August 23, 2024 • 30 mins
Have you ever wondered how one goes from caring for penguins to becoming a fitness powerhouse? Join us as we sit down with Elizabeth Burgess from Our House Studios to uncover her captivating journey from the Chattanooga Aquarium to the world of fitness. Elizabeth opens up about her personal fitness evolution and shares the wide array of programs at her studio, from weight training and CrossFit to HIIT classes and the specialized Rock Steady Boxing for Parkinson's patients. She provides invaluable insights into bodybuilding, nutritional guidance, and the transformative benefits of fitness, particularly for those managing Parkinson's symptoms.
Discover the true measure of fitness progress as we discuss the importance of muscle measurement over scale numbers, and how regular body measurements can offer a more accurate picture of your journey. Elizabeth dispels common myths about weight training, especially for women, and highlights the crucial role of lean muscle in boosting metabolism and managing weight. Finally, we also shine a spotlight on Elizabeth's dedication to supporting local businesses and fostering a healthy community in Chattanooga. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert tips, and a celebration of our local heroes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Scott Howell.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello, good neighbors , welcome to the Good Neighbor
Podcast brought to you by theFriends and Neighbors Group of
Greater Chattanooga Region.
Again, my name is Scott Howelland I'm your host for today.
You know a lot of people wantto know what is this Good
Neighbor podcast thing all about?
Well, we're all about trying tobring an awareness to the
residents living in ourcommunities about the businesses
(00:33):
that are either locally ownedand operated, or maybe their
corporate office is somewhereelse.
But they are locally operatedby people who live and work in
this area.
And you know, we're all abouttrying to promote that local
presence, because that's whatit's all about.
You know, a lot of people haveforgotten that our local
(00:55):
communities were built on thebacks of small businesses.
You know, small businesses someof them became larger later but
small businesses are who stillneed our support today and we
don't need to forget about them.
And you know, every localbusiness, I like to say, you
know, has a story to tell, andhere on the Good Neighbor
podcast, we just want to helpthem.
(01:15):
Shout it loud and proud soeverybody in this whole area
will know they're there and knowwhat's available to them, what
they offer.
And today we have one of ourgood neighbors with us,
elizabeth Burgess, with OurHouse Studios, and we are so
glad to have you today,elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, absolutely, you know Elizabeth.
I reached out to Elizabethbecause I get on Instagram and
try to do some posting and stuffand we've had a few technical
difficulties, hadn't been ableto use it like we'd like to.
But I get on there and there'sElizabeth.
Everywhere I turn, there'sElizabeth and we were.
(01:54):
You know, we were trying toreach out to some people that
were involved in the fitnessindustry and trying to do a,
because it's summertime, right,we all want to look good, but
we'll go out with our shirt offor we go down to the beach or
the river or whatever.
We want to look good, right?
So I thought it was a good timeto reach out to some folks and
I kept seeing Elizabeth on theair and what she is doing to
(02:15):
help people and what she doesfor herself, and so I just
wanted to have you on andElizabeth, before we dive into
talking about what you do at OurHouse Studios, would you like
to share a little bit with usabout yourself and your family?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sure, I'm actually a Ringgold native, originally from
Chattanooga, tennessee.
I moved away for college.
I'm a biologist by trade andmoved back about 10 years ago
with me and my four boys.
Okay yeah, so I came back here.
I was at the aquarium for awhile.
(02:50):
I actually still do penguins atthe aquarium.
I work from home and I trainfive days a week.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, I've seen some of your videos and stuff where
you posted about the penguinsand all.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, that was fascinating that was actually um
, that was their first time backon exhibit after being off of
it for about two weeks, whichnever happened, since we had
that.
Yeah, that exhibit opened in2015 and that they were off for,
um, for construction purposes,but that was their first day
back and they just ran and wentnuts.
(03:23):
Well, during that period oftime, were you still able to?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
interact with day back and they just ran and went
nuts.
Well, during that period oftime, were you still able to
interact with them, or were theyjust kind of in confinement or
Well, we have two backup rooms,isolation and holding, so we
split them based on theirspecies.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We have two species, and one was in one room and one
was in the other, and they'reused to being in confined spaces
.
So for them it's good, like forus it'd be claustrophobic, but
they love it, I love it, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It was pretty gross.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I lived up in Sevierville for a couple of
years and I used to go to theRipley's Aquarium up there.
A lot, that's a good one.
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the aquarium.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I haven't been to the one in Chattanooga in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I need to get back over there.
Well, we got two buildings andwe have a brand new baby penguin
chick too.
Oh, okay, all right, wow, yeah,I gotta go over and see that.
Well, you know, let's talkabout our house studios.
I, I understand it's a fitnesscenter, uh, but what, what, what
do?
And then talk to me about whatyou do there.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So Our House, it's a privately owned gym and it's
kind of like one-stop shoppingfor all fitness levels.
So we have our weight room, wehave our front room, which has
like CrossFit, cell classes,hiit classes, we have boxing, we
have pedaling, and we also haveother trainers and their
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programs that run out of there,like rocks day boxing, which is
strictly for Parkinson'spatients and, um, anybody with
like neurodegenerative diseases,so like Louie body syndrome,
and they're there three days aweek as well.
Okay, and I personally I workwith particularly women.
I do bodybuilding and weighttraining, I do everybody's
(05:09):
macros.
If you want to learn more aboutnutrition, want to tailor your
diet to like a cutting phase, ifyou want to lose weight or if
you want to build muscle, then Ido that for you.
And I also work with Rock StateBoxing, working with our
Parkinson's patients.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And I also work with Rock State Boxing working with
our Parkinson's patients.
You know I want to talk alittle bit about that
Parkinson's situation.
You know we had somebody reallyclose in our family that passed
from Parkinson's and how doesthat benefit them?
You know we all knowParkinson's by the shaking.
You know when they have thetremors.
How does that boxing benefitthem?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So they've done a lot of studies with Parkinson's
patients looking at how fitnessaffects them.
Um, and what it does is itslows down the progression of
the disease.
There isn't a cure.
It is progressive, it's goingto get worse.
But what we do with RoxetteBoxing and Kristen Shalasi, who
started the affiliate that wehave in our gym, it's three days
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a week and it's an hour and ahalf, so it's half it, which is,
you know, constantly moving,doing different exercises, and
then it's half boxing, and whatwe do is we work on their gross
motor skills and also their finemotor skills and also their
memory, because that's anotherthing that people don't think
about with Parkinson's is a lotof them are suffering from
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dementia that's caused by theprogression of the disease.
So we may have them, you know,going over hurdles or doing a
jump rope, but we also will havethem do a sequence of exercises
like tell them what theexercises are, and they have to
remember what those exercisesare like.
We don't tell them, we don'tgive them a piece of paper.
They have to try and rememberit.
So it's really training yourbrain and your body because the
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more you move, the better yourprogression is.
If you just sit there and youdo nothing, they know that your
Parkinson's is going to progressfaster.
So we're really trying to delaythe symptoms and sometimes you
know it can be difficult, but wehave patients that will come
there, they have people whodrive them there and they are
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there three days a week for anhour and a half every single
class.
So I say if a Parkinson'spatient can work out that much,
everybody else can.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, yeah that's, that's a really inspirational
because you know, I'm somebodywho witnessed that, that slow
progression of the disease anddegradation of the physical
activity of the body.
I I guess, when I look, when Ithink about that, he didn't get
a lot of physical exercise.
Once it happened, he did justkind of sit down and lay down
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under it.
So you know, if that would havebenefited him and kept him a
little bit more cognitive Iguess is the right word that
would have been great.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That was one thing that we saw with COVID is, you
know, they shut down all thegyms and so the Parkinson's
patients.
they regressed because theydidn't have that physical outlet
and so once they came back, youknow they got back into it, but
their symptoms reallyprogressed a lot more than it
would have if it kept the gymsopen and they kept coming.
(08:23):
It's also a social aspect.
Like the patient comes, theywork out, but also their
caregiver gets a break and theycan interact with other
caregivers.
So you have that social aspectof it, which is really, really
important because along with youknow the tremors and the
dementia you are, you're alsodealing with caretaker fatigue
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and depression and we knowexercising releasing that
dopamine, it helps with allthose things.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So this is a group class.
I take it then.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, it is, it's actually an affiliate.
It's Roxay Boxing Chattanoogaand it runs out of the room and
they do pedaling for Parkinson'sas well.
Kimberly Bryson Jones does thatand sometimes some of the
Parkinson's patients will showup just to play ping pong
because we have ping pong tables, and they will come an hour
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before Roxay class just to playping pong.
But it's also that socialinteraction.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Elizabeth, you said you're a biologist by trade
right by trade.
So tell us about your journeyinto the fitness world.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So I grew up as a dancer.
That was my background.
I danced all the way through mysenior year at West Georgia.
So I've always been intofitness and I've always
exercised just because I had tobe, and I went through the
typical COVID divorce afteralmost 19 years and so I was in
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the gym all the time and I waslike I'm going to be here anyway
.
I may as well get my personaltraining certification, which I
did through ISA, which isactually very science heavy.
So I had the background for itand I could understand it very
quickly and pick it up quickly.
And I also approach my trainingin a very scientific way.
So, like with your macros, Iwill calculate it based on grams
(10:20):
of protein, carbs, fats, basedon you know, your medications
that you're taking, your age,your height, your weight, but
also with the exercises.
So I will.
I actually this is very nerdy.
I watched YouTube videos fromsports science experts and they
talk about the studies thatthey've done on certain
exercises and which ones havethe greatest potential for
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muscle growth based on, likeactually hooking you up to
electrodes for each muscle andseeing how the muscle reacts to
the various exercises.
So I get very nerdy and in depthabout it.
Like you know, you can be doingthis exercise but here's a
better one.
So that's how I tailor myworkouts for myself and also for
my clients.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, that's pretty good to know, because if I mean,
if you were my trainer, uh,I'll, I'll be I would be hoping
that you had the knowledge totell me you know which exercises
that I needed to be doing.
But you know, not not only justwhich exercise, but you know if
I, if I could do this exerciseand maybe it was uh wouldn't
have to do as much of it or lessexertion than the other one to
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get better benefits.
Why not?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And that's actually my biggest pet peeve, because in
with social media today, youhave Instagram, tik TOK, and you
see all these reels wherepeople are.
They're doing kind of gimmickythings, like gimmicky movements
and exercises and doing stupidstuff and awkward positions, and
it's like you don't need to doany of that.
You know the basics work.
It's the same thing withnutrition.
(11:49):
The basics work it's caloriesin versus calories out.
You know there's nothing likethe body type diet or you know
the blood type diet.
That's just all BS and crap.
So that's kind of one of mythings.
It's like you know the basicswork.
For a reason it's backed byscience and that's what I like
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to push.
I have clients come to me like,well, I saw this, I'm like I
don't care what you saw.
That's what I like to push.
I have clients come to me.
It's like well, I saw this.
I'm like I don't care what yousaw.
That's just like ignore it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Watch that like a cartoon.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It looks good on video, but that person is fit
because they're doing theseother things, not because
they're doing that stupid videothat they put up on Tik TOK
reviews.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Just cause the Wiley and Cowdy, the Wiley, cowdy and
the Roadrunner done it.
Don't mean it's going to begood for you to do right.
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
That confuses a lot of people and that's why people
are very intimidated by fitness,because it can be overwhelming.
At our house we kind of put you,we dumb it down for you, we
tell you what you need to do andhow you need to do it, and so
it takes the guesswork out of it.
And because it's easier to doand you don't have to think
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about it, you're more liable tostick with it, as opposed to
just kind of you know, giving upafter a few months.
Well, seeing results faster,too, is encouraging.
You know when you start seeingresults right away.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You know, giving up after a few months.
Well, seeing results faster toois encouraging.
You know, when you start seeingresults right away, I mean
nobody's going to go to.
You know, go to the gym onceand come out with swelling
muscles.
But once you you can startseeing small little things
happening.
It's encouraging.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It is, and I do encourage my clients to take
pictures every four weeks.
Whether you think you know youthink it's helping or not, go
ahead and take those picturesbecause you see yourself every
day and your co-workers see youevery day, the people at the gym
see you the every day.
So if you take those photos, youreally start to see the
difference and it motivates youto keep going and it can be
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pretty impressive, like I takephotos every four weeks just to
see you know how I'm progressing, if I need to tweak something
back off something, it's goodfor everybody and I think it's
becoming more acceptable to totake those photos because I also
tell my clients like post themonline because you get
encouragement from other peopleand it helps you going to
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absolutely the a lot of peopleare putting pictures online.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They're actually doing it, working out in the gym
and putting stuff online.
And of course you hear some youknow criticizers and things
like that.
But I think it's good becauseit it.
You know, watching those videosactually motivates me.
I see other people gettingresults and I'm like wow, I mean
, if they can do it, why can't I?
You know?
So do you encouragemeasurements?
Do what Do you encourage?
(14:38):
Taking measurements?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So I personally will take measurements for my clients
and again, I do it.
It depends on what they'rewanting Like.
If they're wanting to gainmuscle, it's a lot more
difficult, so we'll domeasurements like every six to
eight weeks.
But if they want to lose andthey're in a cutting phase, then
I do it every four weeksbecause and this is also people
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have to get out of theirmentality of weighing themselves
.
That's like my biggest strugglewith clients is they keep
weighing themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Because you may think that you're not changing at all
, but the measurements tell adifferent story.
Your waist may be gettingsmaller, your chest may be
getting bigger, especially ifyou're a man.
It's because you're putting onmuscle.
So quit weighing yourself, dothe measurements, and even like
half an inch to an inch, itmakes a big difference.
(15:32):
Also, you're close Like.
I have a client right now.
He showed me a picture of wherehis he's a police officer and
his weight belt has gone downlike four or five notches just a
couple of months, and again hesees himself every day.
So he's not seeing you knowsuch a drastic change, but his
clothes are hanging off of them.
(15:53):
Other people are noticing.
In a picture popped up fromlike a year ago on Facebook, and
then he compared it to the date.
It's night and day.
Yeah, take photos, domeasurements, post it Like it's
becoming more acceptable to dothese things too.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, I have just a regular clothing belt that I'm
fixing to have to replace,because I'm on, I'm on the last
notch and it's actually a bit, alittle bit too loose.
So, yeah, it's very encouraging, you know when that happens,
super encouraging.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, the belt notches are the biggest thing
for some people.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, I'm like you.
You know I I shared with yousome of my weight loss and I,
when I and I know I totallyunderstand what you're talking
about the scale I tell people Ireally don't care what the scale
says, I just know what I wantmy body to look like.
You know, if I get my body tothe point where I want it to
look and it says I weigh 250, Idon't really care right, but if
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I just want to look like I wantto look, you know, I want to get
rid of the belly fat.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, like you feel better, you got more energy.
It's amazing what it can do.
And once you start to see thosechanges and you feel better.
It's a snowball effect thatkeeps you going.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Talk to people a little bit about you.
Used some words that somepeople might not understand if
they haven't really followed thefitness industry.
Talk to people about thebulking and the cutting.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So when I calculate so, I calculate people's diets
based on their macros, which areyour macro nutrients.
It's your proteins, your carbsand your fats which make up your
total calories for the day.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Now, that's a macro.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, your protein is a macro.
These are essentially like thebasic categories of how you
categorize your nutrition.
I calculate them based on whatyour goals are.
If you want to lose weight, Iwould put you in a cutting phase
.
If you're happy with yourweight overall, but you just
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want to build more muscle,maintenance calories, so we're
not increasing them, we're notdecreasing them, giving them the
same, I would just kind of likekick up your protein a bit and
alter your workout a little bit.
Now, if you're wanting to buildmuscle, we're going to bulk.
You put you in a bulking phase,which means we're going to jack
up your calories, all the fats,carbs, proteins.
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Typically, that's going to bewhat the men want, because all
men want, you know, big arms,big shoulders.
So that's typically what theygo for.
women typically go for theweight loss, which is the
cutting yeah again, it's basedon your age, um, your weight,
current weight and if you've hadkids, because because I work
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mostly with postpartum womenwe're in our 40s now, we're
perimenopausal, some arepostmenopausal.
It affects your hormones andit's going to affect your weight
.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So when you're talking about a woman wanting to
lose weight, how and of coursethis would be the same for men
or women, but I think about alot of women seems like maybe of
course I mean anymore, there'smore women in the gym than there
are men, but but there's somewomen still kind of feel
intimidated about it.
So when it comes to weight loss, how, how does the lean muscle,
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having more lean muscle, affecttheir weight loss or not?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So the more muscle you put on, the more energy
you're going to burn, becausemuscle burns more calories just
generally throughout the day.
They've done studies where theylook at the calorie expenditure
after you've done weighttraining versus after you've
done cardio.
You're going to burn a lot ofcarbs when you're doing cardio.
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Afterwards your body's going toswitch to burning fat.
With bodybuilding you're goingto be burning a little bit of
fat and afterwards your body'sgoing to be burning carbs.
So overall it's going to be thesame thing, like calories in
versus calories out.
The difference is when youweight train, that burning phase
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of like burning calories lastlonger than if you do cardio.
So, that's why I really pushweight training for women,
especially if you're older,because you can maintain your
weight better if you have moremuscle.
But, the caveat is it's moredifficult to build muscle the
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older you get.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well you know I hear people say women say sometimes I
don't want to bulk up, I don'twant to look big.
I think sometimes they don'trealize that's harder than they
really think it is.
They realize they don't realizethat's harder than they really
think it is.
But if they can build that leanmuscle, it may not pop up in
their biceps and it may not popup in their shoulders
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necessarily depends on theirtraining.
But but they, if they can havethat more of that lean muscle,
not only will it help them tolose weight, but isn't it better
, going into older age to havethat muscle to support
themselves, so they won't haveas many falls and maybe they'll
be able to take care ofthemselves longer?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, the more lean muscle mass that you have,
especially as a female, it justhelps you overall.
It helps with your energy.
As you get older you may wantto work more on mobility, things
like that.
I will say women always say youknow, I don't want to get bulky
.
It is not possible for a femaleto get bulky.
We, our bodies, simply don'tproduce enough testosterone in
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order to do it.
We have way too much estrogenwhich is kind of going to knock
down whatever naturaltestosterone your body could
produce, so it kind of it puts alimit on how much muscle you
could build.
And again even if you are eatingnothing but protein and lifting
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weights like you should, awoman's only going to get so
much muscle mass.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Our bodies are just not programmed that way.
Our bodies are programmed tohold on to a lot of fat.
So for us we it would be hardto get down to like 15% body fat
, whereas a man easy to do,Cause he's got the testosterone
to do it.
So I'd say for women you're notgoing to get bulky, it's just
not going to happen.
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Unless you take something, it'snot going to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Unless you take something that that does for
that purpose of trying to bulkup Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, which some women do To each their own.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
To each their own right.
Yeah, like you said.
But yeah, I think there's somewomen are afraid of I just need
the treadmill because I don'twant to bulk up but they don't
realize how beneficial it is totheir overall health, especially
their long-term health.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, beneficial it is to their overall health and
especially their long-termhealth.
I see women doing cardio allthe time and their bodies don't
change because they're justdoing cardio.
When you're doing cardio, yourbody's building carbs.
It's not burning fat.
It's just not so if you want toget that fat loss, you need to
start lifting weights andespecially the older you get.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I see women running all the time their bodies aren't
changing.
I see them doing HIIT classesfor years on end their body's
not changing.
You've got to lift weights andit is intimidating for some
women.
Our gym we do have quite a fewwomen in the weight room, but
again it's mostly men, it'smostly power lifters.
But we do have quite a fewwomen in the weight room, but
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again it's mostly men, it'smostly power lifters.
But once you get in there andyou get comfortable with
machines and the dumbbells,again it it makes it easier.
But it's just kind of liketaking those first steps to get
into the weight room and startlifting weights.
I would say like if that's whatyou want, if you want to lose
fat, stop doing so much cardio,pick up a dumbbell and we are
here to help you.
And that's the one thing aboutour house studios is, we really
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do hold you accountable ifthat's what you want, because we
can tell you what exercises todo and tell you what to eat.
A lot of gyms don't do that, orif they do, they charge you
like $150 a month.
We're not going to do that.
I actually are free for a lotof people.
If you ask me for it, I'll doit for you.
It takes me 10 minutes to dothe math.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's great to know, because you know some people
just can't afford the extra tohave all that done, so they just
I know some pros here inChattanooga that charge like
$150 a month just to calculateyour macros.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Wow, that's ridiculous.
Wow, that's absolutelyridiculous.
Don't pay 150 bucks for yourmacros.
Come to our house, I'll do itfor free.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And you were talking about lifting weights.
One more thing I want to add, Iwant to interject they don't
have to lift heavy either, dothey?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
No, sometimes like you could do well with just a
pair of 15-pound dumbbells,especially on your arms, because
for a woman, a woman doesn'thave to do as heavy a weight, we
just have to do more volume.
Versus a man, a man can goheavier and do way less volume
because a man's body is notgoing to recover as faster as a
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female's.
Females we recover very fast sowe can work out the same muscle
group more often and do ahigher volume.
So like higher reps, like 15 to20 reps, you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That's not fair.
Now that y'all we recoverfaster than we do, that's just
not fair, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Well, the caveat is, we got to work harder.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh my goodness, hey, real quick before we get off
here.
Uh, what do you want us,elizabeth, like to do for fun
when you're not working?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
you know, that's actually a good question because
, like the gym is my fun, whichis why I'm there five days a
week.
Even on Sunday, my day's off,I'll go in and if somebody needs
help I'm there.
I've got four boys, so when I'mnot at the gym or working, I'm
with my boys.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Are all your boys still at home?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They are.
I've got 21, 16, 9, and 6.
My 21-year-old just got out ofthe Navy.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh, wow, well, tell him.
Thank you, thank him for hisservice, appreciate that?
Yeah, that's wonderful to know.
Well, before we jump off, Ialways like to ask this question
of everybody that that is onwith me if there was one thing
that you wish our listeners knewabout elizabeth burgess, our
House Studios, but they probablywouldn't know unless you share
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it with them and you'd like tojust shout it loud and proud
here today, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It would be that I'm actually very introverted and
shy, but when it comes tosomebody wanting to get in shape
and feel better aboutthemselves, I will bend over
backwards.
Helping you to do it.
Just come to our gym, Wellthat's great, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I couldn't tell you were shy here today.
I mean, we're talking aboutsomething you love, right?
It's your passion.
Yeah, elizabeth, why don't youshare with us how people can
find out more about Our HouseStudios and find out more about
yourself, whether online oroffline?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
So we are Our House Studios.
We are on Facebook andInstagram under Our House
Studios.
I am also on Instagram andFacebook.
Elizabeth Tenney, T-I-N-N-E-Y.
Our gym is located at GatewayBusiness Mall, which is next to
Costco in Ringle, Georgia, 4009Cloud Springs Road, and we are
there six days a week, sorry,seven.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Seven days a week, all right, and I guess they can
find the phone number and theaddress.
If they need a specific address, they can find it all there.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Everything's on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
On Facebook.
Okay, on Facebook.
Yeah, so well, elizabeth, ithas been fun having you here.
I've been so interested.
I love to hear your take onfitness and what you do for your
clients and for the clientsthere at our house studios, and
I thank you for what you do forParkinson's patients.
That's really special.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, thank you for having me and rattle on and on.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
No, no, it's been very interesting and I
appreciate you being here.
And you know, to all theresidents that are in the whole
greater Chattanooga region,after hearing Elizabeth talk
about what she does for people,you know it's so inspiring
because you know, if you followElizabeth's Instagram and see
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what she does for herselfpersonally and you understand
that what she does for others isan example of what she's doing
for herself, then you see howinteresting she is and how much
she can actually help you if youallow her to.
And she mentioned some of theother people's name there at Our
House Studios as well that dothings.
Some of the other people's namethey're at our house studios as
well that do things.
But you know, if you havesomeone that's in need of that
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help with the Parkinson'spatient, just remember this is a
gym you can go to and they havehelp there and not only for
your family member, maybe thecaregiver, whether it's you, the
family member or somebodythat's supporting in a
supporting role, there's helpfor you and if you need that
help personally, won't they loseweight, build muscle, maintain
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whatever Elizabeth has?
She has the secret recipe.
She will help you with yourexercises and with the macro.
So it's been wonderful gettingto know more about her and our
house today, and before endingthis episode, I'd like to thank
you all of course, the listenersfor, you know, just taking time
out of your day and spendingwith us here at the Good
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Neighbor Podcast.
You know, I always like to saythis before I get off.
You know, just remember tosupport locally owned and or
operated businesses, whetherthey're from Cleveland to Dalton
, from Jasper to Benton,somewhere in between.
This Chattanooga region is abeautiful place, full of
beautiful people, and let's doall we can to support one
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another.
My name's Scott Howell.
I'm with the Friends andNeighbors Group.
Everyone, go out and make thisa remarkable day.
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Hello, good neighbors , welcome to the Good Neighbor
Podcast brought to you by theFriends and Neighbors Group of
Greater Chattanooga Region.
Again, my name is Scott Howelland I'm your host for today.
You know a lot of people wantto know what is this Good
Neighbor podcast thing all about?
Well, we're all about trying tobring an awareness to the
residents living in ourcommunities about the businesses
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that are either locally ownedand operated, or maybe their
corporate office is somewhereelse.
But they are locally operatedby people who live and work in
this area.
And you know, we're all abouttrying to promote that local
presence, because that's whatit's all about.
You know, a lot of people haveforgotten that our local
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communities were built on thebacks of small businesses.
You know, small businesses someof them became larger later but
small businesses are who stillneed our support today and we
don't need to forget about them.
And you know, every localbusiness, I like to say, you
know, has a story to tell, andhere on the Good Neighbor
podcast, we just want to helpthem.
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Shout it loud and proud soeverybody in this whole area
will know they're there and knowwhat's available to them, what
they offer.
And today we have one of ourgood neighbors with us,
elizabeth Burgess, with OurHouse Studios, and we are so
glad to have you today,elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, absolutely, you know Elizabeth.
I reached out to Elizabethbecause I get on Instagram and
try to do some posting and stuffand we've had a few technical
difficulties, hadn't been ableto use it like we'd like to.
But I get on there and there'sElizabeth.
Everywhere I turn, there'sElizabeth and we were.
(01:54):
You know, we were trying toreach out to some people that
were involved in the fitnessindustry and trying to do a,
because it's summertime, right,we all want to look good, but
we'll go out with our shirt offor we go down to the beach or
the river or whatever.
We want to look good, right?
So I thought it was a good timeto reach out to some folks and
I kept seeing Elizabeth on theair and what she is doing to
(02:15):
help people and what she doesfor herself, and so I just
wanted to have you on andElizabeth, before we dive into
talking about what you do at OurHouse Studios, would you like
to share a little bit with usabout yourself and your family?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Sure, I'm actually a Ringgold native, originally from
Chattanooga, tennessee.
I moved away for college.
I'm a biologist by trade andmoved back about 10 years ago
with me and my four boys.
Okay yeah, so I came back here.
I was at the aquarium for awhile.
(02:50):
I actually still do penguins atthe aquarium.
I work from home and I trainfive days a week.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, I've seen some of your videos and stuff where
you posted about the penguinsand all.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, that was fascinating that was actually um
, that was their first time backon exhibit after being off of
it for about two weeks, whichnever happened, since we had
that.
Yeah, that exhibit opened in2015 and that they were off for,
um, for construction purposes,but that was their first day
back and they just ran and wentnuts.
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Well, during that period oftime, were you still able to?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
interact with day back and they just ran and went
nuts.
Well, during that period oftime, were you still able to
interact with them, or were theyjust kind of in confinement or
Well, we have two backup rooms,isolation and holding, so we
split them based on theirspecies.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
We have two species, and one was in one room and one
was in the other, and they'reused to being in confined spaces
.
So for them it's good, like forus it'd be claustrophobic, but
they love it, I love it, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It was.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
It was pretty gross.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, I lived up in Sevierville for a couple of
years and I used to go to theRipley's Aquarium up there.
A lot, that's a good one.
Yeah, I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed the aquarium.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I haven't been to the one in Chattanooga in a while.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I need to get back over there.
Well, we got two buildings andwe have a brand new baby penguin
chick too.
Oh, okay, all right, wow, yeah,I gotta go over and see that.
Well, you know, let's talkabout our house studios.
I, I understand it's a fitnesscenter, uh, but what, what, what
do?
And then talk to me about whatyou do there.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So Our House, it's a privately owned gym and it's
kind of like one-stop shoppingfor all fitness levels.
So we have our weight room, wehave our front room, which has
like CrossFit, cell classes,hiit classes, we have boxing, we
have pedaling, and we also haveother trainers and their
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programs that run out of there,like rocks day boxing, which is
strictly for Parkinson'spatients and, um, anybody with
like neurodegenerative diseases,so like Louie body syndrome,
and they're there three days aweek as well.
Okay, and I personally I workwith particularly women.
I do bodybuilding and weighttraining, I do everybody's
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macros.
If you want to learn more aboutnutrition, want to tailor your
diet to like a cutting phase, ifyou want to lose weight or if
you want to build muscle, then Ido that for you.
And I also work with Rock StateBoxing, working with our
Parkinson's patients.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And I also work with Rock State Boxing working with
our Parkinson's patients.
You know I want to talk alittle bit about that
Parkinson's situation.
You know we had somebody reallyclose in our family that passed
from Parkinson's and how doesthat benefit them?
You know we all knowParkinson's by the shaking.
You know when they have thetremors.
How does that boxing benefitthem?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
So they've done a lot of studies with Parkinson's
patients looking at how fitnessaffects them.
Um, and what it does is itslows down the progression of
the disease.
There isn't a cure.
It is progressive, it's goingto get worse.
But what we do with RoxetteBoxing and Kristen Shalasi, who
started the affiliate that wehave in our gym, it's three days
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a week and it's an hour and ahalf, so it's half it, which is,
you know, constantly moving,doing different exercises, and
then it's half boxing, and whatwe do is we work on their gross
motor skills and also their finemotor skills and also their
memory, because that's anotherthing that people don't think
about with Parkinson's is a lotof them are suffering from
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dementia that's caused by theprogression of the disease.
So we may have them, you know,going over hurdles or doing a
jump rope, but we also will havethem do a sequence of exercises
like tell them what theexercises are, and they have to
remember what those exercisesare like.
We don't tell them, we don'tgive them a piece of paper.
They have to try and rememberit.
So it's really training yourbrain and your body because the
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more you move, the better yourprogression is.
If you just sit there and youdo nothing, they know that your
Parkinson's is going to progressfaster.
So we're really trying to delaythe symptoms and sometimes you
know it can be difficult, but wehave patients that will come
there, they have people whodrive them there and they are
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there three days a week for anhour and a half every single
class.
So I say if a Parkinson'spatient can work out that much,
everybody else can.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, yeah that's, that's a really inspirational
because you know, I'm somebodywho witnessed that, that slow
progression of the disease anddegradation of the physical
activity of the body.
I I guess, when I look, when Ithink about that, he didn't get
a lot of physical exercise.
Once it happened, he did justkind of sit down and lay down
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under it.
So you know, if that would havebenefited him and kept him a
little bit more cognitive Iguess is the right word that
would have been great.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
That was one thing that we saw with COVID is, you
know, they shut down all thegyms and so the Parkinson's
patients.
they regressed because theydidn't have that physical outlet
and so once they came back, youknow they got back into it, but
their symptoms reallyprogressed a lot more than it
would have if it kept the gymsopen and they kept coming.
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It's also a social aspect.
Like the patient comes, theywork out, but also their
caregiver gets a break and theycan interact with other
caregivers.
So you have that social aspectof it, which is really, really
important because along with youknow the tremors and the
dementia you are, you're alsodealing with caretaker fatigue
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and depression and we knowexercising releasing that
dopamine, it helps with allthose things.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So this is a group class.
I take it then.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yes, it is, it's actually an affiliate.
It's Roxay Boxing Chattanoogaand it runs out of the room and
they do pedaling for Parkinson'sas well.
Kimberly Bryson Jones does thatand sometimes some of the
Parkinson's patients will showup just to play ping pong
because we have ping pong tables, and they will come an hour
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before Roxay class just to playping pong.
But it's also that socialinteraction.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Elizabeth, you said you're a biologist by trade
right by trade.
So tell us about your journeyinto the fitness world.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
So I grew up as a dancer.
That was my background.
I danced all the way through mysenior year at West Georgia.
So I've always been intofitness and I've always
exercised just because I had tobe, and I went through the
typical COVID divorce afteralmost 19 years and so I was in
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the gym all the time and I waslike I'm going to be here anyway
.
I may as well get my personaltraining certification, which I
did through ISA, which isactually very science heavy.
So I had the background for itand I could understand it very
quickly and pick it up quickly.
And I also approach my trainingin a very scientific way.
So, like with your macros, Iwill calculate it based on grams
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of protein, carbs, fats, basedon you know, your medications
that you're taking, your age,your height, your weight, but
also with the exercises.
So I will.
I actually this is very nerdy.
I watched YouTube videos fromsports science experts and they
talk about the studies thatthey've done on certain
exercises and which ones havethe greatest potential for
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muscle growth based on, likeactually hooking you up to
electrodes for each muscle andseeing how the muscle reacts to
the various exercises.
So I get very nerdy and in depthabout it.
Like you know, you can be doingthis exercise but here's a
better one.
So that's how I tailor myworkouts for myself and also for
my clients.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Well, that's pretty good to know, because if I mean,
if you were my trainer, uh,I'll, I'll be I would be hoping
that you had the knowledge totell me you know which exercises
that I needed to be doing.
But you know, not not only justwhich exercise, but you know if
I, if I could do this exerciseand maybe it was uh wouldn't
have to do as much of it or lessexertion than the other one to
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get better benefits.
Why not?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
And that's actually my biggest pet peeve, because in
with social media today, youhave Instagram, tik TOK, and you
see all these reels wherepeople are.
They're doing kind of gimmickythings, like gimmicky movements
and exercises and doing stupidstuff and awkward positions, and
it's like you don't need to doany of that.
You know the basics work.
It's the same thing withnutrition.
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The basics work it's caloriesin versus calories out.
You know there's nothing likethe body type diet or you know
the blood type diet.
That's just all BS and crap.
So that's kind of one of mythings.
It's like you know the basicswork.
For a reason it's backed byscience and that's what I like
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to push.
I have clients come to me like,well, I saw this, I'm like I
don't care what you saw.
That's what I like to push.
I have clients come to me.
It's like well, I saw this.
I'm like I don't care what yousaw.
That's just like ignore it.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Watch that like a cartoon.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
It looks good on video, but that person is fit
because they're doing theseother things, not because
they're doing that stupid videothat they put up on Tik TOK
reviews.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Just cause the Wiley and Cowdy, the Wiley, cowdy and
the Roadrunner done it.
Don't mean it's going to begood for you to do right.
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
That confuses a lot of people and that's why people
are very intimidated by fitness,because it can be overwhelming.
At our house we kind of put you,we dumb it down for you, we
tell you what you need to do andhow you need to do it, and so
it takes the guesswork out of it.
And because it's easier to doand you don't have to think
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about it, you're more liable tostick with it, as opposed to
just kind of you know, giving upafter a few months.
Well, seeing results faster,too, is encouraging.
You know when you start seeingresults right away.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
You know, giving up after a few months.
Well, seeing results faster toois encouraging.
You know, when you start seeingresults right away, I mean
nobody's going to go to.
You know, go to the gym onceand come out with swelling
muscles.
But once you you can startseeing small little things
happening.
It's encouraging.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
It is, and I do encourage my clients to take
pictures every four weeks.
Whether you think you know youthink it's helping or not, go
ahead and take those picturesbecause you see yourself every
day and your co-workers see youevery day, the people at the gym
see you the every day.
So if you take those photos, youreally start to see the
difference and it motivates youto keep going and it can be
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pretty impressive, like I takephotos every four weeks just to
see you know how I'm progressing, if I need to tweak something
back off something, it's goodfor everybody and I think it's
becoming more acceptable to totake those photos because I also
tell my clients like post themonline because you get
encouragement from other peopleand it helps you going to
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absolutely the a lot of peopleare putting pictures online.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They're actually doing it, working out in the gym
and putting stuff online.
And of course you hear some youknow criticizers and things
like that.
But I think it's good becauseit it.
You know, watching those videosactually motivates me.
I see other people gettingresults and I'm like wow, I mean
, if they can do it, why can't I?
You know?
So do you encouragemeasurements?
Do what Do you encourage?
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Taking measurements?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So I personally will take measurements for my clients
and again, I do it.
It depends on what they'rewanting Like.
If they're wanting to gainmuscle, it's a lot more
difficult, so we'll domeasurements like every six to
eight weeks.
But if they want to lose andthey're in a cutting phase, then
I do it every four weeksbecause and this is also people
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have to get out of theirmentality of weighing themselves
.
That's like my biggest strugglewith clients is they keep
weighing themselves.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Because you may think that you're not changing at all
, but the measurements tell adifferent story.
Your waist may be gettingsmaller, your chest may be
getting bigger, especially ifyou're a man.
It's because you're putting onmuscle.
So quit weighing yourself, dothe measurements, and even like
half an inch to an inch, itmakes a big difference.
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Also, you're close Like.
I have a client right now.
He showed me a picture of wherehis he's a police officer and
his weight belt has gone downlike four or five notches just a
couple of months, and again hesees himself every day.
So he's not seeing you knowsuch a drastic change, but his
clothes are hanging off of them.
(15:53):
Other people are noticing.
In a picture popped up fromlike a year ago on Facebook, and
then he compared it to the date.
It's night and day.
Yeah, take photos, domeasurements, post it Like it's
becoming more acceptable to dothese things too.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Yeah, I have just a regular clothing belt that I'm
fixing to have to replace,because I'm on, I'm on the last
notch and it's actually a bit, alittle bit too loose.
So, yeah, it's very encouraging, you know when that happens,
super encouraging.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, the belt notches are the biggest thing
for some people.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yeah, I'm like you.
You know I I shared with yousome of my weight loss and I,
when I and I know I totallyunderstand what you're talking
about the scale I tell people Ireally don't care what the scale
says, I just know what I wantmy body to look like.
You know, if I get my body tothe point where I want it to
look and it says I weigh 250, Idon't really care right, but if
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I just want to look like I wantto look, you know, I want to get
rid of the belly fat.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, like you feel better, you got more energy.
It's amazing what it can do.
And once you start to see thosechanges and you feel better.
It's a snowball effect thatkeeps you going.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Talk to people a little bit about you.
Used some words that somepeople might not understand if
they haven't really followed thefitness industry.
Talk to people about thebulking and the cutting.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So when I calculate so, I calculate people's diets
based on their macros, which areyour macro nutrients.
It's your proteins, your carbsand your fats which make up your
total calories for the day.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Now, that's a macro.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, your protein is a macro.
These are essentially like thebasic categories of how you
categorize your nutrition.
I calculate them based on whatyour goals are.
If you want to lose weight, Iwould put you in a cutting phase
.
If you're happy with yourweight overall, but you just
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want to build more muscle,maintenance calories, so we're
not increasing them, we're notdecreasing them, giving them the
same, I would just kind of likekick up your protein a bit and
alter your workout a little bit.
Now, if you're wanting to buildmuscle, we're going to bulk.
You put you in a bulking phase,which means we're going to jack
up your calories, all the fats,carbs, proteins.
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Typically, that's going to bewhat the men want, because all
men want, you know, big arms,big shoulders.
So that's typically what theygo for.
women typically go for theweight loss, which is the
cutting yeah again, it's basedon your age, um, your weight,
current weight and if you've hadkids, because because I work
(18:31):
mostly with postpartum womenwe're in our 40s now, we're
perimenopausal, some arepostmenopausal.
It affects your hormones andit's going to affect your weight
.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So when you're talking about a woman wanting to
lose weight, how and of coursethis would be the same for men
or women, but I think about alot of women seems like maybe of
course I mean anymore, there'smore women in the gym than there
are men, but but there's somewomen still kind of feel
intimidated about it.
So when it comes to weight loss, how, how does the lean muscle,
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having more lean muscle, affecttheir weight loss or not?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So the more muscle you put on, the more energy
you're going to burn, becausemuscle burns more calories just
generally throughout the day.
They've done studies where theylook at the calorie expenditure
after you've done weighttraining versus after you've
done cardio.
You're going to burn a lot ofcarbs when you're doing cardio.
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Afterwards your body's going toswitch to burning fat.
With bodybuilding you're goingto be burning a little bit of
fat and afterwards your body'sgoing to be burning carbs.
So overall it's going to be thesame thing, like calories in
versus calories out.
The difference is when youweight train, that burning phase
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of like burning calories lastlonger than if you do cardio.
So, that's why I really pushweight training for women,
especially if you're older,because you can maintain your
weight better if you have moremuscle.
But, the caveat is it's moredifficult to build muscle the
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older you get.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well you know I hear people say women say sometimes I
don't want to bulk up, I don'twant to look big.
I think sometimes they don'trealize that's harder than they
really think it is.
They realize they don't realizethat's harder than they really
think it is.
But if they can build that leanmuscle, it may not pop up in
their biceps and it may not popup in their shoulders
(20:40):
necessarily depends on theirtraining.
But but they, if they can havethat more of that lean muscle,
not only will it help them tolose weight, but isn't it better
, going into older age to havethat muscle to support
themselves, so they won't haveas many falls and maybe they'll
be able to take care ofthemselves longer?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah, the more lean muscle mass that you have,
especially as a female, it justhelps you overall.
It helps with your energy.
As you get older you may wantto work more on mobility, things
like that.
I will say women always say youknow, I don't want to get bulky
.
It is not possible for a femaleto get bulky.
We, our bodies, simply don'tproduce enough testosterone in
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order to do it.
We have way too much estrogenwhich is kind of going to knock
down whatever naturaltestosterone your body could
produce, so it kind of it puts alimit on how much muscle you
could build.
And again even if you are eatingnothing but protein and lifting
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weights like you should, awoman's only going to get so
much muscle mass.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Our bodies are just not programmed that way.
Our bodies are programmed tohold on to a lot of fat.
So for us we it would be hardto get down to like 15% body fat
, whereas a man easy to do,Cause he's got the testosterone
to do it.
So I'd say for women you're notgoing to get bulky, it's just
not going to happen.
(22:06):
Unless you take something, it'snot going to happen.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Unless you take something that that does for
that purpose of trying to bulkup Okay.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Yeah, which some women do To each their own.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
To each their own right.
Yeah, like you said.
But yeah, I think there's somewomen are afraid of I just need
the treadmill because I don'twant to bulk up but they don't
realize how beneficial it is totheir overall health, especially
their long-term health.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yes, beneficial it is to their overall health and
especially their long-termhealth.
I see women doing cardio allthe time and their bodies don't
change because they're justdoing cardio.
When you're doing cardio, yourbody's building carbs.
It's not burning fat.
It's just not so if you want toget that fat loss, you need to
start lifting weights andespecially the older you get.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I mean.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
I see women running all the time their bodies aren't
changing.
I see them doing HIIT classesfor years on end their body's
not changing.
You've got to lift weights andit is intimidating for some
women.
Our gym we do have quite a fewwomen in the weight room, but
again it's mostly men, it'smostly power lifters.
But we do have quite a fewwomen in the weight room, but
(23:17):
again it's mostly men, it'smostly power lifters.
But once you get in there andyou get comfortable with
machines and the dumbbells,again it it makes it easier.
But it's just kind of liketaking those first steps to get
into the weight room and startlifting weights.
I would say like if that's whatyou want, if you want to lose
fat, stop doing so much cardio,pick up a dumbbell and we are
here to help you.
And that's the one thing aboutour house studios is, we really
(23:38):
do hold you accountable ifthat's what you want, because we
can tell you what exercises todo and tell you what to eat.
A lot of gyms don't do that, orif they do, they charge you
like $150 a month.
We're not going to do that.
I actually are free for a lotof people.
If you ask me for it, I'll doit for you.
It takes me 10 minutes to dothe math.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That's great to know, because you know some people
just can't afford the extra tohave all that done, so they just
I know some pros here inChattanooga that charge like
$150 a month just to calculateyour macros.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Wow, that's ridiculous.
Wow, that's absolutelyridiculous.
Don't pay 150 bucks for yourmacros.
Come to our house, I'll do itfor free.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
And you were talking about lifting weights.
One more thing I want to add, Iwant to interject they don't
have to lift heavy either, dothey?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
No, sometimes like you could do well with just a
pair of 15-pound dumbbells,especially on your arms, because
for a woman, a woman doesn'thave to do as heavy a weight, we
just have to do more volume.
Versus a man, a man can goheavier and do way less volume
because a man's body is notgoing to recover as faster as a
(24:52):
female's.
Females we recover very fast sowe can work out the same muscle
group more often and do ahigher volume.
So like higher reps, like 15 to20 reps, you're good to go.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That's not fair.
Now that y'all we recoverfaster than we do, that's just
not fair, Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Well, the caveat is, we got to work harder.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Oh my goodness, hey, real quick before we get off
here.
Uh, what do you want us,elizabeth, like to do for fun
when you're not working?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
you know, that's actually a good question because
, like the gym is my fun, whichis why I'm there five days a
week.
Even on Sunday, my day's off,I'll go in and if somebody needs
help I'm there.
I've got four boys, so when I'mnot at the gym or working, I'm
with my boys.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Are all your boys still at home?
Speaker 3 (25:43):
They are.
I've got 21, 16, 9, and 6.
My 21-year-old just got out ofthe Navy.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh, wow, well, tell him.
Thank you, thank him for hisservice, appreciate that?
Yeah, that's wonderful to know.
Well, before we jump off, Ialways like to ask this question
of everybody that that is onwith me if there was one thing
that you wish our listeners knewabout elizabeth burgess, our
House Studios, but they probablywouldn't know unless you share
(26:15):
it with them and you'd like tojust shout it loud and proud
here today, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It would be that I'm actually very introverted and
shy, but when it comes tosomebody wanting to get in shape
and feel better aboutthemselves, I will bend over
backwards.
Helping you to do it.
Just come to our gym, Wellthat's great, I tell you.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
I couldn't tell you were shy here today.
I mean, we're talking aboutsomething you love, right?
It's your passion.
Yeah, elizabeth, why don't youshare with us how people can
find out more about Our HouseStudios and find out more about
yourself, whether online oroffline?
Speaker 3 (26:57):
So we are Our House Studios.
We are on Facebook andInstagram under Our House
Studios.
I am also on Instagram andFacebook.
Elizabeth Tenney, T-I-N-N-E-Y.
Our gym is located at GatewayBusiness Mall, which is next to
Costco in Ringle, Georgia, 4009Cloud Springs Road, and we are
there six days a week, sorry,seven.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Seven days a week, all right, and I guess they can
find the phone number and theaddress.
If they need a specific address, they can find it all there.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Everything's on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
On Facebook.
Okay, on Facebook.
Yeah, so well, elizabeth, ithas been fun having you here.
I've been so interested.
I love to hear your take onfitness and what you do for your
clients and for the clientsthere at our house studios, and
I thank you for what you do forParkinson's patients.
That's really special.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, thank you for having me and rattle on and on.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
No, no, it's been very interesting and I
appreciate you being here.
And you know, to all theresidents that are in the whole
greater Chattanooga region,after hearing Elizabeth talk
about what she does for people,you know it's so inspiring
because you know, if you followElizabeth's Instagram and see
(28:14):
what she does for herselfpersonally and you understand
that what she does for others isan example of what she's doing
for herself, then you see howinteresting she is and how much
she can actually help you if youallow her to.
And she mentioned some of theother people's name there at Our
House Studios as well that dothings.
Some of the other people's namethey're at our house studios as
well that do things.
But you know, if you havesomeone that's in need of that
(28:36):
help with the Parkinson'spatient, just remember this is a
gym you can go to and they havehelp there and not only for
your family member, maybe thecaregiver, whether it's you, the
family member or somebodythat's supporting in a
supporting role, there's helpfor you and if you need that
help personally, won't they loseweight, build muscle, maintain
(28:57):
whatever Elizabeth has?
She has the secret recipe.
She will help you with yourexercises and with the macro.
So it's been wonderful gettingto know more about her and our
house today, and before endingthis episode, I'd like to thank
you all of course, the listenersfor, you know, just taking time
out of your day and spendingwith us here at the Good
(29:18):
Neighbor Podcast.
You know, I always like to saythis before I get off.
You know, just remember tosupport locally owned and or
operated businesses, whetherthey're from Cleveland to Dalton
, from Jasper to Benton,somewhere in between.
This Chattanooga region is abeautiful place, full of
beautiful people, and let's doall we can to support one
(29:39):
another.
My name's Scott Howell.
I'm with the Friends andNeighbors Group.
Everyone, go out and make thisa remarkable day.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go to gnpclevelandcom.
That's gnpclevelandcom, or call423-380-1984.
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