Speaker 1: Oh good ay, thank you for joining us on the
Speaker 1: Body and Soul podcast Got Healthy Ish. I am Felicity Halle.
Speaker 1: I am joined today from New York City by a
Speaker 1: pt to the Stars. He has trained the likes of
Speaker 1: J Low and fifty cent. His name is Jay Cardelio
Speaker 1: and he is here to discuss his four pillars of fitness.
Speaker 1: Why he prioritizes sleep before fitness, I know, controversial and
Speaker 1: shares the most inspiring celebrity he has ever trained. If
Speaker 1: you do like what you hear from Jay, listening to
Speaker 1: the full interview on Extra Healthy Ish, where he gives
Speaker 1: one of the most motivational speeches I have heard in
Speaker 1: a long time in crab that wherever you get your podcasts. Jay,
Speaker 1: thank you for well joining us from New York City,
Speaker 1: very late at night.
Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Well, it's an honor, Felistening. Thank you so much much
Speaker 3: for having me. Now.
Speaker 2: You recently had a starring role on the front of
Speaker 2: our print.
Speaker 1: Edition at Body and Soul and shared your four pillars
Speaker 1: of fitness now very interestingly and I know You've been
Speaker 1: asked this before, but I need to know sleep, stress,
Speaker 1: nutrition and physicality as an expert.
Speaker 2: Why the fitness bit. Last.
Speaker 3: Sure, it's quite interesting when I mentioned that to a
Speaker 3: lot of people. If you really want to think about it,
Speaker 3: fitness is the last part of wellness. We really have
Speaker 3: to focus on a couple things. First we focus on sleep.
Speaker 3: Sleep sets a tone for the entire day. Just think
Speaker 3: about it. If you don't get a lot of sleep,
Speaker 3: you're not going to say, hey, I wanted to rugule
Speaker 3: a salad with tomatoes and good dressing. You're going to say,
Speaker 3: I want at cheeseburger with soda. So sleep is the
Speaker 3: most imperative thing. It sets the whole tone for the body.
Speaker 3: Then we talk about stress because you're dealing with that.
Speaker 3: If you don't get enough sleep, you're going to have
Speaker 3: a lot of stress on your plate. So sleep stress.
Speaker 3: And then the next is nutrition. If sleep and stress
Speaker 3: are not in order, it's very hard for a person
Speaker 3: to say, hey, I want to make great choices when
Speaker 3: it comes to nutrition. And the last and people are
Speaker 3: like the last, but you're a fitness guy, Yeah, the
Speaker 3: last is fitness because what a lot of times happens
Speaker 3: is we jump into fitness. It's January fifteenth. The majority
Speaker 3: it's actually statistically a show ninety five percent of people
Speaker 3: who start New Year's resolutions with fitness quit by the
Speaker 3: fifteenth of January because they don't focus on the other
Speaker 3: three things. First, you need to focus on sleep, You
Speaker 3: need to focus on stress, nutrition, and then fitness.
Speaker 2: Now it's it's ironic.
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing you, and it's what is it nine point
Speaker 1: thirty or ten o'clock in New York? How do you
Speaker 1: go when you've had a well, a bit of a
Speaker 1: rough night sleep, I mean the next day with your
Speaker 1: fitness habits, your four pillars.
Speaker 3: That's a great question. There are a lot of times
Speaker 3: you I have a twelve year old son, so sometimes
Speaker 3: I'm up with him or whatever. You know, we're doing stuff,
Speaker 3: or you know, you live in a city. It's very noisy.
Speaker 3: Some days you don't get great sleep, and it's okay.
Speaker 3: But what I do is I focus on other things
Speaker 3: around me. I focus on water, I focus on nutrition.
Speaker 3: I focus on keeping my stress levels low. And if
Speaker 3: I don't get enough sleep, I actually I have a
Speaker 3: rule for myself. If I get under five and a
Speaker 3: half hours of sleep, I don't work out the next day.
Speaker 3: I focus more on meditation. I may do some yoga,
Speaker 3: I may do some prayer, but I always have that
Speaker 3: rule out five and a half hours no fitness the
Speaker 3: next day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: Actually, I've recently got a wopband and this is not
Speaker 1: an advertisement for work, but that has really helped me
Speaker 1: will regulate more my slate versus my exercise and when
Speaker 1: I need to build strain and when I need to
Speaker 1: rest my body. Because it's a bit of a trap.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just want to you do get into the well.
Speaker 1: I just want to work out because I know it's
Speaker 1: going to make me feel better after a bad night's sleep.
Speaker 1: But it's it's kind of this well I have like
Speaker 1: this feedback in my head that I'm always I'm always
Speaker 1: struggling up against.
Speaker 3: Yes, I can understand that, and that's what happens a
Speaker 3: lot of times. People say, hey, listen, I gotta work out,
Speaker 3: And I understand that if you don't invest in sleep.
Speaker 3: Sleep is the most imperative and it's the number one
Speaker 3: most important thing when it comes to wellness. You have
Speaker 3: to focus on sleep, and we don't sleep regularly enough
Speaker 3: and we don't get enough in a sense, even if
Speaker 3: you want to take a ten minute nap during the day,
Speaker 3: you know, I take naps during the day. But what
Speaker 3: a ten minute, fifteen minute power nap does? Me? Agree,
Speaker 3: But I always tell people it's sleep first. Forget the fitness.
Speaker 3: If you're not getting your rest, you can't invest in
Speaker 3: the gym.
Speaker 1: The other interesting thing about you and what you've done
Speaker 1: in your career is that you've worked obviously with celebrities.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, but these celebrities have ranged from twenties, thirties, forties, fifties.
Speaker 1: How do you and you've had success, congratulations, how do
Speaker 1: you tailor your approach to different age groups? Because say
Speaker 1: someone in their twenties versus someone in their forties who
Speaker 1: is juggling three kids and might not get enough slate,
Speaker 1: where someone in their twenties might have get the full
Speaker 1: whole eight hours. I'm very envious of favoring in their
Speaker 1: twenties having three kids with they might get eight hours
Speaker 1: of uninterrupted slate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's interesting. So I used to live with
Speaker 3: clients for extended period of time. I actually lived with
Speaker 3: fifty cent when I was training him for four years.
Speaker 3: I trained him for fifteen years. And whenever I start
Speaker 3: working with a client, whether it's a someone who's in
Speaker 3: the entertainment industry or an athlete or someone who's not
Speaker 3: the entertainment industry and not an athlete. I always focus
Speaker 3: on sleep first, and we work on that and we
Speaker 3: do things like chromotherapy, and people are like, what's that?
Speaker 3: Did you know? Actually, Felicity, sleeping with green sheets actually
Speaker 3: makes you have a better nighttime sleep. What red? No? Yes, Red, yellow,
Speaker 3: and orange increase intensity, energy, power, and strength. So people
Speaker 3: who have red, yellow, and orange sheets, you're going to
Speaker 3: get excitement. It's not going to be really the best
Speaker 3: color for you to sleep. And so people are like, wow,
Speaker 3: how did you learn about this? All this? I actually
Speaker 3: studied on it because I always feel that I'm the
Speaker 3: person I want to go through things with first test
Speaker 3: it out on myself and then implement into my client
Speaker 3: tele So when I had my surgeries and backsturgers and
Speaker 3: all that along the line, I started focusing on sleep heavily,
Speaker 3: wrote up a little pamphlet from it, and then I
Speaker 3: just hand that booklet to my client talents and we
Speaker 3: go through at each page by page. Here's what we're
Speaker 3: going to focus on first with sleep, Here's we're going
Speaker 3: to focus on next with stress. Then comes to nutrition
Speaker 3: and then the fitness and a lot of people are like, wait,
Speaker 3: I got to get in shape in thirty days for
Speaker 3: a movie roles. And I'm like, wait, you're not sleeping.
Speaker 3: You're not going to get in shape, nor are you
Speaker 3: going to have the tenacity or the power to learn
Speaker 3: your role and to be the best character role you can.
Speaker 1: So say, did you have to get a celebrity in
Speaker 1: shape within four weeks? I mean, how long do you
Speaker 1: focus on the sleep account? Is that a week's worth
Speaker 1: of the four weeks? Or where does the fitness come in?
Speaker 1: If they have to say bulke out for Chris Hemsworth
Speaker 1: tit role.
Speaker 3: That's that's great. So what I do is I whenever
Speaker 3: I'm brought in so I'm contracted or retained like a
Speaker 3: like an attorney's yeah, So whenever whenever I get my contract,
Speaker 3: I sit down with the client first and I let
Speaker 3: them know where I come from. We're going to focus
Speaker 3: on sleep, We're going to focus on stress, we're going
Speaker 3: to focus on nutrition, and then we're going to focus
Speaker 3: on your fitness. And they and they understand it. It
Speaker 3: may take some time to explain it, but when you
Speaker 3: when you give the example, and I always tell people
Speaker 3: when you were in high school or college, and you
Speaker 3: stayed up late, yes, to study for a test, but
Speaker 3: did you have the strength and the energy the next
Speaker 3: day to do anything else? And they're like no, And
Speaker 3: I say, well, think about that compounding effect of not
Speaker 3: getting enough sleep what that does to your body. And
Speaker 3: then the client starts to understand, Hey, wait, I do
Speaker 3: have to focus on sleep because that's going to increase
Speaker 3: my gains. I do have to focus on sleep because
Speaker 3: it has been shown medically and scientifically that it's going
Speaker 3: to back everything that you do in the gym, with
Speaker 3: the nutrition and everything with your stress. So that's why
Speaker 3: we focus on sleep first.
Speaker 1: Now you have to spill the beans. Do you have
Speaker 1: a favorite celebrity you've worked with?
Speaker 3: That's a great question. I have a favorite client that
Speaker 3: I worked with.
Speaker 2: Okay, who is that.
Speaker 3: I once was hired by a mom to teach a
Speaker 3: five year old kid how to ride a bike because
Speaker 3: his dad was not around. His dad was not around,
Speaker 3: And I always tell people this. You know, we're all celebrities.
Speaker 3: It's not just who you turn on the TV to
Speaker 3: watch or who do you go to the movie to see.
Speaker 3: It's just that we don't celebrate life enough. So I
Speaker 3: just wanted I always tell people we're all celebrities. We
Speaker 3: just don't sell we celebrate a holiday or a birthday.
Speaker 3: We should be celebrating ourselves each and every day because
Speaker 3: we are so important. And that's one thing we have
Speaker 3: to understand. So when you ask me that question about
Speaker 3: who's my favorite client er, who I've worked with that
Speaker 3: i've really I think about this child because for the
Speaker 3: rest of his life, he's going to remember that I
Speaker 3: taught him how to ride a bike and he's going
Speaker 3: to pass that on to his child. Now, a celebrity
Speaker 3: is going to not remember me in five to ten years.
Speaker 3: They're not going to remember my name, you know, they'll
Speaker 3: go and have ten other trainers or whatever. That child
Speaker 3: is going to have an impression made by what I
Speaker 3: did for him for the rest of his life, and
Speaker 3: that means the world to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said, well answered, And I was dodging the
Speaker 1: question as well. Now before we go, tell us what
Speaker 1: about to come to Australia. What's going on with a
Speaker 1: what's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so excited. In May of twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: Kylo is hosting the summit and it's going to be
Speaker 3: an Oh my gosh, it's going to be such an
Speaker 3: amazing fitness, health and wellness event. We're going to have
Speaker 3: various speakers. I'm going to be speaking there, We're going
Speaker 3: to have You're going to eat a tremendous amount of
Speaker 3: great food, get tremendous amount great information, meet some amazing people.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be one great fitness expression of
Speaker 3: the world. It's just going to be amazing.
Speaker 2: Well. We look forward to seeing you down here.
Speaker 3: Jay.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us on Healthy Ish.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Well sleep it is really the most important thing when
Speaker 1: it comes to health and wellness because everything else goes
Speaker 1: out the window, fitness, nutrition, mood.
Speaker 2: When you just don't have enough sleep.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll leave links to all of Jay's things that
Speaker 1: he talked about in the show notes. If you did
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