Speaker 1: You're listening to Joja See One Now with me, Jojo
Speaker 1: Siua and iHeartRadio podcast. Oh welcome back to JoJo's See
Speaker 1: One Now. This is going to be probably my favorite
Speaker 1: podcast ever because I am about to deep dive into
Speaker 1: one of my favorite, most passionate topics ever. It is
Speaker 1: not drumming, It is not indoor skydiving, it is not performing,
Speaker 1: it is not my future children Freddie, Eddie and Teddy.
Speaker 1: It is working out. I am so stoked to deep
Speaker 1: dive into this topic. Working out is one of the
Speaker 1: things that keeps me most mentally happy. It is one
Speaker 1: of the things that over the last year two years,
Speaker 1: I have truly educated myself by just doing and messing
Speaker 1: up and figuring it out and learning and drying and
Speaker 1: trial and error and this and that. And I really
Speaker 1: feel like now, I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna listen
Speaker 1: back to this in a couple of years and laugh
Speaker 1: at myself being like, oh, yeah, you thought you knew
Speaker 1: what you were talking about. But I really feel like
Speaker 1: now I'm in a place where I could help somebody
Speaker 1: start a workout journey. And I feel like I now
Speaker 1: feel so confident about my workout stuff, and I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, my friends come to me and they're like,
Speaker 1: I want to come work out with you, and I,
Speaker 1: you know, know the supplements and stuff that I like.
Speaker 1: I know the workout routines that I like. I found
Speaker 1: my rhythm, I found my groove, I found how I
Speaker 1: stay motivated. And I was like, it is time. It
Speaker 1: is top of the year. We are just getting into
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. We got lots of months left, and
Speaker 1: it is it is a new year. It is time
Speaker 1: to deep dive. It is time to go down this
Speaker 1: physical health freaking rabbit hole. Buckle up, get your arm
Speaker 1: weights on. Honestly, bonus points if you listen to this
Speaker 1: while walking on a treadmill. If you don't got a drummill,
Speaker 1: put this podcast on, go outside, walk around even though
Speaker 1: if you're inside, maybe put it on and walk around inside.
Speaker 1: Do a little zooma dance happening while you were listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast. Whatever your vibe is, you got probably
Speaker 1: you know anywhere it's me talking, So you for sure
Speaker 1: have twenty minutes, possibly even up to thirty minutes. You
Speaker 1: know you could get a good workout and while you
Speaker 1: listen to this. All right, I'll shut up now. About
Speaker 1: that what you should be doing right now, and I
Speaker 1: will just start talking about what you actually want to hear,
Speaker 1: which is all of my workout, uh brain, all of
Speaker 1: my workout I'm not gonna say knowledge, but all of
Speaker 1: my workout thoughts there, it is there, It is all right,
Speaker 1: starting in really freaking strong. I work out so much nowadays.
Speaker 1: I have a crazy, crazy, freaking schedule. I sometimes will
Speaker 1: work for eighteen days in a row and then have
Speaker 1: a day off, and then work for eighteen more and
Speaker 1: then have a day off. Sometimes I'll work for a
Speaker 1: day in a row that don'll have three off, a
Speaker 1: day in a row have three off. And there will
Speaker 1: be some days where I there have been some years
Speaker 1: actually where I work for like three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four of them. I get Christmas off. You pretty much
Speaker 1: always get Christmas off, but every other holiday you work through.
Speaker 1: And so I have found for myself it is best
Speaker 1: to just work out every day that I can, because
Speaker 1: there will be some days that come where I can't.
Speaker 1: Schedules too early, schedule goes too late, and I just
Speaker 1: can't there's not enough hours in the day, and so
Speaker 1: I wait until one of those days come to take
Speaker 1: a day off, and some people have come at me
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, look, that's not good for your muscles,
Speaker 1: And I say, I know you're supposed to. You know,
Speaker 1: work out, take take a rest day, take a few
Speaker 1: rest days. Work out five days a week, take two
Speaker 1: rest days. That's what the book tells you. Book, the
Speaker 1: book matters, but the book doesn't matter, because what matters
Speaker 1: is your brain, your body, and you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you think of doing. And you can do an active
Speaker 1: recovery day where there'll be some days where or my
Speaker 1: arms are just exhausted because I over used them yesterday
Speaker 1: doing a workout. That's all right. We can go for
Speaker 1: a treadmill run, we can do some legs, we can
Speaker 1: do some abs, we can do arms, but just use
Speaker 1: our back a little more, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's all about how you feel, and no matter what
Speaker 1: the book or what anybody tells you, it is what
Speaker 1: you feel. That is why one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: did have a personal trainer. I've actually had two personal
Speaker 1: trainers in my life, and they both were awesome, and
Speaker 1: I if somebody was looking for a personal trainer, I
Speaker 1: would for sure recommend both of them. They were great people. However,
Speaker 1: I would get personally frustrated because you know, there was
Speaker 1: never they couldn't. They can't. No one else can feel
Speaker 1: your body but you. And so we would be working
Speaker 1: out and my arms would be overly exhausted, and I
Speaker 1: would just be thinking in my head like, man, I
Speaker 1: wish we could just switch to legs. And now you
Speaker 1: might be like Jojo, just like speak up and say something.
Speaker 1: But the reality is, no one's gonna do that. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna speak up and be like, hey, my arms
Speaker 1: are tired. Can we switch to leg stuff. In hindsight,
Speaker 1: sure sounds like it'd be so easy to do, but
Speaker 1: actually coming out and saying that's your trainer is so scary.
Speaker 1: And so I've learned that I like to do it myself,
Speaker 1: work out myself at home, because then I can truly
Speaker 1: listen to my body, truly work out whatever body is
Speaker 1: feeling the fire, whatever part is feeling the fire, and
Speaker 1: just lean with it, rock with it. Now, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I do enjoy working out so much
Speaker 1: is because when I don't, I lose so much energy. Now,
Speaker 1: there is some technical term for this that I don't know,
Speaker 1: but when you work out, your body produces some sort
Speaker 1: of something that does actually give you more energy. Although
Speaker 1: you are exuding energy, it also brings you energy. And
Speaker 1: that is something that I didn't understand right away. I
Speaker 1: used to think, like, no, if I work out, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be exhausted. But I've learned that if I
Speaker 1: have a night am call time and I have to
Speaker 1: leave my house at eight, I will actually have a
Speaker 1: better day have more energy throughout the day. If I
Speaker 1: choose to wake up at six and get a workout in. Now,
Speaker 1: it's crazy cutting my sleep short, but I will go
Speaker 1: to set and I will feel like boom, I am
Speaker 1: ready for the day. Could be a small workout, could
Speaker 1: be a big workout, could be anything, but it just
Speaker 1: really gets my day started off on the right foot.
Speaker 1: I can't stress enough how important it is to listen
Speaker 1: to your body. There are days where I wake up
Speaker 1: in the morning and I'm like, look, it's not the
Speaker 1: morning for it. Maybe it'll be the midday, maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be the night. Somehow, I'm always feeling it at some
Speaker 1: point of the day because I do love it. I
Speaker 1: find a lot of enjoyment. And I'll talk about how
Speaker 1: I find the enjoyment and working out, but I think
Speaker 1: that really knowing that, like, hey, look, my body's actually
Speaker 1: saying no to this right now, well listen to it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonnaive us some more sleep. Or hey, look, my
Speaker 1: body's saying no. But is that an excuse? Fully an excuse?
Speaker 1: Wake up? Come on body, let's go, let's put this
Speaker 1: out and on, Let's put these shoes on, and let's go.
Speaker 1: Let's go work out, let's go have fun for me.
Speaker 1: I actually have a gym in my house, which has
Speaker 1: been so amazing. We created this gym in my house.
Speaker 1: We started creating it at the end of twenty one,
Speaker 1: but then I believe we finished it in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and it has been the most amazing thing ever. We
Speaker 1: have all the machines out there, all the cardio machines
Speaker 1: you could want. I've become obsessed with peloton recently and
Speaker 1: that has been really fun. My brother and I do
Speaker 1: rides together, which has been great. We got all the
Speaker 1: weights out there, we got ketbells out there, we got
Speaker 1: benches out there, resistance vans, and now for Christmas in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, we actually decided to expand it, so
Speaker 1: it was half of the garage. Now we are expanding
Speaker 1: it to be the full garage, which is so sick.
Speaker 1: It is so nice and they're so open. Now. I
Speaker 1: had this CrossFit rig actually in my backyard and we're
Speaker 1: pulling that now inside the garage, which is gonna be
Speaker 1: so much nicer. I will use it so much more.
Speaker 1: I am so excited about it. It has these monkey
Speaker 1: bars on it. It's got a tricep like you can
Speaker 1: do tricep dips on it. It's got a squad rack
Speaker 1: on it, it's got shelves on it, it's got bars
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, it is freaking awesome. It's got
Speaker 1: a boxing bag. There's so much to do, and I
Speaker 1: think that that's something that's really important to note, is
Speaker 1: that working out can be so fun. You can make it.
Speaker 1: You can make it anything you want it to be.
Speaker 1: I found some fun ways to keep workouts interesting for me.
Speaker 1: One thing that I like to do is actually musical workouts.
Speaker 1: So I will make my playlist right, and I'll come
Speaker 1: up with a circuit. So let's just say bicep curls,
Speaker 1: running on a treadmill, and jumping jacks, So that would
Speaker 1: be like a pretty cardio heavy. But those are just
Speaker 1: three workouts that I could think of that you could
Speaker 1: really visualize what I'm meaning. And so let's just use
Speaker 1: a song that everybody knows, We Will Rock You by
Speaker 1: Queen Right. So on the choruses, we run on the treadmill,
Speaker 1: on the verses we do bicep curls, and on the
Speaker 1: instrumental parts we do jumping jacks. And then you know,
Speaker 1: so you hear the chorus buddy or a poet make
Speaker 1: a big noise, so you do your curls, and then
Speaker 1: you hear the chorus, we will, we will rock you.
Speaker 1: So then you get on the treadmill and you run
Speaker 1: for the whole chorus, and then it goes to the
Speaker 1: instrumental guitar, So burn down, down and now no, no,
Speaker 1: you get off. You do the show me jacks. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a race because you got to
Speaker 1: try to get to the things as fast as you can,
Speaker 1: and then you do it for a couple songs, and
Speaker 1: when you're done, you're done. Another thing that I like
Speaker 1: to do is actually watch videos. I love doing many
Speaker 1: workout videos. One of my favorite YouTubers who I freaking
Speaker 1: love and have fallen in love with in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: she is awesome. Her name is Lily, I say, Lily Sabari.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's how you pronounced her last
Speaker 1: name technically, but she posts these awesome videos, awesome abroutines.
Speaker 1: She does a lot of pilates based workouts which have
Speaker 1: been so awesome. Now, something actually that I learned from
Speaker 1: her is there is gender specific type of workouts. And
Speaker 1: that's something that I didn't actually know was a real thing.
Speaker 1: I realized that I was training, like for say, a boy,
Speaker 1: for a very long time. And somehow, I think it
Speaker 1: was maybe even an ad on a video, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was her saying it. It was like
Speaker 1: this is a workout for girls, and I was like,
Speaker 1: wait what? And so then I deep dived into this,
Speaker 1: like deep, deep, deep hole, and there was something that
Speaker 1: was saying like this workouts for boys, This workouts for girls.
Speaker 1: Weightliftings for boys, Pilates is for girls, and I was
Speaker 1: reading that and I actually got kind of offended because
Speaker 1: so I was like, okay, hear me out. I've been
Speaker 1: weightlifting for two years now, I'm not a boy. I've
Speaker 1: been in a plates class. There's been boys in there
Speaker 1: and they're not girls, you know what I mean? And
Speaker 1: so I think that that's something that no matter what,
Speaker 1: workout can bring you joy. Anything is better than nothing.
Speaker 1: Anything small is a good habit to develop. If you
Speaker 1: are into pilates, doesn't matter. Your gender, doesn't matter, if
Speaker 1: you are a boy, if you were a girl, if
Speaker 1: you're a non binary, whoever you are, whatever you are,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, you are the number one freaking you.
Speaker 1: No pun intend to do a jojo song, but it
Speaker 1: is so true, So don't let any specifics of who
Speaker 1: you are, what you look like, what your body type is,
Speaker 1: define how you can work out. Working out can be
Speaker 1: very scary. And I saw this post too that was like,
Speaker 1: never make fun of anyone in the gym because they
Speaker 1: showed up, And that is so true. It is so
Speaker 1: hard to show up. It is so hard to wake
Speaker 1: up early if you're working out at home, it is
Speaker 1: so hard. It is so hard to get yourself up
Speaker 1: and go to the gym and grow that confidence. Even
Speaker 1: me now knowing how to work out, I remember when
Speaker 1: I didn't know how to work out, when I was
Speaker 1: first starting, and I would go to a gym, I
Speaker 1: would just go to the treadmill because I knew I
Speaker 1: could walk on a treadmill and not look like an idiot.
Speaker 1: But if I go over to a weight rack, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look like an idiot a bufoon. I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. If I go over to these machines
Speaker 1: and I have to like read the directions, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look so stupid. Right, But as I'm now learning how
Speaker 1: to work the machines and how to what to do
Speaker 1: with dumb bells and what to do with kettlebells, I
Speaker 1: would love to see someone at the gym first starting,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and be able to be
Speaker 1: that person to help them. And so of course there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some SaaS people out there who probably will
Speaker 1: give judgmental looks, and that is on them, that is
Speaker 1: not on you at all. But know that you should
Speaker 1: be so freaking proud of yourself for making the effort,
Speaker 1: for taking the leap of faith and for going and
Speaker 1: for trying and for pushing, and you will get there.
Speaker 1: You will learn. It takes time, it takes dedication. That
Speaker 1: is something that I have learned so much over the
Speaker 1: last two years. I remember I started getting into working
Speaker 1: out actually because of Dancing with the Stars. And when
Speaker 1: I went to Dancing with the Stars, I had my
Speaker 1: partner Jenna. We were the first ever same sex couple.
Speaker 1: We were two females, and she's like, all right, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to lift me. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no way. And I was like, it's not you.
Speaker 1: I was like, I have no upper body strength, and
Speaker 1: she was like, well, we're gonna We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find something. So we started doing blanks and push ups
Speaker 1: and I couldn't do a single push up and she
Speaker 1: started with me and I was like, I can't do it.
Speaker 1: She was like, you're not even trying. She goes, you
Speaker 1: don't have to touch your nose to the ground. She'd
Speaker 1: just bend your arms an inch and straighten up, start somewhere,
Speaker 1: and by the end of the season, I could do
Speaker 1: as many push ups as you wanted because I did
Speaker 1: a little bit every single day and trained a little
Speaker 1: bit every single day. And that is what really kickstarted
Speaker 1: me into wanting to work out and to gain fitness
Speaker 1: and to gain strength. So after the season of Dancing
Speaker 1: with the Stars ended, I decided that was when I
Speaker 1: got the first personal trainer, and he was like, what
Speaker 1: are your goals? And I showed him a picture of
Speaker 1: somebody's abs that I like, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: want that. He was like, all right, well, you're you're
Speaker 1: pretty fit right now. And he was like, so honestly,
Speaker 1: you could probably get there in like a year to
Speaker 1: two years. What I was like, no, no, no, you don't understand,
Speaker 1: like I will put in all the time, all the effort.
Speaker 1: I want this in like three or four weeks. And
Speaker 1: he was like, oh, that's not how it works. Especially
Speaker 1: he was saying with your body type, you know, you
Speaker 1: are already smaller, and so you have to you have
Speaker 1: to make sure you're doing this the very smart, safe way.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, so you're telling me two
Speaker 1: years and he was like, uh huh, maybe even longer.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, all right, here we go.
Speaker 1: And the key is patience, and the key is time
Speaker 1: and dedication, and it is the patience game is actually insane.
Speaker 1: But the difference that you feel and the difference that
Speaker 1: you can make in yourself, not in your physical body
Speaker 1: that takes so much time, but the difference that you
Speaker 1: can feel mentally happens almost instantly. You know, you might
Speaker 1: have the one first or second day whe're like, oh
Speaker 1: this sucks, but honestly, I can guarantee by that third
Speaker 1: or fourth day, you're like, wait, I'm kind of into this.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of having fun right now.
Speaker 1: Something that makes it super important too to have fun
Speaker 1: is something to do while you're working out, whether that's
Speaker 1: music to listen to, podcasts to listen to. I would
Speaker 1: recommend George Sea now if it was me, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but anything you're into a TV show to watch, something
Speaker 1: to keep your mind occupied, because working out is something
Speaker 1: that you can do and let your brain go somewhere else,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so you can make
Speaker 1: your body work while your brain is somewhere totally different,
Speaker 1: and that is something that is key to keeping up
Speaker 1: with working out. I feel like the last little bit
Speaker 1: of advice that I would give for somebody just starting
Speaker 1: to work out is you just have to start somewhere,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to start with two hours a
Speaker 1: day and go crazy and drink all the supplements and
Speaker 1: you will lift all this weight and have all this
Speaker 1: time and row. You must do co to you and
Speaker 1: get your ass on the stammaster. Nah, you get in
Speaker 1: ten minutes, five minutes, doesn't matter. How you start doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: where you start. Anything is better than nothing, and a
Speaker 1: little bit more every single day will make a world difference.
Speaker 1: And eventually, you know, you'll get to a point where
Speaker 1: you might want to wake up an hour early before
Speaker 1: work to do something, to work out a little bit,
Speaker 1: but also a little five minute it actually can change
Speaker 1: your life. I all the time will go out to
Speaker 1: my Roger and just do a five minutes sprint and
Speaker 1: it is so much fun. Another thing is people think
Speaker 1: you have to have a place to work out, you
Speaker 1: have to have a gym to go to, you have
Speaker 1: to have a quick your house. There are so many
Speaker 1: free like free body weight. You know, you can do
Speaker 1: any body weight exercises, and this is something that I
Speaker 1: actually just started doing at the end of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three now continuing into twenty twenty four. There was this
Speaker 1: day in twenty twenty three where I didn't work out
Speaker 1: before I showered, and it was just like it was
Speaker 1: just like a normal day. I lived my day and
Speaker 1: then I was going to shower and go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I didn't do anything physical today,
Speaker 1: Like I feel funny, and so I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do I was at that time I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm just gonna do ten squats, ten push
Speaker 1: ups and like ten setups and call it a day
Speaker 1: and then hop in the shower. So I did that, fine, whatever.
Speaker 1: The next day I go to shower and I was like, wait,
Speaker 1: I gotta do my ten squats and my ten push
Speaker 1: ups with my ten setups. And then I was like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is weird. What's going on with me? And it
Speaker 1: actually developed into a habit. Well, then I started to
Speaker 1: add a little bit to it, add a little bit
Speaker 1: to it, and now every time before I shower, I'm
Speaker 1: currently in a routine where I run Bop, which is
Speaker 1: my one of my songs from my old tour Dariam
Speaker 1: the Tour. It's about a three minute song and it
Speaker 1: is insane cardio dance. This is the hardest one we have.
Speaker 1: I run Bop and then I do ten push ups.
Speaker 1: I do ten leg raises for my abs, ten pulses
Speaker 1: for my abs, ten little penguin abs, and then I
Speaker 1: do ten plank twists and then ten tricep push ups.
Speaker 1: Now that is a lot. I do that before every
Speaker 1: single shower. So even I wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: normally my day routines, I wake up go downstairs, have
Speaker 1: free workout. Go work out, come upstairs, do the pre
Speaker 1: shower routine, hop in the shower. So even if I
Speaker 1: work out, I still do that pre shower routine that
Speaker 1: at night. Say I have a rehearsal all day and
Speaker 1: I come home and I want a shower, go to sleep,
Speaker 1: pre shower. Still gotta do that shower routine. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because I think the shower routine that I have,
Speaker 1: honestly is a bit is a bit much. Even last night,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh wow, I'm dreading showering because of
Speaker 1: the showerutine. Right now, Wow, all right, let's just do it.
Speaker 1: But there is something about being like, I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: ten push ups before every shower, new ten jumpin jacks
Speaker 1: before every shower. If you think about it, I was
Speaker 1: doing the math I shower twice a day, right, So
Speaker 1: for me, I'm gonna do bop seven and thirty times.
Speaker 1: It's fucking wild, right, but I've committed to it. And
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, here we go. And that
Speaker 1: is the thing about me is your mind is so powerful.
Speaker 1: I learned on Special Forces how truly powerful our mind is.
Speaker 1: You tell yourself you are going to do something, you
Speaker 1: can do it. Only person that's gonna make up an
Speaker 1: excuse is you. It's gonna be you in your brain.
Speaker 1: You can either make up the excuse on why to
Speaker 1: do it or why not to do it, and that
Speaker 1: is fully your choice. Now I wanna shift a little
Speaker 1: bit into the world of eating. Now, this can be
Speaker 1: a sensitive subject for some people. So this is my
Speaker 1: this my head's up that we are going to chat
Speaker 1: about my personal journey, my things that I have learn,
Speaker 1: my foods that I have fallen in love with, and
Speaker 1: my foods that I have avoided, and things that I've
Speaker 1: learned about foods. That's just my head's up. Anyways. Eating
Speaker 1: is so important to your physical health. It is actually
Speaker 1: crazy what a difference it makes. I have gone through
Speaker 1: some interesting phases with my eating habits, that is for sure. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I've realized it, and I've realized what I needed
Speaker 1: to do to fix it. And it's I mean, it's tough,
Speaker 1: I will say, being a twenty year old girl, a
Speaker 1: looking in a mirror every day, b posting on social
Speaker 1: media every day and see having everyone tear you apart
Speaker 1: on social media every day about everything you do. It's
Speaker 1: very tough and it's very tough to like what you
Speaker 1: look like. And immediately our brain goes to, oh if
Speaker 1: I eat bad, sometimes even oh if I eat, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna like the way that I love. And I
Speaker 1: had to learn in twenty twenty three that that is
Speaker 1: not how it works at all. Zero doesn't matter, honestly.
Speaker 1: Special Forces fixed fixed me, broke me, fixed me, broke me,
Speaker 1: fixed me. Pre special Forces, you know, I had whatever
Speaker 1: my habits were, they were, they were JANKI, but it
Speaker 1: was it was fine. We were we were making it,
Speaker 1: we were living. Then I went to Special Forces and
Speaker 1: there was no option. There was no option to not
Speaker 1: eat what they were giving you. There was no healthier option,
Speaker 1: there was no better for you option, There was no
Speaker 1: sugar free option. This is what it was. And you
Speaker 1: had to eat what it was because you needed the
Speaker 1: You needed the food in you, You needed the fuel
Speaker 1: in you. We were burning so many calories a day
Speaker 1: and already not getting enough calories and our food, and
Speaker 1: so it was it was tough. You had no choice,
Speaker 1: right So I was eating stuff that I hadn't eaten
Speaker 1: in freaking two years. I was eating normal white bread.
Speaker 1: You know. Now, I eat like as I eat Dave's
Speaker 1: Dave's Killer Bread, which is like a healthy, good for you,
Speaker 1: good ingredients protein fanciness bread. We'll talk about some of
Speaker 1: my specifics that I like towards the end here, I
Speaker 1: got some questions and I want to answer, and that
Speaker 1: was one of them. But it was like normal white bread.
Speaker 1: The brand of it. Not a clue would know. It
Speaker 1: was on a platter, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: then after special Forces, that turned into me eating absolutely
Speaker 1: everything in my site. I went to a steak dinner
Speaker 1: with my dad the couple days after and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll have the twenty eight ounce Porterhouse. My dad was like, Jojo, honey, Nope,
Speaker 1: you like like an anounce fil a normally. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I know, but I want this and I
Speaker 1: ate every single bite. Now, I should not eat a
Speaker 1: twenty eight port ounce Porterhouse. That is way too much
Speaker 1: food for my body. But I was in a phase
Speaker 1: of everything in my site just had to be eaten,
Speaker 1: and that was tough. It was tough for me to
Speaker 1: get out of that, and eventually I did and I
Speaker 1: worked through it, and I'm I'm I found some better,
Speaker 1: greater habits now that I'm very happy that finally developed,
Speaker 1: But there is such a balance that you have to
Speaker 1: find for yourself, and you have to know that everybody
Speaker 1: is different and everybody and every body is so special
Speaker 1: and so perfect. No matter what you look like in
Speaker 1: the mirror, it's not about that. It is about what
Speaker 1: you physically feel like, and that is something that's important.
Speaker 1: You never know when our last daw on this earth is.
Speaker 1: And you want that donut, eat that donut. If you
Speaker 1: don't want that donut, because you might want your six
Speaker 1: pack more that day, don't have your donut. Something that
Speaker 1: I do with myself if I want a cupcake or
Speaker 1: if I want a milkshake, you know, I look at
Speaker 1: it and I go, all right, would I rather have
Speaker 1: this or the six pack? And some days the answer
Speaker 1: is the six pack, And other days it's like, absolutely,
Speaker 1: the Krumbo cookie flavors look way too good. This week,
Speaker 1: I am absolutely having every single one of them and
Speaker 1: not gonna regret it for a second. Then I normally
Speaker 1: give myself a stomach ache because I typically eat very
Speaker 1: healthy and pretty sugar free, and so I normally get
Speaker 1: a stomach ache anytime I have anything. And then I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, and I will see you again. In about
Speaker 1: three weeks, I'll do the same thing, and it does
Speaker 1: a habit that just relapses. Every few weeks. I just
Speaker 1: go into a sugar coma and it is actually amazing.
Speaker 1: It is one of the best and worst feelings that
Speaker 1: I feel in my life. But it's fun. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's something that's just so important to talk
Speaker 1: about that when you really dive into gaining strength, physical health,
Speaker 1: watching and making sure you are getting the nutrition that
Speaker 1: your body needs and wants is so important. Yes, your
Speaker 1: body needs a specific amount, but your body also wants
Speaker 1: some things. You have to listen to your body and
Speaker 1: you have to give it those things that it wants,
Speaker 1: because overall, happiness is what matters and sometimes the only
Speaker 1: thing that can make you happy. For me personally, there's
Speaker 1: some shit food. I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Some days
Speaker 1: I just need eleven donuts. I wish I was kidding.
Speaker 1: Whenever I go down the train a little bit, I
Speaker 1: order about three dozen donuts and I eat about eleven
Speaker 1: of them. It's really great, it's really amazing. It is honestly,
Speaker 1: it is the most worth it and best stomachache I
Speaker 1: ever can have. But then you know the next day,
Speaker 1: we get right back into our habits of eating super
Speaker 1: super healthy. Anyways, back to working out. I have something
Speaker 1: fun that I always do, and this is just like
Speaker 1: a personal thing that I don't know if people know
Speaker 1: that I do or not, and then I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: into some of your questions. But I like to do
Speaker 1: this thing called stamina training. Now, a stamina training is
Speaker 1: is it is something that a lot of artists do
Speaker 1: but don't talk about, which is totally okay. But what
Speaker 1: it is is basically, you do cardio exercises. So that
Speaker 1: could be running, it could be jump roping, it could
Speaker 1: be dancing, it could be biking, elliptical whatever. Your cardio
Speaker 1: may be cardio of choice. And you sing while you
Speaker 1: are doing this cardio and it is so hard and
Speaker 1: it is so fun. You run out of oxygen, you
Speaker 1: feel your lungs like squeezing for air because you're singing.
Speaker 1: You're giving it everything you have, and then that end
Speaker 1: of the song hits and you get a breather broom.
Speaker 1: Next song starts and it is who Raisy. It is
Speaker 1: such an adrenaline rush. And stamina training is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I love working out so much because
Speaker 1: that is what I do for my career. It's what
Speaker 1: I do to prepare to go on tour. It's what
Speaker 1: I do to prepare for live performances, to be able
Speaker 1: to dance, to be able to sing. Get that stamina
Speaker 1: freaking up. I'll stamina train for about thirty to forty
Speaker 1: minutes a night, so I really go in on the
Speaker 1: stamina training. And if i'm if I'm training for a tour,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be more. If I'm in a
Speaker 1: phase where it's not, then it'll be less. But maintaining
Speaker 1: and just kind of keep in and up keep all.
Speaker 1: My stamina training is something that I did not used
Speaker 1: to do, and then when I had to tap back
Speaker 1: into stamina, I was like, oh where did that go?
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're just gonna We're gonna do a little
Speaker 1: bit now to just maintain what's happening. Yeah, stay, I'm
Speaker 1: in the training. It's my fun, little baby. All right,
Speaker 1: shall we answer some of your questions? I think we
Speaker 1: shall all right, First time exercising, what should I do?
Speaker 1: All right? First time exercising, you should stretch Number one.
Speaker 1: Stretching before is so important little warm up, not a
Speaker 1: not a twenty minute go all in on your stretching
Speaker 1: three minutes. Get get that, get those muscles warm. I
Speaker 1: can give you any advice for your first workout. Do
Speaker 1: a couple jumping jacks, do a couple push ups, do
Speaker 1: a couple sit ups, and repeat it about three times.
Speaker 1: Get all those muscles working. You're jumping jacks. You know
Speaker 1: you could do You could do like a ten ten
Speaker 1: ten round. You could do like a twenty ten ten,
Speaker 1: So that would be like twenty jumping jacks, ten push ups,
Speaker 1: ten sit ups. You can do five five five. I
Speaker 1: have this fun thing that I like to do where
Speaker 1: I go backwards from one hundred, So I would do
Speaker 1: one hundred jumping jacks, ten push ups, ten setups, then
Speaker 1: do ninety jumping jacks, nine push ups, nine setups eighty
Speaker 1: eight eight, seventy seven seven, and then you go all
Speaker 1: the way down to ten one and one. That then
Speaker 1: you can you can expand on that and you can
Speaker 1: do one hundred jumping jacks, ten burpies, ten push ups,
Speaker 1: one hundred and second plank, then ninety jumping jacks, nine burpies,
Speaker 1: nine push ups, ninety second plank. You know what I
Speaker 1: mean you can, you can really have fun with that.
Speaker 1: You can work those numbers, and it can get really hard,
Speaker 1: or it can just be simple to start. But I
Speaker 1: would say, I would say, start with something small, have
Speaker 1: fun with it, enjoy it, repeated a couple of times,
Speaker 1: and then of course and also with a cool down.
Speaker 1: Stretching in the end is very important, as is stretching
Speaker 1: in the beginning, because you want your body to be
Speaker 1: able to come back to life, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You want your body to be able to recover properly
Speaker 1: so that way you can work out again. A similar
Speaker 1: question what to eat health Where do I start? Honestly, small,
Speaker 1: small choices. One of the first like healthier choices that
Speaker 1: I made was just drinking water, switching from water from
Speaker 1: I mean, I used to drink everything under the sun, soda,
Speaker 1: sugary juice, is sugary gatorades. I do look for things
Speaker 1: with no added sugars in them. So they do make
Speaker 1: sugar free gatorade, they make sugar free energy drinks, they
Speaker 1: make sugar free sodas, they make sugar free, sugar free water,
Speaker 1: all water sugar free. But water truly is the greatest
Speaker 1: thing for you. You can you can get her. She's
Speaker 1: the best. She will take care of you. The more
Speaker 1: you drink, the better you'll feel. So definitely make that change.
Speaker 1: It's hard, but then eventually you don't want anything else.
Speaker 1: It's great. Another healthy option. Small changes and if you
Speaker 1: want a burger, maybe check out a Lotus Fun you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, little little changes. I will say
Speaker 1: one of my favorite healthy food is Quest chips. They
Speaker 1: taste just like regular chips. They've got the best players.
Speaker 1: They got ranch barbecues, sweet chili, they have chili lime,
Speaker 1: they have cheddar. I'm literally the number one fan of
Speaker 1: Quest chips. It's actually insane, but they are so good.
Speaker 1: They have so much protein on them. They are so
Speaker 1: good for you. I would highly recommend h Quest chips.
Speaker 1: Uh Any overall advice or tips that you can offer
Speaker 1: to us, What resources do you like to use honestly
Speaker 1: for working out? TikTok and YouTube? You can find some
Speaker 1: great things on there if you look up on or
Speaker 1: you know what else you can do? This is what
Speaker 1: I do. I'll google like arm workouts. Then I go
Speaker 1: to images and they will normally be like a sheet
Speaker 1: of some sort on those images that will have like
Speaker 1: a bunch of different workouts for your arms, and you
Speaker 1: can do that for you can go generic and say arms,
Speaker 1: or you can be like biceps, triceps, Deltoid's real deltoid.
Speaker 1: You can really get into like specific muscle groups, or
Speaker 1: you can just do like ab exercises and it'll come
Speaker 1: up with a bunch of them. You can have fun
Speaker 1: with that. Where do you like to shop for your
Speaker 1: workout clothes? Truthfully, fabletics is my issue right now. I
Speaker 1: love Fabletics, but I also really like to work out
Speaker 1: in a hoodie and sweatpants. It is very hard, It
Speaker 1: creates a lot of sweat, It creates a lot of heat.
Speaker 1: But the reason why is so that way I'm prepared
Speaker 1: to go on stage where there is lights, where there
Speaker 1: is an audience, a crowd, a lot of us, a
Speaker 1: lot of intense costumes. So I train in a honey
Speaker 1: in sweats. But whatever you feel good in. Work out
Speaker 1: in jeans if you want. I would not work out
Speaker 1: jeans personally, but if you wanted to stage their own.
Speaker 1: What is your workout playlist? Currently? I have three workout playlists.
Speaker 1: I have my dad rock playlist, which consists of some ACDC,
Speaker 1: some Queen, some bon Jovi, some Ozzy Osbourne, all those goodies.
Speaker 1: Then I have my g flip album listen to their
Speaker 1: album Drummer, and then I have my twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: top hits playlist. So Spotify for me made a playlist
Speaker 1: of all my top listen to songs and popped it
Speaker 1: in one playlist and I was like, sick shuffle that.
Speaker 1: What else? Morning or night workout? Honestly, it just depends.
Speaker 1: Today I woke up and I was like, it's a
Speaker 1: morning day, and then I was like, it's definitely a
Speaker 1: night day. So I just it depends, honestly for me,
Speaker 1: a little bit of both. Sometimes. If I had to
Speaker 1: say overall, which I like morning definitely better. It gets
Speaker 1: my day started off on the right butt. But there
Speaker 1: is something about midnight workout that you just can't be
Speaker 1: Who do you work out with? This is actually such
Speaker 1: a great question, because I find that working out with
Speaker 1: other people can be really fun and really inspiring and
Speaker 1: it can be a good time. But overall, I do
Speaker 1: like to work out alone best because I feel like
Speaker 1: I focus the most. I feel like I'm not questioning
Speaker 1: myself at all or judging myself at all, because I
Speaker 1: think whenever I'm working out with somebody else, I think, like,
Speaker 1: or are they looking at me? Or are they judging
Speaker 1: my form y? Are they seeing if they're doing better
Speaker 1: than me? Like? I really tend to question a lot,
Speaker 1: and so I do find that I enjoy working out
Speaker 1: alone best. But I didn't work out with one of
Speaker 1: my best friends in the world, Tyler, and that was
Speaker 1: so much fun. I love tie so much. I do
Speaker 1: peloton rides with my brother, which is always a good time.
Speaker 1: I do like to dance with my friends, so we
Speaker 1: will train together out at the studio and dance and
Speaker 1: have fun. And that could be called to work out.
Speaker 1: But I am if I'm weightlifted, if I'm training, if
Speaker 1: I'm doing ads, if I'm doing cardo at home, solo
Speaker 1: and staming a training. I will never stand on a
Speaker 1: train with anyone else in the room. It is one
Speaker 1: of my biggest insecurities because I sound like a buffoon.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sprinding on a treadmill while trying to
Speaker 1: sing songs that I can't sing. It's amazinging, it's hilarious.
Speaker 1: I sound crazy, but never in front of anybody else.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the freaking death of me. All Right, y'all,
Speaker 1: I feel like that is pretty solid. Deep dive into
Speaker 1: my workout life, into my little bits of tips, little
Speaker 1: bits of tricks, little bits of advice. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoyed this podcast. Working out is something that I have
Speaker 1: found so much love and so much happiness and so
Speaker 1: much mental happiness in and I truly believe that everybody
Speaker 1: in the world can. You just have to find the
Speaker 1: right workouts for you. What's right for my dad isn't
Speaker 1: right for me, and what's right for me isn't right
Speaker 1: for my mom. But what's right for you will be
Speaker 1: right for you. You just have to find it and you
Speaker 1: just have to run with it. Good luck out there, everybody.
Speaker 1: It's twenty twenty four. You got your fresh start ready
Speaker 1: for you. If you're in New Year's resolutions type of person,
Speaker 1: stick to those resolutions. Personally, I'm not a resolutions type
Speaker 1: of person. I just like making good habits anytime of
Speaker 1: the year. If that's your gig, man, now's your time
Speaker 1: to shine. I hope you all had a good day today.
Speaker 1: I hope you all continue having a good day today,
Speaker 1: and I hope you have a good life. Go work out. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: If you I feel like I'm a peloton instructor right now,
Speaker 1: if you've been walking on the treadmill this whole time,
Speaker 1: we're walking around this whole time. Congratulations, you have made
Speaker 1: it to the end of your jogers. Would now podcast workout?
Speaker 1: I love y'all and I'll see y'all soon. De says,
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