Now, roughly four years in, the star-power lawyer’s block walk is a full-fledged run. Running is her quiet time and her ‘ME’ time. The endurance she’s built up with years of running is what helps her meet the demands of her lifestyle and keep stress at bay.
“There’s something about being out on the road and developing the patience that it takes to stack mile on top of mile that’s teaching me a lot about patience in other situations.”
With so many things pulling at her time and attention, Martin has found the trick to fitting exercise into her schedule is to not fit it in at all. Her work day starts officially with her run. Martins says she tells women all the time, “If you think about fitting exercise into your life you probably are gonna hit it and be successful maybe 20/30 percent of the time, but 60 to 70 percent of the time you’re not going to be successful and that’s what I did for years.”
The game-changing shift, she says, happened when she stopped thinking about fitting exercise into her life and made it a part of her life.
If you follow her on Instagram or any of her popular social media pages, you’ll see she really is about that fit life. What started as way to track her progress and share her journey has now become a source of inspiration for women all over the country, which is a reward in itself.
“One of the biggest blessings and sources of gratification for me is women who I know struggle with their weight or struggle with being active saying from those posts they’ve been motivated and inspired to either get into a gym or get out and start walking or even running.”