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Tough Girl - Daily Podcast - SEASON 2

After working in finance for 8 years, I quit my city job and spent 18 months travelling the world, climbing Kilimanjaro, backpacking around South America and doing a ski season. I used this time to help me decide on what I wanted to do with my life. ​ I set up Tough Girl Challenges as a way of motivating and inspiring women and girls. I'm the host the Tough Girl Podcast where I interview inspirational female explorers, adventurers, athletes and everyday women who have overcome great challenges. I completed the Marathon des Sables in April 2016 and in 2017 I thru hiked the Appalachian Trail (2,190 miles) in 100 days! In 2018 I will be cycling the Pacific Coast Highway and the Baja Divide! This is my daily update of what I get up to! I want to share the journey, the high points the low points and what it takes to build a business while having fun and going on adventures! ******************************************* SEASON 2 I’ve been wanting to go back to the Tough Girl Daily Podcast for a while. But I’ve just had so much on, I needed to let it go while I focused on my Masters getting back to full strength after the Appalachian Trail and working on building up Tough Girl Challenges into a viable business which can support me. At the moment I do work part time jobs to enable to me to do what I do and I do live with my parents (who are beyond amazing and supportive) but I do need to make this work, I need to be able to earn a living. I feel there is an illusion about how easy it is to build a business, build a brand and being able to earn a living from it. It’s not - it’s hard work and I hope through this daily podcast you will be able to see what is going on behind the scenes. I will share the good bits and the bad bits, the high points, the low points.
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14th February 2017 0
Feb 14, 2017
14th February 2017
  • Happy Valentine’s Day
  • 6 mile training walk for the Appalachian Trail (1 hr 56mins - 18.40 min/miles)
  • Presents!! Thank you Claire & Rob, & Thank you Libby!
  • Seeing Cat from Chiro and Physio Clinic about my glutes! See more info below.
  • Falling asleep & being kind to myself
  • Come and say hi on twitter @_TOUGH_GIRL
  • Check out the website www.toughgirlchallenges.com 

 

Info from Cat, from Chiro and Physio Clinic

Today we worked through some glut isolation exercises (as isolated as we could get as muscles don't work in isolation!) 

What worked for you:

Side lying clams: keep the top hip forward to reduce the range of motion in your hip (this makes it more difficult!) Work through as many reps as it takes until you can really feel that glut working hard. Repeat a few sets. Superset this with some x-band walks and see what you feel!

Bridge: heels together, knees wide to offload the hamstrings (be careful not to over extend in the hips and lower back) load this up with the bar and see how you feels in your glutes.

Donkey Kicks: rest your arms onto a bench so your not tempted to use them! Use the red band around the sole of your foot. Extend the leg back and slightly up  (without compromising the lower back) play around with the tempo...and some holds in too! Stop if you feel the hamstrings or quads kicking in too much. You may not necessarily feel it in your glutes but they will be firing! 

Leg press holds: single leg, slight bend in the leg and hold. Again you should feel this in the glut. Hold for a good 20 seconds and repeat on the other leg.

 

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