Stop Waiting Until January to Transform Your Body After 40

00:00Who do you want to be come January 1? Do you want to be that person that's rushing around making new plans because summer is around the corner? Do you want to be that person that gets ahead now? And what do you want by January 1? Like what habits do you want to instill? Like I would ask yourself these questions. Who do you want to be by then? The body that you want for summer 2027, like you guys working and striving to become stronger and leaner and confident and capable version of yourself, that body is being built right now. In September, in October, in November, in the quiet months when nobody's watching and nobody is posting. Be the opposite of what people do. People go into like hibernation mode in these next couple of months. We wear baggy clothes. We're like, I don't have to worry about it. We kind of let the, you know, it kind of unfolds a little bit. Don't let that be you.

00:44What's going on, everybody? Hey, you guys, welcome back. And before I dive into today's episode, I just want to stop right here because things look a little different around here. I mentioned it at the end of the last podcast. So I thought that I would dive into it here. We have a new name. The WarriorBabe Show is now officially the warrior babe show. What I need to let you guys know is it's the same podcast. It's literally going to be the same conversations, same mission of me being here giving women the real honest information that they need to build

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02:38Okay, so I'm really excited for you guys to be here. If you guys go back and listen to any of the other episodes, I'm introing it with The WarriorBabe Show. Now you know that that once was our name. And now we are the warrior babe show. Okay, so let's get into it. Because today I want to start the episode with something that I've been hearing recently in social media. And I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Because when you pan out and look at it from like a 30,000 foot view, it makes so much sense is that September is grounding season. And I love that I love it. Because it's true in a way that I feel like, again, like pans out and looks at it from that 30,000 foot view down in a way that maybe can get people to look at it, look at September and look at the end of summer, but also look at their fitness journey a little bit different.

03:27Like, summer's over the chaos, the vacation, the like, the kids running around grandkids coming over, I'll get back on track when things settle down, that type of season is done. And then what comes next is, is fall. It's the return to the routine. It's the quiet of like, the chaos that's been going on. It's you're getting into shorter days, you're getting into colder nights. I feel like it's like the powerful time of year to build something real. Like not January, not Monday, not after the holidays, like right now, there's four solid months going in like you guys, and I'm going to get into this, but like prepping for like January one should be like, September one, like prepping your your new year now and getting grounded now.

04:18Do you think how amazing it's going to be to be ahead of the crowd if you get started now. And I know it's crazy that I'm even talking about the holidays. It's September, you're probably like me when it comes to pumpkin spice. I'm like, yo, slow down. Like it's still summertime when pumpkin spice comes out. And now I'm talking about the holidays, and we're still in September. But I'm doing it for a purpose, because I want you guys to be prepared. That's what I want to talk about today, like how to use this season in a way to get ahead. And not to just like coast into the new year, not to maintain until January, but to, to build intentionally consistently like right now.

04:58So that you know, you guys are standing on the other side of this as someone completely different, like you going into you in January is completely different than the January one normal people are going to be you know what I mean. Because honestly, truthfully, you guys have probably heard this, but it's so real. The bodies that are being you know, are built in this month in this time of like September 2026 through the holiday season. They're the transformations that people will see in 2027 and like summer of 2027 like they it's so true that your summer bodies get built in the winter. And so that's why I want to help you guys understand how you guys can get ahead now. And not be, you know, that person like I'm sure you're you've been there done that like come March, it's like, Oh my gosh, summer's right on the corner, I got to find a plan. You fall into that like quick fix trap. And it's been that like camps a real cycle every single year.

05:48So like, I hope this episode just grounds you and makes you look at these months more intentionally moving forward. So that you are ahead of it. So and I think that I wanted you guys to sit with this for a second, because I think that this, this catchy phrase, like I think it deserves more than just this catchy phrase, I want you I want to explain it like, what grounding means is like getting rooted, like getting stable, like coming back to the foundation after a season of movement and a season of change and a season of just

06:18disruption. And that is exactly what September offers you. If you choose to use it that way. Summer is there's a lot going on. You got social events, you got travel, you got late nights, you got inconsistent schedules, you're going to bed later, you're waking up in different times. Like, it's beautiful. It's I mean, if I could be in summertime all year round, that would be my time mainly because of the weather. It's beautiful out. And it's worth enjoying. But the way that I look at it looking down from a 30,000

06:48is it's not a building season. It's not a building season. It's like a living season. And most women feel the drift that comes with it, like the workouts get patchy, the nutrition gets a little bit looser. The routines that you that you you know, had once kind of get like undone somewhere around like July, right? Well, I want you to look at September is like, this is the exhale. After all of that, your kids are back in school, you're not having to watch the grandkids while parents are at work, your calendars are more predictable. Other than if your kids are playing sports, then you got to work around that. But like the urgency of like the summer plans gets replaced by this like, like solid routine. And this is like where that structure returns. And this is where the opportunity for you guys to like lock in before the holiday madness starts to pick back up. Like this is an opportunity for you to get grounded to decide like, who are you going like, I was talking about this conversation in our VIP community. And I was like, who do you want to be

07:48come January one? Do you want to be that person that's rushing around making new plans because summer is around the corner? Do you want to be that person that gets ahead now? And what do you want by January one? Like what habits do you want to instill? Like I would ask yourself these questions. Who do you want to be by then? Right? Do you want to be better with your nutrition, consistently eating your nutrition? You want to make sure your workout schedule is on lock during the week? Do you want to get better sleep? Where are you going to bed? You know, you're cutting out. And I don't mean like 70s of the week, maybe you're cutting out your shows, like

08:18two days of the week, or you're going to earlier bed, like you start stacking it. That way come January, it's more of just now a habit you're instilling. So everything I'm saying here is like, I don't want you to change everything. Like a lot of people do on January one, I just want you to identify like one area. If it is like, for example, going to bed earlier, okay, you stop watching your show like half an hour before you're planning to go lay down in bed and unwind. You know what I mean? Or like you don't watch TV in bed. Like those types of things. And you get like five days out of the week, or you get three days out of the week to start and then you build on top of it, right? Maybe five days is too much to make that kind of commitment. You get what I'm saying? And you do that in general for other things as well. So it's like, this grounding season is less, it's not about being intense, kind of like what I just said. It's like more about intentionality. It's about like, choosing, like, what's this next version of you? And how are you going to build into that person?

09:15And then building it and being consistent about it and doing like one day at a time. All right. Hey, while you're listening, if you're getting value from this episode, take a moment to tap that review button or share this podcast with a friend. It's a small gesture that goes a long way in helping more women find their way to feeling stronger and more confident in their skin. I appreciate you so much for taking the time to support this show. I also want to kind of paint two pictures for you here because I think this contrast is really important to understand. Picture this one concept or this one picture. It's January 2nd. The gym is packed. Everybody's on a treadmill. Every class is full. Like there's just people everywhere. People are fired up. They're motivated. They got that new year energy. You know, like I got new goals. I got new motivation. Like the energy is electric. People are just, it's packed. It's packed at this time.

10:10And it's real for about three weeks. Literally come February. I'm like, holy, like, or even March. I'm like, yo, where are all these people at? It's crazy. By February, the gym is quiet again. March, they're quiet. It's quiet again. The motivation at this point is completely worn off. The program that you were getting into now is harder than it looked in January. And then the results, man, they just haven't materialized yet. Because, you know, what I talked about in the last episode. Like, they just haven't arrived because you're going into week six. And week six is where you can really start to see that picture. But no, week four people drop off. Week three people drop off.

10:49Most women have already quit at week three, week four. And it becomes like that January crowd that was in there. It's like, it's like February, like the ghost town. So that's picture one. Picture two is it's January 2nd. And you have already been at this for four months. You started this month. You got through October with the momentum of a new routine. You navigated November with a strategy already in place. Not just you pushing through. You had a strategy. You had, you know, the holiday in mind. You had the systems on your calendar. You had your daily commitments line. Like, setting your water on your island in the morning. You're in your kitchen where you see it. You know what I mean?

11:33Like, you had a strategy in place. And then you enjoyed December without derailing yourself because your habits were solid enough by then that having a holiday dinner didn't undo four months of work. Like, you knew, okay, I just had, I just got four months of solid routine under play. I can enjoy myself a little bit. Kind of what I was saying before in the last episode. It's like... Ladies, are you feeling frustrated with body changes you're experiencing during menopause?

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12:40Visit warriorbabe.com forward slash apply today to start your transformation. That's warriorbabe.com forward slash apply. All right, let's get back to the show. You call those like that week of Christmas and New Year's, like enjoying yourself in that week is not going to derail the four months of progress that you've made. Like, that should be something to look forward to. You know what I mean?

13:10You walking into January, you're not starting over. You're just continuing that momentum. Your body has four months to adapt. You have four months of progressive overload. You have four months of consistently hitting your protein. You have four months of sleep and recovery. You have four months of stacking real, visible, measurable change. And so the woman in picture two does not need this like new year, January motivation because she's already has something better. She has evidence. She has momentum. She has momentum.

13:41You know, you've got that body. You've already started transforming. You've got the habits in place. They're already becoming second nature. That is what grounding season builds. That is the advantage that starting now creates. Like, January crowd is hoping for a transformation. The September you is building one right now. And you have four months to do it. This is a time that true progress gets built and made. Maybe a way that I can say this that will help you reframe the next couple of months. Like, the body that you want for summer 2027.

14:14Like, you guys working and striving to become stronger and leaner and confident and capable version of yourself. That idea, that picture that you want when you, like, you know, you close your eyes and you imagine it. You imagine where you want to be. That body is being built right now. In September, in October, in November, in the quiet months when nobody's watching and nobody is posting. Like, be the opposite of what people do. People go into, like, hibernation mode in these next couple of months. We wear baggy clothes. We're like, I don't have to worry about it. We kind of let the, you know, it kind of unfolds a little bit.

14:46Don't let that be you. You showing up now, you know, hitting your protein target even though nobody's, like, watching you. Or, you know, going to the gym and building that consistency even though nobody's watching you. Like, it's being built in that time where you choose to move your body instead of waiting until you just, like, ah, you just feel like it. January 1 comes around and it's, like, summer's around the corner. You know what I mean? And it matters because you're also, it's not, you're not chasing this quick fix.

15:19You're doing it intentionally. You're doing it slowly. You're doing it over months, not weeks. Because you guys know by listening to these episodes with me, the transformation takes a year to build. It's not the same transformation that happens in 12 weeks that people dive into in January 1. Like, building muscle, metabolic adaptation, like, those things take time. And then you doing that right, like, that version of a transformation is actually going to last. It's not the one that, the one that you sprint in in January 1 and, like, sprint into the 12 weeks and then you can't maintain it because you've never built the foundation.

15:57Like, this, that's, we don't want to repeat that again. You know what I'm saying? Like, we don't want to fall back into that same trap that you do almost every year unless you're someone that can consistently follow through. Right? On January 1. But that's far and few between. It's, like, 1% of the people in America. So I want you to be the one that's, like, steady, grounded, through fall, through winter, through spring. So that by the time that summer arrives, you're already where you want to be. You're arriving, you're not arriving as, like, a result.

16:28You're arriving as, like, a full-blown, like, person that has learned in these last couple of months, like, sustainability and what it takes to live with, like, an identity of fitness. It doesn't have to be perfect. But that is all available to you. And you, it's way better than a sprint. Because let's, let me just say this. If that is something that has been, you've been someone on January 1 over the last couple of years and the motivation fades by, like, March or April or February, then why don't we just do something different?

16:59Which would be this that I'm talking about here. So I'll talk about the mindset piece really quick. Because I think that this is what actually separates the woman who uses the scrounging season from the woman who just, like, kind of, like, lets it pass. Like, the one that starts now in September, they're not the most voted. You're not going to be the most motivated to do it. Like, you're not the most, like, you don't have everything figured out. That's okay. But they're the women who are, like, imperfectly taking messy action to try and put a strategy in place rather than waiting for the ideal set of circumstances to come.

17:37Which is, like, why people fall flat come January 1 because they think that everything has to be perfect and they have to have everything mapped out. They are the women who make a different kind of decision. Like, the one that I'm saying, like, that starts messy and starts imperfect and along the way gets where it feels like it's really good for them. It's not the, I'll start when I'm ready. Like, ready never comes. Confidence comes with you taking action. It follows that. So, it's not like I'm going to wait until after the holidays.

18:09Like, the holidays are six weeks out. So, why don't we just use this time to figure out what kind of routine it's going to look like for me to be in. Right? Or, like, somebody says, well, I just don't have enough time right now. You have the same, like, there's somebody that's going to make this decision that uses this time wisely in the next four months. And you two probably have this, you do, not probably. You have the same 24 hours in a day. The difference is not time.

18:40The difference is the decision that what you're going to do about it and how you're going to strategically set it up for yourself. Like, the go-getter mentality is not about doing more. It's about deciding sooner. It's about looking at the same season everyone else is coasting through and choosing to see as an opportunity to actually, like, do, like, to set yourself up for success here in this time. About having the kind of, like, relationship with your future self that makes present excuses. Like, or even present, like, sacrifice.

19:12Like, time on your calendar to a workout. That's what you're, like, don't look at it as, like, a sacrifice. Look at it as, like, a future investment in the person that you're becoming come January 1. The women sitting in January are feeling behind. But they had September. They had October. They had November. They had December. They just didn't use them. Not because they couldn't, but because they were waiting for a better time. And the better time they were waiting for was the exact time that they were in, which is these couple months.

19:44There's no right time, guys. So I would just encourage you in the first, like, two weeks just try to take messy action to getting yourself into a strategic routine. You're going to play around with that routine. Maybe you can't make four days a week, so you set it to three. Maybe you can't make five, so you set it to four. But you're at least figuring it out and then what feels right for you in this season will land the way that it's supposed to. Does this make sense?

20:15So I would just encourage you to make those types of practical choices. You guys know that I like to make practical takeaways on these episodes. It's like, okay, just go take messy action for the next two weeks if you are still feeling like you're all over the place. And, like, you know, now you know kids are back in school. The only thing you're really looking at is sports and, like, when family dinners need to happen. Where can you set time for yourself now? Make that decision and figure out how to just plug and play over the next couple weeks until it falls into a consistent routine for yourself.

20:49That would be the only thing that I would say as a practical takeaway for you to start implementing right now. So if there's anything that I want you to take away from this episode, it's that September isn't a waiting. It's not for you to just wait and coast and, like, start that real work come January. Like, September is grounding season. It's the most powerful time of year to build something real, something rooted, something that will be standing when summer comes around and arrives and everybody is, like, frantically just starting to begin and rushing into cutting calories and getting into the gym and doing tons of cardio and getting outside and running and et cetera.

21:27The body that you build in the next couple of months is, it's not going to be a transformation, but it will be the habits that you are ingraining into yourself that no longer feel like they're hard to start because you've already started them and you've gotten better at them. Think about it like this. It's like a standard. You're studying a standard that's being established that will carry yourself through the holidays without a second thought. And it's a version of yourself that then shows up next summer, not as somebody who just, like, did it as a result, finally arrived.

22:05It's like, you're now someone who just didn't stop. Like, isn't it cooler to be like, yeah, I've been on my fitness journey however long, but, you know, I've been really consistent through fall time. Rather than be like, yeah, like, I started in February, but, like, I was inconsistent. And then you're going to have inconsistent results come summertime. You know what I mean? Like, you don't need January 1. It's like this fictitious date on a calendar that puts so much chaos and pressure on people to show up differently because it's a new year.

22:36You literally have right now. And if you guys want to build the nutrition strategy that, like, makes all this work, like, understanding how your body works, maybe why it hasn't worked through the years. Like, I'm talking, like, I'm talking, like, more mindset and, like, broader picture things for you. But what about if you want to, like, develop the strategy of the day-to-day that completes this approach that will produce the results that actually lasts? Then I would say come and join us on our free weekly webinar every week on Thursday.

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