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#124 - Liz Rodriguez - Women's Empowerment & Wellness · The Chris and Mike Show

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  This is, this is our band. This is one of our songs, Liz.
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  Oh, really? Yeah, it's called Freeman.
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  We wrote it 30 years ago and it's still relevant today.
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  It's the same. He's not wrong.
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  Hey, hey boys and girls work with Chris and Mike show.
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  We are live on the YouTube and Twitch and we are joined today
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  with ours Do that's a live tongue twister.
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  We're joined today with a very special friend, Liz Rodriguez,
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  who's living in a van down by the river.
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  It's more of a stream, but there is water behind me so.
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  It's more of a stream. I appreciate the honesty.
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  Nice to meet you, Liz. Thanks.
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  For coming on, that is. Awesome.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Thanks.
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  For having us, yes, and we can hear you this time, which is
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  awesome. For those that don't remember,
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  we had Liz on a while back, but there was a glitch in the
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  matrix. Yep, glitches are fixed.
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  We're dialing. We're excited.
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  We're going to talk to her about all kinds of things.
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  So where are you? Let's start with where you're
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  at, Liz. I'm in Arizona.
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  Mike's in in Pontiac, IL. Where are you?
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  Nice, I am in Charleston, SC. South Carolina.
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  You know right where that's at. Yeah.
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  Better actually not far from you in Myrtle Beach at the moment
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  with my brother. Nice.
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  Yeah. Came here for the summer, hadn't
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  been here before. It's good stuff.
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  It's nice down there. So the fact that you live in a
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  van. That.
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  Means you can travel at will. Yeah, yeah, we actually.
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  So we're in a Airstream and we just got it last fall.
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  And so we travel about like half the year and then the other half
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  we're we kind of help out family and stuff.
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  We're from the Midwest, so yay for Illinois.
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  Yeah, yes. Well, yeah, I'm, I'm originally
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  from a small town called Pleasant Plains, which is
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  population 804, about 20 minutes outside of Springfield, where
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  where once you pull in the Pleasant Plains, the cell
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  service dies and you're just, you know, in the Twilight Zone,
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  you know? Literal BFE.
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  Right. For like a mile and a half,
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  because that's all Pleasant Plains is, you know, mile and a
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  half long. Yeah, nice.
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  I'm for suburbs of Chicago, but I knew a lot of people from that
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  area with just as I went to Illinois State.
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  So lots of people from the from the central part, yeah.
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  Oh, you know right where I'm at then.
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  Yep. I'm 35 miles north of where she
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  went to college, Chris. Oh, oh, OK, right on.
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  So let's let's let's find out a little bit more about Liz.
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  What, what got you to where you're living in a, in an
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  Airstream, you know, just travelling the world as as and
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  that's your life. Like you just travelled the
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  world. Or not the world, but the United
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  States drive around and coach and stuff.
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  Yes, it's kind of evolved over the last couple years.
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  I would say I'm like probably a lot of people out there that
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  started out in the fitness industry.
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  I celebrated 20 years this past May worked in gyms for about 17
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  of those years everywhere from mostly New York and Chicago, or
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  I should say Westchester and New York City, and just was kind of
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  like ready to ready to pivot, especially after COVID, the gym
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  scene, definitely, it changed a lot, right?
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  And so I was just ready to do something a little bit different
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  and, and be able to get in front of people in a different way.
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  I went and got my board certification for health and
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  Wellness coaching and really started to kind of hone in on my
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  niche of, you know, women in their 40s trying to figure shit
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  out. So I left the gyms and now
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  essentially when we travel, I actually work and teach Pilates
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  when I'm doing it. So I get to do something in
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  person and then as long as I've got I'm.
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  Going to stop you there. Explain to the world what
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  Pilates is. Because I've never done it.
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  And I I see Pilates locations all over the valley here.
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  Yeah, but I don't know what it is.
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  So explain to the world what Pilates is.
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  Totally. So it's a form of we'll see.
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  It's a form of fitness that really focuses on, you know,
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  strengthening your core, but it really also works on a lot of
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  core, works on a lot of balance. I'm unaware of what Pilates is
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  as well. I I am too.
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  And she froze. That's why I didn't say
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  anything. I'm right there with you.
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  I have no idea. I've heard of it.
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  I am too. I'm thinking it's an aerobic
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  thing. It is.
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  It's but I'm not sure. Fitness exercise program kind of
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  like your muscle fitness programs like an orange theory.
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  Pilates would be like an orange theory program if I'm educatedly
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  guessing right. Well, you got pretty much that
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  an educated guesser, so. I have a PhD in educated
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  guessing, yes. Oh, I hear her.
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  There she is. She's back, man.
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  You. You disappeared.
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  You froze on us. It's all good.
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  She didn't. She didn't.
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  She just didn't want to tell the world what Pilates is because
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  she doesn't know people really know.
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  It's a name. Fuck that, I didn't tell you
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  shit man. No, so it think of it like a
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  form of working out where it's really focused on on your core,
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  which I think of as kind of like the claim to fame is it works
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  your core, but it really helps you with your mobility, with
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  your sense of balance. I like to say that Pilates isn't
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  going to help you with all your other workouts, right?
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  Like if you're lifting, right, if you don't have good mobility
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  in your hips and shoulders, how you going to lift those weights,
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  right? If you want to go out and run,
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  you want to make sure that you're staying mobile core
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  strong. So, yeah, that's like a very,
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  we'll say a very brief answer about Pilates.
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  OK. So question for you is, is, is
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  the Pilates studios, are they geared towards women?
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  Because as soon as you said core, that piqued my interest
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  because I'm that guy that could hold a nine minute 34 second
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  core. So I'm, I'm all about the core
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  because that is the center of our universe as a human, right?
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  Everything, everything correlates from your core.
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  I mean your back strength, your leg strength, your upper body,
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  it's everything is tied to your core.
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  So the stronger your core is, the better you are as far as
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  stature and strength and all the mobility, things like that,
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  right? Mm hmm, exactly.
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  And it's funny because it was developed by a male like Joseph
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  Pilates. And yet for whatever reason, I
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  think because of the formatting of it, probably how it's
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  marketed, it's very much like when I go into most studios,
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  it's 90% female. I think it's starting to really
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  pick up more with athletes and things like you're seeing more,
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  you know, like the NFL players and the NBA players and things
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  doing Pilates. And it's, I mean, hey, when you
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  got guys that are that long, they've actually fit on the
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  reformers better because a lot of times when they're going into
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  gyms, equipment is not equipment essentially is set up right for
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  basically people will say about 5352 up to around 6263.
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  Once you start going above that, they don't fit on the equipment
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  anyway. So I think they find a lot of
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  nice stuff with bodies because it helps them, because their
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  levers are so long. We're going to say, you know.
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  That makes sense. Levers mean in their hands and
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  legs. I'm kind of a nerd with that
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  stuff, I said. I'm kind of a nerd with that
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  stuff. I nerd out when it comes to
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  movement. Right.
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  So when when COVID hit, Orange Theory Fitness is where I spent
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  about a decade working out. So we just wore masks, right.
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  They let us in. Yeah, they wore masks.
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  And what I found in that year or so where they forced us to wear
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  a mask that I actually was better cardio shape because it
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  forced my lungs so, you know, breathe through the mask.
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  And I had this really cool mask that that Nikki found me my
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  wife. And they, they look like thongs,
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  but they were a little thicker to wear.
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  Like, you know, it was weird because I put them on them.
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  It automatically thought I was wearing underwear.
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  Let's see if I have one sitting. Here if it helps.
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  Again, I just yeah. But to me it just it just yeah,
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  I got one. But to me legitimately it it I
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  thought I felt I was in better shape during the COVID years
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  because the mask was required. So check it out.
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  Wow. So it goes like this, Yeah.
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  Which one goes? It goes around the ear.
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  And then you don't get those. Got to have like.
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  I had like scabs back there from like and then.
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  And then the way I would roll at Orangetheory, I'd have one for
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  each station because it was running, rowing in the weight
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  room. So as we leave the treadmill,
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  I'd go through the lobby in the locker room, grab my next mask
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  because I sweat my ass off. So these would get soaked and
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  they're double layer, but they're not super thick, you
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  know? Yeah.
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  But I would just, I would wear, I'd change one change when then
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  when I got done every day working out.
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  I have three wet masks. Orange Theory.
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  We'll do that to you. I I did a stint there.
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  I opened up a lot on Orange Theory.
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  This stuff is tough. Yeah.
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  But it's fun, though. It's good.
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  It's like organized chaos with 36 people.
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  Yeah, yeah. And it got to the point where we
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  called it, where I out, I out shaped orange theory because I
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  couldn't get any more orange. I, I, I didn't matter how hard I
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  worked, I couldn't get splat points.
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  I started doing four 4% inclines in the treadmill.
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  Nothing. I ended up doing back-to-back
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  workouts 3 * a week. So Monday, Wednesday, Friday, I
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  go back-to-back studios. I wouldn't, I, I couldn't get, I
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  could not get the orange, the orange zone at all.
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  If I did, it was one or two points and the, the trainers.
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  But Oh my God, you got a point. Yay, that's a win for the day.
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  The one drawback is is that they did you ever actually get like
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  your VO2 Max done or did they just use your generic numbers by
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  your age? I did the, the, the, the, the
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  body scan thing, but they never, they never measured the VO2 at
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  all. And we kind of, we would, we
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  would mess with it a little bit a few times to try to get it
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  calibrated. My Garmin 'cause I wear my
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  Garmin during the same workout, my Garmin would register a
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  little bit more than the, the, the Orange Theory app would, but
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  still not to the extent that I wasn't, I wasn't, I just wasn't
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  getting there anymore because I just like I said, we just could.
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  The two students I went to, it was a combination probably 4
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  trainers. We all just kind of decided one
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  day I just out, I out shaped orange Theory because I'd gone
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  there for so long. And then, and then when I
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  started doing the back to backs, at that time, everybody thought
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  I was nuts. And then as I continue doing
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  that, all of a sudden more and more people started doing, you
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  know, the back to backs and you know this and that.
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  But you know, that wasn't just the weight part because they had
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  in towards the end of when I was there, they had the weight, the
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  weight training classes. So you could, you could do upper
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  body, lower body, full body weight workouts after a, a
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  regular orange story workout or vice versa.
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  So I would do those a couple times too.
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  But you know, it's good for what it was for sure.
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  Absolutely, I always bring up the VO2 Max stuff to get it
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  tested where your actual heart rate zones are just because are
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  you like did you grow up? Like are you an endurance
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  athlete? Like from a young?
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  Age. I grew up with asthma.
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  We moved from Illinois because I was going to die in three
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  months. So we moved here in 73.
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  I couldn't really run or do anything physical to probably
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  hit about 12 years old by the time I got to high school.
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  I started wrestling and then I ended up doing the 800 meter,
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  but I was training with the sprinters, which was weird, but
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  that's the only way I could breathe and get my breathing
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  down. And then in 2015, massive jump
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  there. I started running with my wife
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  doing training for half marathon.
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  So that was a different type of cadence because the breathing, I
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  could control it more, longer, slower movements.
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  And then as I just got more and more shape, I was able to get my
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  mile under 6 minutes and I could do a half marathon an hour and
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  46 minutes with my best. So not really an endurance
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  athlete on a whole. But once I stopped drinking, my
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  my addiction kind of turned into to working out and that kind of
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  took control. And, you know, for, you know, I
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  ran 6 minute less than 600 mile when I was 53.
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  And I, you know, last trade held a nine, nine minute, 34 second
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  plank. So, you know, yeah.
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  Well, definitely I would encourage you to get AV2 Max
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  just to find out your real zones.
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  Like I was the other on the other end when I would go to
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  Orangetheory. So I'm a college runner, right?
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  So I ran 500 miles in college. Don't do that, by the way.
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  So because of that, my So what I'm 42 based on the basic, my
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  Max heart rate is supposed to be around 180, right?
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  Like 220 minutes your age. It's still well over 200.
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  And that's just because like that's my Max.
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  Some people actually have lower maxes, but all just depends.
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  So it's not a perfect sign. So I was always in the red zone
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  and I'm like dude guys, I'm fine.
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  Hello. Hi.
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  So I would say like if you really want to do good heart
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  rate training, you got to like get your stuff checked.
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  Otherwise you're just going off of a generic thing.
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  So anyways. Yeah, I would have, I would have
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  some Reds too. That didn't make any sense
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  because I was, it was. And then so that I, I switched
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  out the the OTF band because it had to be broken or something.
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  Because I'm sitting and talking like this and I'm like in the
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  red zone. Like, yeah, I'm not really like,
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  you kidding me? It takes a lot to get me in the
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  red zone. So, you know, and then here's
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  Mike sitting there like, what are you guys talking about?
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  I. Don't.
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  Yeah, I don't even know what. That is, it's like peanuts.
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  No, it's all good. He's into this, you know, that
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  became his life after his addiction.
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  So that's the one thing him and I have in common.
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  So yeah, I I admire his passion for something that's going to
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  save his life instead of destroy it.
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  There you go. So you in the fitness industry,
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  married kids, you know. Married, no kids.
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  No kids. OK.
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  How long you been married? Eight years.
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  Oh slacker, I've been 303032 together, 31 married.
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  It's gotta get her for 9. Wait on.
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  Yeah, we dated for a year. We like knew after six months,
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  but we were, we were like mid 30s by then.
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  Like we met a little later in life and I was happy for that
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  'cause I didn't have my stuff together yet.
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  I was not ready. That's kind of what I, I preach
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  to my son is like, just don't worry about relationships and
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  stuff till you're at least 30. Like just get all the things you
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  want to do in your life out of the way.
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  That's solid advice. You know, because then you don't
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  have anything tying you down to something.
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  You. Know that's just, you know, my
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  way of thinking, Yeah. So what's your husband do?
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  He is a trainer. OK.
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  Just OK, so great. So you're both trainers?
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  Yeah, so he he focuses just on like, virtual training and
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  stuff. He also like, left the gyms and
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  everything when I did. So yeah, that's fun.
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  It like, means that we're big nerds with everything.
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  You know, we work out together, which I never was able to do
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  with anybody else. You know, we cook healthy food.
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  We're like living the clean life.
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  You sound like my wife and I, we the same thing.
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  We, my, we, we did a, we went to California 1/4 of July weekend
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  and did the Redondo Beach 4th of July 5K.
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  And our son took our picture as we were, we were just, we wasn't
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  the race day yet. We were just running down the
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  side of the beach. And he posted it and tagged us
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  as running buddies for life. I'm like, oh, right on.
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  So that's kind of been our yeah, we've probably done 100 half
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  marathons all the way down to 15 K, 10K5K.
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  You know what? Not since 2015, so.
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  Nice. Yeah.
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  Then a couple of races together, he's one of those that like he
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  runs like 3 times and then he's faster than me 'cause he's like
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  built like a runner and I am I was in the wrong, I was in the
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  wrong sport. I should have, if CrossFit was
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  the round back then, I would have been like the, I would have
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  been Rich Froning like back in 2005.
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  Instead I was like, let's do long distance running 'cause
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  that's a terrible idea. I'm much more built for lifting
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  and stuff, but I love the running and my husband loves to
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  lift, but he's so good at running.
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  I'm like, well, you might as well run.
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  So it's fun. We've done a couple of races
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  together and then he beats me and then I get upset.
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  So you. Know yeah, I beat Nikki, but
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  it's it's it it it got to the point in in our running time
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  together that that she would tell me just go, you know, just
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  go because she didn't want me. She knew I was trying to get to
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  a certain time. So, you know now as we as we're
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  getting back and running, I haven't been running for a while
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  because I had a stretch fraction of my foot and then I have
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  degenerating vertebrae in my neck.
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  So it's one of those fun little things.
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  So literally Monday was the first time I ran shit, I don't
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  know, maybe six months. And we just basically did, we
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  ran 1/2 mile in a mile and a half walk.
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  So in that walk we did a quarter mile run and then walked a
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  little bit quarter mile run just to see how I'd feel.
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  And so now it's nothing that I want.
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  I, you know, it took me years to get to where it's an hour and 46
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  minutes. So I'm like, I'm not spending
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  years again to get there. Yeah, you got a level set, you
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  know, like, hey, you're entering a new season, as I like to say,
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  right? Yeah.
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  Yeah, you know, so there's that. So if people want to find your
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  coaching and stuff, how did they find you?
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  Yeah, so I'm at lizrodriguezcoaching.com and
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  then I'm on Facebook. I don't do I'm kind of one of
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  those not do as much social media.
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  So now that I travel a lot, you know, I find clients that way.
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  Like as I'm working at the different studios and things
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  like that have made, I've been able to make connections kind of
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  all over the country, which is nice.
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  And I've worked with a lot of studios to help get them open
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  and stuff. And then people are like, oh,
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  you know, you also do nutrition, you do health coaching.
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  So it's kind of nice where I can kind of slide in to say like,
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  hey, keep doing the Pilates and stuff.
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  But if you need help with the other things, because I think
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  especially for obviously I focus mostly on women because I am
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  one. And we had a lot of weird, crazy
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  shit that happens to us when we hit perimenopause, which could
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  be which could be 15 years long in our prime years of earning.
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  So we kind of got to figure some stuff out.
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  So I really like to, I like to focus on them because I think
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  there's a lot of, you know, you're big in fitness and stuff
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  and a lot of the stuff in fitness is it's not even geared
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  towards men. It's everything is based around
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  men. And we're not, as you know,
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  Doctor Sims would say we're not small men, we're women.
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  And so I think having them figure out what it is that
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  they're trying to do and achieve in a way that's healthy.
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  I think it's just really, really rewarding and it's cool.
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  You know, you want, I mean, I grew up doing sports and stuff
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  and I want a lot of women didn't get to do that.
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  And now it's like, hey, now is your time to figure out what
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  kind of athlete that you want to be.
• 18:43
  And it's not a good point. That's the reason a lot of women
• 18:45
  won't go to a gym, right? Because they don't want men
• 18:48
  Googling them while they're trying to do something good for
• 18:51
  their body. I hear that a lot from.
• 18:52
  Women, they don't know what they're doing, you know?
• 18:54
  And it's like another. Yeah.
• 18:56
  You know. They're intimidated and they
• 18:57
  don't know, so that's a bad combination.
• 19:00
  So now I'm not going to go. So it's nice that.
• 19:02
  Somebody like you is out there. Women feel comfortable talking
• 19:05
  to women for sure. True.
• 19:07
  Yeah, absolutely. You know.
• 19:09
  So so with your training so you don't do virtual stuff.
• 19:12
  I do, yeah. So all my coaching and
• 19:14
  everything is virtual just because I'm not based anywhere.
• 19:17
  Gotcha. Yeah.
• 19:19
  OK. But then you also help set up as
• 19:20
  you travel around, you're helping studios set up and stuff
• 19:23
  like that, which is really cool because you're getting to see
• 19:25
  all different kinds of dynamics and all you do help with the new
• 19:29
  stuff that's popping up. Or is it just kind of the stuff
• 19:31
  that like, you know, explain that?
• 19:35
  I mean, is it always just plotting studios?
• 19:36
  It's Orangetheory Studios. What kind of studios are you?
• 19:39
  Are you helping get started and launch?
• 19:41
  Yeah. So it's primarily Pilates in the
• 19:43
  past actually, like when I first opened my business and stuff,
• 19:46
  actually two of my trainers opened up a studio in Chicago
• 19:49
  and they wanted to like put in some Pilates in there, right?
• 19:52
  Like little boutique studio. We have like 7000 of those in
• 19:54
  Chicago. And so I was able to like come
• 19:57
  in, help them with the equipment, get some girls in
• 19:59
  there like that top Pilates helping to bring in clients.
• 20:02
  Now really actually, I'm mostly focused with Club Pilates, which
• 20:05
  is a franchise just kind of everywhere.
• 20:08
  And they have a great system where they they're bringing in
• 20:10
  new apprentices, they open up studios.
• 20:12
  And it's really a matter of I help in and just kind of help
• 20:15
  with the overflow of we're at this weird point with Pilates
• 20:17
  that you either are people that have been teaching for 20 years
• 20:20
  or teaching for minutes, right? It's kind of weird.
• 20:24
  Yeah. I think you go through ebbs and
• 20:26
  flows, right? And so I'm basically basically
• 20:28
  there to help get the new instructors going and then
• 20:31
  really just kind of get, get the members excited and get them
• 20:34
  familiarized so that they keep coming back.
• 20:36
  And it's so I've done in like an I've done an Orangetheory launch
• 20:40
  before, very similar, right? Like you want to get everybody
• 20:43
  in, you want to get them excited.
• 20:44
  You want to make sure that they're have a plan because you
• 20:46
  want them to keep coming back and you don't want them just
• 20:49
  paying for a membership. And I think as we get to
• 20:52
  boutique studios and you're paying more per class, it's
• 20:56
  easier to retain people because they're spending more money
• 20:58
  versus, hey, I got to plan a fitness membership.
• 21:00
  It's 15 bucks. True enough to go, you know.
• 21:03
  What does this say? Goodbye to burpees in jump
• 21:05
  squats. Bullshit on your on your page
• 21:07
  man. I don't like jump squats.
• 21:10
  It doesn't take an educated person to make someone sweat.
• 21:13
  Burpees are like a full body workout.
• 21:15
  I love burpees. They're good, they they have
• 21:18
  their place and everything. But yeah, I know I am.
• 21:22
  I am dream killer. And you have to keep in mind
• 21:28
  that a lot of my career I managed trainers and when you're
• 21:31
  dealing with general pop and you got trainers that are like, hey,
• 21:34
  let's start the workout with burpees and oh, you haven't
• 21:37
  worked out in five years and have herniated disc and yeah,
• 21:39
  yeah, diabetes. Yeah, OK.
• 21:41
  That's. That's, and that's the ignorance
• 21:44
  of the person going it. Like when you go to orange, when
• 21:46
  I went to Orange Syria the first time, there really wasn't a
• 21:49
  breakdown of anything about me. It's just like you fill out the
• 21:52
  paperwork and then you go. So me being who I am, it's like
• 21:55
  the first couple workouts, I, I pushed myself to the point where
• 21:58
  I didn't throw up, but I was on the verge of throwing up.
• 22:01
  And then that's when the trainers kind of reel you back
• 22:02
  in, like, what's wrong, man? I'm like, well, you know, I'm
• 22:04
  explaining. It's like, well, you need to
• 22:05
  slow down. OK, well, you're the trainer.
• 22:08
  Tell me that up front. You know, you just so that's the
• 22:11
  thing. So as people would follow me and
• 22:14
  and ask me about it and stuff over the years, I would always
• 22:17
  tell them, like, man, go slow. Then you step your way into
• 22:20
  this. Because even if I can recall
• 22:22
  times where we would go on vacation and be gone for 10 days
• 22:24
  and come back and, and really orange theory shape was a
• 22:27
  different kind of in shape because when you're gone for a
• 22:30
  couple weeks and come back, it's like you're in fantastic.
• 22:33
  I was anyway, fantastic shape because I'm that guy that went
• 22:37
  there like this, like leave me alone.
• 22:39
  I'm here to get my ass kicked by myself.
• 22:43
  And I would, and I'd had shirts that, you know, would say
• 22:46
  nothing, right? And then when I'm all sweat it,
• 22:48
  it says it's time to go home now because I just, I just would, I
• 22:53
  would just drill in my head, this is my hour of, of kicking
• 22:55
  my own ass. And it drilled me nuts.
• 22:58
  And people sitting there on their phones taking selfies on
• 23:00
  the treadmill or, you know, really look at me.
• 23:03
  And then and I did it for so long.
• 23:05
  There's people that I know from start to finish, they never
• 23:10
  changed. And that's a big thing too, you
• 23:14
  know, like it's like you gotta and I, you know, I mean, I think
• 23:17
  at the end of the day, maintenance is great.
• 23:19
  We're at a weird point with fitness and we have more
• 23:21
  information than ever. And you got more people that are
• 23:23
  unhealthy. And I think it's, this is more
• 23:26
  in getting people. And I think on the, it's just
• 23:29
  interesting, isn't it? Like you want people to go in
• 23:32
  and get a good workout, but I think you kind of got a level
• 23:34
  set with them. You're on the extreme.
• 23:35
  Like you would be one that it's like, dude, hey, let's kind of
• 23:38
  chill out. Let's figure it out for the
• 23:39
  people that come in that are like, I'm just going to walk.
• 23:42
  Well, you've been walking for. Like.
• 23:44
  Last 7 workouts maybe we try to jog a little bit, you know?
• 23:47
  Right. But see, I'm also that guy that
• 23:49
  as I got to know the people around me in both studios that I
• 23:51
  went to, I became friends and then I would I would push them
• 23:55
  and challenge them, but I wouldn't push them and challenge
• 23:57
  them to my level. Like I have had really good
• 23:59
  friends, Lindsay and Courtney at the, at the Gilbert studio
• 24:03
  where, you know, three years into working out with them, you
• 24:07
  know, Lindsay would pick up 10 LB weights to do the, the
• 24:10
  dumbbell arm stuff. And I walk over to, I'm like,
• 24:12
  you're stronger than that, Lindsay.
• 24:13
  Like, come on, just pick up a 15.
• 24:15
  And then all of a sudden she's realizing, holy shit, I am
• 24:18
  stronger than this. And then I got them to the point
• 24:23
  to where at the end of when I, when I went, it's, it's, it's,
• 24:27
  we would hold planks and I'd be like, you can hold a plank
• 24:30
  longer than 60 seconds. Suck it up.
• 24:31
  And oh, I can't. Yes, you can.
• 24:33
  You're stronger than you think. And I think that's the biggest
• 24:36
  misconception. When people do work out
• 24:37
  consistently on a consistent basis, and you can correct me if
• 24:41
  I'm wrong, because you're a trainer.
• 24:42
  They don't elevate their weights.
• 24:44
  They don't elevate or elongate the time of things they're
• 24:47
  doing. As far as the repetitions, Like,
• 24:49
  you know, instead of doing just three sets of eight, do three
• 24:52
  sets of 10. Instead of holding a plank for
• 24:54
  just a minute every time, do a minute, then do a minute 10,
• 24:57
  then do a minute 30, then do a minute 40.
• 24:59
  Keep pushing yourself to get better and better and better.
• 25:01
  So then you push through those barriers that your body thinks
• 25:03
  you're stuck in because of muscle memory and stuff.
• 25:06
  So in doing that stuff, I, I, I wasn't a jerk about it, but I
• 25:11
  come up, Hey, Liz, I, you know, I walk up to you.
• 25:13
  Hey, you know, you're stronger than that.
• 25:14
  Come on, you can lift 15 lbs. It's not that much difference.
• 25:18
  And then after, and then, and then, you know, then they start
• 25:20
  seeing difference and they be like, Oh my God, Chris, thank
• 25:22
  you so much, you know, and blah, blah.
• 25:23
  So it was kind of a cool report that was built where I lived,
• 25:28
  what I preached because I'd go in there and kick my ass even
• 25:31
  when I was in my boot for my stress fracture 8 months, I
• 25:34
  still went 8 * a week. I went back-to-back the three
• 25:37
  same days, but all I did was upper body the whole time
• 25:39
  because I couldn't run. I couldn't run, I couldn't get
• 25:41
  on the bike. So I would do their core workout
• 25:44
  that they had or whatever floor workout they had.
• 25:46
  And then the next 23 minutes would all be core stuff that I
• 25:49
  found online, you know, but that's the thing.
• 25:53
  So it's, it's nobody could ever say I didn't put forth the
• 25:56
  effort. So when I would, you know, nudge
• 25:58
  somebody, they would respect that, 'cause I wasn't being a
• 26:02
  jerk, you know? And then when the trainers were
• 26:05
  doing something else and they would, Marla would come to, Oh,
• 26:07
  thank you for telling her how to do that.
• 26:08
  I'm like no problem. Thank you for helping me with.
• 26:13
  You know, you know, So I'm on your website, by the way, the
• 26:16
  health coach for women. Achieve your health goals with a
• 26:18
  holistic Wellness approach beyond fad diets and quick
• 26:21
  fixes. I love that because diets are
• 26:24
  just that. Mike and I, if you've watched
• 26:26
  their show, I'm all about it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.
• 26:30
  Diets don't work, fad diets don't work.
• 26:32
  Quick fixes don't work. Ozim, Ozimpic, is that what you
• 26:35
  call it? Quick fix, right?
• 26:37
  And look at all the stuff that's coming from the fallout of that,
• 26:40
  right? Yeah, yeah.
• 26:44
  And I think it's more, I think specifically with the women that
• 26:47
  I work with, there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff in their
• 26:50
  brain of like, why do you think that you need to do it that way?
• 26:53
  Like where is it coming from? Why do you think that you should
• 26:55
  skip meals? Why do you think that you
• 26:57
  shouldn't? Eat Internet, Internet, right,
• 26:59
  Internet. It's just getting dated.
• 27:00
  You know, if you scroll on Instagram and Facebook and
• 27:03
  stuff, you see all these different things.
• 27:05
  My wife sends them to me and, and you know, I'll see stuff.
• 27:08
  And we've had, we've had a health and Wellness coach on it.
• 27:10
  We've had a fitness coach on here several times.
• 27:13
  Yeah. It's just everybody's getting
• 27:14
  inundated with stuff that you think is real.
• 27:17
  And it's not like last week, Abraham Lincoln posted something
• 27:20
  on on the Internet about Ozzy Osbourne passing.
• 27:22
  And it was, you know, people thought that was real.
• 27:26
  Abraham Lincoln's been dead for like thousands of years.
• 27:28
  Oh, I thought that was the world is flat or something.
• 27:30
  I'm like, what? And there are, yeah, the flat
• 27:32
  earthers, man, they're spending a lot of money on all those
• 27:35
  projects and experiments. I feel bad for them.
• 27:37
  What a real what about what? That's fascinating.
• 27:40
  What about the thing? I've watched the documentary.
• 27:42
  I'm like, my God, this is fascinating.
• 27:44
  I mean. I know.
• 27:46
  What about? Before, but the documentary just
• 27:48
  solidified it. What about the alien spacecraft
• 27:53
  that's going to crash into Earth in November and and attack us?
• 27:58
  I haven't looked much into that, but it is coming from
• 28:00
  scientists, which is sort of strange.
• 28:02
  So I'm like. But.
• 28:03
  So here's the deal. They can't How to explain why
• 28:06
  it's coming straight at us. Nothing would come straight at
• 28:09
  us. Everything in this universe is
• 28:11
  orbiting something. This thing is coming straight at
• 28:14
  us. And she's right.
• 28:16
  It's that's coming from scientists.
• 28:17
  It's not coming from like, yeah, but snoop.com or something, you
• 28:21
  know? Yeah, but how?
• 28:24
  How do they know it's an alien spacecraft?
• 28:27
  They don't. They're speculating.
• 28:28
  So if it would be an asteroid, it would have an elliptical
• 28:32
  orbit of some sort. This thing doesn't have an
• 28:35
  elliptical orbit. It's literally like the space
• 28:37
  shuttle flying straight out of the atmosphere.
• 28:39
  This is flying straight at us. They can't explain why it's
• 28:43
  coming straight at us. Everything we're thinking in
• 28:47
  circles. OK, now something's not going
• 28:50
  around in a circle. It's flying through the diameter
• 28:53
  of the circle. That's not possible with our
• 28:57
  laws of physics. Where's where's this supposed to
• 28:59
  land? I don't know, I.
• 29:01
  Don't think we figured out. The only reason they're
• 29:04
  speculating it could be a spacecraft is because it it
• 29:07
  would have to be propelled by something to be going forward.
• 29:11
  Gotcha. See, I can explain it enough.
• 29:14
  Enough different ways and he'll finally just hit the light bulb.
• 29:17
  Well, no, I got it. I just went, you know.
• 29:18
  No, I just. I just saw it right there.
• 29:20
  Yeah, right on. Yeah, you saw pedal and.
• 29:23
  The car goes forward. This thing has a gas pedal of
• 29:26
  something because it's coming straight at us.
• 29:29
  That's not possible. I got you and I see it came.
• 29:33
  It came up again this morning too, because I was showing
• 29:35
  little man. Little man's my grandson Liz and
• 29:38
  he wants, he's 5 1/2. He wants to be a, a, an
• 29:40
  astronaut when he grows up. So I show him stuff from NASA's
• 29:44
  page all the time. And I was showing this morning
• 29:45
  the asteroids that were, were landing on the moon next and,
• 29:48
  you know, impacting the moon. He thought that was fascinating.
• 29:50
  It is it's awesome. And then I found then I found
• 29:53
  the, the alien spacecraft. He's what he's like.
• 29:55
  What's that pop up? I'm like, I, I have no idea,
• 29:57
  man. It's I wasn't going to get into
• 29:59
  the I wasn't going to get tried to explain to him that it's
• 30:01
  supposed to be this alien ship coming towards the Earth.
• 30:04
  And then the next, the next NASA picture is legit.
• 30:07
  Where's these two aliens on Earth?
• 30:10
  He's like, those look like aliens on Earth pop up.
• 30:12
  I'm like, Oh my God, There you go.
• 30:14
  Being a grandfather these days, man, I, I, we used just to talk
• 30:17
  about like baseball and stuff. You have a lot more topics you
• 30:19
  have to cover with. Oh.
• 30:20
  Yeah, the Internet has ruined that forever.
• 30:24
  The Sky's the limit, people. Yeah.
• 30:26
  They get so much smarter, faster.
• 30:28
  These kids are fascinating. It's just they are.
• 30:31
  They're sponge. They are.
• 30:32
  And once they learn to read and they're on that tablet all the
• 30:34
  time, they're just like, what's that?
• 30:35
  What's that? What's that?
• 30:36
  What's that? What's that?
• 30:37
  Why? Why?
• 30:37
  Why? Why?
• 30:38
  Yeah. And see, he's just, he's just,
• 30:40
  he's two weeks in the kindergarten.
• 30:42
  Just those two weeks in the kindergarten.
• 30:43
  His vocabulary has just like it's not cold.
• 30:46
  It's it's like he said stuff to me.
• 30:48
  I can't even remember it, but he said stuff to me earlier this
• 30:50
  week in the mornings. And I kind of looked at him
• 30:52
  like, really? Pretty soon he's going to be so
• 30:55
  comfortable. With you in the morning.
• 30:57
  Yeah, yeah, it's. That's what like every
• 31:02
  generation feels like as you start to get older and you look
• 31:05
  back and you're like, oh, yeah, I don't think I could have lived
• 31:07
  during that time. I'm glad I'm where I'm at now,
• 31:09
  you know? Cuz yeah, being a kid today
• 31:12
  would be weird. I've thought about that a lot.
• 31:14
  You know, imagine that you're his grandson's age right now,
• 31:17
  knowing what we know. I mean, him and I are in our
• 31:20
  early to mid 50s. So, you know, we grew up before
• 31:23
  the Internet, obviously, with a telephone on the wall.
• 31:26
  And you'd like Chris always said you had to go find your friend
• 31:29
  and then you played till it got dark and you better be home
• 31:31
  before it got dark. And those were our rules, right?
• 31:34
  That was our. World that was rules for how
• 31:36
  many years? Like think about it, we have
• 31:37
  more in common. I'm 42.
• 31:39
  I have more in common with an 80 year old than I do with a 25
• 31:42
  year. Old you have more in common with
• 31:43
  him and I than you would a 20 year old for sure.
• 31:45
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
• 31:47
  Because you grew up in a portion of that transition period to
• 31:51
  where the Internet was kind of there, but it didn't really mean
• 31:53
  much, right? No, I mean, I didn't even get we
• 31:56
  didn't get Facebook until I was like a junior in college to like
• 31:59
  give you a perspective like like I had a cell phone, but it was a
• 32:02
  next cell. My parents had a landscaping
• 32:04
  business, so two way, but I mean, yeah, remember like trying
• 32:07
  to do like to get the letters to text.
• 32:11
  Oh yeah. Everybody just typed KY.
• 32:16
  And or if they had next cells you could two way them and just.
• 32:19
  Yeah, those were great. I love those things.
• 32:22
  We used them at the printing company I worked at when I was
• 32:24
  in Arizona. Nice.
• 32:26
  And they work better in cell phones.
• 32:28
  Actually, if you think think about it, they never failed.
• 32:30
  No, they never did like and it was great for them and they
• 32:33
  didn't have to have a bunch of company phones like with their
• 32:36
  employees and stuff. They just, they would set it up
• 32:38
  and it was just two way, that's how.
• 32:40
  My brain works is. What?
• 32:42
  Why do why? Why does AT&T drop my calls all
• 32:45
  the time? Why does their service suck?
• 32:47
  When I think back to how easy it was to just go, hey, can you
• 32:51
  pick up a package on 5th Ave. and wherever?
• 32:55
  You know, right? Right.
• 32:57
  We got to go. We got to bring the Nextel back.
• 32:59
  We got to do it. They knew something that these
• 33:01
  cell phone companies now don't. It's crazy.
• 33:04
  Well, it was, it was analog, right?
• 33:07
  I believe it was it was. Like it was.
• 33:09
  Yeah, DMA. Technology or Yeah, because how
• 33:12
  many satellites are in orbit right now?
• 33:14
  It's it's almost too ridiculous, right?
• 33:17
  It's to where we're going to trap ourselves.
• 33:19
  Yes, on the planet. Elon Musk does window keep
• 33:22
  launching satellites at the rate way?
• 33:24
  Wasn't it him that said it or. Yeah, who's launching satellites
• 33:27
  at the rate? That was the irony is he's the
• 33:28
  one also launching satellites. But yeah, we'll trap ourselves
• 33:32
  here to where we couldn't get off the planet if we wanted to,
• 33:35
  if we don't do something about all the junk that's orbiting the
• 33:37
  Earth. Right.
• 33:39
  Crazy. So back to
• 33:42
  lizlizrodriguezcoaching.com and it's Rodriguez coaching.com
• 33:49
  websites. Pretty straightforward, you
• 33:51
  know, which I like. I don't like the whole click
• 33:53
  funnel websites because that's kind of a pain in the butt.
• 33:58
  But you know, there's a picture of her.
• 33:59
  She talks about her story. She's standing on what looks
• 34:01
  like a pier. Was it Georgia?
• 34:04
  Georgia. OK, Georgia, we were, that's
• 34:06
  when we were still over landing. We still had our rooftop tent.
• 34:09
  And, you know, I'm not really good with the whole, you know, I
• 34:12
  spent my career in fitness working with a bunch of dudes.
• 34:15
  Like, I'm not like, let's go do a photo shoot.
• 34:18
  So when we had to try to find pictures for the website, it was
• 34:21
  very difficult. So we're at this beautiful,
• 34:23
  like, piece of land and my husband's like, go out on there
• 34:25
  and we're going to take some pictures.
• 34:26
  I'm like, yeah. Great.
• 34:28
  I dig it, I know. But I don't see.
• 34:30
  And I like because I like that too, right?
• 34:32
  Just be yourself. You don't need to be all prim
• 34:34
  and proper. Look at me.
• 34:35
  I'm with him. I like the simple.
• 34:37
  That's what we try and do with the show.
• 34:38
  Simple, natural. We're just having a
• 34:40
  conversation. We're just talking here.
• 34:42
  We just got sucked down into my space rabbit hole.
• 34:47
  You're holding the V up plank, which is cool.
• 34:50
  Then you're then you're sitting on a a pier.
• 34:53
  Are you giving her website 2 thumbs up?
• 34:55
  I am. It's good.
• 34:55
  It's good. It's the whole, the whole
• 34:57
  coaching concept is it's customized, versatile,
• 34:59
  collaborative and it's results driven, which is what you want
• 35:02
  and I like what. You're looking at.
• 35:04
  Right. You know you've done this.
• 35:06
  Right. And I like the fact that you're,
• 35:07
  you're, you're geared towards women, especially the, what do
• 35:11
  you call it, the perimenopause? Yeah.
• 35:13
  So like late 30s, early 40s, yeah, perimenopause can be
• 35:16
  anywhere from like 3334 all the way up to 50s.
• 35:20
  It's kind of. So for us males in the room.
• 35:23
  Yeah, explain that. Explain that, please.
• 35:24
  Totally. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:26
  Yeah, and the reason that there's such a the biggest way
• 35:29
  that it's like people are like, well, how do I know if I'm in
• 35:30
  perimenopause? It's like, we'll talk to your
• 35:32
  mom because that's really going to be the first one.
• 35:34
  So let's first separate and say like, so what's menopause?
• 35:37
  Menopause is after you haven't had a period for a year.
• 35:39
  So usually we're feeling more like there's people that
• 35:42
  specialize more in that, like so 50s and maybe even 60s.
• 35:45
  So I'm really looking at the women that all of a sudden
• 35:47
  they're like, so OK, the workouts that I'm doing, I
• 35:51
  follow on the same diet. Now all of a sudden I'm like
• 35:53
  putting on weight. I'm getting brain fog.
• 35:55
  I don't feel as good as I used to.
• 35:57
  Like I'm not recovering as well after I like I'm have a night
• 36:00
  out of drinking. You're probably in
• 36:02
  perimenopause. It's very difficult.
• 36:03
  It's not one of those that you like go to the doctor and like,
• 36:05
  can I get the perimenopause test?
• 36:07
  Maybe one day, but it's more of like all of a sudden, really
• 36:11
  like how you were and how you work out in your 20s and 30s is
• 36:14
  very different. You can take on a lot more
• 36:16
  volume, you recover better, you can do a lot more, right.
• 36:20
  That's why I love watching CrossFit.
• 36:23
  I don't do CrossFit, but I'm fascinated by it.
• 36:25
  Look at those athletes. What ages are the women like Tia
• 36:29
  Toomey is going to Tia Clara Toomey is going to be she's 32
• 36:31
  this year. She's going to do her was 8th or
• 36:33
  9th. She's crazy.
• 36:35
  But she's eventually going to phase out because she's going to
• 36:37
  start to hit perimenopause in like the next couple of years.
• 36:40
  And she's probably the training is going to start to change.
• 36:43
  But all those athletes are in their 20s and early 30s.
• 36:46
  Nobody's out there like that's 40, you know what I'm saying?
• 36:49
  So we'll take that to the side. So really like when I sit down
• 36:52
  with women that are like, OK, I'm really stuck.
• 36:54
  Like I'm putting on weight. I feel like shit.
• 36:56
  And it's like, well, now that your hormones are changing,
• 36:59
  right? Like your metabolism and
• 37:01
  everything is changing, we just want to look at things from a
• 37:03
  different lens. So if you're skipping meals,
• 37:05
  you're just going to make your cortisol levels shoot up.
• 37:07
  Guess what that does? Then you put on weight in your
• 37:10
  belly, right? If you're doing the same
• 37:12
  workout. That's the visceral fat around
• 37:15
  your your waist, correct? Exactly.
• 37:17
  And if you're. From Peter Ho we did nice.
• 37:20
  And if you're doing the same workouts, we're like, great, I'm
• 37:22
  doing three sets. It's a 15 reps and I'm, I'm
• 37:24
  rocking out with the 10 LB weight.
• 37:26
  You're not putting on any volume and you're actually just
• 37:28
  straining your body more. We actually need to be lifting
• 37:31
  heavier. So I actually love that those
• 37:34
  women, I'm going to assume based on your age and their age,
• 37:36
  you're telling them actually what they needed to be doing 6
• 37:39
  to 10 reps and like higher volume because we don't recover
• 37:43
  as well. So we want to lift more.
• 37:45
  And if we're going out and I love running, but all that
• 37:48
  cardio is just draining our system.
• 37:50
  So doing either like short and quick like getting up and doing
• 37:53
  some like 30 seconds on full recovery, or just slow steady
• 37:58
  like walking. So 30 seconds on meaning Sprint
• 38:01
  for 30 seconds and walk. Sprint and then walk until
• 38:04
  you're fully recovered. OK, cuz so kind of like the
• 38:07
  orange theory concept, push base all out.
• 38:10
  Exactly. So, OK, cool.
• 38:11
  OK. That's, but a lot of them, what
• 38:14
  they follow though is zone 2 and too much zone 2 for females that
• 38:17
  are perimenopause can really, it's, it's kind of draining
• 38:20
  their system because what they're up against is your
• 38:23
  hormones are kind of going crazy, right?
• 38:25
  You might be starting, your metabolism is starting to slow
• 38:27
  down. So if you're doing too much
• 38:29
  volume, it's just going to kind of crush you and it sort of
• 38:32
  makes everything worse instead. Of.
• 38:35
  So define volume if you would please, because now everybody's
• 38:37
  going to understand what you're saying.
• 38:39
  Yeah. So when we talk about volume, so
• 38:40
  if we're staying on the cardio side, like if you're going in
• 38:43
  and you're like, great, I'm doing a workout and I'm going to
• 38:45
  do 2 minutes hard and then one minute easy.
• 38:47
  And I'm going to do like 10 rounds and you're like super
• 38:49
  guest. That's really a lot of volume,
• 38:52
  right? Versus like, hey, I'm going to
• 38:54
  get on the treadmill. I'm going to go as hard as I can
• 38:55
  for 30 seconds. I'm going to walk.
• 38:57
  I'm going to make sure like, OK, it's been 2-3 minutes.
• 39:00
  I recovered, now I'm going to go again.
• 39:02
  So overall, I'm going to do a couple of intervals, but I'm
• 39:05
  going to fully recover. That amount of volume is much
• 39:08
  smaller. I probably only did, let's say I
• 39:10
  do 4 rounds, that's two minutes all out versus the girl next to
• 39:13
  her did 14 minutes of all out. That's very different.
• 39:17
  So if you're doing it outside and you say you're going to go
• 39:20
  for a two mile walk, so 30 seconds all out and you walk
• 39:25
  until, like you said, you're fully recovered and then 30
• 39:28
  seconds all out again, walk to till you're you're completely
• 39:31
  recovered. And you can do that for that
• 39:33
  amount of distance and that still has the same impact as if
• 39:35
  you're on a treadmill. Yeah, absolutely.
• 39:37
  Or is that too much? It's not too much.
• 39:39
  It's not overkill. I would say when you're going to
• 39:41
  do all out, really, if you do all out correctly, it no matter
• 39:44
  who it is, whether we're talking male or female, if you once you
• 39:47
  get to 3/4 reps, you're going to be done anyways.
• 39:50
  And then you could do it in any modality.
• 39:51
  Let's say we're going to hear people that are like, I don't
• 39:54
  run. You could use a bike.
• 39:55
  You could use a rower, you could use a ski.
• 39:57
  OK, but with both go back to the bike thing, because the bike
• 40:00
  thing, right, you're my wife and I get up every morning 5:00 and
• 40:04
  and we go for depending on how quick we get out of the house
• 40:07
  and how awake we are, anywhere from one to three mile walk,
• 40:11
  right. Because and she's a teacher,
• 40:12
  she's got to come and get ready for school.
• 40:13
  So as we do our stuff, there's there's the, you know, the Iron
• 40:19
  Man bicyclist and then there's the neighborhood bicyclist,
• 40:21
  right? Yep.
• 40:23
  To me, the neighborhood bike list is not doing shit.
• 40:25
  You're going to ride the bike. He's.
• 40:26
  Doing more than me. I know, but what I'm getting at
• 40:30
  is you're sitting on a bike and you're just, you're pedaling
• 40:33
  your legs. No, he's really not because I
• 40:34
  walk 3 miles a day. I always forget to say that when
• 40:38
  we start talking fitness. I do walk 3 miles.
• 40:40
  Yeah. My question is this though.
• 40:43
  Like if I go run 3 miles as opposed to if I go ride a bike
• 40:48
  for three miles, what's doing my body more benefits?
• 40:51
  What's more beneficial to my body from a workout standpoint,
• 40:54
  running or riding a bike? I'm going to say riding a bike.
• 40:56
  So I think I'm going to take it in the context that I'm thinking
• 40:59
  you're Speaking of, because really what you're talking about
• 41:01
  is saying that like there's people out there that do the
• 41:03
  same workouts all the time and then they never improve because
• 41:05
  they don't change anything. Like they don't change the
• 41:07
  speed, they don't change the dality, they don't change the
• 41:10
  amount of volume that they're doing, like.
• 41:11
  The people that pass us by on the path by our house, it's the
• 41:14
  same people every day. They're, they're, they're just
• 41:19
  riding their neighborhood people that have a beach cruiser base.
• 41:21
  That's not a beach cruiser. But you know what I'm saying?
• 41:22
  They're just riding the path. So they probably get up in the
• 41:24
  morning. Oh, I'm gonna go ride.
• 41:25
  I'm gonna go bike for 10 miles and then I'm gonna, oh, I worked
• 41:28
  out for the day. Right.
• 41:30
  And that's gonna be, you know what, it's at the end of the
• 41:32
  day, is it better than nothing? Absolutely.
• 41:34
  And depending on their age, like it's, it's all good.
• 41:37
  But I think that really what we're learning more of,
• 41:39
  especially for us like cardio junkies out there.
• 41:42
  I'm, I like to say I'm more of a reformed and it's great body
• 41:46
  through those things and it's good for your brain.
• 41:48
  You're going outside, you're in nature.
• 41:50
  But when we're actually talking about like, what do we want it
• 41:53
  like, like I just talked about like those short little
• 41:55
  interviews. Those are specific because of
• 41:58
  our, how we want to spike our metabolism, get our body moving
• 42:01
  and like putting yourself in a great place to increase muscle
• 42:04
  mass, all that stuff. I'm talking about specifically
• 42:06
  like you are in your 40s and you're like, I want to see some
• 42:09
  results. Like I want to look good for my
• 42:10
  husband or boyfriend or myself or whatever, you know what I
• 42:14
  mean? Like that's, but then there's
• 42:16
  just the basic like, is this person going on and moving?
• 42:18
  We have a huge epidemic right now that people don't do
• 42:20
  anything, right? It's if it's that versus
• 42:23
  nothing, cool. But if you're looking at like, I
• 42:26
  want to improve my VO2 Max or I want to put on more muscle or
• 42:29
  something. If you do the same thing every
• 42:31
  day, what did Einstein say? It's insanity, right?
• 42:34
  You're not going to. You're not going to change
• 42:35
  anything. Now, can you do interval
• 42:37
  training on a bike? Absolutely.
• 42:39
  OK, so you. Can you can just haul ass for 30
• 42:42
  seconds and then kind of just cruise it down, but.
• 42:44
  Then you don't have all that impact on your body.
• 42:47
  Yeah, because really like when we talk about the high impact
• 42:50
  specifically like back to my my target age group and stuff, is
• 42:53
  that we want to make it like sort of like really quality over
• 42:57
  quantity. That's really what it comes down
• 42:59
  to. And that for a lot of people,
• 43:01
  because I train a lot of former athletes, even myself, is that I
• 43:04
  was used to doing all of this, right?
• 43:07
  Like all this volume and now you're like, so you want me to
• 43:10
  lift 6 to 8 reps instead. Yeah, but I got to go heavier.
• 43:13
  Like you want me to go 33 or 4 rounds at 30 seconds.
• 43:16
  That's it. But it's what my body needs
• 43:19
  right now. Just like obviously you're in
• 43:21
  your 50s now. What you can do now is different
• 43:23
  than what you did when you were 30.
• 43:24
  And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
• 43:27
  I'm in better shape now than when I was 30.
• 43:29
  Well. I could never have ran a 6
• 43:31
  minute, a sub six minute mile back-to-back.
• 43:34
  No, I knew him when I was 30. He was in my band.
• 43:36
  Yeah, yeah, it wasn't. I mean, it wasn't.
• 43:39
  He wasn't in bad shape, but he's no, he's not exaggerating at
• 43:43
  all. No, what he's saying is 100%
• 43:45
  true. He couldn't went out there.
• 43:46
  He just wasn't into that kind of stuff at the time because we
• 43:49
  were out there playing all the time.
• 43:52
  So yeah, he's but he's 100% right.
• 43:54
  He's in 1000 times better shape now at 50, something that he was
• 43:59
  when he was 30. Thank you, Mike, for sure.
• 44:02
  So this fascinates me so. I was there.
• 44:05
  I saw it. The, the interval, what you're
• 44:09
  talking about, Liz, fascinates me because it can work with male
• 44:12
  or female, right? So it's just a matter of so, so
• 44:16
  from a running standpoint, biking standpoint, 32nd
• 44:18
  intervals, do three or four of those.
• 44:20
  And like you said, you should be spent by that if you're doing it
• 44:22
  correctly. And then from a weight
• 44:24
  standpoint, instead of, you know, three sets of 10, you want
• 44:28
  to do 6 to 8 reps, but you want to add significant weight to it.
• 44:33
  So if I'm curling 30 lbs 30 times, I want to get 40 lbs and
• 44:40
  try to do three sets of 6 to 8 with that 40 lbs.
• 44:43
  Exactly. More impact on me.
• 44:46
  Exactly. And like you want to leave just
• 44:48
  like one or two in the in the tank, I like to say.
• 44:50
  And really, I think the biggest difference coming from someone
• 44:53
  that like, I've been lifting now for, I don't know, 25 years,
• 44:55
  like it's just a different, it's a different, it's a different
• 44:59
  modality. Like I think that we're really
• 45:01
  taught of like, yeah, you know, just do your reps and like
• 45:04
  everything is good, you know, like do your, you know, your,
• 45:06
  your high reps and your low weight.
• 45:09
  So when you get, you really want to make sure that you're
• 45:11
  proficient in the lifting and stuff, right?
• 45:12
  Like you don't want to just like jump up or like instead of chest
• 45:15
  pressing 15 pounders and you're like, I'm just gonna grab the
• 45:17
  30s. That becomes a very different
• 45:20
  lift, right? Like in terms of like your form
• 45:22
  and like, you know, the exertion and all that.
• 45:24
  So it's just even when I was talking to my husband about it,
• 45:27
  he's like, what do you mean like lifting heavy?
• 45:28
  Like as I've gotten more into the research for women and stuff
• 45:31
  and what works and I'm like, yeah, but think about it, babe.
• 45:33
  Like I've been training for how long?
• 45:35
  Like I can do that though, because I have the form.
• 45:37
  It's just like, it's literally just going to the weight to the
• 45:40
  weight rack. Like, OK, Liz, so if I'm going
• 45:42
  to go three sets, I'm going to go 303540.
• 45:45
  Oh, OK. So increase the volume as you
• 45:47
  go. Yeah, I, that's how I like doing
• 45:49
  it. I feel like it's easier for me
• 45:51
  because I still, I have some limitations.
• 45:53
  I had some back surgery I've had, I've gotten, I've got
• 45:56
  arthritis in every part of my body.
• 45:57
  I'm your typical former athlete. What was what, What'd you do?
• 46:00
  What was the what was the sport? I was tracking cross country in
• 46:03
  college so I ran the five and 10K during track and then for
• 46:07
  collegiate sports you run 5 and 6, five and six K for women, men
• 46:12
  do. You got for Illinois State?
• 46:14
  I did. I was really that, But yeah, I
• 46:17
  did run for Illinois State. So what's what was your fastest
• 46:20
  5K? 1846.
• 46:23
  Wow, what's your fastest 10K? 4038 wasn't very good.
• 46:28
  Yeah, it's OK. Yeah, you know.
• 46:30
  My son's A rings better he Yeah, my son's A rings.
• 46:33
  I mean, and then he'll poke shit at me.
• 46:35
  He did. He ran 4.88 miles the I think
• 46:39
  Sunday, he said in 43 minutes and he was he was disappointed.
• 46:44
  My husband's a Marine, once a Marine, always a Marine.
• 46:47
  And yeah, he's still like, he'll do like I like, I want to beat
• 46:49
  my PFT test again from 20. I'm like, OK, yeah, go.
• 46:53
  You well. That's yeah, that that's how I
• 46:57
  ended up getting the sub six minute mile 'cause he he texted
• 47:00
  me one day and he's like, hey, dad, I just I just ran a mile on
• 47:03
  6 O one. I'm like, I'm coming after you.
• 47:04
  He's like, OK, old man. It took me about 18 months
• 47:08
  because I was at 7:40 and it took me 18 months to get to 555.
• 47:12
  But you know. That's pretty good.
• 47:14
  And then, and then I rubbed it in his face.
• 47:16
  Did he ever beat that? I don't, I don't know if he did
• 47:20
  or not because then he changed, He went to drill instructor
• 47:23
  school and then kind of changed his, his stuff.
• 47:25
  Now he's now he's working with reservist and Pendleton.
• 47:28
  So he's kind of getting back into all the, the, the physical
• 47:31
  aspect of it because he doesn't, he's not, he's accounting supply
• 47:36
  and logistics was what his MOS was when he came in because
• 47:39
  there's a backup shipper. So he filled the void of
• 47:42
  somebody and then he couldn't do it was engineering and airplane
• 47:46
  mechanic and do either because it's color deficient because oh,
• 47:48
  that's a red wire. No, it's not as blue, you know,
• 47:53
  so we got stuck in that box, which my wife loves because he's
• 47:55
  never going to get shot at. So it's it's weird dynamic when
• 48:00
  you're when you was in drill instructor boot camp.
• 48:03
  I don't I don't remember what what the PFTS numbers were
• 48:06
  there. He just had to pass.
• 48:07
  He's always passed them. He's always he's always flown
• 48:10
  through that part of it. Curious.
• 48:11
  To know if he beat that time because you know he tried.
• 48:13
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah.
• 48:15
  I mean his his I want to say his 5K.
• 48:18
  His best 5K is around 1515 1/2 but don't quote me on that to.
• 48:23
  Find out my my sister's still in.
• 48:24
  She's a master Sergeant over in June.
• 48:27
  Right on. He ate.
• 48:29
  I'm like, what? It's kind of crazy.
• 48:32
  She's an E8. You can tell your tell your son
• 48:34
  like, oh, the girl we interviewed, her sister's an E8
• 48:37
  and he's gonna be like, he's gonna be like, who's this?
• 48:38
  Newman. Newman.
• 48:40
  It's. Awesome.
• 48:42
  I love it. You love Seinfeld.
• 48:44
  Yeah, I understand my husband more now that I watch Seinfeld.
• 48:47
  That was like his favorite show and like the more I watched him
• 48:49
  like oh. Yeah, we like him more.
• 48:51
  Yeah. We're we're Seinfeld, Seinfeld,
• 48:55
  Office, I'm that's too as soon. As somebody says, I hate
• 48:57
  Seinfeld. I'm like, what is wrong with
• 48:59
  you? I don't.
• 49:01
  Trust you anymore, you know. I have a hard time and I like
• 49:05
  you. We have to figure this out,
• 49:06
  right? I've had people that I really
• 49:09
  like go. I just don't understand.
• 49:10
  I hate that show. I'm like I we have to talk.
• 49:15
  It's so funny. So we're going to circle back to
• 49:17
  lizrodriguezcoaching.com because we're all about plugging people
• 49:20
  on our show. So you're talking about food
• 49:22
  here and it's not all about broccoli and chicken every day.
• 49:26
  So you want to give us some. I don't want you to give away
• 49:28
  all your stuff because I want people to go to your site.
• 49:30
  I want people to hire you to be their coach, but I want you to
• 49:32
  give us Nuggets that will entice people to want to go to your
• 49:35
  site to want to talk to you. So from a meal planning
• 49:39
  standpoint, we got the interval training for weights and for,
• 49:42
  for the running part of it. And that's, that's great.
• 49:47
  I'm going to kind of incorporate that the next couple weeks and
• 49:49
  see what it does for me because I'm that guy that, that I like.
• 49:52
  Monday I went to the gym and I, I did bench press, but I did 145
• 49:58
  lbs. I did 6 reps of 10.
• 50:01
  And in between those reps I was doing dumbbell curls, 30 lbs.
• 50:04
  And then I ended up doing pullovers and then triceps and
• 50:07
  all that kind of jazz. But to your point, now that's
• 50:13
  not going to really have a, a severe impact on me because
• 50:16
  that's what I'm accustomed to, right?
• 50:19
  So you get a you build a base and then you just kind of do
• 50:22
  what you think is right. So you just opened up a whole
• 50:25
  new can of whoop ass in my head. Thank you for that.
• 50:27
  So now I, I want to, I want to kind of explore and I hope you
• 50:30
  did that for people that are watching us right now.
• 50:32
  And then those are going to watch us when we drop us on the
• 50:34
  podcast platforms and stuff. But I want to talk a little bit
• 50:37
  now about the food because food is amazing if you, if you do it
• 50:42
  properly. Like Nikki and I stopped
• 50:45
  starches, not completely, but I was that guy that had had a, had
• 50:48
  a tortilla burrito for breakfast, a chicken rice
• 50:51
  tortilla for lunch, bread, things like that.
• 50:54
  And once I stopped that, all the inflammation that I was having,
• 50:56
  the pain I was having in my, in my neck from my, my vertebrae,
• 50:59
  which Mike has the same thing from a, from an accident.
• 51:02
  It, it almost, I would say 95% went away.
• 51:05
  Every now and then I'll get tingling down my arm every now
• 51:07
  and I'll get tingling in the side of my head, but just
• 51:09
  stopping the bad starches like like Ritz crackers, Liz.
• 51:13
  Oh my God, I love Ritz crackers. They're so unhealthy and and
• 51:17
  just the stuff that's in that blew my mind and Triscuits and
• 51:21
  and saltines. I thought saltines are better.
• 51:23
  Nick is like, what are you doing?
• 51:24
  I'm like, it's just a saltine. She's like, no, it's in rich
• 51:28
  flour. It's bad.
• 51:30
  So it's like all that stuff is gone.
• 51:33
  We've probably had, you know, four or five occasions in the
• 51:36
  period of 2 1/2 months now where we, we, we had tacos or
• 51:39
  whatever. You're right.
• 51:41
  But I want to talk more about the, the, the food because
• 51:43
  again, like you said, a diet fad, quick fixes don't work.
• 51:47
  It's a healthy lifestyle. You have to change your approach
• 51:51
  and you got to create that habit.
• 51:52
  And it starts by just, you know, getting, getting geared towards
• 51:57
  a healthier way to consume food. And so kind of explain, if you
• 52:01
  will, what the holistic approach is, because not everybody's
• 52:03
  going to understand that. I'm one of those.
• 52:05
  I don't know how food can be holistic.
• 52:07
  So please expand on that. Oh, yeah.
• 52:11
  Well, part of that is when you have a website and you hire
• 52:14
  someone with SEO, you got to put in the keywords so people find
• 52:17
  your website. So let's just get that out of
• 52:19
  the way. That's why sometimes you read
• 52:20
  websites, you're like, it's kind of a funky sentence.
• 52:23
  And it's like, Oh yeah, that's because it got to get some
• 52:25
  keywords in there. But in terms of overall, right,
• 52:29
  like the biggest thing that really I work on with women to
• 52:32
  start is like, OK, let's let's look at like what you're doing
• 52:35
  right now. That's that's obviously it's not
• 52:36
  working, right? So let's break it down and tip.
• 52:38
  So what am I typically seeing and what I want to work on with
• 52:40
  them? We're typically not eating
• 52:42
  anything in the morning. Like we're starting with coffee.
• 52:45
  And then like we're not eating for a while because we love the
• 52:48
  whole intermittent fasting thing.
• 52:49
  Guess who it works for men? Guess who it doesn't work for
• 52:51
  women? And like, Oh yes, all in terms
• 52:55
  of like all if you Google, like who was the research done on
• 52:59
  intermittent fasting men? And so there's exceptions to
• 53:03
  that in terms of if you're looking to lose a lot of weight
• 53:06
  and things like that. That's not in my wheelhouse.
• 53:08
  That's, that's a different population, right?
• 53:10
  I'm typically working with people that are looking to lose
• 53:12
  somewhere between like 5 and like 35 lbs, right?
• 53:15
  Kind of that. And so the first thing I tell
• 53:18
  women is, is that especially as your body starts to change, so
• 53:20
  hormones are going all woohoo. And so when we wake up in the
• 53:23
  morning and the first thing we're putting in is caffeine and
• 53:25
  then we're not eating for a while, guess what the cortisol
• 53:28
  does? It goes.
• 53:30
  So the first thing that I work on with them is where's the
• 53:33
  breakfast? Even if it's something small?
• 53:35
  And guess what they usually combat that with, well, I'm not
• 53:37
  hungry. It doesn't matter.
• 53:38
  Your brain is sending a signal that if you don't eat within
• 53:41
  about an hour of waking up something a little bit of
• 53:43
  protein, your cortisol levels could stay level elevated the
• 53:47
  rest of the day. Right.
• 53:48
  This is this is more towards women than it is men, correct?
• 53:51
  More towards women than men. Men do great within a minute
• 53:53
  fasting. You can go into all the
• 53:55
  research. The way I really explain it
• 53:57
  though too is if you look at our bodies, right?
• 53:59
  Like so we both have essential body fat that we need.
• 54:02
  I need 12 to 14%, you need 2 to 4%.
• 54:06
  You got to cover your testes. I got to care, cover my uterus
• 54:09
  and all that other stuff. So we're made to outlive men,
• 54:12
  right? That's why you guys.
• 54:14
  And then we could go back. You can only evolve so far.
• 54:16
  Your muscular skeletal system is better than ours, but our
• 54:19
  cardiovascular system is better than yours.
• 54:21
  So you know what I'm saying. And so you have to start to
• 54:24
  think that if we're made to outlive men and bear children,
• 54:27
  whether or not you do that or not, if you are trying to starve
• 54:31
  your body, it's not going to work, right?
• 54:34
  Doesn't that make sense? So I would say first big tidbit
• 54:37
  is look at your day and make sure that we're starting with,
• 54:40
  let's maybe swap a little bit of water before that caffeine just
• 54:43
  to try to calm the cortisol and then get something in your belly
• 54:46
  within an hour of waking up something small.
• 54:48
  Yeah, So what are our past fitness and and health Wellness
• 54:51
  coach? And I have a big belief in this.
• 54:53
  I get up, I drink water. I I this thing's full of water.
• 54:56
  It's 32 oz. It's the first thing I drink in
• 54:58
  the morning. Then we leave and do our thing.
• 55:01
  When I come back is when I eat right?
• 55:03
  And I've always done that. Like I don't drink, I drink 1
• 55:06
  cup of coffee, sometimes 1 1/2. But I only drink that after I've
• 55:09
  been up for at least 30 minutes to an hour.
• 55:11
  So my initial intake is all water and and I'm poking at
• 55:15
  Nikki to make her do that as well.
• 55:17
  She stopped. She stopped CAF coffee all
• 55:19
  together. She just has English breakfast
• 55:22
  tea, but she doesn't start. Anymore either, but I'm very do.
• 55:28
  Does this look like caffeine? Yeah, see, I don't either.
• 55:30
  I just do it kind of like the flavor Mike turned me on, the
• 55:33
  Don Francisco's butterscotch and toffee flavor I changed.
• 55:36
  I do love the decaf. I mean I love coffee.
• 55:39
  I just. Changed his life.
• 55:41
  Yeah, he did change my life. OK, so, so so your woman gets
• 55:45
  up, they're going to they're going to pound some water to get
• 55:48
  the I call it lubricating the system, right?
• 55:50
  It's like oil for the body. I.
• 55:51
  Mean, yeah, I love that you're. Not OK cool woo Hoo.
• 55:55
  So we lubricate the body in the morning and then within 1/2
• 55:58
  within an hour you're saying they have to eat some type of
• 56:01
  protein regardless of what it could be, an egg it can be.
• 56:05
  It can be part of your protein shake.
• 56:07
  It could be like a couple bites of like some overnight oats
• 56:09
  that's got some whole milk in there and some chia seeds and
• 56:12
  stuff like that. Like just even if it's just
• 56:14
  something like I'm, I don't eat a lot in the morning and
• 56:17
  especially like I'm either working out early or training
• 56:19
  early. And so I make my protein shake
• 56:22
  in the at night and then it's got about 60 grams in it.
• 56:25
  So I'll have maybe just like 1/3 of it, couple sips I'm good and
• 56:28
  I'll save the rest of it for after my workout.
• 56:30
  So. That's a brilliant idea 'cause
• 56:32
  we meal, we meal prep, Nikki makes, we we do chicken like we
• 56:36
  go to This is Life Hack World. Costco sells rotisserie chickens
• 56:41
  for $5. OK, so you go to Costco on
• 56:44
  Sundays and you spend $10 and get 2 rotisserie chickens.
• 56:47
  The reason why I bring this up to go to the grocery store,
• 56:49
  They're 10 bucks for these tiny little corners game him size
• 56:53
  looking. Yeah, stupid.
• 56:55
  So for for 10 bucks, you you we have an I could go get it.
• 56:59
  It's it's a container that's like the size of I don't know, I
• 57:02
  don't know. You could put a whole bag of
• 57:04
  popcorn that's popped in the box in the plastic container and
• 57:07
  cover it and would fit perfectly of chicken for the week.
• 57:10
  She makes her three meals right away and then I have stuff for
• 57:13
  my stuff and then she makes some more stuff for Thursday and
• 57:16
  Friday. But meal prepping in an
• 57:19
  inexpensive way by going to Costco.
• 57:21
  Yes, Costco. I'm giving you a shout out.
• 57:22
  Come sponsor us rotissue chickens.
• 57:25
  You can't beat it, right? But that's that's good protein.
• 57:29
  Fish is good protein, but but for breakfast, you you don't
• 57:32
  want to eat chicken. And I mean, you can, I guess,
• 57:34
  you know, if you're Mark Wahlberg and, you know, weird
• 57:38
  people that just, you know, the rock.
• 57:39
  It's a bit like 3:00 AM and. So water, some type of protein,
• 57:46
  then you can have your caffeine if you want it.
• 57:50
  I'm a big believer in like, like I have my breakfast a couple
• 57:52
  hours later, couple hours later I'll have a honey crisp apple.
• 57:57
  Then I'll have my lunch, which is, is is still chicken based or
• 58:00
  tuna based. But I, I took the rice away
• 58:01
  because of the, the starchiness of it.
• 58:04
  Tortilla away. Now I use egg wraps, you know,
• 58:07
  so I'll throw that in there with Turkey sauces, things like that.
• 58:10
  So is it, is it, are you, are you having for women?
• 58:13
  Do they need to eat, you know, 3 meals a day?
• 58:16
  Do they need to have like little pockets between?
• 58:18
  Because like with Nikki, she's a teacher, right?
• 58:20
  And teachers now don't have lunches.
• 58:23
  They, they don't have prep periods because the way the
• 58:25
  school districts are just, you know, like whatever, you don't
• 58:28
  need that and you really do. So she struggles sometimes with
• 58:31
  what you're talking about as far as you know, she'll get to lunch
• 58:34
  and she's not hungry when I'm like, you still need to eat,
• 58:36
  especially when you come home and work out with me.
• 58:37
  You have to eat. You have to have some type of
• 58:40
  protein. Otherwise you're not going to
• 58:41
  get any result from working out because you're going to be, I
• 58:43
  don't want to work out, which she doesn't because I push her,
• 58:46
  but it still doesn't have the same impact.
• 58:49
  So what would a, what would a meal routine look like for
• 58:53
  somebody that's in the premenopausal stuff you're
• 58:55
  talking about? That is just kind of off, off
• 58:59
  course and they need to kind of get dialed in.
• 59:01
  Make it simple, right? Because like when we, when we
• 59:04
  had Nate the, the fitness guy on the show, his big thing was if
• 59:07
  you're, if you're not in shape, the first thing you do, you
• 59:09
  start walking, walk 30 minutes in the morning, 30 minutes at
• 59:11
  night, get to your walk in an hour a day.
• 59:13
  And that alone is going to make a difference in your life
• 59:15
  because you're doing something more than you were doing before.
• 59:20
  So what's kind of a snapshot? And again, I don't want to give
• 59:23
  up your stuff, but just a snapshot of what a day would
• 59:26
  look like for someone that you say, OK, this is the best
• 59:29
  approach from a meal standpoint for you to kind of adapt in your
• 59:32
  lifestyle to start the progress, to start your journey forward.
• 59:35
  Yeah. And I'm a big macro person.
• 59:38
  And the reason for that is because I feel like it helps
• 59:40
  since I have all different types of people and their schedules
• 59:43
  are different. Just like you mentioned, your
• 59:45
  wife's schedule is different than mine.
• 59:47
  So I really kind of break down to them to say, hey, we kind of
• 59:51
  get the basics out of the way. Like what's their water intake
• 59:53
  like? How much processed foods are
• 59:54
  they eating? Things like that kind of, we'll
• 59:56
  say the basics, are they eating fruits and vegetables kind of
• 59:59
  thing. And then as we're getting kind
• 1:00:00
  of into the meals, I. I always give them a goal.
• 1:00:02
  I give them a little CHEAT SHEET of macros for fiber and for
• 1:00:06
  protein, right? For protein.
• 1:00:08
  And this is always, I always like to say or not a, I'm a
• 1:00:11
  nutrition coach, not a dietitian.
• 1:00:12
  Dietitians have viewpoints. I always say if it's an active
• 1:00:16
  person that's working out a couple times a week, we're
• 1:00:17
  looking at around .8 to 1.0g per pound of body weight.
• 1:00:21
  So like I weigh 145. I'm looking at around 1:30 to
• 1:00:25
  1:45 a day for protein and then for five.
• 1:00:29
  How tall are you? Okay.
• 1:00:31
  Yeah, so I'm 54, I get a lot of muscles, so I'm probably.
• 1:00:35
  I'm not, I'm not judging. I just, yeah, I just, I think
• 1:00:39
  it's like when everybody like we had Justin Willoughby on, He's
• 1:00:42
  coming on one of our past shows. He lost £600.
• 1:00:45
  He weighed 799 lbs, six when he was 16 years old, which is
• 1:00:48
  insane, but until he told us how tall he was, it didn't really
• 1:00:53
  like he's 58. Wasn't he 58, Mike?
• 1:00:55
  Yeah, he's an inch shorter than me.
• 1:00:57
  Right, so right, so that's. Basically the same height.
• 1:01:03
  Right. So that's why I asked that
• 1:01:04
  question, not not to be like, yeah, I just wanted to know.
• 1:01:06
  So people that are watching, listening, they understand, OK,
• 1:01:09
  this is somebody who is super healthy, former athlete, still
• 1:01:12
  trains like an athlete, eats very healthy, has a very clean,
• 1:01:16
  rich lifestyle. So it's good to understand you
• 1:01:18
  have muscle. You're 54145.
• 1:01:22
  And because that's the other thing with women, right?
• 1:01:23
  It's hard to put muscle on. It gets more difficult, Yeah.
• 1:01:27
  So that's why I give them a goal of protein to start and then
• 1:01:29
  eventually fiber. And fiber I still just kind of
• 1:01:31
  go by like the basics of if you're over 40, you're looking
• 1:01:35
  at 30 grams a day. If you're under, it's 25 men,
• 1:01:37
  it's actually a little higher. You guys are more like 35 to 40.
• 1:01:41
  And then we break down to say, like, what's their eating
• 1:01:44
  lifestyle like? Are we looking at a regular
• 1:01:46
  carnivore? Are they pescetarian?
• 1:01:48
  Are they? I've worked with a vegan for a
• 1:01:50
  year and I did like all her meal prepping.
• 1:01:51
  Oh my God, that was a lot. But it was fun.
• 1:01:54
  And then from there I look. Hard.
• 1:01:56
  It's so hard. And then I look at their day to
• 1:01:58
  say, where can we plug in meals? So back to your original thing,
• 1:02:02
  like in terms of how often and stuff that they're eating, it's
• 1:02:05
  probably around 3:00 to four times a day.
• 1:02:08
  And then I just base it off of like, what do they like to eat?
• 1:02:11
  How are we going to hit that macro?
• 1:02:13
  And then where are we going to put in those meals?
• 1:02:15
  And then I can start to break down like what's in the meals
• 1:02:19
  and things like that. The one thing I will last to big
• 1:02:21
  tidbit though for women though, because we, I think they're
• 1:02:23
  getting the whole protein thing. But what really gets missed as
• 1:02:27
  our metabolism starts to change and how we process carbs is
• 1:02:30
  differently. And usually what happens is for
• 1:02:32
  men, you guys do pretty well with low carb.
• 1:02:34
  We don't. So that's why I use the big old
• 1:02:37
  F word and say like, I don't want you to think of carbs.
• 1:02:40
  I want you to think of fiber. What has fiber in it?
• 1:02:42
  Beans, lentils, your fruits and veggies like your you know, your
• 1:02:48
  sweet potatoes. Blueberries.
• 1:02:49
  Blueberries. Right, All that stuff.
• 1:02:51
  Yeah, Get a combination of those things.
• 1:02:53
  Get some soluble and insoluble fiber.
• 1:02:55
  That's OK. So stop.
• 1:02:56
  So stop there. Explain to people what insoluble
• 1:02:59
  and soluble fiber is. Yeah.
• 1:03:00
  So think of insoluble exactly. It's got some roughage.
• 1:03:03
  So that's going to be your berries, that's going to be your
• 1:03:05
  veggies. That's like what keeps us going,
• 1:03:07
  right? Keep this regular.
• 1:03:09
  And then your soluble is more of your absorbable fiber, so helps
• 1:03:13
  with gut health, blood sugar regulation, right?
• 1:03:16
  The brain fog out there, ladies. And that's going to be more of
• 1:03:19
  your beans and your legumes, your complex carbohydrates, your
• 1:03:22
  root vegetables. And then as you look at those,
• 1:03:25
  it's a matter of like, well, which ones do you like?
• 1:03:27
  Like if you're like, I don't want to eat quinoa.
• 1:03:28
  Well, then don't eat quinoa. Like eat.
• 1:03:30
  I usually start everybody root vegetables seems to be the best
• 1:03:33
  route. So sweet potatoes yams your
• 1:03:37
  acorn squash better not squash. That's like a nice segue in and
• 1:03:41
  is also if you have any intolerances, the likelihood of
• 1:03:44
  you being intolerant to a sweet potato is pretty low versus
• 1:03:47
  couscous or quinoa or pharaoh or buck weed or something like
• 1:03:50
  that. Yeah, OK.
• 1:03:52
  Cool talking to somebody with a lot of allergies so.
• 1:03:55
  Yeah. And and like if you have
• 1:03:57
  different food intolerances or allergies, then you have to kind
• 1:03:59
  of work around that, right? So.
• 1:04:01
  Luckily for me I found that mine aren't fruits and vegetables, so
• 1:04:04
  mine's all dairy products. Well, and that's kind of a good
• 1:04:07
  thing because. Good for you, I found out that
• 1:04:09
  I'm actually just a superior human being.
• 1:04:13
  You're just figuring out what we all should be doing anyways,
• 1:04:15
  right? Less hormones.
• 1:04:16
  Yeah, we were lied to for a lot of years.
• 1:04:18
  A lot of people don't know that. This is proven through the
• 1:04:21
  Freedom Information Act that scientists were paid the
• 1:04:24
  equivalent of $50,000 in today's money to basically lie and say
• 1:04:29
  that butter and trans fat was causing us to have heart disease
• 1:04:37
  and this is what was killing us. And this is a true story.
• 1:04:40
  And they were, they were basically paid off by the sugar
• 1:04:43
  industry. So right after that happened,
• 1:04:46
  all the sudden breakfast cereals went from just being bland corn
• 1:04:50
  flakes and Raisin Bran to sugar pops and, you know, Frosted
• 1:04:56
  Flakes and all the shit we grew up with.
• 1:04:58
  Count Chocula. There was a reason that that
• 1:05:01
  stuff wasn't in the food before, right?
• 1:05:03
  Because they were pretty sure it was bad.
• 1:05:05
  And dude. We just got, we got Hoodwink for
• 1:05:09
  a long time. We did.
• 1:05:10
  I would say our my worst food hangover ever.
• 1:05:14
  My husband and I like on Saturdays and we lived in New
• 1:05:16
  York City. We'd usually I would work until
• 1:05:18
  about 3:00, we'd get out, we'd go get a drink somewhere, grab
• 1:05:21
  some pizza. Anyways, we went over to, I
• 1:05:24
  forget the name of the grocery store.
• 1:05:25
  It was probably Fairway and we were like let's just have cereal
• 1:05:28
  for dinner and we got like all the good ones like 7 different
• 1:05:31
  boxes of cereal like cocoa puffs and like 6 days worth of sugar.
• 1:05:37
  In one cent. Lucky tart and we had a small
• 1:05:39
  bowl of each of them. I am telling you I was hungover
• 1:05:42
  for like 3 days and I'm like this is.
• 1:05:45
  Amazing. And I'm not nearly as good as
• 1:05:48
  Chris because I still have way too much bread in my diet.
• 1:05:51
  Like I'll eat a bagel. I'm on a time limit because I
• 1:05:55
  work in a factory, right? So I have 10 minutes and I have
• 1:05:57
  20 minutes at lunch. I have another 10 minutes.
• 1:05:59
  So whatever I consume and these are excuses, right?
• 1:06:02
  So I get I get in habits. So I'll eat a bagel for my snack
• 1:06:07
  and then I'll eat like a chicken salad sandwich, right?
• 1:06:10
  So now I have more bread. I have the same injury as him.
• 1:06:13
  I have like bulging discs between the bottom 2 discs in my
• 1:06:17
  neck which is extremely painful at times.
• 1:06:20
  And then it'll like he said, it will pinch the nerve off to
• 1:06:23
  where you actually. Can't feel your arm?
• 1:06:25
  Yeah, the bottom side of your arm goes numb.
• 1:06:28
  You can feel the top side, but it's just like no feeling down
• 1:06:32
  the backside of it. And all it is, is that
• 1:06:34
  inflammation from that disc. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:06:37
  Like when we start with. That stuff too as well.
• 1:06:39
  I'm kind of talking myself into it right here on the show, so.
• 1:06:43
  Absolutely. And I think it's also, it's
• 1:06:45
  funny because when you really start, when you work with a
• 1:06:47
  nutrition coach and like, it's also really, and this is
• 1:06:50
  probably the really where it technically is, we'll say the
• 1:06:53
  holistic part of it is, you know, you do things and it's
• 1:06:56
  like, Oh yeah, I always feel like crap every time I eat that.
• 1:06:59
  I'm like, then why? Well, I really like it, but.
• 1:07:01
  In a lot of times you do like the one thing that I'll notice
• 1:07:04
  after lunch is you just hear a lot of Oh my God, I'm so tired,
• 1:07:07
  right? Yep, there's a reason for that.
• 1:07:11
  And they don't realize it. And you can't tell 30 people
• 1:07:14
  that you work with, hey, it's because of the shit that you
• 1:07:17
  just put in your body, right? They don't want to hear that.
• 1:07:19
  And I didn't eat that much better, so who am I to say?
• 1:07:22
  But I know these things because the one thing he'll always say,
• 1:07:26
  and I do a lot of it, is I listen to thousands of hours of
• 1:07:29
  scientists and doctors and just all kinds of podcasts on
• 1:07:33
  subjects that I'm not really even going to follow through on.
• 1:07:37
  You know, that's why all the nutrition stuff.
• 1:07:39
  Now you're talking my language because I've heard so many
• 1:07:42
  people say those same things, right?
• 1:07:44
  Yeah, and I like. Starches, all that stuff causes
• 1:07:47
  inflammation. It's just been done.
• 1:07:49
  You can eat it. Nobody's saying you can't eat
• 1:07:51
  it. But when you do, that's why you
• 1:07:52
  hurt and your joints ache and. Yeah.
• 1:07:56
  And I think that we're at a point, you know, control what
• 1:07:59
  you can control in terms of like with nutrition.
• 1:08:01
  And I, we have more stuff stacked against especially in
• 1:08:04
  the US because of the way that our food is made and stuff.
• 1:08:07
  It's something that I'm working more with clients is like when
• 1:08:10
  we look at like hormones and stuff, especially for females,
• 1:08:13
  like, dude, if you're consuming a lot of like dairy or like
• 1:08:16
  highly processed meat and stuff that you have to think about
• 1:08:18
  what's the after effects? So it's really a matter of like,
• 1:08:22
  you know, let's make sure that we're, we're doing what we can,
• 1:08:25
  right? Like we want to.
• 1:08:26
  And I do believe in so Peter, Peter Attia has a great book,
• 1:08:29
  right? It's like how not to die.
• 1:08:30
  And now research is really like, if you're going to, if you're
• 1:08:33
  choosing, we're not choosing nutrition versus fitness, but I
• 1:08:36
  would say, hey, if you're going to choose, do the working out
• 1:08:39
  instead of the nutrition. But when we get to that
• 1:08:41
  nutrition, you know, like do something quality each day, it's
• 1:08:45
  never going to be perfect. We work out a couple times a
• 1:08:48
  week. Or if you're, if you're like me
• 1:08:49
  and Chris, we work out every day.
• 1:08:52
  You have to do every day, right? You got to eat every day.
• 1:08:55
  It's like, I think Weight Watchers says there's like 41
• 1:08:57
  decisions you make every day about food.
• 1:08:59
  They're not all going to be perfect.
• 1:09:01
  But if you can like kind of break it down a little bit more
• 1:09:04
  where you're like, OK, well, Liz told me to drink a little bit
• 1:09:06
  more water, try to get some protein in, start, start looking
• 1:09:10
  at like what's fiber and like, how can I get it in my diet?
• 1:09:12
  It's like the same. It's the same concept of, OK, I
• 1:09:16
  just got to go out and walk. You said I can just go out and
• 1:09:18
  walk. You got to start somewhere with
• 1:09:20
  food. Well.
• 1:09:21
  Another thing that you just said that you shouldn't gloss over
• 1:09:24
  that people do all the time and here's why they're in bad shape
• 1:09:27
  is what you're putting into your body.
• 1:09:30
  We just learned last week, we posted it on our page, there's
• 1:09:34
  nineteen ingredients and a McDonald's French fry.
• 1:09:36
  Now in 1975, there was 3. Chris just told me when he read
• 1:09:40
  the ingredients, that's the reason that I've been getting
• 1:09:43
  sick when at the once in a while that I'll stop at McDonald's.
• 1:09:47
  I would feel horrible afterwards.
• 1:09:49
  There's dairy in there now, there's straight up milk in a
• 1:09:51
  McDonald's French fry and I'd sit there and eat like a medium
• 1:09:55
  sized fry with my burger and. Getting dairy in there, why is.
• 1:09:59
  That yeah, yeah, there's if you go to our, if you go to our
• 1:10:01
  Facebook page. There's every bad oil, canola
• 1:10:04
  oil, yeah, oil, veg things. You can't.
• 1:10:09
  The things you can't pronounce that you should actually do is.
• 1:10:12
  That Peter host does when You make hot really bad things.
• 1:10:15
  It's just crazy now. I overheard your conversation.
• 1:10:18
  So cereal. Binge, you were listening in.
• 1:10:21
  That's funny cereal binge night. And then you you can have a
• 1:10:25
  chicken salad sandwich without the sandwich.
• 1:10:27
  You can take chicken salad and put it in a Tupperware bowl with
• 1:10:30
  just your Mayo, mustard, whatever and and just use a
• 1:10:32
  spoon. You know.
• 1:10:33
  So you can still have. I know, you know, it's horrible
• 1:10:36
  being inside my head because I know I'm doing wrong and I do it
• 1:10:39
  anyway, like. I'm but see and but send so that
• 1:10:42
  also goes back to what Liz was saying 41 decisions meal prep
• 1:10:47
  like you have 1020 and 10. So if you meal prepped on a
• 1:10:50
  Sunday and took and took something every like you don't
• 1:10:54
  have a Costco in Pontiac only you probably have to drive to
• 1:10:56
  Chicago. No, but we could get Mama Kay to
• 1:10:59
  pick me up some stuff. Oh no, not not a rotisserie
• 1:11:01
  chicken. But you, but you know what I'm
• 1:11:02
  saying? So, so I'm going to, I'm going
• 1:11:05
  to challenge, I'm going to challenge you when you come back
• 1:11:07
  from your vacation, your birthday vacation, whatever, how
• 1:11:10
  long that is, I want you to meal prep for a week at work.
• 1:11:13
  All right, and, and cut out the bad starch stuff, cut out the
• 1:11:17
  breads and just see the difference.
• 1:11:19
  All right, for those for those four days because you only work
• 1:11:21
  four days a week. So see the difference of those
• 1:11:23
  four days as opposed to? That first Monday through
• 1:11:26
  Thursday going back, I will do that.
• 1:11:28
  Because I would be interested to see how you feel when we talk
• 1:11:31
  that Friday morning on the show before we go live to see what
• 1:11:35
  that impact had on you for that week.
• 1:11:37
  Because it'll happen that quickly, won't it, Liz?
• 1:11:39
  It will. It's like, and that's what's
• 1:11:41
  really cool, you know, like if you give your body just a
• 1:11:43
  little, it's kind of like people that start working out, you give
• 1:11:46
  them just a little bit and they're like, I feel really good
• 1:11:48
  today. Well, here's where I would apply
• 1:11:51
  it. I used to give lessons when I
• 1:11:52
  was out in Arizona. I had quite a few students a
• 1:11:54
  month. I would all, I would make this,
• 1:11:57
  yeah, I'm a guitarist. So to give back and to help me
• 1:12:01
  learn, I would teach. You know, they always say those
• 1:12:04
  who can't do teach. That's not true, you know?
• 1:12:07
  Yeah, that's a stupid saying. But anyway, I learned more from
• 1:12:10
  my students than I taught them. But we had one agreement.
• 1:12:13
  If you don't do what I teach you this week, we're going to learn
• 1:12:16
  the same thing next week, Right? Yeah.
• 1:12:18
  Because what you've been saying about working out and what Chris
• 1:12:21
  has been saying about working out for this whole time we've
• 1:12:23
  been talking is if you're not pushing yourself to the next
• 1:12:26
  level, there's no moving forward.
• 1:12:28
  Right. The same thing applies to
• 1:12:30
  playing playing an instrument. I just got in a conversation
• 1:12:33
  about this at work today. It's more physical than it is
• 1:12:37
  mental, right? It's a given you have to know
• 1:12:39
  how to play, but then you have to be in the tip top shape to
• 1:12:43
  get on a stage and do it to perfection, right?
• 1:12:46
  That's a whole nother level. You have to physically be in
• 1:12:48
  shape to do that to to a certain level.
• 1:12:51
  If you're a guitar player, your dexterity and your stamina has
• 1:12:54
  to be in your fingers, in your hands.
• 1:12:55
  You can't get tired, right? Sorry guys, I can't play the
• 1:12:59
  last three songs because my hands are tired, right?
• 1:13:01
  Chris would be like suck it up buddy.
• 1:13:04
  And if you really think about it, like we're set up, we have
• 1:13:06
  these like we're this amazing species, you know what I mean?
• 1:13:09
  And we can do so much, but you know, we're constantly, we're in
• 1:13:12
  this weird thing where we're constantly fighting homeostasis,
• 1:13:15
  right? Like, and we're set up now that
• 1:13:17
  the world is so easy, right? Like life is so easy.
• 1:13:20
  And it makes it more, we have, we're less tolerant to things.
• 1:13:23
  Don't you notice that? We're like, yeah, like, like
• 1:13:26
  when my Internet goes out and I'm like, this is bullshit, you
• 1:13:28
  know? And I'm like, really?
• 1:13:30
  This is the worst thing that's happening to me right now,
• 1:13:32
  right? There's somebody starving
• 1:13:34
  somewhere in the world, they want a glass of water, right?
• 1:13:36
  And my Internet doesn't work. I think the same thing, but I
• 1:13:39
  instantly get angry just like everybody else.
• 1:13:42
  Yeah, and I think the more that you can work with, you know,
• 1:13:44
  whether it's we're talking about nutrition or working out or
• 1:13:46
  whatever, it is like something that's helping you with your
• 1:13:49
  stress and how you manage and like just pushing your brain
• 1:13:52
  forward and like learning and all that stuff.
• 1:13:54
  It just, it puts you more flow and it makes, it makes you more
• 1:13:58
  tolerant to things, which I think that's like what, you
• 1:14:01
  know, you live a better life when you're more tolerant and
• 1:14:03
  you're, you're less resistant to all of the stuff that can suck
• 1:14:06
  you in, you know? Yeah, I think most people would
• 1:14:09
  describe me as you. You got to screw up pretty bad
• 1:14:12
  before I'm going to call you out on it, right?
• 1:14:14
  Like a lot of times I'll just let you fail just because I
• 1:14:17
  don't want to get involved, right?
• 1:14:18
  And you think you're right. I'm going to help anybody that
• 1:14:21
  wants to help themselves. And if you're, if you're coming
• 1:14:23
  at me and saying what I'm saying is wrong, peace, man, You're
• 1:14:26
  right 100%. And then that same person will
• 1:14:29
  come back and have to eat crow. You know what?
• 1:14:32
  You were right. So the the picture on the Liz
• 1:14:38
  Liz Rodriguez coaching.com. See how I Segway back there and
• 1:14:41
  you have, I'm assuming this is your husband.
• 1:14:44
  He's he's saying goodbye to burpees and jump squats and he's
• 1:14:47
  doing the reverse side plank type thing.
• 1:14:51
  Oh no, that's me. Oh, they.
• 1:14:52
  No, no, it's shirtless. Is that you?
• 1:14:55
  I'm like. Which picture is it on the
• 1:14:58
  website? Well, if it's, if it's.
• 1:14:59
  If it's you, it looks like you're topless.
• 1:15:02
  Better get that off the website. I'm like which picture is it?
• 1:15:07
  It's under. It's under the home section.
• 1:15:08
  You got the. It's not all about broccoli and
• 1:15:10
  chicken every day. Then you have say goodbye to
• 1:15:11
  burpees and jump squats. Yeah.
• 1:15:13
  And I mean, I guess it could be you and you could just be
• 1:15:16
  wearing something that is very similar to your skin tone.
• 1:15:19
  Yeah, yeah, that's definitely like I'm in like a yeah.
• 1:15:24
  OK, wow, yeah, you are ripped. I can see where the muscle is
• 1:15:28
  now. Right on.
• 1:15:30
  I'm like, because I'm trying to think, I'm like, you know what
• 1:15:32
  we didn't do? I had thought about doing some
• 1:15:34
  pictures on the website with me and him, and then he was just
• 1:15:37
  like, you know what he's like. I think you should just have it
• 1:15:39
  all. Just have it all you.
• 1:15:42
  And so that's that's what I did. All this is on the.
• 1:15:45
  Website, even the silly ones if you go to the bottom and you see
• 1:15:48
  some pictures like those are nature pictures and stuff that's
• 1:15:50
  like from when we travel there's one with cows in it like we were
• 1:15:53
  in Iowa. We passed this like big thing of
• 1:15:56
  water and there's all these cows sitting in the water.
• 1:15:58
  It was so cute. That's.
• 1:16:02
  Awesome. Right now.
• 1:16:02
  No, I I see that one now, too. With the cows.
• 1:16:04
  Yeah, I see it. It's that's next to the
• 1:16:06
  paragraph of why choose me as your Women's Health coach?
• 1:16:10
  But yeah, I just, I meant to ask you that earlier, but I wanted
• 1:16:12
  to circle back around to your reason you're here is to promote
• 1:16:15
  your, your business and your brand and get the world out
• 1:16:18
  there. And and she has a video that
• 1:16:20
  pops up that I haven't watched it because we're live on the
• 1:16:23
  Chris and Mike show, but it says ready to feel strong and you can
• 1:16:26
  watch this 10 minute free master class now, now.
• 1:16:29
  But the real truth about why your workouts aren't working
• 1:16:33
  anymore? You got it.
• 1:16:34
  That's awesome go ahead I'm all about like putting putting good
• 1:16:39
  info out there. I think especially for
• 1:16:41
  regardless men, women, I think just in general with fitness,
• 1:16:44
  it's like we just want to make sure that we're putting good
• 1:16:48
  information out there. We wanted we want people to know
• 1:16:50
  what they should and should not be doing.
• 1:16:52
  That's really the bottom line. You know what I mean because
• 1:16:54
  those of us that have been doing it forever like I don't have 5
• 1:16:57
  million followers or anything like that right like I'm just
• 1:16:59
  doing my thing. I got my little business.
• 1:17:02
  So you do, you put out the things out there that you're
• 1:17:04
  hoping that people will see because it's probably going to
• 1:17:07
  be more helpful than the number one person on Instagram that
• 1:17:10
  walks around on high heels while she squats, you know?
• 1:17:13
  What I'm saying it's. Just take this easier.
• 1:17:15
  So if you squat in platform heels, it's taking the ankle
• 1:17:20
  mobility out. That's all it's doing.
• 1:17:21
  Right. It's just, yeah, it's stupid.
• 1:17:23
  I I I actually sent stuff to Nate because there there was
• 1:17:27
  Nate Palmer was on, you know, before we met you.
• 1:17:30
  He's been on a few times. He's great.
• 1:17:31
  We should have you both on. That would be a fun
• 1:17:33
  conversation. Get the male and female coaching
• 1:17:35
  version from things. We did that with him.
• 1:17:37
  Peter Horror. Yeah, right.
• 1:17:39
  But he had I had there's something that popped up on on
• 1:17:42
  Instagram like the 10 things like misrep things you shouldn't
• 1:17:46
  do when you work out. And I so I screenshot I'm like,
• 1:17:48
  dude, is this real? Three out of the ten were real.
• 1:17:52
  So the reason why I bring that up, boys and girls, find a coach
• 1:17:56
  that knows what the hell they're doing.
• 1:17:58
  If you're looking to change your lifestyle and become more fit,
• 1:18:02
  more healthy and more active, find someone like Liz that knows
• 1:18:05
  what the hell she's talking about because she's spent an
• 1:18:07
  entire lifetime being an athlete and working out. 25 years that
• 1:18:12
  she's been working out, lifting weights.
• 1:18:13
  You want someone that that knows what they're talking about, but
• 1:18:17
  they can also back it up. It drove me nuts.
• 1:18:19
  Some of the coaches at Orange Cereal, when I first started,
• 1:18:21
  they weren't in shape. Jelly rolls and man boobs.
• 1:18:25
  It's like you're going to train me but you're not in shape.
• 1:18:29
  I don't respect you. Like I want somebody that's been
• 1:18:32
  there, done that. It's like we talked when we were
• 1:18:34
  talking with Justin the, the, the £600 weight loss guy.
• 1:18:37
  If someone's insanely obese and they need a coach, are you going
• 1:18:41
  to go to Liz or are you going to go to somebody like Justin who's
• 1:18:43
  dropped £600? Once you get down to normal
• 1:18:46
  weight loss then you go to Liz to fine tune everything and keep
• 1:18:50
  your life on track because we all know like you on your
• 1:18:53
  website fads, quick fixes don't work you.
• 1:18:55
  Have to know what your goals are.
• 1:18:57
  You have to know what your goals are.
• 1:18:58
  And I think what's great is that, you know, and that's
• 1:19:00
  what's been the great thing all the years of managing is that I
• 1:19:03
  watched the industry evolve where it was because you know
• 1:19:06
  what, when I started like back now, like it was so long ago,
• 1:19:08
  2005, 9 times out of ten former athletes, people in like super
• 1:19:14
  big shape, everybody had an exercise science degree.
• 1:19:17
  It's not like that anymore. You have more people that are
• 1:19:19
  second careers. They went through a big weight
• 1:19:21
  loss. Maybe they have different
• 1:19:23
  autoimmune issues, whatever. It is like, all of a sudden, I,
• 1:19:25
  you know, you looked at my team by the time I like left the
• 1:19:28
  industry and it was much more different personalities,
• 1:19:32
  different backgrounds, which I think is great because it's
• 1:19:34
  going to attract different people into the clubs and
• 1:19:37
  they're going to feel more comfortable.
• 1:19:38
  Like, no offense, there's women that were like, yeah, oh, you're
• 1:19:41
  a former athlete, never had a weight problem.
• 1:19:43
  I don't want to work with you now.
• 1:19:44
  That's cool. Let's find you someone that you
• 1:19:47
  feel like you can connect with, Right?
• 1:19:50
  Right. Yeah, and that's yeah, but
• 1:19:51
  that's the same thing with when I first started Orange there,
• 1:19:54
  there were trainers there that were not in shape.
• 1:19:56
  And it's kind of like, OK, we had this guy Thunder, big black
• 1:19:59
  man, just brick house and in shape.
• 1:20:02
  I would respect more of what he told me then Trainer B, which
• 1:20:05
  I'm not going to drop a name because that would be rude.
• 1:20:07
  That wasn't in shape because obviously Thunder lived it.
• 1:20:11
  He he lived that lifestyle. He, he, he practiced what he
• 1:20:14
  preached, right. So I can see that and I've, I've
• 1:20:18
  in my world selling houses. That's my real gig.
• 1:20:20
  There's people I don't jive with from a personality standpoint,
• 1:20:23
  it's OK, OK, let's you know, I'll refer you to woman realtor
• 1:20:26
  if you were comfortable with, I'm fine with that.
• 1:20:28
  I just the end game is you get what you want out of it.
• 1:20:30
  You know, no harm, no foul. It doesn't happen very often,
• 1:20:33
  but it happens. So I like the fact that you have
• 1:20:35
  that mindset too, that if if you know somebody's like, oh, you're
• 1:20:38
  an athlete, I've never been like you.
• 1:20:40
  OK. As long as you're still on the
• 1:20:42
  path to get healthy, that's all that matters.
• 1:20:44
  How you choose to get there is up to you.
• 1:20:47
  So that's cool though. I like it.
• 1:20:49
  I like it. Cool.
• 1:20:51
  Good conversation list. Anything you want to say before
• 1:20:53
  we we wrap up the show. And and you know, again, Liz
• 1:20:56
  Rodriguez, coaching.com is your website where they can find you.
• 1:21:00
  Yeah, on. Facebook.
• 1:21:01
  But you know, anything else you want to share with us?
• 1:21:03
  You want to get out there to the world.
• 1:21:06
  Yeah, I think, you know, fitness is for everybody.
• 1:21:08
  So find a way that find a way to get started and you know,
• 1:21:12
  whether it's myself or someone else, there's so much info out
• 1:21:14
  there. Make sure that you know, you're
• 1:21:16
  you're finding someone that you could work with that you can ask
• 1:21:18
  some questions. It's like anything else.
• 1:21:20
  I have a financial advisor, right?
• 1:21:22
  Like I have my business coach that helps me with stuff.
• 1:21:24
  There's a reason why there's experts in different fields.
• 1:21:26
  And don't don't be nervous or afraid of like finding someone
• 1:21:30
  that's going to help you with your life.
• 1:21:31
  I. Always call them my people.
• 1:21:32
  Yeah, you got you. Have my people everywhere.
• 1:21:35
  I'm sorry if you're not my people, right?
• 1:21:37
  Don't take offense to it. You're just.
• 1:21:39
  Yeah, because my goal is to get offended.
• 1:21:41
  It's like nothing when I need my car fixed.
• 1:21:44
  Don't get mad because you think you can do better than my guy.
• 1:21:46
  My guy never lets me down, you know right?
• 1:21:49
  If my guy does, you might be my next guy.
• 1:21:52
  It's so Midwest. We do have our people and we're
• 1:21:54
  so loyal. It's like once you're on our
• 1:21:56
  good side, man, everything is good.
• 1:21:57
  I'm going to send. You 17?
• 1:21:59
  It's not just Midwest though. I've been here since I was three
• 1:22:01
  years old and I'm that way. I have my my insane home
• 1:22:04
  inspector, my same 2 lenders, my same title company.
• 1:22:06
  I've had them for years. I just work with the core people
• 1:22:09
  because you don't have to micromanage your people.
• 1:22:11
  You just you trust them to do their job.
• 1:22:14
  And it takes all the stress off of us as as the person that's
• 1:22:18
  utilizing that service because we know at the end of the day,
• 1:22:21
  Mike knows he I got his back and vice versa.
• 1:22:24
  And that's what you want. So absolutely.
• 1:22:26
  Liz Rodriguez coaching formal collegiate Division One athlete.
• 1:22:31
  She's been working out for 25 plus years.
• 1:22:34
  Liz Rodriguez coaching.com. It's kind of a niche market
• 1:22:37
  right now. Is that what is that
• 1:22:38
  perimenopause? Yeah, perimenopause, former
• 1:22:41
  athletes in their in their late 30s forties.
• 1:22:43
  I work with, you know, a lot of high achieving women too.
• 1:22:46
  But I really, I love working with former athletes.
• 1:22:47
  We're a different breed, you know?
• 1:22:49
  Because you have the same mindset, you got that tunnel
• 1:22:51
  vision. Yeah, we do.
• 1:22:53
  Which? Which is awesome.
• 1:22:56
  And you got a tunnel in different ways.
• 1:22:58
  Yes, yes, So thank you so much for coming on the show.
• 1:23:01
  I'm glad we can finally get this back happening because we did.
• 1:23:03
  We did try to have you on before, and, you know,
• 1:23:05
  technology sucked that day, but now you're, you're rocking.
• 1:23:10
  Yeah. So you've, you've watched her.
• 1:23:12
  We want to have. We'll have.
• 1:23:13
  We'll figure out a way to get you back on one.
• 1:23:14
  Nate. I'm sure Nate will be game
• 1:23:15
  because Nate loves being on the show.
• 1:23:18
  And I'm sure you've watched this enough that, hey, you know, if
• 1:23:21
  you're having a bad day, don't let the bad days win.
• 1:23:23
  Don't leave a hole in somebody else's heart because you decided
• 1:23:25
  to take your own wife. Somebody will miss you.
• 1:23:27
  Somebody does love you. Reach out.
• 1:23:28
  Somebody wants to hear you won't hear your voice.
• 1:23:30
  They want to talk to you, journal it, skull screaming your
• 1:23:34
  pillow, go meditate for 20 minutes.
• 1:23:36
  What have you got to do to kind of bring yourself down and get,
• 1:23:39
  you know, an even an even vibe when you wake up tomorrow?
• 1:23:42
  It's going to be a better day and it'll be better day because
• 1:23:44
  you're here still with us. So with that being said, I'm
• 1:23:48
  Chris. He's Mike.
• 1:23:48
  That is Lid Rodrique. Liz Rodriguez from
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  lizrodriguezcoaching.com. Until next time.
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  See ya. So don't leave yet.
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  Talk to you. Look the tablet.
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  Go insane. Feel the teachers.
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  Focus your light on your journey.
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  Feel the trail behind your eyes. Feel the show that needs your
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  turn. Take a moment.
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  Look. Until you see it, put the bail
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  into your balls. We.
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  Now you're coming. Come down here.
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  You haven't bounced out in the sand.
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  You just bump fighting. Wait for the dead.
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  Wait, you're. Closure out here.
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  But in the wind you ain't. No creature.
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  We're playing Smound you should. You quit on the almighty day.
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  You gotta dream who in your life to keep our soul in every man.
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  Take the trip behind your eyes. Feel the soul evolution now.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.