WEBVTT - JoJo's Fitness Journey 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.560 You're listening to Joja See One Now with me, Jojo 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:10.080 Siua and iHeartRadio podcast. Oh welcome back to JoJo's See 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.520 One Now. This is going to be probably my favorite 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.160 podcast ever because I am about to deep dive into 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:22.680 one of my favorite, most passionate topics ever. It is 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.280 not drumming, It is not indoor skydiving, it is not performing, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:29.040 it is not my future children Freddie, Eddie and Teddy. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:35.400 It is working out. I am so stoked to deep 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.159 dive into this topic. Working out is one of the 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.279 things that keeps me most mentally happy. It is one 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.919 of the things that over the last year two years, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.519 I have truly educated myself by just doing and messing 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.560 up and figuring it out and learning and drying and 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.120 trial and error and this and that. And I really 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.400 feel like now, I mean, I'm sure I'm gonna listen 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.840 back to this in a couple of years and laugh 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.920 at myself being like, oh, yeah, you thought you knew 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.840 what you were talking about. But I really feel like 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.120 now I'm in a place where I could help somebody 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.720 start a workout journey. And I feel like I now 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:19.040 feel so confident about my workout stuff, and I feel like, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:21.039 you know, my friends come to me and they're like, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.800 I want to come work out with you, and I, 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.240 you know, know the supplements and stuff that I like. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.600 I know the workout routines that I like. I found 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.399 my rhythm, I found my groove, I found how I 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.720 stay motivated. And I was like, it is time. It 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.559 is top of the year. We are just getting into 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.520 twenty twenty four. We got lots of months left, and 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.119 it is it is a new year. It is time 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.720 to deep dive. It is time to go down this 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:48.920 physical health freaking rabbit hole. Buckle up, get your arm 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.920 weights on. Honestly, bonus points if you listen to this 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.760 while walking on a treadmill. If you don't got a drummill, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.760 put this podcast on, go outside, walk around even though 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.040 if you're inside, maybe put it on and walk around inside. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.160 Do a little zooma dance happening while you were listening 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:06.040 to this podcast. Whatever your vibe is, you got probably 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.120 you know anywhere it's me talking, So you for sure 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.000 have twenty minutes, possibly even up to thirty minutes. You 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.560 know you could get a good workout and while you 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.880 listen to this. All right, I'll shut up now. About 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.239 that what you should be doing right now, and I 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.080 will just start talking about what you actually want to hear, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:26.400 which is all of my workout, uh brain, all of 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.440 my workout I'm not gonna say knowledge, but all of 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:34.040 my workout thoughts there, it is there, It is all right, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:41.720 starting in really freaking strong. I work out so much nowadays. 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:47.560 I have a crazy, crazy, freaking schedule. I sometimes will 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.119 work for eighteen days in a row and then have 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.720 a day off, and then work for eighteen more and 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.000 then have a day off. Sometimes I'll work for a 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:56.679 day in a row that don'll have three off, a 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.079 day in a row have three off. And there will 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.160 be some days where I there have been some years 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.519 actually where I work for like three hundred and sixty 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.280 four of them. I get Christmas off. You pretty much 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.800 always get Christmas off, but every other holiday you work through. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.200 And so I have found for myself it is best 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.200 to just work out every day that I can, because 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.000 there will be some days that come where I can't. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.400 Schedules too early, schedule goes too late, and I just 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.200 can't there's not enough hours in the day, and so 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.480 I wait until one of those days come to take 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.720 a day off, and some people have come at me 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.040 and saying, hey, look, that's not good for your muscles, 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.800 And I say, I know you're supposed to. You know, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.160 work out, take take a rest day, take a few 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.760 rest days. Work out five days a week, take two 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.400 rest days. That's what the book tells you. Book, the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.520 book matters, but the book doesn't matter, because what matters 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:55.280 is your brain, your body, and you can do whatever 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:57.760 you think of doing. And you can do an active 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.280 recovery day where there'll be some days where or my 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.240 arms are just exhausted because I over used them yesterday 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:07.120 doing a workout. That's all right. We can go for 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:09.360 a treadmill run, we can do some legs, we can 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.440 do some abs, we can do arms, but just use 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.200 our back a little more, you know what I mean. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.640 It's all about how you feel, and no matter what 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.839 the book or what anybody tells you, it is what 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:23.720 you feel. That is why one of the reasons I 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.040 did have a personal trainer. I've actually had two personal 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.320 trainers in my life, and they both were awesome, and 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.880 I if somebody was looking for a personal trainer, I 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.560 would for sure recommend both of them. They were great people. However, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.480 I would get personally frustrated because you know, there was 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.240 never they couldn't. They can't. No one else can feel 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.000 your body but you. And so we would be working 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.520 out and my arms would be overly exhausted, and I 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.680 would just be thinking in my head like, man, I 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:54.000 wish we could just switch to legs. And now you 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.400 might be like Jojo, just like speak up and say something. 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.720 But the reality is, no one's gonna do that. I'm 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.440 not gonna speak up and be like, hey, my arms 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.520 are tired. Can we switch to leg stuff. In hindsight, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.560 sure sounds like it'd be so easy to do, but 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.480 actually coming out and saying that's your trainer is so scary. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.920 And so I've learned that I like to do it myself, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.800 work out myself at home, because then I can truly 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.919 listen to my body, truly work out whatever body is 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.520 feeling the fire, whatever part is feeling the fire, and 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.280 just lean with it, rock with it. Now, one of 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.039 the reasons why I do enjoy working out so much 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:34.880 is because when I don't, I lose so much energy. Now, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.640 there is some technical term for this that I don't know, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:42.039 but when you work out, your body produces some sort 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.520 of something that does actually give you more energy. Although 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:50.200 you are exuding energy, it also brings you energy. And 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:54.240 that is something that I didn't understand right away. I 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.160 used to think, like, no, if I work out, I'm 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.080 going to be exhausted. But I've learned that if I 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.560 have a night am call time and I have to 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.800 leave my house at eight, I will actually have a 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.359 better day have more energy throughout the day. If I 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.960 choose to wake up at six and get a workout in. Now, 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.359 it's crazy cutting my sleep short, but I will go 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.680 to set and I will feel like boom, I am 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.880 ready for the day. Could be a small workout, could 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.200 be a big workout, could be anything, but it just 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:31.919 really gets my day started off on the right foot. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.480 I can't stress enough how important it is to listen 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.680 to your body. There are days where I wake up 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.599 in the morning and I'm like, look, it's not the 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.080 morning for it. Maybe it'll be the midday, maybe it'll 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.440 be the night. Somehow, I'm always feeling it at some 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.680 point of the day because I do love it. I 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.560 find a lot of enjoyment. And I'll talk about how 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:55.679 I find the enjoyment and working out, but I think 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.359 that really knowing that, like, hey, look, my body's actually 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.080 saying no to this right now, well listen to it. 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.039 I'm gonnaive us some more sleep. Or hey, look, my 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.160 body's saying no. But is that an excuse? Fully an excuse? 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.120 Wake up? Come on body, let's go, let's put this 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.040 out and on, Let's put these shoes on, and let's go. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.200 Let's go work out, let's go have fun for me. 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.800 I actually have a gym in my house, which has 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.000 been so amazing. We created this gym in my house. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.000 We started creating it at the end of twenty one, 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.560 but then I believe we finished it in twenty twenty two, 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.880 and it has been the most amazing thing ever. We 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.920 have all the machines out there, all the cardio machines 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.320 you could want. I've become obsessed with peloton recently and 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.280 that has been really fun. My brother and I do 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.720 rides together, which has been great. We got all the 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.640 weights out there, we got ketbells out there, we got 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.720 benches out there, resistance vans, and now for Christmas in 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.520 twenty twenty three, we actually decided to expand it, so 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.680 it was half of the garage. Now we are expanding 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:03.040 it to be the full garage, which is so sick. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.920 It is so nice and they're so open. Now. I 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.920 had this CrossFit rig actually in my backyard and we're 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.520 pulling that now inside the garage, which is gonna be 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.320 so much nicer. I will use it so much more. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.600 I am so excited about it. It has these monkey 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.800 bars on it. It's got a tricep like you can 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.600 do tricep dips on it. It's got a squad rack 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.280 on it, it's got shelves on it, it's got bars 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.680 on it. I mean, it is freaking awesome. It's got 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.600 a boxing bag. There's so much to do, and I 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.720 think that that's something that's really important to note, is 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.520 that working out can be so fun. You can make it. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.480 You can make it anything you want it to be. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:46.480 I found some fun ways to keep workouts interesting for me. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.160 One thing that I like to do is actually musical workouts. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.360 So I will make my playlist right, and I'll come 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.960 up with a circuit. So let's just say bicep curls, 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.520 running on a treadmill, and jumping jacks, So that would 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.200 be like a pretty cardio heavy. But those are just 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.040 three workouts that I could think of that you could 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.360 really visualize what I'm meaning. And so let's just use 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.720 a song that everybody knows, We Will Rock You by 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.960 Queen Right. So on the choruses, we run on the treadmill, 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.360 on the verses we do bicep curls, and on the 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.480 instrumental parts we do jumping jacks. And then you know, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.480 so you hear the chorus buddy or a poet make 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.920 a big noise, so you do your curls, and then 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.240 you hear the chorus, we will, we will rock you. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.000 So then you get on the treadmill and you run 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.760 for the whole chorus, and then it goes to the 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.720 instrumental guitar, So burn down, down and now no, no, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.880 you get off. You do the show me jacks. So 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.640 it's kind of like a race because you got to 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.160 try to get to the things as fast as you can, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.040 and then you do it for a couple songs, and 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.360 when you're done, you're done. Another thing that I like 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:53.040 to do is actually watch videos. I love doing many 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:57.160 workout videos. One of my favorite YouTubers who I freaking 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.079 love and have fallen in love with in twenty twenty three, 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.800 she is awesome. Her name is Lily, I say, Lily Sabari. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:04.520 I don't know if that's how you pronounced her last 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:10.400 name technically, but she posts these awesome videos, awesome abroutines. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.880 She does a lot of pilates based workouts which have 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.800 been so awesome. Now, something actually that I learned from 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:23.560 her is there is gender specific type of workouts. And 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.360 that's something that I didn't actually know was a real thing. 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:32.160 I realized that I was training, like for say, a boy, 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.560 for a very long time. And somehow, I think it 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.200 was maybe even an ad on a video, I don't 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.280 know if it was her saying it. It was like 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.120 this is a workout for girls, and I was like, 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.679 wait what? And so then I deep dived into this, 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.160 like deep, deep, deep hole, and there was something that 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.400 was saying like this workouts for boys, This workouts for girls. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.800 Weightliftings for boys, Pilates is for girls, and I was 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.000 reading that and I actually got kind of offended because 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.520 so I was like, okay, hear me out. I've been 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:09.120 weightlifting for two years now, I'm not a boy. I've 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.240 been in a plates class. There's been boys in there 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.600 and they're not girls, you know what I mean? And 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:18.880 so I think that that's something that no matter what, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.199 workout can bring you joy. Anything is better than nothing. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.680 Anything small is a good habit to develop. If you 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.679 are into pilates, doesn't matter. Your gender, doesn't matter, if 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.160 you are a boy, if you were a girl, if 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.000 you're a non binary, whoever you are, whatever you are, 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.080 whatever you do, you are the number one freaking you. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.280 No pun intend to do a jojo song, but it 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:46.760 is so true, So don't let any specifics of who 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.000 you are, what you look like, what your body type is, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.280 define how you can work out. Working out can be 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.600 very scary. And I saw this post too that was like, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.559 never make fun of anyone in the gym because they 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:03.040 showed up, And that is so true. It is so 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.560 hard to show up. It is so hard to wake 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.600 up early if you're working out at home, it is 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.360 so hard. It is so hard to get yourself up 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.040 and go to the gym and grow that confidence. Even 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.520 me now knowing how to work out, I remember when 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.280 I didn't know how to work out, when I was 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.520 first starting, and I would go to a gym, I 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:22.640 would just go to the treadmill because I knew I 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.760 could walk on a treadmill and not look like an idiot. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.679 But if I go over to a weight rack, I'm 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.319 gonna look like an idiot a bufoon. I don't know 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.280 what to do. If I go over to these machines 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.800 and I have to like read the directions, I'm gonna 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.480 look so stupid. Right, But as I'm now learning how 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.920 to work the machines and how to what to do 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.560 with dumb bells and what to do with kettlebells, I 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.360 would love to see someone at the gym first starting, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.599 you know what I mean, and be able to be 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.320 that person to help them. And so of course there's 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:53.839 gonna be some SaaS people out there who probably will 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.200 give judgmental looks, and that is on them, that is 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.679 not on you at all. But know that you should 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.680 be so freaking proud of yourself for making the effort, 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.960 for taking the leap of faith and for going and 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.600 for trying and for pushing, and you will get there. 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.040 You will learn. It takes time, it takes dedication. That 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.199 is something that I have learned so much over the 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.800 last two years. I remember I started getting into working 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.360 out actually because of Dancing with the Stars. And when 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.960 I went to Dancing with the Stars, I had my 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.959 partner Jenna. We were the first ever same sex couple. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.800 We were two females, and she's like, all right, so 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.680 you're gonna have to lift me. And I was like, oh, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.840 there's no way. And I was like, it's not you. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:40.480 I was like, I have no upper body strength, and 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.360 she was like, well, we're gonna We're gonna have to 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.480 find something. So we started doing blanks and push ups 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.360 and I couldn't do a single push up and she 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.480 started with me and I was like, I can't do it. 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.480 She was like, you're not even trying. She goes, you 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.440 don't have to touch your nose to the ground. She'd 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.200 just bend your arms an inch and straighten up, start somewhere, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.760 and by the end of the season, I could do 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.760 as many push ups as you wanted because I did 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.160 a little bit every single day and trained a little 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.880 bit every single day. And that is what really kickstarted 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.040 me into wanting to work out and to gain fitness 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.080 and to gain strength. So after the season of Dancing 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.839 with the Stars ended, I decided that was when I 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.400 got the first personal trainer, and he was like, what 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.520 are your goals? And I showed him a picture of 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.280 somebody's abs that I like, and I was like, I 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.760 want that. He was like, all right, well, you're you're 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.840 pretty fit right now. And he was like, so honestly, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.400 you could probably get there in like a year to 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:33.680 two years. What I was like, no, no, no, you don't understand, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.680 like I will put in all the time, all the effort. 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.600 I want this in like three or four weeks. And 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.880 he was like, oh, that's not how it works. Especially 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.600 he was saying with your body type, you know, you 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.480 are already smaller, and so you have to you have 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.960 to make sure you're doing this the very smart, safe way. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.560 And I was like, oh, so you're telling me two 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.400 years and he was like, uh huh, maybe even longer. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.280 And I was like, okay, all right, here we go. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.800 And the key is patience, and the key is time 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:03.760 and dedication, and it is the patience game is actually insane. 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.560 But the difference that you feel and the difference that 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.960 you can make in yourself, not in your physical body 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.000 that takes so much time, but the difference that you 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:17.680 can feel mentally happens almost instantly. You know, you might 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.840 have the one first or second day whe're like, oh 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.880 this sucks, but honestly, I can guarantee by that third 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.880 or fourth day, you're like, wait, I'm kind of into this. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:27.360 I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of having fun right now. 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.640 Something that makes it super important too to have fun 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.760 is something to do while you're working out, whether that's 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.280 music to listen to, podcasts to listen to. I would 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.520 recommend George Sea now if it was me, I'm just saying, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.320 but anything you're into a TV show to watch, something 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.680 to keep your mind occupied, because working out is something 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.760 that you can do and let your brain go somewhere else, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:51.160 you know what I mean. And so you can make 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.760 your body work while your brain is somewhere totally different, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.600 and that is something that is key to keeping up 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:01.800 with working out. I feel like the last little bit 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.440 of advice that I would give for somebody just starting 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.440 to work out is you just have to start somewhere, 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.120 and you don't have to start with two hours a 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.920 day and go crazy and drink all the supplements and 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.480 you will lift all this weight and have all this 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.720 time and row. You must do co to you and 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.080 get your ass on the stammaster. Nah, you get in 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:28.440 ten minutes, five minutes, doesn't matter. How you start doesn't matter, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.560 where you start. Anything is better than nothing, and a 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.720 little bit more every single day will make a world difference. 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.120 And eventually, you know, you'll get to a point where 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.080 you might want to wake up an hour early before 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.760 work to do something, to work out a little bit, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:48.040 but also a little five minute it actually can change 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.760 your life. I all the time will go out to 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.600 my Roger and just do a five minutes sprint and 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:56.120 it is so much fun. Another thing is people think 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.840 you have to have a place to work out, you 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.480 have to have a gym to go to, you have 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.640 to have a quick your house. There are so many 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:07.480 free like free body weight. You know, you can do 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.880 any body weight exercises, and this is something that I 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:15.320 actually just started doing at the end of twenty twenty 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.840 three now continuing into twenty twenty four. There was this 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.680 day in twenty twenty three where I didn't work out 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.159 before I showered, and it was just like it was 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.760 just like a normal day. I lived my day and 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.200 then I was going to shower and go to sleep, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.200 and I was like, I didn't do anything physical today, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.119 Like I feel funny, and so I was like, all right, 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.119 I'm just gonna do I was at that time I 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.840 was like, I'm just gonna do ten squats, ten push 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.520 ups and like ten setups and call it a day 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.720 and then hop in the shower. So I did that, fine, whatever. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.880 The next day I go to shower and I was like, wait, 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.360 I gotta do my ten squats and my ten push 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.040 ups with my ten setups. And then I was like, whoa, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.359 this is weird. What's going on with me? And it 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.840 actually developed into a habit. Well, then I started to 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:55.480 add a little bit to it, add a little bit 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.760 to it, and now every time before I shower, I'm 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.080 currently in a routine where I run Bop, which is 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.520 my one of my songs from my old tour Dariam 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.359 the Tour. It's about a three minute song and it 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.320 is insane cardio dance. This is the hardest one we have. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:13.840 I run Bop and then I do ten push ups. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.560 I do ten leg raises for my abs, ten pulses 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.800 for my abs, ten little penguin abs, and then I 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.600 do ten plank twists and then ten tricep push ups. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.400 Now that is a lot. I do that before every 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.119 single shower. So even I wake up in the morning, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:34.040 normally my day routines, I wake up go downstairs, have 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.200 free workout. Go work out, come upstairs, do the pre 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.080 shower routine, hop in the shower. So even if I 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.359 work out, I still do that pre shower routine that 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.520 at night. Say I have a rehearsal all day and 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.159 I come home and I want a shower, go to sleep, 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:50.400 pre shower. Still gotta do that shower routine. And it's 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.600 interesting because I think the shower routine that I have, 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.040 honestly is a bit is a bit much. Even last night, 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.159 I was like, oh wow, I'm dreading showering because of 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.280 the showerutine. Right now, Wow, all right, let's just do it. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.359 But there is something about being like, I'm gonna do 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:08.200 ten push ups before every shower, new ten jumpin jacks 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.720 before every shower. If you think about it, I was 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.840 doing the math I shower twice a day, right, So 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.520 for me, I'm gonna do bop seven and thirty times. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:21.399 It's fucking wild, right, but I've committed to it. And 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:22.960 I was like, all right, here we go. And that 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.080 is the thing about me is your mind is so powerful. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.880 I learned on Special Forces how truly powerful our mind is. 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.760 You tell yourself you are going to do something, you 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.280 can do it. Only person that's gonna make up an 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.680 excuse is you. It's gonna be you in your brain. 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:39.639 You can either make up the excuse on why to 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:42.159 do it or why not to do it, and that 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.240 is fully your choice. Now I wanna shift a little 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:51.560 bit into the world of eating. Now, this can be 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.359 a sensitive subject for some people. So this is my 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.159 this my head's up that we are going to chat 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:00.320 about my personal journey, my things that I have learn, 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.679 my foods that I have fallen in love with, and 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:06.160 my foods that I have avoided, and things that I've 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:12.320 learned about foods. That's just my head's up. Anyways. Eating 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:16.280 is so important to your physical health. It is actually 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.119 crazy what a difference it makes. I have gone through 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:25.600 some interesting phases with my eating habits, that is for sure. Uh, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:28.720 And I've realized it, and I've realized what I needed 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:33.000 to do to fix it. And it's I mean, it's tough, 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:36.840 I will say, being a twenty year old girl, a 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:39.919