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.
Speaker 2: This is for you.
Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning back into the Transformation Station Podcast today.
Speaker 1: I am so fortunate. We are also fortunate.
Speaker 2: To have our glorious guest, Nikki. I'm also waving. You
Speaker 2: can't see that.
Speaker 1: Though, she's actually double handwaving. Hand waving spirit fingers.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the last podcast that I recorded with someone
Speaker 1: was with coach Tina and she was talking about the
Speaker 1: Bring It On movie. It's her favorite, so as ironic,
Speaker 1: I just gave that reference spirit fingers. No, these are
Speaker 1: that's her favorite movie. Spar fingers loves it.
Speaker 2: I'm very surprised. I feel like I cheerleading.
Speaker 3: I have never saw them, Sorry, Tina, I have never
Speaker 3: seen it.
Speaker 2: It's so good, is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: The original one with Kristen Dunst.
Speaker 1: So late is for the nineties movie I think late nineties,
Speaker 1: early two thousands for sure.
Speaker 2: Perfect. Yeah, it's so good. It's my jam actually, uh,
Speaker 2: nineties movies absolutely. I can't tell if it's hard. I like,
Speaker 2: I like older movies. They're less superhero you know. Oh okay,
Speaker 2: I mean those movies are cute, right nineties movies. I
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I actually just there was a there's someone
Speaker 1: in my course over the weekend, and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: if you look like a young Nick Cannon, but I
Speaker 1: think it's like a mix between a young Nick Cannon
Speaker 1: because I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, oh there.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that there was so much younger than
Speaker 1: me when I made a reference to a movie, and
Speaker 1: I had no idea. I'm like, no, the young Someone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he has like twelve kids, And I'm like, not that
Speaker 1: version of Nick Cannon, like late nineties, early two thousands
Speaker 1: version of Nick Cannon like Hans to movie Mariah Carrie
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon.
Speaker 2: Yeo right, yes exactly by.
Speaker 1: Gary Wow wow yeah really something.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he did that before he was even famous.
Speaker 3: I think he'd only because he's the mass singer host right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was already in a movie's former. I
Speaker 1: carry he started in a movie with Christina Million. It's
Speaker 1: called Uh Love Don't Cost a Thing?
Speaker 2: Oh. I know. That movie was my favorite. I never
Speaker 2: watched it. I thought, Oh, I thought that Julius Stiles
Speaker 2: was in that movie. No, No, that's another dance movie.
Speaker 2: Let me just double check. A. That's the movie. I
Speaker 2: don't even know where my phone is. It's a wireless mic.
Speaker 1: I digress.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about it now. I have to know. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk about fitness. You start, I'm going to google this.
Speaker 3: So what are we talking about today? We were talking
Speaker 3: about the mistakes that we made as coaches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm what do you call it procrastinating?
Speaker 1: I don't like making mistakes. We don't make mistakes, Nikki.
Speaker 1: I feel like, I.
Speaker 2: Think it's a very good thing and to be to
Speaker 2: talk about these things.
Speaker 3: I know that as a fitness coach, or even when
Speaker 3: I was before I was a fitness coach, I liked
Speaker 3: it when coaches talked like they were real people, not
Speaker 3: like they were untouchable robot people.
Speaker 2: That just exercised one hundred percent of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's fair.
Speaker 3: I find that when people are more real, I have
Speaker 3: an easier time connecting with them. And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: this is also hard for you because I'm dying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree with that. Untouchable, Untouchable do you
Speaker 2: know that song?
Speaker 1: So this movie was from two thousand and three, not
Speaker 1: Letting It Die? Christina Million, oh, canon, Yes, Steve Harvey, Pee,
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. Some good names in that Untouched.
Speaker 3: So everybody that likes uh early two thousands movies, dance movies.
Speaker 2: Yes, what was that? What was the movie I'm talking
Speaker 2: about with Julia Styles?
Speaker 1: Same?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, I love that. That would say the Last Dance.
Speaker 2: That's it?
Speaker 3: Yes, see the same time of movie dancing. There's attractive
Speaker 3: lead characters. It was made for like teens twenty something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there wasn't that much dancing and loved don't cost
Speaker 2: a thing. It was more like a clueless like the.
Speaker 1: Geek to chic Oh mmmm, so I love geek to
Speaker 1: chic style like Jenny Jones. Remember do you remember Jenny Jones.
Speaker 1: Jenny Jones and then.
Speaker 2: Jenny Jones was the talk show host. Yes, and after
Speaker 2: was Sally with the Red Glasses. Before it was Sally. No,
Speaker 2: I mean like in the order that they showed the
Speaker 2: show on TV.
Speaker 3: Oh that specificity that I do not have or in
Speaker 3: my brain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they showed and then yeah they had that show.
Speaker 1: They would have Jenny Jones geek to chic and then
Speaker 1: Sally a nine percent shirt. It would be on right after. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Jenny Jones always had like you bullied me, and
Speaker 1: confront your bully and confront things that made you feel bad,
Speaker 1: and then they would have the person like tell their
Speaker 1: story and then go behind the curtain.
Speaker 2: And uh, I was young when I was watching this,
Speaker 2: like more Povich. No, it wasn't like you're not the father.
Speaker 1: It was like they would have an old picture of them,
Speaker 1: like in a doorway, and then they would burst through
Speaker 1: the old picture of them.
Speaker 2: And they would be like they gave them like a makeover.
Speaker 1: It's whether they lost like one hundred pounds like they
Speaker 1: made them.
Speaker 2: That is the Biggest Loser, that type of stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was prior to Biggest Loser, but same idea, right,
Speaker 1: except biggest Loser at the end after they starved everybody
Speaker 1: and made them do five thousand hours of workout to day.
Speaker 2: At the end of the show, it was like their celebration.
Speaker 2: You could only be this.
Speaker 3: You can only be lovable if you are this thing
Speaker 3: and not if you're this thing. Messaging sonse I'm so
Speaker 3: happy that the messaging I feel like has changed a
Speaker 3: lot then, which is like your.
Speaker 2: Lovable however you were. Yeah, I agree, let's just try
Speaker 2: to be our best selves. I totally agree on that
Speaker 2: body that we have.
Speaker 1: I think that that that exact thing is what's going
Speaker 1: to steer me of things that I I did, not
Speaker 1: by mistake, but things that I've learned that I did
Speaker 1: wrong when I first started in fitness.
Speaker 3: Right, well, I mean something got you into it, right,
Speaker 3: like whatever thought, whatever goal you had for yourself.
Speaker 2: Or for clients. Yeah, it definitely would have got you
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: Well, at first it was immobility, and then it was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm young, like I'm twenty, and I don't want to
Speaker 1: look like this either. I want to look like damn fair.
Speaker 1: And then I started to look like bam, I want
Speaker 1: to be hot.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to be hot anymore.
Speaker 1: Like it's interesting when you go from a certain way
Speaker 1: your entire life and you're dismissed. Yes, yes, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get attention. Oh hell, no, weird.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it because I'm like, no, I'm still
Speaker 1: the same person. I liked it to an extent, did
Speaker 1: you like? I like to an extent. But then after
Speaker 1: like you gain weight, you lose it. Like I had
Speaker 1: this conversation not long ago with somebody and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's so many people that they'll lose weight rapidly because
Speaker 1: they crash. They crash diet, they crash work out, they
Speaker 1: lose weight rapidly. They all of a sudden think that
Speaker 1: they know everything about everybody, and they give everybody their advice.
Speaker 2: And then someone that quits smoking that is judging out
Speaker 2: the smokers literally, and then all this quit smoker mm hmm.
Speaker 1: And then because their experiences, they end up like getting attention,
Speaker 1: they like attention, they end up kind of like mean
Speaker 1: girling it, and then they leave their husbands or whatever.
Speaker 2: The case is.
Speaker 3: Me is a bit like a little bit of control, right,
Speaker 3: which is like you never felt like you were in
Speaker 3: control of that before, and now it's like, oh well,
Speaker 3: now I'm going to tell you how you are feeling,
Speaker 3: rather than me being like, you know, I kind of
Speaker 3: look at it like you chasing. You would rather be chased, right,
Speaker 3: because it has to do with how we feel about
Speaker 3: her something.
Speaker 1: And I think too, like on like a positive side
Speaker 1: of that, like I'm so happy that those people are
Speaker 1: feeling so good, But they don't realize that what works
Speaker 1: for them doesn't work for it's not copy and paste
Speaker 1: for everybody else. And also like there's some times I
Speaker 1: remember when I first started training someone and the husband
Speaker 1: was like, okay, you're training with Christina and she was
Speaker 1: doing one on one and he knew my track record,
Speaker 1: like as per my clients, and he's like, you're gonna
Speaker 1: lose one hundred pounds and you're gonna leave me because
Speaker 1: that's what people on TV do and that's what I
Speaker 1: see on Instagram. And I said to her, I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you love your husband? Are you happy?
Speaker 2: And she was like yeah, that's like a private thing,
Speaker 2: right and she was like yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, this will only enhance what's already there,
Speaker 1: because before you know what, you're gonna want to spend
Speaker 1: time with him. You're gonna want to be in the nude,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like that's something that people
Speaker 1: don't talk about. I'm gonna mark this with explicit maybe
Speaker 1: turn this off if you're with your kids, and I'll
Speaker 1: put that in the description. But like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they are like confident and if their partner's asking them
Speaker 1: to do something, there's not a mental breakdown because they
Speaker 1: feel good about putting on clothes or they feel good
Speaker 1: about being in public.
Speaker 2: So that'll only enhance that bond that you already have.
Speaker 1: If you already have out marital issues and you're feeling
Speaker 1: good about yourself, that's going to enhancele issues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're if your partner is I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: maybe doesn't pay attention to you, doesn't value like you
Speaker 2: want to be valued, and you're kind of just there
Speaker 2: out of comfort or whatever reason. There's thousands of reasons
Speaker 2: why we stay in relationships.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the dude at the gas station is like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up?
Speaker 2: You're pumping ice? Get hit on a lot on the
Speaker 2: gas station. When I look like that, You're like, oh,
Speaker 2: you look good.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 2: Where are you coming from? Church? Shut her down? Oh
Speaker 2: that's a good way I have.
Speaker 3: I have this specific story in my head of that
Speaker 3: type of thing because when I was eighteen years old
Speaker 3: is when I lost a I don't know, like one
Speaker 3: hundred pounds and I remember walking down the street and
Speaker 3: I was wearing like a belly shirt.
Speaker 2: Like never in my.
Speaker 3: Life, right, you weren't belly I have one time in
Speaker 3: my life never really ever.
Speaker 1: Was it like strapless?
Speaker 3: No, I don't remember, you know, it was like two
Speaker 3: thousands shirts that were like like a tank top, but
Speaker 3: then we would wear big baggy pants with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was like a handkerchief, like the point.
Speaker 1: Kind of me.
Speaker 3: And I remember this person that I had went to
Speaker 3: school with like looking at me, like like who is that?
Speaker 3: And I was like yes, so the only that's the
Speaker 3: thing that I remember the most about losing weight when
Speaker 3: I was young.
Speaker 2: But other than.
Speaker 3: That, I mean, I'm thankfully it's always kind of been secondary.
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 3: My goal has always been like what can my body do?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like a like a slug most of
Speaker 3: the time. I'm slow, and I'm like what.
Speaker 1: Can this slow tide?
Speaker 3: What can this slow body do? So that's what that's
Speaker 3: always my goal. I'm like can I Can I jump
Speaker 3: over this thing? Can I race one hundred kilometers?
Speaker 2: Can I do this? Like that's kind of what I
Speaker 2: want to do. I don't care past that. Really, It's
Speaker 2: like if I look good, woo. But other than that,
Speaker 2: I feel like that now too, Like I like how
Speaker 2: you said, like.
Speaker 1: You want to know what your body can do? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and not to compare to somebody else push ups.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh, Nikki, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you, Yeah, you can definitely do that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think my arms will fall off.
Speaker 2: I feel like there might be a fund raiser coming
Speaker 2: up with ten thousand push ups. It thinks there're seventeen days.
Speaker 2: That'd be pretty good. I wonder, Oh my gosh, we
Speaker 2: have Chatchi Bugi one thousand ten, So one thousand a
Speaker 2: day for ten days. Do one thousand a day?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you do like it, one hundred every hour,
Speaker 1: that'd be like, hold on, let me ask Chatchi tea.
Speaker 2: Let me pull this up Chatty on my phone. Yes, said,
Speaker 2: That's what David gog instead with the pull up thing. Right,
Speaker 2: he made a world record of pull ups. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I heard that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The first time he like ripped one of his tenons
Speaker 3: in his hands and he was still going something not
Speaker 3: like something like that, David not suggesting now you do
Speaker 3: this or that this is a safe thing.
Speaker 1: Right, you'll remember, consult your doctor. Okayasta, Wait, how many
Speaker 1: push ups can you do in thirty seconds?
Speaker 2: And thirty seconds? Okay? Was that the first question? Look?
Speaker 1: How many push ups.
Speaker 2: Can you in one minute? I'm gonna count you? Or wait,
Speaker 2: let's do thirty seconds because.
Speaker 1: Okay, how many time?
Speaker 2: Well I have the mic on. Yeah, sure we're not.
Speaker 2: We can talk to great time, because that's never going
Speaker 2: to sustain for ten thousand push ups. Okay, let's see three.
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 2: Oh wait, pretty good?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 2: Three g one go one? Two are cracking? Yes?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 2: These are my joint sorry. Four once I was born.
Speaker 1: Five, six, seven, eight nine ten, that's nice. Four eleven
Speaker 1: twelve we hired.
Speaker 2: Thirteen fourteen is the thirty I could? Yeah?
Speaker 1: No, sixteen seventeen, eighteen five seconds, nineteen twenty letes this
Speaker 1: call it twenty.
Speaker 2: Okay, so twenty and twenty nine ninety one and that's fast.
Speaker 1: That was really really good form though fast. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was like chess to grin like that was good for them. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's chatchabutin. How many did you do?
Speaker 2: Twenty? Here we go find. The thing I love about
Speaker 2: this is how it's like so all over the place.
Speaker 2: What are we talking about? Yeah, if we're talking about
Speaker 2: NICKI doing push ups?
Speaker 1: Okay, so Nikki, just I'm asking chatchabutine.
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, I gotta restart. I wanted to. I
Speaker 2: want people listening to know what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Okay, NICKI has completed twenty push ups in about thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Considering there might be ongoing fatigue, how long in days
Speaker 1: and hours would this take NICKI to complete ten thousand
Speaker 1: push ups?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: Let's see thinking if Nikki can somehow maintain the same
Speaker 1: pace and do twenty push ups every thirty seconds, no
Speaker 1: slowing down, no breaks, then that would be ten thousand
Speaker 1: push ups. Would be five hundred sets of twenty. That
Speaker 1: doesn't sound that bad. Five hundred times thirty seconds is
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand seconds. Fifteen thousand seconds equals two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four minutes, which equals four hours and ten minutes
Speaker 1: in reality, though ongoing fatigue would make that impossible to
Speaker 1: sustain continuously. A more realistic estimate depends on how much
Speaker 1: rest is needed. Short rests it might take you six
Speaker 1: to eight hours total if you take fifteen to thirty
Speaker 1: seconds between sets. Longer sets are spreading it across the
Speaker 1: day can be ten to sixteen hours if your lapse time.
Speaker 1: If done over multiple training sessions, it could easily take
Speaker 1: two to five days, depending on recovery and training volume.
Speaker 1: So the answer is minimum zero days, four hours and
Speaker 1: ten minutes realistic with fatigue anywhere from zero days, six
Speaker 1: hours to sixteen hours, or two to five days. If
Speaker 1: you're completely sustainable in a training challenge, so you're seventeen days,
Speaker 1: you're giving yourself lots of time. Ah, hold on, how
Speaker 1: about one hundred thousand push ups.
Speaker 2: That's the year's worth the pushups.
Speaker 1: Same pace, forty push ups per minute, so forty one
Speaker 1: hours and forty minutes. That's with no breaks. So it's
Speaker 1: one work week, one day, seventeen hours and forty minutes.
Speaker 1: If you took thirty seconds rest after twenty push ups,
Speaker 1: it would take eighty three hours and twenty minutes, So
Speaker 1: three days, eleven hours and twenty minutes one minute of
Speaker 1: rest after twenty pushups it would be one hundred twenty
Speaker 1: five hours, which is five days and five hours. In
Speaker 1: the real world, no one can maintain forty push ups
Speaker 1: per minute for one hundred reps. Muscle fatigue, skin damage
Speaker 1: to the handstor oh, you'd probably rip things in stuff,
Speaker 1: Your head might fall off. One hundred thousand push ups
Speaker 1: is about five thousand sets of twenty.
Speaker 2: Hours would fall off before my head but oh.
Speaker 1: It says at one thousand push ups a day, it
Speaker 1: would take one hundred days.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing about doing round numbers.
Speaker 1: What is the push up world record currently in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six. Let's see what it says and we'll get
Speaker 1: back to the episode just a.
Speaker 3: Quick little Italy were talking about Dicky, how many push
Speaker 3: up how long it would take her.
Speaker 2: There's three different standards.
Speaker 1: So most most push ups in twenty four hours mail
Speaker 1: forty six thousand and one, set in nineteen ninety three
Speaker 1: by Charles Cerviso in the US USA. The record still stands.
Speaker 1: Most push ups in one hour is a mail three thousand,
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy eight push ups held by Poplar
Speaker 1: and two set in twenty twenty three. Most standard push
Speaker 1: ups in one minute was done also by Mail eighty
Speaker 1: four and one minute eighty four held by Patrick with
Speaker 1: an Ik Mohite is set in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty neat.
Speaker 1: For example, the current one eighty degree push up record
Speaker 1: is twenty nine in one minute. Oh, because there's different
Speaker 1: like so there's different push up variations like hand release
Speaker 1: push ups, one eighty degree pushups, knuckle push ups, medicine,
Speaker 1: ball push ups, tandem push ups and others. Need Oh okay,
Speaker 1: well that was awesome. Okay, So going back to this,
Speaker 1: back to the mistakes that you've made as a coach.
Speaker 2: So so far, we've got nothing.
Speaker 1: Judging with the outside glorifying things like The Biggest Loser
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and.
Speaker 2: Five, But you got rapid weight loss? Is what your
Speaker 2: thoughts were? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Rap it when we used to think that rapper I
Speaker 1: don't know, but we but like we we used to
Speaker 1: think that rapid weight loss like that was healthy. Like
Speaker 1: how many people watch The Biggest Loser and put their
Speaker 1: endel and b all into what that was and then
Speaker 1: they set their expectation to be well sustainable.
Speaker 3: It is probably more important than healthy, do you know
Speaker 3: what I mean? Because it's fine if you lose a
Speaker 3: bunch of weight quickly. I mean it's fine you lose
Speaker 3: all your muscle, you lose all. And it's also not
Speaker 3: sustainable if you're doing ten hours of.
Speaker 2: Eating getting food and crying and puking and shitting.
Speaker 3: Well you do you have to do that anyways, Maybe
Speaker 3: not the puking, but the shitting you got to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, like not when you're running on a treadmill
Speaker 1: because you haven't eaten in five days, I feel like
Speaker 1: your insides leave your body.
Speaker 3: One of the biggest differences between you and I is
Speaker 3: in coaching. I feel like you started coaching for clients,
Speaker 3: right because you wanted to work with people and you know,
Speaker 3: help them do what you did right, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I started.
Speaker 3: Coaching because I love fitness, not that you didn't love fitness,
Speaker 3: but so you are a little more people driven. I
Speaker 3: definitely it's a people driven thing too. It kind of
Speaker 3: ends up the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I knew what it was like to be immobile,
Speaker 1: and I knew how much it changed my life, so
Speaker 1: I wanted other people to experience.
Speaker 2: The same thing.
Speaker 1: And to me, the number one thing that changed my
Speaker 1: life was not well, nutrition went hand in hand with it,
Speaker 1: but it was getting mobile first. Because I actually didn't
Speaker 1: change my nutrition until I lost like maybe my first
Speaker 1: thirty forty pounds.
Speaker 2: It slowly started to change.
Speaker 1: Actually, what changed it was I started pretty much like
Speaker 1: any person would have started back then, especially as I
Speaker 1: went on a treadmill, because that's all I could do
Speaker 1: was barely put one foot in front of the other.
Speaker 1: I couldn't go on an elliptical more than thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: I could barely get my body on an elliptical and
Speaker 1: all the gym machines were too small. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: thought about that.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: So I started in home, which was what we call
Speaker 1: tempo back then.
Speaker 2: I started with that.
Speaker 1: It was a five minute Express Billy Blanks Typo DVD.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 1: So I'm like just five minutes before I go to bed,
Speaker 1: and it was so hard for me. I wanted to sit.
Speaker 1: I want like five minutes of Tybo and it was
Speaker 1: so discouraging because I didn't move like how they did.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I'm just gonna do what I can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when I saw pack abs and literally they're like
Speaker 1: little tiny things. But like I saw on the treadmill,
Speaker 1: it said if you walk like this for an hour,
Speaker 1: you're going to earn six hundred calories or whatever. It
Speaker 1: was based on the weight I inputed, which who knows
Speaker 1: my scale, never my.
Speaker 2: Scale and go high enough to tell me exactly how
Speaker 2: big I was.
Speaker 1: So I entered in and I'm like six hundred galleries
Speaker 1: And then I'm like how much how many calories? You
Speaker 1: think you're in a big mac because right across the
Speaker 1: street at the time there was McDonald's, so I used
Speaker 1: to get McDonald's on the way home from the gym.
Speaker 1: And then this I didn't know anything about nutrition or
Speaker 1: fitness or anything back.
Speaker 2: And you're like, I just exercised, I'm eating this McDonald's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but at the time, like I was a kid,
Speaker 1: so it's like I didn't know any basics of nutrition.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anybody around that could help me with nutrition.
Speaker 1: The trainer that I had to go through because I
Speaker 1: have like the pre health profiles that you have to
Speaker 1: do when you go to like a commercial gym back then.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they still do, but they did
Speaker 1: back then. And he was trying to convince me to
Speaker 1: pay for six month months of personal training. And at
Speaker 1: the time, I had just bought my house, and I
Speaker 1: bought my house young, so I was young, and I
Speaker 1: already had lost like I think fifty or sixty pounds
Speaker 1: before I went into the gym. And he was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: he said, the weight that you lost would be muscle
Speaker 1: and water, maybe a little bit of fat. I was
Speaker 1: like okay, and he's like, I suggest because he's like,
Speaker 1: what's holding you back? I'm like, well, I don't have
Speaker 1: six thousand dollars for six months of personal training or.
Speaker 2: Whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And this is going back to like like fifteen twenty
Speaker 1: years ago. Twenty years ago, Oh my gosh. And he's like, well,
Speaker 1: I advise that you sell your house because you need
Speaker 1: to lose weight more than you need a mortgage. Actually,
Speaker 1: what he didnt say mortgage. He said, quote unquote, I'll
Speaker 1: never forget mortgage.
Speaker 2: He said, Oh no, I asked him.
Speaker 1: I said, he said to me, He's like, you need
Speaker 1: to lose weight more than you need a roof over
Speaker 1: your head, is quote unquote what he said.
Speaker 2: And I looked at him.
Speaker 1: I'm like, excuse me. I'm like, do you own a house?
Speaker 1: He was like yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like, and you have a mortgage. He was like yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like do you have a wife. He was like yeah.
Speaker 1: Back then I should have asked him do you have
Speaker 1: a husband, But anyway, minor detail. Do you have a wife?
Speaker 1: He was like yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm like do you.
Speaker 1: Both work to pay for your mortgage? And he was
Speaker 1: like well yeah, I'm like cool, I'm a single person.
Speaker 1: I got a mortgage to pay for and am eighteen
Speaker 1: years old. Therefore I cannot afford to spend six thousand
Speaker 1: dollars on personal training and the way he treated me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like Okay, my door's open, come ask.
Speaker 2: Questions or like there. It was a business.
Speaker 1: It was called Ultimate Fitness. They're not in business anymore.
Speaker 1: They shut down a long time ago. Was a worn
Speaker 1: is No.
Speaker 2: I went to that gym as well. That was called
Speaker 2: Fit for Life. I went there for so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I ended up going there too, only because at
Speaker 1: the time one of my friends she wanted to go there,
Speaker 1: and I remember it was it was pretty low key
Speaker 1: and when you had access to that gym, you had
Speaker 1: access to the two women's onlies that there was one
Speaker 1: in Kundles besides Saint Joe's was like in the armpit
Speaker 1: of the gym, they had a little tiny pool, so
Speaker 1: they had like some awqua fitness. It was called back
Speaker 1: to Basics for women. Ironically, Sandy that used to work here,
Speaker 1: she used to work there back back, back back in
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: I mean she's worked everywhere.
Speaker 1: I think, I think so. And then they also had
Speaker 1: it back to Basics Women's on Ant Street where I
Speaker 1: think there's like a dance art something up there now.
Speaker 1: So if you had one club, access it wasn't a franchise.
Speaker 1: I don't think you had access to those three places.
Speaker 2: Nice.
Speaker 1: Then they all shut down, and I remember the day
Speaker 1: they shut down because I went. I was walking to
Speaker 1: go into the gym and I saw one of my
Speaker 1: mom's friends and I said her name.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, you go to this gym? And she
Speaker 2: was like my mom's friend.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know where she is or what she's
Speaker 1: doing now, but she was like a like Brianna ptarth
Speaker 1: Man from Game of Thrones, like she was a robust,
Speaker 1: don't mess with her kind of a woman and she
Speaker 1: was kind.
Speaker 2: But she was like, no way.
Speaker 1: And I looked at her and I'm like you go
Speaker 1: to this and she was like no, neither do you now.
Speaker 1: I'm like what and she's like Christita. I'm like yes,
Speaker 1: and I said her dame, which I won't say on here,
Speaker 1: and I'm like yeah, and she's like what do I
Speaker 1: do for work? And I was like uh, She's like
Speaker 1: I just changed their locks.
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn it, damn it, damn it.
Speaker 1: So then that was the end of my gym cycle,
Speaker 1: my public gym cycle for that.
Speaker 2: So then I had to find in venture off into
Speaker 2: a different gym.
Speaker 1: So it was hard for me to go into gyms
Speaker 1: because the way that that personal trainer treated me was
Speaker 1: how I was treated every time I went into a
Speaker 1: gym as a three four hundred pound woman, young woman,
Speaker 1: So like you're not worth Like I wasn't worth anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like I didn't deserve a roof over my head? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? So because of that experience, is that's
Speaker 1: why I wanted to help people, Because it wasn't primarily
Speaker 1: because I loved fitness. I loved how fitness changed my
Speaker 1: life because that was my experience. And when I see
Speaker 1: people come through this door and they can't bend over
Speaker 1: and tie their shoes, they only.
Speaker 2: Can't get up, that to me is like life changing.
Speaker 1: And I if I can help people, that's the biggest gift.
Speaker 1: Like I love running a gym, I love doing the giveaways.
Speaker 1: I love like providing people with a fun place to
Speaker 1: shake their booty and to lift weights and all those things.
Speaker 1: But the underlying reason is because I know what fitness
Speaker 1: can do for somebody.
Speaker 3: I feel like the reason why I started and the
Speaker 3: reason why I do it now are different things. I
Speaker 3: definitely have jumped on that train with you. I've changed
Speaker 3: my whole idea and outlook about fitness. Not that I
Speaker 3: didn't think that fitness is accessible to everybody, because I've
Speaker 3: always thought that it should also yes, yes, yes, and
Speaker 3: that we can make it accessible. It shouldn't be that
Speaker 3: there shouldn't be this gate kept thing. The gate kept
Speaker 3: thing was I feel like a projection of all of
Speaker 3: the other fitness people I had been around. The best
Speaker 3: people that I have been around fitness people are the
Speaker 3: people that made me feel like I was part of it,
Speaker 3: like I could do it because for the longest time,
Speaker 3: because I've always had goals the longest time, I wanted to.
Speaker 3: I still do want to do a triathlon eventually. I
Speaker 3: think hanging out with people that do triathlon as a
Speaker 3: bigger person, there was there's no room for you.
Speaker 1: So I feel like.
Speaker 3: When I started spending time with and working out with
Speaker 3: people that were bigger body, people that did triathlons, I
Speaker 3: then felt like I could do it. So I think
Speaker 3: that to make everybody feel like they can be fitness
Speaker 3: people is kind of where I'm at at this point.
Speaker 3: It's like just changing your ideas, changing your opinions, changing
Speaker 3: all of those things. I'm a fitness Perton. I may
Speaker 3: not have ever been fit. These people that we bring
Speaker 3: in here.
Speaker 2: May not have ever been fitness people, but they I
Speaker 2: want them to think that they're fitness people.
Speaker 3: They are fitness people.
Speaker 2: You come here, you enjoy.
Speaker 3: Your like and because I like you think movement is life.
Speaker 3: Because I want these people to be able to do
Speaker 3: what they want to do until they're eighties, until their
Speaker 3: unfortunate deaths.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Right, this is the thing.
Speaker 3: It also I know that it reduces your blood pressure.
Speaker 3: I know that it changes your cholesterol. I know that
Speaker 3: it does all these things. So I think if I
Speaker 3: could give this gift of people, it just they just
Speaker 3: have to like me, just have to like you a
Speaker 3: little bit. If I could give that to everybody, if
Speaker 3: I can facilitate that journey for them, That's where I've
Speaker 3: come from and where I'm at now.
Speaker 2: That is the hugest thing.
Speaker 3: I feel like it might not have started there, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely there. Are we not I don't think we're
Speaker 3: talking about our mistakes, We're.
Speaker 2: Talking about other things.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of stems from that, like when
Speaker 1: when we first started, how it was looking like and
Speaker 1: like having like that, Like when I started. It was
Speaker 1: for a reason when I wanted to help people. It
Speaker 1: was for a reason when I was in my twenties
Speaker 1: twenty five. Like when I was twenty five years old,
Speaker 1: I had breast and plants, and now I still have
Speaker 1: breast and plants. But I mean, like I had them
Speaker 1: put in I had someone who was a lot older
Speaker 1: than me, I'd be like, okay.
Speaker 2: Here we go. So like it was like a it
Speaker 2: was a different type of outlook.
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't say that it was wrong because I
Speaker 1: know some people still are forty fifty, sixty, eighty years
Speaker 1: old and still have that outlook that I had when
Speaker 1: I was twenty five years old. But I'm going to
Speaker 1: say that it's now different because I have changed. And
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say, well, I'm matured, because they
Speaker 1: can mature in however which way they want to or
Speaker 1: that depends on what you prioritize.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 1: I no longer prioritize having a twenty five inch waist
Speaker 1: and a fifty inch boob job, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: So, like, I think that's different.
Speaker 1: And I know when I know where your heart lies
Speaker 1: in fitness because you primarily not primarily, but you are
Speaker 1: like the head leader essentially of our.
Speaker 2: Beginner boot camp.
Speaker 1: And I always can tell to me you're the perfect
Speaker 1: person for that, because when people leave, like you message
Speaker 1: me and you're excited, or like when I see you
Speaker 1: the next day, you're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, they did so good and this is what they
Speaker 2: did get.
Speaker 1: You never come to me and you have never been
Speaker 1: someone to say, oh, this person is weird or this
Speaker 1: person does this weird, or like that's you have never
Speaker 1: once in over three years now that I've known you,
Speaker 1: you have never once done that. Every time you meet
Speaker 1: someone new, you're like, I just love them so much?
Speaker 1: Is that weird? And I'm like, you want to see
Speaker 1: them exself? That's a high five. And what I'm understanding
Speaker 1: is you're when you felt like you didn't belong, you
Speaker 1: didn't want anybody else to feel like they didn't belong.
Speaker 3: Yes, my whole goal in life is to make people
Speaker 3: feel like they belong. I'm going to meet you wherever
Speaker 3: you're at. I'm going to do my best to like
Speaker 3: be your cheerleader. And if you've decided that our relationship
Speaker 3: isn't working, and then that's on you, right, It's never
Speaker 3: gonna be.
Speaker 1: From lack of effort from.
Speaker 3: Me, which lots of people see different ways. But I
Speaker 3: don't really care. I don't care where you're at. I
Speaker 3: don't care if you're mad at me about this. But
Speaker 3: I'm still gonna be nice. You're still gonna get all
Speaker 3: my love, and I'm sorry about it in advance.
Speaker 2: Sorry. So what is I don't know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyways, So what is one thing that you think
Speaker 1: that you've made it as a mistake? Like, I don't
Speaker 1: make mistakes, You don't make mistakes.
Speaker 2: We're good.
Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like part of I think
Speaker 3: part of growing is admitting where you could do things
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit differently. The thing is is that
Speaker 3: mistakes are are a funny thing because I kind of
Speaker 3: feel like it's an opinion, but I think if a
Speaker 3: general consensus is like we talked about, I just put
Speaker 3: my my foot on the gas pedal one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of the time.
Speaker 2: Like if I'm if, I don't.
Speaker 3: Want everything to be like as much push as we
Speaker 3: can possibly get with people. I don't think that that's
Speaker 3: necessarily should be the cakes.
Speaker 2: All the time, ye push all the time.
Speaker 3: I think this sometimes it's okay to just maybe we're
Speaker 3: going to focus on this we're going to focus on
Speaker 3: like isometric moves, or we're going to focus.
Speaker 2: On higher reps for longer.
Speaker 3: Say, yes, so, I think I think that part of
Speaker 3: the term like balls to the wall the entire.
Speaker 2: Time isn't that's I feel like that's kind of an.
Speaker 3: Older mentality that we have right gain, whereas I'm viewing
Speaker 3: it maybe a little bit different. It's like we don't
Speaker 3: like there's times where we can do like threshold training.
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to be smarter about the amount of
Speaker 3: time what I'm spending my time on. So it's more
Speaker 3: about intentional things. It's like, if I'm here for forty minutes,
Speaker 3: I wanted to be a good forty minutes, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I think, but you still have to breathe in that, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, Like boh, yeah, right.
Speaker 1: And there's some days when it's not going to feel
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And actually this was yesterday's podcast, is
Speaker 1: when you don't feel one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Sometimes people will be like, oh, I'm just not.
Speaker 1: Going to bother going in because they feel like there's
Speaker 1: this unwritten rule or expectation of them that when they
Speaker 1: come into the class that they must go as hard
Speaker 1: as ableh which that is not the case. No, that's
Speaker 1: why sometimes like when I'm coaching, like hey, how does
Speaker 1: that feel? Because I want to know, like I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say, hey, that's too light. Here just take
Speaker 1: this or here's some thirties when you're using tens.
Speaker 3: Like it's funny that you said that. Yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 3: I talked to members about that often.
Speaker 2: M It's not about like.
Speaker 3: It might be a today might be a twenty day,
Speaker 3: today might be a ten day, and today might be
Speaker 3: a fifteen day, and who cares exactly right, Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: I just had a conversation. I had a conversation with
Speaker 2: a member last week about that.
Speaker 3: It's like, you're gonna if you're not feeling it, you're
Speaker 3: just going to keep throwing up barriers to come here.
Speaker 3: It's like, just forget about all the things that you're
Speaker 3: going to put in front of coming here, and just
Speaker 3: come here.
Speaker 2: Don't make it bigger, make it smaller, is what I
Speaker 2: always say. Oh I like that.
Speaker 3: So it's kind of like I could say, oh, well,
Speaker 3: I could come, but I have this thing to do
Speaker 3: after and when I'm going to eat or I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Worry about this thing or what about this other thing
Speaker 2: I have to do?
Speaker 3: Or I could say it's only forty minutes. I'm going
Speaker 3: to be able to fit it in and then I'll
Speaker 3: be able to do my stuff after right. What if, well,
Speaker 3: my legs are already sore, should I still do it?
Speaker 3: While my arms are already sore? Should I still do it?
Speaker 3: You can still no matter what. You can throw things
Speaker 3: in front of it. You know, I'm crying, I can't
Speaker 3: stop crying or something. Come in here with your cry
Speaker 3: face on and we'll just I guarantee you you'll never
Speaker 3: regret coming here. That's what I always say to to
Speaker 3: our beginners. For sure, you've never regret it. You'll always
Speaker 3: be happy about it. You might mood might not have improved,
Speaker 3: but you'll be happy that you did it.
Speaker 2: You'll be happy that you made that decision.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And sometimes when people are feeling overwhelmed too, and
Speaker 1: they're like, well, I just it's too much, like I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to go, I feel overwhelmed, or
Speaker 1: I have this to take care of.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 1: The nice thing is is when you walk through the door,
Speaker 1: you have generally people that have no idea what's going
Speaker 1: on in your life. Because it's more like surface friendships.
Speaker 1: There's some people in here that have made deeper connections
Speaker 1: and they're friends outside of the gym, But for the
Speaker 1: most part, there's a lot of surface connections in here,
Speaker 1: and I find that those sometimes are some of the
Speaker 1: best connections because we can walk in and no one's
Speaker 1: going to ask us about things that are upsetting us.
Speaker 2: So like you have emotions than yes, and then.
Speaker 1: While you're counting, while you're just trying to listen, it's
Speaker 1: such like it's such a good distraction. I said this
Speaker 1: to Chris yesterday. I was like, I had no service
Speaker 1: when I was doing my fire arms training over the
Speaker 1: weekend and I had to sit there for nine ten
Speaker 1: hours each day. Wow. Yeah, So I was like, what
Speaker 1: am I gonna do? Like, but it was such a
Speaker 1: nice disconnect for those two days that I didn't have
Speaker 1: to worry about what's going on on Instagram. I mean
Speaker 1: I had to wait an extra two days to do
Speaker 1: my Kevin Fest tickets giveaways because I had no service while.
Speaker 2: I was there from morning till night.
Speaker 1: So by the time I got home, like, I got
Speaker 1: like an hour and I'm gonna go to bed because
Speaker 1: I got to get up and do this the next
Speaker 1: day and pay attention again, like really like real attention,
Speaker 1: not fake attention like I have.
Speaker 2: Like zon, I have to know the things that you're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So like I really enjoyed having that disconnect and
Speaker 1: when people come in here for their forty minutes, they
Speaker 1: can disconnect. And I'm talking about like you don't bring
Speaker 1: your phone on the gym floor. You're not texting in
Speaker 1: between your workout. Like sometimes at a traditional gym, people
Speaker 1: have a hard time putting their phones down. So they're
Speaker 1: walking around for an hour, they're going to work out,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they're like, oh, this person
Speaker 1: keeps messaging me and we all have like our watch
Speaker 1: on our wrist. So then it's like, oh, well, now
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not going to do it because now
Speaker 1: I need to answer them. But no, you don't need
Speaker 1: to answer them right away. That's like the other day
Speaker 1: I was talking with you and you're like, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's your what are you doing for the day, like
Speaker 1: what's up? And it was all I got to do
Speaker 1: this and right away I'm going to do that. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, cool. Then you said something about going
Speaker 1: for a run, like right then, and I was like
Speaker 1: I read it and I didn't even answer it back,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna wait like four hours, I was, I.
Speaker 2: Message you back. I was running, I think when you
Speaker 2: message me, oh, actually running right now? No, I just
Speaker 2: got in the car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh sweet after them, So like that was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well I'm not going to message you right now. So,
Speaker 1: like there's different ways that you can utilize the gym
Speaker 1: to forget about your own shit.
Speaker 2: Yes, I like that leaving it, yes, and then people
Speaker 2: care enough about you to be happy to see you.
Speaker 2: But there's no emotional baggage past that, which is yeah,
Speaker 2: which is good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that that to me is like a healthy
Speaker 1: Like that's why like when people come in they want
Speaker 1: to share some of their stories. I love that so
Speaker 1: much because they can find other people that resonate with them.
Speaker 1: But that's why, like we don't do like group huddle
Speaker 1: crying sessions on the gym floor, like when something is
Speaker 1: like if a member knows that something else happened in
Speaker 1: someone else's life because they're they're friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't act.
Speaker 1: It happens a lot, a lot, Like there was one
Speaker 1: here just to like let her go. Literally yes, Like
Speaker 1: we had one week and I think I'm probably the
Speaker 1: only person that knows this, but in one week, we
Speaker 1: had four people's fathers pass away. And it wasn't that
Speaker 1: long ago, and it was in one week. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what is happening? I was like, Okay, well, I guess
Speaker 1: we're at that age.
Speaker 2: That's the time.
Speaker 1: That's just how the cards fell for this week. And
Speaker 1: all four of those people were going in and out
Speaker 1: of the gym and nobody knew, and they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're so glad for that.
Speaker 2: Ye didn't they don't want.
Speaker 3: Everywhere you go, you're gonna get people I mean with
Speaker 3: good intention, still in love, being like how are you doing?
Speaker 3: So then you have to kind of pull it up again, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean everybody deals with grief differently. I'm a person
Speaker 3: that doesn't really want to talk about it over and
Speaker 3: over and over again.
Speaker 2: It kind of just sits in my head.
Speaker 1: And I roll it through, you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't even know like trigger thing, like we don't
Speaker 1: want you to be triggered, like like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like just different things in that contact.
Speaker 2: How is it going like yeah or yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Know this is this is a silly thing, and I
Speaker 3: feel like, I mean, obviously you've been able to. But
Speaker 3: I remember one time I had just put my dog down,
Speaker 3: and then as soon as I went into work, the
Speaker 3: first thing someone said to me was, so, how about
Speaker 3: your dog?
Speaker 2: And then I just was crying all day. Oh no,
Speaker 2: that's why when my dog died.
Speaker 1: Here also because I love you, but I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it, like, yes, that's why I don't
Speaker 1: tell anybody. Like my social media for the most part,
Speaker 1: like you can see some of the stuff that I'm
Speaker 1: doing in my life, but it's not I don't share
Speaker 1: emotion like I share excited emotion, but I don't have
Speaker 1: people know what's going on because when I come into
Speaker 1: the gym, I don't want to have those hard conversations
Speaker 1: because that's not the time.
Speaker 2: And also you have to have them a lot. Yeah, right,
Speaker 2: because people care a lot about you.
Speaker 3: People care a lot about each other. It's not that
Speaker 3: we don't care about each other. We do care about
Speaker 3: each other, but enough to be like, yeah.
Speaker 2: This one time.
Speaker 1: A couple of times I this, Oh this is something
Speaker 1: I've made as a mistake as a coach, be like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's everyone doing this weekend?
Speaker 2: What are you doing this weekend? What are you doing
Speaker 2: this weekend?
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I wrote to a funeral fulk like
Speaker 1: sorry about that, Like I shouldn't have asked, like, oh,
Speaker 1: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Are you doing any exciting?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: When I ask, I.
Speaker 3: Mean there's there's it's very safe to say that that
Speaker 3: is happening to at least one person.
Speaker 2: Yes, right, always. It's not like it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: we all want a miracle.
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. So like now I say, anyone doing anything
Speaker 1: exciting this weekend, and then people.
Speaker 2: Will share like the question. Right. That's why I always
Speaker 2: ask what's new? What's good?
Speaker 1: Like that's and I don't say hey, what's new, or
Speaker 1: Hey what's good?
Speaker 2: I say hey, what's new? What's good?
Speaker 1: Because I want that one answer? Yeah, not two different things.
Speaker 1: But also like we can only like.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean that we can't talk about it, Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. It just means like, if.
Speaker 3: You want to talk about it, that's fine. If that's
Speaker 3: where you're at, then you need to let it go.
Speaker 1: That's okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But if you don't want to let it go,
Speaker 3: that's okay too, exactly. And that's why I also loved
Speaker 3: and cherished no matter where you're at. I had some
Speaker 3: new people join and this was just before Mother's Day
Speaker 3: and Christmas, and they were afraid to come to the
Speaker 3: gym on Mother's Day because their moms had passed away.
Speaker 3: And I said, it might be one thing. You will
Speaker 3: never hear me say.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of people, a lot of people and
Speaker 2: that miss their and dads and miss their parents. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: so you will never hear me say.
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't even register Father's Day for
Speaker 1: my own personal reasons. So I'm like, I don't You'll
Speaker 1: never hear around the mic. Happy Father's Day, Happy Mother's Day,
Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day. If you celebrate like, there's people that
Speaker 1: want it to be moms. They can't be moms. They
Speaker 1: are moms and they didn't want to be They're not
Speaker 1: moms and they wanted to be their moms have passed away,
Speaker 1: or like.
Speaker 2: There's because there is cheer with any celeb.
Speaker 1: Actually, so at Christmas time we have our holiday party
Speaker 1: or Christmas party.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen you put up a Christmas tree
Speaker 2: in this gym?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I think the first year I opened, I think it
Speaker 2: was actually my ex at the time.
Speaker 1: We should put up Christmas tree, and I didn't have
Speaker 1: enough boundaries to say no. That's why now the gym
Speaker 1: has excelled because I don't listen to anybody for that.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I don't want to have a Christmas
Speaker 1: tree in here for not even one day. Maybe if
Speaker 1: it's for the Christmas party, the Christmas slash holiday party,
Speaker 1: then sure for that one day because people know what
Speaker 1: they're coming to, right, But for the whole month of
Speaker 1: December or November, October, December, January. If I put up
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree would have to be up from December
Speaker 1: to December. So I'm taking this Christmas tree down. But
Speaker 1: like I have one at home that we put up.
Speaker 2: Chris and I put it up together, and that's our
Speaker 2: private space.
Speaker 1: But imagine if someone's going through a hard time at
Speaker 1: Christmas time, which is a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of people, and they have to come in and see
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree and hear Christmas music. That's why, Like
Speaker 1: I've had people when new coaches start coaching, they'll be like, oh,
Speaker 1: can we just play like Christmas music during the workout.
Speaker 1: I say no, we only do Christmas music for a
Speaker 1: Christmas theme, and people can choose whether they come to
Speaker 1: that or not period. Just like Valentine's Day, we don't
Speaker 1: have Valentine's Day love music.
Speaker 2: Playing all the time. Like even in our cool down
Speaker 2: music love.
Speaker 1: Music, there's like there's a few cool down songs that
Speaker 1: I hear and I'm like, ugh, Like even in class Plane,
Speaker 1: like the it Wasn't Me song that did not age well,
Speaker 1: there's so many people that were cheated on and then
Speaker 1: that comes on.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you know what. I skipped through those on purpose.
Speaker 3: Actually the cool down song from last I just press
Speaker 3: the cool down button last Monday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a song.
Speaker 3: That come on that Lizzo has written and the whole
Speaker 3: thing is about being naked. So I was like, we're
Speaker 3: just gonna listen to this while we're stretching and I'm
Speaker 3: nude and I don't even know the song, but we
Speaker 3: were like, Wow, this.
Speaker 2: Song says nude a whole lot, and we're all that
Speaker 2: I've heard of that. I know, I'm gonna find it now.
Speaker 2: I would have switched it, but I was like whatever.
Speaker 3: It's like a couple of minutes, it seems to be
Speaker 3: terribly offended.
Speaker 2: We're all not figure about it. So that's for the
Speaker 2: Sexy Time play it's not the gym playlist.
Speaker 3: So funny that you said that, because one of the
Speaker 3: members said that were like, this is the Sexy Time
Speaker 3: cooled down this.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, I put this on my sexy playlist.
Speaker 2: Yes, And now this nude song by this that's so funny.
Speaker 1: Remember, oh, this is something else that I'd made as
Speaker 1: a mistake, and I didn't want to talk about mistakes
Speaker 1: and listen.
Speaker 2: I remember when we were using a.
Speaker 1: Lot of Spotify when before we had the fit Radio
Speaker 1: account here and I didn't realize because I'm like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: it's a premium account and it started off as my
Speaker 1: personal premium account, so I would have it in my cards.
Speaker 1: At the time, there was no one else coaching, just me,
Speaker 1: so whatever I had is what I used. And uh.
Speaker 2: I remember the group.
Speaker 1: Chat someone I think it was actually Melissa coach Melissa,
Speaker 1: and I think it was heard that said, oh, I
Speaker 1: was teaching the afternoon classes and this like bad music
Speaker 1: came up, so I think someone has control of the account.
Speaker 1: And then someone was like, oh, that happened to me
Speaker 1: as well, and they said what time it was at
Speaker 1: and I looked and I'm like, oh, that's my music
Speaker 1: that they were playing, for sure. But like if I'm
Speaker 1: outside and I start my car and my default to
Speaker 1: start playing is Spotify, or even if I get in
Speaker 1: my car at home and I started and starts playing Spotify,
Speaker 1: it will play wherever it's playing, but it'll play my selection.
Speaker 1: So if I'm listening to some hood rat garbage trash music,
Speaker 1: which I big wooty bitches, a bitch of big, goody,
Speaker 1: bitch of big like that type of music, that's what
Speaker 1: was playing. And I didn't realize that until the two
Speaker 1: coaches like, oh that happened and this was the time,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh. I was at Staples,
Speaker 1: Like I started my car, I was listening to that
Speaker 1: loud and proud rolling rolling to Sippin' on.
Speaker 2: Name that tune did introduced by Snoop Dogg.
Speaker 1: Yeah check Mark, Yeah you are a jukebox.
Speaker 2: I told him I could sing that song.
Speaker 1: I think that was one of the mistakes that I
Speaker 1: did when I first was coaching.
Speaker 2: I guess that's not as bad as pretty. Oh. One time,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 1: Sophie, she was like we were talking about like playing
Speaker 1: music and she wanted to learn and we're trying to
Speaker 1: find songs that we both knew, and we were both like,
Speaker 1: we love musicals and I'm a theater kid. So she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, what about this song from high school musical.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, so that song I actually don't know.
Speaker 1: And Christina was here teaching Zoomba and I was at
Speaker 1: home in my office. So I pulled up I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: check it out on Spotify. Ninety nine percent of the time,
Speaker 1: I don't know what day it is, I don't know
Speaker 1: who's teaching, I don't know who's doing what. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so I literally pulled up my Spotify and I typed
Speaker 1: it in, like how come I can't hear it?
Speaker 2: Then it said playing on iPad. I'm like playing on iPad.
Speaker 1: At the time, I didn't have my like now I
Speaker 1: have my iPad home, but the gym iPads were my
Speaker 1: iPads like playing on iPad and my way would be
Speaker 1: playing on my iPad, So I'm like, uh, play.
Speaker 2: On this device, Okay, play on this device.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, all of a sudden, Zumba
Speaker 1: music started playing on my device, like why do I
Speaker 1: hear zuma music? That just took over my computer? And
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, my gosh, what day it is?
Speaker 1: Day is it?
Speaker 2: That's my brain thinking faster than my mouth. Did you
Speaker 2: hear that? I said it backwards?
Speaker 1: I was like, what day is it? I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: my gosh, Christina is teaching zooma like, I hope that
Speaker 1: it didn't just interrupt her song with high school music
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, so, I'm like, oh, I know
Speaker 1: how I can find out.
Speaker 2: So I pulled up the camera.
Speaker 1: And I rewound it and I saw her like everyone's
Speaker 1: dancing and she's like dancing and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: just hard stop.
Speaker 2: Everyone stopped dancing.
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I definitely interrupted it, and then
Speaker 1: talked to Christina after. I'm like, that was me. I
Speaker 1: am so sorry. And then she was like, creation there
Speaker 1: was one person in the room. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: who it is, but it was somebody's daughter and she goes,
Speaker 1: who's listening to high school musical? I was like, this
Speaker 1: is why we're friends. You knew what I did anybody
Speaker 1: else know what that was?
Speaker 2: Or?
Speaker 1: Now? No, Christina, I'm so sorry. So that was a
Speaker 1: mistake I made like a handful of times.
Speaker 2: Now I don't do that anymore. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2: What's your next.
Speaker 1: Mistake, my next mistake, not like speaking your next mistake
Speaker 1: into life, but like, oh there's a mistake.
Speaker 2: I mean I feel that I'm like all these things
Speaker 2: are up for interpretation as well, like not everyone's going
Speaker 2: to agree with the fact that these things are mistakes.
Speaker 2: Mistake is a is a weird term because it means
Speaker 2: I don't know life lessons, right. I feel like you
Speaker 2: know things that you know.
Speaker 1: I think I have a lot more like personal life
Speaker 1: lessons and business lessons that I've learned that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't classify as mistakes. But where I've had a
Speaker 2: pitot learning, they called it learning opportunities. I've had so
Speaker 2: many learn an opportunities.
Speaker 3: That's the growth mindset, right, So learning everything is so
Speaker 3: that's I The thing is is that I would say
Speaker 3: I don't pay attention to that stuff because I feel
Speaker 3: like when I I try to make jokes of things
Speaker 3: that I think are I could do better at?
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Like I I because I the whole the whole thing
Speaker 2: about people coming here is I want them to have fun.
Speaker 2: I want them to feel loose. I want them to
Speaker 2: be really like relaxed, relaxed when.
Speaker 3: You're exercised, but you know what I mean, Like, I
Speaker 3: feel like I want you to kind of feel safe here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I feel like, Yes, so I feel like
Speaker 2: I feel like in.
Speaker 3: Myself, I try to have that mindset because of those things.
Speaker 1: But I find that.
Speaker 2: Maybe sometimes I might.
Speaker 3: Bombard people with asking them for feedback, and I feel
Speaker 3: like that there's some people are like, we don't really care.
Speaker 1: We don't care.
Speaker 3: We just want to do what you've given us because
Speaker 3: we don't want to think. I'm a high performer in
Speaker 3: my life, Nikki, I don't want to think about this.
Speaker 2: This is here.
Speaker 3: I don't want to make any decisions. You want to
Speaker 3: do what you have laid out for me. I want
Speaker 3: to do this workout. That's all I want to do.
Speaker 1: So I on purpose don't ask for feedback, right because
Speaker 1: if you ask for feedback, you get way more feedback
Speaker 1: normally than what you would like. I never ask feedback
Speaker 1: on the workout.
Speaker 2: And it's going to because it upset you, didn' hurt
Speaker 2: your feelings.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if it's room for like, like if I ask
Speaker 1: for feedback on the workout and on how the exercises
Speaker 1: were structured, I'm the professional. I know what I'm writing,
Speaker 1: and I know that this has helped not even just hundreds,
Speaker 1: but thousands of people over the last fifteen years get
Speaker 1: to their goals. And I've helped coach them even personally
Speaker 1: doing personal training that I have written their programs and
Speaker 1: they've had more than success. I know that I have
Speaker 1: other personal trainers and gym owners that contact me and
Speaker 1: they say, your people love your workouts. Your people are
Speaker 1: getting to their goals when they follow everything, right, What
Speaker 1: is it?
Speaker 2: How is it?
Speaker 1: I had someone that signed up for I had one
Speaker 1: of my old friends. He had a woman that I
Speaker 1: would have so loved to have had as a personal
Speaker 1: training client. But he worked at a big box gym,
Speaker 1: and at the time, I did not work at a
Speaker 1: big box gym.
Speaker 2: And she didn't know me. She got to know me
Speaker 2: at the change room.
Speaker 1: Was a drop in gym, and I was friends with him,
Speaker 1: and he came up to me and he goes, you
Speaker 1: know so, and so I'm like, yeah, I pretty much
Speaker 1: changed with her in the change room every single day.
Speaker 1: That sounds worse than what it actually is. And she
Speaker 1: had a cane and she had a hard time walking,
Speaker 1: she had mobility issues. And this guy was a men's
Speaker 1: physique competitor who was like practicing to be his side.
Speaker 1: Gig was a body shots guy and a stripper, so
Speaker 1: not throwing shade, but that's his experiences, that's his lifestyle.
Speaker 1: He had never had mobility issues. He was always an athlete.
Speaker 1: He always had a six to eight pack. He was
Speaker 1: twenty five years old and he comes up to me
Speaker 1: and he's like, cat, talk to you, catch talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, right now, okay, what's up? And he's like
Speaker 1: I know this person. I'm like, yeah, he said, she
Speaker 1: just signed up with me for a year of personal training,
Speaker 1: paid in full, three times a week. I'm like yeah.
Speaker 1: He's like, I couldn't turn away the money. I can't
Speaker 1: help her. I'm like, why wouldn't you have passed her
Speaker 1: on to somebody else who can help. He's like I
Speaker 1: need the money. I'm like, oh, okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: He couldn't dance very well, and he knew that, like
Speaker 2: can you check out these dance moves? I'm like, you.
Speaker 1: Cannot do that. That is not great, Like do you
Speaker 1: want some help? So that was the thing, and I
Speaker 1: gave him a program for her, and then I saw
Speaker 1: her in the change room like After a few weeks,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, how's your programming going. I know you're
Speaker 1: working with so and so and she's like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: been great. I'm like, cool, what's your favorite exercise?
Speaker 2: She told me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, right on. So I'm like, oh, you
Speaker 1: like that style and she's like I do. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: And it was like four six weeks later. He kept
Speaker 1: running the same program for her. Five to six weeks later,
Speaker 1: he's like, okay, I got a change up for programming.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you do. And then I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I talked with her in the change room. I know
Speaker 2: what she likes. I know what her style of training is.
Speaker 2: He's like, can you help me? I'm like, of course,
Speaker 2: I'm here for the whole year with you. Dude, he
Speaker 2: didn't pay me for it. Why does ask?
Speaker 1: Twenty five years old? No experience doesn't feel like you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 2: And away from those people very fast.
Speaker 1: So I tweaked the program. And then a few days later,
Speaker 1: because I was in and out of that gym all
Speaker 1: the time, a few days later I was in the
Speaker 1: change room. We were always in this at the same
Speaker 1: time because we had I knew also what time her
Speaker 1: personal training sessions were because that was also my time,
Speaker 1: so not personal training.
Speaker 2: But like when we were in the change room and.
Speaker 1: Then she's like guess what. I'm like what She goes, Oh,
Speaker 1: he just changed my program. I'm like, oh really, I'm
Speaker 1: like that's cool. Because she knew that they were friends.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, that's cool. What does he got you're doing?
Speaker 2: Now I know what she's doing, so she talked about it.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: How did you feel about the last whatever your first
Speaker 1: few weeks. She's like, oh, I did this and this
Speaker 1: helped me with this. I didn't really find this beneficial,
Speaker 1: but this did.
Speaker 2: I was like, sweet.
Speaker 1: So I was able to go and help his programming
Speaker 1: for her whole duration. So like, those are things that
Speaker 1: I know that I'm not asking for feedback because I
Speaker 1: am if there's any I may not be confident in swimming,
Speaker 1: I'm not really confident in running, I'm not confident in
Speaker 1: really using my kayak, or there's certain things like I
Speaker 1: got roller skates that are with the donation bin.
Speaker 2: Those were my roller skates.
Speaker 1: That I bought. I put on once I fell down
Speaker 1: into a chair and I never put them back on.
Speaker 1: I'm not confident in roller skating. I am one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty percent confident in my fitness programming. And I
Speaker 1: could say that without a shadow of a doubt. So
Speaker 1: when I say to the room, do you like it?
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't care if it's like how
Speaker 1: the like how you say, like how the different styles?
Speaker 1: Like you did the one minute thing this morning and
Speaker 1: you added that in as like this is your base,
Speaker 1: it's going to be one minute. He elevated forty five
Speaker 1: degree pulse squads. That's what you said, right, yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: fantastic memory. High five myself in public quarters pretty much
Speaker 1: the three quarters. Yes, So it's like the Harry Potter
Speaker 1: note in three fourths, So that I would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: did you like me throwing that in there?
Speaker 2: How'd you feel about that?
Speaker 1: That's what I yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like when.
Speaker 3: When you do something different from regular because most people
Speaker 3: like that's true, right yeah, some people like the same forever.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's not good either. No no, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 2: we're not doing the same like because we're doing different things.
Speaker 2: But some people like the same format for oh, yes,
Speaker 2: like cardio kick.
Speaker 1: Yes, when I tried to throw in like the circuit style,
Speaker 1: and it was like two weeks, so it was like
Speaker 1: three or four classes that was air was a circuit style.
Speaker 1: People stopped showing up and then I got emails and
Speaker 1: a phone call and when I was in here, just
Speaker 1: a question and the one girl was like, they're gonna
Speaker 1: go back? We had one yeah, and like one girl
Speaker 1: was in the bath Actually, someone asked me, I haven't
Speaker 1: seen this person, and I said her last class was
Speaker 1: in the bathroom thrown out, and I'm like, we're going
Speaker 1: unsolicited unsolicited feedback. Yes, it was unsolicited feedback from someone
Speaker 1: who people doesn't have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good thing about being connected to you people.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, shooting like that.
Speaker 3: Well the thing I yes, knowing that to me, I
Speaker 3: agree with what you said. It does come across sometimes
Speaker 3: as a lack of confidence.
Speaker 2: I I don't assume that people are going to like things.
Speaker 3: My feedback is never be like it. The feedback is.
Speaker 3: The feedback is like what does this feel like in
Speaker 3: your body? And what does this feel like in your body?
Speaker 3: But I don't want to overwhelm people with that. So
Speaker 3: I feel like that's the thing is because they don't
Speaker 3: really care, like they.
Speaker 2: Want to come here and do the work out.
Speaker 1: And that's I think that's how we're different, not just
Speaker 1: in fitness, but in like quite a few different avenues.
Speaker 1: Because for those who are listening, Nick and I are
Speaker 1: very good friends, not just in the workplace, but like
Speaker 1: we're friends, so not more than friends.
Speaker 2: Don't be weird, don't be gross. Just to clarify, so.
Speaker 1: Face right now, he's like, really, crusada, there's people that
Speaker 1: are going to go there with my thought about that.
Speaker 3: I've always been straight with lesbian friends for some reason
Speaker 3: whatever how that works.
Speaker 1: So like this is I find and correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, because we don't have a script. We're just
Speaker 1: shooting by the hip at this point, and I'm saying
Speaker 1: that they can tell oh and the.
Speaker 2: Five minute intro about nineties movies jet.
Speaker 1: So I see like how sometimes you come in you
Speaker 1: are so prepared, like you are, like you're so I
Speaker 1: always say, like, my confidence is a ten, and I've
Speaker 1: said this a lot recently. My confidence is a ten
Speaker 1: in certain things, but my skill, not a fitness but
Speaker 1: in other things might be like a three. Like remember
Speaker 1: when I was trying to learn how to swim underwater?
Speaker 1: Can you stop to me that in the deep end,
Speaker 1: you kill yourself Like it's fine, there's like burs and
Speaker 1: I'll be okay, but like I'll come in with a
Speaker 1: ten confidence and a three skill, whereas you'll come in
Speaker 1: with a ten skill.
Speaker 2: But then you might have like a three or four
Speaker 2: confidence depending on what it is. That's true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's as someone who believes in you and
Speaker 1: knows that you are so good at the things that
Speaker 1: you do. It's hard for me to watch because I'm like,
Speaker 1: if I had your skill in my confidence, i'd be
Speaker 1: a what.
Speaker 2: I mean, really would be unstoppable.
Speaker 3: No, I know, And it's definitely something that that's why
Speaker 3: I mean, I've went to therapy and that's right, because
Speaker 3: I know that that's a thing. It's like, no matter
Speaker 3: how good you're at something, no matter how much you
Speaker 3: live this lifestyle, no matter how much you like read
Speaker 3: about it, no matter how much you research, no matter
Speaker 3: how many courses you take, you're still like not confident.
Speaker 3: What is this imaginary thing that's going to make you
Speaker 3: confident in this Nikki?
Speaker 1: You're read it confident you're not.
Speaker 3: So this is very much what I say, Like, this
Speaker 3: is something I've learned for sure. Maybe that's that is
Speaker 3: also to me something where I have room to grow.
Speaker 3: So maybe instead of calling it mistakes, will call it
Speaker 3: room to grow because I think, okay, because I think
Speaker 3: mistake is a weird thing, because I feel, like you,
Speaker 3: a mistake is something maybe I feel like I can't
Speaker 3: come back from, or like there isn't you know, like
Speaker 3: everybody would see it as a mistake, which is never
Speaker 3: the case for anything.
Speaker 2: But I think that.
Speaker 3: Confidence in fitness, and I know for people to believe
Speaker 3: in me, I have to believe in myself in this instance, right,
Speaker 3: So it's very much the thing. But when I have
Speaker 3: this much energy for something and I just love it
Speaker 3: so much, that's what comes across confidence to people. They know.
Speaker 3: Ask any of the coaches here. I will talk to
Speaker 3: them for ten minutes about some stupid thing, and all
Speaker 3: of them are like, yeah, and they all love fitness,
Speaker 3: but they're all like, Nikki, we don't care about this
Speaker 3: working your traps versus this working your like exterior, like
Speaker 3: your medial deltoid.
Speaker 2: We don't care about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I'll be like.
Speaker 3: And I can tell that their eyes are glazed over,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'm very sorry, guys. I actually usually
Speaker 3: start the conversation is like, I'm going to talk to
Speaker 3: you for about I'm going to just go on for
Speaker 3: five minutes about.
Speaker 2: This really boring thing that has to do with anatomy.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to listen to me?
Speaker 1: Poor Annie? And Kim? Actually, who do you see her
Speaker 1: the most?
Speaker 4: Ah, I don't I would I don't know you for sure,
Speaker 4: but other than you, I would say probably Kim.
Speaker 2: But I've been seeing Annie. I've been seeing Annie lots lately,
Speaker 2: and I love because you guys are always in pastor
Speaker 2: too and any so like wants to grow and like
Speaker 2: she's like a learning sponge. She is. She's a teacher though,
Speaker 2: and I love.
Speaker 1: Her brain just she's I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's why I like.
Speaker 3: I do like feedback because I feel like I learned
Speaker 3: from people's opinions and they're like, you know, their perspective.
Speaker 3: I love all different perspectives. The thing is is that like, say,
Speaker 3: for example, your perspective is very I mean you are
Speaker 3: to me, I've always thought that you were high functioning,
Speaker 3: but you have a like a special skill when.
Speaker 2: It comes to these things. And I don't think that
Speaker 2: about very many people.
Speaker 3: But like your love mixed with everything else and just
Speaker 3: that you're really good at stuff.
Speaker 2: You're very good at most things. But thanks, I have
Speaker 2: a wholes of speelings.
Speaker 3: You know when you say like three skills, like, well,
Speaker 3: everything that you do here, maybe you've got You've gotten
Speaker 3: to a higher.
Speaker 2: Skill level of drilling holes for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing's falling down anymore because I got proper tools
Speaker 2: and I learned.
Speaker 3: It's so funny that you see that, because every time
Speaker 3: I like, I've been hanging stuff up at my house.
Speaker 2: I actually the one thing that I hung up back there,
Speaker 2: the first thing. Remember, I had said to a bunch
Speaker 2: of members. I said, hey, look this is the first
Speaker 2: thing I ever hung up in my entire life.
Speaker 1: It's still bear, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they're all touching it being like ooh. I
Speaker 2: was like, thanks, guys. I know that I'm the coach,
Speaker 2: but I just need.
Speaker 1: Your validation here.
Speaker 2: Sometimes a little bit of validation goes along the way.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I think sometimes we're scared to do things if we've
Speaker 3: never done them because we want to be good at stuff, right,
Speaker 3: So I feel like this lends itself to exercise.
Speaker 2: I don't want people to feel like that you don't
Speaker 2: have to.
Speaker 3: It's like there's this small little gap between you knowing
Speaker 3: and not knowing.
Speaker 2: Just doing it. So I'm gonna facilitate. We're gonna hold hands.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna rub your hands while we're walking over the
Speaker 3: threshold of you learning. I'm gonna like rub your back
Speaker 3: and be like, it's okay, you're great.
Speaker 1: You're doing well. You're learning exercise.
Speaker 3: That's my job to hold your hand and rub your
Speaker 3: back and tell you a good job as you're learning exercise.
Speaker 1: That's what I said.
Speaker 2: Well, i'll get you there. You just you have to
Speaker 2: be willing. It's all. Yeah, that's it. Even if you're
Speaker 2: kicking and screaming, Nicki's gonna take and hold your hand
Speaker 2: and be like it's okay, you can kick and scream.
Speaker 2: We'll get there.
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to like different opinions and
Speaker 1: perspectives on the exercises or how it feels for people's bodies,
Speaker 1: I love that too, Like how does it feel if
Speaker 1: you don't like it like this?
Speaker 2: Do it like this.
Speaker 3: Some people have issues with their ankles, some people have
Speaker 3: issues with their knees. Some people have issues with their hips,
Speaker 3: some people have issues with their low back. So it's
Speaker 3: like how can I make this, like how can we
Speaker 3: tweak it and like learn how to make these friendly
Speaker 3: for other people. So, yeah, these are the things that
Speaker 3: I'm learning, especially with people with different mobility concerns and
Speaker 3: people with different like people have plates, and people have screws,
Speaker 3: and people have like like torn tenons in their bodies.
Speaker 2: It's like meniscus tears. It's like, well, public floor, even
Speaker 2: people don't even in those things. People feel different.
Speaker 3: So it's like if I can get a hundred people's
Speaker 3: feedback of like what this feels, I can say, Okay,
Speaker 3: well generally, so let's try to find the best way
Speaker 3: for people to do this or like something that.
Speaker 2: Most people find friendly.
Speaker 3: Yes, because that's the good thing about us being in
Speaker 3: a place where everybody we're all movements, good movement, and
Speaker 3: we're trying to like make this safe and healthy and
Speaker 3: friendly for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that's like I always say, like
Speaker 1: we we're like a pizza place, but everyone who's here,
Speaker 1: everyone who's who's working, is making like we're all making.
Speaker 2: The same recipe. So that's something that I love so much.
Speaker 1: And I loved to ask questions and learn about like
Speaker 1: what people like when it comes down to like, hey,
Speaker 1: is power the board. What's up on the board, Like,
Speaker 1: what's up on the board. I don't care if you
Speaker 1: like what's on the board, because this is what's going
Speaker 1: to get you to your success. And if you don't
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: Because well you don't want to believe it, you don't
Speaker 2: even have to like it.
Speaker 1: You don't have to like it. They got to do it.
Speaker 1: If there's some things that you look at it and
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't like those because it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: good for my unique body, that's why we give alternatives.
Speaker 1: And we all know like some people are not able
Speaker 1: to go overhead, so we always give a different movement,
Speaker 1: not to be easier, super commoned well just because some people.
Speaker 2: Just cannot, like like throes and sh older stuff like
Speaker 2: this lack of mobility overhead that we work on whatever
Speaker 2: or yeah, people just don't have it exactly. And what
Speaker 2: I love.
Speaker 1: About us here is like we are not cairos, We're
Speaker 1: not physiotherapist, we're not rmts. Like we're gonna recommend you
Speaker 1: to a professional if you need a recommendation. Yes, I
Speaker 1: say that often, Yeah, Like we're not going to diagnose people.
Speaker 1: We're also not doing personal training and manipulating and touching
Speaker 1: people's shoulders for like forty minutes to make sure they're
Speaker 1: in line.
Speaker 2: We're like, okay, this is what you can do.
Speaker 1: You want to come in, you want to have a
Speaker 1: good workout, you want to what you want to have
Speaker 1: a good time. This is a workout. This isn't me
Speaker 1: teaching you how your anatomy is supposed to be. I'm
Speaker 1: not a physio. Go to physio for that.
Speaker 2: Does this feel good?
Speaker 3: Is like does this feel good for your body? Which
Speaker 3: I can't tell only you can tell though, if it
Speaker 3: doesn't feel good for your body, We're going to give.
Speaker 2: You this alternative.
Speaker 3: We're not diagnosing this thing. You're telling me that you
Speaker 3: have this thing. I'm believing you. You say you can't
Speaker 3: move this way, I believe you, so we'll give this
Speaker 3: other way to move.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. That's the thing I know.
Speaker 3: I tell people all the time, if you have this issue,
Speaker 3: maybe you can go to physiotherapists and they can.
Speaker 2: Work on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they know a couple. Here's some exercises that you
Speaker 1: can do in class in the meantime, But if it's
Speaker 1: a serious problem, you gotta go not like leave the gym.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you're not.
Speaker 2: Now you have an issue, you gotta leave. No, No, you're
Speaker 2: gonna stay and you're gonna do your best immediately. I mean,
Speaker 2: even if it's so much as like if you want
Speaker 2: to try and working overhead, you could don't not wait
Speaker 2: it and just extend. That's what you want to do.
Speaker 3: If that's good for you, if that's where you're at,
Speaker 3: that's fine.
Speaker 1: And there's some people that I know that go to
Speaker 1: a therapist, of some lots of people, a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and I'll say like, hey, a physiotherapist said this. Sorry, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that's exactly. And I love when people come up and
Speaker 1: tell us those things. Yes, oh my physio says, I
Speaker 1: can't do this just for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I have to go lighter or whatever I spend.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, like, first off, if someone if there's
Speaker 1: a workout program, if there's a movement programmed, and I
Speaker 1: know that that person is not able to do that
Speaker 1: or they're not supposed to be doing it so they
Speaker 1: can heal and recover, I'll say, hey, in replace of this,
Speaker 1: if you don't want to go overhead, you can do
Speaker 1: a bicep curl. Also, keep in mind that while we're
Speaker 1: doing an overhead press, you could also do your physio movements,
Speaker 1: especially if you're not doing them by yourself at home,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people are like, oh, I should
Speaker 1: my movement, and I don't my physio.
Speaker 2: Movements three times a day.
Speaker 3: I've done them zero times per day.
Speaker 2: So in class, if you're not doing that exact movement,
Speaker 2: then you can sub it in in whichever way feels
Speaker 2: good for your body. Absolutely yeah, And I think too,
Speaker 2: like when I always say like opinions are like armpits.
Speaker 2: Everyone has them.
Speaker 1: And some of them stink. Like when I spoke with
Speaker 1: coach Gena, I'm like, I look at data. It's data
Speaker 1: if people here weren't getting the results that they were getting.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't control what people do for
Speaker 1: the other thirty or sorry three how many hours are
Speaker 1: in a day? It feels like thirty some days, twenty
Speaker 1: four hours in a day. I can't. Whatever you do
Speaker 1: for the other twenty three hours is up to you.
Speaker 1: But I know that if you have goals, no matter
Speaker 1: which way, shape, or form they are. And like when
Speaker 1: someone will do their inbody and they show me their
Speaker 1: embody and I know what they're doing for a workout,
Speaker 1: and they're very consistent. I'll say, okay, this here. I'll
Speaker 1: always say do you want my opinion, and they'll say yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so this here is first. I'll usually
Speaker 1: ask like, how do you feel about it? What's you see?
Speaker 1: Because I want them to learn how to read their
Speaker 1: sheets right, So I'm like okay, I'm like, yeah, you've
Speaker 1: lost the muscle. They're like, but I'm eating well and
Speaker 1: I'm at the gym. I'm like, your workouts aren't the
Speaker 1: issue here. I'm like something that it needs you to assess,
Speaker 1: judging by how you're moving, what you're doing, what you're lifting,
Speaker 1: and what you're eating. My opinion, which you can go
Speaker 1: and verify if you would like to do, is that
Speaker 1: you're not eating enough food. And nine times out of
Speaker 1: ten they'll look at me and be like, I haven't
Speaker 1: and I know that I'll eat like one meal a day.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so maybe try to have two meals
Speaker 1: a day. Maybe try to add in some more food,
Speaker 1: and then in two weeks or you're next scan, depending
Speaker 1: on what our agreement is, come into your own body.
Speaker 1: Just change one little thing and you. There was one
Speaker 1: person that was platowed for like two months, over two
Speaker 1: and a half months, and I'm like, ooh, I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you want one tweak that you could make that
Speaker 1: I bet is going to change everything. And she said sure.
Speaker 1: I said, you're going from lunchtime and you're coming to
Speaker 1: your evening classes, you're doing two classes, and you're going
Speaker 1: home and.
Speaker 2: You're not hungry.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I need you if you're coming to a
Speaker 1: five point forty five class and your last meal is
Speaker 1: between twelve one two o'clock, Like, I just need you
Speaker 1: to eat a protein packed meal at about four o'clock.
Speaker 2: Can you do that?
Speaker 1: And she said yes. I said, okay, just do that
Speaker 1: one thing. Oh, And also there was her I think
Speaker 1: it was her lunch was a protein bar. So I said,
Speaker 1: can you switch one of these meals for something that's
Speaker 1: a Whole Foods meal? And xnay, the protein bar your
Speaker 1: regular occurrence.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: I'm like it. The way that everyone's body works with sugar,
Speaker 1: alcohols and all those things is a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So she's like, I'll do anything. It's been over two months.
Speaker 1: I haven't nothing. Everything's plateaued. So I'm like, okay, two weeks, this.
Speaker 2: Is your day.
Speaker 1: You come in. I know it's an evening class. I'm
Speaker 1: probably not going to be here. Come into your inbody.
Speaker 1: Please send me a picture. Okay. So that day, before
Speaker 1: she even got to the gym, I said, and I've
Speaker 1: checked in with her like between that time, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: remember when you go into class and waiting for your
Speaker 1: inbody because i just want her to know that I'm
Speaker 1: here and I'm aware of it.
Speaker 2: So she's like, yes, I'm gonna go in and do it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, and then she was like, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, and all of a sudden, her numbers
Speaker 1: in two weeks went posh.
Speaker 2: I'm like, there you go. I'm like, keep that shit up.
Speaker 2: Not only that, you also get to eat more food,
Speaker 2: so hooray, Yeah, that's it. Hooray.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of when people are stalling, I'll say
Speaker 1: stalling or they're not losing the body fat percentage that
Speaker 1: they want to. Usually they're not eating enough food, or
Speaker 1: they're overdoing cardio, not lifting enough weights and vice versa.
Speaker 1: Nicky's making a face, did you do your body? You're
Speaker 1: running a lot my food?
Speaker 2: I know, well, I definitely.
Speaker 3: Maybe I could say that that's not a coaching mistake,
Speaker 3: but that's just a nicky mistake.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: Actually, Kim and I were talking about that today, which
Speaker 3: is like, you know that. So the thing about the
Speaker 3: thing about cardio that you know is that it's just
Speaker 3: good for your heart and lungs.
Speaker 2: It's good for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so past that, it's not really it's only good
Speaker 3: if you're trying to But then, like anything else, you
Speaker 3: have to maintain that same amount of say you're doing
Speaker 3: thirty minutes four times a week, that's a lot of cardio,
Speaker 3: like extra cardio, right, Yeah, so your body gets used
Speaker 3: to burning those extra calories and your metabolism adjusts for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when people say that there you just walk their
Speaker 1: dog for exercise, and they complain that they're not hitting
Speaker 1: any of their goals because that's what they do in
Speaker 1: the regular routine.
Speaker 3: Right, So it's like you need to do above that
Speaker 3: or you need to figure out or you need to
Speaker 3: that's the lifting weight part of it, right, you have
Speaker 3: to lift enough weights.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: To me, Matchmate in Heaven Chef's Kiss, Powerburn, I don't
Speaker 1: really power burn two.
Speaker 3: I definitely, I definitely know that that is a thing,
Speaker 3: but that's not I'm doing it because it's a goal,
Speaker 3: not because it's like what's best for me, right, And
Speaker 3: who knows how the metabolism is going to go.
Speaker 2: That's definitely going to come back with.
Speaker 3: I feel like the reason why I've gained weight a
Speaker 3: lot to begin with from say even like so far
Speaker 3: as COVID, which is like a sedentary job mixed with
Speaker 3: less cardio, because I did lots of cardio when I
Speaker 3: was young. Right, Oh, so I would have said I
Speaker 3: would have done because I've never really thought about I've
Speaker 3: never been super methodical. I've always just because I like
Speaker 3: going biking and I like doing this.
Speaker 2: That's that's why I do it, right. I don't think, okay, well.
Speaker 3: This is two hundred calories, this is three hundred, you know,
Speaker 3: I don't think about in terms of like that, but
Speaker 3: knowing that if you change your amount of moving a
Speaker 3: bye a lot, no matter what you're doing, it's going
Speaker 3: to make a difference in.
Speaker 2: How much you can eat, right, Yeah, totally yeah, because
Speaker 2: they're always burning, right, this is the thing, so or
Speaker 2: not burning if you're not doing nothing right?
Speaker 1: And I think too, like you've had a significant change
Speaker 1: more recently.
Speaker 2: And that I'm trying to ma, guess what's not weird.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, it's commenting of it whatever, Like, no.
Speaker 3: It's okay. I mean I feel like I feel like
Speaker 3: the truth is the truth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like you've had another like you've you've been fit
Speaker 1: your whole life.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been moving and I mean focusing on different things, yes,
Speaker 3: but yes, yeah, like you you eat, brief sleep, fitness
Speaker 3: like for a long time.
Speaker 2: It's your lifestyle. It's not your hobby. It's your lifestyle.
Speaker 1: I love it a lot.
Speaker 2: And and you're good at it. You're great at it.
Speaker 1: And uh more recently you're not in a sit seditary job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed just coaching you, seeing the way you move,
Speaker 1: seeing the way you carry yourself, like those things there's
Speaker 1: a rapid all of a sudden, it's like that like
Speaker 1: plateauy kind of thing is almost like non existent anymore
Speaker 1: because now you're getting in twenty thirty thousand steps in
Speaker 1: the day, You're you're still doing your workouts, you're doing
Speaker 1: your equal cardio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, am I And with all this running in stuff,
Speaker 4: my legs is I'm never okay.
Speaker 2: So we can say that I've been exercising consistently since
Speaker 2: I was like eighteen years old. Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be forty six. I was wondering, going to tell me
Speaker 2: what old you are, Like, you're not forty six. That's
Speaker 2: a wild side.
Speaker 3: So I guess that's almost thirty years.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight years.
Speaker 1: Oh, twenty eight years, is it true?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So that that long. Yeah, And I would say that.
Speaker 3: I can't remember my legs ever really being super sore
Speaker 3: with anything, but this volume of stuff definitely walking around
Speaker 3: and maybe I don't know if it's age or whatever.
Speaker 1: I remember when you first, like my life ever, when
Speaker 1: you first were not doing that job and you're painting
Speaker 1: and you're using the boxes as your ladder, and you
Speaker 1: were like, oh my gosh, my legs are so sore.
Speaker 1: She's like up and down from the big box for
Speaker 1: like hours and hours and hours. I was like, oh wow.
Speaker 2: And then that in like everything else that.
Speaker 1: You're doing and you're running and you're moving, so everything
Speaker 1: is just kind of like your culbination den droits are tingling. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So anyways, I think that's.
Speaker 1: The only mistakes we've made obviously, haha.
Speaker 2: The things that we need to grow from, well, I
Speaker 2: mean obviously the things. It's I feel like.
Speaker 3: Any fad things are still have value in the moment.
Speaker 1: Say they'll always be a new fad, that there will
Speaker 1: always be a new, revised version of the same fad.
Speaker 1: History has been repeating itself. Bell bottoms are back, baggy
Speaker 1: clothes are back.
Speaker 2: They call them flare pants. That's where I live.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're from where I'm from the nineties, so
Speaker 3: like I live in the whole idea of having really
Speaker 3: baggy pants.
Speaker 1: I love flare pants because I got knock knees. When
Speaker 1: skinny jeans and skinny tights came in, I was like, uh,
Speaker 1: then I got Yeah, I just got on that bandwagon
Speaker 1: out weird look like a weird triangle. Have you heard
Speaker 1: of those new genes called barrel jeans?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the wide leg pants that you can't
Speaker 3: wear because if you have large upper legs, it looks
Speaker 3: just weird.
Speaker 2: Tree stumped us and lit up the center of it.
Speaker 3: My wide leg pants that are tight on the top
Speaker 3: and loose on the bottom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I also don't like tripping over I got
Speaker 1: short life. I don't like my pants dragging, and like
Speaker 1: tripping on my pants. I'm not getting behind that trend.
Speaker 3: I can't well, I mean they sent them to me
Speaker 3: and they look so weird that my partner is the
Speaker 3: most wonderful partner may have been like, please don't put
Speaker 3: those pants on again.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, he loves everything that he does. Those
Speaker 2: pants must me pretty bad. Were they jeans?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Well, ones were like Plazo pants.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I bought two pairs of those, and they're sill in
Speaker 2: the drawer. Yeah. Were they the thin material or like
Speaker 2: the thick No, they were actually like a cordion material.
Speaker 2: They're weird. They look like a skirt, but I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't even know why.
Speaker 1: I just like light airy them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that've never won them. Who the heck?
Speaker 3: I mean it's pretty common that we buy stuff and
Speaker 3: don't wear it though they long with women.
Speaker 2: No, they're like three cord beads. Oh. I used to
Speaker 2: have a pair of those when I was young, so horrible. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's one.
Speaker 1: They were like capris, but they're like wide like capris.
Speaker 2: And they're like black, and they used to have like
Speaker 2: a little waist belt. Those are back. I mean, I
Speaker 2: feel like a couple of years ago, maybe, but I
Speaker 2: don't know. What did you see what I wear? Most
Speaker 2: of the time those my earphones.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes things are just comfortable. We gotta
Speaker 1: do what's best for us. That's what we're learning from
Speaker 1: the podcast. To do what is the best for you.
Speaker 1: And we're allowed to grow. That's a take home. That's
Speaker 1: a take home. You're allowed to grow, You're allowed to
Speaker 1: change your mind. Hopefully you grow so like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think the number one thing is being
Speaker 1: able to roll with the punches. Like I know. For
Speaker 1: what we've been talking about is we can change our
Speaker 1: mind and we don't have to stay there. What we
Speaker 1: said is one thing doesn't mean that that's what we
Speaker 1: want for the rest of our lives. Our goals are
Speaker 1: allowed to change at that moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I myself change from one day to the next,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if that may be you. Wow.
Speaker 1: And even as another perspective is I know how hard
Speaker 1: it is for me to change myself. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to fight tooth and nail to try to change somebody else.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, impossible. It can't change other people. No, I
Speaker 3: can hold your hand and rub your back while you're
Speaker 3: changing yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're here to help I do all right? Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you got something from this podcast. Let me
Speaker 1: know how many push ups that you can do in
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Feel free to at me on social media.
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Speaker 1: that you can do?
Speaker 2: And Nikki, you coach here all the time, at least
Speaker 2: two three days a week. Hit up Nikki have a
Speaker 2: push up challenge. She's got one hundred thousand to prepare
Speaker 2: for bye bye. Thanks for joining, Nikki. Thanks