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Your Questions, Answered: Lifting Heavy, App Tips & What's Next for TIU · Tone It Down

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Heavy to you is different than heavy to someone else.
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It's your own capacity, the way that you choose to lift.
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Listen to your body, do what feels right for you.
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This is your weekly girlfriend chat, the kind that we all crave,
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where we can show up exactly as we are, laugh until we cry,
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get honest about the things we're navigating,
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and all the private girl talk that we need more of.
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No pressure, no perfection, just real women like us,
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sharing real stories with real connections.
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Over the years of Tonadab,
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I've learned that the most transformative moments
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don't always happen in a workout.
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They happen in those conversations before and after.
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When we realize we're all going through something,
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when we feel seen, and that's what Tonad down is built on.
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My intention is simple to help you tune back into yourself,
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to quiet the noise and to remind you
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that you're allowed to evolve.
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This is Tonadab.
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Hello, my friends, welcome to your Tonadab podcast.
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It's me, Karina, how are you today?
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I am sitting here in beautiful Palm Springs, California.
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When I'm recording this, it's Memorial Day.
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It's Monday Memorial Day, about 8 a.m.
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Sun came up, I got my little workout in right here.
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If you recognize it, if you're watching this on YouTube,
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I am sitting in the sunshine sweating
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on the set of your Radiate and Rise Tonadab app workout program.
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And actually, when you are listening to this,
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you have just completed the four week program
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in your Tonadab app, Radiate and Rise with your trainers,
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Ari and Christina and China, and meditating with me.
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It feels so good, doesn't it?
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Feels so good.
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So congrats to all of you.
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Thank you to all of you who reached my personal DMs
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at Karina Ton and are saying,
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this is one of your favorite programs yet,
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and to answer those questions,
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this is a full AMA day, I like the AMA day,
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but there was a question, will these workouts stay in the app?
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Of course, all of the workouts stay in the app.
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So you can do them anytime.
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Just kind of recapping the past four weeks, we,
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I mean, time flies, gosh.
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We had the event in Manhattan Beach, California at the point,
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and a lot of you showed up and we worked out together.
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We did a live podcast for Tonadab down
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with your trainers and community questions.
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So make sure if you missed that one,
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go back and listen to that.
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A lot of great questions were answered there.
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And yeah, so although the program ended,
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I just went to accentuate, I don't know if that's right word,
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but that your programs are always in your app.
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And one of the new features we have is that every Monday,
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we have a new workout.
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So new content every week.
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It's either a workout or a meditation every single Monday.
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So there's new content in your app every single week.
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I believe this week it is dance and tone with Ari.
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So get moving and grooving with Ari.
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I love her dance workouts.
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And the next week we have lower body glow with China.
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Keep checking in, keep rocking, keep working out.
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And having fun, that's the whole goal.
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I feel like every week it's so nice to check in with you.
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I use Tonadab podcast as the way to connect every week
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and kind of give you updates too.
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So the other feature that we are doing on the podcast
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is community conversations.
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So if you email, tone it down at tonadab.com
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and you want to share your story,
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we've had Emily teach out and Hannah Aaron Brown come on
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as guests and we had really fun conversations
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and got to sit down together.
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So just wanted to put that out there.
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And by the way, if you're watching this on YouTube again,
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I am sitting directly in the sun
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and your girl is gonna be glistening.
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Don't worry, I got sunscreen on.
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I use Cula, I love Cosis,
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but wear your sunscreen because it's officially summer now.
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And it is toasty.
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So some of my other notes before we get to the AMAs,
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I gotta get situated for this one.
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This is the two week mark of my dear skunky
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Palmerian passing away.
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And I bring this up on the podcast
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because I wanna thank you for all of the messages,
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the posts on Instagram.
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I tried to get back to everybody because it meant so much
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because I don't wanna cry in this moment
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of losing her, she's 16.
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It was hard and I just wanna say thank you.
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That's it.
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It was on a Monday morning like today,
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I woke up at 4.30 a.m.
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And usually skunky and I are up together
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and her breathing was off and it was the whole thing
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but it was not expected, but I'm so happy
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that Bobby was here, all the palms were here.
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And I love that you all shared your stories
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of meeting her over the years.
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They really meant a lot to me.
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So thank you.
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She was the best little doggy
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and she was part of the community.
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So thank you.
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Okay, into the AMA, where's my phone?
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So you can leave messages on carina.com slash message
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and I get them all and then we share some of them
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on the podcast.
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So here we go.
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This is from Brooke.
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Hey, Carina, I have been a ton of up girl since I was
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in high school.
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I am 31 years old now.
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So I've been a ton of up girl for a very long time
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at this point.
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You guys are really the ones who taught me how to work out,
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live an active lifestyle, eat well.
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So thank you so much for that.
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I was important for me to have good role models like that
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as I was growing up and really becoming a woman.
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But the question I have,
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this is something I've been wondering the past,
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I would say years.
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So like you have been getting more into heavy lifting,
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it just makes you feel so good.
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But I remember those OG T.I.U. workout videos,
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let's say between series.
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A lot of the times like five pounds,
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10 pound dumbbells were used.
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And I was wondering were you all lifting heavy outside
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of those workout videos?
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Was it something that was part of your day-to-day
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or was that something that came into your life later?
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Just so curious, curious to know your journey with it.
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Thank you so much.
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And I've been loving the podcast.
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Thank you, Brooke.
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And I love that question because I have seen it quite a bit.
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So let's start.
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When you're talking about like kidney series
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or beach babe DVDs, we definitely
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use lighter weights while filming.
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Because number one, we were filming eight to 10 workouts a day.
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And so we on the beach in the sand, we actually were.
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We would go to hot yoga and use like a three pound weight
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because you're doing lots of reps,
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like lots of repetition, right?
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Like burning out the muscles.
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Not necessarily lifting heavy.
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I would say I remember like pre-toned up tour in 2017.
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I was lifting a little bit heavier just
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to like get some muscle on like more muscle and free tour.
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But really, even today I go anywhere
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from five pounds on my shoulders or maybe some days it's 10.
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And I want to point out too that heavy is to each their own, right?
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I talked to some people and they're so excited.
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I got 10 pound weights.
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I'm lifting heavy now.
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It feels so good.
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I'm working up.
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So like heavy to you is different than heavy to someone else.
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And it's your own capacity, the way that you choose to lift.
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For me right now, and I'm 45 now.
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Holy moly, still here, made it.
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Muscle maintenance has become very important.
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It's a lot harder for me to gain muscle mass.
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When you get over the age of 40,
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you lose one to 2% of muscle mass per year.
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Is it sarcopenia?
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Having the right amount of protein.
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And if you want to have that protein conversation,
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go to last week's conversation here on toned down
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with a sandy broccoli and we talk about protein.
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But it's important for me, when I say heavy,
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like sometimes I'm curling at 15.
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I'm not lifting like 45 pounds.
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Sometimes I like to do a row at 25, a press at 15.
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My shoulders are still at 5 to 10.
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And when I do a squat and a press,
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maybe I'm holding a 25.
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So that's where I'm at now,
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because I do want to build muscle, right,
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for muscle as we grow.
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So we're stronger.
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It's really important, but think about it.
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And also you will not get bulky
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from lifting heavy weights.
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Think about all the things you carry every day.
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I'm helping Bobby, we're headed back to Austin, Texas tomorrow
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morning and we're packing up the car and the trailer
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and we're lifting heavy things, right?
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Or it's maybe 35, 40 pounds.
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You always, if you are a mother and you're lifting your child,
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you're always lifting, so don't worry about the book.
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But you want to be strong and especially as we get older together,
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just making sure we have that strength
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to do all the things we want to do.
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Aside from strength, I know this wasn't a part
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of your question, Brooke, but mobility.
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So think about mobility in your hips,
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doing those pass-throughs and we can do,
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there are some mobility exercises and workout videos
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in the toner-up app, so definitely make sure
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that's a part of your routine.
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Because it's being able to look at this little hummingbird,
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I hope that it got on the camera.
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So lifting heavy, again, it's to each their own.
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And then number two, I'm laughing because there's these hummingbirds
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that are just jumping in front of the camera.
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So lifting heavy to each their own and mobility
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and doing both of those things I feel for me
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is the most important thing right now.
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And then, of course, walking, getting in nature,
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and in client-walk, whether it's a treadmill
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or a hill that you can find in your neighborhood,
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is great, but mix that with your toner-up workouts.
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But yeah, so things change and the way that we work out,
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I always said through the years,
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I mean, I used to love doing triathlon,
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but you're not gonna find me running, biking, swimming,
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these days, it's just not right for me.
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So I always say, listen to your body,
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do what feels right for you.
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But I definitely, 40 plus and broke your in your 30s.
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Lift girl, lift, get your protein, do all the things.
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Do what feeds your body.
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Like you'll know that feeling literally feeds your body,
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feeds your mind, feel good.
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Okay, I'm going into hot off of Instagram, the AMA box.
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I'm gonna answer a few questions there.
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All right, here we go.
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Says, I'm brand new to fitness
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and honestly get overwhelmed by workout apps.
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Where should someone who is completely a beginner
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start inside the app?
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Okay, good question, I get it.
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I get confused.
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I have some apps myself where I'm like,
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I go on there and I'm like, what do I do?
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Where do I go?
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So the great thing about the toner-up app
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is we make it very simple.
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Every Sunday, we post your weekly workout.
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So if there's no actual program going on at that time,
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we give you every workout that you need to do
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for every single day of the week, okay?
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So we make sure with the programming, it's scientific
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and we know what body parts to hit,
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how much cardio to get, whether it's a hit workout,
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all of that.
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We also have a workout library.
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So if you go to the top right of your app
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and click like a little icon up there
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and you can choose your duration,
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you can choose intensity.
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So you can completely ignore the schedule
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that we're giving you.
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You can say, today I'm waking up
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and I just want a 15 minute stretch.
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Today I'm waking up and I want to work out with Christina
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and do some Tabata because I'm feeling the vibes.
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You can choose an intensity, you can choose your trainer,
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you can choose duration, all of that stuff.
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So you have options, weekly schedule, easy peasy to follow along,
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we also posted on the toner up Instagram
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or go at your own flow and do what you want to do
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because you glow girl.
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So I hope that answers that question
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because I have seen that question quite a bit.
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All right, next one.
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Who is the app really for experience wise?
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Can beginners do it or is it more
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for women who already workout consistently?
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Well, that goes back to the last question.
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So it's for everyone.
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Again, you go to your workout library
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and you choose your trainer, your intensity and all that.
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So thank you for that.
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Number three, I went to the Manhattan Beach event
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and loved it so much.
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Thank you, so did I, loved it, loved it.
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Especially the community and the gift bags.
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The gift bags were pretty cool.
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They were all products that I love
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and toned it up approved and I had to share it with you.
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Are you planning to do more in real life events
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and what cities are on your wish list next?
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Girl, yes, my dream is to do more events.
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Cities you've been DMing me.
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We sent out a survey, we have them all.
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We were looking at doing something in Miami.
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Obviously Austin, Texas, I want to do something
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but keep sending your cities through
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because I definitely want to come there
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and have a good time.
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All right, and last question today
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before I tell myself out,
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often this sweaty morning and bombs rings
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and enjoy a memorial day or well, it's not first day of summer
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but you know, kind of feels like that.
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Okay, I travel a lot and I can't always get to a gym.
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Are there enough no equipment or hotel friendly workouts
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in the app to still stay consistent?
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Yes, goes back to the info before same filter as before.
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You choose no equipment in the filter
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and then all of your workouts that have no equipment show up
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which this is a great question
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as we're traveling for summer
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which I wouldn't know where you going.
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I don't know where I'm going.
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I have a ton of uptrip coming up
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to film some amazing content for you
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but where are you going?
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I feel like a lot of people are going to Europe
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but that's why the toner up app is perfect for summer
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because you can take it.
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A lot of hotels you can mirror on the TV too
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or you can mirror on your computer.
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And yeah, so we got you covered this summer.
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We stay together, we keep working out together,
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we check in, hashtag TIU team
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and as always, share love, inspire and sweat.
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And thanks for sitting and sweating with me,
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literally figuratively and I will see you
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at the next workout.
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Come on.