Speaker 1: Welcome to the Transformation Station podcast. I'm Christina, owner, operator,
Speaker 1: and founder of the Transformation Station, and this is where
Speaker 1: we talk about getting stronger while navigating real life. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to stay consistent through the ups and the
Speaker 1: downs and everywhere else in between, this is for you.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to start recording daily short and Sweet episodes.
Speaker 1: I know that you may not always have a million
Speaker 1: hours to listen to a single podcast episode, so we're
Speaker 1: going to be bringing them to you short and sweet.
Speaker 1: So today we had a conversation around the Transformation Station
Speaker 1: about Jim's being beginner friendly. So today's podcast episode, it's
Speaker 1: not about being beginner friendly, but it's about feeling like
Speaker 1: you belong. And this is something I do here all
Speaker 1: the time. And I know jims say that they are
Speaker 1: beginner friendly, but we just don't feel like we belong there.
Speaker 1: And I do completely understand why that is because a
Speaker 1: lot to gyms like they genuinely they want to welcome beginners.
Speaker 1: They advertise at the beginner friendly, body positive and even.
Speaker 2: They'll say like they're inclusive.
Speaker 1: And I do believe that most gyms when they say that,
Speaker 1: they actually do mean it, but intention and experience aren't
Speaker 1: always the exact same thing. And like, imagine walking into
Speaker 1: a class where everyone is box jumping and doing burpies
Speaker 1: and lunging and lifting like one hundred pounds barbells over
Speaker 1: their head, and then the coach gives you a modification,
Speaker 1: which is fantastic coaching, but then you're the only person
Speaker 1: in the room actually doing the modification and everyone else
Speaker 1: is moving one way.
Speaker 2: And then you're doing a totally different thing.
Speaker 1: No one's judging you, and I know it can genuinely
Speaker 1: feel like people are judging you, but even if they're not,
Speaker 1: it still doesn't feel that great. And humans naturally want
Speaker 1: to fit in. We don't want to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't fit in here, this doesn't feel good to me,
Speaker 1: and that alone can that can really stop someone from
Speaker 1: coming back to the gym. And sometimes Jim offer like
Speaker 1: beginner boot camps, and then there's such a discrepancy between
Speaker 1: the beginner style boot camp and the learning experience and
Speaker 1: then going into a class, because I've seen that as well,
Speaker 1: Like when people contact me, they're like, oh, the found
Speaker 1: your foundation's program, the small group personal training them. I
Speaker 1: think that that's where I need to start, which can
Speaker 1: be true, like that can really put people's minds at ease.
Speaker 1: But the same movements that you're doing in your beginner
Speaker 1: boot camp or your foundation's classes at the Transformation Station,
Speaker 1: it actually translate rate into the fitness classes. And you
Speaker 1: don't need to have the I'm my best salesperson. You
Speaker 1: don't need to have the foundations in SRO to strength
Speaker 1: in order to do.
Speaker 2: Classes in our facility.
Speaker 1: Because we don't have that extreme discrepancy between learning and
Speaker 1: then joining a class that has a lot of technique
Speaker 1: and heavy lifting, So that itself is one of the
Speaker 1: biggest reasons why I build a Transformation Station to be different.
Speaker 1: We don't just offer moreifications. We don't just say like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is beginner friendly. We actually build classes
Speaker 1: where when you see that you're modifying that, you're going
Speaker 1: to see other people doing that exact same thing. Because
Speaker 1: if you see someone using a chair, that's normal in
Speaker 1: our space, especially in our stretch and flow classes, someone
Speaker 1: might be using lighter weights, someone might be taking a break,
Speaker 1: someone is choosing a different movement that works for their
Speaker 1: unique body, and no one ever thinks twice about it,
Speaker 1: Like we have ways to increase your intensity, and we
Speaker 1: have ways to make it for your unique body and
Speaker 1: ways that also if you're modifying or changing something, we
Speaker 1: always say like, this isn't to be easier, it's for
Speaker 1: you to challenge yourself in a way that works for
Speaker 1: your unique body. So if you're not doing lunges, maybe
Speaker 1: you're doing leg lifts. If you're not doing dead lifts,
Speaker 1: maybe you're holding your weight at the sides of your
Speaker 1: body and you're alternating a knee lift. There's so many
Speaker 1: different ways to move your body. But our goal isn't
Speaker 1: to create the hardest workout and bury. That's not what
Speaker 1: we stand for. Our place is designed so people can
Speaker 1: actually show up to their fitness and not be broken.
Speaker 1: And I'll always say this and people always look at
Speaker 1: me funny when I say this. I literally always say like,
Speaker 1: we are not the best gym in Barry Me. People
Speaker 1: are like, oh my gosh, what, like, aren't you the owner? Yes,
Speaker 1: we are the best gym for you if what we
Speaker 1: offer matches what you need. So if your dream is to, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, barbells snatch three hundred pounds over your head,
Speaker 1: if you love an intense bodybuilding environment, if you want
Speaker 1: to throw around massive weights and train for powerlifting or
Speaker 1: be surrounded by people that are chasing that same goal.
Speaker 1: There are some incredible gyms for that in Barrie, and
Speaker 1: I have friends who own and train in those gyms.
Speaker 1: Our members come here because they want to move and
Speaker 1: they want to feel healthier at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: They want to laugh, they want to get stronger, they
Speaker 1: want to feel successful instead of feeling defeated. And that
Speaker 1: for me, is the name of the game that changes
Speaker 1: everything for people, bull's lifestyles, to create habits, to create consistency,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people when they join the Transformation Station,
Speaker 1: they'll come in on a class pass or they'll start
Speaker 1: with like a smaller tiered membership because they're like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think that I'm actually going to stick with it,
Speaker 1: and then they end up surprising themselves.
Speaker 2: They show up time and time again. They upgrade their memberships.
Speaker 1: A lot of people end up going with unlimited memberships
Speaker 1: because they're like, this is actually a place I look
Speaker 1: forward to and I feel good, not just when I
Speaker 1: leave because I've done the workout, but I feel good
Speaker 1: in the space, and I've made friends and connection and
Speaker 1: we've changed people's lives. Within our four walls, and like,
Speaker 1: the best gym, in my opinion, isn't the one that
Speaker 1: has the fancies equipment or the toughest workouts. In the
Speaker 1: last podcast episode I spoke about like even shopping for
Speaker 1: benches for the transformation station.
Speaker 2: Is this inclusive?
Speaker 1: Is this going to hold people that are have bigger
Speaker 1: bodies that they live in.
Speaker 2: Is this going to be accessible.
Speaker 1: For people that have sore knees or bad knees, or
Speaker 1: they're facing an injury where they have to get up
Speaker 1: and down from the bench.
Speaker 2: Is this going to be too low for them?
Speaker 1: Or is this going to be too high that people
Speaker 1: can't have a stability to put their shoes on. Also,
Speaker 1: does this chair have handles on the sides, because a
Speaker 1: lot of people a can use handles to help get
Speaker 1: themselves up. And also there's some people that they don't
Speaker 1: like handles because they don't fit in a chair that
Speaker 1: has handles. And that's something that I have lived on
Speaker 1: both sides of the spectrum, so like, and now on
Speaker 1: the contrast, I can get up and down from the ground,
Speaker 1: So like.
Speaker 2: There's different needs, different abilities.
Speaker 1: One person's story and experience doesn't mean that that's just
Speaker 1: what everybody else lives in experiences when you walk into
Speaker 1: the transformation station. That's why we have chairs that have
Speaker 1: handles and ursory arms, and we have chairs that don't.
Speaker 1: And that's also why I gave away fifty of those
Speaker 1: Ikea flimsy ass plastic I'm saying that like I have
Speaker 1: a chip on my shoulder. Of these chairs, I most
Speaker 1: definitely do. I gave away like fifty of those Kia
Speaker 1: plastic chairs. You know, like when people have guests over
Speaker 1: and they put them on ceramic tiles and you sit
Speaker 1: on them and they break. Yeah, those we don't have
Speaker 1: those at the Transformation station, Whereas there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that offer chair mobility, they have those ten dollars
Speaker 1: Ikia fold out chairs that aren't going to hold anyone
Speaker 1: that's over one hundred and.
Speaker 2: Fifty pounds anyways.
Speaker 1: So there's that again, like we specifically know what we
Speaker 1: have to offer, and we have this stuff inside the
Speaker 1: Transformation Station that we do because we know that it
Speaker 1: is inclusive, it's beginner friendly, and it's also friendly for
Speaker 1: people that are nursing injuries and also for people that
Speaker 1: want you to excel and challenge themselves. Because all those
Speaker 1: things can be true at the exact same time. So
Speaker 1: at the transformation station, like that's the gym where you
Speaker 1: walk in and you think, these are my people.
Speaker 2: That to be is if you.
Speaker 1: Resonate with what I'm saying, then when you walk into
Speaker 1: the gym, you'll be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, what a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 1: If you're wanting to again do hardcore things that and
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: We do hardcore things in the transformation station.
Speaker 1: But if you want to do hardcore things in the
Speaker 1: context of lifting and throwing a frigging three hundred pound
Speaker 1: thing or swinging one hundred pound kettlebell up and around
Speaker 1: and spinning it around, we don't do that in the
Speaker 1: transformation station. And when you find a gym that meets
Speaker 1: you with where you're at, you're still going to walk
Speaker 1: into that gym and be like, ah, I found my people,
Speaker 1: I found my home. And then when you feel like
Speaker 1: you belong, not only is it easier to show up
Speaker 1: and create consistency like I just said, but you stop
Speaker 1: worrying about everybody else. You don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: a people watching you because you're doing something different that
Speaker 1: just instantly takes like that self defense thinking mechanism, and
Speaker 1: it's just oh, you can breathe and actually truly be
Speaker 1: yourself in those walls. And that to me, like when
Speaker 1: you start showing up consistently and you stop worrying about
Speaker 1: what other people think, like that is what changes your life.
Speaker 1: And like, the best workout for me is not the
Speaker 1: one that burns the most calories, it's not the one
Speaker 1: that makes you the most sore. It's the one that
Speaker 1: keeps you showing up time and time again, and you're
Speaker 1: doing the thing, and before you know what, fitness is
Speaker 1: your lifestyle. Because maybe it's not that you don't like fitness.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you haven't found something that makes you
Speaker 1: excited and you haven't found something that's been the right fit. So,
Speaker 1: if you are interested in fitness, you're listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge you to find a gym that suits you.
Speaker 1: When you walk into the walls that you say, ah,
Speaker 1: I'm home now. If the things that I've mentioned resonate
Speaker 1: with you, then please do you feel free. If you're
Speaker 1: in the area, come visit us, Come say hi. If
Speaker 1: you're already a member, what's up. I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: you're here. The Transformation Station is located at fifteen seer
Speaker 1: point drive in Barry, Ontario.
Speaker 2: We're in Unit eleven. We have space for you. Come
Speaker 2: and chat with me.
Speaker 1: You can catch me on Instagram at Christina Romita Christina's
Speaker 1: with Ach. You can also google the trans Information Station
Speaker 1: in Barry. There's only one the Transformation Station. We're easy
Speaker 1: to find, so contact me if you have any questions, comments, concerns.
Speaker 1: You want to discuss what your first class can look like,
Speaker 1: what you want it to be and I'm always.
Speaker 2: There so I'll be there to greet you.
Speaker 1: And our coaches are fabulous, they're always around to greet
Speaker 1: you as well. I hope really good things happen for
Speaker 1: you today