Speaker 1: Somebody brought me a question in the past week and
Speaker 1: she said, Hey, Christina, I feel a little bit conflicted
Speaker 1: because I do love myself genuinely, but I still want
Speaker 1: to have progress and I actually do want to lose weight.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Transformation Station podcast. I'm Christina, owner, operator,
Speaker 1: and founder of the Transformation Station, and this is where
Speaker 1: we talk about getting stronger while navigating real life. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to stay consistent through the ups and the
Speaker 1: downs and everywhere else in between, this is for you.
Speaker 1: In the past, I'm going to say six to eight years,
Speaker 1: we've seen the ups and the downs of one side
Speaker 1: of the spectrum, which is body positive, and it was
Speaker 1: like it was almost glorifying being plus size and slapping
Speaker 1: people on the wrists if they were plus size and
Speaker 1: wanted to lose weight. And then we now see in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six we see a lot of the skinny
Speaker 1: talk and the thin inspo. We call like the Anna inspo.
Speaker 1: The anna is short for anarexia, So that's resurfaced. I
Speaker 1: think that's always been kind of circulating, like the dark web.
Speaker 1: Same with like there's people that are like we love feeders,
Speaker 1: and I think that's like don't quote me on that.
Speaker 1: There's people that pay a lot of money to watch
Speaker 1: big women eat food. I miss that boat. But like
Speaker 1: there's there's so many different opinions, and we often think,
Speaker 1: like I feel bad for feeling this way because somewhere
Speaker 1: somebody doesn't want me to feel like this. And as
Speaker 1: a curby plus size person that textbook plus size, if
Speaker 1: that's what you want to call it, who doesn't own
Speaker 1: a gym, I hear this a lot because like I
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, what do you do for work? I'm
Speaker 1: just retired, Like, leave me alone. That's not good networking though, right,
Speaker 1: So I was like, oh, I remember when I was
Speaker 1: I actually used to do a long time ago. In
Speaker 1: my twenties. I used to go to a lot of
Speaker 1: in person networking events and as soon as I stood
Speaker 1: up and I said I owned a personal training studio,
Speaker 1: the eyes on people they would look me up and
Speaker 1: down and back up, and I'm like, okay, enough is enough.
Speaker 1: That's why I stopped going to those in person networking meetings.
Speaker 1: I still to this day do not go to those.
Speaker 1: I'm very thankful that I've been able to build a
Speaker 1: business and build a brand without having to do those things,
Speaker 1: but I understand like not everything is for everybody, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we're talking about today regarding fitness, weight loss, transformation.
Speaker 1: In that context, the Transformation Station, that's where you come
Speaker 1: to transform, and that is not just if people want
Speaker 1: to transform on the outside. Transformation in my opinion and
Speaker 1: why I built this business and this brand is because
Speaker 1: transformation happens from the inside, and that's why we have
Speaker 1: social events. That's why we last year, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: last year over the holidays, we actually coincided with someone
Speaker 1: who talked about people pleasing and there was a workshop
Speaker 1: based on that. Like we have so many different avenues
Speaker 1: of transformation programs in the Transformation Station, our Meat and
Speaker 1: Potatoes is our group fitness because it is very unique
Speaker 1: to the fitness industry here in Ontario. So that's something
Speaker 1: that we really do. We tend to show that a
Speaker 1: lot like fitness classes, fitness classes, and that is our
Speaker 1: main priority and our main meat potatoes. But in saying
Speaker 1: that as in a priority like we want to we
Speaker 1: want to make sure that people have the resources that
Speaker 1: they can hang on to if they want transformation in
Speaker 1: other ways, not just seeing how much their their body
Speaker 1: can change, like getting stronger and longevity number one, Like
Speaker 1: that's why we have our group fitness and then whatever
Speaker 1: else your personal goals are alongside that, like you can
Speaker 1: carry those around with you too, and like I feel
Speaker 1: sometimes I feel bad, like I don't talk a lot
Speaker 1: about my own progress. Since June I wrote a newsletter
Speaker 1: and I'm like you, I'm tired of my own shit.
Speaker 1: Time to dial in the reins. And since that newsletter,
Speaker 1: I've lost just about thirty pounds and thirty pounds of
Speaker 1: fat loss because I've maintained my muscle and increased my strength.
Speaker 1: But I don't love talking about that because I understand
Speaker 1: that not everybody is in this vicinity for fat loss
Speaker 1: for weight loss. Am I obsessive about how my body
Speaker 1: looks because I'm doing everything aggressive in order to look
Speaker 1: a certain way like that star shape in the star
Speaker 1: shape of that Fisher Price toy. No, I'm not, because
Speaker 1: that's the byproduct of I know I'm changing my habits
Speaker 1: and again, not my first rodeo. I've been in this
Speaker 1: industry just about fifteen years now. I've seen so many things,
Speaker 1: I've felt and changed in so many different ways that
Speaker 1: things can exist at the same time. I know there's
Speaker 1: some people in the gym and they're getting into like
Speaker 1: their sobriety journeys. Like we have one woman who is
Speaker 1: i'm gonna say probably over the age of fifty. And
Speaker 1: she came up to me the other day and she
Speaker 1: was and we have so many people that this could
Speaker 1: be Oh look, my alarm's going off, but I'm already
Speaker 1: here podcasts recording. We have so many people who fit
Speaker 1: this description, so I'm not afraid to say this out loud.
Speaker 1: She came up to me the other day and she's like,
Speaker 1: I became healthier and I feel stronger. And she is
Speaker 1: a very petite person, and she said in like some
Speaker 1: of the things how she's changed, She's like, I gave
Speaker 1: up alcohol, I gave up drinking, and I feel so
Speaker 1: good and I'm stronger and it's changed my life. And
Speaker 1: thank you for providing a safe place that I can
Speaker 1: come to as someone who is working on outside changes
Speaker 1: to come in here and focus on other things. So
Speaker 1: it's like it all contributes to the bigger picture. So
Speaker 1: I can appreciate that. If we're talking about sizes, and
Speaker 1: like there's sometimes excuse me, I am there was the
Speaker 1: other day I was coaching and I don't love standing
Speaker 1: over top of people to talk to them. So this
Speaker 1: person was on the ground and I like she was
Speaker 1: doing like a I think she was maybe going into
Speaker 1: a plank. I can't remember offhand, but I remember exactly
Speaker 1: what I wanted my approach to be, so I remember
Speaker 1: that clearly. And I laid on the ground beside her
Speaker 1: and I looked. I'm like, are you sick? And we
Speaker 1: have that relationship, so I'm like, are you sick? She
Speaker 1: was like no. I'm like are you all right? And
Speaker 1: she's like yes. I'm like, oh okay. I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you losing weight intentionally? And she said I've been trying,
Speaker 1: and she's like I changed some of my my nutrition.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh okay. I'm like I don't love
Speaker 1: complimenting or saying anything about people's bodies, but I just
Speaker 1: wanted to make note that A you look strong, and
Speaker 1: B like, I see it good for you and she
Speaker 1: was like, thank you. That means a lot. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. But I'm very aware because like, there's some
Speaker 1: people in the gym and I know they're struggling with
Speaker 1: eating enough food and they've been stressed out or their
Speaker 1: family is not doing well and they're not eating, so
Speaker 1: they're losing weight. And I have people coming up to
Speaker 1: me and they're saying, oh my gosh, looks incredible, and
Speaker 1: I'm like that person and I wouldn't say that to
Speaker 1: that person. I'm like, oh yeah, but I'm like, it's
Speaker 1: not my place to spill those beans. But in my brain,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that person isn't losing weight on purpose, and
Speaker 1: that person's actually having a really hard time. But for
Speaker 1: some reason, people still glorify when people lose weight and
Speaker 1: they're in a smaller body. Some people in our gym
Speaker 1: actually are going through cancer. So like there's so many
Speaker 1: different avenues and aspects. It's like, okay, we can't just
Speaker 1: look and slap a label on it. And also in
Speaker 1: saying that, I know that's really hard, like when you
Speaker 1: have grown up in that way and you naturally have
Speaker 1: that vision, like the like what you know, like in
Speaker 1: your own perspective that if you're someone who's trying to
Speaker 1: lose weight yourself and you see someone that's lost weight,
Speaker 1: maybe they lost like sixty pounds, you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you look amazing or oh my god, like and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm really, really really working with that person to try
Speaker 1: to get her to eat at least one full day.
Speaker 1: Like that's not helping right now, but like there's that's why,
Speaker 1: Like it's really big right now, Like don't comment on
Speaker 1: people's bodies. I know there's a Ariana Grande is underheat
Speaker 1: and people are like stop talking about her body, and
Speaker 1: people are commenting like online. I would never comment online,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about this right now, but I'm using
Speaker 1: that as an example. We saw that with Annie and
Speaker 1: Sarah and I were talking about this after we recorded
Speaker 1: her podcast episode, and we're talking about like in like
Speaker 1: the early two thousands, we had like Callista Flockhart, we
Speaker 1: had Julia Roberts, we had like all these different body types,
Speaker 1: and now we see, like Megan Trainer had a radical transformation.
Speaker 1: And when I say radical, I don't mean like yes,
Speaker 1: I five. I mean like I don't know anything about her,
Speaker 1: so why can't judge that more of like an extreme transformation.
Speaker 1: When her brand was being curvy and plus size, she
Speaker 1: built her brand around that to now being in a
Speaker 1: different brand. Her followers that followed her because they resonated,
Speaker 1: and now they're like, oh no, like what like they're
Speaker 1: either gonna accept her or they think she's full shit
Speaker 1: and they move on to somebody else. Same with Adele
Speaker 1: Melissa McCartney. McCartney McCarthy, I'm not too sure we see
Speaker 1: that happen even in mainstream media. And then we're starting
Speaker 1: to see that now, like we're seeing like we're calling
Speaker 1: it the ozempic area area, the ozembic era, but before
Speaker 1: it was the slim fast era, and there was isogenics era,
Speaker 1: and it was visalis, which was like all these things
Speaker 1: are like drink two shakes a day that are like nothing,
Speaker 1: and then eat like a salad and have some protein
Speaker 1: for dinner. So it's like that's pretty much the same
Speaker 1: as anything else that has been going on since even
Speaker 1: before I was alive, even before I existed, So like
Speaker 1: there's always going to be those things, and there's always
Speaker 1: going to be like what is right what is not right?
Speaker 1: But those things also intertwine because there's sometimes when people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, you're big, you should be skinny, and
Speaker 1: then there's sometimes are like, oh you're too thin. You
Speaker 1: need to be bigger, but not too big. You need
Speaker 1: to be jacked, and it's like, oh you're jacked. You
Speaker 1: look like a man. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like I'd like to know who my audience is. So
Speaker 1: like when I shared like the only this was in
Speaker 1: I think Sunday or maybe Friday, I don't remember, and
Speaker 1: I said, I was like, you know what, I had
Speaker 1: to adjust my sales because being a business owner and
Speaker 1: having one of my favorite things in the whole world,
Speaker 1: which is exercise and fitness and working out and people
Speaker 1: of course all under one roof, Match made, but like
Speaker 1: that is now also my job. So I also own
Speaker 1: the business, which means if things need to be subbed in,
Speaker 1: or there's a phone call that I need to take
Speaker 1: that's detrimental to Let's say they're doing construction and I
Speaker 1: need to talk to somebody about what is happening, what
Speaker 1: is changing, just as much as are we going to
Speaker 1: have internet so I can supply these TVs and our
Speaker 1: workouts and our music and our front desk check and
Speaker 1: and everything else under the moon because they're digging up
Speaker 1: the lines outside. Thankfully I don't have that Internet. I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that unless I heard I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone's going to lose internet, but something even
Speaker 1: as small as that, So like The first thing that
Speaker 1: has to be adjusted is my routine. Someone goes on vacation,
Speaker 1: now that adjusts my routine. Someone else goes on vacation,
Speaker 1: that now adjust my routine. Somebody gets sick, that adjusts
Speaker 1: my routine. Someone wants more hours so then they can
Speaker 1: still be a part of the transformation station on payroll.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to adjust my hours like I'm going
Speaker 1: to make sure that everything is going to work. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, when I'm spinning tires,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, I need to finally, I need to
Speaker 1: finally settle into what my routine is. And you know
Speaker 1: what my routine is and why in the last since
Speaker 1: June and now it's the middle of August, have I've
Speaker 1: been able to lose almost thirty pounds is because I
Speaker 1: let go of having to have everything so incredibly structured.
Speaker 1: And even like Monday night, so I was teaching, Nikki's gone,
Speaker 1: Christina got married. That's not a secret. Congratulations already center
Speaker 1: my congratulations. Their pictures are for nomendal if you've seen them.
Speaker 1: So on Monday night, I'm not used to going back
Speaker 1: to the gym unless I'm like piddling around, like drilling
Speaker 1: stuff into the wall and making sure things don't fall down,
Speaker 1: or delivering toilet paper and stuff like that. So on
Speaker 1: Monday night, I taught the four forty five class five
Speaker 1: forty five class, and then I taught the six forty
Speaker 1: five Zumba, and my average heart right went up to
Speaker 1: like one sixty seven. My max went up to one
Speaker 1: nd eight, like zero chill. When I teach zuba, it
Speaker 1: just sets my soul so on fire, and then my
Speaker 1: whole body gets set on fire. But I got there
Speaker 1: and I was like, shoot. I ate at two o'clock,
Speaker 1: which would have been fine if I was running in
Speaker 1: to teach one class, and I was like, I have
Speaker 1: nothing and I need to eat, So thankfully I had
Speaker 1: those that the reason why I have those unsweetened apple
Speaker 1: sauce squeeze things in the front cooler is because sometimes
Speaker 1: they're my saving grace and those ready to drink thirty
Speaker 1: grams of protein chicks. So I grabbed one of those,
Speaker 1: I put it beside the speaker. I'm like, Okay, amongst
Speaker 1: all the talking, this is easy for me to get
Speaker 1: in some calorie and to get in some energy. So
Speaker 1: I drank like half during classes of the protein shake
Speaker 1: between classes, I had half of the squeeze thing, and
Speaker 1: then at Zoomba, I actually we had two songs left,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my gosh, like I am phenomenally
Speaker 1: low energy right now, and because my heart rate was
Speaker 1: so high, I'm like, I'm just going to step off
Speaker 1: to the side because Leslie was co teaching with me,
Speaker 1: so while she had a song to teach, I actually
Speaker 1: went to the side and I squeezed. This is why,
Speaker 1: like the squeeze thing, no cutlery required, no dishes, no nothing,
Speaker 1: and I squeezed the rest of the apple sauce in
Speaker 1: my mouth. So I had that energy to finish off
Speaker 1: the class. And then when I got home, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I actually don't feel hungry. I know that that was
Speaker 1: not a sustainable choice based on is that real food?
Speaker 1: But it was a mistake, and in return, I still
Speaker 1: instead of going to the drive through either to Importance
Speaker 1: or Wendy's, because I passed it on my way home.
Speaker 1: Most nights I didn't do that, and that to me
Speaker 1: was like, Okay, you're sinning. You don't have to freak.
Speaker 1: You don't be like, oh well, now I'm starving, and
Speaker 1: I'd have to go and eat everything because I didn't
Speaker 1: plan properly because I was busy and I forgot because
Speaker 1: it's not part of my regular routine. I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: how can I shift this? Okay, I got thirty grams
Speaker 1: of protein here, I got about twenty grams of carbs
Speaker 1: from the unsweetened apple sauce. This is gonna have to do.
Speaker 1: And I just made it work. And then the next
Speaker 1: morning I woke up, but I had a phenomenal breakfast.
Speaker 1: I eat chicken for breakfast and my carbs and my
Speaker 1: fats and a full balanced meal before I went in
Speaker 1: to go to work the next day because I had
Speaker 1: to go it on Tuesday morning, even though I wasn't
Speaker 1: coaching Tuesday morning, because I was teaching Tuesday night. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I had meetings. And that was a way that I
Speaker 1: was able to let go of my rains, because normally
Speaker 1: it would have been, oh, screw it, I failed, Let's
Speaker 1: go to Tomornes, Let's go to Wendy's. So sometimes it's
Speaker 1: when our brains don't get me wrong, Like if I
Speaker 1: were to Doom Mornes, I'm like, oh, I would like
Speaker 1: a turkey sandwich on a wrap. Or if I went
Speaker 1: to doom Mortons. It would be like, oh, can I
Speaker 1: get a grilled chicken breast burger? So like they were
Speaker 1: on paper, better choices, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's still a not a good habit that I was taking.
Speaker 1: And it became a routine back then, so I'm like,
Speaker 1: why am I just spinning tires? And I started to
Speaker 1: gain weight, I'm like, oh, because this is why my
Speaker 1: habits and my routines were just like, oh, you know what,
Speaker 1: forget it. And then oh, you know what, forget it.
Speaker 1: So at the time, I was putting everybody else in
Speaker 1: front of what it was that I was doing and
Speaker 1: making sure I was telling other people like make sure
Speaker 1: you're prepared, make sure you're prepared. But for that hot second,
Speaker 1: for the few months going into summer, it's like I
Speaker 1: let go of my own rains a little bit, and
Speaker 1: that happens to the best of us. Like that's the
Speaker 1: ups and downs and then in the middle of the
Speaker 1: roads of what we call this fancy thing life. So
Speaker 1: that's something that made a really big change to me.
Speaker 1: And when I announced to the class the other day,
Speaker 1: because a lot of people right now they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I need this for my body or I need this
Speaker 1: for my body and I need this, and they're like, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do step and lift because I
Speaker 1: want strength training. Meanwhile, stepan lift is busy and everyone
Speaker 1: who's coming to step and lift or hitting their goals
Speaker 1: for the most part. So like I was, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I just want to guys to know,
Speaker 1: like I don't often share my progress. I don't love
Speaker 1: to use the front of the room to talk about myself,
Speaker 1: like I'll tell stories and I'll distract people and to
Speaker 1: connect the room too, to see people laugh, because then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're actually easier moving in the space.
Speaker 1: I guess I could say if I just didn't talk
Speaker 1: and didn't say anything, the room would just fall flat
Speaker 1: and people would be so concerned about what it was
Speaker 1: that they were doing to try to do everything perfectly.
Speaker 1: It's like they're like uptight robots. So as soon as
Speaker 1: that air is broken. Actually, someone came in after the
Speaker 1: seven am class the other day, and so that would
Speaker 1: have been Wednesday, yesterday, Okay, so today's Thursday. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be listening to this probably on Friday. So she came
Speaker 1: in and she goes and she was a little quiet,
Speaker 1: and she goes in. She goes Christina, She's like, I
Speaker 1: could feel the energy that this was a really good
Speaker 1: class before this. I was like, yeah, I like this.
Speaker 1: The classes this morning are phenomenal. Even that night, like
Speaker 1: the night before, like the classes were so great. And
Speaker 1: and she was like, yeah, I can feel the energy.
Speaker 1: She's like, I feel really good going into my workout
Speaker 1: now because that energy is there. I'm like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was awesome. People are happy, things are good, the conversations
Speaker 1: are flowing, like it was a really good space. And
Speaker 1: that was like, that's one of the highest compliments that
Speaker 1: someone can give me, is Oh, everybody in here, the
Speaker 1: energy feels really great. It's not about me. It's not
Speaker 1: about oh, you taught a good class. Won't get that twisted.
Speaker 1: I like to bring the energy of what people need
Speaker 1: for the day. But my goal is to keep everybody
Speaker 1: on their most not just their most focused self, but
Speaker 1: their most relaxed self, so that they can feel comfortable
Speaker 1: in the space to do exactly what it is that
Speaker 1: they need to do. A lot of people were trying
Speaker 1: new things, and a lot of people were solidifying things
Speaker 1: they already know, So that to me was such a
Speaker 1: cool thing, and like when we have like thirty seconds
Speaker 1: members choice as a part of our all class programming,
Speaker 1: which is phenomenal, the only have that member's choice. The
Speaker 1: reason why program that is because it allows people to
Speaker 1: a I like to look around the room and when
Speaker 1: they pick things, I like to see what they like.
Speaker 1: Because then when I do the programming for the next
Speaker 1: week or the week after or the next month, then
Speaker 1: I know that I can bring in some of those
Speaker 1: movements that people are doing that they also enjoy, not
Speaker 1: just that are going to be beneficial in that workout,
Speaker 1: but also something that's gonna bring people joy. So when
Speaker 1: they come in to do the workout, they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I like this is my favorite movement. It's like I
Speaker 1: know you indirectly told me, so I like to observe
Speaker 1: in that context. But it also allows people to have
Speaker 1: growth in their fitness journey. So if someone is newer,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, I like this movement, or maybe they
Speaker 1: might turn to somebody be like, oh what are you doing. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try that too. Oh amazing, that's my
Speaker 1: favorite thing. So it allows people to have room in
Speaker 1: their vicinity and at the end of the day, you
Speaker 1: could be standing beside someone who their body moves totally
Speaker 1: different than yours, and yours moves totally different from theirs
Speaker 1: and the person beside that person, but we can still
Speaker 1: gather and have such an amazing time and such a
Speaker 1: great workout, and there is literally no judgment. So that
Speaker 1: to me is like, where is it that you want
Speaker 1: to go? You can still love yourself and accept yourself.
Speaker 1: Like there's sometimes like right now, I'm like, oh, I
Speaker 1: like how I look, but I also know that I
Speaker 1: want to lose not just weight but body fat to
Speaker 1: sustain my health because right now I am very healthy.
Speaker 1: But that's right now, Like I know that what I
Speaker 1: do right now, in this moment is going to be
Speaker 1: I'm going to reap those benefits even in the next
Speaker 1: ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, as long as I
Speaker 1: am consistent throughout those years. I do very firmly believe that.
Speaker 1: So like when I think I went off on a
Speaker 1: big bunny trail, so when I announced that to people
Speaker 1: about doing like the tempo class or the step and lift,
Speaker 1: because I like to work out in the morning and
Speaker 1: that's my favorite thing. But I cannot not coach my
Speaker 1: classes and be like, Okay, well, I'm going to work
Speaker 1: out over here or go and do this, And like,
Speaker 1: I really do like coaching in the morning, and I
Speaker 1: really do like coaching in the evening, but I prefer
Speaker 1: to work out in the morning. So I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how can I incorporate what these classes are? My number
Speaker 1: one priority are the members, So how can they get
Speaker 1: what they need? And then how can I come alongside
Speaker 1: that maybe once or twice a week and see how
Speaker 1: that can also benefit me at the same time. So
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, well, let's go in tempo and
Speaker 1: adding some starting training there. People love step, but not
Speaker 1: everyone loves the step high choreography like we do on Sundays.
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know what, Friday Friday classes, we're
Speaker 1: starting to get really super low attended. We were doing
Speaker 1: like the Wheel of Fitness like all every class on Friday,
Speaker 1: and it was becoming a lot. But then people didn't
Speaker 1: want People want at the six am that class doing
Speaker 1: like the power Burner, the partner workouts that that style
Speaker 1: that was always highly attended. Then the seven and then
Speaker 1: the eight were starting to be a little bit lower attended.
Speaker 1: So we added eight as our stretch and flow and
Speaker 1: now that's properly attended, because people like, you know what
Speaker 1: when I come seven five days a week, having that
Speaker 1: seven am on a Friday or the eight am on
Speaker 1: a Friday, do that stretch and flow, I love that
Speaker 1: and I look forward to it. I'm like, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: that's going to keep you in a routine. Awesome. And
Speaker 1: then the seven am I'm like, well, let's just add
Speaker 1: like a step in lift. Let's let's combine the strength
Speaker 1: training in with the fun, high energy, fun energy cardio.
Speaker 1: And now people love the step in lift. And then
Speaker 1: some people were like, well, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: the step part. I don't want to do cardio. The
Speaker 1: cardio is still going to be really good for your
Speaker 1: cardiovascular system, which is going to be also good for
Speaker 1: your longevity. And the strength training. There's some days we
Speaker 1: focus on lighter movements, sometimes heavier movements, but even lifting
Speaker 1: lighter weights and increasing that aerobic and anaerobic load by
Speaker 1: doing higher reps is going to be beneficial. Like I
Speaker 1: remember one time, someone's like, oh, I was not looking
Speaker 1: forward to trying the step in lyft class because I
Speaker 1: prefer strong fit, and she's like, I was using eight
Speaker 1: pound dumbells instead of the fifteens that I usually curl.
Speaker 1: She's like, I felt my muscles in a different way
Speaker 1: than I've ever felt them. And she's like, I was
Speaker 1: lifting eights. I'm like, yeah, there's a reason there's a
Speaker 1: rep range. There's different things that we can I look
Speaker 1: at it like a wave, Like when you look at
Speaker 1: the week, and if you do come three days a week,
Speaker 1: five days a week, you can see how the wave changes.
Speaker 1: If you always keep the same wave, of the same
Speaker 1: workout of the same activity, then you're going to start
Speaker 1: to grow stagnant. That's why sometimes people are like, we're
Speaker 1: running this program for four weeks or we're running this
Speaker 1: program for six weeks. Well, having that little bit of
Speaker 1: a flow, it's going to always keep your body guessing.
Speaker 1: And that's why people are having phenomenal results, not just
Speaker 1: for fat loss, but for their strength, for their endurance.
Speaker 1: People are consistent. There's people who are there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people at the gym they're like, I've never been
Speaker 1: a gym person, and I'm celebrating my one year gymniversary,
Speaker 1: two year, three or four or five year, six or
Speaker 1: seven year gymniversaries. And it's because they're now not just
Speaker 1: stagnant doing the same classes every day every week, talking
Speaker 1: to the only three people, like, you know what I mean, So,
Speaker 1: like there's a reason that it works, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be the exact same reason for everybody else.
Speaker 1: But in the last episode, yesterday's episode, if you listen
Speaker 1: to that one, and I had talked about like, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're looking to up your fitness journey, then maybe
Speaker 1: try a different class, maybe try a different weight, and
Speaker 1: perfect your form if that's what it is that you're after.
Speaker 1: There's so many different ways, and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, not only is there different ways to exercise,
Speaker 1: but there's also different ways to want your goals. You
Speaker 1: don't necessarily have to make yourself smaller. I don't even
Speaker 1: love saying that term, but that's the term I'm going
Speaker 1: to use. You don't have to necessarily make yourself smaller
Speaker 1: in order to fit what other people want to hear.
Speaker 1: So when I said in that class, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, Like the only thing that I changed
Speaker 1: was I since June was I incorporated the tempo that
Speaker 1: also includes the tempo lifting, and I incorporated step in lift.
Speaker 1: So like I do it also like one or two
Speaker 1: days of just strength training on my own, whether it's
Speaker 1: at home or whether it's at the transformation station when
Speaker 1: nobody is there. But I incorporated those other things because
Speaker 1: I'm like, how can it be beneficial for the entire gym?
Speaker 1: And how could it be beneficial for myself too? And
Speaker 1: when I say that out loud, like it makes me
Speaker 1: feel like I'm being selfish, But I know that I
Speaker 1: created a safe place and a place that people can
Speaker 1: come and work on themselves. But I want to have
Speaker 1: that for myself too. So I was like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is how it's going to work. This is going to
Speaker 1: be fantastic, and it's really cool because people are still
Speaker 1: showing up and people still love it, and they're like, Christina,
Speaker 1: the step in lift has really I had a plateau
Speaker 1: and now it's poof pushed me out of my plateau,
Speaker 1: even at nighttime. We added a circuit on Thursday nights,
Speaker 1: and there's not a whole lot of attendance going on
Speaker 1: on that Thursday on that circuit night. People wanted it,
Speaker 1: but we put it there. And the people who are
Speaker 1: showing up to it, they're like, Oh, that makes me
Speaker 1: feel so good about myself. I'm able to try diff
Speaker 1: different techniques it's a full body movement. I get my strength,
Speaker 1: I get my cardio, and it's really great. On a
Speaker 1: Thursday evening at six forty five, I'm like, sweet, awesome,
Speaker 1: that is so cool. Tell your friends, because sometimes we
Speaker 1: get so stuck in what we read on the internet.
Speaker 1: Strength training only for women three times a week, Well,
Speaker 1: what does that look like? It doesn't necessarily mean doing bicep,
Speaker 1: curls and lunges three times a week. It can be
Speaker 1: doing strong fit. It can be doing power burn because
Speaker 1: you're lifting weights in power burn. It can be doing
Speaker 1: step in lift. It can be circuit, it can be
Speaker 1: Butts and guts. That's a really great one. If you're
Speaker 1: looking for lower body stability through strength and lean muscle building,
Speaker 1: Butts and Guts is awesome. It's the name is quirky,
Speaker 1: and that's I picked it to be quirky, and Butts
Speaker 1: and Guts is not the only name out there for
Speaker 1: a butts and guts class. It is very common for
Speaker 1: it to be called butts and guts. But I wanted
Speaker 1: the name to represent what it was that we did
Speaker 1: in the class. So butts and Guts is actually I've
Speaker 1: heard people say like, oh, I love this class so much.
Speaker 1: But like, I don't really know if I like powerburn,
Speaker 1: I'm like, so how I program butts and guts. You'll
Speaker 1: notice is the same structure as power burn, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people if they do power burn, they know
Speaker 1: that when they hit butts and guts, and if they
Speaker 1: do butzing guts and they do power burn and vice versa,
Speaker 1: they also will recognize that as well. So that is
Speaker 1: something that you don't have to be afraid of because
Speaker 1: if you do love butts and guts, don't be afraid
Speaker 1: of the name powerburn because it's structured similar. However, you're
Speaker 1: going to be using your arms, your core, your button,
Speaker 1: your legs, your triceps, your chest, your back muscles. You're
Speaker 1: going to be using everything rather than only solidifying to
Speaker 1: butts and guts training. So I do believe that there
Speaker 1: is a beautiful balance in all of that. I also
Speaker 1: recognize I didn't drop the name of cardio cake, so
Speaker 1: there's cardiocake out there too. Cardiocake is so great because
Speaker 1: you're every time you hit something and you're jabbing, you're
Speaker 1: literally using so many small muscle fibers. That's why, like,
Speaker 1: after like thirty seconds of jobs, you're like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: my arms are fatiguing because the gloves weigh something. Even
Speaker 1: if they're only six ounces or eight ounces, they still
Speaker 1: weigh something. It's like carrying around a heavy box for
Speaker 1: a very long time. So you're still getting muscle recruitment
Speaker 1: in there. And we do throw in some squats, leg lifts, kicks,
Speaker 1: and so you're like, I can't kick the bag because
Speaker 1: I have knee injuries, so I'm not gonna go with
Speaker 1: the class. I'm like, you get a hole onto the
Speaker 1: bag and do a leg lift. They're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't think about that. That's why I'm here to help you,
Speaker 1: and before you know what, they try the class like oh,
Speaker 1: I love it. So it's really neat, like once we
Speaker 1: open up our horizons and that's something in the episode
Speaker 1: was Sarah and it's titled it's two episodes prior to
Speaker 1: this one and it's five years of consistency. It's like,
Speaker 1: how was that? And one of the things that she
Speaker 1: said was it Sarah. Actually maybe it was Tina who
Speaker 1: said it. You have to go back and listen to both.
Speaker 1: It was either coach Tina or Sarah, and they said
Speaker 1: try something, just don't limit yourself to one thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was Tina because we're talking about cardio kick, and
Speaker 1: it was don't just like yourself just to one thing,
Speaker 1: try all the other things, because you might surprise yourself.
Speaker 1: Like when people join the gym. We have so many
Speaker 1: people that join specifically just for strength training, and before
Speaker 1: you know it, they've incorporated all different styles and they're
Speaker 1: the most fittest they've ever been. And I don't mean
Speaker 1: just from an appearance. I mean from the inside out.
Speaker 1: People are getting off of their medications, they're lowering their
Speaker 1: doses if they still have to be on medication, they're
Speaker 1: feeling better, their cholesterol levels, they're starting to normalize. I
Speaker 1: had one woman and she's I don't want to say older,
Speaker 1: but she's older than me. So she recently, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say she's over the age of sixty five, so that
Speaker 1: could also be a lot of people in the gym.
Speaker 1: And she came up to me the other day and
Speaker 1: I was talking actually with Nikki before Nicki left for
Speaker 1: the two weeks, which I'm still talking about. No shame
Speaker 1: for Nikki to leave. She can leave. It's just me
Speaker 1: in the background here. So anyway, she came up to
Speaker 1: Nicki and I and she's like, oh, I have to
Speaker 1: tell you something. I'm like, oh cool, okay. And when
Speaker 1: a member comes up to me and says, oh, I
Speaker 1: need to tell you something, it could be one of anything.
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, I'm so used to it now,
Speaker 1: so I don't dig my heels in too far. I
Speaker 1: just wait. And she's like I went to go get
Speaker 1: blood work done and the nurse said, where do you
Speaker 1: work out? And she was like, the transformation station. Why?
Speaker 1: And she goes, I could tell that you're fit. And
Speaker 1: she's like from what she's like, I can tell from
Speaker 1: your blood work. She's like, I've been doing this for
Speaker 1: a long time that I know when people are healthy
Speaker 1: and when they're exercising, and when they're when they're working
Speaker 1: out and you're resting, heart rate and things that coincide
Speaker 1: with it. She's like, all of this shows me that
Speaker 1: you are working out. She's like, oh, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and that to me that that meant a lot. It's
Speaker 1: just like when someone was like, oh, now I can
Speaker 1: stand up after I fell down without having to have
Speaker 1: like a week off of work or to check for
Speaker 1: broken bones or if I cracked anything. So like those
Speaker 1: types of I'm going to call them testimonies. That to me,
Speaker 1: those winds. That's such a high high five because it
Speaker 1: is like we can zoom in and we can pick
Speaker 1: apart what the schedule is. Well, I want this on
Speaker 1: this day or I want this on that day. But
Speaker 1: if you show up and you put in the effort
Speaker 1: and you try the different things, of course we're gonna
Speaker 1: like one coach's personality maybe a little bit more than
Speaker 1: the next coach's personality. We're we're not meant to just
Speaker 1: all of a sudden blend and love every single person.
Speaker 1: I will say again, we're all making the same pizza recipe.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, if we zoom
Speaker 1: in to anything, whether it's in your workplace, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the transformation station, whether it's where you go to
Speaker 1: the grocery store, if you zoom in and you make
Speaker 1: complaints or you criticize it because it's not customized to you,
Speaker 1: then even I own the gym and it's not customized
Speaker 1: to me. There's sometimes that I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 1: this class at this time. I want to go do
Speaker 1: power burn or I want to go do this. I
Speaker 1: want somebody else to teach step so I could be
Speaker 1: a participant, like you know what, I mean that even
Speaker 1: I own something and it's not customized just to me.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't imagine walking into a place that if
Speaker 1: you're a patron and saying, hey, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't actually like where the fish section is because I
Speaker 1: got to walk all the way to the back. That's
Speaker 1: not me thinking that in my brain every time I
Speaker 1: go to the grocery store. It was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't love that, but I'll go and work out for
Speaker 1: forty five minutes and crawl out of the gym and
Speaker 1: that's fine. But I don't want to walk to the
Speaker 1: fish department. I don't want to park in the back
Speaker 1: parking lot at Costco. But like I can zoom in
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I'm going to write a complaint or
Speaker 1: I'm going to give feedback. I don't like this at
Speaker 1: this because it's not customized to me. Well, it has
Speaker 1: to be for the entire vision of the grocery store.
Speaker 1: It has to be what fits each people. It also
Speaker 1: has to be accessible. So there's so many things that contribute.
Speaker 1: But if we zoom out and we're like, okay, this
Speaker 1: is what my overall goal is. This is what I
Speaker 1: actually want to accomplish, and I'm just going to focus
Speaker 1: on being consistent and getting there. First, find your class
Speaker 1: that you like, and then build upon that one. Find
Speaker 1: a coach maybe that you get along with, and okay,
Speaker 1: you your schedule allows you to teach one time here
Speaker 1: or two times here, three times here, and you know
Speaker 1: that maybe you like to follow that coach. I've had
Speaker 1: members when I in the evening. I used to go
Speaker 1: quite often in the evening when I wasn't as as busy,
Speaker 1: and I had a couple members that would follow my
Speaker 1: registration and they'd work out with me. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: one day I asked, I'm like, do you watch me
Speaker 1: reserve and show up to the classes? They weren't. They
Speaker 1: didn't even know each other. It's like separate people, and
Speaker 1: they were like I do. I'm like, oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: And they're like, I just really like talking to you.
Speaker 1: I like hanging out with you. I like what you
Speaker 1: bring to the table. I'm like, oh, okay, thanks. I'm like,
Speaker 1: do you enjoy working at with me?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: Did I talk a lot of shit? And chances are well,
Speaker 1: that's why they're following me and reserving the classes and
Speaker 1: vice versa. There's sometimes people like, oh, I see this
Speaker 1: coaches in this class. I like them. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: work out with them. So like, there's so many other
Speaker 1: different avenues and so many different things, like if you're
Speaker 1: a schedule allows like, I have some people that are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want you to coach at least once or twice
Speaker 1: or three times a week after work, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: So after work, that's when I have to answer everybody's
Speaker 1: phone calls and talk to people and all the different
Speaker 1: suggestions and feedbacks. Even if people who are members and
Speaker 1: who are not members and potential members, most of our
Speaker 1: members are still working, so they work generally nine to five.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, so if you want to experience
Speaker 1: my coaching, I'm here at six am, seven am, and
Speaker 1: A and am. If you work at nine then you
Speaker 1: can probably still hit a six am class. I have
Speaker 1: people that drive forty minutes to go to six am class,
Speaker 1: forty minutes to go back home, and then they drive
Speaker 1: to work. So I'm like, oh, okay, cool, so you
Speaker 1: can come at six am. They're like, no, I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I'd like to sleep in. I don't like
Speaker 1: to work out before work. I'm like, okay, so you
Speaker 1: want me to adjust my entire life to coach a
Speaker 1: class specifically for you. Okay, I love you so much,
Speaker 1: but no, And it's hard because I want to be like, yes,
Speaker 1: I want to do those things. I want to coach
Speaker 1: in the morning, I want to coach in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: I want to coach in the evening. I can't. I
Speaker 1: physically cannot do that. I don't think anybody can. So, like,
Speaker 1: even when I talked to the coaches and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I really actually have been enjoying the variety this week,
Speaker 1: it's been chaos on me trying to keep my routine together,
Speaker 1: which is working for now. I couldn't do that long term,
Speaker 1: to coach at six am and then leave the gym
Speaker 1: at nine ten o'clock at night time and then wake
Speaker 1: up at four the next day. Like it's just not
Speaker 1: it's not healthy. And I would never do that to
Speaker 1: anybody else. And I think, like the employment standard of
Speaker 1: Canada is that you have to have X amount of
Speaker 1: hours before you go back into the building the next day.
Speaker 1: So like if I if the government of Canada says that,
Speaker 1: and don't shit on me saying that because there's so
Speaker 1: many different things. I don't People have their opinions about
Speaker 1: the government, but if the health standard is saying that
Speaker 1: for everybody, why would I override that for my system
Speaker 1: and operate on two three hours of sleep when there's
Speaker 1: so many things that need to be done. I had
Speaker 1: someone in the last two days. I had somebody calling me.
Speaker 1: They called me three four times in the evenings for
Speaker 1: the last two days, and yesterday I was finally able
Speaker 1: to call them back, and they're like, I called you
Speaker 1: so many times after work between five point fifteen and
Speaker 1: eight o'clock at night time, and nobody was answering the phone.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, so I actually I was coaching, So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. They're like, for the last two days.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, for the last two days, I've coaches
Speaker 1: at on holidays. So leave me a message, send me
Speaker 1: an email, send me a text message. I'll get back
Speaker 1: to you. But I am not calling you at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock at night when I pull into my driveway, Like,
Speaker 1: that's just not going to be. You're not gonna like
Speaker 1: me calling you at nine o'clock at night and I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk to you for the next half an
Speaker 1: hour so I'm not going to like doing that either,
Speaker 1: because I have to wake up and go to my
Speaker 1: appointments the next day. So, like, there's so many things
Speaker 1: that we can zoom in and be like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: want it to be this much about ourselves. It can
Speaker 1: be if you really want it to be. But there's
Speaker 1: other people too, write like and this isn't really the
Speaker 1: direction I wanted the podcast episode to go in. But
Speaker 1: I guess that's just how it's gonna flow right now,
Speaker 1: because there's wanting what's best for ourselves and being true
Speaker 1: to it, and then there's wanting everybody else to succumb
Speaker 1: to your goals because you're finally being able to be selfish,
Speaker 1: which you are able to be selfish. You are able
Speaker 1: to put yourself first, You are able to pivot and
Speaker 1: roll with the punches, You are able to make those
Speaker 1: decisions for yourself. When you start dictating other people's schedules,
Speaker 1: that's not really very kind. And it might be, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be selfish and this is what I want.
Speaker 1: But those people that are there to love and support you,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to tell them how to feel and
Speaker 1: what to do, the same way that we don't want
Speaker 1: to do that to you. It's not going to be
Speaker 1: very nice. And I wish that I can know. And
Speaker 1: right now as I'm sitting here, I've met so many
Speaker 1: new people in the evening and sometimes I trickle in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, and like I said to the coaches, I said,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, yeah, it's been really cool, like I've
Speaker 1: been able to meet all the different people. And they said, yeah, Christina,
Speaker 1: there there's new people in the in the evening too,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, And she didn't mean it
Speaker 1: in that context, but she meant it like in like
Speaker 1: a fun, encouraging kind of a way. But in my brain,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I know because I talked to everyone
Speaker 1: who comes through the doors before they even come to
Speaker 1: a class. So most most of the time, when they
Speaker 1: walk into a class, when they meet that coach, that's
Speaker 1: not their first person of contact that they've had. They've
Speaker 1: already sent an email, sent a contact form, text message,
Speaker 1: me use the web chat, which also goes to me.
Speaker 1: They've had a conversation with me, they've called me. So
Speaker 1: like I know that there's new people coming into the gym.
Speaker 1: I am very very well versed in everything that is
Speaker 1: happening in these four walls of the transformation station. And
Speaker 1: I know there's new people in the mornings. There's new
Speaker 1: people at six am, seven am, eight am. There's new
Speaker 1: people at lunchtime. Yesterday Kim had twelve people at lunchtime.
Speaker 1: It was awesome, And there was also a new person
Speaker 1: at lunchtime. I know that in the evening there was
Speaker 1: a new person at four forty five, there was a
Speaker 1: new person at five forty five, and my friend brought
Speaker 1: her parents that are visiting from overseas at six forty five.
Speaker 1: So I know that, Ken, I've physically be at the
Speaker 1: gym for every single class. No, I cannot. Can I
Speaker 1: trickle around? Yes, absolutely I can, and I do so
Speaker 1: always being there. Why would I have staff if I
Speaker 1: was going to chain myself to the gym. That doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, and the gym would close within six
Speaker 1: months if I also wasn't taking care of the business
Speaker 1: aspect of things. So that to me is how things
Speaker 1: have changed. That's how things have pivoted in my own
Speaker 1: life to now be able to finally get my body
Speaker 1: fat to go down, because this right now, in this moment,
Speaker 1: this is the first time in over a year that
Speaker 1: I have been at, what this weight is, and what
Speaker 1: my body fat is, and the reason why I'm sharing
Speaker 1: those things with you because a you might be a
Speaker 1: business owner and you might feeling like you're pulled from
Speaker 1: every aspect, and you might also feel a little bit
Speaker 1: guilty for saying, Okay, I hear your feedback and I
Speaker 1: value you, but also know because that is one of
Speaker 1: the hardest things for me to do. I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: the Transformation Station. I want to be there. I cannot
Speaker 1: because of the reasons why I just told you. I
Speaker 1: love the people there, I love the coaches, I love
Speaker 1: the music, I love the room. I love the wallpaper
Speaker 1: just as much as everybody else loves the wallpaper, and
Speaker 1: I really do liking the I really do love this
Speaker 1: new dehumidifier we have on top of the new fans,
Speaker 1: on top of the new electronic thermostat the AC. So like,
Speaker 1: there's so many things that I do absolutely obsess over
Speaker 1: because I love it. However, I also have a home
Speaker 1: to take care of, and I have to make sure
Speaker 1: my partner gets attention because my partner also works a lot,
Speaker 1: not medium and the one that's like, give me attention,
Speaker 1: give me attention, but there's so many different different avenues
Speaker 1: and what works for one person doesn't mean it's going
Speaker 1: to work for everybody, doesn't mean it's going to work
Speaker 1: for you. So if your goal is to get stronger,
Speaker 1: then you have that opportunity to get stronger. If someone
Speaker 1: is telling you in your workplace that they want you
Speaker 1: to work until five pm, six pm, and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be done at four, this is what
Speaker 1: I signed up for, then make sure that you're leaving
Speaker 1: at four, because I know that it's hard not to
Speaker 1: put everybody else's opinions and sometimes it's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's just easier for me just to be that person.
Speaker 1: But if that person doesn't know what your experience is
Speaker 1: and what it is that you are doing, that person
Speaker 1: cannot give advice to you. If someone in the same context,
Speaker 1: if you're running a business, if someone is saying you
Speaker 1: spend too much time at work or you don't spend
Speaker 1: enough time in these time slots during the day, if
Speaker 1: that person hasn't run a business. And I'm saying this respectfully,
Speaker 1: and this isn't to anybody or anything, but I'm saying
Speaker 1: this to you. If you run and operate a business
Speaker 1: and you feel like your clients or your staff are
Speaker 1: trying to dictate when or if, or how or who
Speaker 1: you should talk to or what you should do. If
Speaker 1: that person has never owned a successful business, that person,
Speaker 1: respectfully doesn't know what it takes to tell you to
Speaker 1: adjust your shit. I see a lot of business owners
Speaker 1: that are suffering with their mental health, a lot of
Speaker 1: business owners that their cholesterol is going through the roof.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to sustain their sleeping patterns, they
Speaker 1: don't know how to sustain their energy, they don't know
Speaker 1: how to balance their work life. And you throw in
Speaker 1: children in there, and you throw in aging parents in there,
Speaker 1: and it's a whole nother ballgame. There's sometimes when I
Speaker 1: know some people were a little bit like oh, the AC,
Speaker 1: the AC, And I'm like, I'm trying to deal with
Speaker 1: aging parents here, Like okay, let me step outside of
Speaker 1: the doctor's office to take your phone call to complain
Speaker 1: that you're sweating when you're working out. So like, there's
Speaker 1: also those things that people don't see. And I'm open
Speaker 1: to opinions, but when they're aggressive opinions the same way
Speaker 1: that you might deal with in your workplace or in
Speaker 1: your home. It's nice to step back and look at
Speaker 1: the bigger picture and the same thing with your goals,
Speaker 1: whatever your goals are, like body positivity, body this body,
Speaker 1: that you can still love yourself and be obsessed with
Speaker 1: yourself and respectfully and kindly of course, and like you
Speaker 1: can still want to change what it is that you were.
Speaker 1: You are still allowed to have those feelings and not
Speaker 1: stick to what everyone else wants you to do, the
Speaker 1: same thing that we hear about, like, well, now being
Speaker 1: a size zero is the new in my big toe.
Speaker 1: I don't even think is a size zero. And there's
Speaker 1: some people that are a size zero and they're like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a size zero, even though
Speaker 1: that's what I feel like I should be. So then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden they're like, oh, I'm doing I'm
Speaker 1: doing step class and my legs are getting toned. I
Speaker 1: don't want toned legs because I don't want to be
Speaker 1: jacksas people are gonna tell me I look like a man,
Speaker 1: and I'm like that, I've been lifting weights for a long,
Speaker 1: long long time, and even as a lesbian woman, I
Speaker 1: still don't look like a man. So like, you're not
Speaker 1: going to accidentally lift some weights and look like a
Speaker 1: textbook man. And I say that in quotation marks because
Speaker 1: take what you need with that. So, yeah, you can
Speaker 1: do whatever it is that makes you happy. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be super super zoomed in so much that
Speaker 1: you have to try to control every single aspect of
Speaker 1: your entire life life and everybody else's life around you.
Speaker 1: But it also doesn't have to be so like zooming
Speaker 1: out and be.
Speaker 2: Like I don't really care about anything or anybody, and
Speaker 2: life is good and I'm unhealthy, and I don't know
Speaker 2: why I can't have my goals because I'm listening to
Speaker 2: all these opinions, like people online say I should be doing.
Speaker 1: Cycling classes in the dark, and then people online should
Speaker 1: say I should be doing pilates, and people online says
Speaker 1: I should be doing zoomba, and people on line says
Speaker 1: I should be deadlifting seven thousand pounds. Because like, what
Speaker 1: do you want to do? I'll leave you with that.
Speaker 1: Know your limits play are just on the outside of
Speaker 1: it where you can feel comfortable getting uncomfortable, because when
Speaker 1: we're on the other side of the spectrum, if we
Speaker 1: always just do what's comfortable, we're gonna just grow stagnant,
Speaker 1: I mean having a comfortable place to come to and
Speaker 1: have those different challenges. You can dissect whatever it is
Speaker 1: that I say or anybody else says, or what you
Speaker 1: think so so so much, don't give too much weight
Speaker 1: to it. What is it that you want to do?
Speaker 1: Write it down? Like I said last episode, goals and
Speaker 1: writing or dreams with deadlines? How can you adjust your
Speaker 1: sales and have your routine but still be able to
Speaker 1: pivot at the same time in order to succeed in
Speaker 1: your goals? All right, friends, until next time, I hope
Speaker 1: that you are healthy, happy, and whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you're going through, I hope that you go through it
Speaker 1: very smoothly, and I hope that there is some type
Speaker 1: of fiesta also happening in your life. Talk to you tomorrow.