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Speaker 2: You well listen, Lot says it short work out this
Speaker 2: bad job, don't.
Speaker 3: Work out.
Speaker 4: Kim six forty Later with Mo Kelly. We're live everywhere
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Speaker 4: the nice exercise Lady, Claudie Cooper, who's been away for
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks. Is good to see you, Claudide
Speaker 4: and she joined us in the studio.
Speaker 3: It's great to be back. I'm sorry I brought my
Speaker 3: raspy voice with me, but I have. I've taught twenty
Speaker 3: one classes two weeks, so I've been yelling at people.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you can call me the
Speaker 3: nice exercise lady anymore.
Speaker 2: Because they're mad at me right now.
Speaker 4: When you're yelling at someone, do sometimes they take offense
Speaker 4: at that or do they understand I've.
Speaker 2: Had people walk out of my class flat out.
Speaker 4: Ooh yeah, when you're yelling at them? Are you yelling pointily?
Speaker 5: It's like, all right, Christine, I need.
Speaker 2: To know look it up.
Speaker 3: Absolutely not I would ever, but I do a blanket.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to help you guys, get the results that
Speaker 3: you say you want.
Speaker 2: So if I have to light a fire, I have
Speaker 2: to light a fire.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 4: I sent you a story today because I don't think
Speaker 4: about this, but you probably have. There's a Colorado fitness
Speaker 4: program for seniors which is incorporating a variety of exercises
Speaker 4: to not only improve wellness, but it's conscious of avoiding
Speaker 4: or limiting injury. I haven't thought about that, But how
Speaker 4: often do you have to think about that? As far
Speaker 4: as you doing those twenty one classes? Variety of ages,
Speaker 4: variety of health conditions, variety of limitations.
Speaker 2: I always say, it's all shapes, all sizes.
Speaker 3: How do I incorporate my knowledge about injuries and age
Speaker 3: and all these different things. Usually what I do is
Speaker 3: just to keep myself safe. I say, if you feel
Speaker 3: like something could potentially injure you, please don't do it.
Speaker 3: Even if I'm saying to do it, ignore me for
Speaker 3: your safety.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's where I usually get in trouble because male ego
Speaker 4: will take over and I'm determined and I'm self aware
Speaker 4: in this regard. I'm determined to keep up, probably to
Speaker 4: my detriment at times. Yeah, And I can see a
Speaker 4: situation where people are like Okay, you know, I'm doing
Speaker 4: this because it's going to be good for my health,
Speaker 4: and maybe they should not be doing it at that
Speaker 4: pace or that level of rigorousness.
Speaker 2: I mean, they'll be all right. You were all right
Speaker 2: after my workout, weren't.
Speaker 3: You, mom? Yeah?
Speaker 5: It was. But I'm not sedentary either, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: So here's my point. A lot of times, what you
Speaker 3: have in these situations. I'll just tell the listeners about
Speaker 3: the article a little bit more. There's two guys, each
Speaker 3: of them passionate about fitness, one of them passionate about
Speaker 3: rehabilitation and recovery. And then the other one his mother
Speaker 3: had dementia and a stroke, so he got first hand
Speaker 3: knowledge of what it's like to watch someone age, and
Speaker 3: he is passionate about health. So these two guys come
Speaker 3: together and what they do is they go into retirement
Speaker 3: communities and they give them like a prescription of what
Speaker 3: they should be offering for the seniors. Now, my grandmother
Speaker 3: lives in a retirement community, and she too has group
Speaker 3: fitness class.
Speaker 5: Let me stuff ot there. Yes, you still have grandparents.
Speaker 2: I have one.
Speaker 5: That is a blessing.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, I know, I know ninety this year.
Speaker 4: Oh, my god, I've had a grandparents since two thousand
Speaker 4: and three.
Speaker 3: Wow, well, you know, I'm a little younger than you,
Speaker 3: but I.
Speaker 2: Meanly, but yes, I do so.
Speaker 3: And she's active and that's and she lives in a
Speaker 3: retirement community. There's two things at play. When you live
Speaker 3: in a retirement community, you're more likely to socialize with your.
Speaker 2: Fellow community members right now.
Speaker 3: The second thing is, these two guys put the group
Speaker 3: fitness programming into the retirement community. What's better than getting
Speaker 3: up and going dancing, stretching, strengthening taiji. I mean, they've
Speaker 3: got all this stuff with the people you already connect
Speaker 3: with when you're you know, walking around the.
Speaker 2: Little neighborhood there.
Speaker 5: Kind of like college.
Speaker 3: Actually, it feels a lot like my gym because I
Speaker 3: set the programming in such a way that I felt
Speaker 3: like it would be connective people, and that's what group
Speaker 3: fitness is supposed to be.
Speaker 4: I wonder have you started having that internal conversation with yourself.
Speaker 4: You have said something to the effect of, I don't
Speaker 4: go hard all the time like I used to when
Speaker 4: I was younger as far as your teaching, But do
Speaker 4: you apply that to yourself in any way?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I definitely give myself a lot more grace now than
Speaker 3: I used to. I'm not.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not playing.
Speaker 3: And when I say to my members, hey, guys, make
Speaker 3: sure you're listening to your body, it's because I'm listening
Speaker 3: to my body. But like today, for example, I taught
Speaker 3: a class. My voice is gone, so I had to
Speaker 3: do a lot of physical cues. Somebody said, well, we
Speaker 3: can tell by how you were moving. You don't feel
Speaker 3: too bad, do you, because I still have the physical
Speaker 3: ability to exercise.
Speaker 2: My voice is gone from yelling. But other than that, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm always conscious of the status of my voice because
Speaker 4: I needed every single day, and I'm always aware of
Speaker 4: how much I'm using it outside of here, how loud
Speaker 4: I may be using it outside of here. My dietary
Speaker 4: intake because I almost eat, no drink, no dairy now
Speaker 4: because it will cope my throat and it's much easier
Speaker 4: for me to have issues with my voice. I say
Speaker 4: all that to say, what are the things that you're
Speaker 4: conscious of to make sure that you are at your
Speaker 4: best when you're doing what you do?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: That is I don't know what do I do?
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't just work out aimlessly. I do
Speaker 3: not work out aimlessly. I do take my time with
Speaker 3: the exercises. These days, I'm a little slower. I don't
Speaker 3: jump as much as I used to. I used to
Speaker 3: do a lot of high intensity training. I don't do
Speaker 3: a lot of that anymore. I'm trying to protect my knees.
Speaker 4: Yes, I get that. I know, knock on wood. I
Speaker 4: haven't had any problem with my knees. I'm always conscious
Speaker 4: of my hips. I feel it in my hips. I
Speaker 4: feel the almost forty years of kicking hips and so
Speaker 4: and I wish you could see this.
Speaker 5: I stretch every day.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I stretch multiple times at different points to day.
Speaker 4: Like I've been sitting in this chair for almost an hour.
Speaker 4: I'll probably walk around and do some light stretching before
Speaker 4: this show's over. There are times that you've seen it
Speaker 4: when come in the studio. I'm doing the show standing up.
Speaker 4: Why to give myself some just some vertical stretching.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, and going from standing or sitting to standing
Speaker 3: is one of the ways that we can continue to.
Speaker 2: Mobilize our body.
Speaker 3: Right, it's not a big deal, and it's not a
Speaker 3: huge change to a person's lifestyle. But with the phones
Speaker 3: and the TVs and the laptops and the iPads.
Speaker 2: We're on our but way more than we should be.
Speaker 5: Okay, And I ask you a question of personal question
Speaker 5: before we go to break.
Speaker 4: When you don't have a voice like this, does your
Speaker 4: husband take advantage and sort of just take liberties where Oh.
Speaker 5: But he can't hear your saying huh, I can't hear you.
Speaker 5: Did you say something?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you this. He's probably glad. I can't talk
Speaker 3: too much. I'm trying to protect my voice.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, all right, It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 4: The nice exercise lady Claudine Cooper, who I guess wasn't
Speaker 4: as nice as he usually is as she's struggling with
Speaker 4: her voice, joins us in studio.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 5: It's Later with mo Kelly.
Speaker 4: I'm joined in studio by the nice exercise lady Claudie Cooper,
Speaker 4: who joins us, who is struggling with her voice.
Speaker 5: So I don't want that to surprise you. If you're
Speaker 5: just tuning in right now.
Speaker 3: It's just a little raspy tonight, they'll be okay, okay, all.
Speaker 4: Right, but I always want to make sure we make
Speaker 4: time for you to tell people about what you do
Speaker 4: each and every Saturday, especially since we're well into spring
Speaker 4: now moving towards summer.
Speaker 5: There is an outdoor.
Speaker 4: Option for people, a free options, a free option for
Speaker 4: people to go ahead and get the workout on.
Speaker 3: And it's all levels, just like I said earlier, so
Speaker 3: all levels are welcome, all ages. There's a lot a
Speaker 3: lot of families that come out. It's a free outdoor
Speaker 3: workout and it's in Inglewood at the Hollywood Park retail
Speaker 3: district at nine am every Saturday, and it's totally free.
Speaker 3: Also there's a farmer's market, so you can go get
Speaker 3: your workout, leave the workout, go get a fresh press, juice, kale, whatever.
Speaker 4: It is a great experience and I don't know how
Speaker 4: you manage it because some people may show up a
Speaker 4: little later.
Speaker 5: You don't know who is going to show up.
Speaker 4: You don't know, like you may have in your mind,
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this, I may do that, but
Speaker 4: depending on the client, tell who shows up.
Speaker 5: Going back to our conversation last segment, I.
Speaker 4: Was there where you see someone who's on the other
Speaker 4: side of sixty five.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely and beyond.
Speaker 3: But I believe everybody has the ability to rise to
Speaker 3: the occasion mo and even if they can't keep all
Speaker 3: the way up, sometimes just being in community with people
Speaker 3: is the uplifting medicine. I think this article that you
Speaker 3: sent me earlier about the retirement community having group fitness
Speaker 3: is a very good demonstration of how community can make
Speaker 3: the aging process a lot more tolerable. You have people
Speaker 3: who are connecting in a social way as well as
Speaker 3: in a healthy way.
Speaker 2: Of doing movement, and they're living longer.
Speaker 4: And not only that. I can only speak for what
Speaker 4: I've seen with your group, yeap. People are encouraging each other.
Speaker 4: They are not competing. There's a difference, and I've been
Speaker 4: in places where people are obviously showing off and competing,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, as opposed to encourage you one another.
Speaker 2: You know, it was funny, Moh.
Speaker 3: I think two weeks ago we got kicked out of
Speaker 3: our space where we normally do the workout, and you know,
Speaker 3: it was no big deal. It was just they were
Speaker 3: having something for the soccer semi finals or something on
Speaker 3: that area. So I didn't really know where we would go,
Speaker 3: but I knew that if I gathered everyone together that,
Speaker 3: like you said, they would encourage each other and we
Speaker 3: would just figure it out. Well, we didn't have any
Speaker 3: music or anything. We're just kind of like just standing there.
Speaker 2: What are we going to do? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: And I got to tell you, the way things always
Speaker 3: seem to work out for these free workouts cannot be
Speaker 3: described as anything but divine. So I have no music,
Speaker 3: I've got about fifty people waiting for a workout, and
Speaker 3: I'm like where we're gonna go. They're all looking at me,
Speaker 3: like where we go and where we are? I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: so let me figure this out. I walk a little ways.
Speaker 3: I tell them let's go for a walk. And that's
Speaker 3: something I want to impress upon people. It doesn't have
Speaker 3: to be overly complicated. It doesn't have to be a
Speaker 3: gym membership or you know, group fitness classes. It can
Speaker 3: just be walking outside. And if you have a place
Speaker 3: that's not that safe and you want to find somewhere
Speaker 3: where you can walk. A lot of parks have trails,
Speaker 3: well lit trails. I'm not sure where everybody is, but
Speaker 3: my Inner City park has a nice track. And so
Speaker 3: I say that to say going for a walk is
Speaker 3: enough so we start walking together and we stumbled upon
Speaker 3: an outdoor restaurant that was basically playing the exact playlist
Speaker 3: that I would play if I was touching a workout.
Speaker 3: So I look around. Everybody's looking at me, No one's
Speaker 3: at the restaurant. The restaurant's completely empty. I'm like, this
Speaker 3: is the spot. We just start moving our bodies. The
Speaker 3: music's going. The owner of the restaurant comes out, sees
Speaker 3: us in the area of the patio and all this
Speaker 3: stuff doing our workout. He's like, let me turn that
Speaker 3: music up for you guys, and we had such a
Speaker 3: wonderful workout. But I just say that to say it
Speaker 3: always works out.
Speaker 4: You mentioned walking, and not too long ago you led
Speaker 4: the group which included me, on a walk around that
Speaker 4: retail district. What how has it changed, or I put
Speaker 4: it in your words, how much it has changed that
Speaker 4: area in the past year or so.
Speaker 3: You know, I would like to say it's changed a lot,
Speaker 3: but the big changes that obviously iconics. The gym that
Speaker 3: I work for is there in in a lot of
Speaker 3: foot traffic, and because of that, other businesses have opened
Speaker 3: up since then, but it's still not occupied to the
Speaker 3: place where we could just you know, hang out there
Speaker 3: all day. There's a couple little spots, but we need
Speaker 3: more businesses in Inglewood. We need grocery stores, we need
Speaker 3: salad spots, we need healthy fare. If anybody who's listening,
Speaker 3: we have spaces in the Hollywood Park Retail District and
Speaker 3: we have tons of foot traffic from the gym and
Speaker 3: we need it's so nice, Yes we do. So that's
Speaker 3: me making my plea because I love the new restaurant
Speaker 3: that's in there that allowed us to work out. It's
Speaker 3: called the Meeting Spot. I love it, but we need
Speaker 3: about three of those four of those.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be at the Meeting Spot a lot
Speaker 5: of the summer.
Speaker 4: It's an outdoor restaurant, yes, and it's not far from
Speaker 4: the movies, which I usually go to get food, so
Speaker 4: I know exactly where you're talking about.
Speaker 5: That's going to be my hangout.
Speaker 4: But for people who've never been there who expect possibly
Speaker 4: to join you this Saturday again, please give them the information.
Speaker 3: Basically, you would just go to the area around so
Speaker 3: far and you'll go to a complex called the Hollywood
Speaker 3: Park Retail District. We're right in the middle on the
Speaker 3: basketball court. Parking validated Farmers Market. You'll see the movie theater.
Speaker 2: It's all right there.
Speaker 4: The best place to park it, and I when I
Speaker 4: go there is I. Just if you're going down Century,
Speaker 4: go north on Prairie. You'll make an immediate rite, which
Speaker 4: is ninety seventh Street into that parking structure.
Speaker 5: Easy way, easy to find it from there.
Speaker 4: Yes, just you can just follow the screaming of people
Speaker 4: you know, passing out from.
Speaker 2: No you're singing. You'll follow the joyful noise, clauding Cooper.
Speaker 5: Always great to see you.
Speaker 2: Always great to be here, and I plan to be
Speaker 2: back next week.
Speaker 5: Now let your voice rest the rested evening. Can you
Speaker 5: do that?
Speaker 2: I will.
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