September 12, 2024 • 47 mins
Join us for an inspiring episode of Fit & Healthy Sioux Falls, where we promise to debunk common fitness and nutrition myths that hold you back. We sit down with our incredible Coach Chelsie from Fit Body's Westside location, who takes us through her journey from fitness enthusiast to dedicated coach. You'll also hear about her husband’s transformation from cardio skeptic to gym devotee, emphasizing the transformative power of a supportive fitness environment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is going on everybody?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
show.
I have an amazing guest instore for you today, and she's
sitting right next to me.
We're going to have some fun.
An awesome coach that honestlyhas a just wealth of knowledge
in the fitness and healthindustry.
Let's dive in today with theone and the only Coach, chelsea.
(00:24):
Coach Chelsea.
(00:46):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Not a lot.
It's a nice rainy day out.
Oh, I know right.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know it's weird.
We had a ton of rain in thebeginning of summer and then it
kind of died off.
My lawn is actually lookinglike it could use the rain,
right.
So you know, we'll take it.
We will take it.
Well, this is fun and I've beenlooking forward to jumping on
and doing our episode of Meetthe Coach because, honestly, I
actually have a lot of questionsmyself.
(01:13):
So, first and foremost, for anyof those that don't know you,
who are you, where do you coach,and then we'll get into some
more stuff so, yeah, your nameand where you coach.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm Chelsea.
I coach over at our Westsidelocation, was really privileged
to be one of the coaches thathelped open up that gym two
years ago, so I really lovebeing over there.
I live on that side of town soit's just natural to be able to
invite the people from that partof our community that I already
(01:46):
know to come in and get fitwith us?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, and it's wild because when we were looking at,
we were actually looking atopening East first, which I
don't know if you know that, butI think you did.
Okay, okay, well, hey,newsflash yeah, I bought a
second Territory Right,obviously with Fit Body being a
franchise.
I bought the second territoryright, obviously with Fit Body
being a franchise.
I bought the second territoryright and I grew up originally
(02:09):
on the east side of town andthen I moved to Brandon when I
was 11.
And so we were kind of lookingat east side and everything was
pointing to the east side and wewere looking and as we were
looking, I don't even know whatit was, but then it was one of
the realtors I was working withall of a sudden said well, have
you ever looked at the west side?
And I hadn't.
I mean, the plan was eventuallyto go, you know, east and west,
(02:32):
and it just so happened to workout that west happened.
And it's wild because, being aneast sider originally, the west
side is like, like you said, awhole different community.
It is.
And I started driving out therein like houses upon houses.
And funny because my wife and Iwe had our first kind of
(02:56):
meeting or meetup at Shenanigansin the mall, station 7.
Right Now it's Station 7.
And when they moved where theymoved, everybody thought like
what are they doing?
It was a field.
But now you go out there andthere's just a whole, like you
said, other community.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And every day it's changing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's wild Continuous buildings going up and it is
very cool to see.
But if we kind of rewind theclock a little bit, you uh
became a client of FitBodywithout your husband originally
right, no actually one of thecoaches, coach Maddie went to
the same church as we did.
(03:33):
What church did you go to?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, we at the time we were going to church at the
gate, which is where they wereat as well Um, and just knew her
.
Well, it's just a sweet, sweetperson, yeah, and she had
invited us to come check it out.
And honestly, I was reallycontent just doing my lifting on
my own.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But I could tell my husband was getting bored with
it.
He often would get up, thealarm would go off and I'd say,
hey, are you coming?
He's like, eh, I just don't feellike it today, and so I knew
something needed to change forhim because it was important
that we that was something westill did together.
So I said you know, maddiementioned that she's coaches at
this gym in Sioux Falls that weshould come try it out.
(04:12):
Let's just try it and see ifmaybe that gets your interest
back into you know, gettingactive again.
And so we made the trek toCentral from way out west and he
fell in love with it whichshocked me because he was not a
cardio guy.
He really, I really thoughtforever and ever he would just
be lifting.
So, um, I remember he struggledwith that first workout and I
(04:36):
thought oh man, he's, this isnot going to be for him.
Um, but he got to know somepeople and it was actually funny
to me because I was usually theone who would get wrapped up in
conversations.
And all of a sudden, theworkout would be over and I'd be
saying we got to go.
We got to go get the kids up forschool and get them out the
door and he's sitting therechatting with some new friends
(04:57):
he had found.
And really speaks volumes, Ithink, to our community in both
locations.
But he was like I think this iswhat I want to keep doing, and
so we kept at it, and then soonyou guys announced you were
opening the Westside location.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I love that and that's awesome because there are
so many moving parts and as thegym has grown, my role has
shifted and is continuallyshifting and obviously, being
the owner of the gym, you haveto just go into the role that
the gym and the business needs.
At the time and at that time Iwasn't super involved and so I I
(05:34):
didn't know exactly how youguys started.
Cool and and oddly enough, Iactually ran into Maddie just
last weekend.
She was at Axel's birthdayparty coach Aqua, ex coach
Aqua's baby and it was just socool to to see her and to know
that she invited you guys.
And I even left that birthdayparty just a couple of weekends
(05:56):
ago and I thought to myself andI talked to Mel even I was like
you know one thing that I can, Ican honestly say that I am
proud of, no matter what is therelationships that happen at Fit
Body, whether the clients stayclients at Fit Body or not,
there's relationships that arebeing built that they'll change
your life and I do think and Isay this often, I'm going to
(06:18):
continue to say this I thinkthat life is a team sport and I
think that you need an amazingteam, you need friends, you need
connections, a team sport, andI think that you need an amazing
team, you need friends, youneed connections.
But I knew, though, that thatyou and Darren obviously were
coming, and we ended up workingout often together at the same
time slot.
I may have probably even beenone of those ones that held
Darren up.
So if your kids were ever lateto school, my apologies, but I I
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kind of knew or somehow seenthat there's this gal that
coaches pound or instructs pound, and I was like I don't really
know what pound is, but I kindof knew what pound is and then
come to find out like you're oneof, like, the main pound
instructors in Sioux Falls.
So for anyone that doesn't know, like explain what even is
(07:06):
pound.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, we call it a rock out workout.
Rock out workout Cardiodrumming.
It's a 45 minute choreographeddrumming simulated class.
Yeah, we go song by song about11 songs, through a lot of
different muscles and get workedworked.
Oftentimes people will say, oh,that must be a great arm
(07:27):
workout, because they'revisualizing drumming.
And I said, uh-huh, just comeand try it.
And oftentimes they are verypleasantly surprised that their
legs are what they work the most, but it flies by because it's
great music.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're so focused on making the movements.
And then yeah, just it'scontagious too, I think, yeah, I
mean I finally went to my firstpound.
I've been invited by you manytimes over the last several
years to come and try one, and Idon't know if it's just maybe
I'm busy or maybe I was likeintimidated by it, I don't know
(08:04):
what it was.
Uh, call it, whatever we wantto call it, but I finally got to
one of your sessions or classesat pound and, uh, it was fun.
I had a blast.
Um, my legs, yes.
My hip flexors, yes.
My core, yes, um, all thethings.
Uh, it was a really funexperience.
And what's so fun too is groupworkout can be intimidating, no
(08:29):
matter what it is, but what Ihave found, obviously with Fit
Body and then with Pound, likeyou're all there just to one,
get a little bit better, havefun and move your body For sure,
like our bodies are made tomove.
Yep Right, how long ago did youfind pound?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Uh, we just celebrated.
My friend, amber and I weretrained at the same time, but I
had found it just a little bitover five years ago.
Okay, um, I used to watch theshow.
This is us.
Okay, I don't know if you'veever watched it, but there was
an episode where one of thecharacters had to go away to
basically what they were callingfat camp.
(09:09):
She really needed to focus onlosing some weight and in this
episode she's at this retreatand she went into a session and
it was a pound class.
She was seated and she was justdrumming and I remember sitting
there thinking I have beenteaching fitness for years and
I've never heard of this, so Iinstantly went online and
Googled pound and this is preCOVID.
(09:31):
So every opportunity to gettrained you, you were had to
travel somewhere around thecountry.
So I reached out to them and Isaid, hey, we don't really have
this in my state.
If I, if we, were to have atraining here, what would that
take?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And so we worked that out and I was able to host a
training that, um, there were.
I think there were about 10 ofus from all over.
Other people from other Stateseven came for it, but I'm really
one of the few that stillteaches it in our area, Um, my
friend.
Amber teaches it in Canton andshe's amazing as well.
Um, and there are a few othergyms that have it sporadically
(10:05):
but yeah, saw it on a TV show,knew that it was something I
wanted to try something that wedidn't have in our area and
before COVID was wildly highlyattended.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, and I'm seeing that it's starting to pick back
up, though I do feel that aswell.
People are starting to realizethat working out by yourself is
not nearly as effective as beingin a group of people.
(10:39):
I thought that it would, butpeople are finally realizing
that we need to get out frombehind the screens.
We need to get out from behindour desk, working out by herself
, doing things isolated, andhave that connection More than
ever.
You can go only so long as asociety, a community, as a world
(10:59):
.
You can only go so long untilyou realize, hey, we were not
created to be isolated.
And we're seeing that, you know, we're seeing that at Fit Body,
more and more people comingevery time that you host a pound
, because a lot of times you doit at a church, I believe, is
that like your main spot thatyou do it, or a church and a
brewery.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, okay, kind of funny right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, jesus and beer.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You meet people where they're at right, and even in
my faith.
I'm not only going to go tochurches to meet people, but to
meet all types of people whomight be looking for fitness or
for faith or for whatever itmight be.
So, yeah, we do do them inbreweries pound and pour.
Some people choose to have abeer, some people choose to have
water.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, that's awesome, and I see, like the pictures
that you post, they seem likethey're being more and more
attended and so people can buylike a punch card.
Yeah To that, or how do they?
How do you purchase pound?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, it's, I usually charge a straight $10 per class
but they can do a punch cardwhich will bring it down to $8.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, so got you.
And when we have it at Fit Body, it's like once a month or once
a quarter.
How often do we have it?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We've typically been doing once a quarter, but
recently I'm kind of doing thata little bit more over the
summer as I've been doing somespecial events.
So as often as they want it,I'm willing.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And the cool thing with that is, if you're not a
member at Fit Body, you can comeand attend that and it's $10.
And so, or they can also use.
If they have a punch card foryou, they can use it at their
also, like anywhere you teach itAbsolutely Very cool.
So you mentioned, when youfound Pound on, this Is Us, that
you said well, I've beenteaching fitness for a long time
(12:40):
.
Let's dive into that.
How long is a long time andwhat have you been doing for
fitness?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, so my youngest son, who's 13, is when I decided
that I wanted to kind of testthe waters with this whole
teaching a group fitness format.
And so we lived in Faribault,minnesota, at the time and I was
lifting at a gym in thatcommunity and I just approached
the gal who owned it and I saiddo you need any more help
(13:07):
teaching classes?
And I said I've never done itbut, I would love to try and
learn how.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Roughly what year.
So he was born in 2011.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So it was probably 2012.
Um, yeah, so 20 or 12 years ago.
Yeah, I was gonna say 22, 12years ago.
Um is really when I got startedwith teaching others in a group
format.
And so just a group classes,did my group fitness
certification and loved, lovedthose 5 am classes with them.
And then we moved back to SouthDakota in 2014.
(13:37):
And once we got settled hereagain, connected with another
gym and said, hey, I used toteach.
I would love to do more of thataround here.
Um, and this particular gym waslooking for a personal trainer.
Um, so I went ahead and gotcertified in personal training
and took on clients at that gymin.
Hartford, um, and then I'vealso just taught at some other
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um did the Sanford wellnesscenter for a while as well.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
The Sanford Wellness Center kind of holds a dear spot
in my heart.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That was.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
that was the one on Oxbow.
That was the original gym thatI started my health and fitness
journey, and so, yeah, I that Iwas out on the West side at the
family wellness center.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But I was teaching a couple of classes a week mid
mornings, after my boys would goto school and I would, I'd
bring the toddler along.
And at some point it justbecame where I desired to do it
more, on a not maybe full-timebasis but regular setting.
And so an opportunity opened upat Showplace Cabinetry where
(14:41):
they needed about 32 hours aweek, and that's in Harrisburg,
so it was a bit of a drive forme.
But I was their wellnesscoordinator so I got to
coordinate on-site fitnesschallenges, nutrition challenges
, nutrition courses.
And then they had a full fitnesscenter at their manufacturing
facility so I taught lunch hourclasses which many of like the
(15:04):
office HR, you know executiveswould come to, but some people
from the facility would alsojoin us.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's cool.
I love that job, yeah, yeah.
What year, what timeframe wasthis?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's a great question yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And if we're not right on.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I was there.
I wasn't there as long as Iwould have wanted to be.
I left to be a caregiver for mymom, but I was there for, uh,
about two years.
Okay, I would say before I hadto leave.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh , that's so cool.
I know there's a couple ofdifferent bigger companies in
town.
Um, I know poet also has likean on staff or they used to
anyways.
Um, you know, fitness wellnesscoordinator, Um, and I think
that that's super cool, becausethose I mean when you are active
and you're fit and you'removing your body and you're
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working towards a better versionof yourself, you're just more
productive in life, you get moredone, you feel better about
yourself and for me, that'sactually why I opened Fit Body
was I lacked confidence and Iwanted to build confidence and I
found that through health andfitness, but through others
connecting with them at a gym,and so very cool to see that.
(16:14):
And I think there's like alittle life lesson to be taught
in what you're talking about.
You went out and sought out theopportunity A lot of times.
I feel that we as humans, wewait for opportunity to land in
our lap, Like we think thatsomehow it's just going to fall
on us and this opportunity orthis next best thing is going to
(16:37):
somehow just be here.
But I feel that your health andfitness journey, career journey
, has been one of seeking outopportunities and putting
yourself out there beingvulnerable.
Yeah, knowing that rejection isan option, like the the, the no
(16:58):
answer is an option.
So did that at all play withyour mind at all?
Like what if they say no?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Not necessarily.
I feel like there are so manyopportunities in in any
community.
I mean there's some, I meanthere's a gym everywhere,
everywhere every kind of like agas station.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Um.
So I sought out the ones that Ifelt that I would connect with
or be the right fit for, butknowing that if they say no,
I'll figure something else out.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yep.
So Showplace Cabinetry.
The wellness coordinator hasfitness.
That seems like maybe one ofyour more prominent wellness
jobs.
Have you had any other jobs inyour career, Like what else is
in your career path?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was a daycare provider.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Before we moved back to South Dakota that was in
Minnesota, minnesota, okay, ourkids were tiny.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And prior to that I had been a director of
children's ministry.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So loved being in that position.
But you know that kind of aincome doesn't really pay for
childcare.
So I had to look at what I wasmaking and versus, once our
second son was born, what I waspaying and it just didn't make
sense anymore.
Uh so I decided to stay homeand um had some friends very
quickly start to say oh, wouldyou be able to watch my kiddo
(18:16):
while I go to a doctor'sappointment.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Could you watch my?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
kids while I do this and found that I really enjoyed
being in that caregiver roleagain.
And so just decided.
You know what I'm home watchingthese kids anyway.
We might as well make it adaycare and we had a great time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But I had to close to be able to move move our family
back, and that was in Minnesotaand you had it in your home.
I did Okay, very cool.
You mentioned kids.
How many kids do you have?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We have three boys.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Our oldest is actually starting his senior
year tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, my baby just turned 18.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And then we have another boy who is 15, going to
be a sophomore, and a 13 yearold who will be an eighth grader
18, 15, 13.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All boys, all boys.
Wow, yeah, I've got, I've gotthree of my own uh, two girls
and and the youngest boy andyeah, boys, boys are rowdy, boys
are rambunctious.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When they're little.
Yeah, I think you'll bepleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
They'll chill out.
They'll chill out.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, okay, well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But they don't get any cheaper.
Yeah, no, I'm just going to saythey eat.
The girls don't either.
No, yeah, they all have food.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Their clothes and their.
But you know, hey, I feel itcomes with the territory.
That's right.
I feel that from what I do knowof your.
But I still uh, keep onremembering that uh video of
(19:42):
Darren and your boy wrestling onthe lily pad and, um, I mean
Darren's a big dude like he canhold his own, but I don't know
your boys definitely were weregiving him a run for his money.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, we're excited for football season.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, for sure.
So what um sports are your kidsin?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
in.
Seth is the oldest and he's infootball.
So, he's got that startingright.
He's in the middle of it rightnow.
Our middle son is not sure thathe'll continue to play
basketball, but he's been abasketball player, and then our
youngest is also mainly focusedon football.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Sure Okay, Did you play any sports Chelsea?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I did, I did.
I grew up in Parker South.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Dakota Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Small town America class of like 30-some people
yeah.
So we pretty much were all insomething.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
If you're going to have a team.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, you need it, we needed everybody.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All hands on deck, so yeah, Basketball volleyball
track.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All the things, all.
Have you ever, at any point inyour life, struggled with health
or fitness?
For sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, I mean I've obviously I've gone through
having three children as well,and that is a journey in a
woman's body.
I remember growing up with amom who was very focused on her
journey.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Always trying different diets and different
exercise programs.
I remember being in thebasement and we would do Taibo
together because she loved hervideos.
Good old Billy Blanks.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hey, that was an era, it was it was so.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I you know, even back then it just watching her go
through her journey had my mindrecognizing that, oh, I need to
take care of this body I've beengiven whether it's through what
I eat or how?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I move.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So yeah, and I would say, after my third son was born
, I was really curious about howto transform my body into that
lean, muscular.
Look, I had been a runner whenour first son was born, I
decided out of the blue tobecome a runner and I was going
to train for grandma's marathon.
Our pastor, who was in hissixties, I believe, was training
(21:41):
for a marathon.
And in my twenties I thought hecan do it, I can do that.
So I went from doing almostnothing to training for a
marathon.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
There you go, couch to whatever they call those yeah
.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Basically followed those programs but I had been
running and running and runningand just not seeing and feeling
the changes in my body and Ididn't understand why.
So I did hire a coach virtually.
She lived in Texas.
Um, she gave me my strengthlifting protocol and my
nutrition protocol.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And I didn't believe.
She handed me the nutritionprotocol and told me I was going
to have to eat 1900 calories tolose weight and in my head I
was like there's no way youdon't lose weight eating.
You lose weight eating 1200calories, or you know just all
the things that that socialmedia and um that I had seen
online.
So I said, okay, I'll try it.
We'll see how this goes Um, sofollowed it to the.
(22:33):
I'm kind of a rule follower.
I'm a little bit um.
Hey, we need those people, I'lldo what you say, but I don't
think it's going to work.
Um, and lo and behold, it didwork.
Um, and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
it was incredible to see, and feel how when you
follow a plan and you eat theright things.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That your body does respond it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know, I think we need to dive into that a little
bit, because I think that thereis such a misunderstanding as it
pertains to nutrition.
So many people, many of ourclients, myself at times have
fallen into that belief that inorder to lose weight, you need
to eat less.
And I have found I mean, we'vebeen, I've owned Fit Body now
(23:17):
for almost 10 years and I havefound I mean, we've been, I've
owned Fit Body now for almost 10years and I have found hundreds
, if not, by this time,thousands, of times that our
clients will get better resultswhen they actually, more times
than not, eat more.
Right, because so manyAmericans are low in protein,
they are deficient in it.
And I tell you what, if you'renot like tracking it, you're not
(23:41):
even getting close, becauseeverything you eat like it's in
the goofy thing is is likelabeling and marketing.
Wow, they do a great job forsure, but you'll grab something
in it like big, bold wordsprotein pancakes.
You look on the back of the boxfive grams of protein, like
compared to the one gram that anon-protein pancake.
So you get four extra grams inthis protein thing.
(24:03):
Yeah, and I think that that isa true testament to what you
said.
You're living, breathing proofthat it worked.
So help unpack this for a littlebit, for anyone that may, you
know, hear hey, in order to loseweight, you need to eat more,
right?
Where did you heard that forthe first time?
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Yeah, and your brain was likeno way right.
Unpack that for us a little bit, maybe help someone understand.
Like, what do you do with that?
Because it doesn't for somereason, doesn't make sense.
So how do you make sense ofthat?
And how did you just decide tofollow it, even though, like, it
doesn't make sense?
So how do you make sense ofthat?
And how did you just decide tofollow it, even though?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
like it doesn't make sense in my brain.
Yeah Well, number one, I had totrust that.
She was the expert right.
She had done her research, shewas trained.
She had done it before.
She'd help other people um havegreat results.
But in my head I had watched amom who would do LA weight loss
diets or these cleanses whereshe didn't eat for days.
And yeah, she lost weight.
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So that was my only training orknowledge of of how to do this.
Before um had not learnedanything about adequate protein
and balancing out my carbs andfats, in addition to how much I
was moving my body um and howimportant strength training was
to get those results as well, soum it's, it is now fun to sit
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down with clients at.
Fit Body and give them theirnumbers and have them have that
same reaction that.
I had so many years ago.
I was like I know it soundslike a lot and it might feel
that way for a little bit, butyour body will adapt and you're
going to start craving theprotein foods.
You know the rich foods thatyou're feeding it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And so, and actually just recently, met with a
boyfriend and girlfriend.
Yes, and they're both just likewhat.
How much do you want youseriously want?
Me to eat that much food andjust two, three days later, just
they're feeling so much better.
Their workouts are going better.
20 sessions in from face toface, the boyfriend has like
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face looks completely differentalready.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So you know, and they're committed though.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's the exciting thing about working with clients
is when they're in it when Isay to win it Like they show up
with a mindset of I'm going todo what you tell me.
I promise, and I tell you whatlike that's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's the thing we're all busy with.
Everything under the sun.
And the thing that I love and Imean, obviously I'm a little
biased, I own Fit Body but thething that I love about it is
like, well, let's take theguesswork out of what you should
do for your workout.
You want to get a little moreserious?
Let's take the guesswork out ofwhat you should do for
nutrition.
And wait, also, did you knowthat you can actually eat the
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foods that you really enjoy inmoderation?
Yep, and like I am a foodie,yeah For sure.
Burgers, fries, sweets, cakes,pies, you name it.
I love it all.
Yeah, and I don't not get it.
And, to be truthful, chelsea, Iprobably get it more than I
should get it.
But I also know, when I hit acertain point, what to do to
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totally get to where I want.
And I feel that we have thismentality in life where we're
all just going through life.
We're not actually workingtowards anything Like, we're
just living.
And I think when you can decidethat I'm done living to just
live, I'm ready to live onpurpose, my best life, why I was
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placed here you can then startreally getting fulfilled.
And so many times we seek toevery other person or every
other thing to get filled up andyou can't, you, you have to.
I mean, we're both faith-basedpeople, so I would say, look to
Jesus.
But if, if you're not afaith-based person, you have to
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work on yourself.
And work on filling yourself up.
Um, and I think so with you,with nutrition, realizing oh, my
goodness, I'm going to have toeat more than I ever thought.
You, I believe, actually didcompetitions.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I did Correct.
Yes, how many?
I did four.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You did four of them.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
In how many years?
Like what was that?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
My last one was in 2019.
So I probably started in 2012.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Okay, it was before we moved back here.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, but yeah it was .
Doing those competitions was ahuge step in courage for me.
I consider myself a very modestperson, and so to present
yourself you know in high heelsand a swimming suit on stage and
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pose and do all these crazythings that are way out of my
comfort zone, um, but I lookedat it more as a challenge of
getting out of my comfort zone,learning how to do hard things,
how to be, brave um to showmyself that that I could do it
and do it well.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, so four of them .
So I'm not super well-versed,like honestly.
The only real knowledge that Ihave in, uh, in comp competing
that way, is just what I knowfrom from my best friend, mick
Um.
But there are differentcategories that you can compete
in.
What is the category that youcompeted in?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I competed in the figure category and I think the
categories have even changed inthe last few years, I think
there's an added fitnesscategory.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But figure is what I was in.
So to kind of like show wherethey're at Bikini is what I
would say is not, um, not thelowest level, but the first at
the first level.
They're looking for more.
Um, just toned a little bitsofter, look not a lot of
muscularity, Um, but justshowing that you have leaned out
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um in equally across your bodyand then in figure it's a.
It's another level up.
There's um.
They're looking for more musclesymmetry.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Um, you're posing all sides of your body from side to
side.
Like is this calf in incomparison to this calf?
The right muscle you knowdensity and look, I mean it's,
it's intense.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And a lot of it, unfortunately, in my mind, comes
down to how you pose, becauseif you know how to showcase your
muscle better than the personnext to you, you're going to do
better.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well and Mick even said that too he's like he would
and I'm sure you did as wellpractice posing, oh you know you
need to, but I finally went toone of his shows and and watch,
and you could clearly tell thosecompeting that didn't practice
their posing as much and thosethat did.
And what's crazy is, as theywere walking out on stage you
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could just, from their walk,look at some of these people and
be like, oh, they're going todo great, yeah.
Then they get to posing andit's like wait a minute, what
happened?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah, where'd you go a minute?
What happened?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah.
So, yeah, you taking that stepand not only having to get your
body into a certain physicalaspect and physical shape, but
then to learn how to hold it andI remember talking to Mick
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afterwards like it's a workoutholding that pose and doing it
in high heels yeah, not easy.
No, and I'm like boys to do that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Ah, well, but it's hard.
Yeah, it's really hard.
Boys to do that Well, but it'shard.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, it's really hard.
Yeah, absolutely, and, and, butyou did it.
And not only did you do it once, you did it four times.
Yes, do you think that you'llever do it again?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I, I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The last few years have been a challenge just
within family and personalthings, so it's I feel like I
need to.
I think I'll know when.
I'm ready.
They have a class for those whoare 40 and older called the
master's class, aka the oldpeople group, so that's where I
would get to compete this time,which?
I was under 40 when I did itlast, so I am curious to see if
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I still have what it takes toget back on the stage and do it
again.
And I'm getting there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah.
So that might be in your future, right now, at Fit Body Chelsea
.
What is your kind of schedule?
Do you only work mornings?
Do you only work nights?
Is it kind of a mix?
And like if someone was lookingto come work out with you or
take a session led by you, whencould they find you?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I do go in a rotation between mornings and afternoons
.
So it's yeah, I really I'mdoing both of those schedules
right now.
Yeah, about 30 hours per week.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, what would you say because you've been coaching
now for about two plus years?
What would you say is yourfavorite thing about being a
coach at Fit Body?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I've always loved to see progress.
You know, when somebody comesin on day one and they're doing
pushups with their butt in theair and just completely out of
form and to be able to work withthem every single day that they
show up and to have somebodyeager to learn how to do it
correctly.
But.
But just yesterday I wascoaching and somebody was on the
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floor doing pushups and Ilooked at her and I said look at
you Like wow, what a differencefrom day one and she just
smiled like yeah, I'm doing this, I'm doing it and to the world
puts a standard definition ofwhat progress looks like.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
They put a standard definition of what success looks
like.
They put a standard definitionof what success looks like as it
pertains to health and fitness,but I feel that, as it pertains
to your health and your fitnessjourney number one, there's no
end point, and I think that'sone of the biggest stigmas that
we need to break, because if youare doing health and fitness
with an end point in mind, likeyou're already lost, you've
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already lost, and that's hardthough, because that's what the
world preaches.
Do this next 21 day thing, thisnext, you know six week thing,
do a 10 week thing, and it'll beall better, but it won't.
Like your life continues.
And so, yeah, like you said,seeing that progress, whether it
be pushup form or even just oneof my favorite ones, the most
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non really way to ever tellanything but is when someone
starts and you can just seetheir face, they're intimidated,
they're kind of scared, theydon't know if they really should
be doing this, and the nextthing you know they're coming in
with a smile, their fistbumping, they're high fiving
people that they didn't evenknow a couple of weeks ago, and
to me like being coming that tome just lights me up, because I
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was that person that walked intoa room like do I belong, do I
should I be here?
And that's not a good feeling,but we all have that when we
start.
But we can help push thatcomfort zone and help break you
out of that.
Let me ask you this what hasbeen in your two years of
coaching at Fit Body?
What has been some of your mostkind of proudest moments as a
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coach, whether that's evenpersonally, on the team, as a
business, maybe different eventsthat we've done, or with the
clients that you've worked with?
When I say Chelsea in the lasttwo years, what are some of the
proudest moments you've had withFit Body?
What kind of comes to mindproudest moments you've had with
Fit?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Body.
What kind of comes to mind?
I still remember when I wasstill over here at Central kind
of, in my training period therewas a gal who had came in brand
new and a lot of what you talkedabout.
She didn't have confidence thatshe was going to be able to do
hardly anything Kind of walkedwith her for a few sessions and
I remember she came up to me oneday and she said I have to do
(35:24):
hardly anything.
Um kind of walked with her fora few sessions and I remember
she came up to me one day andshe said I have to tell you
something.
So I did a pushup on my toestoday for the first time.
Um, so those, those momentsreally are, are huge, or you
know the, the non-skillvictories that people have.
You know, I was playing with mygrandkids and I could go for
like way longer than I used tobe able to.
(35:46):
Or their clothes are fittingLike hey.
I tried on this dress that Inever thought I'd be able to
wear again.
Yeah, and it actually fitsreally well.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Or just they see pictures of themselves.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Right yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So I just I'm always.
It's always fun when they feelconnected enough to me to share
those wins to come up to me andkind of confide in me, on how
proud they are of themselves.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
That's awesome, and being proud of yourself it's a
good thing and you should do itand you should celebrate
yourself when you have a win.
Let's kind of unpack a littlebit of Chelsea's knowledge and
maybe even to just honestly howyou do it.
You're a mom of three, you're awife, you live a very busy
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lifestyle like the rest of us.
You've got kids and sports.
One of the hardest things isnutrition.
Yes, how the heck do you do it?
Like what?
What is some of your tips thatmaybe work for your clients or
even for yourself as it pertainsto having a family and going to
different sporting events?
Like what do you do to staynutritiously nourished while on
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the go?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Sure, I think I learned a lot in that first
stage of working with a trainerand having a nutrition coach
really pour into me, um, help mesee results from from what I
was eating.
So I think over time I just Ihave my go-to protein sources.
I know how important it is andI know how different I feel when
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I don't get that in.
Um, so, as the one who groceryshops for our family, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I know what I need to grab for that's quick and easy.
I you know I've learned becauseI tracked for so long so
diligently with um, thecompetition training.
I'm really good now ateyeballing what a serving of
protein is.
So, back then, yeah, I weighedand I measured everything
because I wanted, I wanted to doit exactly right.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
But and I do encourage new clients when
they're learning, it's the bestway to know and to learn.
So you won't have to do thisfor the rest of your life.
You know, nobody wants to weighand measure their food for the
rest of their life.
But it is an important step inlearning so that in the future
you can go to the grocery storeand just know intuitively I'm
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going to need this, this andthis this week to fill the gaps.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, do you have maybe two to three items that
are really low on the prep timeor low on the effort scale to
have readily available forprotein sources.
So what would be two or threeprotein sources that you kind of
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have readily available toyourself?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Sure and, of course, depending on people's allergies
or dietary needs.
They may or may not work, butcottage cheese, greek yogurt,
beef, jerky, tuna packets.
Costco is a godsend for a lotof protein options.
They've got prepackaged, youknow, grilled chicken breast
strips.
There's just lots of thingslike that that are pre-cooked.
(38:57):
I consider fairly healthy.
That, I know, make me feel goodthat I keep in the fridge or in
the pantry at all times.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, we actually have from a corporate fit body,
corporate.
They put together like a Costcoeasy meal prep guy, um.
So what we'll do is in the shownotes of this show we'll link
that as well, so people can havethat um as just a free gift to
them, so that they can.
I mean meal, meal prepping andhaving the right nurse.
You can work out every day,right, you can go run yourself
(39:28):
into the ground every day, butif you're not nourishing your
body the right way, you're notgoing to see the results that
you're looking for.
And so I do.
I grab, grab that guide.
You guys, look at it, easy it's, it's no cooking.
Actually, like you said, costcohas all those things ready to
go, but a lot of times we don'tthink of it.
You know, the thing that I'vebeen really enjoying is the gas
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stations nowadays are startingto have more healthy options.
If you look for them, if youlook, you know we've obviously
all of us, whatever age you'reat, you've basically gone that
age of having your go-tos and weall operate out-tos and we all
operate out of a routine and weall operate out of convenience.
Yes, but if you can break yourroutine a little bit, break your
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convenience a little bit andrealize that there are healthy
options.
That can then start being yourroutine and your convenience and
, next thing you know, resultsare happening on autopilot.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, you have to go into a gas station with blinders
on, because it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
No.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
There's a lot of distractions.
No A lot of shiny marketing.
Yeah, and our stomachs are justyou know, sometimes our brains.
Yeah, they have a brain oftheir own.
We have to use our actual brain.
So yeah, going to thosesections where there might be
some, you know, individual sizecottage cheese or yogurts going
to the beef jerky Yep.
Sticking away from the sugary.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
The sugars?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, chelsea, I think thatthere's been a ton that we have
unpacked.
It's been super fun just tokind of get to know your journey
.
No idea that you had achildcare business your journey.
No idea that you had achildcare business I did.
You know no idea that you werea wellness coordinator at
Showplace.
So super cool to kind of getthat insight.
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As it comes to mindset, mindsetis one of the biggest things and
you know I've said this beforeand I'll continually say it I
don't think that it was byaccident that our mind got put
on the top of our body and ifyou think of it like it's tough,
trickles down.
So if we can get our mind rightand just let that trickle down
to the rest of our body, I thinkthat we can really do a lot of
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good in our lives.
What has been some of the bestmindset advice that you have
gotten along your journey thatmaybe you could share with our
audience today?
You know some of our audienceof course they're clients and
that right, there is one of thebiggest privileges to know that
we've got clients that we get topour into all the time.
But others of our audiencemaybe they don't know if fitness
(41:55):
is right for them Fit body ornot, fitness is right for them.
Maybe they don't know ifstarting a health or fitness
journey is right for them.
What would be some really goodmindset advice for someone that
just doesn't know if they can doit or if they have what it
takes.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Oftentimes in the gym , when I'm coaching, I'm
encouraging people to use thestrongest muscle in their body
that they have, which is the sixinches between their ears.
Which is the six inches betweentheir ears.
Um, when the rest of the bodystarts to feel like it doesn't
want to, that it wants to giveup, that it's too tired, that's
when we have to use what I callour mental muscle.
Um, it's so important and itthe mind, is a far more powerful
(42:35):
tool than I think any of usgive it credit for.
Um, you know, an attitude ofgratitude is is also what I talk
to everyone about.
So when we get in those moods ofI just don't want to do this
today, I don't feel good.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
This is going to be.
You know I don't feel good, sothe workout's not going to be
good.
You control a hundred percentof how that goes.
How you process your thoughts,um, and it's not easy.
But to just turn those thoughtsaround, instead of I have to, I
get to being thankful that youhave a body that can move that.
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There's an opportunity outthere for someone to help you
learn how to do that.
It's the way we frame everything, and so if they're not framing
it in a positive way, the bodyis going to respond.
So the reason their body isfeeling tired and feeling sore
and not wanting to continue isbecause you're allowing your
brain to tell your body that, um, the more you speak, life to
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yourself and to others I meanpositivity flows from that.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, I love that, I love that training the mental
muscle, making sure that everyday, you are working that muscle
.
Also, you know, and one of theways to work it is when you, you
know, like you said, add togratitude, when you start
feeling a little down, there isnothing better than shooting out
three, four, however manygratitude texts to people in
(44:02):
your group.
Yes, and you're not doing itfor a selfish reason, but I'll
tell you that you do that.
If you shoot out three of them,guarantee that within an hour
or two, one of them is going torespond with something that you
need to hear, with somethingthat's going to be like you're
(44:22):
right, I do have this, and theworld is a hard place and we all
are dealing with our differentstruggles, and so, if you can
remove yourself from your ownpity for just a little bit,
share some gratitude, share somelove, it's going to come back
tenfold and you're going to beable to keep on going.
Yeah, yeah, this has beenawesome, you guys.
(44:43):
Um, chelsea, honestly, is is agift to to fit body.
Um, I don't probably tell youenough, um, but the appreciation
that I have to have someonelike yourself on our team, um,
what we do at fit body isimpossible without our team.
Um, and so I just appreciateyou.
Uh, like I said, more than Iprobably ever tell you, uh, it's
(45:03):
awesome to have been able toget to know you more, and also
to you guys, we just rolled outsome some new core values to our
team and actually justyesterday I was meeting with our
leadership team and we werejust kind of reviewing them or
whatever, and talking and I said, you know, one of the things
that I'd just seen that totallylit me up is one of the core
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values that we rolled out isteam driven.
Because when I, when I openedFit Body, I prayed a very
specific prayer and I said, lord, if you are going to bless me
enough to keep this businessopen, bless me enough to have a
team, because I cannot and nordo I want to do it on my own.
I want to do it on my own.
And so I really wanted teamdriven to be one of our core
(45:45):
values, our core focuses, and tosee just recently the amount of
effort that you put in, withoutanybody asking, to coordinate
baby showers for our two Westside babies that are coming soon
, it meant the world to myselfwalking to the West side, fit
body and seeing clientssupporting our coaches,
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supporting our team um, yourhusband supporting you and your
idea by helping decorate.
So shout out to Darren um forfor putting up and helping set
up the gym.
But I just want to give youaccolades for that and and let
uh the clients know and andreally you, you know that it
doesn't go unnoticed and reallyyou're changing more lives by
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just being yourself and livingthe way that you live.
So be encouraged today.
You guys that are watchinglistening, ladies that are
watching listening, beencouraged today.
And if you want to catch CoachChelsea, there's also going to
be a link down in thedescription where you can grab a
free week and you can go hangout with Coach Chelsea on the
West side.
Ask her any questions you have,pick her brain.
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I mean, she's got years ofknowledge with fitness and we
want to pour that knowledge intoyou guys.
So, chelsea, thank you forbeing here.
We have to get rocking androlling.
We've got our next team meetingcoming up and so we're going to
get to that.
But you guys, hey, likesubscribe, share this episode.
(47:11):
It's been such a pleasuregetting to know Coach Chelsea
even more today and we willcatch you guys on the next
episode of the Fit and HealthySioux Falls show.
Go out and be great today.
Bye you guys, see you.
Falls show go out and be greattoday.
Bye you guys, see you.
What is going on everybody?
Welcome to the next episode ofthe Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls
show.
I have an amazing guest instore for you today, and she's
sitting right next to me.
We're going to have some fun.
An awesome coach that honestlyhas a just wealth of knowledge
in the fitness and healthindustry.
Let's dive in today with theone and the only Coach, chelsea.
(00:24):
Coach Chelsea.
(00:46):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Not a lot.
It's a nice rainy day out.
Oh, I know right.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know it's weird.
We had a ton of rain in thebeginning of summer and then it
kind of died off.
My lawn is actually lookinglike it could use the rain,
right.
So you know, we'll take it.
We will take it.
Well, this is fun and I've beenlooking forward to jumping on
and doing our episode of Meetthe Coach because, honestly, I
actually have a lot of questionsmyself.
(01:13):
So, first and foremost, for anyof those that don't know you,
who are you, where do you coach,and then we'll get into some
more stuff so, yeah, your nameand where you coach.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
I'm Chelsea.
I coach over at our Westsidelocation, was really privileged
to be one of the coaches thathelped open up that gym two
years ago, so I really lovebeing over there.
I live on that side of town soit's just natural to be able to
invite the people from that partof our community that I already
(01:46):
know to come in and get fitwith us?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, and it's wild because when we were looking at,
we were actually looking atopening East first, which I
don't know if you know that, butI think you did.
Okay, okay, well, hey,newsflash yeah, I bought a
second Territory Right,obviously with Fit Body being a
franchise.
I bought the second territoryright, obviously with Fit Body
being a franchise.
I bought the second territoryright and I grew up originally
(02:09):
on the east side of town andthen I moved to Brandon when I
was 11.
And so we were kind of lookingat east side and everything was
pointing to the east side and wewere looking and as we were
looking, I don't even know whatit was, but then it was one of
the realtors I was working withall of a sudden said well, have
you ever looked at the west side?
And I hadn't.
I mean, the plan was eventuallyto go, you know, east and west,
(02:32):
and it just so happened to workout that west happened.
And it's wild because, being aneast sider originally, the west
side is like, like you said, awhole different community.
It is.
And I started driving out therein like houses upon houses.
And funny because my wife and Iwe had our first kind of
(02:56):
meeting or meetup at Shenanigansin the mall, station 7.
Right Now it's Station 7.
And when they moved where theymoved, everybody thought like
what are they doing?
It was a field.
But now you go out there andthere's just a whole, like you
said, other community.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
And every day it's changing.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's wild Continuous buildings going up and it is
very cool to see.
But if we kind of rewind theclock a little bit, you uh
became a client of FitBodywithout your husband originally
right, no actually one of thecoaches, coach Maddie went to
the same church as we did.
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What church did you go to?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, we at the time we were going to church at the
gate, which is where they wereat as well Um, and just knew her
.
Well, it's just a sweet, sweetperson, yeah, and she had
invited us to come check it out.
And honestly, I was reallycontent just doing my lifting on
my own.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But I could tell my husband was getting bored with
it.
He often would get up, thealarm would go off and I'd say,
hey, are you coming?
He's like, eh, I just don't feellike it today, and so I knew
something needed to change forhim because it was important
that we that was something westill did together.
So I said you know, maddiementioned that she's coaches at
this gym in Sioux Falls that weshould come try it out.
(04:12):
Let's just try it and see ifmaybe that gets your interest
back into you know, gettingactive again.
And so we made the trek toCentral from way out west and he
fell in love with it whichshocked me because he was not a
cardio guy.
He really, I really thoughtforever and ever he would just
be lifting.
So, um, I remember he struggledwith that first workout and I
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thought oh man, he's, this isnot going to be for him.
Um, but he got to know somepeople and it was actually funny
to me because I was usually theone who would get wrapped up in
conversations.
And all of a sudden, theworkout would be over and I'd be
saying we got to go.
We got to go get the kids up forschool and get them out the
door and he's sitting therechatting with some new friends
(04:57):
he had found.
And really speaks volumes, Ithink, to our community in both
locations.
But he was like I think this iswhat I want to keep doing, and
so we kept at it, and then soonyou guys announced you were
opening the Westside location.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I love that and that's awesome because there are
so many moving parts and as thegym has grown, my role has
shifted and is continuallyshifting and obviously, being
the owner of the gym, you haveto just go into the role that
the gym and the business needs.
At the time and at that time Iwasn't super involved and so I I
(05:34):
didn't know exactly how youguys started.
Cool and and oddly enough, Iactually ran into Maddie just
last weekend.
She was at Axel's birthdayparty coach Aqua, ex coach
Aqua's baby and it was just socool to to see her and to know
that she invited you guys.
And I even left that birthdayparty just a couple of weekends
(05:56):
ago and I thought to myself andI talked to Mel even I was like
you know one thing that I can, Ican honestly say that I am
proud of, no matter what is therelationships that happen at Fit
Body, whether the clients stayclients at Fit Body or not,
there's relationships that arebeing built that they'll change
your life and I do think and Isay this often, I'm going to
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continue to say this I thinkthat life is a team sport and I
think that you need an amazingteam, you need friends, you need
connections, a team sport, andI think that you need an amazing
team, you need friends, youneed connections.
But I knew, though, that thatyou and Darren obviously were
coming, and we ended up workingout often together at the same
time slot.
I may have probably even beenone of those ones that held
Darren up.
So if your kids were ever lateto school, my apologies, but I I
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kind of knew or somehow seenthat there's this gal that
coaches pound or instructs pound, and I was like I don't really
know what pound is, but I kindof knew what pound is and then
come to find out like you're oneof, like, the main pound
instructors in Sioux Falls.
So for anyone that doesn't know, like explain what even is
(07:06):
pound.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Oh, we call it a rock out workout.
Rock out workout Cardiodrumming.
It's a 45 minute choreographeddrumming simulated class.
Yeah, we go song by song about11 songs, through a lot of
different muscles and get workedworked.
Oftentimes people will say, oh,that must be a great arm
(07:27):
workout, because they'revisualizing drumming.
And I said, uh-huh, just comeand try it.
And oftentimes they are verypleasantly surprised that their
legs are what they work the most, but it flies by because it's
great music.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're so focused on making the movements.
And then yeah, just it'scontagious too, I think, yeah, I
mean I finally went to my firstpound.
I've been invited by you manytimes over the last several
years to come and try one, and Idon't know if it's just maybe
I'm busy or maybe I was likeintimidated by it, I don't know
(08:04):
what it was.
Uh, call it, whatever we wantto call it, but I finally got to
one of your sessions or classesat pound and, uh, it was fun.
I had a blast.
Um, my legs, yes.
My hip flexors, yes.
My core, yes, um, all thethings.
Uh, it was a really funexperience.
And what's so fun too is groupworkout can be intimidating, no
(08:29):
matter what it is, but what Ihave found, obviously with Fit
Body and then with Pound, likeyou're all there just to one,
get a little bit better, havefun and move your body For sure,
like our bodies are made tomove.
Yep Right, how long ago did youfind pound?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Uh, we just celebrated.
My friend, amber and I weretrained at the same time, but I
had found it just a little bitover five years ago.
Okay, um, I used to watch theshow.
This is us.
Okay, I don't know if you'veever watched it, but there was
an episode where one of thecharacters had to go away to
basically what they were callingfat camp.
(09:09):
She really needed to focus onlosing some weight and in this
episode she's at this retreatand she went into a session and
it was a pound class.
She was seated and she was justdrumming and I remember sitting
there thinking I have beenteaching fitness for years and
I've never heard of this, so Iinstantly went online and
Googled pound and this is preCOVID.
(09:31):
So every opportunity to gettrained you, you were had to
travel somewhere around thecountry.
So I reached out to them and Isaid, hey, we don't really have
this in my state.
If I, if we, were to have atraining here, what would that
take?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And so we worked that out and I was able to host a
training that, um, there were.
I think there were about 10 ofus from all over.
Other people from other Stateseven came for it, but I'm really
one of the few that stillteaches it in our area, Um, my
friend.
Amber teaches it in Canton andshe's amazing as well.
Um, and there are a few othergyms that have it sporadically
(10:05):
but yeah, saw it on a TV show,knew that it was something I
wanted to try something that wedidn't have in our area and
before COVID was wildly highlyattended.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, and I'm seeing that it's starting to pick back
up, though I do feel that aswell.
People are starting to realizethat working out by yourself is
not nearly as effective as beingin a group of people.
(10:39):
I thought that it would, butpeople are finally realizing
that we need to get out frombehind the screens.
We need to get out from behindour desk, working out by herself
, doing things isolated, andhave that connection More than
ever.
You can go only so long as asociety, a community, as a world
(10:59):
.
You can only go so long untilyou realize, hey, we were not
created to be isolated.
And we're seeing that, you know, we're seeing that at Fit Body,
more and more people comingevery time that you host a pound
, because a lot of times you doit at a church, I believe, is
that like your main spot thatyou do it, or a church and a
brewery.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Yes, okay, kind of funny right.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Yeah, yeah, jesus and beer.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
You meet people where they're at right, and even in
my faith.
I'm not only going to go tochurches to meet people, but to
meet all types of people whomight be looking for fitness or
for faith or for whatever itmight be.
So, yeah, we do do them inbreweries pound and pour.
Some people choose to have abeer, some people choose to have
water.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, that's awesome, and I see, like the pictures
that you post, they seem likethey're being more and more
attended and so people can buylike a punch card.
Yeah To that, or how do they?
How do you purchase pound?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah, it's, I usually charge a straight $10 per class
but they can do a punch cardwhich will bring it down to $8.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Okay, so got you.
And when we have it at Fit Body, it's like once a month or once
a quarter.
How often do we have it?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We've typically been doing once a quarter, but
recently I'm kind of doing thata little bit more over the
summer as I've been doing somespecial events.
So as often as they want it,I'm willing.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
And the cool thing with that is, if you're not a
member at Fit Body, you can comeand attend that and it's $10.
And so, or they can also use.
If they have a punch card foryou, they can use it at their
also, like anywhere you teach itAbsolutely Very cool.
So you mentioned, when youfound Pound on, this Is Us, that
you said well, I've beenteaching fitness for a long time
(12:40):
.
Let's dive into that.
How long is a long time andwhat have you been doing for
fitness?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, so my youngest son, who's 13, is when I decided
that I wanted to kind of testthe waters with this whole
teaching a group fitness format.
And so we lived in Faribault,minnesota, at the time and I was
lifting at a gym in thatcommunity and I just approached
the gal who owned it and I saiddo you need any more help
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teaching classes?
And I said I've never done itbut, I would love to try and
learn how.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Roughly what year.
So he was born in 2011.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
So it was probably 2012.
Um, yeah, so 20 or 12 years ago.
Yeah, I was gonna say 22, 12years ago.
Um is really when I got startedwith teaching others in a group
format.
And so just a group classes,did my group fitness
certification and loved, lovedthose 5 am classes with them.
And then we moved back to SouthDakota in 2014.
(13:37):
And once we got settled hereagain, connected with another
gym and said, hey, I used toteach.
I would love to do more of thataround here.
Um, and this particular gym waslooking for a personal trainer.
Um, so I went ahead and gotcertified in personal training
and took on clients at that gymin.
Hartford, um, and then I'vealso just taught at some other
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um did the Sanford wellnesscenter for a while as well.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
The Sanford Wellness Center kind of holds a dear spot
in my heart.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
That was.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
that was the one on Oxbow.
That was the original gym thatI started my health and fitness
journey, and so, yeah, I that Iwas out on the West side at the
family wellness center.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
But I was teaching a couple of classes a week mid
mornings, after my boys would goto school and I would, I'd
bring the toddler along.
And at some point it justbecame where I desired to do it
more, on a not maybe full-timebasis but regular setting.
And so an opportunity opened upat Showplace Cabinetry where
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they needed about 32 hours aweek, and that's in Harrisburg,
so it was a bit of a drive forme.
But I was their wellnesscoordinator so I got to
coordinate on-site fitnesschallenges, nutrition challenges
, nutrition courses.
And then they had a full fitnesscenter at their manufacturing
facility so I taught lunch hourclasses which many of like the
(15:04):
office HR, you know executiveswould come to, but some people
from the facility would alsojoin us.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
That's cool.
I love that job, yeah, yeah.
What year, what timeframe wasthis?
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's a great question yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
And if we're not right on.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I was there.
I wasn't there as long as Iwould have wanted to be.
I left to be a caregiver for mymom, but I was there for, uh,
about two years.
Okay, I would say before I hadto leave.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh , that's so cool.
I know there's a couple ofdifferent bigger companies in
town.
Um, I know poet also has likean on staff or they used to
anyways.
Um, you know, fitness wellnesscoordinator, Um, and I think
that that's super cool, becausethose I mean when you are active
and you're fit and you'removing your body and you're
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working towards a better versionof yourself, you're just more
productive in life, you get moredone, you feel better about
yourself and for me, that'sactually why I opened Fit Body
was I lacked confidence and Iwanted to build confidence and I
found that through health andfitness, but through others
connecting with them at a gym,and so very cool to see that.
(16:14):
And I think there's like alittle life lesson to be taught
in what you're talking about.
You went out and sought out theopportunity A lot of times.
I feel that we as humans, wewait for opportunity to land in
our lap, Like we think thatsomehow it's just going to fall
on us and this opportunity orthis next best thing is going to
(16:37):
somehow just be here.
But I feel that your health andfitness journey, career journey
, has been one of seeking outopportunities and putting
yourself out there beingvulnerable.
Yeah, knowing that rejection isan option, like the the, the no
(16:58):
answer is an option.
So did that at all play withyour mind at all?
Like what if they say no?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Not necessarily.
I feel like there are so manyopportunities in in any
community.
I mean there's some, I meanthere's a gym everywhere,
everywhere every kind of like agas station.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Right.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Um.
So I sought out the ones that Ifelt that I would connect with
or be the right fit for, butknowing that if they say no,
I'll figure something else out.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yep.
So Showplace Cabinetry.
The wellness coordinator hasfitness.
That seems like maybe one ofyour more prominent wellness
jobs.
Have you had any other jobs inyour career, Like what else is
in your career path?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I was a daycare provider.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Before we moved back to South Dakota that was in
Minnesota, minnesota, okay, ourkids were tiny.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And prior to that I had been a director of
children's ministry.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
So loved being in that position.
But you know that kind of aincome doesn't really pay for
childcare.
So I had to look at what I wasmaking and versus, once our
second son was born, what I waspaying and it just didn't make
sense anymore.
Uh so I decided to stay homeand um had some friends very
quickly start to say oh, wouldyou be able to watch my kiddo
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while I go to a doctor'sappointment.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Could you watch my?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
kids while I do this and found that I really enjoyed
being in that caregiver roleagain.
And so just decided.
You know what I'm home watchingthese kids anyway.
We might as well make it adaycare and we had a great time.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But I had to close to be able to move move our family
back, and that was in Minnesotaand you had it in your home.
I did Okay, very cool.
You mentioned kids.
How many kids do you have?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We have three boys.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Our oldest is actually starting his senior
year tomorrow, tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Yeah, my baby just turned 18.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
And then we have another boy who is 15, going to
be a sophomore, and a 13 yearold who will be an eighth grader
18, 15, 13.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
All boys, all boys.
Wow, yeah, I've got, I've gotthree of my own uh, two girls
and and the youngest boy andyeah, boys, boys are rowdy, boys
are rambunctious.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
When they're little.
Yeah, I think you'll bepleasantly surprised.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
They'll chill out.
They'll chill out.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, okay, well, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
But they don't get any cheaper.
Yeah, no, I'm just going to saythey eat.
The girls don't either.
No, yeah, they all have food.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Their clothes and their.
But you know, hey, I feel itcomes with the territory.
That's right.
I feel that from what I do knowof your.
But I still uh, keep onremembering that uh video of
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Darren and your boy wrestling onthe lily pad and, um, I mean
Darren's a big dude like he canhold his own, but I don't know
your boys definitely were weregiving him a run for his money.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Yeah, yeah, we're excited for football season.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, for sure.
So what um sports are your kidsin?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
in.
Seth is the oldest and he's infootball.
So, he's got that startingright.
He's in the middle of it rightnow.
Our middle son is not sure thathe'll continue to play
basketball, but he's been abasketball player, and then our
youngest is also mainly focusedon football.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Sure Okay, Did you play any sports Chelsea?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I did, I did.
I grew up in Parker South.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Dakota Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Small town America class of like 30-some people
yeah.
So we pretty much were all insomething.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
If you're going to have a team.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, yeah, you need it, we needed everybody.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
All hands on deck, so yeah, Basketball volleyball
track.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
All the things, all.
Have you ever, at any point inyour life, struggled with health
or fitness?
For sure, yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, I mean I've obviously I've gone through
having three children as well,and that is a journey in a
woman's body.
I remember growing up with amom who was very focused on her
journey.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Always trying different diets and different
exercise programs.
I remember being in thebasement and we would do Taibo
together because she loved hervideos.
Good old Billy Blanks.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Hey, that was an era, it was it was so.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I you know, even back then it just watching her go
through her journey had my mindrecognizing that, oh, I need to
take care of this body I've beengiven whether it's through what
I eat or how?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
I move.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
So yeah, and I would say, after my third son was born
, I was really curious about howto transform my body into that
lean, muscular.
Look, I had been a runner whenour first son was born, I
decided out of the blue tobecome a runner and I was going
to train for grandma's marathon.
Our pastor, who was in hissixties, I believe, was training
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for a marathon.
And in my twenties I thought hecan do it, I can do that.
So I went from doing almostnothing to training for a
marathon.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
There you go, couch to whatever they call those yeah
.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Basically followed those programs but I had been
running and running and runningand just not seeing and feeling
the changes in my body and Ididn't understand why.
So I did hire a coach virtually.
She lived in Texas.
Um, she gave me my strengthlifting protocol and my
nutrition protocol.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
And I didn't believe.
She handed me the nutritionprotocol and told me I was going
to have to eat 1900 calories tolose weight and in my head I
was like there's no way youdon't lose weight eating.
You lose weight eating 1200calories, or you know just all
the things that that socialmedia and um that I had seen
online.
So I said, okay, I'll try it.
We'll see how this goes Um, sofollowed it to the.
(22:33):
I'm kind of a rule follower.
I'm a little bit um.
Hey, we need those people, I'lldo what you say, but I don't
think it's going to work.
Um, and lo and behold, it didwork.
Um, and it was.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
it was incredible to see, and feel how when you
follow a plan and you eat theright things.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
That your body does respond it was really cool.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know, I think we need to dive into that a little
bit, because I think that thereis such a misunderstanding as it
pertains to nutrition.
So many people, many of ourclients, myself at times have
fallen into that belief that inorder to lose weight, you need
to eat less.
And I have found I mean, we'vebeen, I've owned Fit Body now
(23:17):
for almost 10 years and I havefound I mean, we've been, I've
owned Fit Body now for almost 10years and I have found hundreds
, if not, by this time,thousands, of times that our
clients will get better resultswhen they actually, more times
than not, eat more.
Right, because so manyAmericans are low in protein,
they are deficient in it.
And I tell you what, if you'renot like tracking it, you're not
(23:41):
even getting close, becauseeverything you eat like it's in
the goofy thing is is likelabeling and marketing.
Wow, they do a great job forsure, but you'll grab something
in it like big, bold wordsprotein pancakes.
You look on the back of the boxfive grams of protein, like
compared to the one gram that anon-protein pancake.
So you get four extra grams inthis protein thing.
(24:03):
Yeah, and I think that that isa true testament to what you
said.
You're living, breathing proofthat it worked.
So help unpack this for a littlebit, for anyone that may, you
know, hear hey, in order to loseweight, you need to eat more,
right?
Where did you heard that forthe first time?
(24:24):
Yeah, and your brain was likeno way right.
Unpack that for us a little bit, maybe help someone understand.
Like, what do you do with that?
Because it doesn't for somereason, doesn't make sense.
So how do you make sense ofthat?
And how did you just decide tofollow it, even though, like, it
doesn't make sense?
So how do you make sense ofthat?
And how did you just decide tofollow it, even though?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
like it doesn't make sense in my brain.
Yeah Well, number one, I had totrust that.
She was the expert right.
She had done her research, shewas trained.
She had done it before.
She'd help other people um havegreat results.
But in my head I had watched amom who would do LA weight loss
diets or these cleanses whereshe didn't eat for days.
And yeah, she lost weight.
(25:01):
So that was my only training orknowledge of of how to do this.
Before um had not learnedanything about adequate protein
and balancing out my carbs andfats, in addition to how much I
was moving my body um and howimportant strength training was
to get those results as well, soum it's, it is now fun to sit
(25:23):
down with clients at.
Fit Body and give them theirnumbers and have them have that
same reaction that.
I had so many years ago.
I was like I know it soundslike a lot and it might feel
that way for a little bit, butyour body will adapt and you're
going to start craving theprotein foods.
You know the rich foods thatyou're feeding it.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And so, and actually just recently, met with a
boyfriend and girlfriend.
Yes, and they're both just likewhat.
How much do you want youseriously want?
Me to eat that much food andjust two, three days later, just
they're feeling so much better.
Their workouts are going better.
20 sessions in from face toface, the boyfriend has like
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face looks completely differentalready.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So you know, and they're committed though.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
That's the exciting thing about working with clients
is when they're in it when Isay to win it Like they show up
with a mindset of I'm going todo what you tell me.
I promise, and I tell you whatlike that's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
That's the thing we're all busy with.
Everything under the sun.
And the thing that I love and Imean, obviously I'm a little
biased, I own Fit Body but thething that I love about it is
like, well, let's take theguesswork out of what you should
do for your workout.
You want to get a little moreserious?
Let's take the guesswork out ofwhat you should do for
nutrition.
And wait, also, did you knowthat you can actually eat the
(26:41):
foods that you really enjoy inmoderation?
Yep, and like I am a foodie,yeah For sure.
Burgers, fries, sweets, cakes,pies, you name it.
I love it all.
Yeah, and I don't not get it.
And, to be truthful, chelsea, Iprobably get it more than I
should get it.
But I also know, when I hit acertain point, what to do to
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totally get to where I want.
And I feel that we have thismentality in life where we're
all just going through life.
We're not actually workingtowards anything Like, we're
just living.
And I think when you can decidethat I'm done living to just
live, I'm ready to live onpurpose, my best life, why I was
(27:31):
placed here you can then startreally getting fulfilled.
And so many times we seek toevery other person or every
other thing to get filled up andyou can't, you, you have to.
I mean, we're both faith-basedpeople, so I would say, look to
Jesus.
But if, if you're not afaith-based person, you have to
(27:53):
work on yourself.
And work on filling yourself up.
Um, and I think so with you,with nutrition, realizing oh, my
goodness, I'm going to have toeat more than I ever thought.
You, I believe, actually didcompetitions.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I did Correct.
Yes, how many?
I did four.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You did four of them.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
In how many years?
Like what was that?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
My last one was in 2019.
So I probably started in 2012.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Okay, it was before we moved back here.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, but yeah it was .
Doing those competitions was ahuge step in courage for me.
I consider myself a very modestperson, and so to present
yourself you know in high heelsand a swimming suit on stage and
(28:46):
pose and do all these crazythings that are way out of my
comfort zone, um, but I lookedat it more as a challenge of
getting out of my comfort zone,learning how to do hard things,
how to be, brave um to showmyself that that I could do it
and do it well.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, so four of them .
So I'm not super well-versed,like honestly.
The only real knowledge that Ihave in, uh, in comp competing
that way, is just what I knowfrom from my best friend, mick
Um.
But there are differentcategories that you can compete
in.
What is the category that youcompeted in?
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I competed in the figure category and I think the
categories have even changed inthe last few years, I think
there's an added fitnesscategory.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
But figure is what I was in.
So to kind of like show wherethey're at Bikini is what I
would say is not, um, not thelowest level, but the first at
the first level.
They're looking for more.
Um, just toned a little bitsofter, look not a lot of
muscularity, Um, but justshowing that you have leaned out
(29:51):
um in equally across your bodyand then in figure it's a.
It's another level up.
There's um.
They're looking for more musclesymmetry.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Um, you're posing all sides of your body from side to
side.
Like is this calf in incomparison to this calf?
The right muscle you knowdensity and look, I mean it's,
it's intense.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And a lot of it, unfortunately, in my mind, comes
down to how you pose, becauseif you know how to showcase your
muscle better than the personnext to you, you're going to do
better.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well and Mick even said that too he's like he would
and I'm sure you did as wellpractice posing, oh you know you
need to, but I finally went toone of his shows and and watch,
and you could clearly tell thosecompeting that didn't practice
their posing as much and thosethat did.
And what's crazy is, as theywere walking out on stage you
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could just, from their walk,look at some of these people and
be like, oh, they're going todo great, yeah.
Then they get to posing andit's like wait a minute, what
happened?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah, where'd you go a minute?
What happened?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah, where'd you go?
Yeah.
So, yeah, you taking that stepand not only having to get your
body into a certain physicalaspect and physical shape, but
then to learn how to hold it andI remember talking to Mick
(31:09):
afterwards like it's a workoutholding that pose and doing it
in high heels yeah, not easy.
No, and I'm like boys to do that?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Ah, well, but it's hard.
Yeah, it's really hard.
Boys to do that Well, but it'shard.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, it's really hard.
Yeah, absolutely, and, and, butyou did it.
And not only did you do it once, you did it four times.
Yes, do you think that you'llever do it again?
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I, I'm interested.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
The last few years have been a challenge just
within family and personalthings, so it's I feel like I
need to.
I think I'll know when.
I'm ready.
They have a class for those whoare 40 and older called the
master's class, aka the oldpeople group, so that's where I
would get to compete this time,which?
I was under 40 when I did itlast, so I am curious to see if
(31:57):
I still have what it takes toget back on the stage and do it
again.
And I'm getting there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, yeah.
So that might be in your future, right now, at Fit Body Chelsea
.
What is your kind of schedule?
Do you only work mornings?
Do you only work nights?
Is it kind of a mix?
And like if someone was lookingto come work out with you or
take a session led by you, whencould they find you?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I do go in a rotation between mornings and afternoons
.
So it's yeah, I really I'mdoing both of those schedules
right now.
Yeah, about 30 hours per week.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yeah, what would you say because you've been coaching
now for about two plus years?
What would you say is yourfavorite thing about being a
coach at Fit Body?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I've always loved to see progress.
You know, when somebody comesin on day one and they're doing
pushups with their butt in theair and just completely out of
form and to be able to work withthem every single day that they
show up and to have somebodyeager to learn how to do it
correctly.
But.
But just yesterday I wascoaching and somebody was on the
(33:02):
floor doing pushups and Ilooked at her and I said look at
you Like wow, what a differencefrom day one and she just
smiled like yeah, I'm doing this, I'm doing it and to the world
puts a standard definition ofwhat progress looks like.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
They put a standard definition of what success looks
like.
They put a standard definitionof what success looks like as it
pertains to health and fitness,but I feel that, as it pertains
to your health and your fitnessjourney number one, there's no
end point, and I think that'sone of the biggest stigmas that
we need to break, because if youare doing health and fitness
with an end point in mind, likeyou're already lost, you've
(33:36):
already lost, and that's hardthough, because that's what the
world preaches.
Do this next 21 day thing, thisnext, you know six week thing,
do a 10 week thing, and it'll beall better, but it won't.
Like your life continues.
And so, yeah, like you said,seeing that progress, whether it
be pushup form or even just oneof my favorite ones, the most
(33:58):
non really way to ever tellanything but is when someone
starts and you can just seetheir face, they're intimidated,
they're kind of scared, theydon't know if they really should
be doing this, and the nextthing you know they're coming in
with a smile, their fistbumping, they're high fiving
people that they didn't evenknow a couple of weeks ago, and
to me like being coming that tome just lights me up, because I
(34:22):
was that person that walked intoa room like do I belong, do I
should I be here?
And that's not a good feeling,but we all have that when we
start.
But we can help push thatcomfort zone and help break you
out of that.
Let me ask you this what hasbeen in your two years of
coaching at Fit Body?
What has been some of your mostkind of proudest moments as a
(34:45):
coach, whether that's evenpersonally, on the team, as a
business, maybe different eventsthat we've done, or with the
clients that you've worked with?
When I say Chelsea in the lasttwo years, what are some of the
proudest moments you've had withFit Body?
What kind of comes to mindproudest moments you've had with
Fit?
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Body.
What kind of comes to mind?
I still remember when I wasstill over here at Central kind
of, in my training period therewas a gal who had came in brand
new and a lot of what you talkedabout.
She didn't have confidence thatshe was going to be able to do
hardly anything Kind of walkedwith her for a few sessions and
I remember she came up to me oneday and she said I have to do
(35:24):
hardly anything.
Um kind of walked with her fora few sessions and I remember
she came up to me one day andshe said I have to tell you
something.
So I did a pushup on my toestoday for the first time.
Um, so those, those momentsreally are, are huge, or you
know the, the non-skillvictories that people have.
You know, I was playing with mygrandkids and I could go for
like way longer than I used tobe able to.
(35:46):
Or their clothes are fittingLike hey.
I tried on this dress that Inever thought I'd be able to
wear again.
Yeah, and it actually fitsreally well.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Or just they see pictures of themselves.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Right yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
So I just I'm always.
It's always fun when they feelconnected enough to me to share
those wins to come up to me andkind of confide in me, on how
proud they are of themselves.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
That's awesome, and being proud of yourself it's a
good thing and you should do itand you should celebrate
yourself when you have a win.
Let's kind of unpack a littlebit of Chelsea's knowledge and
maybe even to just honestly howyou do it.
You're a mom of three, you're awife, you live a very busy
(36:36):
lifestyle like the rest of us.
You've got kids and sports.
One of the hardest things isnutrition.
Yes, how the heck do you do it?
Like what?
What is some of your tips thatmaybe work for your clients or
even for yourself as it pertainsto having a family and going to
different sporting events?
Like what do you do to staynutritiously nourished while on
(37:00):
the go?
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Sure, I think I learned a lot in that first
stage of working with a trainerand having a nutrition coach
really pour into me, um, help mesee results from from what I
was eating.
So I think over time I just Ihave my go-to protein sources.
I know how important it is andI know how different I feel when
(37:23):
I don't get that in.
Um, so, as the one who groceryshops for our family, you know.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
I.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I know what I need to grab for that's quick and easy.
I you know I've learned becauseI tracked for so long so
diligently with um, thecompetition training.
I'm really good now ateyeballing what a serving of
protein is.
So, back then, yeah, I weighedand I measured everything
because I wanted, I wanted to doit exactly right.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
But and I do encourage new clients when
they're learning, it's the bestway to know and to learn.
So you won't have to do thisfor the rest of your life.
You know, nobody wants to weighand measure their food for the
rest of their life.
But it is an important step inlearning so that in the future
you can go to the grocery storeand just know intuitively I'm
(38:11):
going to need this, this andthis this week to fill the gaps.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Yeah, do you have maybe two to three items that
are really low on the prep timeor low on the effort scale to
have readily available forprotein sources.
So what would be two or threeprotein sources that you kind of
(38:34):
have readily available toyourself?
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Sure and, of course, depending on people's allergies
or dietary needs.
They may or may not work, butcottage cheese, greek yogurt,
beef, jerky, tuna packets.
Costco is a godsend for a lotof protein options.
They've got prepackaged, youknow, grilled chicken breast
strips.
There's just lots of thingslike that that are pre-cooked.
(38:57):
I consider fairly healthy.
That, I know, make me feel goodthat I keep in the fridge or in
the pantry at all times.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, we actually have from a corporate fit body,
corporate.
They put together like a Costcoeasy meal prep guy, um.
So what we'll do is in the shownotes of this show we'll link
that as well, so people can havethat um as just a free gift to
them, so that they can.
I mean meal, meal prepping andhaving the right nurse.
You can work out every day,right, you can go run yourself
(39:28):
into the ground every day, butif you're not nourishing your
body the right way, you're notgoing to see the results that
you're looking for.
And so I do.
I grab, grab that guide.
You guys, look at it, easy it's, it's no cooking.
Actually, like you said, costcohas all those things ready to
go, but a lot of times we don'tthink of it.
You know, the thing that I'vebeen really enjoying is the gas
(39:49):
stations nowadays are startingto have more healthy options.
If you look for them, if youlook, you know we've obviously
all of us, whatever age you'reat, you've basically gone that
age of having your go-tos and weall operate out-tos and we all
operate out of a routine and weall operate out of convenience.
Yes, but if you can break yourroutine a little bit, break your
(40:13):
convenience a little bit andrealize that there are healthy
options.
That can then start being yourroutine and your convenience and
, next thing you know, resultsare happening on autopilot.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, you have to go into a gas station with blinders
on, because it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
No.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
There's a lot of distractions.
No A lot of shiny marketing.
Yeah, and our stomachs are justyou know, sometimes our brains.
Yeah, they have a brain oftheir own.
We have to use our actual brain.
So yeah, going to thosesections where there might be
some, you know, individual sizecottage cheese or yogurts going
to the beef jerky Yep.
Sticking away from the sugary.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
The sugars?
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, chelsea, I think thatthere's been a ton that we have
unpacked.
It's been super fun just tokind of get to know your journey
.
No idea that you had achildcare business your journey.
No idea that you had achildcare business I did.
You know no idea that you werea wellness coordinator at
Showplace.
So super cool to kind of getthat insight.
(41:12):
As it comes to mindset, mindsetis one of the biggest things and
you know I've said this beforeand I'll continually say it I
don't think that it was byaccident that our mind got put
on the top of our body and ifyou think of it like it's tough,
trickles down.
So if we can get our mind rightand just let that trickle down
to the rest of our body, I thinkthat we can really do a lot of
(41:32):
good in our lives.
What has been some of the bestmindset advice that you have
gotten along your journey thatmaybe you could share with our
audience today?
You know some of our audienceof course they're clients and
that right, there is one of thebiggest privileges to know that
we've got clients that we get topour into all the time.
But others of our audiencemaybe they don't know if fitness
(41:55):
is right for them Fit body ornot, fitness is right for them.
Maybe they don't know ifstarting a health or fitness
journey is right for them.
What would be some really goodmindset advice for someone that
just doesn't know if they can doit or if they have what it
takes.
Speaker 2 (42:12):
Oftentimes in the gym , when I'm coaching, I'm
encouraging people to use thestrongest muscle in their body
that they have, which is the sixinches between their ears.
Which is the six inches betweentheir ears.
Um, when the rest of the bodystarts to feel like it doesn't
want to, that it wants to giveup, that it's too tired, that's
when we have to use what I callour mental muscle.
Um, it's so important and itthe mind, is a far more powerful
(42:35):
tool than I think any of usgive it credit for.
Um, you know, an attitude ofgratitude is is also what I talk
to everyone about.
So when we get in those moods ofI just don't want to do this
today, I don't feel good.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
This is going to be.
You know I don't feel good, sothe workout's not going to be
good.
You control a hundred percentof how that goes.
How you process your thoughts,um, and it's not easy.
But to just turn those thoughtsaround, instead of I have to, I
get to being thankful that youhave a body that can move that.
(43:11):
There's an opportunity outthere for someone to help you
learn how to do that.
It's the way we frame everything, and so if they're not framing
it in a positive way, the bodyis going to respond.
So the reason their body isfeeling tired and feeling sore
and not wanting to continue isbecause you're allowing your
brain to tell your body that, um, the more you speak, life to
(43:34):
yourself and to others I meanpositivity flows from that.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, I love that, I love that training the mental
muscle, making sure that everyday, you are working that muscle
.
Also, you know, and one of theways to work it is when you, you
know, like you said, add togratitude, when you start
feeling a little down, there isnothing better than shooting out
three, four, however manygratitude texts to people in
(44:02):
your group.
Yes, and you're not doing itfor a selfish reason, but I'll
tell you that you do that.
If you shoot out three of them,guarantee that within an hour
or two, one of them is going torespond with something that you
need to hear, with somethingthat's going to be like you're
(44:22):
right, I do have this, and theworld is a hard place and we all
are dealing with our differentstruggles, and so, if you can
remove yourself from your ownpity for just a little bit,
share some gratitude, share somelove, it's going to come back
tenfold and you're going to beable to keep on going.
Yeah, yeah, this has beenawesome, you guys.
(44:43):
Um, chelsea, honestly, is is agift to to fit body.
Um, I don't probably tell youenough, um, but the appreciation
that I have to have someonelike yourself on our team, um,
what we do at fit body isimpossible without our team.
Um, and so I just appreciateyou.
Uh, like I said, more than Iprobably ever tell you, uh, it's
(45:03):
awesome to have been able toget to know you more, and also
to you guys, we just rolled outsome some new core values to our
team and actually justyesterday I was meeting with our
leadership team and we werejust kind of reviewing them or
whatever, and talking and I said, you know, one of the things
that I'd just seen that totallylit me up is one of the core
(45:24):
values that we rolled out isteam driven.
Because when I, when I openedFit Body, I prayed a very
specific prayer and I said, lord, if you are going to bless me
enough to keep this businessopen, bless me enough to have a
team, because I cannot and nordo I want to do it on my own.
I want to do it on my own.
And so I really wanted teamdriven to be one of our core
(45:45):
values, our core focuses, and tosee just recently the amount of
effort that you put in, withoutanybody asking, to coordinate
baby showers for our two Westside babies that are coming soon
, it meant the world to myselfwalking to the West side, fit
body and seeing clientssupporting our coaches,
(46:07):
supporting our team um, yourhusband supporting you and your
idea by helping decorate.
So shout out to Darren um forfor putting up and helping set
up the gym.
But I just want to give youaccolades for that and and let
uh the clients know and andreally you, you know that it
doesn't go unnoticed and reallyyou're changing more lives by
(46:29):
just being yourself and livingthe way that you live.
So be encouraged today.
You guys that are watchinglistening, ladies that are
watching listening, beencouraged today.
And if you want to catch CoachChelsea, there's also going to
be a link down in thedescription where you can grab a
free week and you can go hangout with Coach Chelsea on the
West side.
Ask her any questions you have,pick her brain.
(46:51):
I mean, she's got years ofknowledge with fitness and we
want to pour that knowledge intoyou guys.
So, chelsea, thank you forbeing here.
We have to get rocking androlling.
We've got our next team meetingcoming up and so we're going to
get to that.
But you guys, hey, likesubscribe, share this episode.
(47:11):
It's been such a pleasuregetting to know Coach Chelsea
even more today and we willcatch you guys on the next
episode of the Fit and HealthySioux Falls show.
Go out and be great today.
Bye you guys, see you.
Falls show go out and be greattoday.
Bye you guys, see you.
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