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Speaker 2: do a little bit of health and wellness with our
Speaker 2: regular commentator, the Claudine Cooper. Go to Claudinecooper dot com.
Speaker 2: She joins me right now in the studio. How you doing,
Speaker 2: miss Cooper?
Speaker 3: Hello everyone? How are you mo? It's good to be
Speaker 3: back in studio with you.
Speaker 4: It's always good to have you.
Speaker 2: And we were texting each other and I was saying,
Speaker 2: I was asking, did you have people in your workouts
Speaker 2: in your gym that were either tangentially affected or directly
Speaker 2: affected by the fires, and how is that played out
Speaker 2: in their workout life and their health and wellness life.
Speaker 3: The answer is yes.
Speaker 5: Obviously most of us who live in Los Angeles County
Speaker 5: have experienced someone close to us.
Speaker 3: Who has either been would you call it.
Speaker 4: Ten ten tangentially? I like it directly?
Speaker 3: You're you're so smart, mom. I just got to catch up.
Speaker 5: Look, if I didn't like you, I would go ahead.
Speaker 5: So here's what happened that week. You know, they we
Speaker 5: knew that the weather was kind of crazy and there
Speaker 5: was a possibility that there were going to be fires.
Speaker 3: I still went to work.
Speaker 5: And what was surprising to me when I went to
Speaker 5: go teach my classes were how many people also came
Speaker 5: to class, and they came to class because they needed
Speaker 5: a reprieve from watching constant news. And I don't know
Speaker 5: if you saw what I posted on Facebook the other day,
Speaker 5: but I really do think that our mental health is
Speaker 5: impacted by the amount of news, the amount of information,
Speaker 5: the amount of content that we consume.
Speaker 4: I close on that one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It impacts me and my life, my health and wellness,
Speaker 2: my emotional agility, you know, all of that. All of
Speaker 2: that's real, and I can only imagine during those types
Speaker 2: of events how it may impact someone where it's not
Speaker 2: their job and they're inundated with it.
Speaker 5: So it's your job to work in the news, but
Speaker 5: it's my job to work in the gym, and a
Speaker 5: lot of people are coming to work out for not
Speaker 5: just their physical health, but also for their mental health.
Speaker 5: And at that time, there were a lot of people
Speaker 5: suffering in mental health ways because you had firefighters yep,
Speaker 5: right then, you had.
Speaker 3: Which didn't occur to me until I was in the gym.
Speaker 5: You had the spouses or the partners of firefighters, right,
Speaker 5: so they're already in a panic state because the people
Speaker 5: they love are out there fighting the fires. Then we
Speaker 5: also have like my co workers whose families were losing homes,
Speaker 5: so tangent.
Speaker 3: Gently, tangentially, I'm my work on that.
Speaker 5: So yes, But to say that, to say we have
Speaker 5: had even after that, the recovery efforts of just trying
Speaker 5: to keep enough wellness resources available to the people who
Speaker 5: are still recovering, this is an over mo.
Speaker 2: No, it's not over. And the long term implications we
Speaker 2: don't know. But I imagine it avails itself. It shows
Speaker 2: itself in different ways. I'm quite sure there's some people
Speaker 2: saying like, look, I don't have time to go to
Speaker 2: the gym. I'm trying to make sure my life is
Speaker 2: in order, still dealing with the direct impact of the fires.
Speaker 4: And there are those who are saying like.
Speaker 2: They might be in this malaise where they don't feel
Speaker 2: inspired to go work out because there's such a heavy
Speaker 2: burden upon them.
Speaker 5: I mean, people who work out consistently are really addicted
Speaker 5: to the way it makes them feel.
Speaker 3: That's the truth. Like, I think you work out consistently
Speaker 3: because of how it makes.
Speaker 4: You feel, right dorphins.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to do it when I'm
Speaker 2: getting some days, but then after I do it, I
Speaker 2: feel like, hash, let's go another.
Speaker 5: Hour, Let's go another hour. That's me every time I'm
Speaker 5: in the gym, I'm like, I could do another class.
Speaker 5: But but you do have to also, as you get older,
Speaker 5: be very careful about getting caught up in that adrenaline
Speaker 5: because you'll push yourself and then you'll end up injured.
Speaker 3: And I'm nursing an injury right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got an injury just because I woke up
Speaker 2: today and my ankle was sprayed and I noticed it
Speaker 2: when I first got out of bed and I was
Speaker 2: walking down the stairs.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you what happened. I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: I just know that my ankle was sprayed or felt
Speaker 2: like it was sprayed. And all I did was wake
Speaker 2: up and put my feet on the floor, yes and
Speaker 2: be fifty five.
Speaker 4: Well, you got to make it personal.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is the truth, is what did you
Speaker 3: hear that?
Speaker 4: Why don't you got to make it personal?
Speaker 5: What did I do to Claudie, The truth is, when
Speaker 5: you get to be a certain age, you can turn
Speaker 5: your head the wrong way and all of a sudden
Speaker 5: you've got a crook in your neck. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: so many different arge ways, and like you said, you
Speaker 5: don't always know. I think that my injury is because
Speaker 5: I was doing something a little bit too much at
Speaker 5: the gym. I got carried away and I was in
Speaker 5: our number three, I think, and that's when, like I said,
Speaker 5: I'm talking to myself, not anyone else. But you really
Speaker 5: do have to monitor your output in the gym. And
Speaker 5: so anyways, going back to the fires, I did see
Speaker 5: a lot of firefighters return back to the gym, because
Speaker 5: firefighters typically do like to use the gym for their
Speaker 5: own personal physical fitness. And as they came back, oh moh,
Speaker 5: my heart broke. One guy said.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 3: I asked him how he's doing. He said, I haven't.
Speaker 5: Slept in days, just reliving, just thinking about what happened.
Speaker 5: And as you know, sleep is a huge part of
Speaker 5: our healing and recovery in any aspect.
Speaker 2: You may have asked on that occasion, but do people
Speaker 2: just share do they offer up? Because I know the
Speaker 2: people who may run your classes, you turn into kind
Speaker 2: of a catch all for everyone's lives. They will share
Speaker 2: things about their lives. What else are they sharing with.
Speaker 3: You in that regard?
Speaker 5: As far as the fires go, people are still looking
Speaker 5: for places to live. There seems to be like a
Speaker 5: housing shortage for people who have been displaced. So that
Speaker 5: is what I've been hearing again. Yes, people do tell
Speaker 5: me a lot of things, things that aren't related to
Speaker 5: fire recovery. But people do tend to share a lot
Speaker 5: with their personal trainers and with their group fitness instructors.
Speaker 5: And that's natural because who do you spend one hour
Speaker 5: a day with every day or every other day. Is
Speaker 5: there anyone you can think of you spend that much
Speaker 5: time with.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I mean you know you listen to later Mo Kelly,
Speaker 2: you talking about the best three hours out there.
Speaker 3: So it might be a little biased, but you might
Speaker 3: be a little biased maybe your pastor maybe, but not
Speaker 3: every day on Sundays.
Speaker 5: Right, It's not too many people you're spending that much
Speaker 5: time with. I mean I think about you know, as
Speaker 5: far as my family goes, yeah, I spend time with them,
Speaker 5: but like outside of that, even my close friends do
Speaker 5: I see them for.
Speaker 3: One hour a day every other day.
Speaker 4: No, I don't.
Speaker 3: So there is a closeness that we have.
Speaker 2: If you're joining us right now, it's Wellness Wednesday. On
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Speaker 2: only at Claudinecooper dot com, but here in studio as
Speaker 2: she joins us, as she's been known to do. So
Speaker 2: if you have a question or thought, put it in
Speaker 2: the chat. We have the live YouTube stream that's the
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Speaker 2: As my continue my conversation with Claudine Cooper, go to
Speaker 2: Claudinecooper dot com right now and find out more.
Speaker 4: She joins me in the studio.
Speaker 2: Claudie, we were talking last segment about the impact of
Speaker 2: the fire see emotional sometimes physical impact on how people
Speaker 2: approach their future health and wellness. They're still dealing with
Speaker 2: it emotionally, they're still dealing with it physically and as
Speaker 2: we get now we're on the doorstep of summer, I
Speaker 2: would say, well, wellness, bring we're looking at summer. How
Speaker 2: does that impact what you do? All these things put
Speaker 2: together hmm.
Speaker 5: I will say that I feel very connected to people
Speaker 5: who have gone through a lot of trauma, and going
Speaker 5: through the fires is a trauma, and so I call
Speaker 5: myself a trauma informed wellness professional. That just means that
Speaker 5: I've been through some things, and if you've been through
Speaker 5: some things, let's use these tools to help ourselves heal.
Speaker 2: Do you find sometimes when people offer up about their
Speaker 2: personal lives and you hear what firefighters were going through,
Speaker 2: what other people were going through, that sometimes it's a little.
Speaker 4: Too much for eving you.
Speaker 5: Oh, I definitely hit my max capacity by the end
Speaker 5: of my work day. And my husband will tell you,
Speaker 5: I come home and I just need like a moment
Speaker 5: to well, let me.
Speaker 4: Ask her to get your business when I walk in
Speaker 4: the house. I my wife.
Speaker 2: Knows even though when our schedules were more comparable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: don't hit me with a bunch of questions because I've
Speaker 2: been in the car probably for an hour an hour
Speaker 2: and a half. I don't I'm not ready to have
Speaker 2: a conversation yet. I'm not ready to have a conversation
Speaker 2: when I first wake up, and I'm not ready to
Speaker 2: have a conversation when I first walk in the door.
Speaker 1: How you doing?
Speaker 4: How was you day? Tell me about this? What happened to?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: No? Sometimes? What's it like for you?
Speaker 5: As always, you and me were twins. Don't talk to
Speaker 5: me when I wake up, don't.
Speaker 3: Talk to you? Hear it?
Speaker 5: But I don't have to say that to my husband
Speaker 5: because he trained me years ago. You know, he had
Speaker 5: a very stressful job as well, with a long commute
Speaker 5: as well, and so he didn't want to be bothered
Speaker 5: when he just got in the house. And so we've
Speaker 5: kind of both honored that for each other.
Speaker 2: Without getting into the specifics of what you're husband did
Speaker 2: before retiring. Was that something that he, in an emotional
Speaker 2: way brought home and you had to be that wellness
Speaker 2: professional for him as well?
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: I know that's why they pay you the little bucks,
Speaker 2: they pay you the big bucks.
Speaker 5: But I I don't know that I would use my
Speaker 5: wellness professional skills on my husband so much. But we
Speaker 5: definitely have an understanding of how to engage with each
Speaker 5: other when one or the.
Speaker 3: Other of us is at our last rope. You know
Speaker 3: how that what you're talking about, you know how only
Speaker 3: that all the married people can feel me right now?
Speaker 2: Yes, do we have any questions in the in the
Speaker 2: chat Carnegie? If not, I'll come back to you. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me come back to you.
Speaker 4: Then.
Speaker 2: Of course you still have your your free Saturday workouts,
Speaker 2: and I'm quite sure there heat up literally because as
Speaker 2: the weather gets better, you have more and more people
Speaker 2: coming out. Let's remind people how they can get their
Speaker 2: workout on for free each and every Saturday.
Speaker 5: Well, I love that the weather does bring out more people.
Speaker 5: But because of the weather, we also have other competing
Speaker 5: events in the area where I teach the classes. So
Speaker 5: this week we're doing a five k for veterans, so
Speaker 5: that is going to compete. Say that, a five K
Speaker 5: for veterans, so that's going to compete with my free workout.
Speaker 5: But we're still having the workout and we're still having
Speaker 5: the walk, so it'll be both at the same time.
Speaker 5: And that's right near Sofi Stadium. It's called the Hollywood
Speaker 5: Park Retail District. And I start my workout at nine
Speaker 5: every Saturday.
Speaker 2: When I've gone the best place to park is just
Speaker 2: enter off Prairie and ninety seven.
Speaker 5: Easy enter off Prairie in ninety seven, huge garage, huge
Speaker 5: free parking, farmers Market's going to be going on that day.
Speaker 3: It's really a very easy in, easy out. But people
Speaker 3: over complicate things, especially if they've never been. And I've
Speaker 3: noticed that this is just a sidebar. Do I have
Speaker 3: some time?
Speaker 4: Of course you do.
Speaker 5: So I've noticed this with people nowadays, even more so
Speaker 5: than before.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of anxiety in the gym.
Speaker 5: And I didn't recognize that there was something called gim anxiety.
Speaker 3: Have you heard of it much?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 5: It did not, Okay, So this is a real thing,
Speaker 5: and it is stemming from not knowing what to expect
Speaker 5: when you get to the gym, not knowing who else
Speaker 5: going to be there, not knowing the exact place to park.
Speaker 5: So there's a lot of people suffering from gym anxiety,
Speaker 5: and when they get to the gym, it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 5: It goes into now what do I do now that
Speaker 5: I'm at the gym?
Speaker 3: Do I live weights? Do I do cardio? Do I?
Speaker 3: So this is.
Speaker 5: Something that fitness professionals are now being trained on learning
Speaker 5: how to manage the people who have Jim anxiety.
Speaker 2: I can imagine any level of uncertainty creates anxiety, and
Speaker 2: I can imagine for any person who may not work
Speaker 2: out consistently in a gym environment. You walk in, you
Speaker 2: don't know anyone by and large, You don't know who's
Speaker 2: going to be there, who you may run into, who
Speaker 2: may look at you in a different ways, like, Oh,
Speaker 2: you're trying to work out. You don't know what type
Speaker 2: of judgment or perceived judgment is awaiting you. And then
Speaker 2: you don't know what people are going to think why
Speaker 2: you're doing what you're doing. It's like, oh, that person
Speaker 2: does I'm going to just talk about the things that
Speaker 2: I've thought about as a grown ass man. It's like, Oh,
Speaker 2: that he doesn't know what he's doing, he's not using
Speaker 2: the weights correctly, or he's not going to get anything done.
Speaker 2: Those are just my thoughts and I can only assume
Speaker 2: extends beyond me.
Speaker 5: Well, the thing about anxiety is it has, at least
Speaker 5: in my opinion, having worked with the gyms over the
Speaker 5: last thirty two years, anxiety overall has increased. And I
Speaker 5: don't know what that is from, but I definitely know
Speaker 5: I'm seeing it in younger people, and I'm seeing it
Speaker 5: more frequently.
Speaker 3: And you talked about parking for my workout.
Speaker 5: I have someone who just came couldn't figure out the
Speaker 5: parking situation, turned around left.
Speaker 2: I think more than just a few of us are
Speaker 2: always looking for a reason to not even to leave.
Speaker 5: And that's totally I agree with that, that's totally understandable.
Speaker 5: And I think maybe Jim anxiety is also people who
Speaker 5: don't really want to be at the gym anyway.
Speaker 4: That's true, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Clauding Cooper very quickly, let's get her card
Speaker 2: up on screen again, Daniel, how can people find you
Speaker 2: beyond Claudincooper dot com, your social media and so forth.
Speaker 5: I guess Daniel just put up my email, but that's
Speaker 5: an old number, so you're not going to reach me,
Speaker 5: don't call me anyway.
Speaker 4: So I think I.
Speaker 5: Think he's putting up some videos right now of workouts
Speaker 5: that I did with my friend Jacqueline over the pandemic.
Speaker 5: I think he's just cruising through my YouTube, which I
Speaker 5: do have a YouTube. I have social media TikTok, Instagram, Facebook,
Speaker 5: although it's friends only, but you can send me a
Speaker 5: friend request, so thank you.
Speaker 2: But they can always go to Claudiaancooper dot com Win
Speaker 2: in Doubt, Win in doubt. Yep, Claudian is always great
Speaker 2: to see you and hopefully you'll see you sometime soon
Speaker 2: in the future.
Speaker 3: You will. Whenever I can get out here, I'm here.
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