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Rediscovering Movement and Joy

• Julie Clark & Catherine Chapman • Episode 58

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Episode 58

Exploring the intersection of joy and wellness, this episode invites listeners to reconnect with their vibrant selves through singing, movement, and laughter. Through candid narratives about personal experiences, nutrition, and overcoming fear, the hosts empower everyone to embrace their fabulousness no matter their age or situation. 

• Examining the role of musicals and joy in our lives 
• Discussing the importance of mindset during recovery 
• Sharing personal stories about nutrition and comfort foods 
• Introducing the Vitamin C challenge for improved immunity 
• Finding laughter and connection in everyday supermarket trips 
• Reflecting on the role of fear in pursuing physical challenges 
• Celebrating the joy and empowerment gained from overcoming obstacles 

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to Far Too Fabulous hosted by Julie and.

Speaker 2:

Catherine, join us on a mission to embrace your fabulousness and redefine wellness.

Speaker 1:

Get ready for some feistiness, inspiration, candid chats and humour as we journey together towards empowered wellbeing.

Speaker 2:

Let's dive in. Hello, hello, hello. I hope you are feeling very fabulous.

Speaker 1:

How are you Julie? Yeah, all right. It's making me laugh now when we do the intro because of what I said a few episodes ago.

Speaker 2:

I'm really, really aware of it now and I'm getting more and more singy as the episodes go on. Yeah, you really are.

Speaker 1:

So the next time I do the intro and I do my newsreader thing, we're just gonna fall about laughing oh my god, I think.

Speaker 2:

I think maybe we're gonna have to have have an actual, far too fabulous singing theme tune. Sing the theme tune live the theme tune that sounds like a game show.

Speaker 1:

No, no, I think it might have been from like Little Britain or something. Oh, okay yeah, anyway.

Speaker 2:

Well, yes, we that's what we do.

Speaker 1:

We live the theme tune because we are far too fabulous yeah, I would like to live my life as if I'm in a musical. You know if you're having a conversation with someone and you just have to sing it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And if you're just going down the street, you've got to like, just break out into a song and dance Into a dance or something. Yeah, that'd be fun, wouldn't it, have you?

Speaker 2:

seen. We've divers we haven't even started. There's a movie, that there she suddenly becomes stuck in a in a musical, and everybody suddenly starts singing and dancing I need to see this film around her. I think it's a really terrible film. Oh yeah, I don't think it's won any um awards. Okay, not any good ones anyway but it was, yeah, but it's really funny and she's kind of looking around going why is everybody just singing at me? They, they're not actually speaking.

Speaker 1:

Just be joyous though, because even if you were having like an intense emotional moment, you'd still have the joy of the singing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, I love it when I'm watching a musical or something at the theatre. I just, I want to go and join them. You want to join in? Yeah, I just, and I desperately, and I think I can do it. In fact, I'm absolutely sure I can do it. I'm going to see, uh, dear Evan Hansen this evening at the Marlow and the songs in that I am. It was. It's going to be like when I watched Wicked in the movies. I'm going to have to. I don't know, I'm going to have to go and gag myself or something, because I'm going to want to desperately sing and I know I'm going with my daughters.

Speaker 2:

They love it. It's being played in our kitchen all of the time. I mean I am absolutely sure that we just walk into the kitchen and Alexa goes oh, look, there they are, let's play the, the soundtrack to Dear Evan Hansen, and away we go.

Speaker 1:

Um, so yeah, and I just want to wave my arms around and, yeah, dance oh, I just, I just love going to the theatre anyway, I just absolutely love it. And when we were in Covid and we didn't have those that chance to go and do that, the very first thing that I went to see after that was actually the Lion King, and at the end I just burst into tears because I was like this is so amazing and I haven't had this for so like long.

Speaker 2:

It just I found it really, just really emotional uh well, so the first time first time, I think, actually the only time I think, I've seen Lion King. I don't think I've seen that more than once we went it was me, my mum, my sister and Mark, and we can't have been together that long, and so mum, I am pretty sure, was around menopause, there was me, so I would have been probably about 19 or 20, something like that. No, I would know I wasn't, I was older than that. Um, claire was about 11 and a half weeks pregnant with mia, and we were down in the stalls and you I'm sure I'm not spoiling this for anybody and if, if, if, I'm telling you something, it just means you have to go.

Speaker 2:

All the animals come down the aisles. The three of us burst into tears. It was just, it was so incredible, yeah, and I remember glancing across to mark and his face basically said it all was like oh my god, I'm here with these crazy women. It was just, oh, absolutely incredible. I love that something like that evokes such an emotional response.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I was speaking to a client this week and we were talking about like it's never just about the food, it's never just about you know the nutrition and things. We were talking about joy, yeah, and she was saying do you know what? I need more joy in my life. And we were talking about what was like joy for us, yeah, and so, yeah, the theatre and musicals and things definitely was mentioned.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you're funny, you said that about lockdown In lockdown. I remember sitting and booking two live shows for like a year's time, thinking, yes, that's what we, that's what we need, and it takes normally. It takes a lot for me because they're expensive now, aren't they? Yeah, they really takes a lot for me to um to do that and I was like, no, I really need this. One of them was hamilton. Me and arnie went to see hamilton and that's another one that I want to. Just, actually, I can't sing along to a lot of it because a bit bits of it a rap, and I just can't do that yeah but it's just epic.

Speaker 2:

Yes, musicals definitely bring me joy.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so you're going to see that tonight, which is going to be amazing. So you asked me how I am this week. How are you?

Speaker 2:

well, actually I've been poorly rubbish, rubbish this week. I know Proper, sulky, grumpy, and I said to you just now this morning I woke up and I was like right, I am deciding that this is it, I'm done with this now. I'm done with this.

Speaker 1:

I'm feeling well, I'm going to operate as if I'm well, yeah, how's that working out?

Speaker 2:

for you. Well, it's all right, it's and it's. There is so much about the mindset. So I did puloxin yesterday, and so through the day I've been coughing. I got um, I got chucked out of the bedroom the other night and I went and slept um on the reclining chairs downstairs so I could sit upright and that mark could have a decent night's sleep, because I was aware that I was keeping him awake. And so, yeah, you were doing ploxing.

Speaker 2:

So then I was like grumpy through the day and then I had to go and do ploxing, because I have my class that I have every single week, and I went down there into the gym planning to just take it easy, which, if anybody knows me, I am incapable of.

Speaker 1:

I was going was gonna say do you know what? What does that look like? Have you?

Speaker 2:

met me. Yeah, I'm utterly and I am, and I and I do this very, very frequently, like when I'm marathon training, and perhaps my classes aren't exactly what I need for my training I'll go down and I think no, I'll just take it easy, I'll tell them what to do and I won't do it myself Utterly, utterly incapable of doing this. So after, like, the first track, I went full throttle and I had a whale of a time and I always do and I felt incredible afterwards and the stark comparison between me whinging on the sofa earlier on in the day to me leaping around doing Plox, uh, at 6 30 in the evening is just unbelievable. And I mean, you know, I went back into the house and I did plop myself back on the sofa and I was, I was shattered and I had to recover, but for that hour I just felt amazing and it's amazing what you can do and what you're sort of if you let yourself do it, your mindset, and it was so, um, freeing yeah, you can rally yourself, shit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, for just that hour just that hour it was.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it was really lovely and um and I've done that quite a few times with um like aches and pains and headaches and all sorts of things with puloxin and I actually did a story last night afterwards. And I'm not saying that puloxin is the cure of everything and I'm not saying, if you're feeling rubbish, go and do puloxin and you'll feel much better.

Speaker 1:

But I definitely did yeah, sometimes it does help to push through, but then there are other times when you've got to listen to your body and your body does say I need to rest and recover.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I mean, I was mindful of that last night and I definitely lots of fluids. Um, yeah, I was.

Speaker 1:

I was going to say lots of good nutrition, but actually I've already fessed up to you that mikey and I raided tesco and had a carb fest so the thing about that is that when, when you're turning a corner with your illness which is probably what you're doing now you will have that increased need for carbohydrates. That's completely natural because, if you think about it, your body has just gone and done a lot of work yeah, in order to feel it working that hard, yeah and and you often will lose your appetite initially when you're ill.

Speaker 1:

But then, once you turn that corner, your body will go okay, I've depleted my, my energy source, now you need to ramp it up. And it only really knows how to signal for sugar. The body yeah mainly because it doesn't expect you to be able to go to the corner shop and buy chocolate exactly exactly yeah, it expects me to go and forage and find something find some berries with antioxidants in some slow releasing sugar, all the things that it actually needs. But yeah, what did you buy in the supermarket? What didn't?

Speaker 2:

I buy, I don't think there's anything left. I was there with my son, who also doesn't feel very well, and and he's a teenager, and he's a teenager. So he was, he was. Yeah, it was not a good influence on me. And so what did I start? I went in for focaccia. That was what I went in for. I wanted oily, squidgy Italian bread, and I couldn't find any in fresh focaccia, which annoyed me initially, and so I ended up just a bit of packet stuff, and so then I clearly wasn't satisfied with that. We went past the hot cross buns, and I mean, how far away from Easter are we? That's crazy stuff.

Speaker 1:

I've just realized yeah, I know everything comes in so early now. Just talking briefly about hot cross buns. I have got a really nice easy recipe for hot cross buns on my website well, maybe we should put the link to that in the show notes. I think we should because, yeah, we do make them and they aren't really nice I literally would never even think about making hot cross buns.

Speaker 2:

I'm not actually a fan of hot cross buns because I don't like currants. I call them bugs and I don't like them, and I've really do. You know, when the kids were younger, I was like everybody gave their children raisins and I'm like, oh, they're so disgusting which we now realize was completely bad right for their teeth, etc.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, um, but yeah, I. But I quite like some of the things that they're in. So often I would. If there was like a cinnamon bun with them in, I'd like quietly pick them out. However, hot cross buns as long as they're toasted with lots of butter on, I can tolerate the raisins, so I bought little ones of those. But I'm afraid I did buy chocolate and salted caramel hot cross buns as well, oh man, that was so good.

Speaker 2:

But I just said to mikey, if I try and add any more carbohydrates into this basket, you are to slap my hands. So we went off looking for him instead and actually he had sushi.

Speaker 2:

We went and hit yo sushi and he had um, he had a couple of things of sushi, so that was probably very good for him it was far better choice than mummy's yeah, but don't, don't be too hard on yourself because, yeah, your body was just looking to replenish the energy and I do hear you and my often my clients will say this to me that when they're when they're doing something, they can hear me maybe I'm telling them to sort of engage their pelvic floor or draw their shoulders back or something. I do hear you when I'm not very well and I'm making sure that I'm having the soups and things to make it easy for my body to digest good nutrition. And I got in touch with you, didn't I? And I said I want to do this. This vitamin c challenge that we'd spoken about not very long ago, I feel I don't know why we were talking about it, yeah, but um yeah, so I.

Speaker 2:

So I did that um and boosted my vitamin c.

Speaker 1:

So we better explain what that is, in case people don't know what we're talking about.

Speaker 2:

Go on then.

Speaker 1:

Vitamin C challenge. So vitamin C is amazing for the immune system. The RDA is only 60 milligrams, but actually that is just enough for us to prevent scurvy, so it's not an optimal level.

Speaker 2:

That's so funny that that is, when you look at loads of research, that that they're based on things like that it's just hilarious yeah, the rda is just the minimum amount you need to avoid a known disease.

Speaker 1:

And probably a man, yeah. Probably a man, yeah, especially for something like scurvy, because that would be done.

Speaker 2:

Let's be clear vitamin c doesn't help you avoid men. The research is probably on men. Just in case you're now reaching for the vitamin C and thinks it makes them disappear, it doesn't do that, sorry, I'm glad that you clarified that.

Speaker 1:

So vitamin C really helps the immune system and we have a higher need for it when we're ill. There's so many studies being done on it. It does help. Is there's so many studies being done on it? It does help. So there's a challenge test that you can do on yourself. Anyone can do it. You take a gram or a thousand milligrams of vitamin c every hour until you reach bowel tolerance. Now, bowel tolerance is because vitamin c will cause your bowels to loosen when it reaches capacity. Then you know that that's, that's the the level that you're at, and then you go back a gram. So if you've done three hours every hour, you've done a thousand milligrams, you've got to three thousand and you've got loose stools, then your dosage is two thousand milligrams or two grams. I think yours was three thousand yeah, that was my.

Speaker 2:

That's where I well, I I actually think that if I'd have gone to four then we'd have been in trouble, so I'm stuck to three, yeah, and then you can just take that, because there's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 1:

It's water soluble, yeah, and your body will process it anyway.

Speaker 2:

You can take that dosage until you feel better yeah, no, and it's good and it makes and also, it makes you feel like you're able to do something.

Speaker 1:

It's brilliant idea I love it and it's easy. It's easy to do, right? Yes, I must just go back to your supermarket thing, because you're saying that you you hear me sometimes going. You know what would julie say now, do you get that feeling if you are in the supermarket and you're buying stuff like that that you don't want to bump into anybody that might know what you do for a living? Because I get this all the time and I've got students, especially the Spanish ones, because we host students.

Speaker 1:

If we have the Spanish ones, they are having Nutella, rubbish, breakfast cereal and despite initially because I've been doing this for a while now initially I wouldn't get that stuff and I'd be they just eat what we eat and but no, they don't end up eating and they give you that look and of disgust, yeah, yeah, and then you just think it. You know what. It's just easier to give them what they want. Yeah, but I do draw the line at dinner. We're all having the same dinner. Yes, but with the lunches, you know what they have for lunch and you've just got to follow what the school tells you to provide. Yeah, and it's like a chocolate bar and packet of crisps and they only like white bread. Right. So I'll go to Aldi, audi or lidl and I'm putting this stuff in my trolley and I think, please don't let anybody see me, or I feel like I need a sign on my head that says ignore what's in my trolley. I've got students next week.

Speaker 2:

It's not for me, yeah do you know why I'm laughing so hard now when you talk about white bread? All I can ever think of is that brilliant video of you waving the white flag saying you're coming up from the like the battlements. Is it safe to come out now after that whole um lunch? Uh, pat lunch gate. Yeah, pat lunch gate. If you're not sure what that is, is it where is it? Where is that video?

Speaker 1:

for everyone to enjoy. It's somewhere on your face of facebook. It's in the depths of facebook. It should be resurrected.

Speaker 2:

It's the best video ever ever. Very short, short version of it was that julie got in trouble for criticizing school pat lunches on a school trip on a school trip and uh, and all hell broke loose. And it was. It was brilliant. I don't think it was brilliant at the time, but the video was was just absolutely I love it. Um, yeah, I totally get that. Going around the supermarket and not wanting people to uh, look in your, look in your trolley if you're having a like a, a bingey day and you think, oh god, please don't let anybody mind you, I went to um, I went to waltie the other day and um, and I had my avocado uddi on at home and I said to mikey, I don't think I can be bothered to take this off because it was so warm and snuggly. So I just put my dry robe over the top of it and then realised you could still see the avocado hoodie stuck out the top Like this fluffy thing.

Speaker 1:

At least it was the avocado one and not the donuts one. Well, at least it wasn't a donut.

Speaker 2:

It was very in keeping and I nearly took it off and I said to Mikey. I said I don't know, maybe I have limits, Maybe there are limits to what I will walk around at all the end. And then I decided I didn't have limits at all. No, but of course I saw about four people. I knew I kept my hat down, my glasses, my dark glasses on, as if nobody would know. My dry robe is bright turquoise.

Speaker 1:

Yes, my hat was bright turquoise and I had avocados on my hood sticking out the back, so there was no disguising it yeah, don't you think that people other people would be worried about seeing us in the supermarket because of what they've got in their trolley, though yeah, more than than what we've got in ours, and it's always the way, isn't it?

Speaker 2:

like we're always worried about, about, like, what we look like or what we're shopping with, and actually everybody else is just worried about themselves and, um, that's, it's so right. I was doing a, a school fair or something, many years ago when I was running across the the field sorting out uh stalls or something. It was, um, the the kind of stalls that you uh sell things, not the kind of stalls that vitamin C loosens, just in case we're not clear. And a lady that I know at school thought that I was running towards her and, as she saw me, she passed a can of Coke to her husband, as if to say I wasn't drinking, that it was just and people have done that in coffee shops They've pushed lumps of cake aside as if they weren't eating them as soon as I've walked into it. But please don't feel like you have to do that, because I like a slice of cake as much as the next person.

Speaker 1:

Yes, me too, although I must just tell you a story about Coca-Cola, uh-huh. So I have not drunk a Coca-Cola now in over 30 years.

Speaker 2:

I remember having a Coke. We were in Barcelona, we were on retreat and it was absolutely boiling and we were just chilling out. And those are the sorts of times I really like a Coca-Cola, like it's really thirst quenching. And I remember ordering a Coke and I remember you saying I haven't had a Coke for like however many years and you've still not had one however many years and you've still not had one.

Speaker 1:

No, because there is nothing in it that is any good for me and I just refuse to drink it. And the same goes for any of those energy type drinks. Yeah, I would not drink those. And in fact yesterday I was talking to someone about having not drunk coffee. So I've not drunk coffee for about 30 years either because I had a bad experience with it. Yeah, and I was rushing to get to a meeting in London and I was really stressed and I drank this coffee when I got into this meeting and then my heart was racing, my um, I felt really weird. I had a massive adrenaline spike from the coffee and I've never drunk it since. And actually for me, I like the smell of it better than than it ever tasted, so it's not a problem, and you know I'm a tea snob, so it's fine it's fine.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I do. You know what, and I mean I everyone knows how much I love my coffee, but I totally relate to that adrenaline, since we have been doing something we're not going to talk about just yet, but we will be talking about it very, very soon. Since we did that a couple of weeks ago, I was saying to you that I don't crave my morning coffee and it was a habit. It was a real habit to come down first thing, click the kettle on, make my coffee, and I don't feel like I need to do that anymore, which is lovely, because I then create a space a little bit further into my morning and I really enjoy it and I do like the ritual.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the ritual of it. Yeah, it's so true, it's more to do with that. And then there are some of us that can metabolize coffee and some of us that can't. And it's, it's so true, it's more to do with that. And then there are some of us that can metabolize coffee and some of us that can't. And it's not saying that coffee's bad. Yeah, it's got polyphenols and things in it. But if you're caffeine sensitive, like I I am, you know, I just don't drink coffee.

Speaker 2:

Yeah no, absolutely yes. So we didn't even tell everybody what we'd planned to do today, but I think you've got the idea. We plan to have a bit of a chit chat and a bit of a catch up on what we've been up to for the last couple of weeks, because we've been busy. I know that you've been busy. You had a fab weekend.

Speaker 1:

Right, I did. I went on an adult's gymnastics camp and basically did a year's worth of gymnastics in one weekend, which four days after the event. My body's still reminding me that I did that.

Speaker 2:

I love that you've got doms three and four days later.

Speaker 1:

That's brilliant yeah, and I just I love the fact that I'm not the only crazy person doing this where there was a hundred of us at this camp.

Speaker 2:

There's a hundred of us at this camp.

Speaker 1:

There was a hundred of us. Not everybody was my age, but there was quite a few people that were, you know, over 30 at least. Yeah, and we're just in our leotards throwing ourselves around. I mean, I bought the most wonderful sparkly leotard, didn't? I they were so lovely, yeah, so I strutted around in my leotard, just throwing myself into all sorts of things, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, but I have to say I heavily relied on my magnesium.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

I took my infrared sauna with me.

Speaker 2:

Did you?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I used it in my hotel after I'd finished training. I took 400 milligrams of magnesium in one go, yeah. And then I had an Epsom salt bath yeah. So yeah, I was prepared. And then when I went out for the dinner in the evening, we had a really nice meal, but I did not drink alcohol, but a lot of people were. I had my eye on them for training the next day yeah were they a bit ropey?

Speaker 2:

yes, they were I loved the video you and you actually said on the end of it it was really hard to get out of that foam pit and I wondered as I was watching it whether it was going to be easy.

Speaker 1:

It's exhausting, actually. So you've gone to do the move and then you're deep into this, this pit of foam, and you've got no purchase to get yourself out. It's hilarious. You can see people almost like they're drowning, you know, with the flailing arms and legs and stuff, trying to get out. And then you get out the pit and then you've got to take five minutes before you can do the move again, because it's the getting out that's so exhausting, that's so funny.

Speaker 2:

They've got those in like um, like gravity and all those other trampoline places and like yeah, I remember that's the hardest bit.

Speaker 1:

Or like a ball pool yes, trying to get through that. Yeah, it's really really funny. And then I was saying to you about how hungry I was yes, off the back of doing this training. So saturday night I was so hungry. I got home on sunday evening and then on monday I was still absolutely famished. Yeah, and I didn't even care what I had. You know, I had a bag of like wine, gums or something in the car coming home from that camp yeah, I just didn't care, I was like my body was going a bit like you, having your cold going.

Speaker 1:

I need to replenish with the carbs. I think my body was going. We literally have no sugar. Yeah, anything get it in me now, yeah, and we've got a lot of repair to do because you know, julie, you've just done some crazy things again in your 50s, ignoring any limitations, because I'm just in denial here here yeah, yeah and um yeah.

Speaker 1:

We've now got to, on your behalf, go and do a load of work. Did you see my facebook post about I'm taking my body to the adult gymnastics camp? But last year we weren't. We weren't friends, yes, and I was hoping that we could be friends this year. We definitely were better friends.

Speaker 2:

We totally fell out last year but I mean, that's what great way to look at it, though that almost, almost that it's separate from you, so like if you were taking your friend to gymnastics that either was either was unwilling or unprepared, or whatever. You would make sure that they were totally looked after, wouldn't you? You would be making sure that they drunk plenty of water, you'd be making sure that that you know they had all the nutrition, and I love that you brought the sauna with you. That's just fantastic, so why would you not do that for yourself?

Speaker 1:

yeah, because I've got to put these things in place. I mean, the the most ridiculous thing was beforehand. I hadn't been able to train for about six weeks because my gym has got a heating issue and it had been very cold.

Speaker 1:

And we just can't at this age go do gymnastics in three degrees. It's not going to work. So a week before and I'd had that flu thing as well, so I had a lot going on and Christmas and blah, blah, blah and this camp was coming up and I was thinking I cannot go and do a year's worth of gymnastics having not done any training. So the week leading up I've been to two gyms and then did the training at the the camp and managed to look after my body, not come out with any. I mean, my goal going into that camp was to come out standing yeah, that was my goal.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, I love and it's really. It is interesting I mean maybe a little bit irritating that once upon a time in our 20s, 30s, we could have just gone and done this and then just gone back to work on Monday and probably had more energy and felt like really amazing, that it would absolutely have boosted us. And now we have to implement all this sort of stuff to support us, have to implement all this sort of stuff to support us. That said that's, that's the point of, like almost the point of this podcast is to be able to put all that support in so that we can continue to do some of the mental things that we did in our 20s and 30s and not half kill ourselves yeah, because I still want to have fun.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but I'm aware that I do need to put extra support in. I mean, I've got the most amazing compression supports for my wrists and my ankles now so that you know my joints aren't taking all of the hit all the time. Yeah, and it's just things like that. And then, yeah, the magnesium is just such a godsend. All hail, magnesium bow down to it, so amazing. Yeah, bath in it, take it, eat it, just cohabitate with magnesium it's so fun.

Speaker 2:

And the epsom salts they are brilliant. Although you like, you buy those big bags and you're like this is gonna last me for ages. Three baths later you're oh, you've got to put a fair bit in.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I ended up telling people on the camp who were not maybe as clued up about this kind of stuff as me I was saying there is Westlab in Home Bargains.

Speaker 2:

do a bath salt that's called Recover and it has arnica in it as well as the magnesium, because that's the same people that write that do the big epsom salts as well.

Speaker 1:

yeah, so magnesium with arnica after you'll need this for your marathon always oh, that's brilliant.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I'll look out for that, because I do have a big bag of epsom salts. It's great and I love the um, the difference between the two. Like you have the epsom salts or you have the magnesium and you're thinking about the Epsom salts kind of withdraw, like drawing out all the kind of impurities.

Speaker 2:

And I mean imagine the toxins and God knows what you needed to release and flush through from your body after that weekend. And then, because you can also bathe in magnesium, can't you as well? And thinking about really drawing that into your body and all the goodness. I love thinking about the differences between those two yeah.

Speaker 1:

So, just so the listeners know, magnesium relaxes muscles. Calcium turns it on. So I was, you know, caning my calcium in order to do everything I needed to do. But when everything's gone tight at the end of the day and boy did things go tight my shoulders and my arms so I was doing back flips and that's a lot of pressure on your body. And uh, yeah, to put that magnesium in. I have magnesium cream that I put on. I was fully magnesiumed up, just like writhing in it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's brilliant. Do you know what? And I wish that I had known about some of this stuff.

Speaker 2:

Actually, when we do like so, we used to go off to um camber to fitness fiesta yes, you used to go for that weekend where you did all these crazy different exercise classes we did I think one weekend we did something like 15 or 18 different classes over the three days and we even then I mean, it was probably, I don't know, maybe eight to 10 years ago, eight years ago and we did kind of limp out then actually, to be honest, and it would have been good to have really thought about this a little bit more. Actually, we were pretty good with our nutrition. We did think about that that quite a lot.

Speaker 2:

but all of those extra bits of support that are so easy to implement with things like magnesium, even like, yeah, the rubs and the creams and stuff, yeah, absolutely, really good but I just I used to love that so much and it was funny when you said about like how much you ached, and I was like almost celebrating that you have worked so hard that you are still aching three or four days later. And in with my professional hat on, that's, that's something that I would definitely be moving away from. But with my like 20 year old hat on, I'd be like, yes, we worked so hard, we can't walk. It's like. It's like trying to do so many squats that the next day you have to actually lower yourself down onto the toilet because you can't sit down properly yeah, yeah, I'm glad that I wasn't at that level.

Speaker 1:

But I went to training last night and, yeah, I thought actually I was going to be fine and as soon as I started doing stuff, my body just went what on earth do you think you're doing? Yeah, well, again, you're not ready for this. We've only we're not. We've not had, you know, enough days to recover. It's only been three days, julie you crazy lady.

Speaker 2:

I mean, you've literally only just been like back training for like a week and a half, including gym camp, I know, I know, but oh, my goodness me, what a lot of fun it looked like so much fun. I love the fact it. For me, when you, when you talk about gym camp, I kind of it feels very, um, it feels very american. It's like summer camp or I don't know like lots and lots of fun.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it probably is a bit like that, but yeah, brilliant, brilliant, fun. I love the fact that someone can say to you, have you thought about trying this move? And you go like what are you crazy? I did a move off the beam. That is a cartwheel with no hands. But we put an extra twist in and I was thinking what? I can't do that but there's a pit there. So I just threw myself into it and did it off the beam, yeah, off the end of the beam with with so, from your feet, with no hands, with no hands, a cartwheel. Imagine doing a cartwheel off the end of the beam. I can't do a cartwheel with my hands.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's a problem, or on the beam.

Speaker 1:

In fact, I probably can't stand the beam very well, but yeah, but we put an extra half twist in, so you've ended up finishing facing the same way that you started. I love that.

Speaker 2:

I love that. And there's something about fear, isn't there. As we get older, we're more fearful, we see. Do we see more danger in everything we're? Just more cautious and so to be able to just like throw that out the window must be quite freeing.

Speaker 1:

I did stand there for quite a while and actually when I went to training last night and I was doing something on the bars and there was another guy who was trying to do a front somersault, somersault on the floor who was scared, and I was trying to do something on the bars that I was scared of, and then we just had a bit of a laugh going who does this? We're out, we've come out in the evening on a dark, cold night. We are doing things that we're scared of, that hurt us, yeah, and we were just having a bit of a laugh about that but they do say to do something that you, that kind of scares you every day.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, don't they to just or is it? Uh, denise duffield, thomas says, do something that like almost embarrasses you every single day, just to, just to take you outside of that comfort zone, just to stretch where your comfort zone sits, and so if you do that daily, your comfort zone grows and you've got that like far more space just to to be yourself and do what you want.

Speaker 1:

I would agree with that and I think with the fear side of things. It's always scary doing some of the things I'm doing, but the emotion that you get afterwards, yeah is so. I mean, when I did my round off, tuck back and I hadn't done it for ages on the floor as soon as I landed I just burst into tears. I was so happy I'd done it again.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, what does a round off tuck back? Look like, are you on the floor?

Speaker 1:

so you're on the floor, you run up, yeah, you do a cartwheel, but you join your feet together at the end and then you take off and do a backwards somersault. That sounds.

Speaker 2:

I mean, it sounds like fun. It might not sound like fun to some people I yeah, but I would be elated. I'd be completely elated if I can do that. That's so funny, but it's like in was it Will Smith's book, or maybe? I saw it on his Instagram.

Speaker 2:

He was saying that they got him to do a skydive and he was absolutely petrified. I don't know whether he doesn't like heights, or just quite rightly so, he was absolutely petrified. I don't know whether he doesn't like heights, or or just quite rightly so, he was absolutely petrified. And the minute that he dropped out of that plane and was like full intensive flying, yeah, um, the elation and the joy and the achievement and all of that stuff was just incredible. And they say that that sort of your your life is just the other side of that stuff was just incredible. And they say that your life is just the other side of that fear. Yeah, I think it's true. Yeah, it's just getting past that, and there are so many things. I mean, we're talking about big things like throwing yourself off of beams or out of planes or what have you, but sometimes the fear could be, I don't know, posting that social media post or something like that that you've worked up into your head to be this big thing.

Speaker 2:

Often I've done that. If I've written something very personal, or maybe I think it's I don't know a bit risky and I've posted it, I've. Often those are the posts that I've had the most response to and often the nicest response yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

So the moral of this story is to just feel the fear and do it anyway, and do it anyway yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, that's a good saying, julie. Somebody should use that regularly, so good. Oh well, I've enjoyed this, just having a chat, yeah I, I've enjoyed this, just having a chat, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I hope you've enjoyed this too. I am pretty sure that you will. I don't know if you relate to jumping off a beam with no arms and then ending up facing the other way. I'd end up facing down and hope that there was a foam pit there to catch me. But yeah, as always, always come and join us in the far too fabulous facebook group. You know why I pronounce that really really well now, don't you know why? Because when our technology transcribes oh, I know what you're gonna say Sometimes, if you don't pronounce far-too-fabulous, it comes out farty-fabulous.

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