Speaker 1: What's up everybody. I'm Gammy and this is Positively gam.
Speaker 1: As you all know, I love working out and something
Speaker 1: I've always been fascinated by his body building. It really
Speaker 1: takes a different level of commitment to do body building
Speaker 1: and compete in shows. So today I have two girls
Speaker 1: who are going to take us into this world. First,
Speaker 1: we have Ivy Sims. We have a friend in common
Speaker 1: and that is Kizzy Martin. Kizi introduced me to Ivy
Speaker 1: and so we stepped together and we also rod skate together,
Speaker 1: both of which I was really new as Ivy recently
Speaker 1: competed in her first MPC bikini show and placed in
Speaker 1: all four classes. We're also joined by one of her coaches,
Speaker 1: Rashad mcdaide. He is the fai under an owner of
Speaker 1: the Hidden Gym and brings nearly two decades of experience
Speaker 1: in nutrition and fitness planning, including having directed numerous fitness
Speaker 1: and conditioning programs for collegiate level Division one and Division
Speaker 1: two athletics. Welcome Ivy and Rasha to positively gam. So
Speaker 1: today I want to talk about working out and getting
Speaker 1: in shape, but really I just want to focus on
Speaker 1: Ivy and this amazing win and body building. I mean
Speaker 1: it was crazy. So to start off, Ivy, what led
Speaker 1: you to getting involved with body building? I never saw it.
Speaker 1: I never saw it coming. So first, let me say
Speaker 1: so happy to see your face and here that'd be
Speaker 1: more accent, and thanks for having me on. So okay,
Speaker 1: so in a nutshale, I've been working out and you
Speaker 1: just never know, like who you inspire, who's watching you, right,
Speaker 1: and like how social media really truly is an influence.
Speaker 1: So a couple of years ago, Selena Johnson posted that
Speaker 1: she had dropped sixty pounds um and did a figure
Speaker 1: competition and that was like a thought for me where
Speaker 1: it ended up in the back of my head like
Speaker 1: maybe I could, but it wouldn't be something that I
Speaker 1: would probably commit to, but it was just a thought. Um,
Speaker 1: Selena Johnson, is that the singer Selena Ja? Okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she posted on her Instagram and then I'm gues estimating
Speaker 1: maybe about nine months later, Rashane Ali I believe Selena
Speaker 1: posted a picture of Rashane Ali and her first competition,
Speaker 1: and I started paying attention, like she and I are
Speaker 1: by same age or by same body type, and for
Speaker 1: me it was like, now I'm seeing somebody that looks
Speaker 1: like me doing it right, and so that started to
Speaker 1: plant the seed. And then I just kind of followed
Speaker 1: her journey on social media and I saw that she
Speaker 1: had some medals and our screened shot at her win
Speaker 1: and I was like, if I ever do this. I
Speaker 1: was like, she's got a winning team, and that's the
Speaker 1: team that I want. So I held onto it for
Speaker 1: about a year. Okay, so you've been thinking about it
Speaker 1: for a year before you decided to do it. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: and ra shot. How did you get into coaching? Well,
Speaker 1: I started or thanks for having me. First of all,
Speaker 1: I started about twenty years ago. I used to run
Speaker 1: track and I got into trek and field coaching ever
Speaker 1: at clark Landy Diversity some other universities, and I got
Speaker 1: into personal training and ever since then, I got into
Speaker 1: the bodybuilding world about I want to see about seven
Speaker 1: eight years ago, and I started my journey. Uh, wanted
Speaker 1: to try to find a different challenge instead of running track.
Speaker 1: I want to always be still compete and bodybuilding was
Speaker 1: one of the forms of competition I want to look into.
Speaker 1: So started doing compete myself and then after I did
Speaker 1: a couple of shows and learn the business and learn
Speaker 1: how to train athletes. That's when I started coaching. So
Speaker 1: everybody's different. And one thing I've learned in my process
Speaker 1: is everybody's body type is different, everybody's personalities different. So
Speaker 1: I had to adapt in the last few years in
Speaker 1: regards to how to train athletes. So so let me
Speaker 1: let me ask this too, because like just just training
Speaker 1: in the gym, because I mean, I trained with the trainer,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've done that for years, like over
Speaker 1: ten or twenty years, I've I've trained with the trainer,
Speaker 1: different trainers, but bodybuilding and that kind of training is
Speaker 1: really really different. It is really um like, so describe
Speaker 1: what what that is like? Well, it's it's it depends.
Speaker 1: Everybody is different, right, So a lot of times I
Speaker 1: would consider you a lifestyle client, right, So a lot
Speaker 1: of times you have a different Everybody has different lifestyles,
Speaker 1: so you have to kind of transition people from the
Speaker 1: lifestyle world to the body building work. So everybody trans
Speaker 1: is gonna be different, whether it's your social life, whether
Speaker 1: your mother or four mother or two, or you have
Speaker 1: a four time job. So uh, in that process, you
Speaker 1: have to make sure that each athlete has their own walk.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense. So let's say Fransas, Ivy, for instance,
Speaker 1: when we first met, uh, it was one of the
Speaker 1: things that we had a conversation. In our conversation, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be like, Okay, you work, sometimes you travel, and
Speaker 1: you have to take all that consideration without a consideration.
Speaker 1: You have to move accordingly and set the programs accordingly,
Speaker 1: depend on everybody's uh individual lifestyle. And once you make
Speaker 1: that transition, it's a different commitment. There's a whole different uh.
Speaker 1: It becomes a lonely sport sometimes and you have to
Speaker 1: make some sacrifices. You have to be very disciplined in
Speaker 1: that process. That process can take it over between nine, twelve, sixteen,
Speaker 1: sometimes twenty four weeks to get to the final goal.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, Ivy, because first of all,
Speaker 1: I want to know how you found Rashade. Then I
Speaker 1: want to know I'm really queuing in on what Rashad
Speaker 1: is talking about that it's a lonely journey. Because even
Speaker 1: for me when I first my my journey into just
Speaker 1: fitness was very connected to my um my journey into recovery,
Speaker 1: and so I used fitness to help me as I
Speaker 1: was trying to get clean right and nobody. None of
Speaker 1: my other girlfriends were working out. That was a decision
Speaker 1: that I made, a decision I had always been kind
Speaker 1: of interested in and a nice tone, fit body, and
Speaker 1: so I didn't have anybody to to go on that
Speaker 1: journey with me. But once again, that body building commitment
Speaker 1: is whoa that That is like when it comes to
Speaker 1: eating and just the level of commitment it takes it
Speaker 1: like you were in that by yourself. It's no question
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah. So first let me say, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go a lot of precursors. You've been on my
Speaker 1: vision board for your ABS, so just say okay um.
Speaker 1: And so the first question that you asked was how
Speaker 1: I find ra Shote. So when Rashane Alieve posted so
Speaker 1: she was former host of Sister Circle I Believe with
Speaker 1: Selena Johnson, and so when she posted hers, she gave
Speaker 1: a shout out to Rashote and also to opposing coach Ashley.
Speaker 1: And when I screamed out that I had talked to
Speaker 1: some other coaches. But really, I say, and I tell
Speaker 1: Rashide this this was all in divine order because and
Speaker 1: I get emotional because this was not something that I
Speaker 1: was going searching for. This was something that It was
Speaker 1: like a thought, a seed planet, you know, I acted
Speaker 1: on that seed and I talked to a couple of
Speaker 1: other coaches, but really, truly, in my mind, I felt
Speaker 1: like was my coach. I felt like Ashley was my coach.
Speaker 1: And um though I talked to a couple of other
Speaker 1: people like Rashide and I think we played phone tag
Speaker 1: for like a week. And I was in North Carolina
Speaker 1: and I had decided like I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: do this because I had learned how to come my macros.
Speaker 1: I had a body fat percentage goal for myself to
Speaker 1: get down to seventeen per cent, and I what is
Speaker 1: that account? Macros? What? What is that? It's in a
Speaker 1: in a easy way to describe it, think about own
Speaker 1: in calories, but instead of counting calories, you're counting your facts,
Speaker 1: your carves, and your proteins. So you're you're just counting
Speaker 1: your calories with you're counting them in a series of proteins, carves,
Speaker 1: and facts, so your body can take in only what
Speaker 1: it needs to be ever to Like Lou, just thinking
Speaker 1: about that, like I can't even count calories. Seriously, I
Speaker 1: don't know how to count calories. It just that's the
Speaker 1: reason why you hire a coach for you. You know
Speaker 1: you gotta do it, just fall the plan. Yeah, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we do the homework for you, and we set up
Speaker 1: your mill plans, we set up your workout plans, and
Speaker 1: then you know, all you gotta do is fall the program.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we always say trust the process.
Speaker 1: But but you're saying, Ivy, that you learned how to
Speaker 1: do that. How did you learn how to count macros?
Speaker 1: You know, I've done a lot of research, and I um,
Speaker 1: I think I bought a program like off Instagram to
Speaker 1: do a workout, and she had a whole like the
Speaker 1: person that I bought it from had a whole section
Speaker 1: on macros and I just like did research to figure
Speaker 1: it out. And once I got it figured out, I
Speaker 1: was like losing my body fat percentage. But then I
Speaker 1: hit seventeen point three and I kind of felt like
Speaker 1: a climax and or plateaued I should say um. And
Speaker 1: so at that point I started thinking, like, if I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if I can get me there, why don't
Speaker 1: I have somebody else help me get there? Because I'm
Speaker 1: not getting younger, I'm getting older, I might as well
Speaker 1: like just take the next step and just see if
Speaker 1: I you know, see if I can do it. And
Speaker 1: I remember he and I first talked and I said
Speaker 1: I have a body fat percentage gold of seventeen and
Speaker 1: he was like, but get that sevente. He was like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be way being a seven. You know, so
Speaker 1: you wanted it lower than seventeen, and shot, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: especially you want to compete on the NPC level. She
Speaker 1: has to get lord in the seventeen. Then what does
Speaker 1: MPC stand for a National Physic Competition? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's the it's a governing body for amateurs to
Speaker 1: get It's an amateur level where you can go and
Speaker 1: get your pro card usually later on once you get
Speaker 1: to go through a couple of shows. Okay, Now the
Speaker 1: other thing that that really shocked me is that you guys,
Speaker 1: we're doing all of this virtually. Yes, so I understand
Speaker 1: how you could do the plan, you know, the the
Speaker 1: nutrition plan virtually, but how are you working out virtually?
Speaker 1: So training her virtually, But we use the app and
Speaker 1: within the app, um you can program all the workouts.
Speaker 1: You can put the meal plan there, you can set
Speaker 1: the calendar for all the workouts, whether it's cardio. Uh,
Speaker 1: you wait room workouts and we do a virtual on
Speaker 1: Saturdays and Sundays, we'll do a workout at her gym,
Speaker 1: local gym, and so she pretty much have a tripod
Speaker 1: of and I walk her through the gym of which
Speaker 1: machines to get on which and all that good stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there have been moments where you know, I wish I
Speaker 1: was physically there through those fourth reps a lot of times.
Speaker 1: You know how it is, when you're starting to burn
Speaker 1: and start to hurt, you want to stop. So sometimes
Speaker 1: I get fresh fight. I wish I was physically there
Speaker 1: to kind of push the way for her. But we
Speaker 1: had a couple of moments I was like, you gotta
Speaker 1: work through it. You gotta work through it. But um,
Speaker 1: she did everything. She did everything she's supposed to do
Speaker 1: from the time we started to the time we completed.
Speaker 1: So and they say, this is what I'm talking about
Speaker 1: when I'm talking about commitment, because I know what it's
Speaker 1: like to be in the gym and not feel like
Speaker 1: doing it. And especially that food part. Man, the food
Speaker 1: part that the nutrition plan is just insane. You can't nothing, nothing,
Speaker 1: You're want to be consistent, right because a lot of times.
Speaker 1: That's why you pretty much eat someone eat the same
Speaker 1: thing over and over again, because once you introduce something
Speaker 1: new to your body, you don't know what it's gonna do. Right.
Speaker 1: So let's say if you decided two, if you're doing
Speaker 1: creamer rice and you want to do oatmeal because it
Speaker 1: tastes better, you might blow by oatmeal. You don't know
Speaker 1: that it could be healthy, but your body might digest
Speaker 1: it differently than I would with open Does that make
Speaker 1: sense yes, So that's where you want to be consistent
Speaker 1: and make slight changes as you go along. Just something
Speaker 1: to ask, So Adrian, Like the last time that I
Speaker 1: saw you, I was, I believe two and a half,
Speaker 1: three weeks into training, because I started training November one.
Speaker 1: I think we saw each other like that November sixt weekend,
Speaker 1: and I had all my meals prepped in the room
Speaker 1: that weekend because I remember asking him. He said, don't
Speaker 1: go crazy. But when you talk about it is a
Speaker 1: lonely sport. Um. It is something that like in the gym,
Speaker 1: I can talk to you for a hot second, but
Speaker 1: I gotta keep moving because and this is you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure because I was new to it and like
Speaker 1: trying to figure out all of the work involved. But
Speaker 1: it would be times that I would be in the
Speaker 1: gym three and a half hours a night, you know,
Speaker 1: so I don't have time to have conversations at the
Speaker 1: gym because everybody else can leave when they want to.
Speaker 1: I can't leave, you know. And and let me tell you,
Speaker 1: I would ask him for days off. But I was
Speaker 1: pretty much in the gym seven days a week for
Speaker 1: six months. And you know, I think when I saw you, Ivy,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think that I knew you were
Speaker 1: preparing for a contest. I thought you were just on
Speaker 1: the fitness journey. But I think I mentioned it at
Speaker 1: the tail end because I remember saying pray for me,
Speaker 1: because okay, because I didn't know, you know, you just
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, in my head, I was committed,
Speaker 1: like I never wanna ask somebody for health not follow through.
Speaker 1: So it was a long time that I didn't say
Speaker 1: anything to anybody because I wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: like I was committed to myself, you know. And I
Speaker 1: just it's just where you feel like a submarine, like
Speaker 1: deep diving into a zone and you just kind of become,
Speaker 1: you know, get up to make the donuts kind of thing.
Speaker 1: You just gotta go to the jam. It's not anything
Speaker 1: you can really think about. You just gotta do it right.
Speaker 1: And I also I also understand and and the fact
Speaker 1: that people will try to talk you out of it
Speaker 1: or try to act like why are you doing that?
Speaker 1: You're doing what? Why are you doing that? Girl? Please
Speaker 1: all of that, you know what I mean. And your
Speaker 1: journey is your journey, you know, and you you know
Speaker 1: this was a decision that you made for you, you know,
Speaker 1: So I give you. I give you props for actually
Speaker 1: keeping that close to your chest and not allowing any
Speaker 1: of that negative energy to seep into, you know, get
Speaker 1: you off track. So I think that's important. That's important.
Speaker 1: So you all didn't actually even meet in person until
Speaker 1: competition day. That's crazy to be that, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: so insane. And I guess a lot of that was
Speaker 1: because of the pandemic too, right, Well, no, not necessarily,
Speaker 1: because I mean we were gonna train online completely anyway.
Speaker 1: And even when we got to show time, Rashaw said,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't wanna come to the back. I
Speaker 1: want you to figure out like backstage. I want you
Speaker 1: to figure out like when it's your time, you know,
Speaker 1: and you are paying attention to that. So that we
Speaker 1: we didn't meet until I think the show started at ten.
Speaker 1: We didn't meet until about one thirty PM, and we
Speaker 1: did are you would you would go through a pump
Speaker 1: just to get the blood flowing through your muscles before
Speaker 1: you go on stage, and we did that over Instagram video. Um,
Speaker 1: And I think it's just because he wanted me to
Speaker 1: take ownership of what I was doing, you know, So
Speaker 1: we didn't meet until, you know, after first round. What
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I'm still kind of flabbergas because us
Speaker 1: You're going to a show. You've never even been to
Speaker 1: a show to watch a show, you know, to witness
Speaker 1: the show before. Now you're competing and you're there on
Speaker 1: on your It just seems like an awful lot. Can
Speaker 1: you walk us through that? That day, I got up
Speaker 1: I think probably around four AM something like that, so
Speaker 1: I could eat my first meal and then we had
Speaker 1: to go. So I got ten the night before and
Speaker 1: then you go get a touch up tan in the morning,
Speaker 1: so I think about six o'clock I went down, got
Speaker 1: a touch up tan, came back up, the makeup artist
Speaker 1: met me in my room. To do my makeup. I
Speaker 1: think maybe I might have eaten another meal headed over
Speaker 1: to the show. I'll also point out, like, you don't
Speaker 1: get no water that day, uh, Like I think I
Speaker 1: got less than eight houses of water on that day
Speaker 1: in the morning. And because it just bloats you, yep,
Speaker 1: because I found out, correct me if I'm wrong, But
Speaker 1: you have water that fecia organs, and then you have
Speaker 1: water that lives right up under your skin, so you
Speaker 1: want to dehydrate that water so it's not bloating you
Speaker 1: was you know, right up on the ester. Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: So you don't want to look puffy anywhere, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we were at the end of all of the divisions,
Speaker 1: me and then women, So it was a long wait
Speaker 1: m So it's obviously like nerves going on, you know, um,
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that everything stays intact while you're waiting.
Speaker 1: I mean, for the most part, I think I was
Speaker 1: in my suit and just waiting. Um. Sometimes you can
Speaker 1: go back and you know, check out who's on stage,
Speaker 1: but it is a lot of waiting to start. And
Speaker 1: then I was first one out on my class, so
Speaker 1: I can look at all of the other women, including myself,
Speaker 1: and were also cleaning our little legs shaking. We're looking
Speaker 1: like chicken out on the stage. But um, you know
Speaker 1: it's crazy because my personality would be I would want
Speaker 1: to be on stage, but I'm like, I'm a little
Speaker 1: too introvert for that. Yeah. And when I walked out
Speaker 1: on stage, because I was the first one out, um,
Speaker 1: and I can hear my posing coach in my head,
Speaker 1: you know, while we were practicing, because the shot told
Speaker 1: me like, I know you want to have things together.
Speaker 1: So he suggested that I started posing early. So I
Speaker 1: started posing practice three months prior, and which was like
Speaker 1: a god seeing because it put me in such a
Speaker 1: great position. Um. And so while I was out there
Speaker 1: and I hit my front pose and made my transition
Speaker 1: to my back pose, and I could hear my opposing
Speaker 1: coach in my head saying, make sure you do this,
Speaker 1: make sure you do that, And I hit my back
Speaker 1: pose and he then let me tear like my pop
Speaker 1: of the shock like ten times through the roof, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I love things. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have never known that. I you know that that
Speaker 1: would have been something that would have fed me like that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel you because I feel like my back. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody talks about my ass. My ass are fat and
Speaker 1: flabby now, but I always felt like my back was
Speaker 1: the best part of my body. Oh. I always felt like,
Speaker 1: what place did you get? Because you competed in four
Speaker 1: four different categories? Right, yeah, so run it run it down,
Speaker 1: run it down. Okay, I got that tr around four.
Speaker 1: My first place win was Masters thirty five years enough,
Speaker 1: My second first place win was Masters forty five years enough.
Speaker 1: My third place win was true Novice. So that's all
Speaker 1: of us competing for the very first time. And then
Speaker 1: my uh fourth place win was open. So and which
Speaker 1: I will correct me if I'm wrong, but open is
Speaker 1: if you win first place and all your categories and
Speaker 1: you are are your classes, and you win open, then
Speaker 1: you have the opportunity to compete in nationals to try
Speaker 1: to go pro. Is that correct? That's if it's a
Speaker 1: national qualifying show, so you have certain shows as national
Speaker 1: qualifying shows. So so she's Class A, she wins Class A,
Speaker 1: and then there's if it's Class A through D, they
Speaker 1: take all the class winners. Once all the class winners win,
Speaker 1: they're go on stage and they'll do a pose down.
Speaker 1: Once they to depose down with the wind. Overall, if
Speaker 1: it's a national qualifier, you can qualify for nationals, whether
Speaker 1: it's in Miami or Vegas or where is that that
Speaker 1: particular year. Awesome, Awesome, And I think the audience needs
Speaker 1: to realize just what an introvert you really are. Ivy
Speaker 1: is a very quiet, suite uh person, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So this, it just really seems so much
Speaker 1: out of out of character for you. I'm just so
Speaker 1: proud and and happy for you because you know, it's
Speaker 1: it just goes to show you that just a regular person.
Speaker 1: You know, you just a a little sweet sweetheart, and
Speaker 1: this is a decision that you made for you in
Speaker 1: your life and you and you did it, you accomplished it.
Speaker 1: So last question, is this something that you think that
Speaker 1: you want to do again? Are you going to compete again?
Speaker 1: So if you would ask this, let's say a month ago,
Speaker 1: I would have been like, let me get through the
Speaker 1: first show. I don't know, it was just a bucket
Speaker 1: list item. And after you know, mom winds uh uh,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do another show where targeting July, and if
Speaker 1: I can hang on a little bit more than we'll
Speaker 1: potentially target a show in November. Oh man, that's exciting. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised because I know people that that have competed
Speaker 1: and just you know, they competed, they won, and they're
Speaker 1: good and they have, you know, because it is so rigorous.
Speaker 1: So to hear you say that you're gonna continue on
Speaker 1: this joint journey, Wow, kudos to you, says kudos to you.
Speaker 1: You got that. But I might have to talk to
Speaker 1: you rashot about getting me a nutrition. Playing together. It
Speaker 1: was a one a challenge that I met, you know,
Speaker 1: for myself. So you know, I'm I just say I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of me. You know that I was able
Speaker 1: to start and finish. And I am proud of for
Speaker 1: because I used to say, when I'm gonna get some legs,
Speaker 1: like when I'm gonna get some legs, I'm no muscles
Speaker 1: in my legs. And I remember when I started posing
Speaker 1: and I started posing practice and I was videoing and
Speaker 1: as I made just a slight move, like a muscles
Speaker 1: popped out of my legs and I was like, you
Speaker 1: were like wow, it was such a good experience for me. Um,
Speaker 1: even all of the grueling things that happened. And at six,
Speaker 1: you know, this time in the gym and eating and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Um, but it was such a good
Speaker 1: experience because I felt like Rasha delivered what, you know,
Speaker 1: what I expected that he would deliver. And um, my
Speaker 1: opposing coach, you know, I would say to her, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I feel like we are spirit animals. It was like,
Speaker 1: it's just something about her. She has a really good spirit,
Speaker 1: and um, she was able to share some things with
Speaker 1: me throughout her journey as well. So it was like
Speaker 1: I had these two different perspectives, you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of feed my curiosity and things, um that I was learning.
Speaker 1: And I remember talking to my cousin and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like I'm doing my best. And
Speaker 1: my cousin was like, if you're questioning that, you probably not,
Speaker 1: you know. So Um, for me, it was you know,
Speaker 1: I should really never hit his expectation because his expectation
Speaker 1: should always be higher than mine. Got you, got you.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for the segment. Wouldn't you like to know? So, Ivy,
Speaker 1: what book are you currently reading? I am currently reading
Speaker 1: no book. No book, okay, no book? All right? Are
Speaker 1: you listening to any books? Uh? No, I'm going to
Speaker 1: the gym. That's the only thing all right, now, okay,
Speaker 1: I got it. I got it. So when you go
Speaker 1: to the gym, are you do you listen to music?
Speaker 1: Got got it? Okay? And my current playlist right now
Speaker 1: is a Fat Joe mix. Okay, all right. What about you, Shot,
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite book or are you reading
Speaker 1: a book right now? Well, I have a two year
Speaker 1: old and she's in the potty training world right now,
Speaker 1: so I'm reading a book called Potty Train. That's funny. Okay, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: so okay, back to you. What is one thing you
Speaker 1: want to get off your chest? Um? Partnerships in business?
Speaker 1: That's one thing I'll get off my chest. Make sure
Speaker 1: you do your research on who your partners are when
Speaker 1: you and regards to go into business where there's any business,
Speaker 1: whether it's open the gym, whether it's the Carl car
Speaker 1: a lot, where the case is, do your research before
Speaker 1: you get a partner. Yeah, that that's good advice. That's
Speaker 1: always good advice. What about you, I v um, what
Speaker 1: is one thing you want to get off your chest?
Speaker 1: One thing I want to get on my chest. We'll
Speaker 1: see how this goes. So I'm currently in another competition
Speaker 1: to try to get the cover of muscle and fitness hers.
Speaker 1: Oh better go ahead. So if you go to my
Speaker 1: social media see underscore b E l A f O
Speaker 1: N t E. Uh. There's a link in my bio um,
Speaker 1: but it is it requires votes um to keep me
Speaker 1: in the competition, and then they'll be doing some cutting.
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to stay in like the bottom
Speaker 1: tiers so I don't get clapped. But it goes to June.
Speaker 1: So you got it? Okay? Yeah, and I participated in that.
Speaker 1: And you can vote every day, right every day? Yeah? Okay, awesome?
Speaker 1: And what's the model I v that you live by.
Speaker 1: A model that I live by is fail fast, fail forward,
Speaker 1: and learn from what you're failing from. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be on a learning curve forever. I want to
Speaker 1: fail fast. Tell me what I'm doing wrong so I
Speaker 1: can improve. Got you, got you? What about you? Rashod
Speaker 1: money on fitness, Stay in lane, stay you on fitness journey.
Speaker 1: I go by Mr Monyo on fitness, by the way,
Speaker 1: but I'm always see my clients Monyo on fitness. Keep
Speaker 1: the nay sayers out of your ear and uh, stay
Speaker 1: your on lane and focus on what you want to accomplish.
Speaker 1: So that's my model. Mind your own fitness because a
Speaker 1: lot of times Instagram really distorts your mind in regards
Speaker 1: to what working out and what fitness looks like. So
Speaker 1: I always tell people, sometimes you're not ready to do
Speaker 1: that exercise you so on Instagram, you know, So you
Speaker 1: gotta start where you're at and stay in your on
Speaker 1: lane until you can get to that point. Right. That's
Speaker 1: a really good one. I'm gonna remember that too because
Speaker 1: I've gotten many many injuries not accepting where I am
Speaker 1: in my fitness journey, and I keep getting injured. So
Speaker 1: but but just look out for me, ra shot, because
Speaker 1: I might be reaching out to you to get on
Speaker 1: that plan because I'm definitely struggling with with this. I've
Speaker 1: I've gained a couple of plans. I don't look like
Speaker 1: I look five years ago. But part of that is
Speaker 1: just too. Part of that also is being able to
Speaker 1: accept where you are in life, and age is definitely
Speaker 1: a factor, so I can't ignore that to recognize it absolutely.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you, it was such a joy
Speaker 1: to have you on. Good luck to you, Ivy. I
Speaker 1: hope to see you soon on the wood girl. Yeah no,
Speaker 1: thank you Ivy and Rashad for stopping by positively gam
Speaker 1: and talking to me about body building and what that
Speaker 1: process looks like. And where can listeners find you on
Speaker 1: social media? Rashade at Mr Mono on Fitness on Instagram
Speaker 1: and also at the Underscore hitting Jim Perfect and what
Speaker 1: about You Ivy on Instagram see Underscore b E L
Speaker 1: A F O N T Eat awesome. Alright, congratulations, thanks
Speaker 1: so much, guys, Thank you so. My one takeaway for
Speaker 1: today is pretty much what Rashad's motto is, and that
Speaker 1: is manage your own fitness. Your fitness journey is your own.
Speaker 1: Pay attention to what your goals are and make your
Speaker 1: fitness journey work for you. And that's our show for
Speaker 1: this week of positively Gam. You can follow me online
Speaker 1: at Gammy Naris help us out by leaving a five
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Speaker 1: button on I Heart Radio. Stay fit, y'all. Positively Gam
Speaker 1: is produced by Red Table Talk Podcast and I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Executive producers are Adrian Vanfield, Naris, Valin Jethro and Jada
Speaker 1: Pinkett Smith. Our audio engineer is Calvin Bali, and our
Speaker 1: associate producer is Irene Bischoff. Burger our theme song is
Speaker 1: produced by d Books.