More Movement Please

“Less than two months to Gen Con and all is well.” Someone told me I’d walk eleven thousand steps in a single day at this convention, and that comment lit a fire under my whole prep plan. Here’s exactly how I’m getting my body ready for four straight days on the convention floor.

My beloved Asics Nova Blast 5s are coming, along with a resistance band and bodyweight workouts I can do in a hotel room. I’m swapping soda for fruit juice, hunting for an electrolyte packet that won’t wreck my budget, and packing snacks for when hanger hits. Oh, and label your board games. Trust me on that one.

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“Okay, I figured out how I’m going to celebrate 365 days of movement.” A bowl full of random exercises, ten extra minutes a day, and five back-to-back classes on the big day. That’s the ridiculous plan I built to hit my one-year milestone without skipping a single thing already on my schedule.

I’m pulling a mystery exercise from the bowl every day for the final stretch, adding classes on day 365, inviting my gym friends to lunch, and yes, there will be ice cream. Episode 100 is dropping that same day too. It’s silly, it’s sweaty, and it’s a real celebration of showing up.

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“This will surprise exactly no one. I caved.” When the weather tanked my Thursday hike, I did what any reasonable person would do: headed straight to the gym instead. Sometimes the best move for your fitness plan is ignoring it.

I stacked a Pilates class and a Tabata session back to back, struggled with exactly one exercise (which honestly felt like a win), and lifted my 20-pound dumbbells feeling genuinely strong. If you’ve ever felt guilty for adjusting your routine on the fly, this one’s your permission slip.

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“One of my biggest fears is failure.” I built my entire public presence around moving my body, and sometimes my body just won’t cooperate. Those are the days the guilt hits hardest, and I’m getting honest about working through it.

I talk about what daily accountability posts have done for my consistency, and why doing fitness out loud, in front of people, might be the missing piece for anyone who keeps falling off track. I’m also floating the idea of a Facebook group for accountability, nothing diet-culture, nothing toxic, just: did you move today?

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“How you do one thing is how you do everything.” Three hundred days of movement didn’t just change my body. It changed my finances, my faith, my relationships, and my ability to handle whatever life throws at me.

I get into the surprisingly real connection between showing up for your fitness and showing up for every other part of your life, why that one small commitment might be what finally gets everything else unstuck, and the moments this year that were anything but easy. If something feels off right now, this one will make you think twice about where the actual fix starts.

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“I don’t subscribe to diets, but I am feeling guilty.” If a bowl of pasta still makes you feel like you did something wrong even though you’ve ditched diet culture, this one’s for you. I’m getting honest about a stretch of relentless sweet, carb, and soda cravings, and the guilt that showed up uninvited right along with them.

I walk through what I’m actually doing about it: moving my body more, reaching for water first, and giving myself real, mindful permission to indulge so the guilt doesn’t spiral into bingeing. This isn’t a lecture on willpower. It’s a reminder that you can be active, mindful, and still completely human.

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“What do you do to celebrate milestones?” Last week I stood at a mountain overlook and cried, and the view wasn’t the reason. This time last year, I physically couldn’t have made that hike. In less than two months I’ll hit 365 days of maximum effort, and I have no idea yet how to celebrate it.

I talk through what one year of going all in has actually looked like (over 700 workouts, 624 classes, four pant sizes down, going from 3-pound weights to 20-pound dumbbells), and the half-formed ideas I’m wrestling with for the big day: 365 squats and push-ups, an espresso martini and tiramisu cheesecake, or back-to-back classes all day. I want your vote.

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“Okay, fine. I guess I have to admit it. I am burning out.” I just got back from a 7-day trip, got dressed for Tabata, made it as far as the doorway, and got sick. That’s when I finally said out loud what my body had been screaming for weeks.

I’m sharing the new four-week experiment I announced on Instagram: three gym days instead of five, with yoga, walking, hiking, and stretching filling the rest. Head colds, cycle issues, and the very real fear of being judged for scaling back almost kept me quiet about all of it. Pulling back is not quitting.

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“How can a hike hurt that much more than just a walk?” A 0.6-mile hike ate up a full hour and left my quads screaming, and I learned why the hard way over seven days of waterfall hikes from Kentucky to Florida and back. Twelve miles on uneven ground hits harder than twenty miles flat, and downhill is secretly more brutal than uphill.

I also picked up a sliced pinkie at Tallulah Gorge that taught me to keep my hands free, and got a non-scale victory I never expected: my husband asking me to slow down for once. Plus the food recap, including how splitting every dinner saved us money and calories on the road. Vacation doesn’t have to mean pausing your movement.

What a Week of Waterfall Hikes Taught Me

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“You got Q’s and I got A’s.” I lifted the 20-pound dumbbells and didn’t die, and that’s just one of the wins I’m unpacking in this listener Q&A. After 280-plus days of consistency, here’s what a real week of workouts actually looks like, plus my honest, complicated relationship with the scale.

I get into non-scale victories, including a wedding ring that hadn’t fit in a decade, why I dialed back from 22 hours of exercise a week to 13, and what the people in my life think about how much I train. My advice to anyone waiting to start on Monday: don’t wait.

Ask Ashley: Weights, the Scale, and Real Weeks

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