Robin Arzon doesn’t exactly have a ton of free time on her hands.
“I have a new roommate who’s six months old.”
Much has obviously changed for Peloton’s vice president of fitness programming and head instructor in recent months.
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In March, Arzon and husband Drew Butler announced the birth of their first child, daughter Athena.
“I thought, ‘am I treating my body like it’s another human’s first home?’
It’s always a perfect storm of physical output and pregnancy is deeply physical.”
“I was training before pregnancy, too.
“I PReddeadlifts.”
“Listen, the body image stuff is real,” she says.
Shifting the focus to her internal experience and away from external expectations was instrumental in her journey.
“And when I was recovering postpartum, I just focused on consistency over intensity.
I still haven’t weighed myself.
Because that focus is the wrong focus.
I needed tofocus on rebuilding my coreandmy pelvic floorand not what the pounds said.”
“I really tuned into that during pregnancy and postpartum, and I’ve honestly never felt better.”
We should be paying attention to how our bodies are reacting to food,” continues Arzon.
“Mental wellness and mental fitness have always been a part of my physical fitness,” she says.
“I believe we’re now starting to understand that boundaries are sexy!
I wake up, feed Athena, play with her the morning playtime with her is so beautiful.
She gets it!”
I don’t want folks to compare themselves to me…. “The Athletic Greens pairs really well with any kind of vanilla protein,” she adds.
“I don’t want folks to compare themselves to me.
Everybody’s different, every journey’s different, every pregnancy, every birth is different.
“I was like, ‘has everyone been in training camp since they were two?
Because I don’t know how to do any of this shit.'”
Arzon shifted away from the playground and gravitated toward art, theater, and academics.
“The love of movement came about out of necessity,” she says.
How the run went was on me.
I chose not to identify with any kind of external gaze and just go inward instead.
I chose to focus on the conversation I was having within.”
“I wrote the book on my babymoon!”
