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Speaker 4: of course this Wellness Wednesday. Claude Cooper joins us in studio.
Speaker 4: It's great to see you, Claudine. Let's get right to it.
Speaker 4: We've talked about wellness within the context of working out
Speaker 4: and living our lives in a day to day fashion.
Speaker 4: But what about this idea of wellness centric travel where
Speaker 4: people are disconnecting, they're leaving their phones behind as best
Speaker 4: they can, traveling to places where they're not enjoying the
Speaker 4: trappings of modern lifestyle to somehow reset and recalibrate themselves.
Speaker 4: It seems like now we have wellness integrated in every
Speaker 4: form and fashion of our lives. It's not just going
Speaker 4: on a vacation, but a vacation which is wellness focused.
Speaker 2: Where would you come out on that.
Speaker 3: Well, here's my question. Do you work out when you're
Speaker 3: on vacation?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, well, I definitely work out.
Speaker 3: Every time I go anywhere, I look for the hotel gym,
Speaker 3: I look for classes in the area. I definitely look
Speaker 3: for ways that I can move my body when I'm traveling.
Speaker 3: But I read through the article that you sent and
Speaker 3: I feel like we're seeking to get grounded or to
Speaker 3: go do yoga out of the country. Why can't we
Speaker 3: do it right here.
Speaker 2: Maybe at Iconics or something.
Speaker 3: I mean, we do it at Iconics, for sure, but
Speaker 3: what about just getting outside in nature?
Speaker 2: What about connecting with the sunlight?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Granted, I am fully aware that there are people who
Speaker 3: live in neighborhoods where it's unsafe for them to go outside.
Speaker 3: So I want to hold space for people who can't
Speaker 3: actually go out and experience nature because of where they live.
Speaker 3: But I don't feel like we have to necessarily take
Speaker 3: a trip on an airplane to experience the benefits of
Speaker 3: putting our feet in the grass, our face in the sunshine.
Speaker 3: What the article said, resetting our connection with nature?
Speaker 2: Why do we have to fly away for that?
Speaker 4: And I think there's something that would be for me
Speaker 4: depressing about the other word I can think of if
Speaker 4: you spend these thousands of dollars to go to this
Speaker 4: exotic location and the play trip each way just burns
Speaker 4: you out, so when you come back you feel as
Speaker 4: if you've had no vacation at all. I try to
Speaker 4: avoid spending a whole lot of money and putting so
Speaker 4: much pressure on a physical location that makes me feel
Speaker 4: better about life.
Speaker 3: Ooh, but now we're veering off in the direction of
Speaker 3: people who actually live their lives to wait for the
Speaker 3: next trip, the next vacation. You and I are one
Speaker 3: of the rare few people who wake up every day
Speaker 3: with a zest for life, excited to go do the
Speaker 3: job that we believe.
Speaker 2: We were created to do.
Speaker 3: But for many people, the joy that they find in
Speaker 3: travel comes from the fact that every day they're going
Speaker 3: to work at a job that really just maybe doesn't
Speaker 3: fire them up. But they get their beans way. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been there too. You know, they get their bills
Speaker 3: paid and it's not horrible, but it's not great, and
Speaker 3: it's not it's not making them feel like this is
Speaker 3: what I live for. You and I we probably go
Speaker 3: on a vacation and be ready to come back to work.
Speaker 2: Tell the truth, yes, vacations can be too long.
Speaker 3: Same and as far as being on the plane for many,
Speaker 3: many hours. I also feel that there are health challenges
Speaker 3: involved in sitting on a plane for many hours. A
Speaker 3: lot of people have to wear compression socks. There's a
Speaker 3: swelling that happens when you're seated for hours and hours.
Speaker 2: You're not careful exactly.
Speaker 3: So me personally, if I'm thinking about finding ways to
Speaker 3: recreate or reconnect with nature, I'm going to find ways
Speaker 3: that are closer to me in proximity. What are some
Speaker 3: ways in southern California that we can reconnect with nature
Speaker 3: without having to get on an airplane pay thousands of
Speaker 3: dollars to be in a wilderness retreat.
Speaker 4: It's interesting you say that, because, with the exception of
Speaker 4: four h when I was growing up, I was not
Speaker 4: one of those big outdoorsy people. We went to Joshua Tree,
Speaker 4: we would camp, but that's not something I would do
Speaker 4: as an adult. We were just talking about a story
Speaker 4: yesterday about how Los Angeles City of Los Angeles is
Speaker 4: ninety out of maybe one hundred major cities as far
Speaker 4: as parks. In other words, those we live in a
Speaker 4: very urban environment and it doesn't lend itself to that.
Speaker 4: So these are issues on top of issues as we
Speaker 4: try to find that place to disconnect in this world
Speaker 4: which is just full of electronic connections.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there is an answer.
Speaker 3: Well, here's a few tips for anyone who's trying to
Speaker 3: reconnect with nature and you live in an urban area,
Speaker 3: there are still ways that you can adjust your lifestyle
Speaker 3: so it's not dominated by screens and buy noises.
Speaker 2: So here's a few things that I do.
Speaker 3: I make sure that when the sun is up, my
Speaker 3: drapes and shades are all so up. That's allowing natural
Speaker 3: light to come in. And that's also resetting your circadian rhythm.
Speaker 3: Meaning when the sun comes up at let's say six
Speaker 3: in the morning, if you're up, that's when you lift
Speaker 3: your drapes and shades or open your blinds. Right, That's
Speaker 3: one of the things that spoke of in the article,
Speaker 3: that we are disconnected from our circadian rhythm, meaning we
Speaker 3: go to bed at these odd hours, we sleep at
Speaker 3: these odd hours. And as animals, which we are, we're
Speaker 3: just like a regular animal.
Speaker 2: We need sunlight.
Speaker 3: Our body needs rest, it needs water, and it needs sunlight.
Speaker 2: I mean, are we a plant or are we an animal?
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm.
Speaker 4: Saying, No, absolutely, we need all those things, and sometimes
Speaker 4: not that we are need to be watered like a plant,
Speaker 4: but we need to be tended to consistently.
Speaker 2: And part of that is also how we treat ourselves.
Speaker 3: It is another way is if you even have a
Speaker 3: small patch of grass. Let's say, like for me, I
Speaker 3: don't have a big yard. I definitely live in an
Speaker 3: urban area, a concrete jungle. I live next door to
Speaker 3: a football stadium, so there. It don't get much more
Speaker 3: concrete jungle than that.
Speaker 4: They let you play on the field, ask I said.
Speaker 3: Let yoga, Yeah, I sure have, Like, let's have a
Speaker 3: yoga class. I think.
Speaker 2: It's coming. It's coming, right.
Speaker 3: But I say that to say you can use a
Speaker 3: small patch of grass. Take your socks off, take your
Speaker 3: shoes off, place your bare feet in that small patch
Speaker 3: of grass, and you are connecting to the ground also
Speaker 3: called grounding, sometimes called earthing, and there is a direct
Speaker 3: benefit to your health by placing your bare feet in
Speaker 3: the grass or on the ground, not necessarily a concrete but.
Speaker 4: A viewer Darryl Sexton on our YouTube channel says, do
Speaker 4: like die hard when you get to your destination, make
Speaker 4: fists with your toes.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's the same thing. If the
Speaker 2: same thing, we see it, we hear you, Darryl.
Speaker 4: When we come back, I gotta let you know about
Speaker 4: Claudine's weekly free workout, which is going to be this Saturday,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna be there, so you get to CB fallout,
Speaker 4: pass out with Claudine and she puts me through my
Speaker 4: paces that are free community workout. Will tell you about
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Speaker 4: joining me right now as we continue our conversation is
Speaker 4: Claudine Cooper. You can always go to Claudinecooper dot com
Speaker 4: and find out what's going on with her. But a
Speaker 4: part of what's going on with you, Claudine tell us
Speaker 4: about this coming Saturday in which I'll be joining you.
Speaker 3: Well every Saturday at nine am in Inglewood. There's a
Speaker 3: free workout and you know, we just do calisthenics, body
Speaker 3: weight conditioning. There's no equipment needed, there's no motors needed. Yep,
Speaker 3: it's outside. There won't be any feet in the grass
Speaker 3: because we have no grass. It's just on a basketball court.
Speaker 3: You wear your tennis shoes, something comfortable, and you just
Speaker 3: come with a positive attitude and a willingness to exercise.
Speaker 3: It's all levels, it's families, it's elders, it's children.
Speaker 2: Everybody comes.
Speaker 4: You'd have the times that I've been, this will be
Speaker 4: my third time you have anyone like one hundred to
Speaker 4: two hundred people in my own You are correct.
Speaker 2: I definitely have a big crowd.
Speaker 3: I never know this is so here's something kind of
Speaker 3: crazy about being in fitness mo And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: people get caught up in numbers these days. But when
Speaker 3: I've been teaching classes, sometimes I've had five people show
Speaker 3: up and then sometimes I have five hundred people show up.
Speaker 3: But because there's no registration, I have to have the
Speaker 3: same energy for five that I have for five hundred. Right,
Speaker 3: And because I love what I do, I hope that
Speaker 3: it does translate for five. But I remember a time
Speaker 3: when do you remember this when the gyms used to
Speaker 3: just tell you, hey, the aerobics class is at ten
Speaker 3: am on Monday, right, And then people would just come
Speaker 3: at ten am on Monday.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's not like that anymore, guys. You got to
Speaker 3: hear what they do now. Now you have to reserve
Speaker 3: a spot. It's like Disneyland, literally, So check this out. No,
Speaker 3: I got to tell you because it gets real crazy
Speaker 3: about booking these spots. So the booking tool opens on
Speaker 3: a certain day, so let's say tool. Yes, and it's
Speaker 3: not just our gym in Englewood Iconics, but it's all gyms.
Speaker 3: In order for you to get into the class that
Speaker 3: you want, you have to have your phone, you have
Speaker 3: to have the app, you have to book the class,
Speaker 3: reserve the space.
Speaker 2: So listen to this now.
Speaker 3: Look, you told me to big up myself if there's
Speaker 3: something I want to share. So I teach pilates in
Speaker 3: a heated room. My pilates classes sell out in thirty seconds.
Speaker 3: How many people is that thirty people can fit in
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 4: And if I'm paying my money to the gym and
Speaker 4: I can never get into the class I want to
Speaker 4: get in.
Speaker 2: Is there any type of recourse?
Speaker 3: Well, that's why I teach so many classes, because I'm
Speaker 3: trying to accommodate the morning people, the night people, the
Speaker 3: lunch hour exercisers. So I do my best to work
Speaker 3: as much as I humanly possibly can. And then at
Speaker 3: that point I usually will tell people, Hey, someone might
Speaker 3: drop off, just come check and see if you can
Speaker 3: get a spot, and usually they can. But I really
Speaker 3: miss the days when the class was at this time.
Speaker 3: People just show up when the class starts and it's
Speaker 3: first come, first served.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, is there any penalty. Let's say I signed
Speaker 4: up for your pilates class and I don't show.
Speaker 3: Up, you are penalized. We charge a ten dollars no
Speaker 3: show fee. Ah okay, that that really snatched people up
Speaker 3: real quick. They stop, they stop doing that now they come.
Speaker 3: It's also an accountability tool, absolutely yeah, because people don't
Speaker 3: want to pay that ten dollars. I will say this though,
Speaker 3: mom technology has helped in so many ways. One of
Speaker 3: the ways, obviously, is now you know how many people
Speaker 3: are coming to your class, because if it books out,
Speaker 3: it's saying this is how many people are coming.
Speaker 2: But for my outdoor workouts, I like to keep it
Speaker 2: old school.
Speaker 3: Whoever comes comes, whoever can come, will come. And on
Speaker 3: that style of training, it opens me up to new connections,
Speaker 3: new people.
Speaker 2: I don't have a list to go from.
Speaker 3: I just welcome everyone who wants to move their body
Speaker 3: on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: I want to move my body on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 4: I'm going to join you in maybe one hundred to
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty people at the Inglewood Hollywood Park
Speaker 4: retail district. Yeah, very quickly, let's explain how they should
Speaker 4: get there, where they should park, and how they can
Speaker 4: find us.
Speaker 3: Well, at this point, most people know where Sofi Stadium is,
Speaker 3: which is a good point of reference. But the actual
Speaker 3: parking garage is on ninety seventh in Prairie, and we
Speaker 3: validate the parking. There's a farmer's market. You can see
Speaker 3: it from Prairie. It's kind of like tucked in the
Speaker 3: basketball court. So once you get out of the parking garage,
Speaker 3: you just walk through the community and you'll see us.
Speaker 3: It's a big crowd. You can't miss us.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Do you have any specific plans for the weekend or
Speaker 4: are you making it up.
Speaker 2: As you go.
Speaker 3: I like to freestyle on the weekends. I work a
Speaker 3: lot Monday through Friday. I just taught a class before
Speaker 3: I came to see you, and I sat in ninety
Speaker 3: minutes of traffic.
Speaker 2: I do want to say that.
Speaker 3: I normally don't have to It's usually like somewhere between
Speaker 3: an hour to an hour fifteen, but today, I don't
Speaker 3: know what was going on on the freeways. Today I
Speaker 3: ended up sitting in traffic for ninety minutes. But it
Speaker 3: was well worth it because I got a chance to
Speaker 3: see you guys out here, and I love my CAFI family.
Speaker 4: So just let you know I'm going to be out
Speaker 4: there with Claudine on Saturday. If you forget all this information,
Speaker 4: you can go to Claudinecooper dot com. But I would
Speaker 4: love to see you, especially if you're in the chat.
Speaker 4: Come out and work out with us. It's a beautiful
Speaker 4: experience because you're outdoors. It's it's a different experience outdoors
Speaker 4: as opposed to indoors, and it's a nice way for
Speaker 4: me to reset. You know, I need to change up
Speaker 4: my workout from every now and then. I've done this
Speaker 4: hopketo tournament for the past three months. I need to
Speaker 4: change a pace, and this is going to be my
Speaker 4: change of pace. I'd love to see you out there,
Speaker 4: and Claudie, you can go ahead and whoop my ass.
Speaker 2: Again like you are. You know.
Speaker 3: He always says that you guys, but I want you
Speaker 3: to know that Moe is very athletic.
Speaker 2: I've never seen him fall out. Maybe he had to
Speaker 2: catch his breath a couple of times, but that's all
Speaker 2: part for the course.
Speaker 3: Everyone in the life pace myself, I was just gonna
Speaker 3: say it.
Speaker 4: I don't start fast out the gate because I know
Speaker 4: it's a long way to go.
Speaker 3: I always tell people, please work at your own pace.
Speaker 3: We are all on a journey. Everyone's at a different
Speaker 3: place on their journey. There's no pressure to go super
Speaker 3: hard or super fast.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but man, we have this ego thing.
Speaker 4: We can't have the sixty five year old woman running
Speaker 4: past us, and that's gonna happen on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you death to the ego. I got
Speaker 2: to tell you one to say, though. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 2: tell you one thing.
Speaker 3: There was one woman and she was in the midst
Speaker 3: of chemo therapy, and she came out there with barely
Speaker 3: any hair, and she just whooped everybody, and I said
Speaker 3: to myself, girl, you are a beast because she was
Speaker 3: going toe to toe with me every move. So I say,
Speaker 3: go at your own pace, do your own thing. But
Speaker 3: if you can't push yourself, why.
Speaker 4: Not Claudinecooper dot com. I will see you on Saturday, Claudide.
Speaker 4: And also, please give out your social media.
Speaker 3: I am Fit with three. You can find me on Instagram, TikTok.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty much on all social media platforms, but I
Speaker 3: did go private on Facebook because the trolling got out
Speaker 3: of control.
Speaker 2: Oh you gotta tell me, you know, you know, I
Speaker 2: just said, you know what.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stay public on Instagram and TikTok, but I
Speaker 3: am gonna go private for Facebook.
Speaker 2: Always good to see you. I'll see you Saturday. Always
Speaker 2: good to see you too.
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