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Speaker 3: K if I Am six forty is Later with Mo
Speaker 3: Kelly and Claudine Cooper. We are live everywhere on the
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Speaker 4: Claudine's good to see you.
Speaker 3: Let's get into unfortunately these winter blues.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's good to be seen Mo.
Speaker 5: And you did text me earlier and say the weather
Speaker 5: is acting up. If I don't want to drive, you know,
Speaker 5: we could catch up next week. However, you notice I
Speaker 5: said I will not be deterred.
Speaker 2: By a little weather.
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, So that brings me to the seasonal depression,
Speaker 5: which a lot of people do experience. It's shorter days,
Speaker 5: it's colder, you're kind of in the house.
Speaker 2: A little bit more.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing with working out as my job, I
Speaker 5: really don't have a choice. I can't just call forty
Speaker 5: people and say.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, you know it's chilly out here, you know
Speaker 2: it's raining.
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 2: It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 5: So I think my job kind of forces me to
Speaker 5: go into a very I don't want to say joyful,
Speaker 5: but a communal space. And one of the things that
Speaker 5: I think can contribute to seasonal depression is the isolation
Speaker 5: of being in the house watching your shows and not
Speaker 5: connecting with a lot of people.
Speaker 2: I really do believe in the power of community.
Speaker 3: When we Because I'm one who will binge watch a
Speaker 3: show in my downtime and all of a sudden I've
Speaker 3: lost three or four hours in a given day, let's
Speaker 3: say it's a Saturday or a Sunday, I am less
Speaker 3: inclined to then work out, of course, and it may
Speaker 3: not be mood related, it may not be winter blues,
Speaker 3: but all the external stimuli or saying sit down on
Speaker 3: a couch.
Speaker 5: Sure, I'll tell you Saturday afternoon, Sunday afternoon in the gym,
Speaker 5: those are the low times. And so if that's kind
Speaker 5: of a time when people are at home chilling, watching
Speaker 5: their shows and all of that, I suggest doing some
Speaker 5: movement in front of the TV. You don't have to
Speaker 5: go into the gym. I do believe there is power
Speaker 5: in being around people. It does engage us and energize
Speaker 5: us in ways that.
Speaker 2: Being at home.
Speaker 5: I mean, how many times have you said, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do it. I'm gonna do my workout from home,
Speaker 5: and then you're at home.
Speaker 3: I well, is that the phone right? Yeah? Oh lit
Speaker 3: in time, it's time for dinner. But when I say
Speaker 3: the winter blues, that is a real thing. It's one
Speaker 3: thing to call it the winter blues, but they do
Speaker 3: call it seasonal effective disorder. Yes, and some of the
Speaker 3: symptoms include reduced desire to do things like exercise and socialize.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, now this is the thing. I'm not telling
Speaker 5: everybody to join a gym. Although last week we did
Speaker 5: talk about New Year's resolutions, and I will say this, mo,
Speaker 5: I have seen a decline in the attendance this week.
Speaker 5: So oh oh, so the people who were gung ho
Speaker 5: January first week in January, da da da da da.
Speaker 2: It's tapering off a little bit right now.
Speaker 4: So when it's like National quick.
Speaker 5: Day, I think they say it's like a couple weeks
Speaker 5: into January.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm seeing it.
Speaker 5: Really, this week has been the first week that things
Speaker 5: have really kind of slowed down in the gym.
Speaker 3: I think it's a variety of things, and sometimes maybe
Speaker 3: I get too much of my own head. But since
Speaker 3: it is winter, since it is colder, since we've had
Speaker 3: the longest January in the history of my of you know, forever, one.
Speaker 5: Hundred and twenty days of January, it felt like there's
Speaker 5: something else that I'm remembering.
Speaker 3: In the winter, I'm more inclined to start thinking about
Speaker 3: people who were no longer here. My father passed in March,
Speaker 3: my mother's mother passed in the month of March. So
Speaker 3: you get these annual reminders which may slow you down
Speaker 3: in many ways.
Speaker 4: Is that unusual.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know this or not, but
Speaker 5: what brought me to exercise was my grief journey, and
Speaker 5: that was something that.
Speaker 2: Took me down.
Speaker 5: Literally, same thing lost a few people back to back.
Speaker 5: You know how they say it comes in threes, Well,
Speaker 5: it hit me in threes, and I was in high
Speaker 5: school at the time, and I just I couldn't get
Speaker 5: out the bed, and I'm like, I know, I can't
Speaker 5: be this tired, right, And exhaustion or fatigue is one
Speaker 5: example of depression. And so once my mom kind of
Speaker 5: noticed because I lived with my dad at the time,
Speaker 5: and my mom noticed that, I was like, yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: just too tired, Dad.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get up. My mom was like,
Speaker 2: I think you should see someone.
Speaker 5: She knew I had gone through a lot of grief
Speaker 5: and loss at that time, and so when I talked
Speaker 5: to the counselor, she basically just looked at.
Speaker 2: Me and said, you're young.
Speaker 5: You are energetic aside from what you're going through right now,
Speaker 5: because I was in sports and stuff. I did cheer,
Speaker 5: you know, and she was like, dedicate sixty minutes a
Speaker 5: day to moving your body and let's see, let's check
Speaker 5: in and see how you feel. At first, being the
Speaker 5: teenager that I was who knows everything, I was like.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that. That sounds crazy.
Speaker 6: All oh, I can't picture that. A teenager who knows everything.
Speaker 6: They make those but saying that to say, I was like,
Speaker 6: I'm not doing that. That's that's silly advice.
Speaker 5: And keep in mind, wellness was not trending like it
Speaker 5: is today that we're talking about nineteen ninety two at
Speaker 5: this time, and.
Speaker 4: It felt like yesterday.
Speaker 5: But it wasn't, as my kids would say, the nineteen
Speaker 5: hundreds the last century.
Speaker 2: Way back in the nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 5: I say that to say, eventually I got sick and
Speaker 5: tired of being sick and tired and I popped a
Speaker 5: video into the VCR and I didn't like the aerobics instructor,
Speaker 5: but I did like the workout, so I turned her
Speaker 5: down and I turned up my own music. And at
Speaker 5: the time, I was obsessed with West Coast Rap. It
Speaker 5: had just started kind of really catching on, and so
Speaker 5: I was listening to NWA, I was listening to ice Cube,
Speaker 5: I was listening to Too Short, and I was doing.
Speaker 2: My workouts and it was to the video.
Speaker 5: But that's kind of how I got into working out,
Speaker 5: and that's still my style of instructed.
Speaker 3: I'd like to have some sort of distracting element to
Speaker 3: workout so I don't have to really think about what
Speaker 3: I'm doing.
Speaker 4: And it could be.
Speaker 3: Marching in front of my TV, it could be dancing
Speaker 3: to music in headphones. But yes, I try to sneak in.
Speaker 3: It's almost like putting a little sugar on top of
Speaker 3: the medicine.
Speaker 5: And you and I we love music, and I think
Speaker 5: there's a lot of people who would find that music
Speaker 5: and movement together do have an element of healing. And
Speaker 5: if you are grieving, to anyone who's listening, number one,
Speaker 5: I feel you, and I know how hard it can
Speaker 5: be to get up. But number two, if you move
Speaker 5: your body and pair it with music, you will feel better.
Speaker 5: And trust me on this from experience.
Speaker 3: She's Claudin Cooper. We'll have more with her our nice
Speaker 3: exercise lady in just a moment. You can find out
Speaker 3: more about her at Claudinecooper dot com.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 3: the community specifically. In fact, she might have a free
Speaker 3: community workout coming up weather for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yah, drum roll.
Speaker 5: We've taken a couple months off just to, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of get through football season because, as many people know,
Speaker 5: I live and work in Inglewood, California, whiches the entertainment,
Speaker 5: sports and entertainment.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 3: I don't live in Inglewood, but I live Inglewood adjacent
Speaker 3: and a day in which you might I have to
Speaker 3: check my caulendar.
Speaker 4: Okay, there's something going on it into it.
Speaker 3: There's something going on it so far, there's something going out.
Speaker 3: The Kia form YouTube theater, and every once a while
Speaker 3: there'll be something going on at all of them on
Speaker 3: a given day.
Speaker 2: And that's a fact.
Speaker 5: And then when those days happen, we have insane traffic.
Speaker 5: But for the most part at this point, because I
Speaker 5: work and live in the entertainment area, I just walk,
Speaker 5: you know, in front.
Speaker 4: Of the other must be nice. I just walk to
Speaker 4: work today.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is nice.
Speaker 5: And anybody who lives in LA knows that that is
Speaker 5: like a big luxury to be able to be that
Speaker 5: close and have no commute.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is.
Speaker 4: It sounds like you're almost like you're taunting me with
Speaker 4: that while.
Speaker 2: You drive to Burbank from Inglewood adjacent. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Yeah no.
Speaker 5: And I will say this, I've had commutes and I've
Speaker 5: not had commutes, and I will trade, like, I'll take
Speaker 5: a pay cut to have less of a commute type
Speaker 5: of thing.
Speaker 2: You know that it's a quality of life thing.
Speaker 3: Actually, I mean, I could get back three or four
Speaker 3: hours of my day just by not commuting.
Speaker 4: Oh, I love k if. I don't think otherwise.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know, you love your job.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that if I took out the commute aspect,
Speaker 3: I get back at least three hours of my day.
Speaker 5: You know, that's one of the things that I feel like,
Speaker 5: even though the traffic is tough in Englewood, I do
Speaker 5: look forward to having a walkable neighborhood, not just for
Speaker 5: the sports or for my job, but restaurants and things
Speaker 5: to see and things to do. So I lived in
Speaker 5: New York City when I was a younger woman, and
Speaker 5: I truly miss being able to walk everywhere.
Speaker 4: You know, talk about health and wellness.
Speaker 3: When I went to Italy and also Korea, these are
Speaker 3: societies largely predicated on walking. You walk everywhere, and I
Speaker 3: noticed I saw nobody who was obese, not a single person.
Speaker 3: After a while, I was conscious of it, and then
Speaker 3: you realize, gosh, we're walking five and six miles a day. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's vacation, but for people. When I was in Italy,
Speaker 3: it's a way of life. When I was in Korea,
Speaker 3: it was a way of life. You walked everywhere.
Speaker 5: And you know, walking is still one of the best
Speaker 5: ways to move our bodies and to stay youthful in
Speaker 5: how we move because walking is what we're designed to do.
Speaker 5: The sedentary lifestyle, the sitting in the car or the
Speaker 5: sitting at the computer or the binge watching. And let's
Speaker 5: just be clear, I do binge watch too, you know,
Speaker 5: but I don't have a tremo. I do like to
Speaker 5: recommend putting out a mat on the floor for fact
Speaker 5: flexibility and stretching while you're watching. You don't have to
Speaker 5: necessarily do a workout, but we can improve our flexibility
Speaker 5: by just doing some stretches in front of the TV.
Speaker 3: That's what I try to do because I don't like stretching.
Speaker 3: If because if I'm doing dynamic stretching, in other words,
Speaker 3: trying to increase my flexibility, it's painful, it's uncomfortable, and
Speaker 3: I would rather take my mind away by just watching TV.
Speaker 4: And all of a sudden, I've been stretching for a
Speaker 4: good forty minutes.
Speaker 2: Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 5: And honestly, the older we get, the less flexible we become.
Speaker 5: And I mean that myndrand, body and soul and so
Speaker 5: to stay flexible is going to require some kind of
Speaker 5: work and that goes for mind, body and soul. Like
Speaker 5: I recently decided that I was going to start reading
Speaker 5: more books again.
Speaker 2: I love to read.
Speaker 3: Do you read, moll I read, but not for the
Speaker 3: type of enjoyment reading because I'm always having to read
Speaker 3: the news. I don't do a lot of books. I'll
Speaker 3: do audiobooks because I'm always rip racing and running. That's
Speaker 3: the truth, you know.
Speaker 5: And I wanted to carve out some time that was
Speaker 5: screen free, so I'm not doing it on a kindle.
Speaker 5: I'm literally opening a book and turning a page and
Speaker 5: reading so that I can take some time to exercise
Speaker 5: my mind. And I do feel like the brain also
Speaker 5: needs a workout. Have you noticed more and more people
Speaker 5: being diagnosed with dementia and Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and that's why I try to keep my brain very,
Speaker 3: very active.
Speaker 2: So what are some ways that you exercise your brain?
Speaker 3: Quizes Teasers, Yeah, trivia where I'm forced to recall things
Speaker 3: and be able to summon information very quickly, because that's
Speaker 3: a large part of my job. I may I have
Speaker 3: to always stay in my train of thought, and it's
Speaker 3: very fatiguing over the course of a three hour show.
Speaker 3: I can't lose my train of thought. It happens on
Speaker 3: very very rare occasions. But part of exercising that brain
Speaker 3: muscle is always pushing it in different ways.
Speaker 5: So I'm only with you for about you know, fifteen
Speaker 5: twenty minutes right. I find it difficult to stay on track,
Speaker 5: and in fact, I've said to you before, like, oh
Speaker 5: I did it, I stayed on track, I came back right.
Speaker 5: It is a skill and it does exercise your brain.
Speaker 5: I have a couple more tips that your listeners might
Speaker 5: like for exercising their brain as well. One of the
Speaker 5: ways that I exercise my brain is by not using
Speaker 5: my GPS to get somewhere, to really have to recall
Speaker 5: the name of a street, or was I here before?
Speaker 5: Did I take a right? And I even told Tuala
Speaker 5: out there. I'm so proud of myself now because I
Speaker 5: can get to this station from where I live with
Speaker 5: no GP. And my daughters are always like, so just
Speaker 5: turn the GPS on for traffic, mom, because we can
Speaker 5: go a different way if there's traffic. And I say,
Speaker 5: I just a lot enough time that if I hit traffic,
Speaker 5: I'll be all right.
Speaker 3: I wonder what kids or young adults would do without
Speaker 3: GPS today. I know they can't use a Thomas guy,
Speaker 3: so I mean, I just I wonder how they would function.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5: My so, my younger daughter recently, she went somewhere and
Speaker 5: she didn't use her GPS, and she said, you know, mom,
Speaker 5: I like not using my GPS. I like knowing how
Speaker 5: to get somewhere. It actually is one of those things
Speaker 5: that when we have our brain activated, we recognize it too.
Speaker 5: Even my daughter, who's, you know, a teenager, She's like, hmmm,
Speaker 5: I like that. And so I feel like that's one way.
Speaker 5: Another way is also recalling a memory. Right, you spoke
Speaker 5: a little bit about that, But maybe get together with
Speaker 5: a friend and say, do you remember when we were
Speaker 5: on spring break in blah blah blah and see if
Speaker 5: you guys kind of remember it similarly. So those are
Speaker 5: just a couple of ways that I use to, you know,
Speaker 5: exercise my brain.
Speaker 3: You bring up a great point, and we're almost out
Speaker 3: of time, but it's a great point where as you age,
Speaker 3: some memories fade yes, and some memories are triggered by
Speaker 3: just keeping active and stimulating your mind. And when I
Speaker 3: do listen to music in the car, I may listen
Speaker 3: to eighties and seventies music because it brings back the
Speaker 3: flood of memories and feelings and emotions that hadn't had
Speaker 3: in many years. But music is the closest thing we
Speaker 3: have to a time machine and you remember exactly what
Speaker 3: you fad, how you felt, who you were dating, and
Speaker 3: just like that. So I use that as an active
Speaker 3: measure to keep my mind, you know, limber as it were.
Speaker 5: Well, speaking of keeping the mind limber, I'm coming back
Speaker 5: to the free community workout that I was saying that
Speaker 5: we've and on hold for a couple of months due
Speaker 5: to football season. Yay, But March first, at nine am,
Speaker 5: there will be a big free community workout our farmers
Speaker 5: Market and if you want to come see the gym.
Speaker 4: I didn't mean to get.
Speaker 3: To the Farmer's Market because I usually park over there
Speaker 3: going to your workout, but I've never had a chance
Speaker 3: to check it out.
Speaker 4: But I hear great things about.
Speaker 5: Oh so many nice farmers who just bring in the
Speaker 5: freshest fruits, vegetables, desserts.
Speaker 2: I always get in trouble when I go.
Speaker 3: I see I'm trying to cut back and there you
Speaker 3: are just dangle it in front of it.
Speaker 4: No, I can't can't eat all those desserts.
Speaker 5: I mean fresh made like bars, cookies, cakes, croissants, just ough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bad. I'm there for Kale. I come out
Speaker 2: with a dozen something. Shame on you that you.
Speaker 4: Could eat some kale. You and my wife.
Speaker 2: I love kale, right you? The best way to do
Speaker 2: a caale. I got to tell you about kale.
Speaker 5: Chop an avocado in half, drop it in the kale,
Speaker 5: massage it into the kale season the kale bam.
Speaker 4: I don't like avocado either.
Speaker 2: Get him out of here.
Speaker 4: Hey, I was here first.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, my bad.
Speaker 4: Claudiecooper dot com Claude. Always good to see you and
Speaker 4: I'll see you against.
Speaker 2: So well, see you too. Thank you for having me.
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