining role of team shower because I want to be able to shower and I think you guys are going to appreciate that, living in Florida, you have to be able to captain team shower. So, with that said, friends this is your chance.
Speaker 2:30 seconds are left. Let's bring it up a notch. Go ahead and pop it up a little bit faster, pull into shortening that stride, relaxing those shoulders, going a little bit quicker, pushing even maybe to that RP of 9 or 10, knowing that you've got what it takes to finish it up, because we're going to have that recovery and then walk it out together. So let's go, my friends, here for five, four, three, two and one Beautiful work. Go ahead and put on back and even, if you need to bring it down, maybe even bring your hands down to your knees to catch your breath a little bit, start to slow that heart rate down and then, nice and easy, bring it back into that recovery walk. Coach, this has been a whole lot of fun. It really has. I think I know this answer. I really really, really, really really do. Ok, would you rather have to kiss your dog on the lips at midnight or your least favorite extended family member on the cheek?
Speaker 1:Let's pucker up my little Luna. We're going to get a kiss at midnight.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, she's adorable.
Speaker 1:Why would he want to give her a kiss? Well, honestly, all the dog owners out there, you get kissed by your dog Some French kiss unexpectedly. So if I have to take her to the team and give her a kissy, I will give her a kissy to avoid having to do it to anybody else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do like. I do love kissing dog nosies, because I think dog noses are just so cute.
Speaker 1:Oh, we actually have a thing. When my mom feeds Luna, she makes her give her a nose kiss before she puts her food down.
Speaker 2:It's really adorable, oh really.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sweet it is. It pays for the times that she's not the nicest dog in the world. So that's a bunch of mascot. She's going into the new year with some new, new obedience training under her belt or leash, or oh collar for her.
Speaker 2:Good for her, I mean she's, she's evolving, she's learning, and that's all. That's what it's all about. So, coach, we have talked about in the past that neither of us are really big into resolutions. We are really big, though, in again supporting each other and supporting others to kind of live their best lives. So, friends, we do know that the holidays can be incredibly stressful. They can be a lot of joy, but there it could be wrapped up with a whole lot of expectations and obligations as well. So we would love for you guys to join us, so you could have that extra bit of support, you could have that extra bit of sparkle and joy with your fellow Slay Squad with that 28 day Slay the Holidays Challenge that we are going to be kicking off on November 20th. You're not going to want to miss this. It is our last holiday challenge of the year and, again, I think you guys are going to have so much fun. So where should they find us, coach? How do they get registered?
Speaker 1:Absolutely, so go into our episode notes you know where it is, well, and go ahead and click the link to sign up. Get your seat on the Slay and, if you're still on the fence or off on the naughty or nice list, if you're wondering what the feel of these challenges are if you've never participated in them before, this is exactly how they go. We mix the work with the fun. We make it to where you're reaching your goals. You're staying on track, you're not dropping the ball on yourself.
Speaker 1:But it doesn't have to be an entire grind fest. We want to make it fun. We want to make it actually possible for you to live your life, get through the holidays and not just survive them, but actually slay the holidays away. So put this on your list, give the gift to yourself. Come join us for a truly festival time with lots of surprises ahead. We're going to have weekly prizes, we're going to have some of the challenges we talked about, plus many, many more, and maybe, like us, you'll learn a thing or two about what you might like this or that coming into the holiday season.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, so I can't wait to have you guys join us and, of course, we've got so much fun going on here at Time for brunch as well. So do check out our quick bites, because we're in the middle of our holiday series where, of course, that gift giving guide and having a whole lot of fun with sharing some of the favorite gifts that you can either give yourself, besides this challenge, of course, or to have others give you, or maybe for some of the other runners on your list as well. So I can't wait to have you guys joining us with that. We also want you to give yourself a huge high five.
Speaker 2:This workout was definitely no joke, but you guys definitely showed up. So it's really, really important that you rehydrate maybe with some coquito, I don't know you refuel, maybe with some latkes and you take care of yourself and, with that said, friends, as you're recovering, you're resetting. After you've checked in that episode notes and signed up. If you would love to share us or give us a review wherever you listen to our podcast, we would very, very, very much appreciate that you can join us again with time for brunch, quick bites on Wednesday and, of course, our long run as well. Can't wait to keep sharing time with you, my friends, but regardless of when or where, we're going to keep serving up more miles with a side of slang smiles.
