November 27, 2023 • 54 mins
Peter Jomides shares his story as a personal trainer. Inspired by 80's action movies, Peter inspires his clients to push through their challenges and stay fit so they can maintain an active lifestyle. He has also started teaching weekly evening fitness classes arranged by a school in Bunnell and it sounds like the program is growing and can be arranged for in other schools in Florida. He trains at his gym and has YouTube workouts. His business is Fitness Pro
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This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's all possible! It’s timeto wake up.
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Here we go.
Hello, everyone.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast,
where I talk to professionalsin the field and also
everyday people about theirjourney in health and fitness
to help inspire othersto live their best life.
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And today we have on with usPeter Jomides.
Hi, Peter.
How you doing?
Hi, Angela.
How are you?
So nice to see you.
Great.
I'm doing really good.
Peter is a trainer that usedto work with me at a gym
that we both worked outfor quite a few years until they
closed down.
We got to know each otherreally well, and his style of
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training is very good,and he impressed me.
So it's a good reasonto have you on the show, Peter.
Let's go ahead and goway back to
when you were youngerand you had an interest
in the health and fitness field.
How did that all start?
Who inspired you?
I would have to say thatgrowing up and being born
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in like 79, that a lotof the films that were out
that I would have to saythat really kind of
watching them over andover again, coming up
from school and seeing themand this and that, you know,
you got your Sylvester StalloneRocky movies, you had
your Arnold Schwarzenegger,Terminator Commando and all
this type of you know,I really do believe,
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seen all these films that asan adult, I had to say
that it was really SylvesterStallone that really delivered
fitness to America.
I really believe that becausebefore that, you had
your gym goers who were,you know, Steve Reeves
and these guys that neededArnold Schwarzenegger at 70
would be winning Mr.
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Olympia, like seven,eight, nine.
Not everyone knew about thattype of training.
And as soon as Hollywoodglamorized it with the eighties
genre of action films.
Everybody added sure it all.
And then growing upin that time, seeing that
and be like and and you knowall the way about at school
and one arm push up in theright aides and we tried all
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that as kids you knowand I would have to say though
around 11 or 12 I was enrolledin martial arts and because
of course, another hot actor onthe scene with muscles
was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
And not only was he like,you know, Bruce Lee in some of
these movies in the seventies,early, early seventies,
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they would hardly be shot.
And when they wereon, I wouldn't be able to
see them or they were dubbed infrom Chinese English.
So once I think thosemartial arts movies started
getting a little bitmore Hollywood jazzed up and,
you know, technologywith Hollywood was starting
making still really good.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was onthe scene.
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I was loving it.
I was practicing these kicksand stuff in the house he'd been
before, was enrolledin taekwondo.
And my dad actuallyhad gotten sick.
And when he was sick,he told my mom, he said, listen,
I enrolled him in karateto, you know, one day I might
not be here and I want to learnhow to defend himself.
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And so I really do have to saythat the discipline of me
doing what I do now has beenliterally put in concrete
way back when.
So the martial arts, the waythey ran their school,
they weren't American,they were Korean.
So it was like old schoolmartial arts training
and discipline.
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And that kind of set the barin my own head as to, okay,
this study done over andover again, it's something
that's got to be worked on.
And it's not like somethingyou could buy at a store
and you have it and thenit's there when you need it.
So it was then thatI'm like, okay, this
hard is painful.
And then from there I wouldhave to say, you know, hit 1780.
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When you join a gym, you startto see how everybody else
in there is.
You got your normal gym goerswho are seeing results
and they're older.
All the guys were old in meand that's how you learn
and you're going, you knowthis like, yeah, some of the
things you did and I've seenyou in in the way you train
teaches.
So like me because that'swhere wisdom comes from.
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It's that it comes fromdoing it.
And you can learn all the booksin the world and read
all the books of the world.
Once you start doing it,it's on a whole nother level.
And I would have to say thatit was around 1819,
still doing the martial arts,but at the same time now
incorporating the weight.
Then I'm like, Read that.
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That's how Jean-Claude Van Dammegot his body.
That's how Sylvester Stallonegot that with the.
Oh, it's hours, hours, hours.
And like, you know, when youmeet someone, a potential
new client and they say, andI've had this I've had this.
Hey, Peter, this picture here,I love to look like that.
What's what's the chance?
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What do you think?
Months.
And in my mind, I'm like threemonths or, oh, get you
a good start.
But this picturehere is 20 years of this person
doing this.
It's a lifestyle.
And that's what that's whatI come to realize.
As time went on getting intothis business, I didn't
start out that way.
I was, you know,up in New Jersey before
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I moved here and I wasworking for Construction
Company once.
I really got once they got,like I would say a year before
I got married, started in stocksthat bought me the whole workout
about being strong in theconstruction field.
Those it necessarily meanyou look nice in proportion.
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I mean you have a lot of menin the construction field
all lumber all day long or hallmason blocks long way
stronger than I am.
But does it look likethat guy in how And so I
realized, well, the constructionpeople will get you strong,
but the gym will makeyou look nice.
And I learned that low topic.
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Very good.
And you ran with it.
And I ran with it and stayedwith it.
So did you ever have anystruggles throughout your life
where you didn't keep up onyour workouts or you went
through things in your lifewhere it fell aside?
And if so, how were youable to get yourself back?
Because that's the hardest thingfor people.
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I have to be completelyhonest with you.
Once this started becoming,I would have to say, once
I got married to Whitney,I met Melissa.
I was 23, 22, probably20, got married at 24,
had Juliette around 25, 26.
But I have to tell you,the whole dating and courting
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thing, you know,the gym is there and all
my memories and my knowledgeof martial arts there.
But you're thinking aboutmaking money, you're thinking
about the future and thingslike that.
But it was really probablyI would have to see 25 is when
I really turned a switch onand said, okay, this is not
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just something that can be doneonce in a while because
everybody knows you getmarried and in £5 and that is
the comfort.
But I've never said I want tolook good just or meeting
a girl.
That's not what evenmartial arts instilled in
my brain.
It was a way of life, right?
So I would have to say, Angela,I'm 44 now from 25 years old
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to now.
I have to tell you,there has not been a week
that's gone by where I did notget in workout.
I would have to say four days.
Excellent.
Unless I know we had COVID,unless you get a flu
and you got to take a coupleof days off to heal.
But even on vacation,I would have to tell you
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we booked a cruise or we bookeda trip anywhere.
I would find out wherethe nearest gym was.
I would find out if there wasnothing.
I'd be like, okay,you know what?
I'm in a cabin up in Lake Georgewhere there's no gyms around.
And knowing the exercise,you put a, you know,
little paper, a little pencil,and you just go through it
and you do it.
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And I'm telling you right now,if it was easy, everyone would
do it.
Sure.
So do you try to instillthat practice into the people
that you work with and you'retrying to help at the moment?
You know, you know how the gymswork with selling, selling,
showering.
Okay, here's a new person.
Here's a folder.
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So since I would haveto say full time doing this
and what's a full timedoing this?
So I got out of the constructionindustry and said,
You know what?
Let me try something.
I really love passionconstruction with paying
the bills.
And it bought me a lot of workethic and people and customers
and clients in that sense.
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Okay.
And with the funny part iswhen you're in construction,
some of the people that arein that, you know, even
the customers, the homeownersis not very happy their house is
getting worn down, feel like.
So they're not reallya good frame of mind.
Right.
But the personalitiesthat you meet when somebody
walks into a gym, they'reputting their their troubles
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in the car or leaving in the carand find out a steep beam
for an hour or 45 minutesor whatever it is.
So they're in a betterframe of mind.
Then once they realize the doorare kicking in, it's still
even better.
So you go through this wholeordeal with every single client?
No, A lot of them just know thatI work at this facility or that
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facility or.
Well, this Sister Jen closed.
We had to adapt. And they don'task me a if I see a resume,
they might see likeI have in my gym set up
at the house a rack of allmy outs in karate, you know,
and do martial arts.
And then they'll see a coupleof trophies and medals and this
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and that.
Then I'm at wrap yourselfand like you, you've always
been since I've known you,we fit in this business.
It does help.
Like you did have all theknowledge in the world
from books, but it does help me.
We wear our resin.
Yes.
We have to project our our imagein a good way.
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Otherwise, who'sgoing to believe what we have
to say?
Who's going to come to us?
Right?
Who's going to choose us oversomebody else?
That's for sure.
Yeah.
You were talking a little bitabout fitness and travel,
so can you talk about thata little bit more? Yeah.
You come up with a programfor yourself, but what can we
tell others about when they'retraveling so that they don't
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become so sedentary and justfocus on the food and the
relaxation and how dowe get them motivated to
stay in shape?
I think Ryan Read once said thatit took him know months
to get in shape for this moviethat then like one day
to get out.
He's funny, comedica little bit, right But
but it's is it that true?
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No he's being exactHe was exaggerating.
But you know, you can sayto an individual that maybe
they're booking a cruiseand I had this one client now
in and his wife love bookingcruises and going on.
They both work, but at the sametime, they're able to escape
and do these cruises.
And then the more you do,the more, I guess, this counter
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you get on the next one or that.
So they're always book maybefor a year, I don't know.
But I have to tell you,when I met him, I met this one
and he was in a car accidentbefore I met seeing a physical
therapist for modern monthsand he would not
let this guy go.
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This man is physical therapist,got him out of a wheelchair
and got him walking again.
And he was so loyal to end.
But this man, this physicaltherapist, was great to lead
that place and open uphis new practice somewhere else.
But he stayed with this client,my client now.
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And it was his only clientjust to get in walking
and deliver him to me.
Basically.
He basically said, Randyman's name is Randy.
I'm sure he wouldn't mind meusing it.
He said, I'm going to getyou walk it.
But the second you were ableto walk, I'm going to move
and go up and my.
Okay, so in the meantime,find someone in your local gym
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and they will take you from hereon out.
And then he walked into ourestablishment and met me
all of a sudden his folderlaid it on my desk.
I called, called him, andit went from there.
The man like he's the type ofperson you how some some clients
will stay with you becausethe trust there is huge
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the way you are is reallyor in some type deciding
you know is the way you are thatit's like when you take a plug
according to Wall,it just works, right?
Mm hmm.
So anyway, he loves going tocruises.
So his format what I trainedhim now is every time it's okay.
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So you park your carwherever they watch the boat,
and you got to now walkall that way into the boat.
Mind you, you can take as manyrest breaks you need.
So we have and do like farmerswalks here.
Try to simulate carrymaybe a piece of suitcase
or a piece of luggage.
So anything thatmakes his normal everyday life
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easier is what wetry to do here.
You know, if somebodywere to come to me and say,
Listen, I want to look like Mr.
Galecki, that's a wholeother thing.
It's a whole nother format,as you know.
But as far as radioand go it away going on
vacation, that's that's and Ibegged him, I say, Ready, Fleet,
are you going to go on the trip?
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Are you going to, you know,maybe do a little gambling
or pool lounging.
But do me a favor, If you booka massage.
Wonderful.
Do me a favor.
Walk up to the front of theboat, look at the gym there
and see maybe you and your Mrs.
can do a little something there.
And it could be 20 minutes.
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Does not.
Not every workout has to be.
You know that Every workoutrequires it all.
I got to sit down, wipe myselfwhile I'm because here's a thing
these clients Angela and youmight agree with me
I want them to train so thatthey can also train tomorrow.
You see what I mean?
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Because if we kill our bodies,are we going to be up
or tomorrow?
Is there are we goingto be you saw.
So I always say to everysingle person I see, okay,
to be ending on their limitwhat they can do, whether
they're 25, whether they're 55or 80, I say let's train today
so that you can potentiallydo something tomorrow.
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You going to start without me?
But you can actuallyphysically do something
tomorrow.
You're not sitting downhopping a leap and add Bill with
ice pack.
So that's not the rightway of training.
And I've never traded.
Now, I think a lot ofit had to do with when
I got into this fieldas a business, I was already
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seasoned below like whites.
I wasn't.
What are you getting into it?
I was like, like 30 gettingand then having my mom,
my mom's 80 years old.
I physically know whatshe's able and capable of doing.
So whenever I questioned,I'm like, That's an 80 year old
Zeke walking around mind you,if she was like, you know, Jane
father or fit like thatover the years, she'd
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probably be a little bitbetter shape.
But who can be like that?
Not everybody could be a JaneFonda advocate.
Be someone that can investall this time like you think
you will find success in fitnessif you find one aspect of it
that you like it, it's yoga.
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Go with it.
If it's karate, go with it.
If it's Zumba, go with it.
If it's bodybuilding, likeSchwarzenegger, go with it.
It's maybe you have to findsomething, join in it.
Because if you're doing itwith a run, it's not
going to happen.
And that's why a lot of clientsactually need to pay for this
to make them do it, make itjust admirable.
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Yes. Yeah.
The only thing is that I try toget my clients to have a
rounded program,because if we do too much of
one thing, there seems tobe weaknesses.
It's good to enjoy whatyou're doing.
But change is good too.
Exposing your body to differentkinds of workouts.
And there's so many differentkinds out there.
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If you want to do strengthtraining doesn't have to be
free weights.
It could be be with bandsthat could be have a
Bowflex machine.
And so many people enjoythe Bowflex machine compared to
free weights, kettlebells.
You know, there's so manydifferent ways to strengthen
the body.
Yoga is great for flexibility,range of motion, but it can
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also be toning if done in adifferent kind of way.
Instead of saying, Oh,I like this kind of yoga,
or I like that kind of yoga,try it all, you know, to expose
the body to to differentkinds of yoga and different
kinds of workouts.
I see that you have severaldifferent kinds of
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certifications, too.
You instill them in mostof your clients, or do
you kind of stick towhat they like so they keep on
coming back for more?
It's funny, I guess when likeyou write, like you and me,
we're kind of it's we're notI wouldn't call it
newbies or green so we candeliver something that might
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be uncomfortable for them,but we know they need it.
We can deliver to them in a waythat they'll be like, okay,
I'll do it all in a go with it.
Because Angela's making itseem fun.
Angela Making it seem it'sdoable.
And not only that,we are adjusting our workout
to the client, so I'm but it's,I must say this right now
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that they're saying about,oh, there's no cookie
cutter workouts, those cookiecutter workouts, they'll
work for.
Well, yes, they're rightto an extent.
Same time, there arebasic movements that every
single one of us are meant to doand have to be, whether it is
activating our exercises withsitting in a chair
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and getting up, activating ourleg exercise.
If someone can't squat,how are we going to get
those muscles working?
We have to come up with a wayto help them to possibly sit
in a chair, stand up.
So there are like compoundmovements that are very
important for every singlewhat the muscle moves this way
or the body moves this way.
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It should it should move,it should we should give it
resistance to be able to,whether it's a band, cable
weight on isometric anything toget that muscle that's and to do
work work and you have the knackI know about that because
I've seen you do the work thingto keep them interested,
keep their confidence levelup top here because if
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somebody doesn't have competencein doing it, then it's a little
how are they goinghave longevity?
They might be like,you know what, I'm not
comfortable with it.
I want somebody has competenceand I can have them do something
here in the housein my whole gym.
And once they leave, I know thatthey're going to be doing this
elsewhere.
But I like, give them a tip.
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I say, okay.
And was were performing a simplestep up.
I know you don't have stairsin the house, but you use like
I used to have stairs now.
So that seems in the house nowbut I used so let's
simulate this step upwhile we hold on to this railing
that we're using.
It's not really railing.
It's stopping there.
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You can aid them in.
And I tell them a lot oftimes, Sue, what happens
if all of a suddenyou're in a taxi or an Uber
and the guy says,Oh my goodness, I have
a flat pipe and the all over.
Now you're in the middle ofall things Road and Palm
Coast Parkway.
You're out of your comfort zoneand the curve is this high.
Now, can you do it with that?
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Here's a way that you can do it.
Not having a railing isthe safest way.
So I teach them the way they'recomfortable with for the muscle
to grow and improve.
And then I teach them a way thatthey can do it.
God forbid they're strandedsomewhere, and there's
nothing that.
So it's like the safety factoras well as they are too.
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In this way, it gives themcop confidence.
You continue that superportI think so, yeah.
Functional fitness is high on mylist of priorities, especially
as people get a littlebit older.
Being able to do thingsfor everyday life or even
to challenge themselvesa little bit if they want
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to go out and go for a walkor be involved in a sport
or play with their grandkids,you know, we have to have
functional fitness that'sso important.
And when you try to get peopleto do things that you feel like
everyone should do, like go upa higher step, they're so
surprised at, wow, why is thisso hard for me, you know, or
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taking a longer step or evengetting down on the floor
and being able to get up again?
You know, little thingslike that, being able to pick up
that grandbaby, you know,and not hurt your back,
all these different things.
So we have to strengthenall those muscles with every
day movements with a littlebit of weight to get people
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in shape for everyday life.
It's so important.
So I work with a lot of peopledoing doing that.
Do you work in groups also orjust one on one?
I have in training class, even afitness one.
We were training in thatclassroom and heading on.
You got that weekend.
We got it.
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And in the pasta at the gymI used to train at in
New Jersey, same thing, classesoccasionally.
And I actually one day a weekit just so happened to work out
where five clients who all knoweach other said, What would you
girls think about this?
And instead of payinga rice, you pay like a
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little portion and the trainergets compensated for it.
But we all have a wonderfulwork out as a matter I think
the youngest at the timewas maybe 25 in the room
and the oldest was 81.
And and I'm of course I'll beI'm old the exercise
I will use it gone girls thoughtthey bothered and but I'm kind
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of near and close to the80 year old and all of
the other girls in the roomunderstand why and and we're
all friends and they all havea wonderful work out of the old,
you know, sip of waterbetween set and all that stuff.
So, yeah, I at the momentI do have group training going.
I also at the moment am runninga fitness class in one of
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the schools in by now, which isfor young kids from 5 to 50,
a little bit of mixedmartial arts, cardio kickboxing.
Yeah.
And it's in an gymnasiumso we'll run back out to like,
you know, lapsed back and forthand out all the movement
and then once and thenwe'll play like a little game
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depending on their age groupand things like that.
So the parents are there.
It's very controlled.
It's through a companythat is out of Arizona.
I randomly send thema resume stuff that if my time
on a monday night.
So it's in addition to my breadand butter at the moment
it's Monday to Saturday, one onone client, occasional group,
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and it's all spaced outbecause a lot of it
is at my house at a gym.
Oh, hey, Susie.
Charlie just showed up.
Hang on one second, Charlie.
Jump on the treadmill for about15 minutes and I'll come get you
in a little bit.
So it can't have runlike that now.
But you picture like a studioof all weights and some cardio
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weight and things that I usefor every single one of
my clients.
I can't have it overlap unlessit's intended to be a class
and there's room for the classand some of these other people
do not all know each other,obviously.
So let's just sayI have a client
at 10 (25:35):
00.
My next client would be at 1130,obviously.
So they're from 10 to 11.
Have a wonderful day.
See you on the next DCoutside DC therapy meeting.
You could grow, make, usethe bathroom, or if you need
a shake when we shake orsomething, but at least
it gives me a window before thenext person comes in.
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It's not like GrandCentral Station.
There is the days when I hadone person.
There's been dayswhen I had seven and night
before.
I'm like, How am I going to do?
It's a rate for them in the datealso, which is nice, you know,
getting out of the house.
And some of them have come inthe afternoon, they work
their day.
So I do training and let themknow.
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I say, listen, whatever we doin this room here, you know,
I like to know what elsethey have in mind for the day.
Are you going home to relaxor you get to go Publix
and Kohl's and all theseother areas is then I'll tailor
our workout so it'snot outsourced.
I'll give you an example.
One client I have now, she wasalso gone to physical therapy
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before she met me.
Because of the somethingshe went through.
She would come to see me the dayafter she went to the physical
therapist and she couldnot move.
She was in a and I said, Listen,the person may be wonderful,
he may be awesome.
He or she may know exactly whatthey're doing.
But just do me a favorand let him know this next time.
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Let him know that you have togo to Kohl's, you have to
go to Publix.
You'll be doing some shopping,have other things in the day
to need to do.
So please let him know not to.
Whatever he gives you don'tdeplete your higher ed
because if we do a little bitevery single day, that's
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going to make our functiona white better.
Then like I said earlierthis interview, destroy
your body.
So the next three you know what?
She did this and told himshe said that he was completely
okay with it.
And then he realizedI understand what this
guy's say.
And it was just a suggestion.
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I didn't say go tell back.
I couldn't be.
I don't have a physicaltherapy degree, but I kind of
from like you and I workingwith clients over the years
to get an idea on our limitsof what we should do,
got to be able to continueto live our life and not be
so exhausted and broken down to,but to the point where you could
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possibly get an injury from thatwe have to respect our bodies
for sure.
You were talking a little bitabout the kids that you're
working with.
That excites me.
That's amazing.
So young children, I don't knowhow it was when you were
growing up.
I'm a little bit older than you,but we had he like three times
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a week when I was growing upand it never went away.
It was all year long.
Just the type of sport changedbecause I lived up north,
there was winter, so wintertimewe were doing sports inside
the spring and fall outside,but there was always P.E.
and now the schools, it'slike semester, a semester
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of P.E.
and then on to the next thing,whatever their extra curricular
activity is for that semester.
So it really excites meto hear that you're working
with kids.
Is that like after school?
Yes.
Classes at the momentare probably, I would say it's
a three hour window, but there'sfour class requirements.
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6 p.m.
start time.
I got a little earlierjust to set up and get my idea,
get my radio set up,
and then by 9 (29:16):
00 and the last class leave as
the night goes on, it'sthe younger ones
in the beginning and thenthe more older ones attend or
an 815 class, you know,around the door.
Nine and all the moms there,they'll either they'll even
drop them off at and there'sa girl up front that school,
(29:38):
one of the girls that schoolvolunteers I to make sure
they sign in and that sometimesit works it gets them moving and
they know I do this also I don'tthink a lot of them see it's
a little different personaltraining.
It's like they know kind ofeverything about you,
(29:58):
you know, once you builda relationship with someone.
Right.
But she'd had them cometo your house, you know, some of
the clients built Melissa.
They might see my daughterleaving school or this
or going to work or school.
So it's a little bitmore personal where this is.
They don't know what I think.
I've had anyone ask memaybe one or two parents
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might do this also full time.
So again, you could of workingfor a company are not
handing out thiskind of like I'm keeping the
two worlds separate a little bitat the moment but it's a whole
nother thing working with it,working with children
at the whole lot of things.
Children have very littleattention span.
So you have to go fromone thing that you actually
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can't beat.
20 reps of squats like I wouldgive to you.
It would be completelydifferent.
So it's a whole andthey burn out very easy.
It's their they'll want as fastthey can touch the back wall,
want to stress they can backto the spot they started on
and their shot they like,you know so it's just one step
to moving a little bit.
And I think a lot of it has todo with personality.
(31:05):
So if you're an outlaw and likewe all know, growing up,
like you said, growing upin school, I remember
my gym teacher being likeI remember I had a couple of
one guy.
He also ran a sportsshop in town.
So we also would be like,Hey, Mr.
Marlow, we want you.
But he was like, He would spitout was like a ballplayer,
like the way you look, like aballplayer, a baseball player.
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He'd be chewing on the sunflowerseeds during gym and and he was
really outgoing.
And that's what the boys.
But then the other gymteacher was a little bit
more newer, newer stuff,but was a little bit more
maybe not as enthusiastic andmore of a dry personality.
We still love this stuffshe came up with.
It was great, but it dependedon, you know, like a boy
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or you maybe gravitates to guy,you know, like a maybe a a
a role model type thingwhere the girls liked her.
And I completely understand.
But we also do not havethese back that the phones
that just absorbs everybodyevery kids time right now
and stare using labelsall day long leaning forward
we want to getting majorneck problems this time goes on.
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But you know, how many daysa week do you work with these
children to reschedule?
At the moment, it's one daya week because it's set up to be
one day week at the moment,but it's getting so large yet
I believe next semestermight have to be split
into two nights.
Again, I was being trained intothis somebody, just somebody.
(32:34):
It was coaching me a little bit.
And then he said, Pete,you ready to fly?
And it's based onthe attendance.
She signs up.
That's how you get paid.
But in the beginning when I wastraining, it was just an
hourly rate until it'shanded over to me.
Probably going tobe any day now.
The way it works isthe more places he can get
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set up in the state of Florida,which is a it's a company
that's based out of Arizonaand states around Arizona
are pretty busy.
But he launched he talkedto the owner and he wants
the Florida he probably hasfour locations at the moment.
And by now he's the busiestright now.
And it might have to break allseparate nights again.
(33:17):
Same time, I don't want it tocancel somebody that needs me
here.
Right.
To go do that.
So I call and listen.
Let's see how this night goesand next semester we'll
figure it out.
Because at that point,people around you know how
it is working.
And so the word things arealways changing.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
We were all busy up untilCoban happened, and then
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the world was like,What's going on?
And then everybody nowstill misses fitness.
One Oh, I hear thatall the time.
I mean, there was such varietyat that gym, variety of things
to do, variety of peoplethat work there, though
you can't find another facilityin this area that have
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has all that that place.
And now everybody's goinghere, there and everywhere,
you know, and having to putmore money out of their pockets.
But things change.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Right.
And we have to change alsoto make our lives stay good.
So let's talk a little bitabout diet and nutrition.
Do you help a lot ofyour clients in that area by
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recommendation?
I will do that.
I kind of feel that not one dietmight be right, one person
or what?
Let's put it this way one way,be right.
I believe you're on a systemright now where you don't
call it a diet.
Angela I think it's justthe way you eat and because
you do it for so long,you have a nice, lean, lazy,
certain ones.
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Over the years I had tryJenny Craig tried weight watch
tried this very betand they'll see results
immediately.
This would provide see to itsome of my clients here but then
all of a sudden it plateausand that's it.
So now what's going on?
You going off the point system?
Weight Watchers has theweight system.
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Oh my goodness.
Apple that it's cherry this thatall that all the fruits
don't have any pointsso my client well what was this
person doing all wouldgo easy on fruit that had
zero points but hello Rudi'ssugar.
You're doing that all throughoutthe day.
You're going to hita wall, right?
It's not going to be suitableto see the scale drop
(35:29):
a little bit.
Or is it necessarily the scaleit has to drop?
Is it more your bodycomposition?
That's a chain.
So depends on the person.
I think that likethe automobile, you put lousy
gasoline in your car,you think it's going to go far,
you know.
So what's the sense and I wouldjust see you to that
illustration today with anothermorning, same picture you would
(35:52):
you buy or that body be,but then pop the hood and it's
like a 1914 rusted motor inside?
No.
Well, would you buy a 19state of the art motor 24 motor
inside, maybe a body fromthe seventies where it needs
(36:13):
a little bit of work.
You go, Hell yeah.
So it's true.
It what we're eating.
It's perfect on the inside.
All right.
Maybe our muscle not whereit should be, but we saw organs
and kidneys or liver.
All this stuff is functioningproperly.
So you can't do 20 pushupsso you don't look like a
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Jack will weigh or didor what's?
Or these guys you all orthese actresses that look
airbrushed on 12.
So what At least the insidesare working right.
So is there one dietfor everyone?
I don't think so.
I tried a few and I did Paliofor six months Angel last year
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and Palio is like the cavemandiet.
So no starches whatsoever.
And I'm trying to.
I did it for six months, right?
I'm trying to get my gains offwith certain exercises
and I sort of hadn't severe painin my shoulders.
And it it dawned on me aright way round rice, a
(37:18):
little bit of oatmeal,a little bit of those
type of things.
That is carbohydrates for yourmuscles, hydration,
your muscles, also 40,your muscles.
So I started incorporatinga little bit of carbohydrate
help once and the painswent away.
I'm like, oh my goodness, is it?
I'm 43, 43 now.
I won't have to worry aboutmy shoulder being a
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And sure enough,it was from that it was
from hardcore Palio.
So are these weight,these certain types of
nutrition?
Are they meant to be long term?
I'm telling you, it's stillit depends on the person.
Yeah.
We need to give the bodythe nutrition it needs in order
to stay healthy,making lifestyle changes
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so that can get through and doall the things we want to do
and hopefully not overindulgingin too many of those bad things
or if we do, coming back toprogram again so that
we can feel good, right?
Yeah.
And getting good sleep too isso important to let
the body rest and recuperateso that we can stay on track to.
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As far as a nutrition, I'mnot a nutrition next,
but seeing what other peoplehave been through
and then trying this, themtrying that dirt gauge, well,
I'll get up, I'll make hardboiled eggs out to eat the eggs.
I feel like maybe I get a littletoo much the day before
servings.
Alli good.
The next day it's like one trip.
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What would you say on the groundnow you get up and you press on
and you try not tothink about it.
Just like you said.
Let's take it from here on out.
So, hey, you know, you gorock climbing, you traveled
the country and did a bunchof activities.
If you want baby a crazyspeed in a day, like a
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maybe climbing one ofthe mountain.
However, I don't likewhite dude yet.
So what if you're a littlehungrier later where
the next day you maybedidn't do so, but you spend
more time with family chatting,talking so your body may
not need that fuel.
So but then again,it's enlisted.
Somebody told me these footballplayers, they're eating
like five, 6000 calories a day,training and performing
(39:29):
the sport.
But then when they retire,Michael Strahan in his nutrition
program probablytrained, changed drastically
because now he looks nice, lean.
He's in a suit and he's ona TV show.
Right?
A talk show.
So if you don't, you're goingto refresh your radar.
Perry was a football playerfor many years ago.
He was so big,£360 in season,right when he retired.
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You didn't change what he ate.
He gained another 5000.
Oh, that well, we're nowwhy do I have any problems
of biology from YouTube to that?
So everything in moderation?
Yes.
Okay.
I would like to hear you sharemaybe one or two
success stories, like anamazing success stories of.
One of your client.
(40:15):
We always we always have peoplethat come to us, which could be
health issues.
It could be their bodieshave fallen apart or they want
to make a big changein their life.
Do you have a story you want toshare?
Maybe more than one.
I have two that areoff the top of my head
and one of them,a client of mine who was in
commercial real estate.
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And he met me and he wasyounger than me probably about
maybe five, six yearsyounger than me.
But he was like, I would say309 people.
And he goes, Pete, you know,picture us Sylvester Stallone,
but very overweight.
And with me, he was able tocome to the gym or days,
(40:57):
five days a week and put inthe time because of his
schedule.
Maybe the numberswere profitable for him
to be able to do this right.
And I would have to sayin six months he lost£100.
He literally his mind and he wasnot dating anyone that go
in restaurant.
I actually put himon a nutrition plan.
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I said, Do this is what I dothe way I you and I very similar
about the food allergiesimmediately.
I know that food allergy.
But one thing I was toldis never go into buy,
never tell them go buythis fat bird or go buy this
supplement vitamin shopper.
Because there were storieswhere people did that, traders
did that.
The person took ita step further and then had
(41:41):
a heart attack and dropped.
So we were never told to say,go do this or take this.
But you can say, I recommendthis is what I did.
It might not work,but you might.
So anyway, this nutritionplan, you know, a little bit
of a little bit of cottagecheese and grilled chicken,
some fish, no booze, water, onlynot even juice.
(42:02):
Just for right now.
Man lost£100 in six months.
Right.
And but I did tell him, I saidthis is something where,
you know, you're goingto meet a girl, you're going
to wear a lot of these places,end up in a restaurant, make
the right choice.
So that was success.
Story number one, He becameso not just a client, but like
(42:23):
a really true friend.
When Corbett I moved down here,he was up north.
I moved out here beforeCorbett app.
He goes cheap.
Let's sync up on Zoom.
I will do out.
I need you, I need.
So it was more like,I don't want to use the word
psychiatrist, but to exercise,he needed me to do it and then
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he had no weight.
So we were doing things.
He watch the and doing all thisduring the lockdown.
He gets because he's seenhis girl gets married, but a
nice big house.
And I tell him exactly whatto buy.
Money's not an option.
He can afford it.
He went out and madehis Jim at home look like my
based on the video.
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I would do it by that, by that,by that.
You know, he didn't needa dumbbells.
So buy up to whatever you can£30 or whatever but got the Mac
at the bench got all that stuff.
So that's success storynumber one.
Success story number two,a whole different
dynamic 80 year old woman, 81.
The client I have now, husbandpassed away before I met her.
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This is, by the way,the client that was going
physical therapy.
And she told and listen,we need a little bit of gas
in the tank for me to be ableto do the other things.
But regardless, she was ina couple accidents,
car accident.
Somebody rear ended herso she got one of her feet
are inverted where it'snot outside like the outside
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of your foot.
When you walk, it'son the inside.
So because of that,her gates talked a little bit.
Her balance is off.
So we work on that.
But that's a long story short.
So the real meat to this story,when I met her, she was
scared to death, scared to deathof falling.
So she would have somebody elsetake out her garbage.
(44:09):
Hint she would drive to Publixand beg somebody to get her
be the car.
So she give you the cardis balanced.
She was so a good stubborn.
She was a good stubbornin the sense that she didn't
want a wheelchair because shealready knew me.
I said, You're not usinga walker.
We're going to get youwhat we're going to get you
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to feel competent to dothe things you want to do
with force.
I didn't want her to walk, andI taught.
I said, exercise number one,we're going to learn to
get up off the ground.
She was scared to deathof the idea.
What I broke it down in steps.
She memorized that.
(44:50):
You know, to this day,we had certain monthly
challenges, you know, whetherit's bridges on the floor
or squats, everybody lovesa squat challenge.
Her challenge for the monthof November is and we did this
a while back too, butwe all repeat them back to back.
So her monthly challengeat the moment right now is in a
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week's time you're doingan up and down so to a day,
you two a day you can doSaturday or Sunday,
you know, pick whatever daysyou want one day re tomorrow.
So the up and down is basicallystanding up, squatting,
squatting, squatting toyour hands, you on the floor,
you backed your feetto where you're on your knees
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and then from there you got toget back up.
So reverse the whole load,move the hands up a little bit,
get one foot underneath you,get the other foot
underneath you into your fingersback, rub your shins,
grab your knees, push yourselfto withstand and then bounce.
And I don't tell them tostand straight because,
(45:54):
you know, I'm shredded thatI saw it happening go that way.
But I always tell that beingathletic like a martial arts
stole a lot of the martial arts.
History comes in hereand there were some of
these clients without even me.
Ellen, You know, but thatsuccess story number two,
that a woman who was scaredto death of falling now
can the carpet and not tolead her car, what to get a car
(46:19):
and walk into Publix or take hergarbage can out herself
because get all the driveways.
It's the solemn like thatthat's worried about going down.
A little friendlier.
Coming up, a little art,because, of course, if you're
not lifting the point at all,you sneakers going to rub
the concrete coming back, Right.
So it's these little tricksthat I explain that if just
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saying do this, do that and dapyou go like stupid it
sometimes they somewhatunderstand why you say so.
You built her up and instilledconfidence in her
so she can just do her normaleveryday things in. Life.
That's great.
Yeah.
Right.
So what's in the futurefor you, Peter?
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Anything new at the moment?
Daughter is going to be89 on Friday.
Now she's finishing her12th year senior year, so that's
very exciting As far asI want to do a little bit
more travel, I don'tget to travel.
So I to Melissa and I were justtalking about it maybe during
the winter season, maybegoing so cooler, breaking up
(47:22):
jackets in the monceautraveling, I'd add.
Oh my goodness.
I forgot to tell you, I just didmy 20th anniversary last month.
Congratulations, September.
So it's it's huge.
It's a lot.
So because of that, you know,instead of sneaking away for
three days in the state,maybe doing something there.
So no matter what I do,no matter where I go,
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I will instill in the clientslike I still in myself.
Whatever you do, just thinkresistance training.
Because the military years agoyou'd see the soldiers
with their white t shirtson the field under the drum.
They're doing jumping jacks,they're doing burpees,
(48:06):
they're doing pushups,they're doing sit ups.
Maybe they'll do pull upsand then tactical
training, right, to learnhow to shoot judo and combat.
Lately, scientists and thetrainers, the personal trainers
that are up, you're in Stripeconditioning, coach.
They're really, really advancedand run the show on this
whole market have startedincorporating bodybuilding
(48:31):
and strength training withthe soldiers in camp.
So it's not just the old schoolburpees and jumping jacks
and pushups.
It weights out becauseof what it does with bone
density.
As far as you're concerned, youprobably already know that
your clients are probablyalready aware, but I just want
to instill this nowin these clients that I have now
(48:54):
the importance of bonedensity and and it's everywhere
now, the hate in the healthinsurance company.
What?
So it's it's so muchmore a thing now than it
was years ago.
Yes.
I love you.
You plug in that in theirbone density.
They say after you turn 30 oldthat if you're not doing
some kind of resistancetraining, that bone density can
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start going down.
That's pretty young.
Most people don't realize that.
And that's about the agewhen people a lot of people,
you know, they're gettinginvolved with their families and
their children and it's liketheir healthy habits are
pushed aside becausethey don't have time for it.
So it's important.
But as far as a goal, I knowyou asking me and other Clyde
(49:39):
this year, people 80, why don'tyou open up a gym?
And I'm like, and I've seenthe kids and the stress
that the owners go throughoutthe years.
Whoever all in the gym.
Don't get me wrong, my old boss,very successful, owned
three gyms.
Well, fancy car, but the manstress level is up here
(50:01):
all the time.
I barely got time to exercise,barely got time, but was always
at the gym saying hello,wiping down would have
his men men to stop too.
But they'll be sportingthe barbells, making them
all nice, nice just to shop acethe stress level with that.
It's just not somethingI ever wanted.
But I can controlis what I'd have go out more.
(50:23):
My take on anythingmore than that, the hell
on me won't be as where you wantmy help.
Good for every one that I haveand be strong for them too.
So it's like.
It's like to a tknife sharpening each other.
Help me help you.
Right kind of thing.
So.
So whenever somebody asks me,I would immediately shut that
(50:45):
they are like, I don't thinkthat's what I can.
And yeah, I'm notan entrepreneur.
So people are good with numbersand maybe that man up
that I knew was greatwith numbers.
And I think the owner ofthis one was also
very successful in anothercompany as well.
So I just I don't at thisI want to do this today,
(51:05):
this tomorrow, this thenext day.
And along the way have some funwith family, friends and
all that type of thing.
And just I would hope thatone day I can be like, you know,
like carrots it or Right.
I love in the end job.
I wish you could beeight years old and still
fit and fiddle and be ableto ride my bike.
You know what it is?
(51:27):
It's now it's what you do now.
Getting back, first thingwe said that people say,
I want to look like that.
Well, three months isgoing to do it all.
It's going to be a lifestyle.
Definitely.
Sounds like you got itfigured out, mate.
I've learned from you.
I'm learning from youand my clients and I'm just
(51:48):
bring it out.
So that's it.
But I enjoy this.
So we have to keepour minds open so that
we can learn from each other.
There's so much knowledgeout there and absorbing
from other people what they doand how they do it.
Yeah, why not, right?
We don't know at all.
We got to get our wisdomfrom other people, too.
All right.
So Peter, can you giveour listeners a goal so that
(52:10):
they can live a better lifeand maybe give them a path
to get there?
Don't set the bar too high.
Whatever you want.
Right?
You have an idea, somethingthat you like to do.
You have to try it,go discarded, saying
that's in part, okay, nothing isimpossible.
(52:30):
Everybody thinks somethingis impossible until someone
does it. Right.
And I didn't come up with that.
That's something.
It's something steady.
Years always stay.
That was one quote.
Another quote was don'tplay down, say five months at
five months, I'll want to bethis ought to be that.
Don't rush this becausethat's rushing life to tomorrow
(52:51):
has got itself problems.
Right?
Worry about today.
Worry about what you're goingto do today,
what type of workoutyou might apple, what type of
meal you might makethat tomorrow has its own
and it's all thing because ityou project people they get
discouraged real quick becausethey realize that it might be
too overwhelming.
(53:12):
And sometimes life life itselfis overwhelmed right.
And we're all just pretendingto know what we're doing
so or pretend to knowwe all have a voice.
So let's voice our reality.
We can't get overwhelmed becausewe don't know what tomorrow
at all.
Look what happened in Maine.
Look what happened in Israel.
(53:34):
So do what you can todayand plan the day accordingly.
And don't stress about tomorrowbecause Ma's got its own
anxiety.
Great advice.
Life is a journey enjoyevery single bit of it, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, Peter, thank you so muchfor coming on the show.
(53:54):
I really appreciate it.
I know the listeners are goingto gain some knowledge from what
you've had to share.
Thank you.
It's been great.
Thank you so much, Angela.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
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It’s all possible! It’s timeto wake up.
Here we go.
This is Angela Grayson fromthe Loving Life Fitness Podcast.
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
It's all possible! It’s timeto wake up.
(00:35):
Here we go.
Hello, everyone.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast,
where I talk to professionalsin the field and also
everyday people about theirjourney in health and fitness
to help inspire othersto live their best life.
(00:56):
And today we have on with usPeter Jomides.
Hi, Peter.
How you doing?
Hi, Angela.
How are you?
So nice to see you.
Great.
I'm doing really good.
Peter is a trainer that usedto work with me at a gym
that we both worked outfor quite a few years until they
closed down.
We got to know each otherreally well, and his style of
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training is very good,and he impressed me.
So it's a good reasonto have you on the show, Peter.
Let's go ahead and goway back to
when you were youngerand you had an interest
in the health and fitness field.
How did that all start?
Who inspired you?
I would have to say thatgrowing up and being born
(01:41):
in like 79, that a lotof the films that were out
that I would have to saythat really kind of
watching them over andover again, coming up
from school and seeing themand this and that, you know,
you got your Sylvester StalloneRocky movies, you had
your Arnold Schwarzenegger,Terminator Commando and all
this type of you know,I really do believe,
(02:02):
seen all these films that asan adult, I had to say
that it was really SylvesterStallone that really delivered
fitness to America.
I really believe that becausebefore that, you had
your gym goers who were,you know, Steve Reeves
and these guys that neededArnold Schwarzenegger at 70
would be winning Mr.
(02:23):
Olympia, like seven,eight, nine.
Not everyone knew about thattype of training.
And as soon as Hollywoodglamorized it with the eighties
genre of action films.
Everybody added sure it all.
And then growing upin that time, seeing that
and be like and and you knowall the way about at school
and one arm push up in theright aides and we tried all
(02:46):
that as kids you knowand I would have to say though
around 11 or 12 I was enrolledin martial arts and because
of course, another hot actor onthe scene with muscles
was Jean-Claude Van Damme.
And not only was he like,you know, Bruce Lee in some of
these movies in the seventies,early, early seventies,
(03:07):
they would hardly be shot.
And when they wereon, I wouldn't be able to
see them or they were dubbed infrom Chinese English.
So once I think thosemartial arts movies started
getting a little bitmore Hollywood jazzed up and,
you know, technologywith Hollywood was starting
making still really good.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was onthe scene.
(03:28):
I was loving it.
I was practicing these kicksand stuff in the house he'd been
before, was enrolledin taekwondo.
And my dad actuallyhad gotten sick.
And when he was sick,he told my mom, he said, listen,
I enrolled him in karateto, you know, one day I might
not be here and I want to learnhow to defend himself.
(03:49):
And so I really do have to saythat the discipline of me
doing what I do now has beenliterally put in concrete
way back when.
So the martial arts, the waythey ran their school,
they weren't American,they were Korean.
So it was like old schoolmartial arts training
and discipline.
(04:10):
And that kind of set the barin my own head as to, okay,
this study done over andover again, it's something
that's got to be worked on.
And it's not like somethingyou could buy at a store
and you have it and thenit's there when you need it.
So it was then thatI'm like, okay, this
hard is painful.
And then from there I wouldhave to say, you know, hit 1780.
(04:33):
When you join a gym, you startto see how everybody else
in there is.
You got your normal gym goerswho are seeing results
and they're older.
All the guys were old in meand that's how you learn
and you're going, you knowthis like, yeah, some of the
things you did and I've seenyou in in the way you train
teaches.
So like me because that'swhere wisdom comes from.
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It's that it comes fromdoing it.
And you can learn all the booksin the world and read
all the books of the world.
Once you start doing it,it's on a whole nother level.
And I would have to say thatit was around 1819,
still doing the martial arts,but at the same time now
incorporating the weight.
Then I'm like, Read that.
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That's how Jean-Claude Van Dammegot his body.
That's how Sylvester Stallonegot that with the.
Oh, it's hours, hours, hours.
And like, you know, when youmeet someone, a potential
new client and they say, andI've had this I've had this.
Hey, Peter, this picture here,I love to look like that.
What's what's the chance?
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What do you think?
Months.
And in my mind, I'm like threemonths or, oh, get you
a good start.
But this picturehere is 20 years of this person
doing this.
It's a lifestyle.
And that's what that's whatI come to realize.
As time went on getting intothis business, I didn't
start out that way.
I was, you know,up in New Jersey before
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I moved here and I wasworking for Construction
Company once.
I really got once they got,like I would say a year before
I got married, started in stocksthat bought me the whole workout
about being strong in theconstruction field.
Those it necessarily meanyou look nice in proportion.
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I mean you have a lot of menin the construction field
all lumber all day long or hallmason blocks long way
stronger than I am.
But does it look likethat guy in how And so I
realized, well, the constructionpeople will get you strong,
but the gym will makeyou look nice.
And I learned that low topic.
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Very good.
And you ran with it.
And I ran with it and stayedwith it.
So did you ever have anystruggles throughout your life
where you didn't keep up onyour workouts or you went
through things in your lifewhere it fell aside?
And if so, how were youable to get yourself back?
Because that's the hardest thingfor people.
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I have to be completelyhonest with you.
Once this started becoming,I would have to say, once
I got married to Whitney,I met Melissa.
I was 23, 22, probably20, got married at 24,
had Juliette around 25, 26.
But I have to tell you,the whole dating and courting
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thing, you know,the gym is there and all
my memories and my knowledgeof martial arts there.
But you're thinking aboutmaking money, you're thinking
about the future and thingslike that.
But it was really probablyI would have to see 25 is when
I really turned a switch onand said, okay, this is not
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just something that can be doneonce in a while because
everybody knows you getmarried and in £5 and that is
the comfort.
But I've never said I want tolook good just or meeting
a girl.
That's not what evenmartial arts instilled in
my brain.
It was a way of life, right?
So I would have to say, Angela,I'm 44 now from 25 years old
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to now.
I have to tell you,there has not been a week
that's gone by where I did notget in workout.
I would have to say four days.
Excellent.
Unless I know we had COVID,unless you get a flu
and you got to take a coupleof days off to heal.
But even on vacation,I would have to tell you
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we booked a cruise or we bookeda trip anywhere.
I would find out wherethe nearest gym was.
I would find out if there wasnothing.
I'd be like, okay,you know what?
I'm in a cabin up in Lake Georgewhere there's no gyms around.
And knowing the exercise,you put a, you know,
little paper, a little pencil,and you just go through it
and you do it.
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And I'm telling you right now,if it was easy, everyone would
do it.
Sure.
So do you try to instillthat practice into the people
that you work with and you'retrying to help at the moment?
You know, you know how the gymswork with selling, selling,
showering.
Okay, here's a new person.
Here's a folder.
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So since I would haveto say full time doing this
and what's a full timedoing this?
So I got out of the constructionindustry and said,
You know what?
Let me try something.
I really love passionconstruction with paying
the bills.
And it bought me a lot of workethic and people and customers
and clients in that sense.
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Okay.
And with the funny part iswhen you're in construction,
some of the people that arein that, you know, even
the customers, the homeownersis not very happy their house is
getting worn down, feel like.
So they're not reallya good frame of mind.
Right.
But the personalitiesthat you meet when somebody
walks into a gym, they'reputting their their troubles
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in the car or leaving in the carand find out a steep beam
for an hour or 45 minutesor whatever it is.
So they're in a betterframe of mind.
Then once they realize the doorare kicking in, it's still
even better.
So you go through this wholeordeal with every single client?
No, A lot of them just know thatI work at this facility or that
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facility or.
Well, this Sister Jen closed.
We had to adapt. And they don'task me a if I see a resume,
they might see likeI have in my gym set up
at the house a rack of allmy outs in karate, you know,
and do martial arts.
And then they'll see a coupleof trophies and medals and this
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and that.
Then I'm at wrap yourselfand like you, you've always
been since I've known you,we fit in this business.
It does help.
Like you did have all theknowledge in the world
from books, but it does help me.
We wear our resin.
Yes.
We have to project our our imagein a good way.
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Otherwise, who'sgoing to believe what we have
to say?
Who's going to come to us?
Right?
Who's going to choose us oversomebody else?
That's for sure.
Yeah.
You were talking a little bitabout fitness and travel,
so can you talk about thata little bit more? Yeah.
You come up with a programfor yourself, but what can we
tell others about when they'retraveling so that they don't
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become so sedentary and justfocus on the food and the
relaxation and how dowe get them motivated to
stay in shape?
I think Ryan Read once said thatit took him know months
to get in shape for this moviethat then like one day
to get out.
He's funny, comedica little bit, right But
but it's is it that true?
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No he's being exactHe was exaggerating.
But you know, you can sayto an individual that maybe
they're booking a cruiseand I had this one client now
in and his wife love bookingcruises and going on.
They both work, but at the sametime, they're able to escape
and do these cruises.
And then the more you do,the more, I guess, this counter
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you get on the next one or that.
So they're always book maybefor a year, I don't know.
But I have to tell you,when I met him, I met this one
and he was in a car accidentbefore I met seeing a physical
therapist for modern monthsand he would not
let this guy go.
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This man is physical therapist,got him out of a wheelchair
and got him walking again.
And he was so loyal to end.
But this man, this physicaltherapist, was great to lead
that place and open uphis new practice somewhere else.
But he stayed with this client,my client now.
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And it was his only clientjust to get in walking
and deliver him to me.
Basically.
He basically said, Randyman's name is Randy.
I'm sure he wouldn't mind meusing it.
He said, I'm going to getyou walk it.
But the second you were ableto walk, I'm going to move
and go up and my.
Okay, so in the meantime,find someone in your local gym
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and they will take you from hereon out.
And then he walked into ourestablishment and met me
all of a sudden his folderlaid it on my desk.
I called, called him, andit went from there.
The man like he's the type ofperson you how some some clients
will stay with you becausethe trust there is huge
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the way you are is reallyor in some type deciding
you know is the way you are thatit's like when you take a plug
according to Wall,it just works, right?
Mm hmm.
So anyway, he loves going tocruises.
So his format what I trainedhim now is every time it's okay.
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So you park your carwherever they watch the boat,
and you got to now walkall that way into the boat.
Mind you, you can take as manyrest breaks you need.
So we have and do like farmerswalks here.
Try to simulate carrymaybe a piece of suitcase
or a piece of luggage.
So anything thatmakes his normal everyday life
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easier is what wetry to do here.
You know, if somebodywere to come to me and say,
Listen, I want to look like Mr.
Galecki, that's a wholeother thing.
It's a whole nother format,as you know.
But as far as radioand go it away going on
vacation, that's that's and Ibegged him, I say, Ready, Fleet,
are you going to go on the trip?
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Are you going to, you know,maybe do a little gambling
or pool lounging.
But do me a favor, If you booka massage.
Wonderful.
Do me a favor.
Walk up to the front of theboat, look at the gym there
and see maybe you and your Mrs.
can do a little something there.
And it could be 20 minutes.
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Does not.
Not every workout has to be.
You know that Every workoutrequires it all.
I got to sit down, wipe myselfwhile I'm because here's a thing
these clients Angela and youmight agree with me
I want them to train so thatthey can also train tomorrow.
You see what I mean?
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Because if we kill our bodies,are we going to be up
or tomorrow?
Is there are we goingto be you saw.
So I always say to everysingle person I see, okay,
to be ending on their limitwhat they can do, whether
they're 25, whether they're 55or 80, I say let's train today
so that you can potentiallydo something tomorrow.
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You going to start without me?
But you can actuallyphysically do something
tomorrow.
You're not sitting downhopping a leap and add Bill with
ice pack.
So that's not the rightway of training.
And I've never traded.
Now, I think a lot ofit had to do with when
I got into this fieldas a business, I was already
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seasoned below like whites.
I wasn't.
What are you getting into it?
I was like, like 30 gettingand then having my mom,
my mom's 80 years old.
I physically know whatshe's able and capable of doing.
So whenever I questioned,I'm like, That's an 80 year old
Zeke walking around mind you,if she was like, you know, Jane
father or fit like thatover the years, she'd
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probably be a little bitbetter shape.
But who can be like that?
Not everybody could be a JaneFonda advocate.
Be someone that can investall this time like you think
you will find success in fitnessif you find one aspect of it
that you like it, it's yoga.
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Go with it.
If it's karate, go with it.
If it's Zumba, go with it.
If it's bodybuilding, likeSchwarzenegger, go with it.
It's maybe you have to findsomething, join in it.
Because if you're doing itwith a run, it's not
going to happen.
And that's why a lot of clientsactually need to pay for this
to make them do it, make itjust admirable.
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Yes. Yeah.
The only thing is that I try toget my clients to have a
rounded program,because if we do too much of
one thing, there seems tobe weaknesses.
It's good to enjoy whatyou're doing.
But change is good too.
Exposing your body to differentkinds of workouts.
And there's so many differentkinds out there.
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If you want to do strengthtraining doesn't have to be
free weights.
It could be be with bandsthat could be have a
Bowflex machine.
And so many people enjoythe Bowflex machine compared to
free weights, kettlebells.
You know, there's so manydifferent ways to strengthen
the body.
Yoga is great for flexibility,range of motion, but it can
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also be toning if done in adifferent kind of way.
Instead of saying, Oh,I like this kind of yoga,
or I like that kind of yoga,try it all, you know, to expose
the body to to differentkinds of yoga and different
kinds of workouts.
I see that you have severaldifferent kinds of
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certifications, too.
You instill them in mostof your clients, or do
you kind of stick towhat they like so they keep on
coming back for more?
It's funny, I guess when likeyou write, like you and me,
we're kind of it's we're notI wouldn't call it
newbies or green so we candeliver something that might
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be uncomfortable for them,but we know they need it.
We can deliver to them in a waythat they'll be like, okay,
I'll do it all in a go with it.
Because Angela's making itseem fun.
Angela Making it seem it'sdoable.
And not only that,we are adjusting our workout
to the client, so I'm but it's,I must say this right now
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that they're saying about,oh, there's no cookie
cutter workouts, those cookiecutter workouts, they'll
work for.
Well, yes, they're rightto an extent.
Same time, there arebasic movements that every
single one of us are meant to doand have to be, whether it is
activating our exercises withsitting in a chair
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and getting up, activating ourleg exercise.
If someone can't squat,how are we going to get
those muscles working?
We have to come up with a wayto help them to possibly sit
in a chair, stand up.
So there are like compoundmovements that are very
important for every singlewhat the muscle moves this way
or the body moves this way.
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It should it should move,it should we should give it
resistance to be able to,whether it's a band, cable
weight on isometric anything toget that muscle that's and to do
work work and you have the knackI know about that because
I've seen you do the work thingto keep them interested,
keep their confidence levelup top here because if
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somebody doesn't have competencein doing it, then it's a little
how are they goinghave longevity?
They might be like,you know what, I'm not
comfortable with it.
I want somebody has competenceand I can have them do something
here in the housein my whole gym.
And once they leave, I know thatthey're going to be doing this
elsewhere.
But I like, give them a tip.
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I say, okay.
And was were performing a simplestep up.
I know you don't have stairsin the house, but you use like
I used to have stairs now.
So that seems in the house nowbut I used so let's
simulate this step upwhile we hold on to this railing
that we're using.
It's not really railing.
It's stopping there.
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You can aid them in.
And I tell them a lot oftimes, Sue, what happens
if all of a suddenyou're in a taxi or an Uber
and the guy says,Oh my goodness, I have
a flat pipe and the all over.
Now you're in the middle ofall things Road and Palm
Coast Parkway.
You're out of your comfort zoneand the curve is this high.
Now, can you do it with that?
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Here's a way that you can do it.
Not having a railing isthe safest way.
So I teach them the way they'recomfortable with for the muscle
to grow and improve.
And then I teach them a way thatthey can do it.
God forbid they're strandedsomewhere, and there's
nothing that.
So it's like the safety factoras well as they are too.
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In this way, it gives themcop confidence.
You continue that superportI think so, yeah.
Functional fitness is high on mylist of priorities, especially
as people get a littlebit older.
Being able to do thingsfor everyday life or even
to challenge themselvesa little bit if they want
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to go out and go for a walkor be involved in a sport
or play with their grandkids,you know, we have to have
functional fitness that'sso important.
And when you try to get peopleto do things that you feel like
everyone should do, like go upa higher step, they're so
surprised at, wow, why is thisso hard for me, you know, or
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taking a longer step or evengetting down on the floor
and being able to get up again?
You know, little thingslike that, being able to pick up
that grandbaby, you know,and not hurt your back,
all these different things.
So we have to strengthenall those muscles with every
day movements with a littlebit of weight to get people
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in shape for everyday life.
It's so important.
So I work with a lot of peopledoing doing that.
Do you work in groups also orjust one on one?
I have in training class, even afitness one.
We were training in thatclassroom and heading on.
You got that weekend.
We got it.
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And in the pasta at the gymI used to train at in
New Jersey, same thing, classesoccasionally.
And I actually one day a weekit just so happened to work out
where five clients who all knoweach other said, What would you
girls think about this?
And instead of payinga rice, you pay like a
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little portion and the trainergets compensated for it.
But we all have a wonderfulwork out as a matter I think
the youngest at the timewas maybe 25 in the room
and the oldest was 81.
And and I'm of course I'll beI'm old the exercise
I will use it gone girls thoughtthey bothered and but I'm kind
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of near and close to the80 year old and all of
the other girls in the roomunderstand why and and we're
all friends and they all havea wonderful work out of the old,
you know, sip of waterbetween set and all that stuff.
So, yeah, I at the momentI do have group training going.
I also at the moment am runninga fitness class in one of
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the schools in by now, which isfor young kids from 5 to 50,
a little bit of mixedmartial arts, cardio kickboxing.
Yeah.
And it's in an gymnasiumso we'll run back out to like,
you know, lapsed back and forthand out all the movement
and then once and thenwe'll play like a little game
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depending on their age groupand things like that.
So the parents are there.
It's very controlled.
It's through a companythat is out of Arizona.
I randomly send thema resume stuff that if my time
on a monday night.
So it's in addition to my breadand butter at the moment
it's Monday to Saturday, one onone client, occasional group,
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and it's all spaced outbecause a lot of it
is at my house at a gym.
Oh, hey, Susie.
Charlie just showed up.
Hang on one second, Charlie.
Jump on the treadmill for about15 minutes and I'll come get you
in a little bit.
So it can't have runlike that now.
But you picture like a studioof all weights and some cardio
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weight and things that I usefor every single one of
my clients.
I can't have it overlap unlessit's intended to be a class
and there's room for the classand some of these other people
do not all know each other,obviously.
So let's just sayI have a client
at 10 (25:35):
00.
My next client would be at 1130,obviously.
So they're from 10 to 11.
Have a wonderful day.
See you on the next DCoutside DC therapy meeting.
You could grow, make, usethe bathroom, or if you need
a shake when we shake orsomething, but at least
it gives me a window before thenext person comes in.
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It's not like GrandCentral Station.
There is the days when I hadone person.
There's been dayswhen I had seven and night
before.
I'm like, How am I going to do?
It's a rate for them in the datealso, which is nice, you know,
getting out of the house.
And some of them have come inthe afternoon, they work
their day.
So I do training and let themknow.
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I say, listen, whatever we doin this room here, you know,
I like to know what elsethey have in mind for the day.
Are you going home to relaxor you get to go Publix
and Kohl's and all theseother areas is then I'll tailor
our workout so it'snot outsourced.
I'll give you an example.
One client I have now, she wasalso gone to physical therapy
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before she met me.
Because of the somethingshe went through.
She would come to see me the dayafter she went to the physical
therapist and she couldnot move.
She was in a and I said, Listen,the person may be wonderful,
he may be awesome.
He or she may know exactly whatthey're doing.
But just do me a favorand let him know this next time.
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Let him know that you have togo to Kohl's, you have to
go to Publix.
You'll be doing some shopping,have other things in the day
to need to do.
So please let him know not to.
Whatever he gives you don'tdeplete your higher ed
because if we do a little bitevery single day, that's
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going to make our functiona white better.
Then like I said earlierthis interview, destroy
your body.
So the next three you know what?
She did this and told himshe said that he was completely
okay with it.
And then he realizedI understand what this
guy's say.
And it was just a suggestion.
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I didn't say go tell back.
I couldn't be.
I don't have a physicaltherapy degree, but I kind of
from like you and I workingwith clients over the years
to get an idea on our limitsof what we should do,
got to be able to continueto live our life and not be
so exhausted and broken down to,but to the point where you could
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possibly get an injury from thatwe have to respect our bodies
for sure.
You were talking a little bitabout the kids that you're
working with.
That excites me.
That's amazing.
So young children, I don't knowhow it was when you were
growing up.
I'm a little bit older than you,but we had he like three times
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a week when I was growing upand it never went away.
It was all year long.
Just the type of sport changedbecause I lived up north,
there was winter, so wintertimewe were doing sports inside
the spring and fall outside,but there was always P.E.
and now the schools, it'slike semester, a semester
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of P.E.
and then on to the next thing,whatever their extra curricular
activity is for that semester.
So it really excites meto hear that you're working
with kids.
Is that like after school?
Yes.
Classes at the momentare probably, I would say it's
a three hour window, but there'sfour class requirements.
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6 p.m.
start time.
I got a little earlierjust to set up and get my idea,
get my radio set up,
and then by 9 (29:16):
00 and the last class leave as
the night goes on, it'sthe younger ones
in the beginning and thenthe more older ones attend or
an 815 class, you know,around the door.
Nine and all the moms there,they'll either they'll even
drop them off at and there'sa girl up front that school,
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one of the girls that schoolvolunteers I to make sure
they sign in and that sometimesit works it gets them moving and
they know I do this also I don'tthink a lot of them see it's
a little different personaltraining.
It's like they know kind ofeverything about you,
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you know, once you builda relationship with someone.
Right.
But she'd had them cometo your house, you know, some of
the clients built Melissa.
They might see my daughterleaving school or this
or going to work or school.
So it's a little bitmore personal where this is.
They don't know what I think.
I've had anyone ask memaybe one or two parents
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might do this also full time.
So again, you could of workingfor a company are not
handing out thiskind of like I'm keeping the
two worlds separate a little bitat the moment but it's a whole
nother thing working with it,working with children
at the whole lot of things.
Children have very littleattention span.
So you have to go fromone thing that you actually
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can't beat.
20 reps of squats like I wouldgive to you.
It would be completelydifferent.
So it's a whole andthey burn out very easy.
It's their they'll want as fastthey can touch the back wall,
want to stress they can backto the spot they started on
and their shot they like,you know so it's just one step
to moving a little bit.
And I think a lot of it has todo with personality.
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So if you're an outlaw and likewe all know, growing up,
like you said, growing upin school, I remember
my gym teacher being likeI remember I had a couple of
one guy.
He also ran a sportsshop in town.
So we also would be like,Hey, Mr.
Marlow, we want you.
But he was like, He would spitout was like a ballplayer,
like the way you look, like aballplayer, a baseball player.
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He'd be chewing on the sunflowerseeds during gym and and he was
really outgoing.
And that's what the boys.
But then the other gymteacher was a little bit
more newer, newer stuff,but was a little bit more
maybe not as enthusiastic andmore of a dry personality.
We still love this stuffshe came up with.
It was great, but it dependedon, you know, like a boy
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or you maybe gravitates to guy,you know, like a maybe a a
a role model type thingwhere the girls liked her.
And I completely understand.
But we also do not havethese back that the phones
that just absorbs everybodyevery kids time right now
and stare using labelsall day long leaning forward
we want to getting majorneck problems this time goes on.
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But you know, how many daysa week do you work with these
children to reschedule?
At the moment, it's one daya week because it's set up to be
one day week at the moment,but it's getting so large yet
I believe next semestermight have to be split
into two nights.
Again, I was being trained intothis somebody, just somebody.
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It was coaching me a little bit.
And then he said, Pete,you ready to fly?
And it's based onthe attendance.
She signs up.
That's how you get paid.
But in the beginning when I wastraining, it was just an
hourly rate until it'shanded over to me.
Probably going tobe any day now.
The way it works isthe more places he can get
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set up in the state of Florida,which is a it's a company
that's based out of Arizonaand states around Arizona
are pretty busy.
But he launched he talkedto the owner and he wants
the Florida he probably hasfour locations at the moment.
And by now he's the busiestright now.
And it might have to break allseparate nights again.
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Same time, I don't want it tocancel somebody that needs me
here.
Right.
To go do that.
So I call and listen.
Let's see how this night goesand next semester we'll
figure it out.
Because at that point,people around you know how
it is working.
And so the word things arealways changing.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
We were all busy up untilCoban happened, and then
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the world was like,What's going on?
And then everybody nowstill misses fitness.
One Oh, I hear thatall the time.
I mean, there was such varietyat that gym, variety of things
to do, variety of peoplethat work there, though
you can't find another facilityin this area that have
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has all that that place.
And now everybody's goinghere, there and everywhere,
you know, and having to putmore money out of their pockets.
But things change.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Right.
And we have to change alsoto make our lives stay good.
So let's talk a little bitabout diet and nutrition.
Do you help a lot ofyour clients in that area by
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recommendation?
I will do that.
I kind of feel that not one dietmight be right, one person
or what?
Let's put it this way one way,be right.
I believe you're on a systemright now where you don't
call it a diet.
Angela I think it's justthe way you eat and because
you do it for so long,you have a nice, lean, lazy,
certain ones.
(34:46):
Over the years I had tryJenny Craig tried weight watch
tried this very betand they'll see results
immediately.
This would provide see to itsome of my clients here but then
all of a sudden it plateausand that's it.
So now what's going on?
You going off the point system?
Weight Watchers has theweight system.
(35:07):
Oh my goodness.
Apple that it's cherry this thatall that all the fruits
don't have any pointsso my client well what was this
person doing all wouldgo easy on fruit that had
zero points but hello Rudi'ssugar.
You're doing that all throughoutthe day.
You're going to hita wall, right?
It's not going to be suitableto see the scale drop
(35:29):
a little bit.
Or is it necessarily the scaleit has to drop?
Is it more your bodycomposition?
That's a chain.
So depends on the person.
I think that likethe automobile, you put lousy
gasoline in your car,you think it's going to go far,
you know.
So what's the sense and I wouldjust see you to that
illustration today with anothermorning, same picture you would
(35:52):
you buy or that body be,but then pop the hood and it's
like a 1914 rusted motor inside?
No.
Well, would you buy a 19state of the art motor 24 motor
inside, maybe a body fromthe seventies where it needs
(36:13):
a little bit of work.
You go, Hell yeah.
So it's true.
It what we're eating.
It's perfect on the inside.
All right.
Maybe our muscle not whereit should be, but we saw organs
and kidneys or liver.
All this stuff is functioningproperly.
So you can't do 20 pushupsso you don't look like a
(36:34):
Jack will weigh or didor what's?
Or these guys you all orthese actresses that look
airbrushed on 12.
So what At least the insidesare working right.
So is there one dietfor everyone?
I don't think so.
I tried a few and I did Paliofor six months Angel last year
(36:57):
and Palio is like the cavemandiet.
So no starches whatsoever.
And I'm trying to.
I did it for six months, right?
I'm trying to get my gains offwith certain exercises
and I sort of hadn't severe painin my shoulders.
And it it dawned on me aright way round rice, a
(37:18):
little bit of oatmeal,a little bit of those
type of things.
That is carbohydrates for yourmuscles, hydration,
your muscles, also 40,your muscles.
So I started incorporatinga little bit of carbohydrate
help once and the painswent away.
I'm like, oh my goodness, is it?
I'm 43, 43 now.
I won't have to worry aboutmy shoulder being a
(37:40):
And sure enough,it was from that it was
from hardcore Palio.
So are these weight,these certain types of
nutrition?
Are they meant to be long term?
I'm telling you, it's stillit depends on the person.
Yeah.
We need to give the bodythe nutrition it needs in order
to stay healthy,making lifestyle changes
(38:02):
so that can get through and doall the things we want to do
and hopefully not overindulgingin too many of those bad things
or if we do, coming back toprogram again so that
we can feel good, right?
Yeah.
And getting good sleep too isso important to let
the body rest and recuperateso that we can stay on track to.
(38:24):
As far as a nutrition, I'mnot a nutrition next,
but seeing what other peoplehave been through
and then trying this, themtrying that dirt gauge, well,
I'll get up, I'll make hardboiled eggs out to eat the eggs.
I feel like maybe I get a littletoo much the day before
servings.
Alli good.
The next day it's like one trip.
(38:44):
What would you say on the groundnow you get up and you press on
and you try not tothink about it.
Just like you said.
Let's take it from here on out.
So, hey, you know, you gorock climbing, you traveled
the country and did a bunchof activities.
If you want baby a crazyspeed in a day, like a
(39:07):
maybe climbing one ofthe mountain.
However, I don't likewhite dude yet.
So what if you're a littlehungrier later where
the next day you maybedidn't do so, but you spend
more time with family chatting,talking so your body may
not need that fuel.
So but then again,it's enlisted.
Somebody told me these footballplayers, they're eating
like five, 6000 calories a day,training and performing
(39:29):
the sport.
But then when they retire,Michael Strahan in his nutrition
program probablytrained, changed drastically
because now he looks nice, lean.
He's in a suit and he's ona TV show.
Right?
A talk show.
So if you don't, you're goingto refresh your radar.
Perry was a football playerfor many years ago.
He was so big,£360 in season,right when he retired.
(39:55):
You didn't change what he ate.
He gained another 5000.
Oh, that well, we're nowwhy do I have any problems
of biology from YouTube to that?
So everything in moderation?
Yes.
Okay.
I would like to hear you sharemaybe one or two
success stories, like anamazing success stories of.
One of your client.
(40:15):
We always we always have peoplethat come to us, which could be
health issues.
It could be their bodieshave fallen apart or they want
to make a big changein their life.
Do you have a story you want toshare?
Maybe more than one.
I have two that areoff the top of my head
and one of them,a client of mine who was in
commercial real estate.
(40:36):
And he met me and he wasyounger than me probably about
maybe five, six yearsyounger than me.
But he was like, I would say309 people.
And he goes, Pete, you know,picture us Sylvester Stallone,
but very overweight.
And with me, he was able tocome to the gym or days,
(40:57):
five days a week and put inthe time because of his
schedule.
Maybe the numberswere profitable for him
to be able to do this right.
And I would have to sayin six months he lost£100.
He literally his mind and he wasnot dating anyone that go
in restaurant.
I actually put himon a nutrition plan.
(41:20):
I said, Do this is what I dothe way I you and I very similar
about the food allergiesimmediately.
I know that food allergy.
But one thing I was toldis never go into buy,
never tell them go buythis fat bird or go buy this
supplement vitamin shopper.
Because there were storieswhere people did that, traders
did that.
The person took ita step further and then had
(41:41):
a heart attack and dropped.
So we were never told to say,go do this or take this.
But you can say, I recommendthis is what I did.
It might not work,but you might.
So anyway, this nutritionplan, you know, a little bit
of a little bit of cottagecheese and grilled chicken,
some fish, no booze, water, onlynot even juice.
(42:02):
Just for right now.
Man lost£100 in six months.
Right.
And but I did tell him, I saidthis is something where,
you know, you're goingto meet a girl, you're going
to wear a lot of these places,end up in a restaurant, make
the right choice.
So that was success.
Story number one, He becameso not just a client, but like
(42:23):
a really true friend.
When Corbett I moved down here,he was up north.
I moved out here beforeCorbett app.
He goes cheap.
Let's sync up on Zoom.
I will do out.
I need you, I need.
So it was more like,I don't want to use the word
psychiatrist, but to exercise,he needed me to do it and then
(42:43):
he had no weight.
So we were doing things.
He watch the and doing all thisduring the lockdown.
He gets because he's seenhis girl gets married, but a
nice big house.
And I tell him exactly whatto buy.
Money's not an option.
He can afford it.
He went out and madehis Jim at home look like my
based on the video.
(43:03):
I would do it by that, by that,by that.
You know, he didn't needa dumbbells.
So buy up to whatever you can£30 or whatever but got the Mac
at the bench got all that stuff.
So that's success storynumber one.
Success story number two,a whole different
dynamic 80 year old woman, 81.
The client I have now, husbandpassed away before I met her.
(43:26):
This is, by the way,the client that was going
physical therapy.
And she told and listen,we need a little bit of gas
in the tank for me to be ableto do the other things.
But regardless, she was ina couple accidents,
car accident.
Somebody rear ended herso she got one of her feet
are inverted where it'snot outside like the outside
(43:46):
of your foot.
When you walk, it'son the inside.
So because of that,her gates talked a little bit.
Her balance is off.
So we work on that.
But that's a long story short.
So the real meat to this story,when I met her, she was
scared to death, scared to deathof falling.
So she would have somebody elsetake out her garbage.
(44:09):
Hint she would drive to Publixand beg somebody to get her
be the car.
So she give you the cardis balanced.
She was so a good stubborn.
She was a good stubbornin the sense that she didn't
want a wheelchair because shealready knew me.
I said, You're not usinga walker.
We're going to get youwhat we're going to get you
(44:29):
to feel competent to dothe things you want to do
with force.
I didn't want her to walk, andI taught.
I said, exercise number one,we're going to learn to
get up off the ground.
She was scared to deathof the idea.
What I broke it down in steps.
She memorized that.
(44:50):
You know, to this day,we had certain monthly
challenges, you know, whetherit's bridges on the floor
or squats, everybody lovesa squat challenge.
Her challenge for the monthof November is and we did this
a while back too, butwe all repeat them back to back.
So her monthly challengeat the moment right now is in a
(45:11):
week's time you're doingan up and down so to a day,
you two a day you can doSaturday or Sunday,
you know, pick whatever daysyou want one day re tomorrow.
So the up and down is basicallystanding up, squatting,
squatting, squatting toyour hands, you on the floor,
you backed your feetto where you're on your knees
(45:33):
and then from there you got toget back up.
So reverse the whole load,move the hands up a little bit,
get one foot underneath you,get the other foot
underneath you into your fingersback, rub your shins,
grab your knees, push yourselfto withstand and then bounce.
And I don't tell them tostand straight because,
(45:54):
you know, I'm shredded thatI saw it happening go that way.
But I always tell that beingathletic like a martial arts
stole a lot of the martial arts.
History comes in hereand there were some of
these clients without even me.
Ellen, You know, but thatsuccess story number two,
that a woman who was scaredto death of falling now
can the carpet and not tolead her car, what to get a car
(46:19):
and walk into Publix or take hergarbage can out herself
because get all the driveways.
It's the solemn like thatthat's worried about going down.
A little friendlier.
Coming up, a little art,because, of course, if you're
not lifting the point at all,you sneakers going to rub
the concrete coming back, Right.
So it's these little tricksthat I explain that if just
(46:40):
saying do this, do that and dapyou go like stupid it
sometimes they somewhatunderstand why you say so.
You built her up and instilledconfidence in her
so she can just do her normaleveryday things in. Life.
That's great.
Yeah.
Right.
So what's in the futurefor you, Peter?
(47:00):
Anything new at the moment?
Daughter is going to be89 on Friday.
Now she's finishing her12th year senior year, so that's
very exciting As far asI want to do a little bit
more travel, I don'tget to travel.
So I to Melissa and I were justtalking about it maybe during
the winter season, maybegoing so cooler, breaking up
(47:22):
jackets in the monceautraveling, I'd add.
Oh my goodness.
I forgot to tell you, I just didmy 20th anniversary last month.
Congratulations, September.
So it's it's huge.
It's a lot.
So because of that, you know,instead of sneaking away for
three days in the state,maybe doing something there.
So no matter what I do,no matter where I go,
(47:45):
I will instill in the clientslike I still in myself.
Whatever you do, just thinkresistance training.
Because the military years agoyou'd see the soldiers
with their white t shirtson the field under the drum.
They're doing jumping jacks,they're doing burpees,
(48:06):
they're doing pushups,they're doing sit ups.
Maybe they'll do pull upsand then tactical
training, right, to learnhow to shoot judo and combat.
Lately, scientists and thetrainers, the personal trainers
that are up, you're in Stripeconditioning, coach.
They're really, really advancedand run the show on this
whole market have startedincorporating bodybuilding
(48:31):
and strength training withthe soldiers in camp.
So it's not just the old schoolburpees and jumping jacks
and pushups.
It weights out becauseof what it does with bone
density.
As far as you're concerned, youprobably already know that
your clients are probablyalready aware, but I just want
to instill this nowin these clients that I have now
(48:54):
the importance of bonedensity and and it's everywhere
now, the hate in the healthinsurance company.
What?
So it's it's so muchmore a thing now than it
was years ago.
Yes.
I love you.
You plug in that in theirbone density.
They say after you turn 30 oldthat if you're not doing
some kind of resistancetraining, that bone density can
(49:18):
start going down.
That's pretty young.
Most people don't realize that.
And that's about the agewhen people a lot of people,
you know, they're gettinginvolved with their families and
their children and it's liketheir healthy habits are
pushed aside becausethey don't have time for it.
So it's important.
But as far as a goal, I knowyou asking me and other Clyde
(49:39):
this year, people 80, why don'tyou open up a gym?
And I'm like, and I've seenthe kids and the stress
that the owners go throughoutthe years.
Whoever all in the gym.
Don't get me wrong, my old boss,very successful, owned
three gyms.
Well, fancy car, but the manstress level is up here
(50:01):
all the time.
I barely got time to exercise,barely got time, but was always
at the gym saying hello,wiping down would have
his men men to stop too.
But they'll be sportingthe barbells, making them
all nice, nice just to shop acethe stress level with that.
It's just not somethingI ever wanted.
But I can controlis what I'd have go out more.
(50:23):
My take on anythingmore than that, the hell
on me won't be as where you wantmy help.
Good for every one that I haveand be strong for them too.
So it's like.
It's like to a tknife sharpening each other.
Help me help you.
Right kind of thing.
So.
So whenever somebody asks me,I would immediately shut that
(50:45):
they are like, I don't thinkthat's what I can.
And yeah, I'm notan entrepreneur.
So people are good with numbersand maybe that man up
that I knew was greatwith numbers.
And I think the owner ofthis one was also
very successful in anothercompany as well.
So I just I don't at thisI want to do this today,
(51:05):
this tomorrow, this thenext day.
And along the way have some funwith family, friends and
all that type of thing.
And just I would hope thatone day I can be like, you know,
like carrots it or Right.
I love in the end job.
I wish you could beeight years old and still
fit and fiddle and be ableto ride my bike.
You know what it is?
(51:27):
It's now it's what you do now.
Getting back, first thingwe said that people say,
I want to look like that.
Well, three months isgoing to do it all.
It's going to be a lifestyle.
Definitely.
Sounds like you got itfigured out, mate.
I've learned from you.
I'm learning from youand my clients and I'm just
(51:48):
bring it out.
So that's it.
But I enjoy this.
So we have to keepour minds open so that
we can learn from each other.
There's so much knowledgeout there and absorbing
from other people what they doand how they do it.
Yeah, why not, right?
We don't know at all.
We got to get our wisdomfrom other people, too.
All right.
So Peter, can you giveour listeners a goal so that
(52:10):
they can live a better lifeand maybe give them a path
to get there?
Don't set the bar too high.
Whatever you want.
Right?
You have an idea, somethingthat you like to do.
You have to try it,go discarded, saying
that's in part, okay, nothing isimpossible.
(52:30):
Everybody thinks somethingis impossible until someone
does it. Right.
And I didn't come up with that.
That's something.
It's something steady.
Years always stay.
That was one quote.
Another quote was don'tplay down, say five months at
five months, I'll want to bethis ought to be that.
Don't rush this becausethat's rushing life to tomorrow
(52:51):
has got itself problems.
Right?
Worry about today.
Worry about what you're goingto do today,
what type of workoutyou might apple, what type of
meal you might makethat tomorrow has its own
and it's all thing because ityou project people they get
discouraged real quick becausethey realize that it might be
too overwhelming.
(53:12):
And sometimes life life itselfis overwhelmed right.
And we're all just pretendingto know what we're doing
so or pretend to knowwe all have a voice.
So let's voice our reality.
We can't get overwhelmed becausewe don't know what tomorrow
at all.
Look what happened in Maine.
Look what happened in Israel.
(53:34):
So do what you can todayand plan the day accordingly.
And don't stress about tomorrowbecause Ma's got its own
anxiety.
Great advice.
Life is a journey enjoyevery single bit of it, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, Peter, thank you so muchfor coming on the show.
(53:54):
I really appreciate it.
I know the listeners are goingto gain some knowledge from what
you've had to share.
Thank you.
It's been great.
Thank you so much, Angela.
This is Angela Grayson from theLoving Life Fitness Podcast
To help others in their fitnessjourney.
(54:22):
It’s all possible! It’s timeto wake up.
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