July 17, 2024 • 36 mins
From P!nk to Alicia Keys to Olympian Shawn Johnson, celebrity fitness trainer Jeanette Jenkins has worked in the health and wellness industry for over 30 years with a range of clientele, from entertainers to athletes. She’s the founder and president of The Hollywood Trainer LLC and the creator of “The Hollywood Trainer Club.” Her mission is simple – to help everyone find the athlete inside them. For Wellness Wednesday, Jeanette joins the show to break down her philosophy on embracing your genetic makeup and cultivating a healthy body image.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright Side, it
is Wellness Wednesday, and joining us today is celebrity fitness
trainer Jannette Jenkins. She's breaking down the science behind getting
a good workout and feeling good too. It's Wednesday, July seventeenth.
I'm Simone Boyce.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from
Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
share women's stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Danielle, this is such an exciting day on the show.
We get to talk about our love of fitness because
you know we're both fitness girlies.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, indeed, how many times are you going to talk
about your protein intake?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm not going to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It that much. Not that much, Okay. I want to
know more about your fitness journey though. I'll start like
I'll tell you I have been working out for what
seven eight years now, but I feel like I spent
so much of that time not knowing what I was
doing at all, Like being in the gym and having
men correct me on my form and I.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Just didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So I feel like once I got the knowledge about
having proper form about what exercises worked for my body.
That's the moment that everything changed. What was the moment?
How'd you learn experimentation? There's really no other way. It's
just trial and error.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I've learned that doing weighted cardio is what my body
responds to best. And that's what makes me feel good too,
is having an elevated heart rate through those workouts, because
I have a hard time doing static cardio like you know,
forty five minutes on the treadmill or stare master. I
just I have too much add for that. So I
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like a little more like aggression. We've talked about this.
You love to lift weights too.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh yeah, I feel like strong body, strong mind. But
I didn't always feel that way.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Actually.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I grew up as such a creative girl, like I
wanted to write poetry and write music and sit in
my room and watch TV. And my mom is a
big fitness girl, and she said to me, we got
to move our bodies.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We got to move.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I don't care what you do, we gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And so we laugh now because I think she tried
to put me in anything like soccer, gymnastics, and I
would you know, I just hate it it all, and
one day I started to dance and then that was it.
I fell in love and I loved being in touch
with my body, and so I think dance set me
off on the right track. Since then, I've been working
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out and you know, now my sort of litmus test
is I only pack in a carry on, and so
can I lift my carry on, which I pack very
heavy above my head into the overhead compartment. And you know,
sometimes when I'm not working out as much, it's harder.
So that's my test.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, you touched on something that I think is really
essential when it comes to everyone's fitness journey, and that
is finding the movement that brings you joy. Because if
I don't like running like it's not going to get done,
I'm not going to do it. The body of the
mind does not benefit. So we gotta be centering joy
in our movement.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Speaking of the word joy, I don't know if this
resonates for you, Simone, but when I have been at
some of my saddest moments, I will make sure that
I'm moving. Like I remember when I got my heart broken,
the first thing I did was sign up for a
triathlon because I was like I'm so sad, I'm just
gonna lay in my bed and.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Never get up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I better sign up to train for something.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Listen, I'm sure a lot of us have been doing
these experiments with our fitness routines, going through some trial
and error, and honestly, it can seem overwhelming these days
because if you feel like you're bombarded with fitness information
and misinformation all the time, I mean, you're not alone.
There's always a new trend, new gear, and new promises
of the perfect weight loss solutions in my algorithm all
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the time.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh yeah, the new trends are just the worst. There's
always just so much noise, and it can really be
hard to decipher what's truth from what's fiction when it
comes to what actually helps us live healthier lives. So
instead of sifting through tons of books, tons of Instagram posts,
tons of magazines, tons of articles, our guest today is
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here to cut through all of that noise in thirty minutes.
She's trained some of the biggest names out there, and
she's one of Hollywood's most sought after healthy living coaches.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
As she should be after three decades of teaching experience.
She's the creator of the Hollywood Trainer Club, which is
her own virtual gym that you can join, and her
roster of celebrity clients includes Pink, Alicia Keys, Tracy Ellis,
ross Nia Long, Serena Williams, and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez,
just to name a few.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I love a lot of things about Janette Jenkins, and
one of those things is that she approaches fitness and
training from a heart centered place and a scientific perspective.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You're so right, Danielle. I love the way that she
does both.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And just to hype up her bona fides for a second,
Jeanette studied human kinetics at the University of Ottawa and
has earned over eighteen international certificates, so she knows a
thing or two about living healthy. Plus she's part of
the Hella Sunshine family. Shout out Hella Sunshine Collective.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We're getting into all of that and more after the
break stick with.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Us, Jeanette.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Welcome Jeannette. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Okay, So, Jeannette, you have been in the fitness game
for thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Years thirty four to be exact.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now, every trainer I know has their own approach like, Yeah,
some trainers have a pilates base approach, some have a
strength based approach, some have an endurance based approach. Can
you describe the Net Jenkins fitness philosophy?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Because I'm a planner, I'm a virgo, we are architects.
So very early in my career, I made a tagline
for my business and it was called cross Training for
the Complete Body. Yeah, and that was actually my first
VHS series was Cross Training for the Complete Body. And
it was actually before even CrossFit existed, So this was
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before I was literally using cross training as a terminology.
And the reason why was because I came from the
world of sport. I alway played several different sports and
then I have a degree in exercise physiology, and being
someone who used her body for so many different sports,
I could see that I needed all of the components
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of fitness. So cross training meaning you need to have
strength training because that's your foundation, right. You need to
have strong muscles, strong bones, strong connective tissue. Then you
need to have cardiovascular fitness because you're not going to
survive through any type of sport of longevity without having
a good cardio base. And then the missing component that
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I felt that everybody was missing for years. And mind you,
this was two thousand when I started my company, Yeah,
twenty four years ago when I came up with this tagline,
and the last category was flexibility, and I felt like
nobody was doing flexibility work in the year two thousand
and that all these athletes were getting injuries Achilles injuries,
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hamstring injuries, growing injuries because often they lacked.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The range of motion that they needed.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I know from my experience of working with so many
athletes that that was a commonality. I think personally, the
category mobility was created so that the tough guys could
do stretching without it being called yoga or pilates.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You know, my grandfather before he passed away at ninety
years old, I asked him if he had any regrets,
and he thought long and heard. He had this full life,
and you know what he said to me, what I
wish I would have stretched more?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my god, at.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Ninety he really said that, that's all.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And he was serious. He was like, he called me Dolly.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He said, Dolly, you stretch every day, right, so you're
you're onto something. If we rewind a little bit, yeah,
how did we get to this? Janette Jenkins that we
know what got you into fitness initially.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
So my initial love for fitness literally came from having
an older brother. And I think that older brothers need
to get the dow props that they deserve because I didn't.
I I think wasn't. Caitlin Clark has an older brother,
and so it does. Like Sabrina Yenesco, like a lot
of really good female athletes have an older brother that
they played with when they were kids, So like.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Look into that.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I don't have the research, but I know I hear
it quite often. My case, I had an older brother
who was like literally Olympic level like Gregel Roman wrestler,
but he was an all around athlete and he literally
was one year older and he was my hero.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It was like I want to play with him.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
So as a little girl, it's like my mom would
be like take your sister with you, take yours as
our white day, oh wherever.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know. He was literally like my babysitter.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
But I just wanted to play, and so I ended
up playing all these sports at a young young age
so I could play with him. And then you know,
when the kids are picking teams and you get picked
before all the other boys, so you're not like last
I was like, oh shit, I'm good because they're picking
me before they pick like have these guys. So we'd
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be playing like flag football and they'd be like, well
like Roger's little sister, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Like, Cathleen, I run. It was a huge compliment.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So like there you are, like six years old and
you're being like picked before some of the other guys.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I was like, I'm good, So, Jeanette.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Eventually your client list grew to include people like Alicia Keys,
Tracy Ells, Ross Pink, Serena Williams, and olympians Lori Hernandez
and Sean Johnson. Well, I know it's hard to choose
a favorite, so we're not gonna make you do that,
but I do want to hear some stories about tenacity,
about work ethic. Who's a client who's really blown you
away in their training?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I mean, hands down, Pink is pretty incredible when it
comes to like all of the components of fitness, the strength, cardio,
flexibility work.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She fully accepted that it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Was important to do all of it, being able to
do acrobats and aerial silks, dance perform and you know,
and she still has that pressure where she's doing covers
of like Women's magazine and stuff, so of course she
still wants to look amazing, and I understand that that
type of pressure, and like I would started training Pink
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in twenty eleven, right when she had her baby.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
After she had Willow, who's now thirteen.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We took a year training to get her ready for
her first video release of Try, which was the first
song to be released on the Truth About Love album
and I'll never forget. We'd not have been training maybe
like six or seven months, and they were gonna start
working on the choreography, and her team was like, we
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need your trainer to come into the studio. My life
at studio because like it was really a sound stage
at Sony.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was like, Oh, she big time.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Like normally when I go and get someone's choreography, it's
like in a little dance studio.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I was like, we pull up to the Sony lot.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
They got entire sound the whole like sound stage and
one silk hanging from the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I was like, Oh, she a bass balls. So do
you call her Pink when you're in sessions with her?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Sha? Of course, Asha, I call Alisha. That's my girl.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
And that's the thing is that we respect each other
like I respect her. She is a boss, and I
show up on time early, I'm prepared.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I don't mess around.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Like the thing with celebrities is they have so many
things on them that have to get done, hiring the
best makeup artists, hairstylist, wardo. It's like, if you're not
the best and you're not helping them make their career
better or helping make their day better, helping make everything better,
then you're out, like they will replace you so fast.
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So that was the most incredible respect, like feeling like
if there was a bucket list client.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I could have, she would have probably been.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
In just because like everything that she does physically I
already loved. So when I walked in and they played
the song for the first time I'd never heard it,
I actually started crying. And then when the video was done,
I remember, I fully remember, there's literally a picture of
us walking the streets of New York going to train
in Tribeca, and that was the day that she showed
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me the try video for the first time. She just
got it, and that was what we had been training
a year to get her ready for that video and
when I seen it, I was just like, oh my god,
this is so incredible. And I just checked on it today.
It has had over five hundred and eighty million plays.
It is the highest thing eight million plays. So it
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just goes to show. It's like you work with one
person the impact that that has had on the ripple effect.
It's like I'm helping her be the best that she
can be. So once she can write this incredible song
that is so motivating and uplifting, like it's the lyrics
are all about just get up and try, like we've
all been there, You're like, don't grudge it. And then
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to see the visual of her and the other incredible
dancer create this incredible art right and then. So that's
always been one of my greatest joys of training celebrities
in general, is that you're helping them. If it's somebody
you really respect and you love what they do in
the world, then you're helping them have a ripple effect
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in the community or in the world, and I think
that's extremely admirable.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's like you're part of the team.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is there a client who has a story or a
success story that particularly stands out to you, Like, is
there a celebrity client that came to you with a
certain goal in mind that they like really achieved or
had some setbacks.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I mean they all have like incredible stories. One I
can think of, just for performance wise, would be a
Journey Smollett.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
She did incredible.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Action sequences in Birds of Prey, which was a Harley
Quinn movie, and like the amount that we trained, like
literally she would know the choreography that she would get
from the stunt director and we would be like every
day in the backyard like practicing her actual choreography.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And she killed it in that movie.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
And she's actually doing a TV show right now, an
action one with Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yeah, it's a called Firebug and so it's gonna be
released in January and it is.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You're such a good hype woman.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I know. I love my girls. It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I love them, And you asked me, and it's like, yeah,
I'm super proud of her because doing action is not easy,
like to learn all the martial arts sequences and stuff.
Like I trained also Paula Patten for Mission Impossible, and
we again it's like you're they have a stunt coordinator
and they and the stunt coordinator teaches them what to do,
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but then it's up to them to continue practice and
practice and practice so that when it's time to shoot,
they got it and they're ready and they look good
doing it because they're executing with like good forming. I mean,
we've all seen fight scenes that were like, uh yeah, okay, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's one thing to do the fight choreography. It's another
thing to make it look effortless and seamless. Yeah, that
takes a lot of training and practice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You have trained people who are the best in the
world of what they do, right, like Serena Williams, Alicia Keys, Pink,
the list goes on.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You have really intimate moments with these women.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah. Is there a through line in these people that
you see that you think helps make them successful?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Okay, uh, well, first of all, I want to rewind
on the Serena one because that was like so long ago.
I literally just pulled up some bitches. It was like
in two thousand and seven was when I met her,
and I can remember actually too. She DMed me on
Twitter when before like when it was actually Twitter and
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asked me if I could do some nutrition stuff with her.
So I did a metabolic test on her, which was
really cool because you don't always get to do metabolic
testing on clients.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And that's what the test said, right, But uh.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah, and then you know the through and then I
did a little bit of yoga and pilates with her,
and what I noticed through that was that her genetics
were phenomenal. I remember a couple of times saying to her,
your genetic phenom She'd be like, what do you mean
by that? I was like, girl, they don't make them
like you, like your muscle integrity and everything is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I love that you mentioned genetic body types. Yeah, so ecdomorph, mesomorph,
and endomorph.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
There's a lot of debate on it because this the
genetic body types were made up by a psychologist slash
scientist researcher by the name of Sheldon. Everybody studied them
in psychology.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
He made these.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Body types based out of observation. Okay, And so the
important thing that you can see is, and that is
scientifically known, is that we're all biogenetically unique.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
So basic, how do we identify that? Then basically, what
you need.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
To realize is that when you do a strength training program,
and simone does a strength training program, and all three
of us could do the exact same strength training program,
and what we are going to look like at the
end of it is going to be completely different. And
so I think it's it's cool to have the name
so people can kind of, Okay, I'm more of this
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type or that type. Yes, an ecdomorph would be somebody
who has more long, lean think model type figures, both
a male or female or basketball player.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And then a mesomorph.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Would be more of your athletic body type, like a gymnast,
like a Sean Johnson, like a Jana Jackson, like a
pink like a me you know, like we're more muscular people.
We have what's called more medium fast twitch muscle fibers.
Then an endomorph is somebody who is more volumptuous. It's
your more like Marilyn Monroe type of Ashley Graham, right,
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like someone who's more volumptuous. Then you have sometimes people
who are kind of like a mix. I always like
Naomi Campbell's one. I've always been like, she looks more
of like a mezzo ecdo mix because she's ectomorph for sure,
tall and model.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Like, but she's also muscular.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Right, So here's the biogenetically unique. There will never be
another Naomi Campbell, there will never be another Ashley Graham,
there will never be another Serena Williams. Well.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I think it's cool to have this framework because it
does help minimize that urge to compare yourself to other
body types that you might see online. And also the
cool thing is you can still change your body type
through the training that you do.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
No, you can't change your body type, but you can
do the best that you can with your body type. Otherwise, yes,
if you just lifted weights, we'd all just be able
to get as big as we want it. But it
doesn't happen that way. Some people can just look at
weights like you put weights in my hand. I'm gonna
put on some muscle. It's my genetic makeup. And research
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has shown that medium fast twitched muscle fibers they hypertrophy
the most.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And we start lifting weights and we look jacked.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, And I know from my experience, and I have
had so many women who are mesomorph body types too,
will say to me, Jenett, I gotta you know be
in this movie Da da da, You cannot make me jacked,
And I'll be like, Okay, No, problem, Like I understand
the plate.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So it's important really before you are training to really
understand your body type.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, is to understand it based on what your goals
are trying to be right and to love the body
type that you have. Right, So like someone and here's
an example, right, So we used Ashley Graham as an example,
as like an endomorph body type, Ashley can train as
much as she wants. She's never gonna turn into a
Gigi hadid do you know what I'm saying. So a
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Gigi would be more of an ectomorph, and Ashley's an
endomorph and gg can train till the cows come home.
And she's never gonna get Ashley's booty, you know what
I'm saying. But she can still get a cute little
round booty, but it's gonna be an ecdomorph's cute little
round booty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's what I'm trying to say is that.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You can do the best that you can in both
performance and esthetics with what you have. Like, the problem
that I see over and over in the fitness industry
and even more so because of social media, is people
who don't want to accept their genetic makeup, like this
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is your genetic makeup, love your body. Do not go
through your entire life trying to change who you are.
You will be absolutely miserable because you're never going to
change it. You can do the best that you can like. Yes,
of course you can burn body fat, and you can
get lean, and you can put on muscle, but at
some point you have to also look in the mirror
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and love the genetics that you have.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm learning so much and just talking to you, and
I love hearing you debunk some of the narratives that
we constantly run up against online, and I think for
a lot of women, one of the biggest challenges is
navigating all the conflicting advice around diet, exercise, metabolily. It's
really hard. So I do want to point to a
twenty twenty one study from the journal Science that found
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that metabolism doesn't drastically slow down as we age, at
least not until after sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We all grew up.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I grew up hearing that your metabolism is going to
start rapidly declining once you hit I don't know, end
of your twenties. What's your take on metabolism these days?
What's the latest science on metabolism and muscle.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I know I've seen some of this research as well.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, and I personally from my own personal experience of
someone who's lived in the fitness industry and how I
personally feel from like twenty to now I'm turning fifty. Yeah, Like, yeah, no,
I don't get the results at fifty that I got
when I was twenty. So maybe they are right when
it comes to metabolism, but the hormones are definitely changing,
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and in order to get the results of both muscle
hyperchaphe and fat burning, you need to be having proper
hormone distribution. So I think that you know, a lot
of things are happening to the body as we age,
and I think it's really really important. The biggest takeaway
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of it is that your body's going to change your
entire life, and it's okay, it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
We all get to be twenty one once, so like, live.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
It up when you're twenty, live it up when you're thirty,
live it up when you're pregnant, live it up post mommy,
live it up in your menopause years. Like what I'm
saying is that through all the stages, be grateful that
your body is up, it's strong, it's moving, it's healthy,
and be grateful for the years that you've had in
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it and that it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Carries you through your life.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
One of my favorite ways to justify anything I want
to do is say, on this day, I will be
the youngest I ever am on this very day.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's or never be younger in the mess.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It is a good perspect As you get older, you
appreciate the wisdom of Like, I have no desire to
go back to I was in my twenties.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I loved it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I had a great time ripping and running these Hollywood streets.
I got some stories, girl, But I'm perfectly content in
my cozy little almost fifty, you know what I mean,
doing all my virtual work and being able to travel
around the world and work out my own schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Like you know, I have my glass of wine and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Like you appreciate all the eras. Okay, Jeanette, we have
to take a short break, but when we come back,
we want all the details on your workout routine.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
So don't go anywhere, y'all.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And we're back with celebrity fitness trainer Jeannette Jenkins. Okay,
Jeannette Tell me what your workouts look like. Now, like,
how many days a week are you working out?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And what do you do? I work out every day seven.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Yeah. And the reason is because if you were to
look at all of the research, okay, and there is
enormous amounts of this.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Exercise literally delivers.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of health benefits. Like
number one, it decreases your risks of heart disease. Heart
disease is the number one killer worldwide. Number two, It
helps stimulate new brain cell growth. It helps with your cognition,
It helps with hormonal regulation.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It helps so that you can be nice to the people.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It help race weather, Spintata said in Legally Blonde, Happy
people just don't kill their husbands, right.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
It helps with like circulating oxygen through the body, and
like it helps decrease your risk of so many illnesses,
and the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It helps with digestion and elimination.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
It helps so that you can actually have Like I
understand that a lot of people work out because they
want to look good.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It helps you look good.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, Okay, So at the beginning of this convo, you
gave me the Jeanette Jenkins philosophy.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, and it was like cross.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Cross training for the complete body.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
So Monday, what are we doing?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
So mondays, I usually start off with cardio because I'm like, yeah,
it's Monday, boss to the wall. So it'll either be
a cardio And this is exactly how I designed my club, right,
So I have a virtual gym, the Hollywood Trainer Club,
and every.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Day somebody logs in.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
They have these various types of workouts, So cardio could
be a mixture of like cardio kickboxing, cardio drills, cardio
sculpt but yes, it is a cardio workout, and or
if I decide it's an outdoor run, it's.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
A is that like thirty minutes or that's an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It could be arranged from thirty minutes to hour.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Myself, personally, I enjoy doing at least thirty to forty
five minutes of actual cardio. I will do a good
fifteen to twenty minutes of foam rolling and stretching.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Love it, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And then the rest of the week, are you strength
training three days or more?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
No, I will strength train sometimes only two days, two
to three because I'll.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Do one day a heavy lower body okay.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
So that's heaviest weight, because I think that a lot
of people don't understand that, like especially women, that heavyweight
training is necessary to keep your bones strong. So we're
talking like six to ten repetitions so that you can
get maximum out of your muscle maximum hyperchurphee.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now there's an more enormous amount of.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Resource that shows that if you're doing pushing the most
weight you can in that six to ten rep range,
then you're gonna get the most muscle hyperchape. So yes,
as a woman who's getting older, I want to make
sure that my muscles, you know, are are strong and
that they look good. I'm trying to get that hypertrophy
and my body so right, So you need six to
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ten reps. Baby, If you can do more than ten reps,
you need to increase the weight.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Okay, okay, you heard it from Janette.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Then same upper by core and then so that's three days.
Then I always have a day of either yoga or
pilates or a mix of the both.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Movement is such a huge part of your ethos, Like, yeah,
where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It literally comes from a place of service.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Honestly, here's the CrossBridge, right, I grew up in government housing.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Okay, so that means my little butt was broke.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
But my family was really full of love and we
had a lot of fun, and I watched Oprah all
the time, and I learned really young.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That you have to find what you love to do
and find a way to offer it to millions.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
And so I was like, Okay, that's what I'm gonna do,
and that became my love for fitness. So then as
I was going through college in the nineties, basically I
had to decide that, you know, you're going to college,
you have to decide what are you gonna do that's
gonna make money. And I was like, it has to
be something still that's around sports, because this is what
I love to do. And I actually the first kind
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of job I had that was also what related was
I was a sideline trainer from my college football team,
so I would yes it and so sideline training, and
what we did is before every game, I had to
tape all the ankles, all the risks of every single player,
and so it was like getting them ready, so you're
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like pre preventative injury, so they have to be all
taped up, and then you're a sideline and you're the
first one for like emergency medical if anything happens, someone
breaks a collar bone, someone pops a knee, like you know,
there's injuries non stop. So after that, I was like, okay,
I was learning through that. And then I was also
a lifeguard, so all this is happening while I'm in college.
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And then I started my first one on one client,
which was Aqui Fitness, So I got certified on acle Fitness.
I was teaching acle Fit classes and I had my
first one on one client, and the energy, the spiritual
exchange of being able to affect someone's life in one.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Hour, whooh, that changed me forever.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I was like, oh my God, like you in sixty minutes,
you can take someone who feels like shit, who might
feel depressed, whom I feel sad, and you can totally
just flip their world around and they walk out, and
that affects the rest of their day. It affects if
their mother, it affects how they mother, it affects their children,
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it affects where they go to work, it affects their
entire community. So at that moment, I knew that it
was gonna be fitness because I knew that like, if
I can have this effect on more people, that I
will love my life.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Where that tears coming from.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Because I think that that's how everyone found me. Like
every single celebrity client that found me found me because
I was loving what I was doing. It wasn't because
I was like, oh, oh yeah, I did this photoshoot
for shape and or you know what I mean, or
like I think sometimes there's a lot of people in
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fitness that are in there because.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
They're like, look at me, look at me, I'm so cute.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
I'm so It's like if you're in fitness, because you're
there you really want to service people and you really
want to help them, whether it's helped them perform, help
them with their you know, be better athletes, help them
so they can move, help them be Like the give
back to you is enormous. The people who take your class,
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they can see the difference.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They know the difference between someone who's there.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Who's in their face, who remembers their name, who encourages them,
who like versus someone who's like up in the mirror
looking at themselves, can't even remember your name, you know
what I mean, Like it's a different you're showing up
with a completely different intention.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
A lot of times, I think people show up for
that one hour. It's the one hour they have for themselves,
so you really give them a gift.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Totally such a big heart, Jenette, Oh, I love how
deeply you care about fitness, because it's so much bigger
than just fitness. That term, I feel like doesn't even
be get into As a.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Business woman, I have learned like you, I look at
everything on masses. So then I decided, okay, yeah, let
me go into this field. And then as I was
working in it, it was like, okay, I got to
invest my money, you know, figure out how Like the
first wealth book I read was The Wealthy Barber, which
was like how to make a million creater first it is,
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and that's what made me like buy my first property
in Century City and nineteen ninety nine for like one
hundred and ninety thousand dollars, which is like impossible these
days obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
But the point is that.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I always looked at the business of things, right It's like, Okay,
then I need to make more streams of revenue. That's
what the Hollywood Trainer started, is that I was getting
asked all the time, can you do the Today Show?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Can you do Good Morning America? Can you do this?
And I was like, I'm not doing these shows for nothing,
like I pay exactly nobody knows.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
And I said unless I have something to sell, and
so I said, okay, let me make a product. And
that was the birth of cross Training for the Complete Body.
I literally looked up Hollywood Trainer and nobody had that
website and I was like, well, they keep asking me
because they're.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Like, we need a Hollywood Trainer trainer. I was like, okay,
Hollywood Trainer dot com. Thirty dollars, there we go.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
I'll give you a Hollywood Trainer And exactly like I didn't.
I no, I wasn't in fitness because I wanted to
be on TV. I was in finness because I actually
wanted to be with the people.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, before we let you go, we love to leave
our bright side besties with some practical advice that they
can implement immediately. So for anyone who's listening who feels
like they've maybe hit a plateau with their workouts, what's
a piece of advice that you can offer them for
a breakthrough?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Okay, the first is I want you to know. Number
one is confidence looks sexy on everyone.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
So whether you're at the top of your program, whether
you're feeling a plateau, whether you're at the bottom, just
own who you are and what you're going through and
be sexy about it. Like there's gonna be times where
you might be twenty pounds heavier, you're bloated, Like, have
a couple extra wardrobe items, you know, a couple of
those flirty dresses that you know with the empire waste
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and stuff like you have to adjust for those times.
Like I literally have wardrobe for the times that the
body ain't feeling that right but I still want to
feel beautiful and the times where we can keep it tight,
like love on yourself. Even people you see who are
on the top performers, they're not always at that place.
You're just flexing in the photos that you see on
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Instagram and they have some body spray on and they
have good lighting and.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
They have like let me tell you, and nobody walks
around flexed all the time.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
So number one, Please always be confident, even at the bottom,
you know what I mean. My other top one is
also own your happiness because I see a lot of
people and it's I think It's a normal thing as.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You go through your years of like, oh.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'm going to be happy when I get married, or
I'm going to be happy when I have kids, are
going to be happy when I get this job?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Like you, literally, it is your choice.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Every day if you want to be happy through it.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
It's harder to do in practice. It's really good advice
even on.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The daily basis and you're like, Okay, you know you
want to experience this, or you want to go eat
at this restaurant or whatever, make the plan and go.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
If someone can't go with you.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
You know, one of the greatest things I learned is
that when you go do the things that you love
to do, you know what happens. You meet people there
who love the same thing that you love. You meet
people who are at your level doing the things that
you love to do.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
So like, yeah, don't wait, make your life happy.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Make your life happy, Jeanette beautiful last words, thank you
so much for him hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
You're welcome, Thank you, Jeanette.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Jeanette Jenkins is a celebrity trainer and fitness expert. She's
the founder and president of The Hollywood Trainer LLC.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
That's It For today's show, y'all Tomorrow, we're joined by
Olympic champion and commentator Sonya Richards Ross. She's here to
talk resilience, winning gold, as well as what to expect
at the summer's Paris Games.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Listen and follow the bright Side on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 3 (36:36):
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Speaker 1 (36:37):
You can find me at simone Voice on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
That's ro b A. Y See you tomorrow, folks.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Keep looking on the bright side.
Hello Sunshine, Hey fam Today on the bright Side, it
is Wellness Wednesday, and joining us today is celebrity fitness
trainer Jannette Jenkins. She's breaking down the science behind getting
a good workout and feeling good too. It's Wednesday, July seventeenth.
I'm Simone Boyce.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright Side from
Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we come together to
share women's stories, to laugh, learn and brighten your day.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Danielle, this is such an exciting day on the show.
We get to talk about our love of fitness because
you know we're both fitness girlies.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, indeed, how many times are you going to talk
about your protein intake?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm not going to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It that much. Not that much, Okay. I want to
know more about your fitness journey though. I'll start like
I'll tell you I have been working out for what
seven eight years now, but I feel like I spent
so much of that time not knowing what I was
doing at all, Like being in the gym and having
men correct me on my form and I.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Just didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
So I feel like once I got the knowledge about
having proper form about what exercises worked for my body.
That's the moment that everything changed. What was the moment?
How'd you learn experimentation? There's really no other way. It's
just trial and error.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I've learned that doing weighted cardio is what my body
responds to best. And that's what makes me feel good too,
is having an elevated heart rate through those workouts, because
I have a hard time doing static cardio like you know,
forty five minutes on the treadmill or stare master. I
just I have too much add for that. So I
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like a little more like aggression. We've talked about this.
You love to lift weights too.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh yeah, I feel like strong body, strong mind. But
I didn't always feel that way.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Actually.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I grew up as such a creative girl, like I
wanted to write poetry and write music and sit in
my room and watch TV. And my mom is a
big fitness girl, and she said to me, we got
to move our bodies.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
We got to move.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I don't care what you do, we gotta do it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
And so we laugh now because I think she tried
to put me in anything like soccer, gymnastics, and I
would you know, I just hate it it all, and
one day I started to dance and then that was it.
I fell in love and I loved being in touch
with my body, and so I think dance set me
off on the right track. Since then, I've been working
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out and you know, now my sort of litmus test
is I only pack in a carry on, and so
can I lift my carry on, which I pack very
heavy above my head into the overhead compartment. And you know,
sometimes when I'm not working out as much, it's harder.
So that's my test.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Well, you touched on something that I think is really
essential when it comes to everyone's fitness journey, and that
is finding the movement that brings you joy. Because if
I don't like running like it's not going to get done,
I'm not going to do it. The body of the
mind does not benefit. So we gotta be centering joy
in our movement.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Speaking of the word joy, I don't know if this
resonates for you, Simone, but when I have been at
some of my saddest moments, I will make sure that
I'm moving. Like I remember when I got my heart broken,
the first thing I did was sign up for a
triathlon because I was like I'm so sad, I'm just
gonna lay in my bed and.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Never get up.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I better sign up to train for something.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Listen, I'm sure a lot of us have been doing
these experiments with our fitness routines, going through some trial
and error, and honestly, it can seem overwhelming these days
because if you feel like you're bombarded with fitness information
and misinformation all the time, I mean, you're not alone.
There's always a new trend, new gear, and new promises
of the perfect weight loss solutions in my algorithm all
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the time.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh yeah, the new trends are just the worst. There's
always just so much noise, and it can really be
hard to decipher what's truth from what's fiction when it
comes to what actually helps us live healthier lives. So
instead of sifting through tons of books, tons of Instagram posts,
tons of magazines, tons of articles, our guest today is
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here to cut through all of that noise in thirty minutes.
She's trained some of the biggest names out there, and
she's one of Hollywood's most sought after healthy living coaches.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
As she should be after three decades of teaching experience.
She's the creator of the Hollywood Trainer Club, which is
her own virtual gym that you can join, and her
roster of celebrity clients includes Pink, Alicia Keys, Tracy Ellis,
ross Nia Long, Serena Williams, and Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez,
just to name a few.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I love a lot of things about Janette Jenkins, and
one of those things is that she approaches fitness and
training from a heart centered place and a scientific perspective.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
You're so right, Danielle. I love the way that she
does both.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And just to hype up her bona fides for a second,
Jeanette studied human kinetics at the University of Ottawa and
has earned over eighteen international certificates, so she knows a
thing or two about living healthy. Plus she's part of
the Hella Sunshine family. Shout out Hella Sunshine Collective.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We're getting into all of that and more after the
break stick with.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Us, Jeanette.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Welcome to the bright Side.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Welcome Jeannette. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Okay, So, Jeannette, you have been in the fitness game
for thirty.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Years thirty four to be exact.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Now, every trainer I know has their own approach like, Yeah,
some trainers have a pilates base approach, some have a
strength based approach, some have an endurance based approach. Can
you describe the Net Jenkins fitness philosophy?
Speaker 6 (06:02):
Because I'm a planner, I'm a virgo, we are architects.
So very early in my career, I made a tagline
for my business and it was called cross Training for
the Complete Body. Yeah, and that was actually my first
VHS series was Cross Training for the Complete Body. And
it was actually before even CrossFit existed, So this was
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before I was literally using cross training as a terminology.
And the reason why was because I came from the
world of sport. I alway played several different sports and
then I have a degree in exercise physiology, and being
someone who used her body for so many different sports,
I could see that I needed all of the components
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of fitness. So cross training meaning you need to have
strength training because that's your foundation, right. You need to
have strong muscles, strong bones, strong connective tissue. Then you
need to have cardiovascular fitness because you're not going to
survive through any type of sport of longevity without having
a good cardio base. And then the missing component that
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I felt that everybody was missing for years. And mind you,
this was two thousand when I started my company, Yeah,
twenty four years ago when I came up with this tagline,
and the last category was flexibility, and I felt like
nobody was doing flexibility work in the year two thousand
and that all these athletes were getting injuries Achilles injuries,
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hamstring injuries, growing injuries because often they lacked.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The range of motion that they needed.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
I know from my experience of working with so many
athletes that that was a commonality. I think personally, the
category mobility was created so that the tough guys could
do stretching without it being called yoga or pilates.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You know, my grandfather before he passed away at ninety
years old, I asked him if he had any regrets,
and he thought long and heard. He had this full life,
and you know what he said to me, what I
wish I would have stretched more?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my god, at.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Ninety he really said that, that's all.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And he was serious. He was like, he called me Dolly.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He said, Dolly, you stretch every day, right, so you're
you're onto something. If we rewind a little bit, yeah,
how did we get to this? Janette Jenkins that we
know what got you into fitness initially.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
So my initial love for fitness literally came from having
an older brother. And I think that older brothers need
to get the dow props that they deserve because I didn't.
I I think wasn't. Caitlin Clark has an older brother,
and so it does. Like Sabrina Yenesco, like a lot
of really good female athletes have an older brother that
they played with when they were kids, So like.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Look into that.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
I don't have the research, but I know I hear
it quite often. My case, I had an older brother
who was like literally Olympic level like Gregel Roman wrestler,
but he was an all around athlete and he literally
was one year older and he was my hero.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
It was like I want to play with him.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
So as a little girl, it's like my mom would
be like take your sister with you, take yours as
our white day, oh wherever.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
You know. He was literally like my babysitter.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
But I just wanted to play, and so I ended
up playing all these sports at a young young age
so I could play with him. And then you know,
when the kids are picking teams and you get picked
before all the other boys, so you're not like last
I was like, oh shit, I'm good because they're picking
me before they pick like have these guys. So we'd
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be playing like flag football and they'd be like, well
like Roger's little sister, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Like, Cathleen, I run. It was a huge compliment.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
So like there you are, like six years old and
you're being like picked before some of the other guys.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I was like, I'm good, So, Jeanette.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Eventually your client list grew to include people like Alicia Keys,
Tracy Ells, Ross Pink, Serena Williams, and olympians Lori Hernandez
and Sean Johnson. Well, I know it's hard to choose
a favorite, so we're not gonna make you do that,
but I do want to hear some stories about tenacity,
about work ethic. Who's a client who's really blown you
away in their training?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I mean, hands down, Pink is pretty incredible when it
comes to like all of the components of fitness, the strength, cardio,
flexibility work.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She fully accepted that it.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
Was important to do all of it, being able to
do acrobats and aerial silks, dance perform and you know,
and she still has that pressure where she's doing covers
of like Women's magazine and stuff, so of course she
still wants to look amazing, and I understand that that
type of pressure, and like I would started training Pink
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in twenty eleven, right when she had her baby.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
After she had Willow, who's now thirteen.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
We took a year training to get her ready for
her first video release of Try, which was the first
song to be released on the Truth About Love album
and I'll never forget. We'd not have been training maybe
like six or seven months, and they were gonna start
working on the choreography, and her team was like, we
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need your trainer to come into the studio. My life
at studio because like it was really a sound stage
at Sony.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I was like, Oh, she big time.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Like normally when I go and get someone's choreography, it's
like in a little dance studio.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I was like, we pull up to the Sony lot.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
They got entire sound the whole like sound stage and
one silk hanging from the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I was like, Oh, she a bass balls. So do
you call her Pink when you're in sessions with her?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Sha? Of course, Asha, I call Alisha. That's my girl.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
And that's the thing is that we respect each other
like I respect her. She is a boss, and I
show up on time early, I'm prepared.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I don't mess around.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Like the thing with celebrities is they have so many
things on them that have to get done, hiring the
best makeup artists, hairstylist, wardo. It's like, if you're not
the best and you're not helping them make their career
better or helping make their day better, helping make everything better,
then you're out, like they will replace you so fast.
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So that was the most incredible respect, like feeling like
if there was a bucket list client.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I could have, she would have probably been.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
In just because like everything that she does physically I
already loved. So when I walked in and they played
the song for the first time I'd never heard it,
I actually started crying. And then when the video was done,
I remember, I fully remember, there's literally a picture of
us walking the streets of New York going to train
in Tribeca, and that was the day that she showed
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me the try video for the first time. She just
got it, and that was what we had been training
a year to get her ready for that video and
when I seen it, I was just like, oh my god,
this is so incredible. And I just checked on it today.
It has had over five hundred and eighty million plays.
It is the highest thing eight million plays. So it
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just goes to show. It's like you work with one
person the impact that that has had on the ripple effect.
It's like I'm helping her be the best that she
can be. So once she can write this incredible song
that is so motivating and uplifting, like it's the lyrics
are all about just get up and try, like we've
all been there, You're like, don't grudge it. And then
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to see the visual of her and the other incredible
dancer create this incredible art right and then. So that's
always been one of my greatest joys of training celebrities
in general, is that you're helping them. If it's somebody
you really respect and you love what they do in
the world, then you're helping them have a ripple effect
(13:55):
in the community or in the world, and I think
that's extremely admirable.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
It's like you're part of the team.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is there a client who has a story or a
success story that particularly stands out to you, Like, is
there a celebrity client that came to you with a
certain goal in mind that they like really achieved or
had some setbacks.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
I mean they all have like incredible stories. One I
can think of, just for performance wise, would be a
Journey Smollett.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
She did incredible.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Action sequences in Birds of Prey, which was a Harley
Quinn movie, and like the amount that we trained, like
literally she would know the choreography that she would get
from the stunt director and we would be like every
day in the backyard like practicing her actual choreography.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
And she killed it in that movie.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
And she's actually doing a TV show right now, an
action one with Apple TV.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Cool.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Yeah, it's a called Firebug and so it's gonna be
released in January and it is.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You're such a good hype woman.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I know. I love my girls. It's amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
I love them, And you asked me, and it's like, yeah,
I'm super proud of her because doing action is not easy,
like to learn all the martial arts sequences and stuff.
Like I trained also Paula Patten for Mission Impossible, and
we again it's like you're they have a stunt coordinator
and they and the stunt coordinator teaches them what to do,
(15:27):
but then it's up to them to continue practice and
practice and practice so that when it's time to shoot,
they got it and they're ready and they look good
doing it because they're executing with like good forming. I mean,
we've all seen fight scenes that were like, uh yeah, okay, Yeah, Well.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
It's one thing to do the fight choreography. It's another
thing to make it look effortless and seamless. Yeah, that
takes a lot of training and practice.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You have trained people who are the best in the
world of what they do, right, like Serena Williams, Alicia Keys, Pink,
the list goes on.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
You have really intimate moments with these women.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah. Is there a through line in these people that
you see that you think helps make them successful?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Okay, uh, well, first of all, I want to rewind
on the Serena one because that was like so long ago.
I literally just pulled up some bitches. It was like
in two thousand and seven was when I met her,
and I can remember actually too. She DMed me on
Twitter when before like when it was actually Twitter and
(16:28):
asked me if I could do some nutrition stuff with her.
So I did a metabolic test on her, which was
really cool because you don't always get to do metabolic
testing on clients.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
And that's what the test said, right, But uh.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Yeah, and then you know the through and then I
did a little bit of yoga and pilates with her,
and what I noticed through that was that her genetics
were phenomenal. I remember a couple of times saying to her,
your genetic phenom She'd be like, what do you mean
by that? I was like, girl, they don't make them
like you, like your muscle integrity and everything is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I love that you mentioned genetic body types. Yeah, so ecdomorph, mesomorph,
and endomorph.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
There's a lot of debate on it because this the
genetic body types were made up by a psychologist slash
scientist researcher by the name of Sheldon. Everybody studied them
in psychology.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
He made these.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
Body types based out of observation. Okay, And so the
important thing that you can see is, and that is
scientifically known, is that we're all biogenetically unique.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
So basic, how do we identify that? Then basically, what
you need.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
To realize is that when you do a strength training program,
and simone does a strength training program, and all three
of us could do the exact same strength training program,
and what we are going to look like at the
end of it is going to be completely different. And
so I think it's it's cool to have the name
so people can kind of, Okay, I'm more of this
(18:12):
type or that type. Yes, an ecdomorph would be somebody
who has more long, lean think model type figures, both
a male or female or basketball player.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And then a mesomorph.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Would be more of your athletic body type, like a gymnast,
like a Sean Johnson, like a Jana Jackson, like a
pink like a me you know, like we're more muscular people.
We have what's called more medium fast twitch muscle fibers.
Then an endomorph is somebody who is more volumptuous. It's
your more like Marilyn Monroe type of Ashley Graham, right,
(18:44):
like someone who's more volumptuous. Then you have sometimes people
who are kind of like a mix. I always like
Naomi Campbell's one. I've always been like, she looks more
of like a mezzo ecdo mix because she's ectomorph for sure,
tall and model.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Like, but she's also muscular.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Right, So here's the biogenetically unique. There will never be
another Naomi Campbell, there will never be another Ashley Graham,
there will never be another Serena Williams. Well.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I think it's cool to have this framework because it
does help minimize that urge to compare yourself to other
body types that you might see online. And also the
cool thing is you can still change your body type
through the training that you do.
Speaker 6 (19:24):
No, you can't change your body type, but you can
do the best that you can with your body type. Otherwise, yes,
if you just lifted weights, we'd all just be able
to get as big as we want it. But it
doesn't happen that way. Some people can just look at
weights like you put weights in my hand. I'm gonna
put on some muscle. It's my genetic makeup. And research
(19:48):
has shown that medium fast twitched muscle fibers they hypertrophy
the most.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And we start lifting weights and we look jacked.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yeah, And I know from my experience, and I have
had so many women who are mesomorph body types too,
will say to me, Jenett, I gotta you know be
in this movie Da da da, You cannot make me jacked,
And I'll be like, Okay, No, problem, Like I understand
the plate.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
So it's important really before you are training to really
understand your body type.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Yeah, is to understand it based on what your goals
are trying to be right and to love the body
type that you have. Right, So like someone and here's
an example, right, So we used Ashley Graham as an example,
as like an endomorph body type, Ashley can train as
much as she wants. She's never gonna turn into a
Gigi hadid do you know what I'm saying. So a
(20:39):
Gigi would be more of an ectomorph, and Ashley's an
endomorph and gg can train till the cows come home.
And she's never gonna get Ashley's booty, you know what
I'm saying. But she can still get a cute little
round booty, but it's gonna be an ecdomorph's cute little
round booty.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That's what I'm trying to say is that.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
You can do the best that you can in both
performance and esthetics with what you have. Like, the problem
that I see over and over in the fitness industry
and even more so because of social media, is people
who don't want to accept their genetic makeup, like this
(21:20):
is your genetic makeup, love your body. Do not go
through your entire life trying to change who you are.
You will be absolutely miserable because you're never going to
change it. You can do the best that you can like. Yes,
of course you can burn body fat, and you can
get lean, and you can put on muscle, but at
some point you have to also look in the mirror
(21:42):
and love the genetics that you have.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I'm learning so much and just talking to you, and
I love hearing you debunk some of the narratives that
we constantly run up against online, and I think for
a lot of women, one of the biggest challenges is
navigating all the conflicting advice around diet, exercise, metabolily. It's
really hard. So I do want to point to a
twenty twenty one study from the journal Science that found
(22:05):
that metabolism doesn't drastically slow down as we age, at
least not until after sixty.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
We all grew up.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I grew up hearing that your metabolism is going to
start rapidly declining once you hit I don't know, end
of your twenties. What's your take on metabolism these days?
What's the latest science on metabolism and muscle.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I know I've seen some of this research as well.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
Yeah, and I personally from my own personal experience of
someone who's lived in the fitness industry and how I
personally feel from like twenty to now I'm turning fifty. Yeah, Like, yeah, no,
I don't get the results at fifty that I got
when I was twenty. So maybe they are right when
it comes to metabolism, but the hormones are definitely changing,
(22:52):
and in order to get the results of both muscle
hyperchaphe and fat burning, you need to be having proper
hormone distribution. So I think that you know, a lot
of things are happening to the body as we age,
and I think it's really really important. The biggest takeaway
(23:12):
of it is that your body's going to change your
entire life, and it's okay, it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
We all get to be twenty one once, so like, live.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
It up when you're twenty, live it up when you're thirty,
live it up when you're pregnant, live it up post mommy,
live it up in your menopause years. Like what I'm
saying is that through all the stages, be grateful that
your body is up, it's strong, it's moving, it's healthy,
and be grateful for the years that you've had in
(23:44):
it and that it.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Carries you through your life.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
One of my favorite ways to justify anything I want
to do is say, on this day, I will be
the youngest I ever am on this very day.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
That's or never be younger in the mess.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
True.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It is a good perspect As you get older, you
appreciate the wisdom of Like, I have no desire to
go back to I was in my twenties.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
I loved it.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
I had a great time ripping and running these Hollywood streets.
I got some stories, girl, But I'm perfectly content in
my cozy little almost fifty, you know what I mean,
doing all my virtual work and being able to travel
around the world and work out my own schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Like you know, I have my glass of wine and.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Like you appreciate all the eras. Okay, Jeanette, we have
to take a short break, but when we come back,
we want all the details on your workout routine.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
So don't go anywhere, y'all.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
And we're back with celebrity fitness trainer Jeannette Jenkins. Okay,
Jeannette Tell me what your workouts look like. Now, like,
how many days a week are you working out?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
And what do you do? I work out every day seven.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Yeah. And the reason is because if you were to
look at all of the research, okay, and there is
enormous amounts of this.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Exercise literally delivers.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
You hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of health benefits. Like
number one, it decreases your risks of heart disease. Heart
disease is the number one killer worldwide. Number two, It
helps stimulate new brain cell growth. It helps with your cognition,
It helps with hormonal regulation.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It helps so that you can be nice to the people.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It help race weather, Spintata said in Legally Blonde, Happy
people just don't kill their husbands, right.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
It helps with like circulating oxygen through the body, and
like it helps decrease your risk of so many illnesses,
and the list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It helps with digestion and elimination.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
It helps so that you can actually have Like I
understand that a lot of people work out because they
want to look good.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It helps you look good.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, Okay, So at the beginning of this convo, you
gave me the Jeanette Jenkins philosophy.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
Yeah, and it was like cross.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Cross training for the complete body.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
So Monday, what are we doing?
Speaker 6 (26:10):
So mondays, I usually start off with cardio because I'm like, yeah,
it's Monday, boss to the wall. So it'll either be
a cardio And this is exactly how I designed my club, right,
So I have a virtual gym, the Hollywood Trainer Club,
and every.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Day somebody logs in.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
They have these various types of workouts, So cardio could
be a mixture of like cardio kickboxing, cardio drills, cardio
sculpt but yes, it is a cardio workout, and or
if I decide it's an outdoor run, it's.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
A is that like thirty minutes or that's an hour.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
It could be arranged from thirty minutes to hour.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
Myself, personally, I enjoy doing at least thirty to forty
five minutes of actual cardio. I will do a good
fifteen to twenty minutes of foam rolling and stretching.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Love it, okay.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And then the rest of the week, are you strength
training three days or more?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
No, I will strength train sometimes only two days, two
to three because I'll.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Do one day a heavy lower body okay.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
So that's heaviest weight, because I think that a lot
of people don't understand that, like especially women, that heavyweight
training is necessary to keep your bones strong. So we're
talking like six to ten repetitions so that you can
get maximum out of your muscle maximum hyperchurphee.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now there's an more enormous amount of.
Speaker 6 (27:28):
Resource that shows that if you're doing pushing the most
weight you can in that six to ten rep range,
then you're gonna get the most muscle hyperchape. So yes,
as a woman who's getting older, I want to make
sure that my muscles, you know, are are strong and
that they look good. I'm trying to get that hypertrophy
and my body so right, So you need six to
(27:52):
ten reps. Baby, If you can do more than ten reps,
you need to increase the weight.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Okay, okay, you heard it from Janette.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
Then same upper by core and then so that's three days.
Then I always have a day of either yoga or
pilates or a mix of the both.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Movement is such a huge part of your ethos, Like, yeah,
where does that come from?
Speaker 3 (28:13):
It literally comes from a place of service.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Honestly, here's the CrossBridge, right, I grew up in government housing.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Okay, so that means my little butt was broke.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
But my family was really full of love and we
had a lot of fun, and I watched Oprah all
the time, and I learned really young.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
That you have to find what you love to do
and find a way to offer it to millions.
Speaker 6 (28:36):
And so I was like, Okay, that's what I'm gonna do,
and that became my love for fitness. So then as
I was going through college in the nineties, basically I
had to decide that, you know, you're going to college,
you have to decide what are you gonna do that's
gonna make money. And I was like, it has to
be something still that's around sports, because this is what
I love to do. And I actually the first kind
(28:57):
of job I had that was also what related was
I was a sideline trainer from my college football team,
so I would yes it and so sideline training, and
what we did is before every game, I had to
tape all the ankles, all the risks of every single player,
and so it was like getting them ready, so you're
(29:17):
like pre preventative injury, so they have to be all
taped up, and then you're a sideline and you're the
first one for like emergency medical if anything happens, someone
breaks a collar bone, someone pops a knee, like you know,
there's injuries non stop. So after that, I was like, okay,
I was learning through that. And then I was also
a lifeguard, so all this is happening while I'm in college.
(29:40):
And then I started my first one on one client,
which was Aqui Fitness, So I got certified on acle Fitness.
I was teaching acle Fit classes and I had my
first one on one client, and the energy, the spiritual
exchange of being able to affect someone's life in one.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Hour, whooh, that changed me forever.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
I was like, oh my God, like you in sixty minutes,
you can take someone who feels like shit, who might
feel depressed, whom I feel sad, and you can totally
just flip their world around and they walk out, and
that affects the rest of their day. It affects if
their mother, it affects how they mother, it affects their children,
(30:26):
it affects where they go to work, it affects their
entire community. So at that moment, I knew that it
was gonna be fitness because I knew that like, if
I can have this effect on more people, that I
will love my life.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Where that tears coming from.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
Because I think that that's how everyone found me. Like
every single celebrity client that found me found me because
I was loving what I was doing. It wasn't because
I was like, oh, oh yeah, I did this photoshoot
for shape and or you know what I mean, or
like I think sometimes there's a lot of people in
(31:05):
fitness that are in there because.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
They're like, look at me, look at me, I'm so cute.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
I'm so It's like if you're in fitness, because you're
there you really want to service people and you really
want to help them, whether it's helped them perform, help
them with their you know, be better athletes, help them
so they can move, help them be Like the give
back to you is enormous. The people who take your class,
(31:28):
they can see the difference.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
They know the difference between someone who's there.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Who's in their face, who remembers their name, who encourages them,
who like versus someone who's like up in the mirror
looking at themselves, can't even remember your name, you know
what I mean, Like it's a different you're showing up
with a completely different intention.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
A lot of times, I think people show up for
that one hour. It's the one hour they have for themselves,
so you really give them a gift.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Totally such a big heart, Jenette, Oh, I love how
deeply you care about fitness, because it's so much bigger
than just fitness. That term, I feel like doesn't even
be get into As a.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Business woman, I have learned like you, I look at
everything on masses. So then I decided, okay, yeah, let
me go into this field. And then as I was
working in it, it was like, okay, I got to
invest my money, you know, figure out how Like the
first wealth book I read was The Wealthy Barber, which
was like how to make a million creater first it is,
(32:27):
and that's what made me like buy my first property
in Century City and nineteen ninety nine for like one
hundred and ninety thousand dollars, which is like impossible these
days obviously.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
But the point is that.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I always looked at the business of things, right It's like, Okay,
then I need to make more streams of revenue. That's
what the Hollywood Trainer started, is that I was getting
asked all the time, can you do the Today Show?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Can you do Good Morning America? Can you do this?
And I was like, I'm not doing these shows for nothing,
like I pay exactly nobody knows.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
And I said unless I have something to sell, and
so I said, okay, let me make a product. And
that was the birth of cross Training for the Complete Body.
I literally looked up Hollywood Trainer and nobody had that
website and I was like, well, they keep asking me
because they're.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Like, we need a Hollywood Trainer trainer. I was like, okay,
Hollywood Trainer dot com. Thirty dollars, there we go.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
I'll give you a Hollywood Trainer And exactly like I didn't.
I no, I wasn't in fitness because I wanted to
be on TV. I was in finness because I actually
wanted to be with the people.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, before we let you go, we love to leave
our bright side besties with some practical advice that they
can implement immediately. So for anyone who's listening who feels
like they've maybe hit a plateau with their workouts, what's
a piece of advice that you can offer them for
a breakthrough?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Okay, the first is I want you to know. Number
one is confidence looks sexy on everyone.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
So whether you're at the top of your program, whether
you're feeling a plateau, whether you're at the bottom, just
own who you are and what you're going through and
be sexy about it. Like there's gonna be times where
you might be twenty pounds heavier, you're bloated, Like, have
a couple extra wardrobe items, you know, a couple of
those flirty dresses that you know with the empire waste
(34:20):
and stuff like you have to adjust for those times.
Like I literally have wardrobe for the times that the
body ain't feeling that right but I still want to
feel beautiful and the times where we can keep it tight,
like love on yourself. Even people you see who are
on the top performers, they're not always at that place.
You're just flexing in the photos that you see on
(34:42):
Instagram and they have some body spray on and they
have good lighting and.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
They have like let me tell you, and nobody walks
around flexed all the time.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
So number one, Please always be confident, even at the bottom,
you know what I mean. My other top one is
also own your happiness because I see a lot of
people and it's I think It's a normal thing as.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
You go through your years of like, oh.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
I'm going to be happy when I get married, or
I'm going to be happy when I have kids, are
going to be happy when I get this job?
Speaker 3 (35:17):
Like you, literally, it is your choice.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Every day if you want to be happy through it.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
It's harder to do in practice. It's really good advice
even on.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The daily basis and you're like, Okay, you know you
want to experience this, or you want to go eat
at this restaurant or whatever, make the plan and go.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
If someone can't go with you.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
You know, one of the greatest things I learned is
that when you go do the things that you love
to do, you know what happens. You meet people there
who love the same thing that you love. You meet
people who are at your level doing the things that
you love to do.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
So like, yeah, don't wait, make your life happy.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Make your life happy, Jeanette beautiful last words, thank you
so much for him hanging out with us.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
You're welcome, Thank you, Jeanette.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Jeanette Jenkins is a celebrity trainer and fitness expert. She's
the founder and president of The Hollywood Trainer LLC.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
That's It For today's show, y'all Tomorrow, we're joined by
Olympic champion and commentator Sonya Richards Ross. She's here to
talk resilience, winning gold, as well as what to expect
at the summer's Paris Games.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Listen and follow the bright Side on the iHeartRadio app,
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Speaker 3 (36:36):
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Speaker 1 (36:37):
You can find me at simone Voice on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
That's ro b A. Y See you tomorrow, folks.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
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