June 8, 2023 • 11 mins
Looking to burn extra calories just in time for that summer vacation?Fitness expert Reid Harrison Ducros shares best practices to whip your body into shape! Listen to our convo to find out the best moves to burn fat, based on your body type + learn what foods to add to your diet to achieve healthy weight loss, that stays off!
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(00:00):
Hey, this is Uptown Angela andwelcome back to the Radio Diva podcast.
And I've got special guest. You'veheard him before because I always talk about,
you know, working out, stayingfit, how it stays in the
family. And my nephew Read HarrisonDucroz also known as read HD. What's
up? Read Hey, how areyou? I'm good. I'm good.
(00:20):
I'm ready for summer. And Iknow you're probably getting busy. Your schedule's
getting full right now with clients becausepeople have goals for vacation, goals to
hit the beach, and they wantto look good. So tell me,
you know what's going on right now, Like, what's the biggest I guess
concern that your clients have when theyinitially reach out, you know, wanting
(00:42):
to work out with you. Yeah, well, everybody's always trying to you
know, lose late. That's likethe main thing that the majority of people
are coming to me for. Andit's because you'll feel like, you know,
they've hit a plateau or they're like, oh, I've tried this diet,
that diet, I've tried this trainerand that trainer, but you know,
the weight just isn't falling off.That's that's probably the biggest thing.
(01:03):
And you know it's I like tellingthem and like seeing the results, um
showing them that you know, it'spossible to lose weight. You just have
to you know, tweet some thingsright now, something that I think is
a myth. You know, there'sreally not a one size fits all formula
for every person, right right,So how do you go about, you
(01:25):
know, making an assessment. Youknow, I'm gonna assume age probably weighs
in on this and whether or not, you know, male female, the
type of your your your body,how it's made. You know, your
your your body, your your shape, if your medium build, you know,
if you're more slim, if you'remore you know, how how do
you go about? What's I shouldjust say, what's your assessment? Like?
(01:47):
Yeah, so my assessment is firstoff, all ask them if they've
been working out or if they haven't, because obviously, you know, it's
a big part in what we cando in the progress and what plan I
put before them so they can youknow, execute against that. So I
think that the baseline is really thesame for everybody in getting in that calorie
deficit and really just starting to workout, and then from there I will
(02:08):
start tweaking things. So, forexample, I have two clients online that
the guy was losing weight fast andthen all of a sudden, he just
you know, started gaining like fouror five pounds. So he looked at
his diet and he was, youknow, eating peanuts, and you think
that peanuts are like healthy, butthey could take a lot of sodium until
your water and make you feel heavier. So when he stopped that, you
(02:31):
know, I was five pounds.You know, he lost those five pounds
fast. Let's talk about before youmove on read, let's talk about healthy
snacks. You know, like youjust said your client was doing nuts,
so I know some of the nutsvary even I know, like almonds are
probably one of the healthier nuts,right yeah, yeah. I think the
(02:53):
biggest thing is a lot of peopledon't really look at the nutritional facts on
the back of it. So youpeanuts and almonds are obviously good, but
you want to have low sodium andthose the raw are the better ones and
no salt, right yeah, correct? Um, And then you know,
like, um, one of myfavorite snacks is like seaweed and stuff,
(03:16):
so it's just looking for did yousay seaweed? Yes? So so tell
are you talking about what's in thepack? Like looks like the Rama noodle
pack. Is that what you're talkingabout. Yeah, it's like in a
little it comes in a container likea little package. Um, and it's
to me, to me, it'sfeeling but it's and it's obviously not a
lot of calories and it's not reallymuch food at all. But that's like
(03:39):
a healthy snack, um. Andit's just looking at the nutrition pact,
you really seem you know, whatabout those our fruit fruit like fruit considered,
you know, a healthy snack obviouslysomething from the earth, but sometimes
you're still dealing with the sugar andif you're gonna do more fruit is their
recommendation of what time of day youshould be eating the fruit earlier as opposed
(04:03):
to before going to bed? Doesthat even matter? I'd say fruit good
any time of the day. Andthe reason I don't worry about sugar and
you know, like natural fruits isbecause you know it's it's naturally not construst.
Yeah, it comes from the earth. So I feel like a lot
of people are psyched out by forexample, they have the naked juices that
(04:26):
will be like thirty thirty grams ofsugar or stuff like that, but they
don't realize that the fruits coming fromyou know, sweet fruit, so like
bananas and apples and stuff like that, so it's all natural okay, okay,
And and on on that note,like um, doing fresh berries like
blueberries are really you know, antioxidantsas well. Raspberries I know, um
(04:50):
I found to be really good aswell with you know, being an antioxidant.
And it also keeps you full,you know, so choosing what you
know, what you're gonna put inyour your body. You can work out
all you want. I have learnedthis the hard way. If you're not
eating the right food, you're notgoing to see the result, right.
Oh yeah, absolutely. You know. They have that saying that ads are
(05:12):
made the kitchen, and that's absolutelytrue, because you can work out as
much as you want, but ifyou're you know, putting fried foods and
sodas and stuff, it's just fightingagainst the hard work to putting in like
it's negating it. Now, let'stalk about these abs that are made in
the kitchen. Oh that everybody's dyingto show off this time of year,
you know, with it being summerand all that, and you know what
(05:34):
is the best I guess routine,you know, best habits to keep if
you're really trying to like focus onyour waistline. I said two things.
I'd say countyr calories and I'd saywater intake because people don't realize that water
(05:54):
helps with fat laws. So I'dsay what I do is I drink about
two liters a day. So theysay happier, halfier body weight and ounces.
Right, So if you weigh onehundred and seventy five, you want
to go in at you know,eighty to eighty five ounces of water minimum?
Correct? Okay, okay, yeah, I say water is a big
(06:15):
thing. And county of calories.I think it's a huge thing too,
because people don't realize how much howmany calories are eating in a quote healthy
meal. So for example, likepeople always think, you know, when
you go to the gym or whenyou're like out and about, they think
gatorade is, you know, ahealthy drink. It's a healthy well that's
(06:39):
what they advertise. They say,you don't drink gatorade, You're gonna look
like Reggie Bush. You know.Yeah, yeah, but you know,
I was looking up the other dayand a twenty ounce bottle of Gatorade contains
thirty or four grams that added sugar. Wow. And people don't think that
because you know, they see thecommercials. They see they see yeah,
(07:00):
yeah, but you don't realize thatit's just like those little things and once
you twat those so say you youknow, say you throw away the gatorades
and get I think they like theg twos and stuff. Where like even
water in general, you know,that cuts back those calories like five hundred
and by the time you look up, you'll be a cut you know,
four hundred to four hundred fifty caloriesout of your diet and not feel as
(07:25):
hungry or anything. So it's justa little by little, just exact small
yeah, to just back away eachday. It's going to add up,
you know if you continue, youknow, uh, to the monitor what
you're eating and you know what afood journal I know people are like,
oh, that's too much work,but honestly to your point, you know,
especially people who are working remotely,you know, from home, and
(07:45):
you're you know, in between meetingsor whatever. You don't have a whole
lot of time and you're just grabbingstuff or you're just sitting there snacking all
day. It will add up.Yeah, and one of the one of
the appsie advise my clients to get. It's called my Fitness twel. I
think Underarmer sponsored it or made it. But what it is that has countless
countless food food nutrition fact with thecalories and stuff to just type it in
(08:09):
and then you can set your caloriegoal for the day. So say for
lunch you have a a ham andcheese sandwich or something, and then like
a smoothie, you can look uplook up a ham and cheese sandwich and
then like a smoothie. And iteven sometimes has the place if you go
out to eat and get it.Okay, maybe plug it in there and
so that way you can just doit on the ghost. So it's not
(08:30):
like as taxing because people are alwayson the phones anyway. It's just a
matter of opening the opening the appsand then plugging it in right okay,
All right, well, um,we're gonna have you, you know,
back on again because you know it'sgetting ready to be Essence Festival. You
know in New Orleans, a lotof people will be you know, trying
to look right. The ladies wantto look good, you know, like
(08:50):
I said when they put all theirswimsuits, you know, doing the rooftop
parties things like that. You know, everybody want to flex. So so
we'll definitely I'm back to you andwe'll we'll, you know, continue to
get some good fitness tips from youread here and some ducros and for folks
who want to follow you or maybeeven you know, reach out, you
know, to get some advice ormaybe to get some assessments done. How
(09:13):
can they do that? Yeah,So my instagram, that's the main thing
I use. It's at our EId h D five and in my bio,
I have a link to my websiteand then from there you can either
shoot your email, you can justseeing me on my Instagram and ask me
any questions you want and I'm morethan happy to help. Okay, awesome.
(09:33):
And when you go to Read's instagram, FYI, you know, Read
walks the walk, you know,I see you, you know, posting
your videos working out and you knowit's it's I can't tell you how many
times you know, over the years, Read, I've worked out and tried
different programs and the instructor does notfit what the goal is, you know,
and it's hard when they can't leadby example, you know what I'm
(09:56):
saying. And so you you definitelyyou know you are your brand, you
know. So I just want togive everybody heads up. You know,
when you go to your page,you'll definitely and I like that you put
up. Not only do you do, like you know, some some little
tips and things for fitness, butyou also do a lot of positive motivational
messages and that's really cool too.Oh. Absolutely, you know, I
feel like fitness is the gateway toit. But once you get into that
(10:20):
fitness routine, I feel like it'smore you know, mental for sure,
spiritual, you know, it goeshand in hand. So whatever way I
can help people through fitness and throughyou know, helping there, helping their
minds become better and more positive,I think I just want to positively impact
sure. And it's and it's abetter choice, you know what I mean.
(10:41):
Like everybody has their vice, right, Um, you would like to
think, okay, instead of choosingalcohol, you know, or something that's
not good for you, you know, choosing to work out. It has
so many benefits. It's not justabout vanity and looking good. I mean
to your point, you know,mentally clears your head resets you you had
a long day, you know,however you want to work out kicking off
(11:03):
your morning to give you those positivepheromones, you know, or if you
want to wrap up your evening andyou know, have like a little cardio
or you know, doing some adwork or whatever. You know, but
you're gonna feel good afterwards, that'sthe thing. And then feeding your body
with something that's good for your body, you know, making those positive choices
so little by little and you'll getto your goal. So thanks so much
(11:24):
for tuning into the Radio Diva podcastor with yours truly Uptown Angela on iHeartRadio.
Hey, this is Uptown Angela andwelcome back to the Radio Diva podcast.
And I've got special guest. You'veheard him before because I always talk about,
you know, working out, stayingfit, how it stays in the
family. And my nephew Read HarrisonDucroz also known as read HD. What's
up? Read Hey, how areyou? I'm good. I'm good.
(00:20):
I'm ready for summer. And Iknow you're probably getting busy. Your schedule's
getting full right now with clients becausepeople have goals for vacation, goals to
hit the beach, and they wantto look good. So tell me,
you know what's going on right now, Like, what's the biggest I guess
concern that your clients have when theyinitially reach out, you know, wanting
(00:42):
to work out with you. Yeah, well, everybody's always trying to you
know, lose late. That's likethe main thing that the majority of people
are coming to me for. Andit's because you'll feel like, you know,
they've hit a plateau or they're like, oh, I've tried this diet,
that diet, I've tried this trainerand that trainer, but you know,
the weight just isn't falling off.That's that's probably the biggest thing.
(01:03):
And you know it's I like tellingthem and like seeing the results, um
showing them that you know, it'spossible to lose weight. You just have
to you know, tweet some thingsright now, something that I think is
a myth. You know, there'sreally not a one size fits all formula
for every person, right right,So how do you go about, you
(01:25):
know, making an assessment. Youknow, I'm gonna assume age probably weighs
in on this and whether or not, you know, male female, the
type of your your your body,how it's made. You know, your
your your body, your your shape, if your medium build, you know,
if you're more slim, if you'remore you know, how how do
you go about? What's I shouldjust say, what's your assessment? Like?
(01:47):
Yeah, so my assessment is firstoff, all ask them if they've
been working out or if they haven't, because obviously, you know, it's
a big part in what we cando in the progress and what plan I
put before them so they can youknow, execute against that. So I
think that the baseline is really thesame for everybody in getting in that calorie
deficit and really just starting to workout, and then from there I will
(02:08):
start tweaking things. So, forexample, I have two clients online that
the guy was losing weight fast andthen all of a sudden, he just
you know, started gaining like fouror five pounds. So he looked at
his diet and he was, youknow, eating peanuts, and you think
that peanuts are like healthy, butthey could take a lot of sodium until
your water and make you feel heavier. So when he stopped that, you
(02:31):
know, I was five pounds.You know, he lost those five pounds
fast. Let's talk about before youmove on read, let's talk about healthy
snacks. You know, like youjust said your client was doing nuts,
so I know some of the nutsvary even I know, like almonds are
probably one of the healthier nuts,right yeah, yeah. I think the
(02:53):
biggest thing is a lot of peopledon't really look at the nutritional facts on
the back of it. So youpeanuts and almonds are obviously good, but
you want to have low sodium andthose the raw are the better ones and
no salt, right yeah, correct? Um, And then you know,
like, um, one of myfavorite snacks is like seaweed and stuff,
(03:16):
so it's just looking for did yousay seaweed? Yes? So so tell
are you talking about what's in thepack? Like looks like the Rama noodle
pack. Is that what you're talkingabout. Yeah, it's like in a
little it comes in a container likea little package. Um, and it's
to me, to me, it'sfeeling but it's and it's obviously not a
lot of calories and it's not reallymuch food at all. But that's like
(03:39):
a healthy snack, um. Andit's just looking at the nutrition pact,
you really seem you know, whatabout those our fruit fruit like fruit considered,
you know, a healthy snack obviouslysomething from the earth, but sometimes
you're still dealing with the sugar andif you're gonna do more fruit is their
recommendation of what time of day youshould be eating the fruit earlier as opposed
(04:03):
to before going to bed? Doesthat even matter? I'd say fruit good
any time of the day. Andthe reason I don't worry about sugar and
you know, like natural fruits isbecause you know it's it's naturally not construst.
Yeah, it comes from the earth. So I feel like a lot
of people are psyched out by forexample, they have the naked juices that
(04:26):
will be like thirty thirty grams ofsugar or stuff like that, but they
don't realize that the fruits coming fromyou know, sweet fruit, so like
bananas and apples and stuff like that, so it's all natural okay, okay,
And and on on that note,like um, doing fresh berries like
blueberries are really you know, antioxidantsas well. Raspberries I know, um
(04:50):
I found to be really good aswell with you know, being an antioxidant.
And it also keeps you full,you know, so choosing what you
know, what you're gonna put inyour your body. You can work out
all you want. I have learnedthis the hard way. If you're not
eating the right food, you're notgoing to see the result, right.
Oh yeah, absolutely. You know. They have that saying that ads are
(05:12):
made the kitchen, and that's absolutelytrue, because you can work out as
much as you want, but ifyou're you know, putting fried foods and
sodas and stuff, it's just fightingagainst the hard work to putting in like
it's negating it. Now, let'stalk about these abs that are made in
the kitchen. Oh that everybody's dyingto show off this time of year,
you know, with it being summerand all that, and you know what
(05:34):
is the best I guess routine,you know, best habits to keep if
you're really trying to like focus onyour waistline. I said two things.
I'd say countyr calories and I'd saywater intake because people don't realize that water
(05:54):
helps with fat laws. So I'dsay what I do is I drink about
two liters a day. So theysay happier, halfier body weight and ounces.
Right, So if you weigh onehundred and seventy five, you want
to go in at you know,eighty to eighty five ounces of water minimum?
Correct? Okay, okay, yeah, I say water is a big
(06:15):
thing. And county of calories.I think it's a huge thing too,
because people don't realize how much howmany calories are eating in a quote healthy
meal. So for example, likepeople always think, you know, when
you go to the gym or whenyou're like out and about, they think
gatorade is, you know, ahealthy drink. It's a healthy well that's
(06:39):
what they advertise. They say,you don't drink gatorade, You're gonna look
like Reggie Bush. You know.Yeah, yeah, but you know,
I was looking up the other dayand a twenty ounce bottle of Gatorade contains
thirty or four grams that added sugar. Wow. And people don't think that
because you know, they see thecommercials. They see they see yeah,
(07:00):
yeah, but you don't realize thatit's just like those little things and once
you twat those so say you youknow, say you throw away the gatorades
and get I think they like theg twos and stuff. Where like even
water in general, you know,that cuts back those calories like five hundred
and by the time you look up, you'll be a cut you know,
four hundred to four hundred fifty caloriesout of your diet and not feel as
(07:25):
hungry or anything. So it's justa little by little, just exact small
yeah, to just back away eachday. It's going to add up,
you know if you continue, youknow, uh, to the monitor what
you're eating and you know what afood journal I know people are like,
oh, that's too much work,but honestly to your point, you know,
especially people who are working remotely,you know, from home, and
(07:45):
you're you know, in between meetingsor whatever. You don't have a whole
lot of time and you're just grabbingstuff or you're just sitting there snacking all
day. It will add up.Yeah, and one of the one of
the appsie advise my clients to get. It's called my Fitness twel. I
think Underarmer sponsored it or made it. But what it is that has countless
countless food food nutrition fact with thecalories and stuff to just type it in
(08:09):
and then you can set your caloriegoal for the day. So say for
lunch you have a a ham andcheese sandwich or something, and then like
a smoothie, you can look uplook up a ham and cheese sandwich and
then like a smoothie. And iteven sometimes has the place if you go
out to eat and get it.Okay, maybe plug it in there and
so that way you can just doit on the ghost. So it's not
(08:30):
like as taxing because people are alwayson the phones anyway. It's just a
matter of opening the opening the appsand then plugging it in right okay,
All right, well, um,we're gonna have you, you know,
back on again because you know it'sgetting ready to be Essence Festival. You
know in New Orleans, a lotof people will be you know, trying
to look right. The ladies wantto look good, you know, like
(08:50):
I said when they put all theirswimsuits, you know, doing the rooftop
parties things like that. You know, everybody want to flex. So so
we'll definitely I'm back to you andwe'll we'll, you know, continue to
get some good fitness tips from youread here and some ducros and for folks
who want to follow you or maybeeven you know, reach out, you
know, to get some advice ormaybe to get some assessments done. How
(09:13):
can they do that? Yeah,So my instagram, that's the main thing
I use. It's at our EId h D five and in my bio,
I have a link to my websiteand then from there you can either
shoot your email, you can justseeing me on my Instagram and ask me
any questions you want and I'm morethan happy to help. Okay, awesome.
(09:33):
And when you go to Read's instagram, FYI, you know, Read
walks the walk, you know,I see you, you know, posting
your videos working out and you knowit's it's I can't tell you how many
times you know, over the years, Read, I've worked out and tried
different programs and the instructor does notfit what the goal is, you know,
and it's hard when they can't leadby example, you know what I'm
(09:56):
saying. And so you you definitelyyou know you are your brand, you
know. So I just want togive everybody heads up. You know,
when you go to your page,you'll definitely and I like that you put
up. Not only do you do, like you know, some some little
tips and things for fitness, butyou also do a lot of positive motivational
messages and that's really cool too.Oh. Absolutely, you know, I
feel like fitness is the gateway toit. But once you get into that
(10:20):
fitness routine, I feel like it'smore you know, mental for sure,
spiritual, you know, it goeshand in hand. So whatever way I
can help people through fitness and throughyou know, helping there, helping their
minds become better and more positive,I think I just want to positively impact
sure. And it's and it's abetter choice, you know what I mean.
(10:41):
Like everybody has their vice, right, Um, you would like to
think, okay, instead of choosingalcohol, you know, or something that's
not good for you, you know, choosing to work out. It has
so many benefits. It's not justabout vanity and looking good. I mean
to your point, you know,mentally clears your head resets you you had
a long day, you know,however you want to work out kicking off
(11:03):
your morning to give you those positivepheromones, you know, or if you
want to wrap up your evening andyou know, have like a little cardio
or you know, doing some adwork or whatever. You know, but
you're gonna feel good afterwards, that'sthe thing. And then feeding your body
with something that's good for your body, you know, making those positive choices
so little by little and you'll getto your goal. So thanks so much
(11:24):
for tuning into the Radio Diva podcastor with yours truly Uptown Angela on iHeartRadio.
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