WEBVTT - Minisode: Getting Fit with Ben Bruno 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.800 Okay, guys, here are my dates for the High and 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:05.840 Mighty Tour. In August you can find me in Red Bank, 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:09.920 New Jersey, Montclair, New Jersey, and Calgary that's Canada. And 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.039 September I will be in Santa Barbara, San Diego, New 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:22.400 York City, Philly and New Haven, Connecticut. October is Atlanta, Baltimore, Saginaw, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Boise, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.959 Idaho and Spokan. And then in November I'll be in 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.280 San Francisco. I'm coming to Salt Lake City, Austin, Houston, 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.760 Dallas Babies, I'll be there. And then in December I 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.279 am closing out my tour in Denver and Vancouver. So 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.320 get your tickets at Chelseahandler dot com for the High 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:44.640 and Mighty Tour. Come on up, come on, yes, Oh 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:49.840 this is it, this is what we're talking about. Oh, Dug, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.320 can you believe how magical you? I wish our listeners 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.440 could see how beautiful you are? But he just well, 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.960 but he blends in with the sofa. You can't really 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.600 see him, right, He's just a void. You could never 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.840 see this beautiful brown eyes that you. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.640 Have layo white blanket over a beautiful. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.039 Hello Ben Bruno. Hi Ben, We're here to talk about 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.240 Ben's new workout app. How many? What number is this 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.600 of your workout apps? You've done a few before, So 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.440 I have you need a microphone? Dumb ass? Oh, this 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.839 is my personal trainer everyone, Ben Bruno, Ben Bruno Training. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.560 You can follow him on my Instagram at Ben Bruno Training. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:33.560 Ben Bruno Training. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.119 Okay, if I do this train dot com. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:35.400 Yeah. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.240 If we have to show you how to use a microphone, world, 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.080 this is my world. 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.720 Does that hang out with you guys when you're working out? 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.800 Yeah, Dog Doug comes with me to the gym. He 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.800 comes with me wherever I go. He knows because he 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:50.880 sees my bell packing all my medication, so he knows 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.160 him on my way out, That's how he knows. When 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.360 he sees a lot of prescription bottles, he's like, oh, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.440 she's leaving right. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:01.880 In the story of when Chun walked down, that will 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:02.760 share two miles. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.960 Yeah, a good story. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.840 Do you remember Chunk? 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.280 I never met Chunk. Chunk was before my time. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.000 Chunk is the dog that made me a mother. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:15.280 When I met Chelsea, she was the mother to Chunk. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:22.720 I've trained Chelsea through many different dogs, employees, whatever, and 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.840 also dogs. And the first dog was Chunk. Was that 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.840 your first dog? Period? Famous because it was on your 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:34.799 show right when I met you. Your show was not 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:40.679 was done, Chelsea lately was done, but Chunk. So long 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.320 story short. We went to this gym that was an 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.079 underground parking garage and Chelsea and I got to talking 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:52.680 and Chunk just meandered away at some point. So Chelsea's assistant, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.800 this is actually a true story. The gym was between 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.560 if anybody knows Beverly Hills, it was in an alley 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.920 between Roxbury and Linden, right off Wilshire, so smack dab 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.400 in Beverly Hills if you don't know Beverly Hills. I 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.359 don't know how long goes by, but it must have been. 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.720 Chunk wasn't fast, so it had to be a while. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.480 His Chunk kind of walks slow. And so we get 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.800 a call from Karen, her assistant, saying, one of your 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.280 fans found Chunk two miles down the road on Wilsher. 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.160 I'm not making this up. I'm not putting anything on this. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.640 Chunk just walked out of the garage and walked two 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.840 miles down Wilshire and was so famous that some random 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:36.320 person just spotted Chunk, and so Chelsea just I was 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:37.920 thinking like, oh my god, we got to go get him. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.880 Chelsea goes, well, I don't want to get him. That's embarrassing. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.720 You go get him, and just hung up and Karen 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.680 had to go pick up Chunk. I have no clue 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:46.960 how Chunk lived through that. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.240 God, what about Chunk was so funny because Chunk was famous. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.920 So people would stop at stop lights when we were 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.680 on our way to to the studio and they would 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.840 recognize him, and people because his head would be out 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.960 the right and oh, my god, is that Chunk? Is 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.520 that Chunk because he had his bandana and it was 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.360 kind of recognizable. And then I'd always be like, oh, yeah, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.440 come quickly take a picture if you want, get out 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.200 of the car at the red light. And then one 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.040 day after doing this, like every morning, it would happen 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:16.080 pretty frequently, right, and then one day Chunk literally a 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.760 woman was coming over to take a picture and Chunk 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.680 just put his paw on the control window controller to 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.040 put the window up. He had was like, fuck this ship, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:24.800 I'm sick of this. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:26.680 And with my family, what was the dog chronology? 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:30.000 It was Chunk Chunk, and then Tammy, Sammy Gary at 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.120 some point, but Gary. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.359 Was returned to Sunder. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.279 I think that was before then I had Hodor, who Molley, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:38.159 my cousin. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.200 Took because and then there was Burton Bernice. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.680 And then Burton Bernice, and then Doug and then ray 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.880 j short lived. And we're going to get another one 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:48.400 though there's one in my orca. 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:50.800 Oh wait, you're bringing it from my I think. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.320 So that's the plans of right now there and we'll see. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:58.480 Remember when Bernice tumbled down, that was Tammy. It was Tammy. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.839 Tammy would follow me. Bernice would never fucking follow me. 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:01.960 She would hide from me. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.960 Another funny story that I don't know if translates to words, 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:06.720 because I think you had to be there. But Chelsea 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.120 used to live on this giant hill. I'm not not exaggerating. 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:14.920 It was huge and also it down really steep. So 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:19.560 when Tammy was new and when Chelsea gets dogs, they 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.160 don't look the best. When she first gets him, I 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.520 don't know how to say that. She had a good heart, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.480 but she had very little hair. She had all these 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.640 patches of hair and just looked like a hot mess. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.760 And so Chelsea and I were gonna go walk to 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.680 play tennis at the bottom of her street, and we 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.920 look up and Tammy had tried to run to meet us, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.920 but went on the steep part of the hill. So 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.920 I'm not putting anything on this down this giant hill 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.440 and everything, and then just kind of like shook it 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:51.400 off and walked away. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.279 I was just like this step. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.720 Yeah, I have no clue how Tammy lived. To tell 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:56.160 about that. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.080 Well, I have one caller for us today and I 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:03.760 have a couple other little questions, but we could just 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:04.360 keep to one call. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.400 Well, first we want to talk about his fitness program. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.080 That's what he's here to promote. We want this for women. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.560 Thank you. By the way, this means a lot. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.760 because I quick backstory on my app, but I started 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.920 it three years ago and then this past week it 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.279 was a third party app service because I'm a tech 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.159 moron and the program I'm proud of it. We have 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.080 twenty five thousand people that do the app. It's a 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.880 lot of people. Wow, which is you know, and it's 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.080 really cool because I, you know, since I've known you, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.080 I've essentially just seen the same ten clients in person 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.359 every time. So it's been a great way to do 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:38.680 you want to. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.200 Talk about the other people you trained? Do you want 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:41.640 to mention their names? Or do you not? Would you 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:42.080 rather not? 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:43.640 I mean it's going to just make you sound like 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:48.040 a douche. Yeah you can, yeah, okay. 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:52.680 Justin Timberlake, Jesse Beale, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, You've trained 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.200 lots of basketball players. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:58.080 Well, so the interesting thing about that is that's what 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.960 I like about the app is. You know, when I'm 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.600 moved to LA, I didn't have a celebrity training background. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.280 I trained hockey players in Massachusetts, and then I moved 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:09.360 here and got connected to you and some other people, 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.480 and celebrity is an interesting thing to me as someone 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.000 who comes from New Hampshire and like doesn't really it's 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.520 kind of funny to me, like you name dropping that 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.160 makes me seem like a starfucker, and really I just 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.480 like watch ESPN all day. But there's a perceived expertise 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:31.200 that comes from training celebrities, so like, thanks for that. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:35.680 But the training is I feel like training is I 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.160 always say it's one of life's equalizers. But the training 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.720 that you do is the exact same training that I 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.720 did with moms back in Massachusetts. Is the same training 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.920 that's on the app, because it's like, you know, I 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.600 think people think I hate the term celebrity trainer because one, 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.440 I feel like it's just a douchey term, but two, 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.280 I think they there's this connotation like we're doing these 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.280 wild workouts, right and at every point in the eleven 0:07:58.360 --> 0:07:59.640 years we've trained. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.800 Which is the longest relationship I've ever had with any man. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.280 Brothers, but think about it, we work out with dumbbells 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.080 and a bench and very you know, basic workouts and stuff. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:15.040 And the training actors thing is funny to me because again, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.280 you know, I'm sure there's a lot of fields like this. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.520 I'm sure your hair people benefit, your makeup people benefit. 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.080 There just is a perceived expertise with celebrity. But when 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:26.760 I think of actors, you know, as somebody who came 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:31.200 from an athletic training background, I look at trainers that 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.120 train the athletes and be like, well, they really know 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.440 what they're doing, and actors, I'm like, those are like 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.200 the theater kids that aren't really that athletic. So the 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:43.040 training isn't always what it's hyped up to be, as 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.320 you know, but is it hyped to be though? No, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.839 I think that you know, a lot of people probably 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.520 know of me, which is great because I train you 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.880 and people like you, famous people. But at the same time, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.199 I think you would agree with me. This isn't a knock. 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:58.800 Our workouts are very. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.440 Average, you know, but I'm very strong. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.280 Yeah, you're really strong, but now I'm. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.439 Lifting like thirty five. I'm just squatting with like thirty 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:06.800 five pound dumbbells and stuff. 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.160 We do thirty five and awesome. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.199 And I'm tinier and stronger than I've ever been at 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.880 fifty one years old. First of all, So any ladies 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.760 that are watching this or listening to this, like just 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.000 you know, this whole myth about weightlifting and this idea, 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.880 this kind of fallacy that it makes you bigger is 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:25.360 not true. It makes you smaller. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.640 But I think what what I'm trying to do with 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.520 this app is just basically bring the training that I 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.160 do with you and my other clients to everyone that 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.079 has to say you know, because for the people listening, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.320 Chelsea works out with dumbbells and a bench at hurt 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.320 you know, and slightly more at my house, but not crazy, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.319 and you know, with good programming and just slow and 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.760 steady progression. It goes along with how long is the course? 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.599 Each program six weeks, but there's seven total programs. And 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.480 then what I basically did is what I created that 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.880 just came out a week ago. That's is when I 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:04.400 first started my app. It was a test to myself 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.000 to see if I could do it as a tech moron, 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.439 but also just see who was interested. And I learned 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.840 that I overshot my audience a little in the sense 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:15.480 I thought they were going to be more gym people 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.240 like me. But there's a lot of beginners, and so 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.400 that is not there's no judgment to that. I think 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.920 that everyone follows the same process. And when I was 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.960 scrolling my phone last week with your videos, I realized 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.400 we didn't do any videos for like the first three 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.360 years we trained, and I just shared like pictures of 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.760 you to just say, oh I trained, celebrity whatever. But 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.480 your workouts were nothing to even they weren't even post 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.839 worthy because you use no because you're new to it. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.719 And but my point is, I think that the online 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.439 fitness social media world shafts beginners a little bit because 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.040 because people really like think of you know, people post 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.840 the hard stuff, the novelties stuff, the cool looking move 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.800 in order to get clicks. But everyone that is doing 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.680 those moves started with the basics. But we never share 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.959 that because it doesn't look cool. And I never share 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:12.640 that with my clients because I'm not trying to throw 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.840 them under the bus and say, here's Chelsea lunging with 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.240 five pound dumbells. But you did, and now you're lunging 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.480 with thirty pound dumbbells, and I'll show that because that's badass. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.280 But you know, the thing about it is like if 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.160 somebody listening to this without a training background tried to 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.680 do what you do now after training with me for 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:36.040 eleven years, they'd hurt themselves. And so it's not just 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.240 you know, the further along programs are what you're currently doing. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.160 You know, we have programs if you've never done it, 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.680 it's to kind of build up because I think, think 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:50.520 about how when I met you, I came to your 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.880 house and you had dumbbells up to eight pounds and 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.240 we worked out on a deck and that was it. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.120 And so we've come a long way since then. But 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.560 I think that when enough time goes by to forget 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:01.240 that stage. 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.040 But so the program instructs people how to, like what 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.920 level to start with right, Yes, for beginners or people 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.840 who are just getting into. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.360 Wait, it totally walks people through. I set out to 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.480 make it as close to training the person as you 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.720 can get. So each each exercise from like every warm 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.480 up move. You would actually hate it because you think 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.600 I talk too much, But I give a one and 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:27.040 a half minute right now tutorial for every single move. Okay, 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:28.840 well I do it safely, how much weight to do, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.200 how to start whatever, and so you can. Everyone has 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.320 to walk before they run. And I think that most 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.880 women that aren't lifelong gym heads come into it with 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.680 fear either about bulking up or getting hurt, and so 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.200 I think that I really just shoot to meet people 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.000 where they're at and start slow and then building. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.960 Yeah, but also just to know that like that is 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:49.640 not first of all, as we get older, we need 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.160 to be stronger. Period. It's for your bone density. It's 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.480 so good for your bone density. It's so good for 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.760 your like melean muscle mass. Yeah, your hormones. Everything, Like 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.400 if I don't get a workout in for a couple 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.760 of days, I start to get like ordinary, which is 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.959 not a thing I would ever thought. I would say, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.000 you know, and even when I'm not with him, which 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.120 is most of the time because now I'm traveling a lot. 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:11.240 But like I have the same situation. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.200 You've actually tried the app? I know you won't, but 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.480 like I, I'll try it. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:16.800 Tell people how they can download the app? 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.720 How do they do through the link on my Instagram? Okay, 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.880 and they have this It's cool. I tried to make 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.080 it very user friendly. I have seven programs and you 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.280 can select which one you want in the series, and 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.199 the more programs you buy, it adds like crazy discounts 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.480 on top of it gets progressively cheaper and it's you know, 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.840 it's it's a very cost effective, simple program. 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:39.480 We love it. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:40.440 Yeah, we love it. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.120 Did you do we have fitness questions? 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:42.880 I do? 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.320 Okay, we have some couple of squetch of callers. Yeah, okay, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:47.679 you want to put your headphones on? 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.120 Yeah? So, Carla says, Hi, Chelsea and crew from down Under. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.720 I need some help and have nothing in the toolbox 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.240 for my current situation. I'm a forty four year old 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.560 professional CPA living independently with multiple gleurosis. It's been about 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.040 eleven years living with the diagnosis, and I've always found 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.600 refuge in movement and exercise. My MS diagnosis was the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.880 best motivation to explore activities that challenge and support my body. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.480 I work out around four days a week, walking outdoors, pilates, 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.720 and swimming. I see a physio who has been life 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.640 changing with craniosacral therapy, but a sudden onset of fatigue 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.560 is making it impossible to continue my normal workout schedule. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.440 I'm very deliberate and sensible with my workouts, but would 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.640 like some tips on how to manage fatigue and working 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.680 out and how I could start simple workouts at home. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.800 I'd love to get safely into weights and have no 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.400 idea where to start. Oh perfect, Yeah, I have some 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.760 basic dumbells and a bar bell at home and unsure 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:41.440 if I should start at two kilograms, ten kilograms or 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.960 twenty kilograms. Do you have any tips on where to start? 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:45.480 My goal is functional strength? 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:50.800 Carla, Hi, Carla love this Hello, Hi Carla ing Hi, Hi. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.280 This is my personal trainer. So this has been Bruno 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.880 and he just launched an app that you could exercise 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.800 app and not just launched you launched his newest exercise app. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.360 So this is a perfect app for you. You can 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.360 download it. He has you know. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.600 A program that I would recommend for you is called 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.280 intro To Strength Training. It's a beginner program. But listening 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.520 to what Catherine just said, I think it's really important 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.600 to remember with exercise that the devil's in the dose, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.880 and so when you're really struggling with fatigue. Really, I 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.400 think that exercise gives you energy as long as you 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.120 don't overdo it, but if you overdo it, it'll suck 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.840 your energy. So I really recommend people I always say 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.680 seven out of ten hard in each set and seven 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.560 out of ten hard in each workout. So what that 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.880 means is you do your set where you could do 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.160 a few more reps, but you stop short because I 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:51.440 think going to true failure is where injury happens and 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:56.200 that'll zap your energy. And then stopping the workout before 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.720 you feel crushed will go a long way and you 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:04.240 just make long term, sustainable progress. So I would say 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:10.440 consistent workouts two times a week, but not crushing yourself. 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:13.800 I think that too many people look at a workout 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.080 program as all or nothing. I'm either just going to 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.080 go all in or it's not worthing. I do that, yeah, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:19.880 and I think. 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:21.800 That, yeah, I've been doing that in the paw. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.600 Yeah, and I hadn't to me very well. Yeah. Part 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.240 of why I was so grateful that Chelsea had me 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:29.360 on here is I think a lot of the mainstream 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:33.480 info to women about strength training. I love it because 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.240 I love that strength training is becoming more popular, but 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.360 I think a lot of the advice comes from men 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.520 and women like me who have worked out hard their 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.640 whole life and just like it. But they're trying to 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:49.000 make those recommendations ubiquitous to everyone that just is brand 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.840 new to training, and so it doesn't have to be 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.080 that intense. A lot of the stuff that I see 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.280 is telling women with no background that you have to 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.760 go to failure, that you have to do prints and 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.000 super heavy weights, and I don't think you need to 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.520 do any of that. I think it wouldn't make sense 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.240 for a woman just starting out to train like they're 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:15.560 training for the NFL Combine. So it's sort of a gentle, simple, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:19.680 sustainable program will go a long way. And also, remember 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:25.080 the new buzzword that I actually like is called progressive overload. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:29.119 People teach women to progressively increase the weights, but I 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.800 think the message that gets lost and can actually be 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:36.240 defeating for women is that for example, Chelsea is lifting 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.800 thirty five pound dumbbells now, and we started with five 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.879 or ten pound dumbbells, so that's only like five or 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.159 six weight increases in eleven years. So I think that 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.600 sometimes when you really break it down like that, if 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:53.959 we were able to increase the way, you know, I 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.840 see a lot of simple recommendations on mainstream women's podcast 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.400 telling women to try to bump the weights up five 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.840 pounds every time, and that sounds good and that works initially. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.720 But if that were the case Chelsea and I have 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:09.760 conservatively done two thousand workouts, she'd be lifting ten thousand 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:11.200 pounds on every single exercise. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.359 But I also think that something that you're saying is 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.360 really important, like with your level of energy and everything, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.520 Like sometimes you can go in the gym and sometimes 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.879 I'll just do a twenty minute workout and that gives 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.439 me the energy that I need. You don't have to 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.160 commit to doing forty five minutes or an hour every 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.760 single time. And if you do download event's programs, each 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:31.360 class is. 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.920 What it's like, thirty forty minutes, thirty. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.399 Forty minutes, but you know, you don't have to finish 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.040 the whole thing. If you're not feeling it, you just 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.400 kind of want to do a little bit of something 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.720 when you feel, you know, exactly right. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.400 I think it's also important to note too that when 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.720 people say social media is a highlight reel, so is fitness. 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.879 And I'm guilty of that in the sense that I'll 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.960 show the day that Chelsea lifts thirty five pounds because 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.679 I'm trying to make her look good. I'm trying to 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.560 make myself look good and whatever. But we're not doing 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:03.480 that every time, if that makes sense. Some days we 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.280 might only lift twenty pound dumbills and live to fight 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.080 another day when she's tired or feeling sore, you know whatever. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.000 Oh one hundred percent. Yeah, I've really been overdoing it 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.000 in the past probably three months, and that sort of led. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.000 To a bit of burnout. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.040 So totally at the moment, I'm just you know, some 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.160 days it's only just a walk around the block. But yeah, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.480 I think getting into a program and knowing that even 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.520 if I just do like the twenty minutes thirty minutes, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.399 maybe one day it might be ten minutes. Like I think, Yeah, 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.919 I like to keep that habit of doing that daily 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.720 or you know, at least four or five times a 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.600 week some sort of movement and exercise because I found 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.240 in those times where I let it all go, well, 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.080 then you sort of don't want to pick it up again. 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:50.080