May 1, 2025 • 10 mins
Bella decided to sign up for a half marathon despite never running before. Fred calls on his personal trainer Gideon to give her advice!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know if I have a theme song for Gideon,
but Body by Gideon Personal Trainer to the Stars, and me,
h is here high Gideon.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Look a look at this guy? Look at this guy?
Can you do? He just radiates happiness and positivity. And
it's so annoying because he's so good looking, and he
has this great smile and he sounds like that while
I'm huffing and puffing and having a heart attack and
needing resuscitation, He's still smiling and sounding like that. Like
it's so frustrating, Gideon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Fred is not frustrating. We have a good time when
never wear together. Sometimes you just don't realize it until
it's over.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You're right, You're right. But we have our intern here, Bellahamine,
who answers the phone and responds to many of the
text messages. And you said to me the other day
that you want to go couch to Chicago marathon.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Right right, Well, not Chicago. I'm doing a half marathon
at the end of September.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, So you haven't from now May June July August,
so you have five months. Yeah, I've been a while
to run a half marathon. And so now tell Gideon
where we're at, because you've run how many marathons? Now? Six? Seven?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I run seven? But who's counting me?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, I'm counting. This guy's been la this guy's
done Chicago many times, he's done Houston, he's done New York. Wow,
he ran around the world one time. Yeah, I could
see that. He climbed out Everest six times. It's crazy
and all while I ran one mile, So it's crazy.
So where are we at in our journey so far?
(01:32):
Two days in?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We're about two days in right now, my back is
hurting like no other. I didn't know your back hurts
when you run, you guys, I didn't know the spots, everything,
everything hurts.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So how much have we run? Cumulatively?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What kind of running? What have we accomplished in two days?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We've done like a run walk walk, walk run kind
of a situation where I start to get embarrassed. The
people behind me are looking at me, They're like, why
is this girl just running and walking? So I like
motivate myself to keep running. But then I stopped because
we had.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
To learn Gideon and said, and teach me, this is
no one's actually looking at you. You should just know.
And they might be, but they're not really internalizing, so
no one's really judging you. There's that That the right, right, Gideon.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's correct. Everybody has their own problems and struggles and
no one's concerned about the other person.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's my biggest thing is I feel like I look
like an idiot out there because I also run, like
my legs go like, uh, side to side, like they just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Look a little silly. They go side to side.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, that might be a something a horse.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And I just always ran like this and like people,
my friends always make fun of me, and it's like,
you know, I feel like people look at it when
they like, I run, my legs go out.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See. But here's the good news. The good news is
that you can blend in imagine me six five and
forty pounds like trotting down the lake. It's like, who
is this NBA player who's out of clearly out of
shape and hasn't been in the league in fifteen years?
Like that's what they look when they think of me.
And then they see this very good looking fit guy
and they're like he must be paying him, you know what.
It looks like we're on the lake front. It looks
(03:01):
like I hired someone to go on a date with me,
you know what I mean, because like no one is
No one is saying, like this guy, the tall like
guy that looks like a moron running that that man
is not electively training with him. Like no one thinks
that I'm coming, that he's coming to me for any
form of inspiration. Yes, so don't worry about how you look.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
But I look like a sad child, you know. It's
like running away from home on.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The last like.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Their parents ever talked about to run, like just running
away from her trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So Gideon, what should she do? Like what's the progression here?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Well, first and foremost, congratulations on making a decision and
working towards that, because a lot of people don't give
themselves credit for the fact that it takes some courage
to kind of put yourself out.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There, especially on the radio on the Fread Show. I know, Man,
just tell your friends and family that you had this
audacious goal and you're actually doing something to work towards it.
So big congratulations to you. And then I would say
that like this is a journey and it's not going
to be perfect. I say this a print all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You're going to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Stumble a little bit. You may feel awkward or it's
a cure at times, but you're doing something good for yourself,
and you're doing something that's going to challenge you and
change you positively.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So she's crying a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That to be a reward, you know what I mean,
in its process, and you'll learn so much about yourself
as you go through it. So it's not going to
be perfect, but you will grow and you will be
glad that you took that first step.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Thank you, Gideon. I have one question for you that's
really like keeps me up at night about running. So
I look close to a path on the lake. But
I would like to run to the path, but there's lights,
like traffic lights.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
What do you do? There's the stop light?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Like do I stop running?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You do what I do, and you pray that it
goes longer, but the traffic light lasts longer. You just pray.
You pray that, like not that anyone gets hurt in
the accident, but you pray for an accident that blocks
the road and then you have to go home. Now
what do you do getting so.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It depends on how you want to approach it. So
you can stand at the light and jog. I'm sure
you've seen that many times. But what I like to
do is I double back. You generally are going to
figure out how long these lights are, especially if that's
a normal path for you. So if I'm coming up
on the red light, I'll circle around, run back from
where I just came from. I kind of time it
up so that that lights in his green I'm pretty
(05:21):
close to circle back again, and now just make that cross.
So this way, I didn't break stride and I'm keeping
my energy moving forward.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh yeah, we don't want to break stride. We never
we never do that. Never do we break the stride
to stop with the hot dog standing, I have a
little something to eat. No man, because sometimes he tricks me.
He says we're running to raising canes, and I'm like,
we are, and then we never get there. We never
we never go there. Exit Yeah exactly. Okay. So then
(05:47):
as far as getting like for people who want to
get off the couch and then go to a like
let's say a five K or me next month there
you go do it? So like okay, so maybe five
k's like the first goal, So then what would be like,
how would we, in simple terms, get there from couch
to five k with a stroller? Because that's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
By the way, I think you should share those details
on when this five k is gonna be because I
may show up and we.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
May have some of the thirteen that want to join
you in support too.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's the thing very illegal now that biggest past it
in the city council. Yeah, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'll say this anybody, anybody who's looking to get off
the couch and get going.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Needs to do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Bella, I love your approach of running and walking. People
don't give walking enough credit. Like that is a great
way to start, a great way to break up your
run so that you're not doing too much too soon.
I know you were saying that your back is hurting,
and I know you're pushing yourself at certain times because
you maybe feel insecure that other people are watching and judging.
But take those walks, take those breaks, and watch how
(06:55):
your endurance improves, and then you can actually make a
note on how you improving in the fact that you
don't have to walk as much or walk as long
over time. So just getting started and giving yourself a
lot of grace in this process, especially if it's something
that you haven't done in a while or ever have done,
because you just need that great that time that's going
(07:15):
to allow you to make those developments and changes later.
So just get going.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Just get going.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Grab a friend or two, a family member, some type
of support system, right, and like I said, do something
that's going to be fun, encouraging with your dog, with
your child, by yourself, with friends, and put it out there.
Like oftentimes, we hold ourselves accountable more when other people
know that we have this big goal and they're going
to be checking in on us.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
See, I agree with what he said because you and
I have the same problem, bell and we're worried about
what other people think. Yeah, and you should see me
like when a pretty girl's running like the opposite direction,
like towards us. Oh my god, my form is on point.
I'm running like the wind. I'm running. I look like
Usain Bolt for the amount of time until the very
moment she crosses in her back and then I collapse,
(08:01):
actually physically collapse, and I need to be resuscitated. Gideon
knows CPR. I learned. So that's exciting, and he carries
a demipulator with him, which is wild. I didn't know
that until I needed so it's true. But Gideon is
the best, and we're holding you accountable. You can do this,
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That's what I'm telling people, because I want to be
held accountable.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's what I did too. I went on the radio
and said I'm gonna lose thirty pounds because I wanted
to gi. I had to because he looks stupid. If
you don't right now, Fred, I'm swimming in my you
can barely see me. I disappeared. Well, this guy, this guy,
you know, I pay him to be my friend, and
he shows up and I have no choice and he
doesn't let me make excuses. I'll be like, I don't know.
(08:42):
He's like, all right, we're going and then before long
I'm dead. How do people so get fit with giddy
right on the socials?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, sir, that's right, that's me all right.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Any other way they get a hold of you, don't
give out you phone number. You won't like the closer gets.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now, hit me up on the ground. That's the best way.
You can also check out my website Gideon dot com.
G I D e O N A k A N
d E dot com for all types of workouts fitness advice.
I'm here for you.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, Kiki's on there looking at you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I am.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I've never felt more motivated in my life. So see
this is what I mean. Yeah, I'm about to get
you run. It is this man radiates that it's impossible.
Like right now, you want to run a marathon, don't you? Well,
I was thinking run down the hallway. But you know,
we got to start somewhere. We got to start somewhere.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
K I am so glad you're motivated right now. Let
me know when we have our first session. I've been
waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, I'm waited soon. I okay, this is what I mean.
Like it's it's it's irritatingly positive.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh yeah, it's very positive. Very you mean, well, it's
just like I'm positive what you are? I feel like
I am you are like in certain things.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right, Well there you go, mark, mark the tape,
mark the day it happened. You're committed. Now, it's how
you're doing it. Yeah, you're doing it
I don't know if I have a theme song for Gideon,
but Body by Gideon Personal Trainer to the Stars, and me,
h is here high Gideon.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Fred?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
How you feeling?
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Baby?
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Look a look at this guy? Look at this guy?
Can you do? He just radiates happiness and positivity. And
it's so annoying because he's so good looking, and he
has this great smile and he sounds like that while
I'm huffing and puffing and having a heart attack and
needing resuscitation, He's still smiling and sounding like that. Like
it's so frustrating, Gideon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Fred is not frustrating. We have a good time when
never wear together. Sometimes you just don't realize it until
it's over.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
You're right, You're right. But we have our intern here, Bellahamine,
who answers the phone and responds to many of the
text messages. And you said to me the other day
that you want to go couch to Chicago marathon.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Right right, Well, not Chicago. I'm doing a half marathon
at the end of September.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Okay, So you haven't from now May June July August,
so you have five months. Yeah, I've been a while
to run a half marathon. And so now tell Gideon
where we're at, because you've run how many marathons? Now? Six? Seven?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I run seven? But who's counting me?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
I mean, I'm counting. This guy's been la this guy's
done Chicago many times, he's done Houston, he's done New York. Wow,
he ran around the world one time. Yeah, I could
see that. He climbed out Everest six times. It's crazy
and all while I ran one mile, So it's crazy.
So where are we at in our journey so far?
(01:32):
Two days in?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
We're about two days in right now, my back is
hurting like no other. I didn't know your back hurts
when you run, you guys, I didn't know the spots, everything,
everything hurts.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So how much have we run? Cumulatively?
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Like?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
What kind of running? What have we accomplished in two days?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We've done like a run walk walk, walk run kind
of a situation where I start to get embarrassed. The
people behind me are looking at me, They're like, why
is this girl just running and walking? So I like
motivate myself to keep running. But then I stopped because
we had.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
To learn Gideon and said, and teach me, this is
no one's actually looking at you. You should just know.
And they might be, but they're not really internalizing, so
no one's really judging you. There's that That the right, right, Gideon.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's correct. Everybody has their own problems and struggles and
no one's concerned about the other person.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's my biggest thing is I feel like I look
like an idiot out there because I also run, like
my legs go like, uh, side to side, like they just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Look a little silly. They go side to side.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Yeah, that might be a something a horse.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And I just always ran like this and like people,
my friends always make fun of me, and it's like,
you know, I feel like people look at it when
they like, I run, my legs go out.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
See. But here's the good news. The good news is
that you can blend in imagine me six five and
forty pounds like trotting down the lake. It's like, who
is this NBA player who's out of clearly out of
shape and hasn't been in the league in fifteen years?
Like that's what they look when they think of me.
And then they see this very good looking fit guy
and they're like he must be paying him, you know what.
It looks like we're on the lake front. It looks
(03:01):
like I hired someone to go on a date with me,
you know what I mean, because like no one is
No one is saying, like this guy, the tall like
guy that looks like a moron running that that man
is not electively training with him. Like no one thinks
that I'm coming, that he's coming to me for any
form of inspiration. Yes, so don't worry about how you look.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
But I look like a sad child, you know. It's
like running away from home on.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
The last like.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Their parents ever talked about to run, like just running
away from her trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So Gideon, what should she do? Like what's the progression here?
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Well, first and foremost, congratulations on making a decision and
working towards that, because a lot of people don't give
themselves credit for the fact that it takes some courage
to kind of put yourself out.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
There, especially on the radio on the Fread Show. I know, Man,
just tell your friends and family that you had this
audacious goal and you're actually doing something to work towards it.
So big congratulations to you. And then I would say
that like this is a journey and it's not going
to be perfect. I say this a print all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
You're going to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Stumble a little bit. You may feel awkward or it's
a cure at times, but you're doing something good for yourself,
and you're doing something that's going to challenge you and
change you positively.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
So she's crying a lot.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
That to be a reward, you know what I mean,
in its process, and you'll learn so much about yourself
as you go through it. So it's not going to
be perfect, but you will grow and you will be
glad that you took that first step.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Thank you, Gideon. I have one question for you that's
really like keeps me up at night about running. So
I look close to a path on the lake. But
I would like to run to the path, but there's lights,
like traffic lights.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
What do you do? There's the stop light?
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Like do I stop running?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You do what I do, and you pray that it
goes longer, but the traffic light lasts longer. You just pray.
You pray that, like not that anyone gets hurt in
the accident, but you pray for an accident that blocks
the road and then you have to go home. Now
what do you do getting so.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It depends on how you want to approach it. So
you can stand at the light and jog. I'm sure
you've seen that many times. But what I like to
do is I double back. You generally are going to
figure out how long these lights are, especially if that's
a normal path for you. So if I'm coming up
on the red light, I'll circle around, run back from
where I just came from. I kind of time it
up so that that lights in his green I'm pretty
(05:21):
close to circle back again, and now just make that cross.
So this way, I didn't break stride and I'm keeping
my energy moving forward.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh yeah, we don't want to break stride. We never
we never do that. Never do we break the stride
to stop with the hot dog standing, I have a
little something to eat. No man, because sometimes he tricks me.
He says we're running to raising canes, and I'm like,
we are, and then we never get there. We never
we never go there. Exit Yeah exactly. Okay. So then
(05:47):
as far as getting like for people who want to
get off the couch and then go to a like
let's say a five K or me next month there
you go do it? So like okay, so maybe five
k's like the first goal, So then what would be like,
how would we, in simple terms, get there from couch
to five k with a stroller? Because that's okay.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
By the way, I think you should share those details
on when this five k is gonna be because I
may show up and we.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
May have some of the thirteen that want to join
you in support too.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That's the thing very illegal now that biggest past it
in the city council. Yeah, how do you do that?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'll say this anybody, anybody who's looking to get off
the couch and get going.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Needs to do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Bella, I love your approach of running and walking. People
don't give walking enough credit. Like that is a great
way to start, a great way to break up your
run so that you're not doing too much too soon.
I know you were saying that your back is hurting,
and I know you're pushing yourself at certain times because
you maybe feel insecure that other people are watching and judging.
But take those walks, take those breaks, and watch how
(06:55):
your endurance improves, and then you can actually make a
note on how you improving in the fact that you
don't have to walk as much or walk as long
over time. So just getting started and giving yourself a
lot of grace in this process, especially if it's something
that you haven't done in a while or ever have done,
because you just need that great that time that's going
(07:15):
to allow you to make those developments and changes later.
So just get going.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
Just get going.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Grab a friend or two, a family member, some type
of support system, right, and like I said, do something
that's going to be fun, encouraging with your dog, with
your child, by yourself, with friends, and put it out there.
Like oftentimes, we hold ourselves accountable more when other people
know that we have this big goal and they're going
to be checking in on us.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
See, I agree with what he said because you and
I have the same problem, bell and we're worried about
what other people think. Yeah, and you should see me
like when a pretty girl's running like the opposite direction,
like towards us. Oh my god, my form is on point.
I'm running like the wind. I'm running. I look like
Usain Bolt for the amount of time until the very
moment she crosses in her back and then I collapse,
(08:01):
actually physically collapse, and I need to be resuscitated. Gideon
knows CPR. I learned. So that's exciting, and he carries
a demipulator with him, which is wild. I didn't know
that until I needed so it's true. But Gideon is
the best, and we're holding you accountable. You can do this,
you're doing.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
That's what I'm telling people, because I want to be
held accountable.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's what I did too. I went on the radio
and said I'm gonna lose thirty pounds because I wanted
to gi. I had to because he looks stupid. If
you don't right now, Fred, I'm swimming in my you
can barely see me. I disappeared. Well, this guy, this guy,
you know, I pay him to be my friend, and
he shows up and I have no choice and he
doesn't let me make excuses. I'll be like, I don't know.
(08:42):
He's like, all right, we're going and then before long
I'm dead. How do people so get fit with giddy
right on the socials?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, sir, that's right, that's me all right.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Any other way they get a hold of you, don't
give out you phone number. You won't like the closer gets.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Now, hit me up on the ground. That's the best way.
You can also check out my website Gideon dot com.
G I D e O N A k A N
d E dot com for all types of workouts fitness advice.
I'm here for you.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Yeah, Kiki's on there looking at you.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I am.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I've never felt more motivated in my life. So see
this is what I mean. Yeah, I'm about to get
you run. It is this man radiates that it's impossible.
Like right now, you want to run a marathon, don't you? Well,
I was thinking run down the hallway. But you know,
we got to start somewhere. We got to start somewhere.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
K I am so glad you're motivated right now. Let
me know when we have our first session. I've been
waiting for that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, I'm waited soon. I okay, this is what I mean.
Like it's it's it's irritatingly positive.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh yeah, it's very positive. Very you mean, well, it's
just like I'm positive what you are? I feel like
I am you are like in certain things.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
All right, Well there you go, mark, mark the tape,
mark the day it happened. You're committed. Now, it's how
you're doing it. Yeah, you're doing it
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