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You Don't Need to Get Your Old Body Back · Making Muscle Memories

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: What if the goal is not to get your old body back, but to understand and strengthen the body that you have now?
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: After 40 years of work in the fitness industry, I have learned that real strength isn't just built through exercise, but through experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will share with you some of the science as well as the stories that have shaped my work.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We are all building muscle memories.
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  SPEAKER_00: One rep, one story, and one day at a time.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Making Muscle Memories Podcast.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: My name is Lauren Irk, and I will be your host.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: In today's episode, I want to talk with you about the problem that many of us go through that we're chasing the way that we used to be in our 25-year-old body, and we fail to discover the beauty of the body that we have now.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I am sure that many of you, including myself, have stood in front of the mirror and thought to yourself, oh, if only I could look like I used to when I was in my 20s or in my 30s.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: And we think that our best years are behind us only to leave us feeling depressed.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: And we fail to see that we are not serving who we have in front of us, the strength and the confidence that we need to build for who we are now because that's going to influence where we are in the future.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: To me, this is the biggest problem that I see being a fitness instructor that people deal with in their 50s and up.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Being a trainer, I both train people in person and I also train people online.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I can tell you definitively, the biggest thing that I see is this idea that who I was when I was 25 is the benchmark.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that a lot of people feel disappointed in where they are now.
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  SPEAKER_00: They feel that they have failed because their body has lived.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really where what it boils down to.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: We have lived.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your body is going to change.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: But when we base our current fitness goals on who we were 25 years ago or more, we're going to fail.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: So what I'd like to do in this episode, I'm going to bring about, there's going to be about five points that I want to make.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope that by the end of the episode, you will change your ideas about who you are now and maybe be a little bit happier about the current state of your body.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, the first thing I want to say, and this is sort of the comparison trap, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: When we think about how our body has changed, many people are upset by this.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, you don't have to go much further.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you look at the plastic surgery in industry, and I'm just going to say this for a second.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'll go ahead and put it out there.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: Have I done fillers before?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_00: I have done fillers before.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: And I can remember I had some done like, I don't know, I had somebody tell me once to do something here because I'd been, and I and I probably do need that.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I can remember doing it because somebody pressured me into it.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I and I started, the moment somebody said this to me, I started looking at myself in the mirror, oh my gosh, maybe she's right.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so I did it, and I'm laying in my bed, and it hurts so much.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure if you're listening, this is a woman.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought to myself, I will never do this again.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing: it goes away.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: It goes away.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: And so your your choice is I'm gonna have to keep pumping my face full of this and spending all my money, or just accepting who I am.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, ultimately, after that one experience, I was like, forget this.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: But I, you know, you see people in magazines where they won't stop and their face just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you have to accept the fact that, you know, my face is going to lose collagen.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: And that just took one experience for me, and I was like, never again.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I love, I think this is gonna be a shout out to someone that I greatly respect, Pamela Anderson, for what she's done, allowing herself to age, even though there's so many people that that say negative things about her.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I love her.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: If I knew her, I would just love to give her a big hug because that's how I feel.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care if I wear makeup or you know, my face starts to wrinkle or whatever.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm I've I've I've done some things.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I want you to I want you to embrace, okay?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Let's say that you've been through a pregnancy, and I've seen women that have gone through really bad pregnancies where they've had to like during their entire pregnancy in a bed because if they did, their twins weren't gonna be born.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: You think their body's not gonna age or they're gonna feel differently when they exercise?
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: What if you're like me, you're somebody that's built a business and you spent many late nights just agonizing over your business and you haven't begotten a lot of sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's gonna affect how you how you perform the next day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're somebody that's had a long-term illness, you had mono, maybe you've had rheumatoid arthritis or lupus or something.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna affect how your body ages.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've chosen an activity that causes you to over-train in some areas and under-train in other areas.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna lead to arthritis, it's gonna lead to joint dysfunction, it is going to affect how you train.
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  SPEAKER_00: These are not things to be uh to be sort of um upset by your body.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you have the genetics, you're predisposed to having osteoporosis.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: Why are you surprised that now you're in your 50s, you've got some osteopenia?
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  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to change how you train.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you keep training the way that you train when you were in your 20s, you're going to fail.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our goal now is we want to try to train in a way that we can keep training.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I do that, I may need to do to really prioritize recovery right now and change how I approach exercise.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that brings me to my second point.
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  SPEAKER_00: The second point is changing does not necessarily mean that we have to surrender and just stopping, right?
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: We have to first of all accept the acceptance surrender scenario.
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  SPEAKER_00: Accepting says that I went through A, B, or C, and so I accept that this joint has changed.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_00: But surrender doesn't necessarily mean that I give up and I hold the white frog white flag.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surrender might just be because I accept this, I surrender who I used to be, and now I am going to have to do things to change my outcome.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: So let me give you an example.
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  SPEAKER_00: For me, and I think if I hadn't gone through these things, I sh I mean, going through these things, I have to share them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, I wouldn't have a podcast.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: When I used to exercise, I've been very transparent about my eating disorder when I was a teenager and how I really just abuse I abuse my own body, and I am paying for it.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, currently in this episode, I'm 57.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_00: So did I pay for it?
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: My knee on my right side has bone on bone on the upper lateral aspect of my patellophemoral joint.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: I've worn out my patella because of the stupid stuff that I did, all those step classes, I had to be on three risers, two was never enough, had to be on three, and I killed myself.
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've had to accept the fact that I have arthritis on my knee.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: So if I decide I'm gonna go into the gym on a Friday night, squat as heavy as possible and as deep as possible, I'm gonna pay for it a little bit the next day.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe in my hip, maybe in my knee, especially if I go for long periods of time when I don't do these things and I think, well, I'm just gonna go in here, I'm gonna train like I did last Tuesday three months ago.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: I have to accept that if I've taken some time off and I haven't worked in those ranges and I haven't worked with those exercise resistance protocols, that if I try to jump back into it, I'm probably gonna have pain the next day.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I've had to learn that in order for me to train the way that I want to, I'm gonna have to remain consistent.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_00: Otherwise, I will go backwards.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: How many people, and including myself, have not done those things?
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure a lot of people, right?
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: So we can't say that, you know, oh, I'm gonna sign up for the mini marathon because I did this when I was 20.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Well, if you're 50 now and you're signing up for the marathon and you haven't been training consistently, even if you have been training consistently, you're probably gonna have some pain, right?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: So we have to first identify where our weak links are in our bodies.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: And I always, you know, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger, this is one of the things that he says all the time, drain your weaknesses.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you have a weak core and you haven't been addressing that because of the pregnancies that you had or sedentary job that you had, maybe you had to work in an office for many, many years, and you decide I'm gonna go play pickleball, and you wonder why you injured your shoulder or you injured your foot or whatever, if you don't address that weak link, you're not gonna be able to participate in pickleball long term.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: You can give all your money to your doctor, or you can decide I'm gonna take those necessary steps.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: If I have an unstable joint, I better do the things to increase stability.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, in in my platform, FIS on demand, you know, I have been accused of people that are brand new and they online to my platform and they and they and they do it because they're in pain.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: But then when they start, I've heard I've heard some people uh message me and they'll say, This feels really slow because I'm telling people to start with isometrics because I'm trying to get them to slow down and observe where are my weak links, how am I going to eliminate those weak links, and I'm making them work with those a little slower for a little while.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants to go back in time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, like nobody wants to see where my deficits are because it's like, oh my gosh, I have a deficit, what am I going to do?
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: We have to learn how to accept where our challenges are and we have to take the necessary steps to get there.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if somebody chooses to stay on my platform, what I a hundred percent hear, and I have a very low churn because once people start doing it, they never they they realize how important it is.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_00: If they allow themselves to go through the steps and to just, it's the grind of getting down there and doing these things.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually the transformation happens and they go, Oh my gosh, I feel so much better, Lauren.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: I have more range of motion, I have more flexibility.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: I've learned that the things that I thought I needed to do, I don't want to do them anymore.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: And it's beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I love seeing people actually finally accept themselves for a while.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: But we have to be willing to go through that grind of maybe taking a couple of days off in between, or maybe doing a little less, not moving as fast.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we have to uh not use as much load for a while, maybe we need to experiment with body weight training and control before we add those heavy weights.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if we're able to do that, we can exercise for life.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what happens when we don't do this?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be step number three, or point number three, I should say.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have to stop using our old self as an exercise prescription for how we should train currently.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_00: What does that look like?
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: Let's say that I and this is me, I'm gonna put myself on the on the hot seat, okay?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: I went down in my basement and I was like, oh, I want to do first series ashtonga.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't done that in a number of months.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_00: And so in first series, you start off with five son salutation A, five son salutation B.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of forward bends, and I always was able to reach down and grab my toes.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, I have taken a break from yoga recently because I've been so busy with other things.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Life happens, it happens, and I'm getting older.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I forced myself to bend over and grab my toes.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: What happened the next day?
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: I experienced some pain in my lower back, and I thought to myself, why am I experiencing some lower back pain?
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then I thought, oh, of course.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: I forced my forward bends because I tried to do yoga the way that I did six months to a year ago instead of observing where I was when I went down in my basement on that Friday night, I think it was, that I just decided I was going to do yoga.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: How stupid is that?
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: I went ahead and violated my own principles that I give to all of my clients.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: So doing advanced yoga, doing HIT training, doing a lot of jumps, doing a lot of heavy weight training when I haven't been doing that over a period of time or I'm not listening to my aging body, that is always going to be a failure.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: It is.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_00: So this brings me to the the the sort of the cycle that I see that we repeat.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I I have this girlfriend of mine, and she she always goes through this.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: I love her.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: We used to take all these high impact classes together years ago, and she loves to jump up and down.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: And she'll she'll always call me up.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: I won't hear from her for a long time, and then I'll I'll hear and I'll hear a phone call or she'll give me a text message.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it's always like this big major emergency because she injured something.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: And I bring her in, we do MAT, and she's on my app too, and she's like, I know I need to get back, I need to do my isometrics, I need to go back and do your do this video and that video.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: The things that I always used to do that helped me, and I got away from it because I I I joined this boot camp class, and I felt so, you know, I went to or you know, one of these, I don't even want to call it out, but like these orange theory type places, and I was with working out with 20-year-olds, and I and I pushed myself, and then she has an injury, and then you know, she'll give it a short period of time, and then she's running to the doctor.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: She won't stop jumping up and down, even though she's had several back injuries, surgeries, she's had two knee replacements, she has a fusion in her big toe.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like jumping days are over, but she won't accept it.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: But what happens was is she she starts to exercise in a way that she did when she was 20.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_00: She has the pain, she has the injury, then she stops, then she's discouraged, then she's unhappy.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: And that stopping, when she's stopping exercise, that's actually more detrimental than had she just been exercising consistently over time, which by the way, for some people is boring.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's a grind to it, there's a repetitive nature of it.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: I've always been successful in this because I've always loved the grind.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: I work my off all the time.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: And I've had friends tell me, God, Lauren, you actually you you work so hard.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: I work hard all the time.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_00: I love work.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: I love working hard.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_00: I love the grind of exercise.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_00: I love being completely by myself doing repetitions of exercise.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: I find that to be really enjoyable.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: I know I'm weird, but that is what hits on me.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: But I know that a lot of people they need the bells, the whistles, the new programs, the high intensity, the sensation.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_00: Those are the ones that's the tortoise and the hare.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_00: They're gonna be on the sidelines, I'm gonna still be going.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: So this brings me to my fourth point, which is we have to align our body with new goals.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: New goals for the body that we have now.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I always ask myself, you know, if you, I'm telling you, if you ask me to do uh to run the marathon, I did that when I was in my 20s.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, let me just put this out there.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: I hate running, I hate cycling, and I hate running.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not an endurance person.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: I've done it, I push myself, but I genuinely hate that stuff.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: I love bodybuilding type things, I love yoga, I love Pilates, I love strength training, I hate running.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: But I've done it.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: If you ask me to go run with you, I'm gonna tell you no every time.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't care how fun it is, I don't care how many people come into that race.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: I probably know.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna say that I won't be there.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I will not be participating.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know why?
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: Because if I do that, it might be really, really fun, but it's gonna set me back.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: And my goal now is the trajectory of Lauren in her 70s, Lauren in her 80s, Lauren in her 90s, and I want to still be kicking it.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: And so we have to make goals based on that person.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: So that means that you have to always be addressing where am I weak?
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Now, on my platform, I do a lot of this.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: I do a lot of things specifically in my workouts, as well as when I'm coaching clients, because we I on my platform I do monthly coaching for people, and I also have people that are involved in deeper programs where we meet a lot.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: And one thing that we are always doing, where am I weak?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Where are my joints unstable?
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: And how am I gonna address those things?
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is something this is something that we have to work on consistently because control is always going to be can uh uh the currency.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: If you think about exercising for life and how you're gonna align your goals, we have to think about what do I enjoy?
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Because if you don't enjoy it, you are not gonna be consistent.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: And I say this almost every episode.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: Find things to do that you can enjoy and do those a lot.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, in my fifth point, I'm gonna tell you this is the platform that I've created, and this is what I have always believed in, and it is a process of progressive overload.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: We have to start with identifying where our weaknesses are and eliminating those.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Then, as we eliminate those, that might, and I always say isometrics are the best thing in the world.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: What's wrong with doing an isometric sometime?
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's great.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: We have to integrate those isometrics with multiple joints.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: Then we have to learn how to move through those and squeeze and engage those muscles as we're as we're exercising and moving throughout our life.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_00: We always have told that we want to add load, but we don't want to just add load if we haven't gone through these steps, right?
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_00: We have to add load progressively, strategically over time.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: Then we can start doing some of the you know intense things that we want to train.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: But if we go back to step number three, which is that we have to accept and we have to surrender, you guys, we may have to accept, like I've had to accept the fact that like high intensity cardio and jumping is probably not going to be good for me.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry, bone density people, you tell me that I gotta jump up and down over the time because I that's how the only, that's like literally the only way that I can build bone, I'm out.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: I have to accept the fact that due to the arthritis that I have now in my late 50s, because of the stupid stuff that I didn't know that I have to forgive my 20-year-old body and my 20-year-old mindset, my anorexic mindset.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: I can't do that stuff now.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: But I have, you know, my diet, my consistent weight training, I would much rather see you weight train consistently, progressively over a long period of time versus skipping years and then having some stupid, you know, Instagram post tell me that I'm gonna build bone if I jump up and down, enjoy your stress fractures, okay?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: You can't go back and fill all the years that you didn't exercise progressively.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: You can't.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have to accept that you had holes in your exercise program.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: And if your trainer is not showing you those holes and allowing you to back off of what everybody else is doing, what everybody else is popular, and really focus on filling up those holes, I mean, man, what are you doing, right?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: I want to end this episode.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, I would love to help you.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you if you're listening to this and you're like, I need help, I do have a platform, FIS on demand.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'll give you a trial.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: I've got a free trial built into my platform, and I have signature programs inside that platform where I can help you step by step.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I love I love helping people to debunk all this crap that's in this industry nowadays.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just gonna tell you something.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is how I'm gonna end this.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: You do not have to look younger.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_00: Stop worrying about what people think.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that I love about being almost 60, and this is a shout out to a lot of the women that I've seen that I admire that that have done this in their in their aging years, Cameron Diaz, um, Pamela Anderson.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: I can't I can't think of anybody off the top of my head, but you don't have to look younger.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to dress younger, you don't have to look younger, you don't have to move younger.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: You are allowed to move and be and look like who you are now.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: You are beautiful, just how you are now.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Just the other day, I was walking out of my house and I had no makeup on and I was feeling so sad.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, the UPS the UPS guy was delivering something three houses down, and he looked at me and he smiled and he goes, Do you need some help?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And he was actually flirting with me, and I thought, when was the last time I got flirted with?
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: And that really lifted me up.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And then I thought to myself, wait a minute, I'm 56 years old.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm 57, just turned 57.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I just had a guy say something nice to me.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: And then I started thinking to myself, why am I so worried about where I was when I was 20 or 30?
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know when I was 20 or 30, I didn't like the way I looked like then.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: So then I thought to myself, you know, I'm looking pretty good for me being in my late 50s, right?
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to pretend that you haven't been injured.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to pretend that you haven't gone through stressful times.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed to look stressed out.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed to look like you don't have as much sleep.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: You're allowed to tell people, yep, I might look a little older, but I raised two wonderful kids that are now off in college, and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna figure out who I am now.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let's embrace who we are right now.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let's be who we are right now.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: We let's let's take this precious, precious time because life is so short.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the people that that right now are talking about you and that you think are judging you are gonna die before you do.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: They are.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: Who cares about impressing those people?
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: They are going to be dead.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: Who do you want to impress?
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: I want to impress the Almighty God.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_00: All I care about is am I living my life the way Jesus lived?
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: As long as I'm following Jesus and honoring who I am right now, I'm winning.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because I know that I'm gonna look back at who I am right now in pictures, five, ten years from now, going, man, she was rocking it, man.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: She was rocking it.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: What was I worried about?
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: So let's take steps now to honor our body by our nutrition as well as our exercise by who we are today in such a way that we can honor that beautiful person that we're going to be 10 years from now.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope this episode helps somebody.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_00: If it helped one person, it was worth it.
• 21:29
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• 21:34
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• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: Take a look at some of the other things that are on my YouTube channel.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: Leave me a comment.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to hear about what you what you resonated with in this episode.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: And as always, if there's somebody that you know that needs to hear this message, please forward it to them.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you so much for watching.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Make it a wonderful day, and remember you're allowed to look like who you are now.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: Take care