Redefining Summer Movement

I've been thinking a lot about why summer feels like the season we "fall off" with fitness, when to be honest, I don't think that has to be true. I think summer might actually be the easiest season to move your body — once you stop trying to make it look exactly like it does the rest of the year.

That's the whole heart of this episode. Not another list of workouts to feel guilty about skipping, but a real conversation about what movement can actually look like when life gets busy, hot, and a little unpredictable.

My Tuesdays Have Become the Best Part of My Week

If you've been around for a minute, you know Tuesdays are my coaching day — I'm up at 4am running classes before I even think about my own training. But the part of my Tuesday that's completely changed me lately happens after all of that, when instead of rushing home to my laptop, I take my Bible to the beach.

I sit. I read. I pray. And lately, now that the water's finally warm enough, I get in and swim before I do anything else.

I didn't expect this to become one of the most productive parts of my week, but it has. There's something about moving my body, spending time with God, and getting sunlight before I open my laptop that changes how I show up for the rest of the day. I'm calmer. Less reactive. Less in fight-or-flight before I've even started working.

Summer Doesn't Ask You to Find Time to Move — It Hands It to You

Here's what I keep coming back to: summer doesn't require you to carve out time for movement the way the rest of the year does. It hands you opportunities all day long, if you're paying attention. The catch is that most of it doesn't look like a workout, which is exactly why I think we discount it.

I get into this more in the episode, but the short version is — your exercise ring can close without you ever setting foot in a gym this summer, and that's not a consolation prize. That's the point.

What I Learned From Sitting a Race Out

This year, I didn't run the Gate River Run, and for a while that felt like a loss. I talk in this episode about what led to that decision — a hard winter on my body, a wedding season, and a level of honesty with myself I wasn't always great at in years past.

I share why I think the choice to sit something out can actually be wisdom instead of failure, and why I'm already planning to run it again in 2027 — not because I have something to prove, but because I genuinely love it.

The Thing Nobody Tells You About Feeling "Off" This Summer

There's one piece of this episode I think almost every woman listening needs to hear, especially if you've been feeling weaker or more "out of shape" lately and can't figure out why. I have a theory, and it's probably not what you think. I'll let you hear the rest in the episode.

If you've been feeling guilty about your routine being "off" this summer, this one's for you.

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