Strength in Simplicity: Toby Myles & Natalie Hurdley on Building Habits That Last

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's so interesting, because I've experienced this myself.

When you talked about when you were first personal training, and that you were so focused on the business that you actually weren't taking care of your body in the way that you were helping other people to take care of their bodies.

You I don't know if you know this, because I don't really talk about it a lot.

But I was in the health and fitness industry for quite a few years, I was a personal trainer and a fitness director.

And I worked at a fancy health and racket club and worked with clients and develop programming and whatever and you would think because I was there at the gym every single day that of course I must be spending the whole day working out but it's just like any other job in some ways like I was there all day and so when the day was over and I had two young kids grade school middle school at the time and Like I still needed to be a mom to them.

I was a single mom at the time.

And so it was either, you know, going and, and grabbing them and doing all the dinner, the homework, the whatever.

And then I'm exhausted or I would pick them up from school and bring them back to the club while I saw more clients in the evening and they loved it.

Like I could see like, this is really not like the best way to be a mom.

Yeah.

because they would sit in front of the TV in the cafe upstairs and do their homework and eat like chicken fingers and whatever.

And then they would come down and they would run around the track and, you know, play with some other kids that were there, like other personal trainers had kids.

Right.

But, but that's the thing is like, just because you're there every day, it does not necessarily mean that you are taking care of yourself in the way that you should.

So Like back then, it's almost like you were your own ideal client in many ways.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I think that we can have knowledge and we can have experience, but until we sort of live that life, there's always gonna be a little bit of a gap or disconnect.

And I felt a lot more connected to women who had a business or were high up in their careers and wanted to get fitter, healthier, stronger than I did with the people who had children, where now I'm a mom, I can kind of add that personal experience of being a mom, motherhood, business, and training all in one rather than just those two elements

and

funnily enough I've always trained moms and I've always trained pregnant women and women after coming after coming back to training after they've given birth always trained those women but I've never been able to relate to them in the same way as I can relate to them now

and

I think I can just add that extra layer of depth now and understanding because I'm actually living it.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.