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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning, stop and.

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Speaker 2: Give us twenty That's what our next guest wants blokes

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Speaker 2: across the country to do. We know that she's been

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Speaker 2: getting women into shape with her twelve week BT program,

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Speaker 2: but now she's launching a plan for blokes only.

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Speaker 3: Michelle Bridges Hello, good morning you guys.

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Speaker 1: How are you Michelle? How are you doing all right?

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Speaker 3: Yes? Very well, thank you. I actually have just done

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Speaker 3: a workout. We've been doing live workouts on my twelve

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Speaker 3: week Body Transformation Facebook and Instagram pages that the people

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Speaker 3: who are in lockdown or who just want to train

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Speaker 3: from home and not have any equipment. So we just

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Speaker 3: did these live workouts on Tuesdays and Friday. So I

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Speaker 3: knocked one out just before this interview.

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Speaker 1: How much can you bench press these days?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Not much?

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Speaker 1: You may come on tell us about it. People want

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Speaker 1: to know.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know you know, Come on, no, seriously,

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Speaker 3: I don't do a lot of that kind of training.

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Speaker 3: My training really is more body weight training, a little

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Speaker 3: bit of weight, but more high red to it.

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Speaker 4: I'll drop this if you just say, like so, gut

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Speaker 4: at your head. You've got a bench press. How much

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Speaker 4: could you bench press forty sixty.

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Speaker 3: I to probably do maybe between sixty and seventy kilos.

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Speaker 3: It's going to do that, yeah, because I mean my

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Speaker 3: weight is around sixty, so I can. I know, I

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Speaker 3: can usually always do a bit more than my body weight.

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Speaker 3: But you know, like one I want a time I

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Speaker 3: used to I can't believe we're talking about this time.

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Speaker 3: I used to train like really hard with weights in

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Speaker 3: that fashion. But it's just sort of not my training

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Speaker 3: style anymore. But speaking of that, it's really about the blokes.

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Speaker 3: And the reason why I put this together was because

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Speaker 3: you know, I have a lot of men do my

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Speaker 3: twelve week body transformation program because their wife is doing

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Speaker 3: it or their significant partner is doing it, and they

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Speaker 3: just sort of follow along and lose some weight and

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Speaker 3: get great results. And I thought, we can do better

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Speaker 3: for our blokes. We can act actually design a program

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Speaker 3: by men for men. And I've got my head trainer,

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Speaker 3: Tod Levinskus, who's actually gone and put this help program

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Speaker 3: together and is the lead for the next twelve weeks

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Speaker 3: for the blokes, and I'm really thrilled with it. I'm

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Speaker 3: absolutely touched with it because all the online programs out

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Speaker 3: there and there's plenty of them. I've been doing this

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Speaker 3: for ten years now, but there's plenty more that have

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Speaker 3: come into the market. They're all designed to women. I

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Speaker 3: can't actually believe that there isn't one that's out there

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Speaker 3: for men.

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Speaker 2: How different are we? Do you need to have a

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Speaker 2: different program for men and women? Are our fat deposits different,

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Speaker 2: our strengths different?

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Speaker 3: Yes, of course, I mean we are different with different

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Speaker 3: physical beings, and yes we can train together, and yes

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Speaker 3: women can do this program if they want to do

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Speaker 3: it with their partner or their dad or their uncle

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Speaker 3: or whoever. But there is definitely differences. And also I

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Speaker 3: think the way in which you train a man is

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Speaker 3: very different to how I would train a woman, And

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Speaker 3: just in conversation, just in the way in which you

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Speaker 3: describe things. I mean, it's nice to the go to

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Speaker 3: have a community where they can come together and you know,

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Speaker 3: just feel like they're in a bloke's only zone sort

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Speaker 3: of thing. A couple of chicks here and there, maybe,

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Speaker 3: but it's a really it's really for the sellers and

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Speaker 3: also for the food and nutrition as well. So there

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Speaker 3: are going to be can you believe that pizzas and

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Speaker 3: burghers and some good man food in there, but it'll

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Speaker 3: be done in a style that you know are going

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Speaker 3: to keep those keep the nutrition squared away, and keep

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Speaker 3: the calories down a bit too.

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Speaker 2: You've had extraordinary transformations with the women who've done your

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Speaker 2: Program's what's one of the most memorable for you?

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Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, Amanda's so many, so many. I've had so many.

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Speaker 3: I've had women that have had been in rehabilitation from

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Speaker 3: chemotherapy that I've said, I want to just do something,

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Speaker 3: and you know, we've managed to get them fitter and

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Speaker 3: stronger and more confidence. You know, those are the kinds

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Speaker 3: of stories that just blow my mind. You know, someone

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Speaker 3: that's so far behind the eight ball, and yet they're

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Speaker 3: willing to put their health first and themselves first to

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Speaker 3: feel good about who they are again. Like it's it's

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Speaker 3: a lot of people think it's it's all about weight loss.

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Speaker 3: It's so not. You know, that's a byproduct. What it's

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Speaker 3: about is having you feel like you're back in charge

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Speaker 3: of yourself again, that you're back in control, and that

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Speaker 3: you've got your confidence back, and you've got your energy back,

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Speaker 3: and you're back you know. So that's really the basis

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Speaker 3: of my program has been fundamentally about you know, inspiration

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Speaker 3: and inspiring people seeing something that they never thought was

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Speaker 1: And it's going to say and then I look at you.

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Speaker 4: You're back, you know, because the years started off dreadfully

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Speaker 4: for you, and then you would have seen coronavirus and that,

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Speaker 4: Oh great.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else people can put on my plate?

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Speaker 1: Can you put some more on the plate?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, It's been a pretty tough old year

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Speaker 3: and I've had to look big, dig deep and find

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Speaker 3: my own resilience. And the one thing I think that's

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Speaker 3: really astounded me is the compassion of humanity. You know,

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Speaker 3: people that that that surround you and comfort you and

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Speaker 3: that it's ok to be vulnerable and it's okay to

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Speaker 3: ask for help. And again, you know, when I think

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Speaker 3: back to my blokes only program, there's so many men

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Speaker 3: out there, so many that don't ask for help, that

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Speaker 3: don't know where to get started. Maybe they feel like

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Speaker 3: it's it's you know, they don't need they shouldn't have

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Speaker 3: to ask for help. Well, they're too shy to ask

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Speaker 3: for hell.

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Speaker 1: The gym culture is too scary. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: You know, and it's okay to say I need some

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Speaker 3: help here. I can see that and can you can

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Speaker 3: you help me? And that's exactly particularly Todd, because he's

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Speaker 3: going to be leading from the front. He's going to

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Speaker 3: be doing for all the blokes out there. We've already

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Speaker 3: had such great results. We did a test run on

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Speaker 3: a few blokes. One of them was his dad, who's

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Speaker 3: sixty five. I think he lost fifteen kilos down to

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Speaker 3: two shirt siders and now he's rocking his white polo

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Speaker 3: collar shirt into the golf club and sort of, you know, get.

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Speaker 1: Cussed up, pants, pants pulled up really high and that's

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Speaker 1: the look. Michelle. It's great to hear you on the

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Speaker 1: up and up.

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Speaker 4: You can start up to Michelle Bridges Blokes Only program

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Speaker 4: at twelve WBT dot com Today Michelle A treat to

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Speaker 4: talk to you.

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Speaker 3: Nice to talk to you, Michelle, and don't forget it

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Speaker 3: starts this Monday, so you've got the weekend to get

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Speaker 3: your act together and then we're on.

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Speaker 1: Get on at this Monday and then stop on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Good only, Michelle.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. Michelle joins The and Amanda Morning at one point seven.

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Speaker 1: Tell you