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   Private Member  |  March 1, 2018 @ 5:49 pm

   One of my favs
   Thanks, Z!

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   Private Member  |  March 2, 2018 @ 4:01 pm
   kyiv, ukraine

   Working out in hard times – well, this is the thing which helps me actually to get through it.
   1) When I feel completely down, feel like earth going away under my feet – this is an anchor. Great anchor to hold to stay here, alive, to stay in sensible mind and eventually start thinking on further actions in situation or even not taking actions (yes, there are cases when to do nothing is the best solution).
   2) When everything slips off you hands, everything a mayhem – schedule is what saves. And workouts are all about schedule. Schedule and order also bring order into mind and I start thinking much more clear.
   3) Ok, everything is horrible. But after all if I skip workout what it would be? – Event worse! I’ll be blaming myself, I’ll find myself in worse shape, less fit etc. Do I really want to aggravate the situation? – Definitely no!
   4) Physical and chemical processes during and after the workout make feel muuch better then before. + Just the thought that in such hard time I was still able to be stronger than my weakness really boosts my mood and makes me // well sort little champion in competition with my weakness and laziness! Regardless the result in tracker workout – is always win strategy. Once you started – you already won.

   And one more about anchors. When you are so frustrated, intimidated, disappointed, got down and lost chatting with unknown people about trivial things also amazing anchor to bring me back on track. Like talking to baristas in coffee bar, to salesmen, to passers by about weather, clothes etc. Or watching workout breakdowns! Last fall I was in such state so could barely move my feet. I was so intimidated I felt it physically. I was sitting in coffee bar watching Z-gym workout and thinking how could I even brought myself to the gym not mention to do a workout. Meanwhile another thought appeared: here is Zuzka, she is explaining exercises as usual, here is people commenting their successes and what’s not, as usual, as always – planet is still spinning, I still there, I still can live my life.
   For that – additional giant thank you, Zuzka, and the Team, and all the community here!

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   Private Member  |  April 3, 2018 @ 9:11 pm

   I can’t thank you enough for putting all of this out into the world. I’ve been on again off again with exercise since I first got serious about it in my 30s. (45 now.) I’m definitely motivated by that clip of your intense workout session–and I guess intermediate sounds about right for me. I’m now in week 4 of your Cardio and Strength Starter Program, and I am truly impressed by how much more effective this is than anything I’ve done in the past, including running (which I was deeply into for years until muscle imbalances gave me a chronic hamstring tendon injury), weightlifting, and yoga. I have flirted too with HIIT, but I think I was trying to do workouts that were too advanced for my level at that time and got discouraged pretty quickly. Your workouts are incredibly fun and varied. I look forward every day, and I’m pretty sure that one year from now I will still be subscribed and crushing your more advanced workouts. My legs and butt look better after three weeks of this than they have since I was a teenager. Scratch that. I don’t think I had the muscle tone then that I do already with your training. Thank you thank you, and thanks too for your just-right insights and encouragement to kick off and conclude each workout, the coffee talks, and blogs. This is so worth $10 a month.

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   Private Member  |  August 4, 2018 @ 4:40 am

   I am at the intermediate stage but I have stopped working out and doing keto for the past 2 months because of serious family issues that have just drained me and kept me very stressed. I was someone that everyone believed was so disciplined but I have been mourning losses and I got stuck in an emotional rut. BUT, I love what you said about how to motivate yourself during times like that and I am going to utilize those techniques. If being healthy and fit for myself isn’t enough of a motivation that thinking about how it will benefit others certainly will. Love that! I just joined ZGYM today and I am MOTIVATED. Thank you for all that you do.

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     Private Member  |  August 5, 2018 @ 5:55 am
     lake tahoe, nv, usa

     Keep it going! Remember that keeping yourself motivated is work that’s never done. It’s like a skill that you have to cultivate, because it rarely just shows up without our effort. Glad to have you here!