Exercise improves mood and happiness in a variety of ways, but how does crossfit bring joy and a unique connection to people? How do movements ease anxiety? As a person with so many insecurities, how would you invest in yourself to help you grow and find self-love? And what’s a good intention for you to change?

This week's ikala Podcast episode, Joewel Pascual will be joined by Olga Tokar. Olga has been involved in different kinds of activities for the majority of her life. It started with dancing, soccer, yoga, Olympic Weightlifting and fitness. Further, learning more about exercise and movement science, allowed her to better understand body mechanics as well as physiological and psychological benefits of movement. Being at school, she discovered CrossFit. At first, the workouts were very intense for her and she could not do many movements, but the spirit in the gym with strong athletes cheering the last one to finish was often what helped her to stick to it. She is still getting stronger and learning what her body is capable of physically. Exercise is also most beneficial for her for my mental health. Moving her body helps her to stay more present and cope with everyday stress. Recently she has started to focus more on nutrition as it is a big part of a healthy lifestyle.

They will touch on such topics as:

• Belly dancing is more expressive on the outside, while crossfit is more on the inside.
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• Movements develop self-awareness. Like in yoga, you start to connect with your emotional self.
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• Get into your body and see things as they are to practice your brain and how it sees things around you.
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• Investing in yourself is self-love, such as figuring out things, spending time with yourself, and acknowledging your emotions.
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• In order to help others, we need to help ourselves first.
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• Change comes from within. Working on yourself and developing self-love will help you get what you have envisioned in your new life.
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• Self-awareness will give you an opportunity to see where you are lacking. 
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