Adult Autism Boundaries | Sensory-Friendly Self-Care with Tina Hicks

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[00:03:33] Please welcome your host Jimmy Clare who is a motivational speaker, autism advocate, author and founder of CrazyFitnessBy.com. Welcome to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guys Healthy Living Podcast. I'm here today with my friend Tina Hicks. I'm going to let her

[00:03:54] introduce herself and let's just dive right in. Thank you, Jimmy. I am so excited to be here and you guys, I know if you're listening to this show that you are an incredible person just like

[00:04:08] Jimmy is and you just want the best for everybody in this world. And I am, so as Jimmy mentioned, I'm Tina Hicks. I'm also known as Jolt of Energy. So that's what we're going to focus on.

[00:04:25] And just like Jimmy, I am also a huge health and wellness advocate. And so I believe that it can create so much happiness in your life and just creating that well-balanced living between,

[00:04:42] you know, we obviously got to do work but we also got to play and we just need to balance out that work life and just daily routines, right? And so that's what I do for a living. I'm a coach.

[00:05:00] I help people find their happy again. That's wonderful. I know for myself the for the balancing life is important because I admit that the last two weeks I was anything but balanced. Let's just say I would just go way over my head and I was like,

[00:05:26] okay. And it's like I had my spring break in college and that was balanced. But then when I got back I literally just had, I didn't go anywhere for my spring break because of the whole pandemic. But

[00:05:42] all I was just, but it just was like I had many other, I had like new projects that just popped up on my to-do list and say, love it. Take a week. Listen to other things. I'm so glad.

[00:05:59] Well, Jimmy, I think you're shaking this head now. But I think, I really think Jimmy's a lot like me and we like to stay busy. But we're really good at saying yes and putting a lot on our plate

[00:06:15] and then going, oh, okay. This was what I plan to do. So hopefully we can help people today do a little activity that if they're like us Jimmy and they just pile way too much on their plate

[00:06:31] that this can give them a little bit of that release and taking that time you guys, you have to take time out for yourself. Wouldn't you agree Jimmy? You have to. And like one of the things that I've done just as of yesterday,

[00:06:52] so I have a tool on my computer that is called Cold Turkey Blocker. But I also just found a new tool that I'm going to use in conjunction with it. It's called Freedom and it's not new, it's new to me.

[00:07:08] And this is not an advertisement at all. They're not paying me Jack Squats for this. Darn it. Yeah, I know. Come on, Freedom, send me some money. No, thanks. Anyway, but I know I get distracted at night and like before I go to bed and I start

[00:07:31] looking at my stupid emails. I work at social media and like I know for myself, even though I have time limits set up on social media, if I don't use all that time, I'm still able to go onto

[00:07:45] that website until that time. And then so I'm like, this is really bad. And so I had it to, I bought the premium version last night of this tool called Freedom because this will kick me off,

[00:08:03] it will kick me off right at six o'clock and he's like, no more, can't do anymore. That's awesome. I love it. So Freedom is new to you, but Jimmy, I haven't heard of it so apparently

[00:08:16] I need to do that too. I'm just so like, during my spring break, I kid you not, I'm literally like, okay, you know, I was having fun playing video games and watching Netflix. But once it was

[00:08:32] come down to like last four days or three days, I was like, I'm antsy. I want to go do something. I forced myself to continue my break but when I got back and it's like, oh yeah, this is really fun.

[00:08:48] Come back and I get six million other things left on my to-do list. Now I'm in left on my to-do list. Hey, here's three things that goes, that went wrong while you were on your break. Oh,

[00:09:00] I didn't even have people, I don't even have people to work with me and my website is like, here's what went wrong for you on your website this week. Welcome back. Oh man. Oh no.

[00:09:13] Well, I love your optimistic. I know you're being sarcastic but I'll say you're being optimistic about this to-do list. So Jimmy, how about we go into an activity that people can do

[00:09:28] to take time out for themselves? Definitely. A little bit of a happy high. Okay, so you guys, this is something that typically takes me about 30 minutes to do. Now you're going to use your own

[00:09:45] playlist and we are not going to do the whole activity together with the music but I want you to be able to write these things down so you can remember what you need to do. So I created something

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[00:11:42] you just need you and your music, your favorite playlist. Now I will say when you do your playlist you definitely want something upbeat it has a nice fast beat and you don't want one that's too long

[00:12:00] I promise because when you do these some of these exercises you're going to tell yourself is the song over yet so I don't want anybody to worry about having to count how many reps. I want this to

[00:12:13] just be super simple and fun to your favorite tune. Now here we go ready Jimmy? Yep let's do this okay so think head shoulders knees and toes remember that song from when we were young

[00:12:31] so just remember you're going to go work out parts of your body from your head all the way to your toes and that just kind of helps me remember too what comes next. So before you do

[00:12:45] your first song let's just go into these movements again right down and then for each movement you will play one song so if your song is three minutes you'll do that movement for three minutes okay

[00:13:01] so like I said it equals out to be about 30 minutes so we start with our head and what you're going to do is just do your ear to your shoulder going back and forth kind of that maybe maybe and you just

[00:13:16] stretch out that neck and you can try it with me Jimmy. We're in a video you guys are on audio but see it's fun he's like jeana I feel crazy I'm only slightly crazy though only slightly

[00:13:33] so that's what you're going to do to work out those neck muscles get out some of that strain okay now you'll do that for a whole song so if your beat is fast and you feel like it's too fast

[00:13:48] and you're getting whiplash then take it down you know and go on that second beat okay so you go at your own pace now for your second song you're going to go to your shoulders and what

[00:14:00] you're going to do is lift your shoulders all the way to your ears and then you're going to push down your shoulders away so let's try a few of those together ready Jimmy here we go

[00:14:12] up to our ears down press it down and feel those muscles be very intentional about how you're moving those shoulders so up and just focus on that shoulder muscle and down okay

[00:14:27] so we did it pretty slow but again if you have a fast tooth oh you're going to start feeling it once that beat goes okay so now we go to our elbow and this one you're going to put your

[00:14:39] hands like a fray like your palms together like you're praying right okay so we're going to do that now you're going to stick your elbows together so your hands are touching like you're clapping your

[00:14:52] hands and your elbows are touching and then you're going to push out your elbows while your hands remain stuck together and then press your elbows together okay so it's out elbows out

[00:15:07] elbow stretch and remember the hands stay together and let's do a few of those so out together out together now Jimmy and I both work out Jimmy do you feel this yeah not good all right so that was

[00:15:23] the third one now we're going to go down to our hands and this one is one that you'll see a lot of people doing with the stress ball right so I want you to imagine that you have stress balls in your

[00:15:37] hands and you're just going to squeeze till you have a nice tight fist and release and you're going to do that to your next song to the beat ready Jimmy let's try it out you ready yep no grip grip

[00:15:52] grip grip grip okay now we're going to go to um our chest so if you have something in front of you like I have a desk in front of me you'll place your hands on the desk and you'll push your chest

[00:16:10] forward and push back almost just like you're doing a push up right now let's say you're in a chair and you don't have any objects in front of you I just want you to cross your arms over your

[00:16:23] chest almost like you're giving yourself a hug and then go forward and back forward and back and remember focus on the chest we're not doing a crunch we're going to get to the stomach so just

[00:16:36] focus on that chest front and back with a nice tall spine okay now we're going to go to our ab and we're just simply doing a breathing technique so we're going to go in breathe in through your

[00:16:52] mouth and out through your mouth but when you're breathing I want you to pull in your stomach so almost like your belly button goes to your back so here we go breathe in and then I want

[00:17:05] you to push out all the air so that your stomach expands like a big balloon and then pull it in and out and go to that B and you are going to start filling those muscles working right

[00:17:19] away now we're going to go to our cedar our gluteus maximus very cow so you're going to squeeze your glute and release and if you have a fast two you're going to feel that you are going to get

[00:17:36] buns still that is your next song you just squeeze and release squeeze and release okay now your upper thighs okay we're actually going to work the interior and the exterior of that thigh muscle

[00:17:53] okay so if you're in like maybe a recliner just um just use the motion that you can use the goal is just like when we did the prayer hands and we did elbows in and out same thing with our legs

[00:18:11] except our knees go out and they squeeze together so when you push out you're going to resist you're going to be working that outer thigh and then when you come in you're going to squeeze and work

[00:18:24] that inner thigh okay so here we go let's try if you ready out and in out and in out and in okay that's all you do now we're going to work our feet and this is the last two moves this one you may

[00:18:44] be a bit of cramping if you're doing the fast beat so again listen to your body if you need to stop stop and slow it down if you can do it fast go fast but this is going to work that calf muscle

[00:18:59] on this first one so here we go so your toes are also um pretty much like your feet are flexed right and then you're going to point your toes down so you're going to push down your heel point your

[00:19:14] toes up now if your feet if you're in a chair and your feet can touch the ground all you're doing is lifting your heels off the ground and pushing them back into the ground so you lift heels

[00:19:25] go down heels go down now if you're in that chair though that's when you need to visualize and make those heels pop up and then flex out those toes heels pop heels pop does that make sense i know

[00:19:42] it's kind of hard when you can't see me i could put my feet up and jimmy could see my feet now the last one is um your heels are going to be planted so even if you're on a recliner or

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[00:24:23] they point forward pull back forward back forward do a few of those do you feel that yeah and feel good point as hard as you can like this hard and you got your favorite tunes going

[00:24:37] you can see how you're gonna start filling that bird and after that you did your workout for today and i want everybody to be proud of themselves i get a lot of people jimmy that work with me

[00:24:51] that say i can't do this or that maybe you can't do every single one of those activities but do at least one make the most of your tv watching i just like when i used to teach dance

[00:25:05] i would tell my dancers practice your splits while you watch tv make something more of that tv moment because i know we all get that in well i didn't know someone once that didn't have a tv

[00:25:19] but that is rare jimmy's face so that is how's that possible i know i'm dying but i have a tv so you never know but i'm pretty sure most people get in their tv time so make it a goal

[00:25:41] to do something active while you do that tv it will make your body feel energized and jimmy how does your body feel just from that little bit we did energized energized boom

[00:25:56] well thank you jimmy i have a lot of speed on your show do you have any other questions before we head out yeah i was wondering how did you come up with all that okay so i um i have a little secret

[00:26:14] and i don't recommend this because um it's probably not safe so you didn't hear it here but i used to drive a lot and i just um i needed to move i get antsy uh four hour drives that i was on

[00:26:34] and so i just i needed to stay awake i needed to stay alert and it just kind of came to me that i could do certain movements while just being there now um you didn't hear that from me because

[00:26:46] i don't want anybody going out there and doing this and um and i don't want to get pulled over you know jimmy my husband works for highway patrols so so i'm pretty sure he does not

[00:26:59] approve of my tina exercise in the car did you uh did you did anybody ever like look at you in the car like who's this lady doing this i know they probably do that anyway because anytime

[00:27:12] i drive i'm staying in do you ever see those people while you're driving in their head just going everywhere and they're just like a rock star that's me i don't even care what people think

[00:27:23] i'm just like i'm in my groove so yeah that's that's just how i came up with it so obviously i had to modify those moves because you can't do um exactly that way you know so like where your hands

[00:27:43] come together my hands will be on the steering wheel and i want to do the same range of motion it's just smaller ranges of motion but i feel like i'm getting you know something out of it so

[00:27:57] that's bragging saying the car i know and if you're in the passenger seat totally do it totally do it yeah just don't distract the driver yeah yeah and don't watch the driver with your

[00:28:09] elbows sit that sit in the back yeah sit back nice distance six foot distance that's right hi for the peanut moves yeah or 12 foot distance maybe there you go all the way in the trunk please

[00:28:31] yes well thank you jimmy it's been a blast i'm left being on your show and um hopefully we could do this again sometime definitely yeah we'll have a wonderful day and if anybody wants to

[00:28:47] do me do some more crazy dance moves they can follow me on joltev energy that's where i am on facebook on instagram my website all of it is joltev energy my podcast everything at least that's consistent because i've seen people on social media where they have a

[00:29:07] they have some branded stuff but then it's like they put the brand name uh and uh on their instagram but then for the username it has no idea whatsoever it's like uh that's two of them are not related to

[00:29:23] two of these are not like the other one of these is not like the other is that how it goes yeah exactly it's like uh i like it and it's like oh it might be uh i don't know john smith and then it'd be like

[00:29:37] john smith five two six seven eight or something like okay the other one was taken that's what it is jimmy yeah well then come up with another username besides with numbers and it doesn't work

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