January 4, 2018 • 31 mins
Fitness expert & coach Autumn Calabrese gives advice on: Sticking to a routine, balancing working out with a busy life, quick breakfast options, how much protein you should be eating, how to get back in shape after having a baby, cardio vs. weight lifting, eating right vs. working out hard, and of course her brand new workout "80 Day Obsession"
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first Workout Wednesday podcast. It is Thursday. I know it's
confusing because normally if you see someone that says it's
workout Wednesday, you should listen to it on the Wednesday.
But I posted the teaser yesterday. This is what we
got coming up today. That is the key to success
for anybody who struggles with like what do I eat? Now?
Schedule your workout like you schedule a meeting with your boss.
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Proud to say I was a nonbeliever because I am
such a believer. Now it's okay to make yourself and
your health a priority. As someone trying to lose weight,
is cardio or weightlifting more beneficial? Being patient with yourself,
I think is a big hurdle. This is one of
the hardest workouts and one of the best workouts I've
ever done. This is a new It's not a new trend,
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but it's It's definitely where the trend of fitness is going,
with how busy everybody is and the fact that getting
to a gym is harder, it's more expensive. My workouts
are better. I was sleeping better, I was waking up
with more energy, like your nutrition is like of your
sixth Wow. You do need to find something that you
enjoy in some way, because if you don't enjoy it,
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you won't stick with it. And the only way to
have long, laughing results is to be consistent. Welcome to
the first ever full episode of the Workout Wednesday podcast.
My name is Anthony. However you got here, thank you
very much for spending some time. This is how this
podcast is gonna work. So every single week on Wednesday
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is normally is when they'll be posted. I'm going to
talk to um an expert in the health and fitness world.
Now that's not always going to be specifically about working out.
Sometimes I'll be talking to dietitians, two coaches, to trainers,
to people who own Jim's, just anyone that's in that
kind of realm. Those will be the guests that I
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have every single week. Now. To get those guests, I'm
gonna use questions that you submit, whether you submitted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
or Snapchat, you can hit me up at Worst Anthony
or you could always email my Day Friday Show at
Gmail and I'll use your questions to figure out what
type of people I need to get on this podcast. Also,
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every single week, I'm going to give you a little
tip or challenge you to do one thing every day
until the following podcast, and then every single week will
keep growing on that list of things until by the
end of the year you have all these amazing um
daily habits that you're doing, all these amazing tricks that
you've kind of accrued throughout the year. So that will
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come up right at the end of the podcast. But
I do want to get this week's guest, this week's expert,
if you will say hello to Autumn caw Briefs. Thank
you so much for making some time and hanging out
with me. Of course, thanks for having me out. I'm excited.
So you're you're calling from l A, right, I am
in l A, Yes, all right, and you're I know
you're getting ready to kick off a d obsession, which
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we will obviously get to because I think to kick
off the new year, that's probably gonna be one of
the easiest ways for people to really get to their
New Year's resolution, have someone to help them along the hallway.
Not easy in terms of every day will be easy,
but it's straightforward and I think it will help a
lot of people. Yes, agreed. I guess the first thing is,
even though you're obviously you know, super fit, it's your
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it's your job essentially to be fit. Do you start
the year with the New Year's resolution? Okay, I am
the person who doesn't believe in New Year's resolution. Of
sounds funny, but I just think that if there's a
goal you want to achieve, you don't wait till the
new year to be like, Okay, well I'll sort of
work against my goal now. Like you know, if you're
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goal to lose five pounds, you're like, well, i'll take
out now, and I'm January one, I'll eat help me exactly. So,
I'm setting resolutions all year long for myself, and when
I accomplish a goal, I set a new one, and
I don't wait for like a specific date in time
to do that. I think there's no better time than
the presence. So what was the last either resolution or
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goal or standard you set for yourself that you're working towards.
Right now, Um, right now, I am actually working on
finding balance in my life. This is a really big
one for me because I absolutely love my job, so
I never say no to anything, but then I tend
to overbook myself, or not have as much time for
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my son and my family as I should, or even
just like myself to have a little bit of time
to turn my brain off. So that is a very
big goal that I'm working on, is just being like,
where's the balance between the two and what have you
found since you started attacking that goal. I think the
more organized I am, the more work I get accomplished
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in a shorter period of time. It's not that I
can't do a lot, It's just that sometimes I'm not organized,
and if i'm not, then I'm sort of all over
the place. So if I really organize my day to
get sort of the majority of my work done while
my son is at school, then I feel like when
he comes home, I can I can turn off and
unplug and take a deep breath and be like in
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full mom mode instead of bouncing back and forth between
like Okay, here's your dinner and here's start your homework
and I'm gonna go do this call and I'll be
right back. And so being organized is one of the
major things that is helping me with my goal. Well,
I need to work on that because I am like
the most unorganized person in the entire world. You happen,
you do bring up a good point, though, because a
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lot of times, whether it's work, whether it's family, friends,
we all try very hard to please everyone, and then
the person that suffers is yourself. Yeah, exactly. We always
sort of put ourselves on the back burner. And that's
even really something that I address in my new workout program,
eight Day Obsession is about that the word obsessed isn't
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about like a number on the scale or anything. It's
about being obsessed about yourself, your health, your fitness, and
that that's not selfish or conceited or anything that like,
it's okay to make yourself and your health a priority.
A lot of people have asked, all, right, how do
I carve out some time and do a workout and
stay consistent? And I know that's that's kind of a
multi level answer, But what would you say to someone
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who's just struggling to find time I think it's just
what we were just saying is that you don't find time,
you make time. So the biggest thing I always tell
people when it comes to their workout is that you
schedule your workout like you schedule a meeting with your boss.
So you put it on the calendar. Nothing gets in
the way of that. You don't schedule anything else. You
don't say, oh, this ends up being a priority over that.
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It's like, no, wherever you put it for that day,
it's a priority at that moment, and you don't let
it get pushed. A lot of people will look at
it as sort of the optional things that can get
pushed around, and I just say, you don't make it optional.
Like I look at my schedule each week. I don't
work out at the exact same time every day because
my my days are never the same. But I know
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what my week looks like, so I know where my
workout is going each day, and once I decide where
it's going, that's it. If somebody asks me to schedule
a call or something like that, I just that's that
time frame is not an option because it's already booked. Yeah.
I think the thing that I always tell people whether
it's family or friends. It's like, look at your day.
Take take inventory of a regular day. How much time
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do you make for things that aren't important? How much
time do you spend whether it's binging a Netflix show
or watching a game. How much of that time isn't
actually benefiting you at all? And if you really want
to actually jump into it, if you really want to
make a change in your life, then find one of
those times and replace it. I don't think it's that hard,
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but it's tough to break routines. I think it is,
and it's it's very easy to make excuses and a lot.
You know, there are twenty four hours we don't say
everything into. I know we're all very busy, but every
minute of twenty four hours isn't usually planned. The thing
I think that we spend the most time on that
we could definitely stand to give up a little bit
is our social media. How many hours we spend scrolling
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through Instagram or commenting on things. And that's all fun
and good, but not at the expense of your health.
Like I mean, how often do people get stuck on
like a Pinterest or something and they think it's been
five minutes and they're like, oh my gosh, it's been
at work. Oh definitely. I sometimes make the excuse for
myself because and you're probably in the same boat, autumnware.
Social media is part of my job, but I end
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up doing whatever I had to do on social media
for my job, and then I end up scrolling through
an Instagram feed for for thirty minutes and I could
have been at the jam or I could have done
something else, and now my whole day is backed up
and I can't go to the gym exactly. So just
just like when you get into that, it's that thing
about breaking the habit of and just going okay, wait,
I don't need to be doing this right now. I
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need to push play on my workout, or I need
to go to the gym or whatever it might be.
But getting it done and then whatever time you have left.
I always feel at the end of the night is
a good time for all that stuff, for scrolling social
media and things like that. When you're like the work
is done, the workout done, kids are asleep, and like,
if you want to make that you're down time, then
make it your downtime, but not in the middle of
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the day multiple times a day. So this question. The
next question I have for you autumn is actually from
Carla Maury, who you know. Yes, because obviously the two
of us wake up very early for our job. We're
usually up. I'm up by four thirty. I think she's
up by three forty five, she says, because she works out.
She actually does your workouts before she comes to work,
which is which is an insane time to do workout
in my opinion. But whatever you gotta do. Breakfast is
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so hard for her to find a good healthy breakfast
that it's still quick and you can get to work
and not have to take out a large chunk of
your morning to prepare. What do you do? You have
any suggestions? Yeah, there's a lot. So here's the thing.
You know, again, I say this all the time that
being prepared isn't half the battle. It is the battle.
So obviously you guys are getting up STU for early
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and going, going, going, and you need probably something fast
to grab before you got the door. It's just one
of those things where you can pick certain recipes or
and and I'm not talking about like complicated recipes, but
you can make certain things ahead of time that you
can grab and go, like I have recipes on my
cooking show Fix eight that's on Beach Body and Demand,
where you could like they're healthy, different like muffin recipes.
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They're like banana blueberry muffins or vegan cherry muffins and things,
or even just like the pancakes, because the pancakes make
I think like twelve servings. So if you make them
on like a Sunday or something and put them in
the fridge, you have it. You can just grab it
and go overnight. Ohts is a really great one. But
like if nothing else, just a piece of fruit or
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something I love, like my chacology that's like a it's
a very high protein, um super dense, super food nutrition
shake that Beach Body makes. That's an easy one. I like,
throw that in the blender with some ice, some water,
maybe a piece of fruit blended up and go. So
there's definitely the options. It's just about making sure you
have those options on hand. Well, you mentioned the protein shake.
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I know we have a question. Let's see, I got
a question from Terren Miller on snapchat. So, on average,
how much protein do you really need to consume every
day if you're trying to stay in shape? Oh gosh,
there's a formula because it it's based on your size.
Was something along the lines of, you want a gram
of protein for every pound of your goal weight? Yeah,
I see, like some of them say point eight grams,
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so it's just under So some say point eight grams
per kilogram of body weight. Yeah, that's that's on average,
the right amount per kilogram of body weight. I'd say,
as a rule of thumb, that's a good it's a
good standard. And then another question, and this obviously I
could never in my life try to answer this question
because I can't and never will be pregnant. But this
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is from Jillian White, and she wants to know how
to get back in shape after pregnancy, because I'm assuming
that's somewhat difficult to do. You know what, This is
one of those things like, again, we can make an
excuse about it, and I love my mommy's but as
a mommy, I don't give. I don't let them make
excuses because it's not impossible. It's not any harder really
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than getting in shape any other time. Um, you need
to make sure you've been cleared by your doctor to
start exercising, and then you can start slow with something
as much as going for walks or going for little jogs,
doing at home workout programs. But again, this is where
it's important to make it a priority to carve out
just a little bit of time for you. Whether it's
when the baby's taking a nap, whether it's when your
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husband or significant other gets home from work, wherever it
might be. But if you just put it in your day,
you'll get it done. When my son was first born,
I actually had to have a c section with him,
so I had to go really easy on exercise getting
back into it. I would put him in the strollers
twice a day and take him for walks. And I'm
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not like talking power walks, but I would do two
three mile walks a day, just strolling, and while while
he would like sleep and get fresh air, I would
call my sister or my mom, or my dad or
a friend and I would just walk and talk. But
I was walking six miles a day, and that's impressive.
Fell off me. But you know, when your mom at
first and the baby's brand new, when you're at home anyways,
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you're sort of like itching to get out of the house.
So even if you you know, if it's cold outside,
you take the baby to the mall, put the baby
in the stroller, walk around the mall or something. But
you just need to move. So so just getting started
and then being aware of what you're eating is always
very important, especially if you're breast seating, because whatever you
eat is what your baby's eating. What was one of
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the biggest hurdles, I guess in getting back in shape
after your pregnancy. I think the biggest hurdle for me
was was taking it at the right pace because I
worked out obviously before my pregnancy. I worked out all
the way up until the day I went into labor
with him, and then having had the C section and
being very active and my doctor saying you know better,
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like you have to go slow. That was hard for
me to go slow because I wanted to dive back
into it. So being patient with my body and knowing, like, Okay,
it took nine months to grow that baby and gain
the thirty six pounds that I gained, it's not all
going to come off in two days. I gave myself
a four months goal. I said, I wanted the baby
weight off in four months, and if I you know,
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if I didn't make it in four months, I wasn't
gonna like beat myself up. But that was sort of
I gave myself a set point so I was working
towards something and and that really works because I was
patient with my body. I didn't like every day get
on the scale and be like, I'm fat. Why am
I not losing the weight? What's going on? Because it's
really easy for women to do that, like when the baby.
Once the baby comes out, you no longer have like
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this big hard stomach. You just feel you just feel fat.
And that's normal because there's weight on your body you're
not used to, and so we get really down on ourselves.
So being patient with yourself, I think is is a
big hurdle. This is from S. Matt forty two as
someone trying to lose weight, is cardio or weightlifting more beneficial?
And this is something I feel like people ask all
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the time because the general idea is like, oh, if
you want to lose weight, jump on a treadmill or
jump on an elliptical. And I know you probably have
some sort of ratio that you can use. But in
my mind, I've always thought I hated cardio. If I
if I did wait, if I lifted weights or did
some sort of high intensity interval training. I was staying
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in shape without doing any cardio. Yes. So actually, all
of the latest research over the last probably five or
six years has shown us that cardio strength training basically
like using weights but keeping your heart rate up because
of how hard you're training with the weights, is way
more effective than steady state cardio. So jumping on a
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treadmill and just running at the same pace for like
an hour, you'll actually build more lean muscle, You'll burn
more calories during the workout and later in your post burn,
which is why you'll see a lot you'll see my
workout programs basically designed as cardio's strength training programs. We're
always doing some sort of weight training keeping the heart up.
That doesn't mean we don't have cardio days. We do
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have like a cardio day here and there. But I
love to use weights, um, both to to build lean
muscle and to burn calories. See what I do cardio,
I'm usually just doing it as unless I'm doing a
beach body workout one of the like an actual set program. UM.
If I'm working out on my own, normally I just
do a cardioto to warm up kind of. I'll do
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ten fifteen minutes, sometimes twenty minutes just to kind of
get my blood flowing, and then I'll jump into a
workout where i am I'm listening weights, but I'm also
not resting very long, so I'm just going from exercise
to exercise. Yes, and that's great. And you know, if
you if somebody has that much time to do a
minute cardio warm up and then go into a full
forty minutes or something of weight training, fantastic. But if
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they only if they have thirty minutes and the option
is thirty minutes on the treadmill or thirty minutes of
twenty one day fix or eight day session or something
like that, go for the weight training because you're getting
way more bang for your buck. You know, let's can
we talk about because you mentioned twenty one day fixed.
Because I've always been a guy who I was always
in the weight room, whether I had a strength coach
during college or whatever. If I didn't know any better,
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I would first off, I'd say, oh, this is at
home workout. It's probably not gonna be that hard. Um.
I would probably say something obnoxious like oh to chick
doing it and whatever. I'm in the weight room every day.
But for people who have never tried most of the
Beach Body workouts and especially Autumn's workouts yours. They's so
there's such great workouts and they really kick your ass.
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Thank you, And that's like, here's the thing. I know,
it's really easy to poo poo at home workout. But
what people should realize is that this is a new
It's not a new trend, but it's it's definitely where
the trend of fitness is going. With how busy everybody
is and the fact that getting to a gym is harder,
it's more expensive. Beach Body doesn't just pick random people
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off the street to be their fitness trainers. They're not
looking for like pretty people to just be the face
of a workout program. Us trainers that work for each body.
We are incredibly knowledgeable, like this is what we have
made our career, so studying the science of it, learning it,
teaching it, like this is what we do. It's not
just like I said, like somebody with a nice body
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getting up there and doing some random moves. It's they're
very science based. They're very highly developed programs. And to
have the ability to have somebody who's basically a world
c class trainer in your home with you. It's pretty awesome,
Like you couldn't really get that if we didn't have
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a home workout, you would have to go to a gym,
have to hire a trainer, have to hope that you
get into the right group fitness class where the instructor
has more than just some two day certification or something
like that. So um, you know, like I said, Beach
Body is really taking the time to vet who they
bring into the business and who they're putting out there
to lead people through these workouts. I'm actually proud to
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say that. Originally when I first jumped into Beach Body,
which was probably Jess at this point six years ago maybe,
and I was like kind of late to the to
the program. I was a nonbeliever because I told you,
I used to spend so much time in the gym
and I had all these strength coaches and stuff in college.
But the second idea, I think the first one did
was X. I was like, holy crap, this is one
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of the hardest workouts and one of the best workouts
I've ever done. And then I jumped into insanity. I've
done your workouts. So that's why I'm like proud to
say I was a nonbeliever because I am such a
believer now I love that. I love that. You know what,
sometimes nonbelievers are the best ones as long as they're
willing to give it a shot because they were such
nonbelievers that once they try it and see the results
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and that sort of thing, they're usually the ones that
speak the highest about it because they're so shocked by,
oh my gosh, it really was a great workout, Like
I really have transforms my body, I love the nutrition
that comes along with it, all of those things, and
they're the ones that are our biggest advocate. So I
love that. One of the things that one of the
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reasons I actually jumped into doing a workout Wednesday that
the segment that we did back in New York a
couple of years ago was because of each body, because
I was such a nonbeliever at the time where I
was like, you know what, getting in shape isn't necessarily
about going to the gym and slamming a couple of weights.
For every single person in the world. A lot of
people can get in shape if they just found out
the program that either fit into their schedule or made
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them have a good time because if we're not having
a good time, you're never gonna actually get a good
workout in totally. And that is the beauty of something
like a beach body of each body under man. You
have the option. Look, you can try multiple trainers, and
you do need to find something that you enjoy in
some way because if you don't enjoy it, you won't
stick with it. And the only way to have long
lasting results is to be consistent. So finding something that
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you really like, that fits into your schedule, that motivates you,
that gets you the results, that is the key to success,
and having variety makes that possible. Well, let's talk about
your newest one um any day Obsession, which I'm actually
excited for because it's kind of something I've never really
seen done before. You've never seen it done before because
it's never been done before. Yes, uh, we are, like,
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this is my favorite thing ever that we get to
be the innovators on this. It is an eight day
workout program and it's a different workout every single day
for eight days, so we filmed it in real time.
My cast is the same six people from day one
all the way through day eighty, so you will see
them go through their transformation. You will see me go
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through my transformation. You'll watch all of us get stronger,
You'll see all of us struggle on certain days. We
all have good days and bad days. But I feel
like it's so fun and so motivating for people UM
to do this because we obviously took a test group
through it. We took about and ten people through it already.
Because you never know that person at home pushing play.
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You never know what you're pushing play on until that day.
So on day one, you only do day one once.
Then the next eight days are different until you Unless
you circle back to day one at the end of
the program, you'll never do that exact workout again, which
is awesome. But you know, you get to see myself
in the cast interact, and and we really bring the
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viewer in and make them feel like they're right there
with us in class with us, going through it with us. UM.
There's a very strong focus on your butt and your
core in these workouts, because having strong glutes and having
a strong core are really sort of the key staples
to having a strong body. Yeah, exactly. You need your
glutes to propel you forward, you need your core to
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support you and protect your back and all those things.
So there's a big, strong focus on that. But it's
a very innovative program and the first of its kind,
and I'm super excited to be bringing it to people.
There's also a very comprehensive nutrition program that comes with it,
where I in duce people to what is called times
nutrition so that we keep their macro nutrients balanced throughout
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the day where they're really fueling their body all day long.
So for anybody who struggles with like what do I
eat now? Um, this is a great nutrition component to
the program to teach them how to fuel their body
for success. This is a question I got on on
Snapchat as well. Is eating well really better than going
hard at the gym. I've been trying to lose weight
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my entire life, and I just can't hard to admit,
but my biggest issue is food and not exercising. So
I assume that's part of my issue. Like how important
is your diet when it comes to working out and
find and reaching those those goals you got? Here's the
thing I always tell people, you can't out train a
bad diet. Maybe you're lucky and you have great genetics
and so you're going to be lean or a little
bit more muscular, even if you don't eat perfectly. But
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for the majority of people, you just can't out train
a bad diet. So you can go in the gym
and bust your butt for an hour, but unless you're
living in the gym for five, six seven hours a day,
you're not going to out train. And if you go
pound burgers and fries and pizza and beer and that
sort of thing afterwards. And look, here's the thing, I
am technically the fitness expert, right, Like that's my job
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is I I create the program of the fitness program.
I obviously have the very strong background and nutrition as well,
but I'm the trainer, and I as the trainer, I'm
saying your nutrition is like of your success, because if
you just don't fuel your body right, all of that
hard work, Look, you might have gain weight, but you're
not going to see the muscle definition that you want.
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You're not gonna lose weight at the rate that you
want to. It's amazing how many people will work out
so hard but won't change their eating and just be
completely frustrated as the process. So learning how to eat
and eat properly, and I believe eating without depriving yourself,
because nobody wants to be on a diet that's not fun.
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So everything that I put out nutrition wise is not
about being on a diet. It really is about just
like proper portion control, eating clean more often than not.
But like, hey, if you want to have a glass
of wine, here how much and when and how often
so that you don't just blow all those results you're
working towards. Her. Hey you want cookies or brownies, here's
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how much, Here's how often? Again, so you can have it,
but without overindulging and just ruining your results. So I
usually everyone usually assumes that I have a really good
diet because I'm in relatively good shape. I'm not in
autumn calvary shape. I'm pretty good shape though. Um But
I'd say the one thing I struggle with is I
don't eat terribly. I don't really have a sweet tooth,
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but I just I don't really moderate what I eat.
But the one time I did, um, I did the
whole thirty diet for thirty days, and it was like
the best I ever felt, the best shape I was
ever in, And all I changed was the food I
was eating. I wasn't working out any harder. But I was.
My workouts were better, I was sleeping better, I was
waking up with more energy. Like I didn't realize until
that point how much your diet actually affected everything totally,
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because when you're when it looks if you go four
or five six hours without eating, you're sort of putting
yourself in this starvation mode for a minute, and then
you end up really hungry, so you end up binge eating,
which means you're probably not picking the best foods. But
the more processed the food is, the more sugar that's
in there, the more white flour, the more additives, all
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of that affects our bodies so much more than people
want to admit. And when you clean it up and
eat healthy foods in the proper portions, yes everything is affected.
Your skin looks nice or your eyes are brighter, you
sleep better, you have more energy, you feel better. You know,
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so many people have gut issues and don't even realize
that they have gut issues because they've lived with it
for so long. They just think it's normal for their
stomach to hurt or to be bloated or gassy or
things like that. But if you just take the time
to clean the diet up a little bit and and
eat real food to be shocked at how many things
go away. This is why I really did want to
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get you on as the first guest on this Workout
Wednesday podcast because you do have the fitness aspect obviously,
but you're also a great person to follow for nutritional
advice and uh, if people do want to follow you,
do you want to give out your socials and all
that stuff right now? Yeah? Thank you? They're all just
my name. So Instagram is at Autumn Caliberries. Same thing
with Twitter, Facebook fan page. I even have my Facebook
(27:24):
Watch series where you guys can watch like short ten
minute episodes. I address a lot of these different topics
all throughout on that. So um the Facebook watch series
is called Life, Happiness and the Pursuit of Balance. You
can find me on any and all of them, and
then you can also check out my website Autumn Caliberies
dot com. I know A Day Obsession is starting on
the is that A day January is the launch of
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eight Day Obsession exclusively on Beach Body on Demand. There
will not be DVDs for this because there's eighty different workouts.
We could never put those on DVDs. It would cost. Also,
it's so much more convenient just to have an on
your phone or your laptop whenever you need it totally.
You're traveling wherever you are, you've got it. You're good
to go. You don't have to worry. So beach Body
on demand is what you need for a day obsession
(28:10):
is There are there weights that you need for it.
You need light, medium, and heavy weights. And then we
also use many resistance loops and sliders for the workouts.
You can start ordering those um at beach body dot com.
Let's say I'm someone who hasn't worked out in two years.
I had a I had a kid, I was really
busy at work, whatever it was. Can anyone jump into
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a day obsession? Here's the thing. Eight day obsession is
an intermediate to an advanced program. If you haven't worked
out in two years, I wouldn't suggest it be the
first thing you go to only because I don't want
people to get discouraged. I'm not saying they can't do it,
but most people, if they haven't worked out in that long,
will come in and just be like, oh, this is
a little too hard, too much for me, too long.
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So start with something like a twenty one day six.
That's only three weeks. They're shorter workouts, but you definitely
will start building up strength and stamina. Or or you
can even do a Little Obsessed, which is a mini
version of a D Day Obsession, where the same theme
of workouts, but there's thirty minutes instead of an hour.
And actually, the really cool thing about a Little Obsessed
so you don't actually have to be a Beach Body
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on Demand member for the first month of that release.
You can start doing that no matter what UM and
have access to it through January fifteenth. So that's a
great way to start preparing so that you're ready for
when a D Day Obsession launches. It's not like you
have to be working out for months and months and months,
but you should be doing something leading up to start
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in that program. I know you have a bunch of
stuff to do. You're a very, very busy person. But
thank you for for stopping mind being the first guest
on the Workout Wednesday podcast. Perfect my pleasure. Thanks for
having me on and then let me know how and
goes if you do jump into it. But thanks all right,
and I did promise um that every single podcast I'm
gonna give you one little thing that you can add
to your week or sometimes take out of your daily
(29:55):
routine for a week. Every time we do the podcast,
we're gonna keep adding onto that list. So the first thing,
and it's like the easiest thing you could possibly do.
Go download any like water tracking app I use. Let
me grab my phone real quick. I use something called
the what is this hydro coach? And what you do
is you plug in your info. It tells you how
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much water you should be drinking, and just drink that
for a full week. See if you can do that,
that'll be your first step in whatever your journey is,
and whatever your journey happens to be. Hopefully this podcast
helps you get there a week after week. Remember you
can always email It's my Day Friday Show at Gmail
or hit me up Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat at worst Anthony.
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hit the little follow button on the I Heart radio
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podcast wherever you happen to be listening to it. Good
luck on whatever journey you have ahead of you, no
matter what, you look great. I'll see you next Wednesday.
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first Workout Wednesday podcast. It is Thursday. I know it's
confusing because normally if you see someone that says it's
workout Wednesday, you should listen to it on the Wednesday.
But I posted the teaser yesterday. This is what we
got coming up today. That is the key to success
for anybody who struggles with like what do I eat? Now?
Schedule your workout like you schedule a meeting with your boss.
(00:44):
Proud to say I was a nonbeliever because I am
such a believer. Now it's okay to make yourself and
your health a priority. As someone trying to lose weight,
is cardio or weightlifting more beneficial? Being patient with yourself,
I think is a big hurdle. This is one of
the hardest workouts and one of the best workouts I've
ever done. This is a new It's not a new trend,
(01:04):
but it's It's definitely where the trend of fitness is going,
with how busy everybody is and the fact that getting
to a gym is harder, it's more expensive. My workouts
are better. I was sleeping better, I was waking up
with more energy, like your nutrition is like of your
sixth Wow. You do need to find something that you
enjoy in some way, because if you don't enjoy it,
(01:26):
you won't stick with it. And the only way to
have long, laughing results is to be consistent. Welcome to
the first ever full episode of the Workout Wednesday podcast.
My name is Anthony. However you got here, thank you
very much for spending some time. This is how this
podcast is gonna work. So every single week on Wednesday
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is normally is when they'll be posted. I'm going to
talk to um an expert in the health and fitness world.
Now that's not always going to be specifically about working out.
Sometimes I'll be talking to dietitians, two coaches, to trainers,
to people who own Jim's, just anyone that's in that
kind of realm. Those will be the guests that I
(02:09):
have every single week. Now. To get those guests, I'm
gonna use questions that you submit, whether you submitted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
or Snapchat, you can hit me up at Worst Anthony
or you could always email my Day Friday Show at
Gmail and I'll use your questions to figure out what
type of people I need to get on this podcast. Also,
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every single week, I'm going to give you a little
tip or challenge you to do one thing every day
until the following podcast, and then every single week will
keep growing on that list of things until by the
end of the year you have all these amazing um
daily habits that you're doing, all these amazing tricks that
you've kind of accrued throughout the year. So that will
(02:52):
come up right at the end of the podcast. But
I do want to get this week's guest, this week's expert,
if you will say hello to Autumn caw Briefs. Thank
you so much for making some time and hanging out
with me. Of course, thanks for having me out. I'm excited.
So you're you're calling from l A, right, I am
in l A, Yes, all right, and you're I know
you're getting ready to kick off a d obsession, which
(03:12):
we will obviously get to because I think to kick
off the new year, that's probably gonna be one of
the easiest ways for people to really get to their
New Year's resolution, have someone to help them along the hallway.
Not easy in terms of every day will be easy,
but it's straightforward and I think it will help a
lot of people. Yes, agreed. I guess the first thing is,
even though you're obviously you know, super fit, it's your
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it's your job essentially to be fit. Do you start
the year with the New Year's resolution? Okay, I am
the person who doesn't believe in New Year's resolution. Of
sounds funny, but I just think that if there's a
goal you want to achieve, you don't wait till the
new year to be like, Okay, well I'll sort of
work against my goal now. Like you know, if you're
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goal to lose five pounds, you're like, well, i'll take
out now, and I'm January one, I'll eat help me exactly. So,
I'm setting resolutions all year long for myself, and when
I accomplish a goal, I set a new one, and
I don't wait for like a specific date in time
to do that. I think there's no better time than
the presence. So what was the last either resolution or
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goal or standard you set for yourself that you're working towards.
Right now, Um, right now, I am actually working on
finding balance in my life. This is a really big
one for me because I absolutely love my job, so
I never say no to anything, but then I tend
to overbook myself, or not have as much time for
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my son and my family as I should, or even
just like myself to have a little bit of time
to turn my brain off. So that is a very
big goal that I'm working on, is just being like,
where's the balance between the two and what have you
found since you started attacking that goal. I think the
more organized I am, the more work I get accomplished
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in a shorter period of time. It's not that I
can't do a lot, It's just that sometimes I'm not organized,
and if i'm not, then I'm sort of all over
the place. So if I really organize my day to
get sort of the majority of my work done while
my son is at school, then I feel like when
he comes home, I can I can turn off and
unplug and take a deep breath and be like in
(05:20):
full mom mode instead of bouncing back and forth between
like Okay, here's your dinner and here's start your homework
and I'm gonna go do this call and I'll be
right back. And so being organized is one of the
major things that is helping me with my goal. Well,
I need to work on that because I am like
the most unorganized person in the entire world. You happen,
you do bring up a good point, though, because a
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lot of times, whether it's work, whether it's family, friends,
we all try very hard to please everyone, and then
the person that suffers is yourself. Yeah, exactly. We always
sort of put ourselves on the back burner. And that's
even really something that I address in my new workout program,
eight Day Obsession is about that the word obsessed isn't
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about like a number on the scale or anything. It's
about being obsessed about yourself, your health, your fitness, and
that that's not selfish or conceited or anything that like,
it's okay to make yourself and your health a priority.
A lot of people have asked, all, right, how do
I carve out some time and do a workout and
stay consistent? And I know that's that's kind of a
multi level answer, But what would you say to someone
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who's just struggling to find time I think it's just
what we were just saying is that you don't find time,
you make time. So the biggest thing I always tell
people when it comes to their workout is that you
schedule your workout like you schedule a meeting with your boss.
So you put it on the calendar. Nothing gets in
the way of that. You don't schedule anything else. You
don't say, oh, this ends up being a priority over that.
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It's like, no, wherever you put it for that day,
it's a priority at that moment, and you don't let
it get pushed. A lot of people will look at
it as sort of the optional things that can get
pushed around, and I just say, you don't make it optional.
Like I look at my schedule each week. I don't
work out at the exact same time every day because
my my days are never the same. But I know
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what my week looks like, so I know where my
workout is going each day, and once I decide where
it's going, that's it. If somebody asks me to schedule
a call or something like that, I just that's that
time frame is not an option because it's already booked. Yeah.
I think the thing that I always tell people whether
it's family or friends. It's like, look at your day.
Take take inventory of a regular day. How much time
(07:30):
do you make for things that aren't important? How much
time do you spend whether it's binging a Netflix show
or watching a game. How much of that time isn't
actually benefiting you at all? And if you really want
to actually jump into it, if you really want to
make a change in your life, then find one of
those times and replace it. I don't think it's that hard,
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but it's tough to break routines. I think it is,
and it's it's very easy to make excuses and a lot.
You know, there are twenty four hours we don't say
everything into. I know we're all very busy, but every
minute of twenty four hours isn't usually planned. The thing
I think that we spend the most time on that
we could definitely stand to give up a little bit
is our social media. How many hours we spend scrolling
(08:14):
through Instagram or commenting on things. And that's all fun
and good, but not at the expense of your health.
Like I mean, how often do people get stuck on
like a Pinterest or something and they think it's been
five minutes and they're like, oh my gosh, it's been
at work. Oh definitely. I sometimes make the excuse for
myself because and you're probably in the same boat, autumnware.
Social media is part of my job, but I end
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up doing whatever I had to do on social media
for my job, and then I end up scrolling through
an Instagram feed for for thirty minutes and I could
have been at the jam or I could have done
something else, and now my whole day is backed up
and I can't go to the gym exactly. So just
just like when you get into that, it's that thing
about breaking the habit of and just going okay, wait,
I don't need to be doing this right now. I
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need to push play on my workout, or I need
to go to the gym or whatever it might be.
But getting it done and then whatever time you have left.
I always feel at the end of the night is
a good time for all that stuff, for scrolling social
media and things like that. When you're like the work
is done, the workout done, kids are asleep, and like,
if you want to make that you're down time, then
make it your downtime, but not in the middle of
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the day multiple times a day. So this question. The
next question I have for you autumn is actually from
Carla Maury, who you know. Yes, because obviously the two
of us wake up very early for our job. We're
usually up. I'm up by four thirty. I think she's
up by three forty five, she says, because she works out.
She actually does your workouts before she comes to work,
which is which is an insane time to do workout
in my opinion. But whatever you gotta do. Breakfast is
(09:40):
so hard for her to find a good healthy breakfast
that it's still quick and you can get to work
and not have to take out a large chunk of
your morning to prepare. What do you do? You have
any suggestions? Yeah, there's a lot. So here's the thing.
You know, again, I say this all the time that
being prepared isn't half the battle. It is the battle.
So obviously you guys are getting up STU for early
(10:01):
and going, going, going, and you need probably something fast
to grab before you got the door. It's just one
of those things where you can pick certain recipes or
and and I'm not talking about like complicated recipes, but
you can make certain things ahead of time that you
can grab and go, like I have recipes on my
cooking show Fix eight that's on Beach Body and Demand,
where you could like they're healthy, different like muffin recipes.
(10:22):
They're like banana blueberry muffins or vegan cherry muffins and things,
or even just like the pancakes, because the pancakes make
I think like twelve servings. So if you make them
on like a Sunday or something and put them in
the fridge, you have it. You can just grab it
and go overnight. Ohts is a really great one. But
like if nothing else, just a piece of fruit or
(10:44):
something I love, like my chacology that's like a it's
a very high protein, um super dense, super food nutrition
shake that Beach Body makes. That's an easy one. I like,
throw that in the blender with some ice, some water,
maybe a piece of fruit blended up and go. So
there's definitely the options. It's just about making sure you
have those options on hand. Well, you mentioned the protein shake.
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I know we have a question. Let's see, I got
a question from Terren Miller on snapchat. So, on average,
how much protein do you really need to consume every
day if you're trying to stay in shape? Oh gosh,
there's a formula because it it's based on your size.
Was something along the lines of, you want a gram
of protein for every pound of your goal weight? Yeah,
I see, like some of them say point eight grams,
(11:29):
so it's just under So some say point eight grams
per kilogram of body weight. Yeah, that's that's on average,
the right amount per kilogram of body weight. I'd say,
as a rule of thumb, that's a good it's a
good standard. And then another question, and this obviously I
could never in my life try to answer this question
because I can't and never will be pregnant. But this
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is from Jillian White, and she wants to know how
to get back in shape after pregnancy, because I'm assuming
that's somewhat difficult to do. You know what, This is
one of those things like, again, we can make an
excuse about it, and I love my mommy's but as
a mommy, I don't give. I don't let them make
excuses because it's not impossible. It's not any harder really
(12:12):
than getting in shape any other time. Um, you need
to make sure you've been cleared by your doctor to
start exercising, and then you can start slow with something
as much as going for walks or going for little jogs,
doing at home workout programs. But again, this is where
it's important to make it a priority to carve out
just a little bit of time for you. Whether it's
when the baby's taking a nap, whether it's when your
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husband or significant other gets home from work, wherever it
might be. But if you just put it in your day,
you'll get it done. When my son was first born,
I actually had to have a c section with him,
so I had to go really easy on exercise getting
back into it. I would put him in the strollers
twice a day and take him for walks. And I'm
(12:54):
not like talking power walks, but I would do two
three mile walks a day, just strolling, and while while
he would like sleep and get fresh air, I would
call my sister or my mom, or my dad or
a friend and I would just walk and talk. But
I was walking six miles a day, and that's impressive.
Fell off me. But you know, when your mom at
first and the baby's brand new, when you're at home anyways,
(13:18):
you're sort of like itching to get out of the house.
So even if you you know, if it's cold outside,
you take the baby to the mall, put the baby
in the stroller, walk around the mall or something. But
you just need to move. So so just getting started
and then being aware of what you're eating is always
very important, especially if you're breast seating, because whatever you
eat is what your baby's eating. What was one of
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the biggest hurdles, I guess in getting back in shape
after your pregnancy. I think the biggest hurdle for me
was was taking it at the right pace because I
worked out obviously before my pregnancy. I worked out all
the way up until the day I went into labor
with him, and then having had the C section and
being very active and my doctor saying you know better,
(14:02):
like you have to go slow. That was hard for
me to go slow because I wanted to dive back
into it. So being patient with my body and knowing, like, Okay,
it took nine months to grow that baby and gain
the thirty six pounds that I gained, it's not all
going to come off in two days. I gave myself
a four months goal. I said, I wanted the baby
weight off in four months, and if I you know,
(14:24):
if I didn't make it in four months, I wasn't
gonna like beat myself up. But that was sort of
I gave myself a set point so I was working
towards something and and that really works because I was
patient with my body. I didn't like every day get
on the scale and be like, I'm fat. Why am
I not losing the weight? What's going on? Because it's
really easy for women to do that, like when the baby.
Once the baby comes out, you no longer have like
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this big hard stomach. You just feel you just feel fat.
And that's normal because there's weight on your body you're
not used to, and so we get really down on ourselves.
So being patient with yourself, I think is is a
big hurdle. This is from S. Matt forty two as
someone trying to lose weight, is cardio or weightlifting more beneficial?
And this is something I feel like people ask all
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the time because the general idea is like, oh, if
you want to lose weight, jump on a treadmill or
jump on an elliptical. And I know you probably have
some sort of ratio that you can use. But in
my mind, I've always thought I hated cardio. If I
if I did wait, if I lifted weights or did
some sort of high intensity interval training. I was staying
(15:29):
in shape without doing any cardio. Yes. So actually, all
of the latest research over the last probably five or
six years has shown us that cardio strength training basically
like using weights but keeping your heart rate up because
of how hard you're training with the weights, is way
more effective than steady state cardio. So jumping on a
(15:51):
treadmill and just running at the same pace for like
an hour, you'll actually build more lean muscle, You'll burn
more calories during the workout and later in your post burn,
which is why you'll see a lot you'll see my
workout programs basically designed as cardio's strength training programs. We're
always doing some sort of weight training keeping the heart up.
That doesn't mean we don't have cardio days. We do
(16:12):
have like a cardio day here and there. But I
love to use weights, um, both to to build lean
muscle and to burn calories. See what I do cardio,
I'm usually just doing it as unless I'm doing a
beach body workout one of the like an actual set program. UM.
If I'm working out on my own, normally I just
do a cardioto to warm up kind of. I'll do
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ten fifteen minutes, sometimes twenty minutes just to kind of
get my blood flowing, and then I'll jump into a
workout where i am I'm listening weights, but I'm also
not resting very long, so I'm just going from exercise
to exercise. Yes, and that's great. And you know, if
you if somebody has that much time to do a
minute cardio warm up and then go into a full
forty minutes or something of weight training, fantastic. But if
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they only if they have thirty minutes and the option
is thirty minutes on the treadmill or thirty minutes of
twenty one day fix or eight day session or something
like that, go for the weight training because you're getting
way more bang for your buck. You know, let's can
we talk about because you mentioned twenty one day fixed.
Because I've always been a guy who I was always
in the weight room, whether I had a strength coach
during college or whatever. If I didn't know any better,
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I would first off, I'd say, oh, this is at
home workout. It's probably not gonna be that hard. Um.
I would probably say something obnoxious like oh to chick
doing it and whatever. I'm in the weight room every day.
But for people who have never tried most of the
Beach Body workouts and especially Autumn's workouts yours. They's so
there's such great workouts and they really kick your ass.
(17:37):
Thank you, And that's like, here's the thing. I know,
it's really easy to poo poo at home workout. But
what people should realize is that this is a new
It's not a new trend, but it's it's definitely where
the trend of fitness is going. With how busy everybody
is and the fact that getting to a gym is harder,
it's more expensive. Beach Body doesn't just pick random people
(18:00):
off the street to be their fitness trainers. They're not
looking for like pretty people to just be the face
of a workout program. Us trainers that work for each body.
We are incredibly knowledgeable, like this is what we have
made our career, so studying the science of it, learning it,
teaching it, like this is what we do. It's not
just like I said, like somebody with a nice body
(18:22):
getting up there and doing some random moves. It's they're
very science based. They're very highly developed programs. And to
have the ability to have somebody who's basically a world
c class trainer in your home with you. It's pretty awesome,
Like you couldn't really get that if we didn't have
(18:42):
a home workout, you would have to go to a gym,
have to hire a trainer, have to hope that you
get into the right group fitness class where the instructor
has more than just some two day certification or something
like that. So um, you know, like I said, Beach
Body is really taking the time to vet who they
bring into the business and who they're putting out there
to lead people through these workouts. I'm actually proud to
(19:05):
say that. Originally when I first jumped into Beach Body,
which was probably Jess at this point six years ago maybe,
and I was like kind of late to the to
the program. I was a nonbeliever because I told you,
I used to spend so much time in the gym
and I had all these strength coaches and stuff in college.
But the second idea, I think the first one did
was X. I was like, holy crap, this is one
(19:27):
of the hardest workouts and one of the best workouts
I've ever done. And then I jumped into insanity. I've
done your workouts. So that's why I'm like proud to
say I was a nonbeliever because I am such a
believer now I love that. I love that. You know what,
sometimes nonbelievers are the best ones as long as they're
willing to give it a shot because they were such
nonbelievers that once they try it and see the results
(19:48):
and that sort of thing, they're usually the ones that
speak the highest about it because they're so shocked by,
oh my gosh, it really was a great workout, Like
I really have transforms my body, I love the nutrition
that comes along with it, all of those things, and
they're the ones that are our biggest advocate. So I
love that. One of the things that one of the
(20:09):
reasons I actually jumped into doing a workout Wednesday that
the segment that we did back in New York a
couple of years ago was because of each body, because
I was such a nonbeliever at the time where I
was like, you know what, getting in shape isn't necessarily
about going to the gym and slamming a couple of weights.
For every single person in the world. A lot of
people can get in shape if they just found out
the program that either fit into their schedule or made
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them have a good time because if we're not having
a good time, you're never gonna actually get a good
workout in totally. And that is the beauty of something
like a beach body of each body under man. You
have the option. Look, you can try multiple trainers, and
you do need to find something that you enjoy in
some way because if you don't enjoy it, you won't
stick with it. And the only way to have long
lasting results is to be consistent. So finding something that
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you really like, that fits into your schedule, that motivates you,
that gets you the results, that is the key to success,
and having variety makes that possible. Well, let's talk about
your newest one um any day Obsession, which I'm actually
excited for because it's kind of something I've never really
seen done before. You've never seen it done before because
it's never been done before. Yes, uh, we are, like,
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this is my favorite thing ever that we get to
be the innovators on this. It is an eight day
workout program and it's a different workout every single day
for eight days, so we filmed it in real time.
My cast is the same six people from day one
all the way through day eighty, so you will see
them go through their transformation. You will see me go
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through my transformation. You'll watch all of us get stronger,
You'll see all of us struggle on certain days. We
all have good days and bad days. But I feel
like it's so fun and so motivating for people UM
to do this because we obviously took a test group
through it. We took about and ten people through it already.
Because you never know that person at home pushing play.
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You never know what you're pushing play on until that day.
So on day one, you only do day one once.
Then the next eight days are different until you Unless
you circle back to day one at the end of
the program, you'll never do that exact workout again, which
is awesome. But you know, you get to see myself
in the cast interact, and and we really bring the
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viewer in and make them feel like they're right there
with us in class with us, going through it with us. UM.
There's a very strong focus on your butt and your
core in these workouts, because having strong glutes and having
a strong core are really sort of the key staples
to having a strong body. Yeah, exactly. You need your
glutes to propel you forward, you need your core to
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support you and protect your back and all those things.
So there's a big, strong focus on that. But it's
a very innovative program and the first of its kind,
and I'm super excited to be bringing it to people.
There's also a very comprehensive nutrition program that comes with it,
where I in duce people to what is called times
nutrition so that we keep their macro nutrients balanced throughout
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the day where they're really fueling their body all day long.
So for anybody who struggles with like what do I
eat now? Um, this is a great nutrition component to
the program to teach them how to fuel their body
for success. This is a question I got on on
Snapchat as well. Is eating well really better than going
hard at the gym. I've been trying to lose weight
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my entire life, and I just can't hard to admit,
but my biggest issue is food and not exercising. So
I assume that's part of my issue. Like how important
is your diet when it comes to working out and
find and reaching those those goals you got? Here's the
thing I always tell people, you can't out train a
bad diet. Maybe you're lucky and you have great genetics
and so you're going to be lean or a little
bit more muscular, even if you don't eat perfectly. But
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for the majority of people, you just can't out train
a bad diet. So you can go in the gym
and bust your butt for an hour, but unless you're
living in the gym for five, six seven hours a day,
you're not going to out train. And if you go
pound burgers and fries and pizza and beer and that
sort of thing afterwards. And look, here's the thing, I
am technically the fitness expert, right, Like that's my job
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is I I create the program of the fitness program.
I obviously have the very strong background and nutrition as well,
but I'm the trainer, and I as the trainer, I'm
saying your nutrition is like of your success, because if
you just don't fuel your body right, all of that
hard work, Look, you might have gain weight, but you're
not going to see the muscle definition that you want.
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You're not gonna lose weight at the rate that you
want to. It's amazing how many people will work out
so hard but won't change their eating and just be
completely frustrated as the process. So learning how to eat
and eat properly, and I believe eating without depriving yourself,
because nobody wants to be on a diet that's not fun.
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So everything that I put out nutrition wise is not
about being on a diet. It really is about just
like proper portion control, eating clean more often than not.
But like, hey, if you want to have a glass
of wine, here how much and when and how often
so that you don't just blow all those results you're
working towards. Her. Hey you want cookies or brownies, here's
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how much, Here's how often? Again, so you can have it,
but without overindulging and just ruining your results. So I
usually everyone usually assumes that I have a really good
diet because I'm in relatively good shape. I'm not in
autumn calvary shape. I'm pretty good shape though. Um But
I'd say the one thing I struggle with is I
don't eat terribly. I don't really have a sweet tooth,
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but I just I don't really moderate what I eat.
But the one time I did, um, I did the
whole thirty diet for thirty days, and it was like
the best I ever felt, the best shape I was
ever in, And all I changed was the food I
was eating. I wasn't working out any harder. But I was.
My workouts were better, I was sleeping better, I was
waking up with more energy. Like I didn't realize until
that point how much your diet actually affected everything totally,
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because when you're when it looks if you go four
or five six hours without eating, you're sort of putting
yourself in this starvation mode for a minute, and then
you end up really hungry, so you end up binge eating,
which means you're probably not picking the best foods. But
the more processed the food is, the more sugar that's
in there, the more white flour, the more additives, all
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of that affects our bodies so much more than people
want to admit. And when you clean it up and
eat healthy foods in the proper portions, yes everything is affected.
Your skin looks nice or your eyes are brighter, you
sleep better, you have more energy, you feel better. You know,
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so many people have gut issues and don't even realize
that they have gut issues because they've lived with it
for so long. They just think it's normal for their
stomach to hurt or to be bloated or gassy or
things like that. But if you just take the time
to clean the diet up a little bit and and
eat real food to be shocked at how many things
go away. This is why I really did want to
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get you on as the first guest on this Workout
Wednesday podcast because you do have the fitness aspect obviously,
but you're also a great person to follow for nutritional
advice and uh, if people do want to follow you,
do you want to give out your socials and all
that stuff right now? Yeah? Thank you? They're all just
my name. So Instagram is at Autumn Caliberries. Same thing
with Twitter, Facebook fan page. I even have my Facebook
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Watch series where you guys can watch like short ten
minute episodes. I address a lot of these different topics
all throughout on that. So um the Facebook watch series
is called Life, Happiness and the Pursuit of Balance. You
can find me on any and all of them, and
then you can also check out my website Autumn Caliberies
dot com. I know A Day Obsession is starting on
the is that A day January is the launch of
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eight Day Obsession exclusively on Beach Body on Demand. There
will not be DVDs for this because there's eighty different workouts.
We could never put those on DVDs. It would cost. Also,
it's so much more convenient just to have an on
your phone or your laptop whenever you need it totally.
You're traveling wherever you are, you've got it. You're good
to go. You don't have to worry. So beach Body
on demand is what you need for a day obsession
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is There are there weights that you need for it.
You need light, medium, and heavy weights. And then we
also use many resistance loops and sliders for the workouts.
You can start ordering those um at beach body dot com.
Let's say I'm someone who hasn't worked out in two years.
I had a I had a kid, I was really
busy at work, whatever it was. Can anyone jump into
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a day obsession? Here's the thing. Eight day obsession is
an intermediate to an advanced program. If you haven't worked
out in two years, I wouldn't suggest it be the
first thing you go to only because I don't want
people to get discouraged. I'm not saying they can't do it,
but most people, if they haven't worked out in that long,
will come in and just be like, oh, this is
a little too hard, too much for me, too long.
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So start with something like a twenty one day six.
That's only three weeks. They're shorter workouts, but you definitely
will start building up strength and stamina. Or or you
can even do a Little Obsessed, which is a mini
version of a D Day Obsession, where the same theme
of workouts, but there's thirty minutes instead of an hour.
And actually, the really cool thing about a Little Obsessed
so you don't actually have to be a Beach Body
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on Demand member for the first month of that release.
You can start doing that no matter what UM and
have access to it through January fifteenth. So that's a
great way to start preparing so that you're ready for
when a D Day Obsession launches. It's not like you
have to be working out for months and months and months,
but you should be doing something leading up to start
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in that program. I know you have a bunch of
stuff to do. You're a very, very busy person. But
thank you for for stopping mind being the first guest
on the Workout Wednesday podcast. Perfect my pleasure. Thanks for
having me on and then let me know how and
goes if you do jump into it. But thanks all right,
and I did promise um that every single podcast I'm
gonna give you one little thing that you can add
to your week or sometimes take out of your daily
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routine for a week. Every time we do the podcast,
we're gonna keep adding onto that list. So the first thing,
and it's like the easiest thing you could possibly do.
Go download any like water tracking app I use. Let
me grab my phone real quick. I use something called
the what is this hydro coach? And what you do
is you plug in your info. It tells you how
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much water you should be drinking, and just drink that
for a full week. See if you can do that,
that'll be your first step in whatever your journey is,
and whatever your journey happens to be. Hopefully this podcast
helps you get there a week after week. Remember you
can always email It's my Day Friday Show at Gmail
or hit me up Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat at worst Anthony.
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And every time I do post the podcast, I will
be posting it from at Worst Anthony, so will make
sure you do follow along and don't forget. You can
hit the little follow button on the I Heart radio
app you're looking at the podcast, or subscribe to the
podcast wherever you happen to be listening to it. Good
luck on whatever journey you have ahead of you, no
matter what, you look great. I'll see you next Wednesday.
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