Join Zeigler's December Strength Training Health Challenge|EP148

Anything worth having is a little challenging in the beginning, but the more that you do it, the easier it gets.

Welcome everyone to the driving vision podcast brought to you by the Zigler Auto Group. I'm your host, Sam Dark. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Like it if you do, and leave a comment. Coming up this episode, join coach Jess as we launch December's health challenge and reveal winners of November's contest.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome everybody to this month's health challenge kickoff here with coach Jess and Araya. We're super pumped to be back to celebrate the winners of last month, month of November, and to look ahead to December, and, kick off the new contest for the month of December. So, Araya, let's go to you first. What do we got for last month's winners?

Yeah. Thanks, Sam. So last month, we did a challenge called mindful minutes where we were cognizant to log our minutes for anything that we did to slow us down. So yoga, meditation, I can't remember if it was reading also included in that, but just anything that helped us just slow down going into the holidays and being mindful about doing so. So for our leaderboard, if we pop that up in 10th oh, 9th place, we had Dustin Cook with 11 minutes.

I'm sure he did a little bit more than that. He was in the gym quite a bit. 8th place, Orlando Lowery. 7th, Chris Carroll. I was in 6th, with 50 minutes.

I probably did a few more that I didn't log as well. In 5th place, Dawn Binkowski with a 108 minutes, Shelley Taylor in 4th. In 3rd place, Troy Kennedy with 220, and then Jess, coach Jess here in 2nd place with 290, which is awesome. So always great to see our fearless leader at the top of the leaderboard there in competition. And then in 1st place with just an astounding great number and one who I know has been featured as a health hero this year and has made a lot of really great strides in his own health, Nathan Krasnow from our Subaru of Schererville store with 900 Mindful Minutes.

So excited to celebrate Nathan and all of his accomplishments that he had, this year. And I know he had a little bit of weight loss as well, which is really cool. So, yeah. Awesome. Great challenge just to help bring us back to being mindful as we head into the holidays and just as fast paced as everything can be.

You know, our mental health is is huge and being able to just slow down. So that was a great great challenge for November and fun to see some participation there.

We also did, do diamond drops for bonus points. So November, gratitude, thankfulness, all of those and I did wanna point out that a couple people did those. I know Troy Kennedy did about 5 diamond drops.

So Yes.

Yes. That was fun to see too.

Alright. Well, so November is out of the way. Thanksgiving is out of the way, and we're on to, the holidays in December. What are we doing in December, Jess?

Well, I'm super excited about this one. So we are doing strength training minutes. So you'll log 1 minute for each minute that you strength train. So this can be body weight. This can be free weights, dumbbells, resistance bands.

I've been asked already, can it include exercises that are using weights in a in a HIIT class or something like that, and that's totally fine. So super excited about this one. I know I've talked to a lot of people who we try and push strength towards those winter months where it's colder, where exercise comes indoors. So super beneficial, especially as we age. If you don't have a strength training program in place, we can help you with that too.

We have beginner plans, intermediate, advanced, workout for weight loss plans. There's tons of things that are available to all of the employees.

Every minute. Right?

Yep. One point for every minute tracked. And I think a good note here to just, to throw out to everyone, I think it's always really important, is sometimes people have a fear of lifting weights and maybe it causing them to get bulky. I know as a female that's sometimes a fear, but that is really far from the truth. I always tell people that cardio is where you kind of build your heart health and strength is where you help build muscle.

Right? So, that will carry you into, having a great longevity of life and being able to be strong over skinny is what I say. So, if you don't know where to start or you don't know how to start and picking up some weights, Coach Jess I know can help you out with that and get a plan and and easily show you some really great easy strength training workouts to get started. So excited for this month.

Coach Jess, it's snowing outside right now. It's snowing massively. Does snow shoveling count as strength training? It almost should. Right?

There's actually case studies where people don't, like, actually have major catastrophic physical failures over, snow shoveling.

I would have to I mean, I would kinda have to say yes because I just shoveled the sidewalk here at work, and it was not easy.

No. No. We are in a winter deluge right now. I mean, I can't see blue sky, and, it is crazy. This winter is gonna be a heck of a lot of fun.

Just tell us as we get into the winter, we get into kinda some of the darker time. Like, sometimes it feels tougher to get up in the morning to go work out and or after work. It's dark on both sides of work nowadays. Right? What are some tips in the holiday seasons to get yourself up and running to do the strength training, to do this lifting, to compete in this contest, to stay healthy even through the holidays, even though it's dark outside and it's snowing and it's cold?

I mean, the biggest thing for me is it's not gonna get done if it's not in my calendar, if it's not in my schedule. So Yeah. That's the first thing I do. You know, every Sunday, I plan out, you know, all my meetings and everything for the week just as I'm sure everyone else does, but then look for those gaps that you can fit something in. If you are not one to get up early, maybe it's 20 minutes at lunchtime or, you know, maybe it's 3 increments where you're getting 10 minutes of something in or a quick, you know, 6 minute Tabata.

I mean, there's lots of different things that you can incorporate and something's always better than nothing.

That's good tips. Or, Araya, you're someone that is very consistent every single day and you share that.

Yeah. So I think one of the big things for me is I never used to be a morning person. And so I look back now when I had just decided to start. And I think that's always the biggest struggle is, like, just choosing to start. And so when you start, it's it's very difficult in the beginning, and anything worth having is a little challenging in the beginning.

But the more that you do it, the easier it gets. And I think that's always a really important piece. And especially moving into the new year, if you can get a head start on some of your goals moving into 2020 5, like, why not start now? So always a big, big, big believer in that. And leaning on a support group, maybe you have an accountability person or someone that, can help help you go to the gym with you and be a partner.

Just that support I think is always really beneficial and finding someone that you can do it with. So, those would be my my tips and it's just a matter of starting like start now.

The other thing that you could do too and I've talked a lot about this is habit stacking. So those habits that you already have, you know, whether it's brushing your teeth in the morning, you can add, you know, add 5 squats while you're brushing your teeth. Something so simple, but that's how you start creating those habits.

Yes. Oh my goodness. I can only imagine, I have this imagery of squat and brush, squat and brush. It doesn't seem right, Jess. Is this something you do in your own world, or is this just a random off the top of your head idea?

No. I do I do do crazy things like that.

That's awesome. That's cool. Alright. I gotta think about that because I there are routines we go through every single day, and if we simply add another thing to that existing routine, it would secure both existing and new. That's fascinating.

I just gotta try to look ridiculous doing that. Love it. Now, Ryah, any thoughts on It's

pretty quick to make excuses for things too. Like, we don't have enough time. That's usually the big one I hear people say. Well, you've gotta make time. Right?

Like, just as you schedule anything else, like Jess is saying, you've gotta schedule the time for yourself to get it in and be healthy. So I think that's such an important piece is your schedule is not gonna allow the time. You've gotta go make the time and put it into your schedule. So always a great one to remember.

Great feedback. Alright. And it's a great time to remember this as we go through the stress and strain of closing out the year. We talked yesterday on our sales, kickoff call with Aaron Ziegler the importance of finishing strong. And we all know that when we're healthy, when we're vibrant, when we're active, we're mentally better able to handle the stress and strain of finishing strong, plus the holidays, plus family, plus all the other things that we stack on top of that.

So, Araya, you get the last word.

Yeah. Excited for this one. I just added some minutes that I needed to catch up on in the app. So just as a reminder to anyone who is not in our AM Wellness or AM Coached app, you just go to your app store, download AM Coached. It's an orange and purple icon, and the invite ID is Zigler.

And as soon as you fill out any of your information in there, you'll get a welcome message from coach Jess and a nice fun accountability chat from everyone else inside team Ziegler. So look forward to seeing everyone there and look forward to the competition this year.

Alright, team Ziegler. Catch you out there. Thanks, everybody. A special thanks to all who contributed to this week's podcast, including Aaron Ziegler, Bill Ball, coach Jess, and Araya Daniels. Until next week.

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