Wishful Shrinking

Puweee what a goody today was!

MABLE Form V to start my day, no better breakie 🙌
Johnsons Fitness for lunch, monemone that board 🥴
And to wrap up the day, a weightlifting session thanks to the Cook Islands Weightlifting Federation. 85kgs on my backsquat, thanks to Wanaka holding my hand 🤣 Straight up, if I had known the total weight when I did those last sets, I can not say with confidence if I would have been able to make the lift! 🙈 The mind games are rife out here man! 😅

How was your day my friend?

Just keep moving!

I'm nursing a sore ankle at the moment so today's Johnson's session was regressed. My focus was just to keep moving without aggrevating my ankle too much. I knew I could work out on it if i took it easy so I did, all was good.
Thank you to my sis Moe for this footage. I left the sound on because her encouragement helped me push through the excuses without overdoing it. Yes, i have a sore ankle BUT I just have to take it slower with the regressed movements, or do an easier movement working the same areas. What an incredible difference it makes to surround yourself with positive people ♥️

I'm going to keep repeating this over and over because some days I need to remind myself as well 😅 This journey will be uncomfortable, messy and unattractive but I'm here to grow, the glow up can come later lol Lets get out of the triple numbers on the scale first lol

We're on tomorrow if you're keen to join a Johnsons Fitness class. 🙋🏽‍♀️ PM me if you're a bit hesitant to start, lets smash it out together!

This morning was uncomfortable. That's how I know I'm on the right track 🙌

It also helped that we were extra savage with each others reps this morning aye Patana lol 😅 But those wall crawls though. Aiyyaaaaa! Love your work MABLE Form V

League at 5.15pm, quality time with Melelani and everything else after. Do what keeps you sane is my current life motto.

Keep going, you never know who you are inspiring!

This is especially true for every single person in the AKA'UKA TIME family. My little Lani Love has grown her confidence tenfold thanks to each one of these queens. While I took a break to film for aunty Kura (don't worry, my legs were assassinated at 12pm Johnsons 😅) Melelani grabbed my phone to do her own filming. If you listen closely, she is talking to everyone as she goes past, having giggles and in another video she was even putting herself into frame to pose with her many aunties. All of this after she was on stage dancing with our Maidens. She knows, this is a safe space.

When we first started Aka'uka, she would be up on my shoulders for most, if not all of the class because she was overwhelmed. Slowly but surely, she spent less and less time on my shoulders. She watched each of these ladies, some she went to dance with and now, she still jumps on my shoulders but only when she wants to dance without actually dancing aka water break lol 🤣 She does the hand actions and I do the swing work. Seems fair 😅 She runs up on stage without being asked, she'll walk around and talk to people, she isn't stuck to my hip (or shoulders) and she's just thriving in this safe space.

So whatever journey you are currently on, keep striving ♥️ You are inspiring someone to grow and I think that's pretty amazing. YOU are pretty amazing.

This journey is not a pretty one, and it's actually a wee bit painful 😅 but this is where the growth happens. Outside of my comfort zone, all walls down and giving my all.

Johnsons Fitness 12pm class reminding me why I haven't lifted a bar in so long. Where can I order a new lower back 🤣 lol Puweeee slow and steady. That's where I'm at, and that's ok.