A few months ago, I completed a six week step workout program.

Yeah, that’s right…a step program. Like, from the 80’s. It’s even better than it sounds.

Anyway…so, it’s mainly cardio based. And if you watch my Instagram stories at all, you know that cardio is so not my jam. I generally avoid it as much as possible.

However, there are a few reasons why I chose to do this cardio-based program anyway:

1) It was a brand-spankin’-new workout program, and I have serious FOMO.
2) I’m absolutely in love with the trainer/creator.
3) There is a big, fat emphasis on the mental health/growth aspect intertwined into this program. Which I am 100% allllllllll about.

So, I did it. And it was both just as bad as I feared it would be, and also even better than I could have imagined it to be!

However, the Tuesday workout was definitely the hardest one for me…the theme is “FASTER“. Which means pushing my cardio even more…which is definitely not my fave.

But one fine Tuesday morning, as we were doing one of the moves, the trainer goes up to one of the cast members and tells him, “You have to relax your upper half to allow your lower half to push more”. I may have gotten the verbiage off a bit, but you get my gist.

That not only changed the rest of my workout, but my perspective on my life.

If we want to find growth in different aspects of life – whether that’s something physical, or career related, or with mental health, or how you approach parenting – we have to walk the line between relaxing and just allowing things to happen, and reaching down deep inside to push ourselves beyond what we think we’re capable of.

If we can just allow ourselves to relax in one area, we may just find more space for growth in another area. It’s kind of like the balance of strength vs. flexibility in muscles. You can only gain so much usable strength if you also work for so much flexibility. Yin and Yang.

This is something that I have personally been very excited about carrying over and implementing in my real life, and I hope you are too. Keep up the good work, friends.