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Darby Brandon and Adrienne Lewis
The Race-Running Duo
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What makes a duo dynamic is the ability to tackle challenges together. Meet Darby Brandon and Adrienne Lewis; two Brooklynites intent on training and completing in a 10K in Prospect Park—a gorgeous Brooklyn green space with quite a few hills. Darby, who is originally from Arkansas, and Adrienne, who is originally from Pennsylvania, both admit it will take a lifestyle shift to get into training mode.
"I think it's going to be about saying no to the things I want," Darby says. "I am known for getting fried chicken and french fries." Adrienne also admits it's easy to get home from work, "get comfortable and watch The Bachelorette." Um, been there.
And there's another factor that might be problematic: Adrienne's knee. "I used to run a 10K while I was teaching [with Teach for America], but I'm nervous because my knee might hold me back," Adrienne says. We'll be watching closely with her, as she cross trains with yoga, swimming, and even boxing, to ensure that she's still race-ready. As for Darby, a former avid tennis player, she's excited to get back into working out. "I'm entering my adult life, and it's time to set habits for the rest of my life," Darby says. We couldn't agree more.
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Jasmine Martin
The Mind-Body Optimist
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What's the hardest part of staying healthy? Doing so while you're on vacation. But that's exactly what Jasmine, a recent college graduate living in Raleigh, North Carolina, will attempt to do. She'll first complete the Whole30 Program (more on the diet here, if you're curious), and then, try her hardest to stick to her newly formed healthy habits while on a Caribbean cruise.
"I'm most excited to learn and experience the highs and lows of making a major lifestyle change alongside a community that also values wellness and self-love," Jasmine says.
Aside from that goal, she will also be striving hard to practice a little more self-love every day by writing down the positives in her life. And that sounds like a goal we can all get behind.
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The GreatistYou Mentor: Jessi Kneeland
GreatistYou Mentor
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Jessi Kneeland is psyched to be a part of the first season of GreatistYou! As a trainer with a true knack for motivating clients of all ages and skill levels, she brings some serious positive energy to the table. Jessi is a New York City-based certified personal trainer, strength coach, fitness writer, and founder of Remodel Fitness with more than six years of one-on-one training experience. She's a secret superhero on a mission to save the world from negative body image.
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Regina Postrekhina
The Focused Fighter
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Muay Thai’s the name of the game—but you shouldn't confuse it with the delicious Mai Thai. Greatist contestant Regina will be doing anything but sipping cocktails these next six weeks. Originally from Russia and spending most of her life in Orlando, Regina is dead-set on become a Muay Thai Master. By following a strict training routine at her go-to gym in Brooklyn, Regina's training to be a badass Muay Thai fighter and show us all what she's made of.
Her biggest struggles thus far pertain to endurance—looking at you, row machine—so she's going to have to push herself harder than she’s ever pushed before with a brutal training schedule. The only thing she's worried about in this whole competition?
"Giving up ice cream," Regina says. Still, she's more than excited to overcome the "epic obstacles" like training hours, and "see if in doing this [she] can help motivate some followers."
At the end of the six weeks, Regina will subject herself to a round of drills and skills administered by her Muay Thai coach, so we can measure just how far she's come. Here’s to hoping you don’t run into her in a dark alley.
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Olympians Think Differently About Goals, and That’s Why They’re So Successful
Even if we became besties with Usain Bolt and he taught us everything he knows about running, we probably wouldn't become world-class sprinters. But Olympians can teach us how to reach our goals. As this story from The Science of Us explains, the athletes competing in Rio are good at focusing on the process, not the end goal. Instead of fixating on winning the 100-meter dash, for example, it's better to concentrate on how much quicker you are and the ways you can continue to shave down time.
Here's what happens when you focus too much on the finish line:
- You become less motivated. Researchers at the Harvard Business School found people who fixated on the end result forgot why they wanted to reach their goal in the first place. That made them less motivated and more likely to make irrational or unethical decisions.
- You don't feel accomplished. Even if you succeed, the satisfaction fades quickly when you aren't emotionally invested in the whole process. It's what Gretchen Rubin calls "the danger of the finish line."
Basically, these researchers are telling us stop and smell the roses enjoy the process.
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