Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright Side, it
Speaker 1: is Wellness Wednesday, and joining us today is celebrity fitness
Speaker 1: trainer Jannette Jenkins. She's breaking down the science behind getting
Speaker 1: a good workout and feeling good too. It's Wednesday, July seventeenth.
Speaker 1: I'm Simone Boyce.
Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from
Speaker 2: Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
Speaker 2: share women's stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 1: Danielle, this is such an exciting day on the show.
Speaker 1: We get to talk about our love of fitness because
Speaker 1: you know we're both fitness girlies.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, how many times are you going to talk
Speaker 2: about your protein intake?
Speaker 3: I'm not going to talk about.
Speaker 1: It that much. Not that much, Okay. I want to
Speaker 1: know more about your fitness journey though. I'll start like
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I have been working out for what
Speaker 1: seven eight years now, but I feel like I spent
Speaker 1: so much of that time not knowing what I was
Speaker 1: doing at all, Like being in the gym and having
Speaker 1: men correct me on my form and I.
Speaker 3: Just didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 1: So I feel like once I got the knowledge about
Speaker 1: having proper form about what exercises worked for my body.
Speaker 1: That's the moment that everything changed. What was the moment?
Speaker 1: How'd you learn experimentation? There's really no other way. It's
Speaker 1: just trial and error.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: I've learned that doing weighted cardio is what my body
Speaker 1: responds to best. And that's what makes me feel good too,
Speaker 1: is having an elevated heart rate through those workouts, because
Speaker 1: I have a hard time doing static cardio like you know,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes on the treadmill or stare master. I
Speaker 1: just I have too much add for that. So I
Speaker 1: like a little more like aggression. We've talked about this.
Speaker 1: You love to lift weights too.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel like strong body, strong mind. But
Speaker 2: I didn't always feel that way.
Speaker 3: Actually.
Speaker 2: I grew up as such a creative girl, like I
Speaker 2: wanted to write poetry and write music and sit in
Speaker 2: my room and watch TV. And my mom is a
Speaker 2: big fitness girl, and she said to me, we got
Speaker 2: to move our bodies.
Speaker 3: We got to move.
Speaker 4: I don't care what you do, we gotta do it.
Speaker 2: And so we laugh now because I think she tried
Speaker 2: to put me in anything like soccer, gymnastics, and I
Speaker 2: would you know, I just hate it it all, and
Speaker 2: one day I started to dance and then that was it.
Speaker 2: I fell in love and I loved being in touch
Speaker 2: with my body, and so I think dance set me
Speaker 2: off on the right track. Since then, I've been working
Speaker 2: out and you know, now my sort of litmus test
Speaker 2: is I only pack in a carry on, and so
Speaker 2: can I lift my carry on, which I pack very
Speaker 2: heavy above my head into the overhead compartment. And you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes when I'm not working out as much, it's harder.
Speaker 2: So that's my test.
Speaker 1: Well, you touched on something that I think is really
Speaker 1: essential when it comes to everyone's fitness journey, and that
Speaker 1: is finding the movement that brings you joy. Because if
Speaker 1: I don't like running like it's not going to get done,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. The body of the
Speaker 1: mind does not benefit. So we gotta be centering joy
Speaker 1: in our movement.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the word joy, I don't know if this
Speaker 2: resonates for you, Simone, but when I have been at
Speaker 2: some of my saddest moments, I will make sure that
Speaker 2: I'm moving. Like I remember when I got my heart broken,
Speaker 2: the first thing I did was sign up for a
Speaker 2: triathlon because I was like I'm so sad, I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna lay in my bed and.
Speaker 3: Never get up.
Speaker 4: I better sign up to train for something.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm sure a lot of us have been doing
Speaker 1: these experiments with our fitness routines, going through some trial
Speaker 1: and error, and honestly, it can seem overwhelming these days
Speaker 1: because if you feel like you're bombarded with fitness information
Speaker 1: and misinformation all the time, I mean, you're not alone.
Speaker 1: There's always a new trend, new gear, and new promises
Speaker 1: of the perfect weight loss solutions in my algorithm all
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the new trends are just the worst. There's
Speaker 2: always just so much noise, and it can really be
Speaker 2: hard to decipher what's truth from what's fiction when it
Speaker 2: comes to what actually helps us live healthier lives. So
Speaker 2: instead of sifting through tons of books, tons of Instagram posts,
Speaker 2: tons of magazines, tons of articles, our guest today is
Speaker 2: here to cut through all of that noise in thirty minutes.
Speaker 2: She's trained some of the biggest names out there, and
Speaker 2: she's one of Hollywood's most sought after healthy living coaches.
Speaker 1: As she should be after three decades of teaching experience.
Speaker 1: She's the creator of the Hollywood Trainer Club, which is
Speaker 1: her own virtual gym that you can join, and her
Speaker 1: roster of celebrity clients includes Pink, Alicia Keys, Tracy Ellis,
Speaker 1: ross Nia Long, Serena Williams, and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez,
Speaker 1: just to name a few.
Speaker 2: I love a lot of things about Janette Jenkins, and
Speaker 2: one of those things is that she approaches fitness and
Speaker 2: training from a heart centered place and a scientific perspective.
Speaker 3: You're so right, Danielle. I love the way that she
Speaker 3: does both.
Speaker 1: And just to hype up her bona fides for a second,
Speaker 1: Jeanette studied human kinetics at the University of Ottawa and
Speaker 1: has earned over eighteen international certificates, so she knows a
Speaker 1: thing or two about living healthy. Plus she's part of
Speaker 1: the Hella Sunshine family. Shout out Hella Sunshine Collective.
Speaker 2: We're getting into all of that and more after the
Speaker 2: break stick with.
Speaker 5: Us, Jeanette.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 3: Welcome Jeannette. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 2: Okay, So, Jeannette, you have been in the fitness game
Speaker 2: for thirty.
Speaker 3: Years thirty four to be exact.
Speaker 2: Now, every trainer I know has their own approach like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: some trainers have a pilates base approach, some have a
Speaker 2: strength based approach, some have an endurance based approach. Can
Speaker 2: you describe the Net Jenkins fitness philosophy?
Speaker 6: Because I'm a planner, I'm a virgo, we are architects.
Speaker 6: So very early in my career, I made a tagline
Speaker 6: for my business and it was called cross Training for
Speaker 6: the Complete Body. Yeah, and that was actually my first
Speaker 6: VHS series was Cross Training for the Complete Body. And
Speaker 6: it was actually before even CrossFit existed, So this was
Speaker 6: before I was literally using cross training as a terminology.
Speaker 6: And the reason why was because I came from the
Speaker 6: world of sport. I alway played several different sports and
Speaker 6: then I have a degree in exercise physiology, and being
Speaker 6: someone who used her body for so many different sports,
Speaker 6: I could see that I needed all of the components
Speaker 6: of fitness. So cross training meaning you need to have
Speaker 6: strength training because that's your foundation, right. You need to
Speaker 6: have strong muscles, strong bones, strong connective tissue. Then you
Speaker 6: need to have cardiovascular fitness because you're not going to
Speaker 6: survive through any type of sport of longevity without having
Speaker 6: a good cardio base. And then the missing component that
Speaker 6: I felt that everybody was missing for years. And mind you,
Speaker 6: this was two thousand when I started my company, Yeah,
Speaker 6: twenty four years ago when I came up with this tagline,
Speaker 6: and the last category was flexibility, and I felt like
Speaker 6: nobody was doing flexibility work in the year two thousand
Speaker 6: and that all these athletes were getting injuries Achilles injuries,
Speaker 6: hamstring injuries, growing injuries because often they lacked.
Speaker 3: The range of motion that they needed.
Speaker 6: I know from my experience of working with so many
Speaker 6: athletes that that was a commonality. I think personally, the
Speaker 6: category mobility was created so that the tough guys could
Speaker 6: do stretching without it being called yoga or pilates.
Speaker 2: You know, my grandfather before he passed away at ninety
Speaker 2: years old, I asked him if he had any regrets,
Speaker 2: and he thought long and heard. He had this full life,
Speaker 2: and you know what he said to me, what I
Speaker 2: wish I would have stretched more?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, at.
Speaker 5: Ninety he really said that, that's all.
Speaker 4: And he was serious. He was like, he called me Dolly.
Speaker 2: He said, Dolly, you stretch every day, right, so you're
Speaker 2: you're onto something. If we rewind a little bit, yeah,
Speaker 2: how did we get to this? Janette Jenkins that we
Speaker 2: know what got you into fitness initially.
Speaker 6: So my initial love for fitness literally came from having
Speaker 6: an older brother. And I think that older brothers need
Speaker 6: to get the dow props that they deserve because I didn't.
Speaker 6: I I think wasn't. Caitlin Clark has an older brother,
Speaker 6: and so it does. Like Sabrina Yenesco, like a lot
Speaker 6: of really good female athletes have an older brother that
Speaker 6: they played with when they were kids, So like.
Speaker 3: Look into that.
Speaker 6: I don't have the research, but I know I hear
Speaker 6: it quite often. My case, I had an older brother
Speaker 6: who was like literally Olympic level like Gregel Roman wrestler,
Speaker 6: but he was an all around athlete and he literally
Speaker 6: was one year older and he was my hero.
Speaker 3: It was like I want to play with him.
Speaker 6: So as a little girl, it's like my mom would
Speaker 6: be like take your sister with you, take yours as
Speaker 6: our white day, oh wherever.
Speaker 3: You know. He was literally like my babysitter.
Speaker 6: But I just wanted to play, and so I ended
Speaker 6: up playing all these sports at a young young age
Speaker 6: so I could play with him. And then you know,
Speaker 6: when the kids are picking teams and you get picked
Speaker 6: before all the other boys, so you're not like last
Speaker 6: I was like, oh shit, I'm good because they're picking
Speaker 6: me before they pick like have these guys. So we'd
Speaker 6: be playing like flag football and they'd be like, well
Speaker 6: like Roger's little sister, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, Cathleen, I run. It was a huge compliment.
Speaker 6: So like there you are, like six years old and
Speaker 6: you're being like picked before some of the other guys.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm good, So, Jeanette.
Speaker 1: Eventually your client list grew to include people like Alicia Keys,
Speaker 1: Tracy Ells, Ross Pink, Serena Williams, and olympians Lori Hernandez
Speaker 1: and Sean Johnson. Well, I know it's hard to choose
Speaker 1: a favorite, so we're not gonna make you do that,
Speaker 1: but I do want to hear some stories about tenacity,
Speaker 1: about work ethic. Who's a client who's really blown you
Speaker 1: away in their training?
Speaker 6: I mean, hands down, Pink is pretty incredible when it
Speaker 6: comes to like all of the components of fitness, the strength, cardio,
Speaker 6: flexibility work.
Speaker 3: She fully accepted that it.
Speaker 6: Was important to do all of it, being able to
Speaker 6: do acrobats and aerial silks, dance perform and you know,
Speaker 6: and she still has that pressure where she's doing covers
Speaker 6: of like Women's magazine and stuff, so of course she
Speaker 6: still wants to look amazing, and I understand that that
Speaker 6: type of pressure, and like I would started training Pink
Speaker 6: in twenty eleven, right when she had her baby.
Speaker 3: After she had Willow, who's now thirteen.
Speaker 6: We took a year training to get her ready for
Speaker 6: her first video release of Try, which was the first
Speaker 6: song to be released on the Truth About Love album
Speaker 6: and I'll never forget. We'd not have been training maybe
Speaker 6: like six or seven months, and they were gonna start
Speaker 6: working on the choreography, and her team was like, we
Speaker 6: need your trainer to come into the studio. My life
Speaker 6: at studio because like it was really a sound stage
Speaker 6: at Sony.
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, she big time.
Speaker 6: Like normally when I go and get someone's choreography, it's
Speaker 6: like in a little dance studio.
Speaker 3: I was like, we pull up to the Sony lot.
Speaker 6: They got entire sound the whole like sound stage and
Speaker 6: one silk hanging from the ceiling.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, she a bass balls. So do
Speaker 1: you call her Pink when you're in sessions with her?
Speaker 3: Sha? Of course, Asha, I call Alisha. That's my girl.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing is that we respect each other
Speaker 6: like I respect her. She is a boss, and I
Speaker 6: show up on time early, I'm prepared.
Speaker 3: I don't mess around.
Speaker 6: Like the thing with celebrities is they have so many
Speaker 6: things on them that have to get done, hiring the
Speaker 6: best makeup artists, hairstylist, wardo. It's like, if you're not
Speaker 6: the best and you're not helping them make their career
Speaker 6: better or helping make their day better, helping make everything better,
Speaker 6: then you're out, like they will replace you so fast.
Speaker 6: So that was the most incredible respect, like feeling like
Speaker 6: if there was a bucket list client.
Speaker 3: I could have, she would have probably been.
Speaker 6: In just because like everything that she does physically I
Speaker 6: already loved. So when I walked in and they played
Speaker 6: the song for the first time I'd never heard it,
Speaker 6: I actually started crying. And then when the video was done,
Speaker 6: I remember, I fully remember, there's literally a picture of
Speaker 6: us walking the streets of New York going to train
Speaker 6: in Tribeca, and that was the day that she showed
Speaker 6: me the try video for the first time. She just
Speaker 6: got it, and that was what we had been training
Speaker 6: a year to get her ready for that video and
Speaker 6: when I seen it, I was just like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: this is so incredible. And I just checked on it today.
Speaker 6: It has had over five hundred and eighty million plays.
Speaker 6: It is the highest thing eight million plays. So it
Speaker 6: just goes to show. It's like you work with one
Speaker 6: person the impact that that has had on the ripple effect.
Speaker 6: It's like I'm helping her be the best that she
Speaker 6: can be. So once she can write this incredible song
Speaker 6: that is so motivating and uplifting, like it's the lyrics
Speaker 6: are all about just get up and try, like we've
Speaker 6: all been there, You're like, don't grudge it. And then
Speaker 6: to see the visual of her and the other incredible
Speaker 6: dancer create this incredible art right and then. So that's
Speaker 6: always been one of my greatest joys of training celebrities
Speaker 6: in general, is that you're helping them. If it's somebody
Speaker 6: you really respect and you love what they do in
Speaker 6: the world, then you're helping them have a ripple effect
Speaker 6: in the community or in the world, and I think
Speaker 6: that's extremely admirable.
Speaker 3: It's like you're part of the team.
Speaker 2: Is there a client who has a story or a
Speaker 2: success story that particularly stands out to you, Like, is
Speaker 2: there a celebrity client that came to you with a
Speaker 2: certain goal in mind that they like really achieved or
Speaker 2: had some setbacks.
Speaker 6: I mean they all have like incredible stories. One I
Speaker 6: can think of, just for performance wise, would be a
Speaker 6: Journey Smollett.
Speaker 3: She did incredible.
Speaker 6: Action sequences in Birds of Prey, which was a Harley
Speaker 6: Quinn movie, and like the amount that we trained, like
Speaker 6: literally she would know the choreography that she would get
Speaker 6: from the stunt director and we would be like every
Speaker 6: day in the backyard like practicing her actual choreography.
Speaker 3: And she killed it in that movie.
Speaker 6: And she's actually doing a TV show right now, an
Speaker 6: action one with Apple TV.
Speaker 3: Cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a called Firebug and so it's gonna be
Speaker 6: released in January and it is.
Speaker 4: You're such a good hype woman.
Speaker 3: I know. I love my girls. It's amazing.
Speaker 6: I love them, And you asked me, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm super proud of her because doing action is not easy,
Speaker 6: like to learn all the martial arts sequences and stuff.
Speaker 6: Like I trained also Paula Patten for Mission Impossible, and
Speaker 6: we again it's like you're they have a stunt coordinator
Speaker 6: and they and the stunt coordinator teaches them what to do,
Speaker 6: but then it's up to them to continue practice and
Speaker 6: practice and practice so that when it's time to shoot,
Speaker 6: they got it and they're ready and they look good
Speaker 6: doing it because they're executing with like good forming. I mean,
Speaker 6: we've all seen fight scenes that were like, uh yeah, okay, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to do the fight choreography. It's another
Speaker 1: thing to make it look effortless and seamless. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: takes a lot of training and practice.
Speaker 2: You have trained people who are the best in the
Speaker 2: world of what they do, right, like Serena Williams, Alicia Keys, Pink,
Speaker 2: the list goes on.
Speaker 4: You have really intimate moments with these women.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is there a through line in these people that
Speaker 2: you see that you think helps make them successful?
Speaker 6: Okay, uh, well, first of all, I want to rewind
Speaker 6: on the Serena one because that was like so long ago.
Speaker 6: I literally just pulled up some bitches. It was like
Speaker 6: in two thousand and seven was when I met her,
Speaker 6: and I can remember actually too. She DMed me on
Speaker 6: Twitter when before like when it was actually Twitter and
Speaker 6: asked me if I could do some nutrition stuff with her.
Speaker 6: So I did a metabolic test on her, which was
Speaker 6: really cool because you don't always get to do metabolic
Speaker 6: testing on clients.
Speaker 3: And that's what the test said, right, But uh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then you know the through and then I
Speaker 6: did a little bit of yoga and pilates with her,
Speaker 6: and what I noticed through that was that her genetics
Speaker 6: were phenomenal. I remember a couple of times saying to her,
Speaker 6: your genetic phenom She'd be like, what do you mean
Speaker 6: by that? I was like, girl, they don't make them
Speaker 6: like you, like your muscle integrity and everything is just incredible.
Speaker 2: I love that you mentioned genetic body types. Yeah, so ecdomorph, mesomorph,
Speaker 2: and endomorph.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of debate on it because this the
Speaker 6: genetic body types were made up by a psychologist slash
Speaker 6: scientist researcher by the name of Sheldon. Everybody studied them
Speaker 6: in psychology.
Speaker 3: He made these.
Speaker 6: Body types based out of observation. Okay, And so the
Speaker 6: important thing that you can see is, and that is
Speaker 6: scientifically known, is that we're all biogenetically unique.
Speaker 4: So basic, how do we identify that? Then basically, what
Speaker 4: you need.
Speaker 6: To realize is that when you do a strength training program,
Speaker 6: and simone does a strength training program, and all three
Speaker 6: of us could do the exact same strength training program,
Speaker 6: and what we are going to look like at the
Speaker 6: end of it is going to be completely different. And
Speaker 6: so I think it's it's cool to have the name
Speaker 6: so people can kind of, Okay, I'm more of this
Speaker 6: type or that type. Yes, an ecdomorph would be somebody
Speaker 6: who has more long, lean think model type figures, both
Speaker 6: a male or female or basketball player.
Speaker 3: And then a mesomorph.
Speaker 6: Would be more of your athletic body type, like a gymnast,
Speaker 6: like a Sean Johnson, like a Jana Jackson, like a
Speaker 6: pink like a me you know, like we're more muscular people.
Speaker 6: We have what's called more medium fast twitch muscle fibers.
Speaker 6: Then an endomorph is somebody who is more volumptuous. It's
Speaker 6: your more like Marilyn Monroe type of Ashley Graham, right,
Speaker 6: like someone who's more volumptuous. Then you have sometimes people
Speaker 6: who are kind of like a mix. I always like
Speaker 6: Naomi Campbell's one. I've always been like, she looks more
Speaker 6: of like a mezzo ecdo mix because she's ectomorph for sure,
Speaker 6: tall and model.
Speaker 3: Like, but she's also muscular.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Right, So here's the biogenetically unique. There will never be
Speaker 6: another Naomi Campbell, there will never be another Ashley Graham,
Speaker 6: there will never be another Serena Williams. Well.
Speaker 1: I think it's cool to have this framework because it
Speaker 1: does help minimize that urge to compare yourself to other
Speaker 1: body types that you might see online. And also the
Speaker 1: cool thing is you can still change your body type
Speaker 1: through the training that you do.
Speaker 6: No, you can't change your body type, but you can
Speaker 6: do the best that you can with your body type. Otherwise, yes,
Speaker 6: if you just lifted weights, we'd all just be able
Speaker 6: to get as big as we want it. But it
Speaker 6: doesn't happen that way. Some people can just look at
Speaker 6: weights like you put weights in my hand. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: put on some muscle. It's my genetic makeup. And research
Speaker 6: has shown that medium fast twitched muscle fibers they hypertrophy
Speaker 6: the most.
Speaker 3: And we start lifting weights and we look jacked.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I know from my experience, and I have
Speaker 6: had so many women who are mesomorph body types too,
Speaker 6: will say to me, Jenett, I gotta you know be
Speaker 6: in this movie Da da da, You cannot make me jacked,
Speaker 6: And I'll be like, Okay, No, problem, Like I understand
Speaker 6: the plate.
Speaker 2: So it's important really before you are training to really
Speaker 2: understand your body type.
Speaker 6: Yeah, is to understand it based on what your goals
Speaker 6: are trying to be right and to love the body
Speaker 6: type that you have. Right, So like someone and here's
Speaker 6: an example, right, So we used Ashley Graham as an example,
Speaker 6: as like an endomorph body type, Ashley can train as
Speaker 6: much as she wants. She's never gonna turn into a
Speaker 6: Gigi hadid do you know what I'm saying. So a
Speaker 6: Gigi would be more of an ectomorph, and Ashley's an
Speaker 6: endomorph and gg can train till the cows come home.
Speaker 6: And she's never gonna get Ashley's booty, you know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying. But she can still get a cute little
Speaker 6: round booty, but it's gonna be an ecdomorph's cute little
Speaker 6: round booty.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm trying to say is that.
Speaker 6: You can do the best that you can in both
Speaker 6: performance and esthetics with what you have. Like, the problem
Speaker 6: that I see over and over in the fitness industry
Speaker 6: and even more so because of social media, is people
Speaker 6: who don't want to accept their genetic makeup, like this
Speaker 6: is your genetic makeup, love your body. Do not go
Speaker 6: through your entire life trying to change who you are.
Speaker 6: You will be absolutely miserable because you're never going to
Speaker 6: change it. You can do the best that you can like. Yes,
Speaker 6: of course you can burn body fat, and you can
Speaker 6: get lean, and you can put on muscle, but at
Speaker 6: some point you have to also look in the mirror
Speaker 6: and love the genetics that you have.
Speaker 1: I'm learning so much and just talking to you, and
Speaker 1: I love hearing you debunk some of the narratives that
Speaker 1: we constantly run up against online, and I think for
Speaker 1: a lot of women, one of the biggest challenges is
Speaker 1: navigating all the conflicting advice around diet, exercise, metabolily. It's
Speaker 1: really hard. So I do want to point to a
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one study from the journal Science that found
Speaker 1: that metabolism doesn't drastically slow down as we age, at
Speaker 1: least not until after sixty.
Speaker 3: We all grew up.
Speaker 1: I grew up hearing that your metabolism is going to
Speaker 1: start rapidly declining once you hit I don't know, end
Speaker 1: of your twenties. What's your take on metabolism these days?
Speaker 1: What's the latest science on metabolism and muscle.
Speaker 3: I know I've seen some of this research as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I personally from my own personal experience of
Speaker 6: someone who's lived in the fitness industry and how I
Speaker 6: personally feel from like twenty to now I'm turning fifty. Yeah, Like, yeah, no,
Speaker 6: I don't get the results at fifty that I got
Speaker 6: when I was twenty. So maybe they are right when
Speaker 6: it comes to metabolism, but the hormones are definitely changing,
Speaker 6: and in order to get the results of both muscle
Speaker 6: hyperchaphe and fat burning, you need to be having proper
Speaker 6: hormone distribution. So I think that you know, a lot
Speaker 6: of things are happening to the body as we age,
Speaker 6: and I think it's really really important. The biggest takeaway
Speaker 6: of it is that your body's going to change your
Speaker 6: entire life, and it's okay, it's supposed to.
Speaker 3: We all get to be twenty one once, so like, live.
Speaker 6: It up when you're twenty, live it up when you're thirty,
Speaker 6: live it up when you're pregnant, live it up post mommy,
Speaker 6: live it up in your menopause years. Like what I'm
Speaker 6: saying is that through all the stages, be grateful that
Speaker 6: your body is up, it's strong, it's moving, it's healthy,
Speaker 6: and be grateful for the years that you've had in
Speaker 6: it and that it.
Speaker 3: Carries you through your life.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite ways to justify anything I want
Speaker 1: to do is say, on this day, I will be
Speaker 1: the youngest I ever am on this very day.
Speaker 3: That's or never be younger in the mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: True.
Speaker 6: It is a good perspect As you get older, you
Speaker 6: appreciate the wisdom of Like, I have no desire to
Speaker 6: go back to I was in my twenties.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 6: I had a great time ripping and running these Hollywood streets.
Speaker 6: I got some stories, girl, But I'm perfectly content in
Speaker 6: my cozy little almost fifty, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: doing all my virtual work and being able to travel
Speaker 6: around the world and work out my own schedule.
Speaker 3: Like you know, I have my glass of wine and.
Speaker 1: Like you appreciate all the eras. Okay, Jeanette, we have
Speaker 1: to take a short break, but when we come back,
Speaker 1: we want all the details on your workout routine.
Speaker 3: So don't go anywhere, y'all.
Speaker 2: And we're back with celebrity fitness trainer Jeannette Jenkins. Okay,
Speaker 2: Jeannette Tell me what your workouts look like. Now, like,
Speaker 2: how many days a week are you working out?
Speaker 3: And what do you do? I work out every day seven.
Speaker 6: Yeah. And the reason is because if you were to
Speaker 6: look at all of the research, okay, and there is
Speaker 6: enormous amounts of this.
Speaker 3: Exercise literally delivers.
Speaker 6: You hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of health benefits. Like
Speaker 6: number one, it decreases your risks of heart disease. Heart
Speaker 6: disease is the number one killer worldwide. Number two, It
Speaker 6: helps stimulate new brain cell growth. It helps with your cognition,
Speaker 6: It helps with hormonal regulation.
Speaker 3: It helps so that you can be nice to the people.
Speaker 2: It help race weather, Spintata said in Legally Blonde, Happy
Speaker 2: people just don't kill their husbands, right.
Speaker 6: It helps with like circulating oxygen through the body, and
Speaker 6: like it helps decrease your risk of so many illnesses,
Speaker 6: and the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3: It helps with digestion and elimination.
Speaker 6: It helps so that you can actually have Like I
Speaker 6: understand that a lot of people work out because they
Speaker 6: want to look good.
Speaker 3: It helps you look good.
Speaker 2: Well, Okay, So at the beginning of this convo, you
Speaker 2: gave me the Jeanette Jenkins philosophy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it was like cross.
Speaker 3: Cross training for the complete body.
Speaker 4: So Monday, what are we doing?
Speaker 6: So mondays, I usually start off with cardio because I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's Monday, boss to the wall. So it'll either be
Speaker 6: a cardio And this is exactly how I designed my club, right,
Speaker 6: So I have a virtual gym, the Hollywood Trainer Club,
Speaker 6: and every.
Speaker 3: Day somebody logs in.
Speaker 6: They have these various types of workouts, So cardio could
Speaker 6: be a mixture of like cardio kickboxing, cardio drills, cardio
Speaker 6: sculpt but yes, it is a cardio workout, and or
Speaker 6: if I decide it's an outdoor run, it's.
Speaker 4: A is that like thirty minutes or that's an hour.
Speaker 3: It could be arranged from thirty minutes to hour.
Speaker 6: Myself, personally, I enjoy doing at least thirty to forty
Speaker 6: five minutes of actual cardio. I will do a good
Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty minutes of foam rolling and stretching.
Speaker 4: Love it, okay.
Speaker 2: And then the rest of the week, are you strength
Speaker 2: training three days or more?
Speaker 6: No, I will strength train sometimes only two days, two
Speaker 6: to three because I'll.
Speaker 3: Do one day a heavy lower body okay.
Speaker 6: So that's heaviest weight, because I think that a lot
Speaker 6: of people don't understand that, like especially women, that heavyweight
Speaker 6: training is necessary to keep your bones strong. So we're
Speaker 6: talking like six to ten repetitions so that you can
Speaker 6: get maximum out of your muscle maximum hyperchurphee.
Speaker 3: Now there's an more enormous amount of.
Speaker 6: Resource that shows that if you're doing pushing the most
Speaker 6: weight you can in that six to ten rep range,
Speaker 6: then you're gonna get the most muscle hyperchape. So yes,
Speaker 6: as a woman who's getting older, I want to make
Speaker 6: sure that my muscles, you know, are are strong and
Speaker 6: that they look good. I'm trying to get that hypertrophy
Speaker 6: and my body so right, So you need six to
Speaker 6: ten reps. Baby, If you can do more than ten reps,
Speaker 6: you need to increase the weight.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you heard it from Janette.
Speaker 6: Then same upper by core and then so that's three days.
Speaker 6: Then I always have a day of either yoga or
Speaker 6: pilates or a mix of the both.
Speaker 2: Movement is such a huge part of your ethos, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: where does that come from?
Speaker 3: It literally comes from a place of service.
Speaker 6: Honestly, here's the CrossBridge, right, I grew up in government housing.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that means my little butt was broke.
Speaker 6: But my family was really full of love and we
Speaker 6: had a lot of fun, and I watched Oprah all
Speaker 6: the time, and I learned really young.
Speaker 3: That you have to find what you love to do
Speaker 3: and find a way to offer it to millions.
Speaker 6: And so I was like, Okay, that's what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 6: and that became my love for fitness. So then as
Speaker 6: I was going through college in the nineties, basically I
Speaker 6: had to decide that, you know, you're going to college,
Speaker 6: you have to decide what are you gonna do that's
Speaker 6: gonna make money. And I was like, it has to
Speaker 6: be something still that's around sports, because this is what
Speaker 6: I love to do. And I actually the first kind
Speaker 6: of job I had that was also what related was
Speaker 6: I was a sideline trainer from my college football team,
Speaker 6: so I would yes it and so sideline training, and
Speaker 6: what we did is before every game, I had to
Speaker 6: tape all the ankles, all the risks of every single player,
Speaker 6: and so it was like getting them ready, so you're
Speaker 6: like pre preventative injury, so they have to be all
Speaker 6: taped up, and then you're a sideline and you're the
Speaker 6: first one for like emergency medical if anything happens, someone
Speaker 6: breaks a collar bone, someone pops a knee, like you know,
Speaker 6: there's injuries non stop. So after that, I was like, okay,
Speaker 6: I was learning through that. And then I was also
Speaker 6: a lifeguard, so all this is happening while I'm in college.
Speaker 6: And then I started my first one on one client,
Speaker 6: which was Aqui Fitness, So I got certified on acle Fitness.
Speaker 6: I was teaching acle Fit classes and I had my
Speaker 6: first one on one client, and the energy, the spiritual
Speaker 6: exchange of being able to affect someone's life in one.
Speaker 3: Hour, whooh, that changed me forever.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my God, like you in sixty minutes,
Speaker 6: you can take someone who feels like shit, who might
Speaker 6: feel depressed, whom I feel sad, and you can totally
Speaker 6: just flip their world around and they walk out, and
Speaker 6: that affects the rest of their day. It affects if
Speaker 6: their mother, it affects how they mother, it affects their children,
Speaker 6: it affects where they go to work, it affects their
Speaker 6: entire community. So at that moment, I knew that it
Speaker 6: was gonna be fitness because I knew that like, if
Speaker 6: I can have this effect on more people, that I
Speaker 6: will love my life.
Speaker 4: Where that tears coming from.
Speaker 6: Because I think that that's how everyone found me. Like
Speaker 6: every single celebrity client that found me found me because
Speaker 6: I was loving what I was doing. It wasn't because
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, oh yeah, I did this photoshoot
Speaker 6: for shape and or you know what I mean, or
Speaker 6: like I think sometimes there's a lot of people in
Speaker 6: fitness that are in there because.
Speaker 3: They're like, look at me, look at me, I'm so cute.
Speaker 6: I'm so It's like if you're in fitness, because you're
Speaker 6: there you really want to service people and you really
Speaker 6: want to help them, whether it's helped them perform, help
Speaker 6: them with their you know, be better athletes, help them
Speaker 6: so they can move, help them be Like the give
Speaker 6: back to you is enormous. The people who take your class,
Speaker 6: they can see the difference.
Speaker 3: They know the difference between someone who's there.
Speaker 6: Who's in their face, who remembers their name, who encourages them,
Speaker 6: who like versus someone who's like up in the mirror
Speaker 6: looking at themselves, can't even remember your name, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean, Like it's a different you're showing up
Speaker 6: with a completely different intention.
Speaker 2: A lot of times, I think people show up for
Speaker 2: that one hour. It's the one hour they have for themselves,
Speaker 2: so you really give them a gift.
Speaker 1: Totally such a big heart, Jenette, Oh, I love how
Speaker 1: deeply you care about fitness, because it's so much bigger
Speaker 1: than just fitness. That term, I feel like doesn't even
Speaker 1: be get into As a.
Speaker 6: Business woman, I have learned like you, I look at
Speaker 6: everything on masses. So then I decided, okay, yeah, let
Speaker 6: me go into this field. And then as I was
Speaker 6: working in it, it was like, okay, I got to
Speaker 6: invest my money, you know, figure out how Like the
Speaker 6: first wealth book I read was The Wealthy Barber, which
Speaker 6: was like how to make a million creater first it is,
Speaker 6: and that's what made me like buy my first property
Speaker 6: in Century City and nineteen ninety nine for like one
Speaker 6: hundred and ninety thousand dollars, which is like impossible these
Speaker 6: days obviously.
Speaker 3: But the point is that.
Speaker 6: I always looked at the business of things, right It's like, Okay,
Speaker 6: then I need to make more streams of revenue. That's
Speaker 6: what the Hollywood Trainer started, is that I was getting
Speaker 6: asked all the time, can you do the Today Show?
Speaker 3: Can you do Good Morning America? Can you do this?
Speaker 3: And I was like, I'm not doing these shows for nothing,
Speaker 3: like I pay exactly nobody knows.
Speaker 6: And I said unless I have something to sell, and
Speaker 6: so I said, okay, let me make a product. And
Speaker 6: that was the birth of cross Training for the Complete Body.
Speaker 6: I literally looked up Hollywood Trainer and nobody had that
Speaker 6: website and I was like, well, they keep asking me
Speaker 6: because they're.
Speaker 3: Like, we need a Hollywood Trainer trainer. I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: Hollywood Trainer dot com. Thirty dollars, there we go.
Speaker 6: I'll give you a Hollywood Trainer And exactly like I didn't.
Speaker 6: I no, I wasn't in fitness because I wanted to
Speaker 6: be on TV. I was in finness because I actually
Speaker 6: wanted to be with the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, before we let you go, we love to leave
Speaker 1: our bright side besties with some practical advice that they
Speaker 1: can implement immediately. So for anyone who's listening who feels
Speaker 1: like they've maybe hit a plateau with their workouts, what's
Speaker 1: a piece of advice that you can offer them for
Speaker 1: a breakthrough?
Speaker 3: Okay, the first is I want you to know. Number
Speaker 3: one is confidence looks sexy on everyone.
Speaker 6: So whether you're at the top of your program, whether
Speaker 6: you're feeling a plateau, whether you're at the bottom, just
Speaker 6: own who you are and what you're going through and
Speaker 6: be sexy about it. Like there's gonna be times where
Speaker 6: you might be twenty pounds heavier, you're bloated, Like, have
Speaker 6: a couple extra wardrobe items, you know, a couple of
Speaker 6: those flirty dresses that you know with the empire waste
Speaker 6: and stuff like you have to adjust for those times.
Speaker 6: Like I literally have wardrobe for the times that the
Speaker 6: body ain't feeling that right but I still want to
Speaker 6: feel beautiful and the times where we can keep it tight,
Speaker 6: like love on yourself. Even people you see who are
Speaker 6: on the top performers, they're not always at that place.
Speaker 6: You're just flexing in the photos that you see on
Speaker 6: Instagram and they have some body spray on and they
Speaker 6: have good lighting and.
Speaker 1: They have like let me tell you, and nobody walks
Speaker 1: around flexed all the time.
Speaker 3: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6: So number one, Please always be confident, even at the bottom,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. My other top one is
Speaker 6: also own your happiness because I see a lot of
Speaker 6: people and it's I think It's a normal thing as.
Speaker 3: You go through your years of like, oh.
Speaker 6: I'm going to be happy when I get married, or
Speaker 6: I'm going to be happy when I have kids, are
Speaker 6: going to be happy when I get this job?
Speaker 3: Like you, literally, it is your choice.
Speaker 6: Every day if you want to be happy through it.
Speaker 2: It's harder to do in practice. It's really good advice
Speaker 2: even on.
Speaker 6: The daily basis and you're like, Okay, you know you
Speaker 6: want to experience this, or you want to go eat
Speaker 6: at this restaurant or whatever, make the plan and go.
Speaker 3: If someone can't go with you.
Speaker 6: You know, one of the greatest things I learned is
Speaker 6: that when you go do the things that you love
Speaker 6: to do, you know what happens. You meet people there
Speaker 6: who love the same thing that you love. You meet
Speaker 6: people who are at your level doing the things that
Speaker 6: you love to do.
Speaker 3: So like, yeah, don't wait, make your life happy.
Speaker 2: Make your life happy, Jeanette beautiful last words, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for him hanging out with us.
Speaker 3: You're welcome, Thank you, Jeanette.
Speaker 2: Jeanette Jenkins is a celebrity trainer and fitness expert. She's
Speaker 2: the founder and president of The Hollywood Trainer LLC.
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