Episode #53 - Wellness Reimagined with Andrea Hammer's Max Pack - REBOOTED MINDSET

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hi, welcome to Rebooted Mindset, formerly
Rebooted the Podcast.
I'm your host, alita Hernandez.
Come join me every Wednesdayand Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm
Eastern Time to hear real-lifeconversations with experts
around the world on how we canheal our body, mind, soul and
spirit.
So let's get talking.

(00:32):
Hi, everybody, I'm back againRebooted Mindset, formerly
Rebooted the Podcast, and I havea great guest next to me here,
andrea Hammer.
So we're doing episode 53.

(00:54):
It's Hammer Time Because wewant to build these.
We got to build these.
Because she has hammers, I'mbuilding mine.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
We're working on it.
Yes, you did awesome the otherday.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
So Andrea has a long list here.
She's a certified fitnessinstructor, certified health and
wellness coach, certifiedsenior fit specialist, certified
fitness nutrition specialist.
She's also certified weightmanagement specialist and a
happy health coach, and she's acreator of the Max Pack, which
is incredible.
This is a Max Pack right here.

(01:26):
This is eight pounds.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's a weighted training pack that is an
alternative solution todumbbells, weight plates and
kettlebells.
They still weigh as much, butthey're more comfortable to grip
, you can squeeze into them andthere's hundreds and hundreds of
variable fun exercises forbeginning, intermediate,
advanced and then for militarylevel as well, Since I have sold

(01:48):
them to the Pentagon.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, she's been on the Pentagon with the Max Pack.
Wonderful honor, yeah.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
So I did a workout.
We had a workout this pastweekend at the park in Coral
Springs and I worked out therewith her.
And let me tell you theselittle things, they do their
work it.
And let me tell you theselittle things, they do their
work.
It's full of sand, right, theyhave sand inside of it.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yes, there's 40 kinds of sand, so like since they're
trademarked and patented, Ilearned in the 40 kinds.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh wow, they all have a different weight and texture
and how they move.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So there's a proprietary kind in there that
allow you to grip into it,because that's where your muscle
is made it.
Because that's where yourmuscle is made so when you
squeeze it, if you can watch myforearms, see how the muscle
activates, and watch my bicepthat's my thumb and my index
finger and you can feel and seethat when you squeeze into it

(02:41):
from your fingers fist, wrist,all the way through the form and
the bicep to the shoulder, youhave multiple muscles activated
at once and then you go work out.
So you're already on firebefore you get exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
You are on fire before because you're engaged
already with your hands, and Ihave problems with my hands and
some.
I don't know if it's arthritisor whatever, but I find that, um
, I was a little sore afterwardsbut from holding this, they're
still comfortable right actually.
Yes, it's comfortable.
This is the sandwich sandwichgrip.
The sandwich grip.
She has all these food namesfor these grips, so you'll

(03:09):
remember them because you haveto work that hard to get those
off.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Yeah, go ahead, show her the sandwich.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So this is a sandwich grip right here flat like a
pizza and one-handed.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Press right, get your thumbs on there, then you can
hold it like a taco shell or ahot dog bun right.
So that makes it more wobbly.
So it's more fist and wrist andforearm strength this way too,
and you can hold it verticallyor horizontally.
Then you can hold it togetherlike a pancake press, like this,
so that one is, when you presstogether and then go forward or
back or up or down, so thatactivates already immediately

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into the upper.
It does, it hurts, it's alreadyLook.
No, it's a good, it's achallenge.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
It's a good challenge .
It's a good challenge.
I'm just saying it doesn't hurt.
It's because it starts on oneRight Like if you're going to
have a dumbbell, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's even in the cup of your hand, both sides there.
I'm not trashing dumbbells,weight plates, kettlebells it'd
be in the world forever.
But I wanted something that youhave to grip on purpose and
because you do, your burn startson one.
So if you had a dumbbell setand you're going to 20 and then

(04:15):
17, 18, 19, 20 is your burnout.
That's why you can work out inless time with greater results,
because the muscle activationand the burn starts on one on
one.
So from one when you feel itand one to five, you're burnt
out.
Maybe you can get to 10 on someexercises, but that's how quick
the body activates the totalbody and with the you know the

(04:36):
principles and the training thatI have.
That is my signature trainingfor it how to really use all the
muscles in the body, with yourstance and your grounding and
your breathing and the movementall coordinated.
Then your whole body is workingout all the time.
It's a total body workout.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, and it is because the minute you pick this
up, you're engaged.
So like I'm already engaged,right?
So I mean it's already engagingif I move my fingers, squeeze
into it, squeeze into it.
Now watch, if I move my fingers, I mean squeeze into it.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Squeeze into it Now watch.
Watch Alita's forearm.
Squeeze your index finger,squeeze your thumb, squeeze your
feet.
You can see it Play piano,drive your fingers through it.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Cause you can't see the muscle.
You can see the muscles in myarm moving.
So as soon as I engage it, I'malready holding that muscle.
Yeah, I engage it.
I'm already holding that muscle.
Yeah, it's a lot of fun andit's I felt it.
So, the workout that I did withAndrea.
I felt it on the sides, myobliques and my back.
I felt it on my chest.
I mean, I literally felt a partof my whole body working, even

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my feet.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, because she has it on.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
We stand on them, we stand on the big ones.
Here they are.
You can lift it up.
You can lift it up, that's thebig one.
The big one, that's how manypounds.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
At 24.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
That's the 24.
16, 24 instead of 5, 10, 15.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's just the 16 one Right.
So they are heavy and they'recondensed butates for stretching
, for breathing and for abs.
It's a killer base to sit onthis because when you squish

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your tush in it and you're offthe ground and you balance on it
and then you go do abs, youryour whole core is immediately
active and you can shred yourcore really really fast sitting
on these for your ab workouts.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
And they're fun and they're nice to hold.
I mean, this is a pound, it'snot light.
So, yeah, they'll build up yourstrength and it challenges you.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
So so the reason that I made them because I wanted
something new and different,something innovative, something
that's comfortable, somethingthat's hypoallergenic.
You can wipe them up with 409or spritz them with.
You know, use your wet wipesbecause it won't absorb any odor
, bacteria, I mean.
You can get them dirty, butthey'll clean up, which is
really good, and it won't getinto the material, like neoprene

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types of equipment will, andand it's if you drop it on your
foot or you clunk your head, itwon't crush your bones because
that's one of the reasons Ibring it up.
It's happened to me and you knowI wanted something with bright
colors.
It's fun, because a lot of gymequipment is gray or black and
color elicits emotion and fun.
And then I put empowermentwords on it strength, endurance,

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integrity and commitment.
And those words are reallyimportant to me because of the
values that I live by.
So strength isn't you know, itisn't just your bicep.
The strength is the strength ofwho you are as a person, inside
, to to do good and be good andbelieve in yourself.
And endurance isn't just howfar you can run, but can you
endure hardship and troubles andand and have perseverance and

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dedication to make it to yourgoals and come home alive and
really withstand life and comeout shining at the other end.
And your integrity is the truthand the honor with which you
live, even when nobody's lookingLike right you can do the right
thing.
And your commitment is toyourself, god, your life, your

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country, your who you say, youare in what you do and how you
act and how you conduct yourselfas a human being on the planet.
So I wanted these words to beembossed on the max pack,
because maybe you might do onemore.
Maybe you might, you know, trya little harder.
Maybe it might inspire you tofind the strength within you and
the integrity and and theendurance to last and to stick

(08:24):
to your health and wellnessgoals, cause my passion is to
inspire passion in you, to loveyour life and your health and
want you to do all the rightthings, that you stay here at
the party called life for aslong as you can, Cause you know
we've had a lot of troubles andthings.
Everyone's had something happento them and you have to have
something within you to be ableto sustain you and bring you

(08:46):
forward to your best self.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Exactly, exactly.
So I have to say I met Andreathrough my sisterhood group.
Yes, and it's been amazing with.
Sherry and we have a greatsisterhood group that we meet
here.
We met here already twicealready.
We'll be meeting again.
I think there's going to be aworkshop in February that we're
doing all day workshop.
Later on we'll show you.
We also have a meditation andsound healing with Sharonada and

(09:11):
Sharonada's in the sisterhoodas well Amazing women amazing
group of women.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
I'm so blessed to be here with them, and that's how I
got to meet you.
Yeah, that's how we got to meet.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
We had, we had our ceremony, we had our sisterhood
ninth anniversary here at thestudio.
That's behind us, right, it's agreat studio.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Guys, if you have an event or something fun you want
to do, call Alita, because I wasso impressed by how she can
move everything around and makespace and accommodate for
whatever event you have.
And we had a wonderful,wonderful time.
It was just so heartfelt andcomfortable to be here.
It was wonderful.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Excuse me, I'm a little congested, so anyway,
yeah, so we had a great timehere.
The studio is open for rentalson the weekend.
During the week.
Just hit us up at studio 33.
Fll is our, it's our hashtagand our dot.
Ourcom and everywhere in socialmedia you find us, google us,
you'll find us.
If you look up event venue,you'll find us here.

(10:11):
We also have dance classes.
We're we're starting to havedance, salsa and batata classes,
so please sign up, maybe adance fitness class.
A dance fitness class.
Can you imagine doing salsawith one of these?
This will Dance fitness class.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Can you imagine doing salsa with one of these?
This would be a workout.
Well, we can modify forwhatever you need.
Right, We'll make it a fundance class.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
We'll have to do a funky class like a 90s freestyle
, we can do the side thing.
We'll be like, yay, that'llwork.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
After about three of those we'll be like, okay, I'm
done, that's right, that'sexactly right after about three
of those to be like okay, I'mdone, that's right, that's
exactly right.
After three of them.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
You're done, you're pretty much done.
I mean just I'm joking aroundhere and I'm lifting them up,
but I'm feeling my arms like I'mgetting a workout just doing
that right muscles in motion.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
So not only is it cardio and balance, but strength
training at the same time, andso you're kind of combining the
ninja games with the Titan gamesand ninja warriors, a little
bit with both.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
So so what do you think is like a question that
most people ask you aboutfitness.
Like I know, people want tolike, they want to.
They want to come in and go.
How do I look like you fast?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's a very, that's a very common question I get
all the time.
And I tell them this everybodyis unique and beautiful and you
come in your own gifts and yourown body that you are meant to
thrive in and love the skinyou're in.
So whatever process works foryou, for you, for you, for you,
for you and your own uniquebeautifulness, that's what we

(11:37):
start with and it's just alittle bit every day.
Consistency beats intensityhands down all the time.
Consistency beats intensityhands down all the time.
So I much rather somebody workout five really good minutes
every day instead of go to thegym twice a week for an hour
trying to just rush through andkill it.
Because what are you doing theother five days if you're
sitting down and not eating wellor crunching by the TV?
So five good minutes is likeshaking up the salad dressing

(12:00):
bottle right, getting all theseasoning off the bottom,
because when we sit all daywe're scooped and gooped
Seriously collection andcoagulation of food and toxins
and it turns to sludge, andsludge is very hard to bunch.
So I tell people just do whatyou love first, because if you
start with what you love, youcan branch out from there.

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If I tell them to do somethingthey hated, it doesn't feel
right to them, then they'll quit.
So my personal and conciergetraining I sit with you and I
find out what's important to you.
What are your goals?
How do you feel?
What's your lifestyle like?
How do you have kids?
Are you rushing into this?
What's your?
How do you prepare your meals?
Where in your own life that youalready live in and do?

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Can you make this comfortableas an add in for what spot fits
for you that can make you stillfeel like you're getting your
goals and still running throughyour life without having it to
be work?
Because you're out of work andthis should be in a free
expression of movement.
Your body should come alive.
You should love to say my bodycan move freely, with strength

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and power and grace.
You should just love being ableto get up and down without
hurting, without creaking,without having everything be a
problem.
So to make your body strong alittle at a time and flexible a
little at a time and full ofnutrients and good immunity and
clear thinking and gooddigestion and a good poop right.

(13:27):
Seriously, there's a big classI have about pooping.
Yeah, it's embarrassing, but ifyou don't get toxins out, they
turn to disease in your body andit really, really is horrible.
So when I do all the levels ofhealth and well-being, it's
directly guided to who you arein your own life, for what works
for you, because no two peopleon this planet are the same.

(13:49):
They're exactly zero.
Who are you?

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, I don't have a clone anywhere, so nobody does.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
And so that's what's so special about about training
and why I love it is I enjoy thejourney I get.
It's an honor for me to go onthe journey with you and throw
suggestions and ideas.
Honor for me to go on thejourney with you and throw
suggestions and ideas out.
But ultimately here's the thingthat's most important to me is
to honor your own authenticity,to honor your own
decision-making.
We can brainstorm and go look,these ideas would be very

(14:17):
beneficial in this, this andthis for fitness, food and
feeling good.
Right, how would you feel if wetried this first and did this
action and this food and thismeditation or whatever it is?
And if they say no, then I have, from a to z, the alphabet to
try to work with something thatwould motivate you, make you
feel alive and good in yourdecision, and then honor that

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about you, because anyone canhand you a prescription and go
pretend jumping jacks and eat acarrot stick and you might do
that to please the trainer or totry and do it, but after a
while it's boring and you don'tlike it and it won't work for
you that'strue.
So you want to find the thingsthat move your heart and move
your soul and make you feelalive and joyful in your life.
And then we pick what to do andusually, when that is your

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choice, you go after it withsuch river and such zest and
such fun, and you make it sonice and easy that you can't
fail it or fluff it up the firsttime even if it's the silliest
little thing, right?
Because if you accomplish it andit's happy to you, you'll do
more, and that's the simplebasis of how you move forward in
progression and we make morechallenges and more progressions

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and tweak more foods and get alittle bit more detail it's all
about.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's a learning curve .
It's a learning curve.
You know, none of us areperfect.
I was working out consistentlyMost of you guys out there know
when I've been doing the podcastand then I had about three or
four months the last three orfour months I did a hiatus.
I was stressed out and Istarted eating and it's not that
I was eating a lot, it was justthat I added stuff that I don't

(15:53):
usually eat.
So I was craving chocolate,right.
So then I said I'll make acouple of chocolate chip cookies
.
Oh no no no, then I'm like atnight, at night, and then he's
like give me one, you know.
So now I'm having, you know,the fats, the sugar, all this
other stuff.
So, um, and our emotions have alot to do with how we eat.
Oh, yes, our emotions.
I'm usually the type of personthat if I'm going through a

(16:15):
really bad time, I can't eat, soand that's not good either.
So not eating is not goodeither, because, as I at least,
at least I believe that theunion throws off a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
If you don't eat, your body feels like it's in
starvation mode.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
So it starts supporting yeah Right.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
So sort of storing the fat.
Thanks, You're on a desertIsland, so it needs to have as
much fat as possible to live offof in case there's no more food
, exactly.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
So all of a sudden, some weight in my arms and some
in my stomach because of what Iwas eating.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
It was higher fat foods and like stress eating,
yeah, and and, and it'scomforting it is when you're
hurting it's comforting it is.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
It's like that chocolate chip cookie.
I don't know what it is aboutthat.
We've all been there, right?
And I used to.
I've had a pint of Haagen-Dazs.
See, I stopped eating ice creambecause I don't eat dairy,
right?
So I, we that was another thingtoo, and I would have our
little scoop of ice cream.
No more, I haven't had icecream.
No more ice cream.
Um, you know, I tried.
Now I stopped making thechocolate chip cookies.

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I said that's enough, no more.
Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Here's is beautiful you have to have a treat here
and there.
But call it a treat, yum it upand really enjoy it as you enjoy
it, because if you call it acheat and I cheated the energy
is going to be bad, you're goingto feel guilty, your digestive
system is not going to break itdown and you won't absorb it and

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your body will pack it in a fatcell because you feel bad about
it.
Your emotional sense createschemicals that are inflammatory
and in and unhealthy for you.
But if you have a treat, yourbody goes okay, yeah, that's fun
, and tomorrow you just walk itoff or run it off or exactly a
little bit better tomorrow, butexactly, you can't go through
this whole beautiful lifewithout having a cookie or a

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chip or a cup.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Oh, that's true, I'm like.
The other day I wantedchocolate.
I bought a dark chocolate.
Yeah, it was organic, was like.
It was like 90 85 percent cocoayes, it was no sugar yeah, it
was high cocoa content, no sugar, and that killed my craving,
right you know, because acraving is just a deficiency in
the vitamin mineral.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
It really is, it's a deficiency in the vitamin
mineral.
So a lot of times too, ifyou're really craving chocolate,
you might be low in magnesium.
If you're craving potato chipsbecause it has a lot of salt,
you might be low in yourelectrolyte balance and sodium
is part of your.
You know, magnesium and sodium,potassium and calcium and
magnets and zinc and things likethat that are the mineral
content that you need to keepyour blood good with and flowing

(18:40):
.
The stuff right, right, right.
So when you are just a littleteeny bit can just be enough to
satisfy you without having toeat like the whole entire bag
Right, it's true, and so.
I really, really do look at howwe can break down our mindset.
That's what happy life coachingcomes in to find out why we're

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doing this.
What's up, what's behind this?
Right?
Because if you go two stepsbehind and talk to the sparkles
inside, you'll see that ifsomething is the issue and you
can move past that, then youravoidance behavior we always are
pleasure seeking or painavoiding, right?
Yeah.
So when we've come to termswith whatever some that's inside

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us that's not setting right,and align ourself with our truth
and our intuition, our soulself, then things are so much
easier and smooth sailing goingforward.
And then you don't want itanymore, instead of I can't have
it anymore.
That's why I never used theword diet.
The first few letters of dietis die anyway.
But the only thing that'sreally wrong about diet is that

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it has a beginning and an enddate.
So you do really good becauseit's a program.
But then what do you do whenit's over?
You go back to what you weredoing, thinking that now that
you've lost a few pounds, it'sokay to have this, and then
you're right back where youstarted.
So it's just this big yo-yo allthe time.
People go.
How long do I have to do thisfor I go how long do you want to
live?
The whole point about.
And I never say the word diet.
I tell my, my students theycall them students, not clients,

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because we're all learningsomething new every day to live
better, right?
So I say this to them insteadof saying I'm on a diet, which
has a resentment, it has afrustration, it has a kind of
feeling which is a negativeemotion already in the body,
which is already inflammatory,right, boom, boom, boom,
cortisol spewing.
And I tell them to say I eatnutritiously, I just eat
nutritiously.

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And what am I going to eatnutritiously?
That's good for me today, rightnow.
You don't have to think aboutnext week.
What can I eat today?
Can I have some blackberriesand blueberries and some
polyphenol, high astaxanthin,you know, bioflavonoids, in the
morning?
That is going to really feed mycells when I feed myself.
And so we work from where youare to where you want to go, a

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little at a time that makes youfeel good and awesome about
yourself.
I want everybody to feel happyand love themselves and have
great self-esteem andempowerment, because that's how
you're going to go out there androck the world and that energy
is what you're going to bringout.
You can only manifest out inthe world that which is from
within you and if you're sad,tired, broken, angry, blah,

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that's what you're sending outto people and you're going to
get all that right back at youand then think the world sucks.
But if you're full of love andjoy and gratitude and your body
feels good and you feel good init, you go out there and kick
some butt, you create new andamazing things and the world is
in this expression of joybecause you sent that out of you
and that's you've got yourbody's got to work.

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If it's sick, tired or brokenand you're stuck in your bed or
in a hospital or the doctor'soffice, you're paying your
doctor, your pharmacist, allyour vacation money and you
could be going to paris exactly,and all you have to do is
change uh, change a little habit.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Like I tell a lot of people is don't make it like
it's um, how do you call it?
Don't make it so hard onyourself.
It's just like if you get ridof one little thing like, for
example, so you use two, twoteaspoons of sugar in your
coffee Just start with doing one, do one and start getting used
to it.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
All right, it's just one thing better today than
yesterday and one less bad.
Thing today than yesterday andjust repeat it tomorrow.
Right, I had a dear client whoI love.
She used to do two packs ofcigarettes a day, which is what?
40 cigarettes.
I said, okay, today smoke 40cigarettes, However you do them
throughout your day.
Tomorrow take one out beforeyou even start and tear it up,

(22:28):
so then you still have yourpacks and you're going to do 39.
Then the next day take two outand throw them away, and then.
So we just backed it up fromthere a little bit at a time and
just have them wherever youhave them.
So by the time she was down toone pack, she was okay with that
because she strategically hadthem wherever they were and by
the time she was down to 10, shewas really good about it

(22:49):
Because she already had you, soshe weaned herself off, weaned
herself off the two packs a day.
And it took 40 days yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
But she did it 40 days, yeah, but at least but she
did it.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Yeah, but she did it and that's the whole bottom line
resentment, without theresentment, because she really
doesn't want to be a smoker.
But when you're chemicallyaddicted you have to give your
body the chance to wash.
So, then, what we did is, inaddition to that, we washed out
with more water, and we usedmore deep greens and some
supplements that help the bodybecome alive with better
nutrient value, and so, thestronger she felt with this, and

(23:22):
the more she did some exerciseand improved her cardiovascular,
the less she needed them, andit was great.
I just got a fabulous text theother day.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yeah, from her yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah, you saved my life.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
And I was like, ah right, that's so nice, I love
her, that's so awesome becauseit's so hard for so many people
out there to quit smoking.
You guys know who you are, atleast, thank God, I never smoked
a cigarette.
Well, I shouldn't say, I didsmoke a little bit, but I wasn't
a smoker, right A casual Oncein a while, yeah, but even that
I didn't like it.
I didn't like it.

(23:54):
And then one time I was at atime of alcohol and I started
picking up a cigarette andsomebody was with me and he said
don't be picking up.
This is a bad habit.
I wish I could get off it.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Don't start it, because you're combining two
yeah Right Right Vice partners.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yes, and then I said no, forget that.
So I stopped that.
I never did that again.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
How much willpower and strength and self-awareness
was that?
So I want to just acknowledgethat truth and honor and beauty
and grace that you recognizethat about yourself and
immediately took correctiveaction.
That's brilliant and I, when Icoach with somebody and they say
something like that, I alwaysback it up and bring that back
to their awareness, becausesometimes you say you don't

(24:31):
really even really understandthe importance of what you just
did and how really life-changingyour decision was to move you
in the right direction towardsradiant health.
You don't just have regularslogging through it and
surviving.
You want radiant life forcehealth.
You want to feel really goodand you can only really know
that if you're in it right andyou have to just try it.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
you have to step out of your comfort zone.
So, talking about comfort zone,so, um, as you all know, after
I I had the stroke, I hadmovement issues, so I had lost
50% of my left side and I had toregain it again.
And so simple things that youdo on a normal basis, all of a
sudden I couldn't do it.
So, for example, just to be ina standing position and then

(25:16):
have to go down to the mat onthe floor, that was an ordeal
for me.
And even still now I can get tothe floor and I can do my
exercise on the floor and I canget back up.
I'm a little awkward.
I feel a little awkward, likemy, like I'm thinking one way
and it's, it's really, it's,it's really unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
The coordination the coordination.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
So my mind says I lost some oxygen to the right
side of my brain right itaffected my left side.
So there's a littlecoordination gap between the
brain signal to the to themovement, and I know what I want
to do and I can do it and Iused to be able to.
But I'm like why is that Ican't?
So I'm just little by little Imove a little bit, more I get to
the floor, more I try to do adifferent way.

(25:56):
I go, just trying to get myselfused to again with the movement
and look at you now kickingsome butt all over town with
everything you can do now.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
See the persistence, the determination and the
commitment to being your best.
Your belief in yourself isparamount to everything
occurring.
If you have to wait to see itto believe it, you will never
get it.
You have to see it in yourimagination and believe it to be
true, like you actually know.
You can have this, you can dothis.

(26:26):
Your belief in that and yourvisualization of that and you
seeing yourself at that success,that's how you're going to make
it happen, because you'reworking on that excited,
positive life force energy.
If you're waiting and going, Idon't know if that's going to
happen or not that sucks, you'llnever get it, because that's
not the law of attraction.

(26:46):
Well, it is the law ofattraction.
You're going to get exactlywhat you believe.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
So you're going to get healthier or you're going to
start getting heavier orwhatever it is.
I know some people out therethat have.
I've seen them that they seemto have emotional eating issues
and then other things like that,and it's a whole point.
Is you have to get out of yourhead.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yes, Get out of your head, get in front of your
cheekbones what's going on inyour life.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Look in the mirror.
Yeah, I love you, I love whoyou are, I love the way I am,
and then you know you cancritique yourself.
Where.
Where can I make improvements?
Right, where can I makeimprovements?
Do I want to be a dress sizeless for the New Year's Eve
party or something?
Or my birthday is coming up.

(27:34):
How may I feel better that day?
Right, maybe if I start doingsomething like I said get rid of
that one teaspoon of sugar thatyou put extra in your coffee,
that you lose weight just fromthat.
That's true.
Putting, you know, thedressings on salad.
Please take the dressing off.
The salad Dressing has morecalories in the salad that

(27:57):
you're eating.
Yes, okay, so I use balsamicvinegar and I use really good
olive oil.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Right, and you just sprinkle a little bit like you
make your own, don't?

Speaker 1 (28:06):
buy anything store bought because it has sugar,
sugar, sugar.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
That's all I'm saying .
Also, dextrin guarba, exactly,they just put different words
for it, but it's all sugar.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
And all the other chemicals.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Like I said, the chemicals.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Like I said, if I can't pronounce it, I'm not
going to eat it.
That's 100 true chemicals thatare really messing up our, our,
our digestion.
You know that I read an article.
I read an article that saysthat there's chemicals in our
food and preservatives that willchange your dna absolutely
because of the chemistry of itso your genetic propensity and
your DNA.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
As you a gene is.
People think that I have thishistory in a genetic.
You know my parents had it andI have.
You know this history.
However, your gene will expressitself based on the stimulus
you put on it.
So through epigenetics you cantruly change the expression of

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your health.
If you come from a family ofheart disease but you eat
healthy foods and you exerciseand you don't smoke and you
drink water and you have a dogand you love life, you are going
to avert as many of thosedangers as possible.
But if you smoke and eat youknow saturated fat and meats and
butters and white bread, andsit on the couch all day and eat

(29:21):
junk food and fast food,drive-thru food, you are going
to make that gene express heartdisease, and so you have a
choice.
Everything's a choice every dayto thrive or slog through and
just try to survive.
That's a huge difference inlife force, energy and vitality.
And here's the thing of all thedays you get to live and nobody

(29:44):
really knows for sure how manythat is, and you want to really
try to maximize them as much aspossible.
On the very last day when godgoes hey babe, I'm watching you,
did you love it?
What is your answer?
It?
Was amazing, I such great stuff.
I effed up really bad over here, but look what.
I did to pull myself back.
I had this really big bad thinghappen to me.

(30:05):
But look at me now.
My muscles are strong, I lovelife.
I've lost 70 pounds.
I'm I'm active, I've have sucha high vibration I'm changing
the lives of other people.
I'm out here kicking some buttand I love my life.
I hope I did you proud and nexttime maybe I can come back and
do it again somewhere else.
I mean you want to workbackwards from there, because if
your life is not thrilling orwonderful or makes you feel

(30:27):
happy, then change gears, changeyour mind, change talking nice
to yourself.
Say empowering words.
Be nice to your own best friendin there self-talk is the
biggest sabotage of allour life success and feeling
unworthy or unloved, you're notgood enough.
That's the beginning of thedownfall of everybody.

(30:49):
And the only way to liftyourself up is be kind, be
loving, see that you're a giftfrom God, see that you're meant
to be here, see that you wereborn with your own special,
beautiful, unique thing that's,that's just yours, and the real,
real job is to figure out whatthat is, yum it up and bring it
out to the world with all yourlove and joy, and that will
bring you prosperity andhappiness and friendships, and

(31:13):
amazing things will come to you.
From that perspective, if youchoose joyfully, j-o-y-u-l-l.
Joyful, fill up your gas tankof it.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
And it's so true because, once you start changing
your thought process and yourlife and like Andrea said, being
grateful, I'm grateful everyday I wake up that I am alive
that I have my family stillaround.
I got my mom mom at 85 yearsold, almost 86 in a couple of
months a bless, and there's ablessing to have her, my aunt,
turning 84 in december now.
Yeah.

(31:45):
So I mean, and they're like,really I'm that old, they like
they don't know it.
No, they aren't their number,you don't have to be your number
.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
That's the thing is, you have no say in the day you
came out, but you have every bitof say on how you're going to
live all your days while you'reout in this world.
And for all the birthdays I'vehad to, I'm never the age that
is chronologically on my birthcertificate.
I just refuse to allow my mindto tell my body that I'm old.
I'm just never going to be old.

(32:14):
I'm going to have a lot ofbirthdays.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
I'm going to have 104 as many as I can rack up, but I
don't ever want to be old Yep,me too.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Right, I want to still be able to go and play and
do and run and have fun and behere for as long as I can and
then take myself from my jammiesat 104 and say I got in the
morning, that's it.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I want to make it to 104 too.
That would be awesome.
My mother's on that, on thattrack.
She said, oh, I'm going to bearound.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
I said, no, you'll be around.
There you go.
You might have a history if youdo all the things your mom's
doing to stay there.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
My grandmother lived until a few months before she
turned 90.
Wow, and if it wasn't for somelittle sicknesses here and there
, she could have lived longer.
And my mother, physically she'sgreat.
It's just her memory, you know,unfortunately.

(33:06):
You know, unfortunately she has.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
They say she has alzheimer's.
I refuse to accept it.
I know I see little signs, butI try to keep her eating healthy
and enjoying her life.
She comes here to dance salsaand as soon as I take her out to
music, all the happy thingswill make her stay here.
It's happiness that makes youstay here.
It's aggravation and anger andall the negative energies that
eat you up from the inside andcause you to shorten your life
and it's, and we have to thinkabout that because we live in a
state in Florida.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
There's a lot of seniors here, right, yes, and
I've seen a lot of seniors whenI take my mother and my aunt to
the doctor and I'm really sadbecause there's so many people
alone Right, a lot of peoplealone, it's true.
They can't drive anymore,they're taking too many
medications, they're inwheelchairs.

(33:40):
I mean, we don't have to livelike that.
You need to make a choice, like.
It took me all my life to learnall these things.
So I'm not telling you it'sgoing to happen overnight, but
you have to make a choice inyour life and I chose life.
So when I had the stroke, thatwas my, that was my signal from
God.
He warned me, woke me up in mydream and said Miss Hernandez,
you just had a stroke and wokeme up and I was.

(34:01):
I got to the hospital in time,thank God.
So thank God for that.
I'm very grateful for that andthat I don't have anything.
People look at me like youdidn't have a stroke.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
I guess I did.
So.
What miracle is that that youjust made for yourself?
It's your belief in life andyour belief that you live in
your will and your drive to doall the things to keep this
mechanical machine with bonesand blood running around so your
soul has a place to be, so youcan go do all the fun stuff in
this world my mother too she's85.
She does water aerobics.

(34:31):
She does yoga canasta bridge andMajan, I like to make an
appointment and then sometimesshe ushers at the township where
she lives, in the, in thetheater, all the programs to
people and she gets to watch allthe shows for free.
Cause she does that out andabout, it's cause she's living,

(34:51):
you have to live Doesn't mean,when you get older, that you're
supposed to stop.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Okay, and and I see now that I'm older, the
perspective on age is sodifferent.
So when we were kids, rightthat you're supposed to stop.
No, and I see now that I'molder, the perspective on age is
so different.
So when we were kids, right,say, when we were like teenagers
, 40 was so old.
Oh my God.
40?
, 40?
, oh my God, never make up the40.
All right, so I'm going to be59 in a couple of months.
I'm 61.

(35:16):
Look at this.
It's amazing.
We both look amazing.
Look at our age.
So it has nothing to do withthe number that you can keep
going.
My good friend is having a bigsalsa.
We're having a big salsa eventhere on November 4th it's my
girlfriend's birthday.
She's turning 70.
Never, you would never know,never know.
She dances every single weekend.

(35:38):
She's amazing, she's, she'sjust amazing.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
She loves life.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
She's enjoying her life.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, but that's the key.
That's the real, real job.
People have to understandwhatever occupation you have or
you're a doctor, a dentist or anunderwater basket weaver, it
doesn't matter Right?
The real, real job is to loveyour life and all that's in it.
That's the job.
What are you doing here on thisplanet, in your own body and in
your own space that God's givenyou to run around and be here
on?
What are you doing that'smaking you happy and feel

(36:08):
fulfilled and full of all yourpotentials that have been
expressed and done?
Like what's done off thewhere's your bucket list?
It should be a wheelbarrow.
Seriously, it should be thegrand Canyon of stuff you want
to do.
Yeah, just keep doing them allthe time and don't.
Don't miss the fun for themoney.
Don't miss the fun Cause you'resick.

(36:29):
Don't miss the fun becauseyou're have a poopy attitude.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Don't miss the fun.
Just go.
Just do it.
Just do something new.
There's so many things to do inmost cities.
Right now we're in FortLauderdale.
There is so much to do in FortLauderdale and in Miami and West
Palm Beach, just in SouthFlorida alone.
There's never a dull moment inthe city.
If you want to work out, youwant to do yoga, you want to go
swimming, you can go.

(36:53):
Boating comedy dolphinseverything.
There's nothing you can't dohere, so you can't do here so
you can't say I have nothing todo.
And if you don't have a lot ofmoney, go to the park.
The beach is free, go walk onthe beach, enjoy the sun, watch
people watching you know I lovepeople watching, I love going to
watch people.
You know people interesting.

(37:13):
So there's so much stuff youcan do and and it just live a
better life.
And that's all we want to tellyou here is just live a better
life.
Make the choices and realizethat the choices, the situation
in your life, is because of thechoices you've made.
Absolutely, and I've gonethrough the road, we've all gone
through it.
I've done bad choices and mylife was going bad.
Okay, why did I have a stroke?

(37:35):
Because my life wasn't goinggood.
I didn't take care of myself.
I was drinking um more thannormal.
Um, I wasn't.
I was eating whatever I wanted,whenever I wanted, and that's
the truth Steak, fried chicken,bacon, like anything.
It didn't matter.
If it felt, if it tasted good,I ate it.

(37:56):
Okay, that kind of thing.
And and and I knew in my mindthat I wasn't doing it correctly
.
And then I was really fullblown diabetic at that time.
Well, so didn't reallyunderstand.
And people, please.
Diabetes is very serious.
It's a serious disease becauseonce you have it, if you don't
get your sugars in control, whatit does is when your sugars are

(38:19):
high, it starts eating yourorgans.
Okay, so what happens?
Over time you spend years andyears like this your organs
start getting weaker and weaker.
So your liver, your kidneys,your pancreas all that start
will start going.
And unfortunately we had, um uh, somebody in the family.
Jc's cousin died three yearsago because of that, because he

(38:42):
had a broken heart.
Unfortunately, he had a brokenheart and he gave up.
He just gave up on life.
He stopped taking his medicineand he didn't take care of his
diabetes.
His sugars was 600, 800.
Oh my God, that's so he was only47 years old.
We're so sad that he's gone andhis kidneys failed.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Yeah, Diabetes.
Diabetes has a huge effect onyour kidney function and your
pancreas and your renal failure,and it's it's treatable, it's
reversible.
You don't have to live with itanymore.
There are so many methodologiesthat can help have your body
heal from this and change and bestrong again.

(39:21):
It's not an overnight process,but a little bit each day will
help your body recover If youstick to it.
Add more of a plant-based diet,get some more exercise, cause
when you exercise your musclesare contracted and it takes the
sugar, the glycogen, out of yourmuscles for energy to do the
work.
So exercise helps take out thesugar that's stored in your body

(39:45):
.
The over acts over an excess ofsugar.
So walking in in in some goodaerobics and some strength
training is vital to ward offyour diabetes, so that your body
can really push the sugar outand, of course, not overindulge
and have it come back in, and alot of starches of course turn
to sugars and we're such asociety that's a whole nother

(40:07):
show.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
I know Well in our society, like I love pizza, okay
, well, I don't love it as much.
Let me just say that I used tolove pizza.
Like pizza was my to go thing.
I grew up in New York.
So when you're walking down thestreet I'm hungry and then
slice, and you grab a slice ofpizza and you walk down the
street and you eat your pizzaand then you know there was like
a dollar for a slice of pizza,right, so we grew up eating
pizza all the time, but it'sdough and cheese.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
The sauce, the tomato I can deal with, but the cheese
is fattening.
Have you ever tried to peel thecheese off of melted cheese off
?

Speaker 1 (40:39):
of bread, yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Now it's stuck Can you imagine, that's how cheese
sticks inside your organs too,and why it's so hard to digest.
And so when you say, get offthe dairy, yes I'm, I'm 99.9%
dairy free.
I'm like every once in a whileI want an ice cream, so like if
I have one on my birthday or Ihave one on vacation, like it's
a treat for me and I enjoy itand I don't worry about it.
But in terms of having cheeseand milk, and yogurt and and all

(41:02):
kinds of dairy.
Right yeah, first of all,there's no other creature.
I just want to say this aboutdairy there's no other animal on
this planet that drinks anotheranimal's milk, I mean unless,
like you know, in a farm, thatyou have a cow and a deer and
the mother's gone and they helpit.
But that's an unusualcircumstance, right?
And no other animal, once theirbaby is weaned, drinks milk

(41:26):
either the rest of their life.
So milk from the animal that itis born from, a cow, has a calf
and the calf can drink all thatmilk and digest it because it
has that particular digestiveenzyme.
And if we took human breastmilk and put it in Publix in a
bottle bottle, would anybodydrink it?
And put it in their coffee?
No, but it's human, yet we goand drink it from another animal

(41:47):
who's attached to thesesqueezers?
we're having milk from anotherpit, okay and we don't have the
digestive enzymes in there tobreak it up.
We don't, because a baby calfis supposed to turn into a 2 000
pound heifer and we're drinkingmilk all day long and you know

(42:10):
we don't need that.
No, you know, if we're gonnahave a plant-based milk almond
milk, cashew milk, flax milk'sdelicious, that's fast we just.
Dairy is probably the biggestsaturated fat weight producing
thing.
That's in like everything yes,and are we ever going to get
away from it totally in ourwhole life?

(42:30):
Not always.
But you can make choices thatare better for you that cut
dairy out or cut it down, orhave it in a plant-based formula
that still tastes delicious andfewer calories and fewer
saturated fats.
That can substitute for fullfat and full this and that and
I'm not saying that you shouldnever not have fat, because
there are a lot of really goodfats for you.

(42:52):
Your brain is 75% fat.
Avocado, olive oil, salmon, wal,know, flaxseed all of those are
excellent omega-3 fatty acidsthat moisturize you and keep you
limber on the inside.
So, yes, you want good fats,but you know sausage, bacon,
pepperoni all those deli meatsthat are have nitrates and

(43:14):
sulfites and nitrites in them.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
Yeah no, that's the, the, yeah, that's the whole
thing not so much and there's alot of things that, um, I know
people are saying how am Isupposed to eat and everything.
Don't make it stressful, right?
You know the the the thing islike I.
I talked to um my acupuncturist, dr love.
So one time I love dr right,that's the love dr love wherever

(43:37):
you are.
So anyway, he goes to me.
I said but they don't have fastfood for vegan food.
He goes yes, they do.
It's called a salad.
He says take a handful ofgreens, put in a bowl, cut up a
tomato, put a cucumber, put alittle onion are more and more
health food places that arecoming out that have organically

(44:01):
grown food or hyponically grownfood with no hormones and
steroids and antibiotics in theanimals.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
If you're going to have animal food and no less
pesticides or no pesticidesthere, there's ways that we can
eat cleaner that these chemicalsand these additives do not get
in us, especially in young womenand girls.
The hormones and steroids thatwe're eating in our animals are
going into our endocrine system.
If you look now in this day andage, almost every young girl is

(44:28):
getting their period at eight,nine, 10 years old.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
No time ever should a child, be able to have a period
and get pregnant, but that'sanother whole horrible thing
anyway, but I'm just sidetracked.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
So the whole point is most women didn't get their
period till 14, 15, 16, and nowwe're cutting that number in
half because we're eating thehormones and steroids from
animals and it's messing us upand causing these hormonal
changes in our children, yeah,and, and man boobs in our boys,
yeah, I've seen a lot like thatand adding tons of extra calorie

(45:00):
and weight to people, that itis just, uh well, we'll, we'll,
we'll, let that go.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
It's just a point of health, wise I know, because
they have made it and I'll behonest so they've made it in
society that fat is pretty rightthat they made it honoring it,
they're honoring it becauseyou're a big woman and
everything like that.
Now there are people who arelarge, okay, but I'm sorry,

(45:28):
everybody's born the same way.
You know what I mean.
You're born six, eight pounds,right, you were six, eight
pounds, right.
You're born the same way.
So everything after you're bornand what you do after that, you
know right, that's whatincreases the.
It's not like, oh, but my mamawas always 350 pounds, so that's
why I'm three.
Well, excuse me, if you have a,if you have one person,

(45:50):
especially the matriarch, right,if the mom is heavy and she's
doing all the cooking, guesswhat?
All of you are going to be thesame like her, because you're
eating the same food, right I'msaying but if she's cooking the
same foods, then then that's whythere was a whole thing on TV
one day and it shows a wholefamily, right, and it shows the
mama, the dad and all the kidsand they were all very large,

(46:11):
they were overweight, okay, andthey're like oh, we all have
generational heart disease.
And I was like you know whygenerational heart disease?
Because they have the samehabits.
They have the same habits.
You're eating the same thing,so if you already have, the
genetic propensity plus thehabits right and the energy on
it, you're going to have thesame.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
You know prognosis.
So here's the thing, too is wedon't want to disrespect anyone
because of their size, but theproblem about being that size
and we want to try and make thatnormal it's anything but normal
.
It truly is not normal to haveyour heart and your hips have to
carry this mass around Forevery 10 pounds.
You're overweight.
Your heart has to pump fourtimes heavy four times more.

(46:52):
Your kidneys, your pancreas,your organs have to work harder
to clean your blood and gettoxins and things out.
So it's not just a matter ofhonoring who you are.
We always want to honor thesoul of a person Truly.
there's no disrespect there inany way only love, but medically
and healthfully it's nothealthful at all and it's very,

(47:16):
very detrimental and theprecursors for heart disease,
diabetes, cancers, arthritis andall kinds of digestive issues
as well.
It is a downfall of yourability to live easily and move
with grace and lightness.
It's very difficult to be asuper large, heavy person, and

(47:36):
the problem with that isn't justthat.
It is our habits that make usthat.
The toxicity that residesinside you.
A body builds a fat cell as aself-defense mechanism.
It'll give you a big tush toprotect you because all your
organs, your brain, your heart,your lungs, your kidneys and
stuff, everything is filteringto try to clean that out.

(47:59):
And if you have 60,000 milesseriously like your hair, 60,000
miles of bloodstream throughwhich everything and I mean
absolutely everything you put inyour mouth or on your skin
travels internally through yourbody and your sensors and your,
your self, your defensemechanisms, your white blood
cells, your, your lymph nodes,everything as these soldiers

(48:22):
that go through the bug going,what's that?
What's that?
What's that?
We've got to remove this ifit's toxic.
And so your body works so hardto try to excrete toxins we pee,
we poop, we throw up, we fart,we squish our eyes.
Your body has a millionprocesses to eject stuff that
doesn't work.
But after a while it gets sobacked up that your body starts
packing in and the farthestreaches of the universe under

(48:43):
your skin, farther and fartherout, to pull it away from the
internal bloodstream so thatit's outside at the farthest of
your butt and your gut and underyour arms and in your channel.
So that's what a fat cell is.
It's a garbage can internallyto pack toxins in.
And if you want to burn themoff with exercise, want to burn

(49:09):
them off with exercise.
Fat burning right and aerobic.
Also fat burning and strengthtraining will help build muscle
and burn fat is when you havethis level of toxicity that sits
in you.
It's an amazing self-defensemechanism in every human that'll
build more and more and moreand more and more and more fat
cells to wear out this big.
How do we get in a car?
How do we go to the bathroom?
How do we get on a plane?
How do you move easily in life?

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Because of this toxicity.
So when you look at a fat cell,when I see someone and I hate
to use the word fat that'sabsolutely the F word to me we
aren't fat because we're fat,we're toxic.
So when I see somebody who'sobese, and especially morbidly
obese, they're toxic, they'refull of toxicity and that's why

(49:52):
your body is storing that inthere.
Too much food undigested,unprocessed, unused you eat
because you make fuel.
Food turns into energy for yourbody, turns into energy for
your body.
But if you overdo it and allthe processes, the processed
foods and the chemicals.
Your body, first of all, cannotprocess processed foods right
off the bat.
Your body has never been builtto understand or use in any way

(50:18):
processed foods.
So every chemical and everyadditive, every red dye 40,
everything that's an excipientor a binder or whatever it is to
fluff up the food that is notfrom the ground, like the word
apple, your body cannot use itand will fight to get it out.
And if you're active maybeyou'll burn it off, but if
you're not, it's there.

(50:38):
The body's going to extract itand pack me tell you, and it
packs fast, and it packs deepand here's the thing about
dieting when we lose weight andwe go back to eating, we lose
weight, come back, up and down,and up and down, and up and down
.
Every time we lose weight butthen gain it back, the body goes
oh my God, the danger's back.
We need more fat cells faster,thicker, deeper, denser and

(51:06):
we're going to have to protectthe body even more, so then they
become really reluctant toleave because they are
protecting you from yourtoxicity Wow.
So if you stop putting it in,the body doesn't need to make
any more fat cells and you canburn off the ones you have, and
then your body will transforminto lean muscle mass and remove
fat.
So when people say they want tolose weight, weight is the
worst terminology ever andeverybody uses it all over the
world.
It's not weight Cause.
If you think about how muchyour body weighs, what's the

(51:28):
weight of your body?
You have lean muscle mass, bone, mineral density, blood volume
connective tissue, all your softtissue, and then fat.
You only want to lose the fat.
You don't want to lose astructural foundation and health
and fortitude of your body.
And we do all these crazy dietsand all these crazy shots and
all this crazy chemical stuffand the body avalanches out and
we just want the scale to beless.
You leech out and seep out andeek out structural formation

(51:55):
that is necessary, along withsome fat.
So we lose lean muscle mass, welose some blood volume, we lose
connective tissue strength, welose bone mineral density
strength, so that the body nowis going uh-oh, what happened to
myself here?
And you'll have cravings, to putit all back because the body
feels like it's just beenshop-facked and so you only want

(52:16):
to lose fat the proper way,with a little bit at a time.
It's kind of like this you goon vacation.
You come home, your whole houseis robbed down to the studs.
Everything's missing your yougo on vacation.
You come home, your whole houseis robbed down to the studs,
everything's missing.
You have your TV and the wallunit's gone and the whole house
is empty and you feel veryviolated, as opposed to having a
garage sale where you just pickand choose the things that you
don't like and the structure ofyour house stays the same.

(52:37):
So we want to do a program ofhealth and wellness that
balances your nutritional needsfor your body to thrive, and
practice the exercises that helpbuild the lean muscle and burn
off the fat, in conjunction withmeditation and calming things
and prayer and things that makeyou enjoy your life, because it

(52:59):
can't just be fitness and food.
There's a spiritual componentand a mindful component that
drives those processes and ithas to start with happiness.
It has to start with joy andappreciation and gratitude that
you're still here, that youdidn't freaking kill yourself
with all the stupid shit we did.
Right, it's true, you're livingproof of it.
Right, I mean to say with themost love.
But no, you're such an exampleof surviving and thriving now,

(53:22):
from the lessons you learnedabout not taking care of
yourself to now kicking somebutt and taking names about it.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
And.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I couldn't be happier for you and proud of you for
all the work you did to bringyourself to this level of health
.
And it's doable for everyone itis.
We can always feel better, wecan always do better.
One thing better today thanyesterday, yes.
One less bad thing today thanyesterday yes, and repeat
tomorrow.
That's how absolutely easy itis.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
It's not all at once.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yes, when less bad thing today than yesterday and
repeat tomorrow.
That's how absolutely easy.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
It is Little baby steps, it's not all at once.
Yes, it has to be baby steps,because then you're not going to
continue to do it so like inthe beginning.
I went straight vegan for abouta year and a half, almost two
years, because I was detoxing,cleaning out my body and
everything.
And it was rough in thebeginning.
What do I cook?
What I make?
And I make a lot of good things.
And then poor JC right, I gethim on the thing.

(54:05):
I get him on.
He's like I need a, I need apork chop.
I can't go without any meat.
So he was sneaking out to getsome meat, you know.
But he lost so much weightbecause he was getting tired of
vegetables and he startedshrinking and shrink, I'll go
and he lost a lot of weight.
So then now, weight or musclehe lost muscle.
So he was upset because he lostmuscle.
He lost fat and muscle, right?

(54:26):
So that's what I'm saying.
We lose a lot of other things.
Yes, you do, I lost some muscletoo.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Blood cells you lose components of your osteoblasts
and your bones, you lose a lotof important structural,
foundational strength.
No-transcript your level ofexercise per your, your whole

(54:55):
idea of life.
But the most important thing isis finding what that is that
works for you.
And if you have animal products, make sure they're hormone free
, steroid free, you know,antibiotic free, all these
things that make it be toxic.
And have a little bit of ithere or there to add to the

(55:16):
nutritional needs that you need.
Right, but driving throughMcDonald's drive-thru or another
, I shouldn't probably say aname pink slime, which was
horrible, and you know Googlemeat glue.
Go on Google and Google meatglue.
And there's this unbelievablyscary shit about the white
powder.
They take the old, dirty scrapsof food.
They put this white Starts witha G and I can't remember the

(55:38):
sign Words for it and they putit together, they roll it
together, they wrap it up infoil to put in the fridge.
It looks like a petite filet.
When you cut it out, it lookslike perfect meat and you can't
tell the difference.
Google meat glue.
Oh well, they also might notwant to eat.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
They also have lab grown, which is another issue.
They're starting to makechicken breasts in the lab and
in some states that are sellingthis now, I'm not eating that.
If that, at that point I willbe vegan.
Because I'm not eating that.
If that, at that point I willbe vegan.
Because I'm not.
Unless I have my own chicken inmy yard, I am not doing it.
Oh gosh, the things we do toobliterate and adulterate our
food.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
It's already so bad and that's what's really scary
for people is what am I going toeat?
What am I going to do?
This is so hard because there'snothing good to eat that's safe
and in some aspects the fear isreally true, and that is.
But together with someone who'sbeen there and done that, I go
on shopping trips.
I go to farmer's market, I takemy peeps to where the good food
is.
We know what the packages are.

(56:33):
We know what to choose.
Once we try.
When I have somebody come overas a private client, I bring
them into my kitchen and we cookfood and we make things and
they taste stuff.
So then they know if they likeit.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
Then they can go outside and go get it.
You have to be comfortable.
Don't be afraid of vegetables.
I know so many people and I'mtelling you right I laugh about
it but everybody nobody likesvegetables.
I love vegetables.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
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out more information.
So, continuing back to ourconversation, we're talking
about vegetables.
So vegetables, vegetables aregood vegetables have a lot of
flavor, um, and you know, myaunt always tells, sells me, um,
oh, I don't, like, they don'thave any flavor.
I should say, dude, they havebroccoli flavor.
Or they have Brussels sproutsflavor, like how you cook them

(01:00:12):
and how you prepare them.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
But vegetables are your friends.
Everybody are your best, like Imake cauliflower uh, not
cauliflower cabbage.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
I do.
I take the whole cabbage, Islice it like an inch thick
slices.
I put it in a pan.
I just a little bit of oliveoil, some little bit of salt,
some fresh garlic on there.
I stick it in the oven for 20minutes.
It comes out.
It's sweet.
It tastes so good.
So that's my side brusselssprouts and broccoli also are
sweet when you cook them too.
Brussels sprouts too yeah,brussels sprouts, their flavor

(01:00:42):
changes so much when you roastthem, yes, and if they get a
little burnt on them, they're sogood.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Yeah, drop a little balsamic.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
Yeah, oh, it's so good oh really good yeah.
Another thing is kale.
Hi Hi, sorry, someone came in,so we also do.
I do kale chips Like I take thekale, I just chop it up and
just drizzle a little bit ofolive oil and I put it in the
oven.

(01:01:07):
Make little chips.
Oh yeah, so I've eaten thoseall day.
So there's a lot of things.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
That's a way you can make healthy stuff for you as
your snack, and it doesn't haveto be a snicker bar, right,
exactly.
And I have to tell you if mystudents, my clients, my
students, is I can find anythingthat you like, seriously,
anything that you like withhealthier ingredients.
And then, once you know whatthose foods are, it makes
shopping and food prep and mealsso much easier to do and so

(01:01:32):
much more enjoyable and you feelso empowered by choosing the
right foods that feed yourselves.
When you feed yourselves rightand that's important, because
deep down into the mitochondriaof a cell, it's the powerhouse
of every cell that makes everyaction happen the intracellular
fluid, the extracellular fluid,the science you want to make
sure that what you're givingyour cell will make it be alive

(01:01:54):
and thrive so it can do its jobfor you and all the different
organ systems that you have.
You have lung cells, you havekidney cells, you have heart
cells, you have ovaries, youhave a million cells that, when
from infancy, that divide, alldivided into exactly what it
needed to do to make your bodybe a magical machine.
And when you eat good foods andit feeds you at that atomic,

(01:02:17):
molecular level, your bodychanges chemically into this
really powerful machine and youfeel differently.
And serotonin, your happychemical.
In fact, we all make our owndose.
I just want to talk about yourhappiness.
We always so many people are ona lot of meds for their heads

(01:02:38):
and anxiety and depression andthings like that.
And chemically, if that's whatyour physician needs you to do,
there's ways that have to helpyou that way, but overall,
blueberries and blackberrieswith astaxanthins, going for a
walk and making your ownserotonin.
Serotonin is your happy chemical.
You're yammy, it's made 80ok inyour tummy.

(01:03:03):
You are not going to be able tomake it because the environment
which it's grown is dead.
And so when we take probioticsand prebiotics that help feed
good bacteria microflora in thegut, you make your own happy
serotonin 80% it goes to yourbrain and then you feel happy,
clappy.
So we have our own dose of medsthat are our own chemistry

(01:03:28):
dopamine, oxytocin, your lovechemical.
I love you and your friends,and how happy you feel in your
love.
Serotonin and endorphins andall of those we create through
our nutrient value and ourexercise and our, our feelings
of yay, we love life.
And so we can boost our owndose of our own stuff without
having to take prescriptionover-the-counter narcotics.

(01:03:49):
Yeah, try and fix our bodywhere we can do it ourselves
exactly, exactly and a lot of it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Again, we talk about food emotion.
So, um, it goes hand in hand.
When you're not happy like Iwasn't happy for a long time
with myself, who knows I waslike, I was like the dog chasing
your tail.
You know how many people outthere feel that way.
You, you're like the dogchasing your tail because you're
so unhappy and you're stilltrying to like I need to go that

(01:04:15):
way.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
I just don't know what you don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
You're in the circles and because of that, everything
affects you.
Your alcohol, okay.
Okay, Drinking alcohol it's apain avoidance.
It's a pain avoidance but it'sa depressant.
So you're depressed.
I may have a drink, Great.
Now you're more depressed, butyou don't even realize that
because now you got a buzz fromthe alcohol.
So you think, okay, that'llnumb me a little bit, but when

(01:04:40):
you come down from that you'reworse than you started.
So it's a really.
So I've been there, Um, I'vedone.
I I mean I used to be on twodifferent insulins, okay, Before
, um, I stopped drinking and Imean I drink once in a while now
, but I, I just can't do itanymore.
Honestly, I don't enjoy itanymore.

(01:05:00):
So that's because my mindsetI've changed my mind, mind.
I don't need the liquor, rightyou don't want it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
So I can't have it anymore.
That's no, I don't wantanything ever.
You don't want it anymore.
Instead of I can't have itanymore.
Resentment and the frustrationis not there and you don't want
anymore, because it's joyful andhappy for you to not put that
in your body.
Yeah, and it's a free, happychoice to do that where you feel
so much more empowered aboutyourself.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Yes, and that's.
And that goes with alcohol,that goes with drugs.
I did, I did cocaine in my lifeand it was very difficult.
And then I think about it nowwhere, why I was in that spot.
I was miserable.
Ok, I had a bad thing happen tome in my life and then I was
just miserable.
So it was.
I don't want to feel anything.
So when you're like that andyou don't really, you don't know

(01:05:47):
what to do with the emotionsthat you're going through and
your brain.
You're not connected with yourheart and your head and thinking
about how you're thinking aboutlife.
And again it goes about mindset.
It's about thinking what do youwant in your life?
Are you happy?
If you're not happy, you're theonly one can change that.
Else can change it.
Right, nobody can change you.
No one can live your life foryou in any way.
I remember years ago, um, whenI was really unhappy and I was

(01:06:12):
like I was going to move toaustralia.
Okay, why?
Because I just I always wantedto go to australia, but I
figured, hey, maybe if I changescenario, right, if I change
where I live, I'll make mehappier.
Guess what?
I didn't go to australia, sodon't.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
I didn't go to Australia, so don't worry.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
I was trying to run away from myself.
I was running away from myself,didn't realize that I can't run
away from myself.
I need to fix me first.
It doesn't matter where I live,it doesn't doesn't matter,
because it's just amazing.
So once in it, and it didn'thappen overnight.
So don't, I didn't do thisovernight, it's taken me a long
time.
In the last almost seven yearsof my life has been a journey
that I built a life with JC.

(01:06:53):
Everybody knows me, knows JC's,my, my husband and we.
We we've built together, we'velearned together and we've we've
changed our internal right Tomatch our external.
So we're enjoying more life andrunning a business, which is
not easy, and we just thinkabout things differently now we

(01:07:15):
look at it.
We look at it.
Our family's happy, you know.
Our house is good.
You know.
You just have to look at allthe beautiful things out there
in your life.
I have two beautiful sons.
Yeah, gratitude, everything'sabout gratitude.
We had miss gangster gratitudegangster.
Here she says it.
Miss miss maya was in in in ourpodcast a couple of weeks ago

(01:07:37):
and she talked about gratitudeand a couple of things she's
gone through.

Speaker 2 (01:07:40):
That changes everything gratitude changes
everything when you can look atyour life right now and find
something good and wonderful.
Just being on this side of thegrass is the number one thing
that you're grateful for isyou're still here and have every
opportunity to make a newdecision and a new energy and a
new excited thought that couldmove you forward to the thing
that you want.

(01:08:00):
So just being here is somethingto be grateful for.
And if your body works, you canwalk and you can talk and you
can think and you can see, andthat in and of itself, there's a
lot of people who are missinglimbs and body parts Exactly

(01:08:25):
those things that are undermajor, that are worthwhile and
mean something to you.
Start there and, every day, wakeup and go, thank you for all my
blessings and let the dayunfold with new wonderful things
, because I'm always divinelylove-guided and blessed.
Everyone truly is.
Unless you don't believe thator see it, you still are, but
you might not feel it, becauseif you're resistant to that

(01:08:46):
thought, but as soon as you openyour heart to all good things
and believe in them and wantthem and know that they're
valuable and meant to be for you, you're supposed to love your
life and you're supposed to haveall this goodness.
It comes to you.
It comes to you if you believein it and you do the work like.
Alita did the work.

(01:09:08):
She changed her life day by day, step by step.
You might have a little stepback here, but then you move one
step forward two step forward,then six step forward, and then
someone else comes into yourlife and says we love you and we
think you're fabulous and weknow that you can do this and we
want to come along on the ridewith you and boom, you feel so
much better and then somethingelse those arms right there,

(01:09:29):
those arms, those are my next.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
That's my next goal.
I started, I started.
I have a little muscle there.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
Okay, watch this, do this all right, all of this is
doable, everybody.
Hold this like this, okay.
Okay, hold it up like this andjust twist your wrist in there.
Watch, go ahead, do it one moretime, twist it out, twist it up
, twist your wrist.
Oh, look at that, we didn'teven do anything other than that

(01:09:55):
.
We didn't even do there.
Squeeze your fingers now.
Now do it with squeezing yourthumb and squeeze your fingers
and watch how much more you popit oh, wow, oh, you can feel
that yeah, yeah, right, so whenyou do that, you do this right.
When you, when you hold your maxback and twist it in right, I'm
doing it backwards, here we gookay watch.
This is my thumb and this is myindex finger oh, wow right,

(01:10:24):
that's extra, just because Isqueezed it Right and if you
look, it goes all the way intothe shoulder and through the
pecs Just from the grip.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
How long have you been training now?
How long have you been doingthis?

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
all your life I've been a trainer for 25, almost 30
years doing it, no-transcriptmoney and thank God I saved.

(01:11:16):
You know enough to to supportmyself with and help my family.
But after a while my friendswould go.
Oh God, andrew, you're notmaking any money here, you need
to go first.
You need to go be a trainerbecause that's your other job
now, because you love it.
But it made me realize that Ihad to follow my heart in a new
direction because it really madesuch a change in so many
people's lives.

(01:11:37):
And I was doing it for fun.
And she's like no, don't do itfor fun, I go, I have to do it
for fun.
She don't do it for fun, I go,I have to do it for fun, she
goes yes, but do it for yourcareer.
And so then, I, you know, I tookwhat I knew and I just, um, you
know, got all the differentcertifications to really educate
myself and become, you know,the best at what I can do to
bring the changes to people.

(01:11:57):
And so that's where I am rightnow.
So it's been 25, almost 30years.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
When did you come up up with the MaxPak?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
So the MaxPak came out of necessity because
somebody clunked me with theirdumbbell in a training thing.
I was turning to look to dosomething else and I turned back
and I got clunked with it and Ithought holy smugolus oh wow.
Like my skull couldn't stick.
And then somebody once droppedthe kettlebell and I'm like
there's got to be something elsethat's safer and more

(01:12:26):
comfortable than this, and so Istarted in my garage with
plastic and duct tape and likekitties that are in rocks and
sand and anything I can find andI duct taped them together and
it would always splash out Right.
And then I went to vinyl andzippers.
I went to my fabulous shoerepair guy who has this great
machine, and I had him stitch azipper for me on a vinyl thing

(01:12:49):
and I still have to duct tape iton the inside, but if you
slammed it down too much itstill broke open.
I was like, oh my god.
So then, through the journey, Ifinally met a fitness
manufacturer you know, who'sdone millions and millions of
fitness equipment throughout theworld right manufacturer,
because I just couldn't figureout how to get it to be where
you could slam them and do amillion things, and I wanted a

(01:13:09):
professional grade product, andso he helped me do that and got
it manufactured for me and, youknow, emptied my savings account
and got a SBA loan and apersonal loan because I just
wanted it so bad that I just puteverything into it and you know
, here's the thing aboutmanifesting your dreams and this
is about how you believe it.
I believed it so much, I couldsee it so much, that it came

(01:13:32):
right and everybody's like whatare you doing?
This is ridiculous.
No one's gone, I all thenaysayers, but in my heart I
brought something I believed inand made it and brought a new
thing to the world a new fitnessgym, weight training, fitness
product that is safe andeffective for all demographics,
from beginning, intermediate,advanced, and there's thousands

(01:13:52):
and thousands of ways to usethem that are safe.
And it's probably the mostversatile piece of gym equipment
that you can, because when youreally study how I put the
workouts together seriously,there's a million things to do
and even partner drills and it'sgood for yoga and pilates and
martial arts.
You can use as a portablepunching pack and can stand on
them and sit on them and throwthem and roll them and squat
them and lunge them and balanceon them and ab crunch on them,

(01:14:15):
and there's a million tweaks andvariations on every one of
those things as well, and youcan use one, you can use three.
I use five of them when I go tothe pentagon.
They look at me cause I'm alittle girl.
Five foot to a hundred pounds.
And you've got these bigSequoia gentlemen who flip tank
tires and jump on airplanes.
And they look at me who's thislittle chick with a red pillow?

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
I'm like it's not a pillow.
So I challenged them to likethe harder, like gym level,
military level training that Ido, cause I went into the gym
and I studied all the PTtraining that's required to pass
their PT tests, and then Iadded the max packs to all of
those.
And sitting on the people youknow do the neck yanking, elbow
flapping, shoulder pulling forabs, but as soon as you just

(01:14:54):
work from your abs and you siton them, they all fell off and
they didn't.
I mean, they're beautiful butthey just didn't have that
coordination and that thatfinesse that it took to do that.
And they were like Whoa and solike when they do their pull-ups
, I make them squeeze one of thebig ones in between their quads
and at the top of a pull-up asthey're squeezing across, crunch

(01:15:15):
up at the top.
So instead of hanging a beltwith a, a weight plate, through
the middle which pulls on thespine with the chain.
You have to, with your own work,squeeze it through your legs,
which zips up in your abs.
So it's already so much forceand it's weighing you down, so
you've got to squeeze across,you've got to pull up and then
crunch up at the top against thepull of gravity.

(01:15:36):
So it's an incredible workout.
So if you practice like thatand then you're just going to do
your PT Tessa pull-ups, that'sgoing to be a piece of cake for
you and for, like, the pushups.
You know they have to do acertain amount in like a minute.
But when I do that, I hang theirfeet in TRX straps, I put
another one in their quads andmake them push through two under
their hand and if you put thebig one on their back, I load

(01:15:57):
them up and they can barely guyscould do a hundred pushups in a
minute, could barely get fiveout.
Wow, five, I said.
If you can get to 10 on this,your a hundred pushups will be
in 40 seconds.
Because when you train morethan what you need to do, and
plus the finesse and the way youhave to hold yourself, utilizes
muscles in a completelydifferent way.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Just doing those little mess.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
The small muscles as well as the large muscles are
also just doing that littlething with the twist of the arm.

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
I feel that I already feel this here.
That's why I said I gotta grabit the other side, because I
could feel the muscle like it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
It pulled the muscle because you grabbed it because a
lot of times if people do adumbbell, you don't, you don't,
it sits in the corner of yourhand, and most people do it with
their finger right.
They do and they they lift likethis.
I'm going to just use yournapkin.
I'll take this piece of paperso, like when they do a dumbbell
can't even hold it.

(01:16:56):
So when you do a dumbbell right,many people go like this and
they leave their fingers open.
There's nothing, there's notthis, there's not this.
Yeah, there's not this.
It's not working.
That it's your squeeze into it,it's the squeeze, it's the

(01:17:16):
squeeze, the magic of the max.
That's the grip right and thisis working on my hands.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Like I said, I have some.
I have some wrist issues fromworking on the computer for so
many years.
So it's it feels good.
I mean I used it last week.
I had a pain, so my my knucklehere, because I always I get
like a little arthritis here,yeah, there.
So but but from using this Iactually it felt pretty good.
I mean it hurts me a little biton my, my thumb, but not

(01:17:42):
hurting, painful just becauseyou're using i'm'm using that
muscle.
So, from just doing it look atthat, I'm doing that I can feel
it already engaging in my arm.
So, but just just doing this isgood because I can feel my
wrist yeah, I feel the supportlike I'm getting a little
stronger on the fingers and andthen the feet also use it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
you know, single hand , right each side and offset
individual sides of the body,and there's no other gym
equipment that you could put inyour quads and squeeze through
Right right as soon as yousqueeze it in your quads.
It doesn't look very ladylike,but it'll work up your abs.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
You put this in between your legs and then you
hold it in your thighs right,and then you squeeze it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
So she did an exercise that was just basically
squeezing the pad just withyour legs and it engages your
quads Like there's anunbelievable core and everything
and doing the crunches too,were amazing because if you sit
on one on the big pad right, themax pack it helps you, because
we can't sit like when you sitIndian style, you don't have

(01:18:42):
that balance and that that thatlift right on the butt.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
So what happens sometimes?
Our hips are in a decline andit's hard for unless you're a
yogi to sit up, really up onyour butt bones.
And we sit more in a Ccurvature to sit with.
Our and our legs are kind oflike this, but as soon as you
sit on the max, pack it liftsyour spinal column and your hips
go down and your knees and youcan sit in this beautiful

(01:19:07):
elongated spinal position fromthe crown of your head to your
coccyx bone where it aligns yourvertebrae.
And that's another part of mytraining is with breath work.
So you want to inhale alwaysand then go and use the oxygen
and the force of your movementso that you get more clean
oxygen in and you remove morecarbon dioxide.
So when you exhale here's alittle tip for everybody when I

(01:19:30):
asked this science questionwhat's the largest excretory
organ for fat?
And people go well, you pee itout, you poop it out, and I go
well, that's only about 20%.
The largest excretory organ forfat burning is your lungs,
because, like an ice cube, yourfat gets hard, like cauliflower
stuck in you right.
And when you heat it up, likeputting an ice cube in a pot of
water, you heat it up, it melts,it turns to water, then it

(01:19:53):
evaporates and turns to steam.
So when you do fat burning, thathard, rocky, clumpy piece of
fat gets burnt down into liquid,it goes through the bloodstream
and it's converted to carbondioxide in the exchange of
carbon dioxide and oxygen inyour lungs.
And when you exhale, there goesyour fat burning.
So when I tell people to exhalelong and strong, not only does

(01:20:15):
it hold the contraction on theabs which tightens them like a
dishrag, it's helping you withfat burning.
So when people are holdingtheir breath or they're puffing
like this, fish puff out oftheir cheeks.
You're not getting enoughoxygen in and you're not
removing enough carbon dioxideout and you're not aiding in

(01:20:35):
your fat burning.
So you want to get as muchoxygen in and down to the bottom
of your belly and yourdiaphragm and then squeeze your
abs and breathe out the carbondioxide in this long, deep,
almost like lion's breath, right.
And it makes a difference, inthe back of your throat, because
it really makes you contract somuch more force in the body,
which adds to the force of yourworkout.

(01:20:56):
So when you have a force in yourhands and your shoulders and
your back and your butt and yourlegs and your contraction of
your abs, how much internalforce have you generated in that
movement?
That's why you burn out so fast.
So the key principles of usingthe MaxPak are to grip it and to
push to the farthest range ofmotion and then some and then

(01:21:18):
return it so that as far as yougo forward is as far as you go
back and as much power as youuse forward is as much power
forward as you go backward.
So you use the same amount offorce in both directions at the
farthest range of motion whileyou're exhaling and squeezing
and grounding yourself.
That's a lot.
So when I say there's multiplemuscle activation, you can have

(01:21:42):
approximately 20 things going oninside you.
That's really really firing upyour engines and boosting your
metabolism and building thatmuscle and burning that fat off.
It's really an awesome programand once you learn how to work
out with them.
It's so much freaking fun.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
It really is, and we're we're planning to have
some to do a workout here.
Andrew is going to do a workouthere at the studio.
We haven't finalized what dateyet, but I hope you guys come
out.
And if you're in south florida,please come out.
We'll put it all on socialmedia so you can find out when
we're gonna have the class here.
And and also she she has thesemax packs.
You can buy them.

(01:22:16):
They're actually on a bigblowout sale, right?

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
now because I have a lot of inventory that I had
brought back from a big event,and so check out the max packcom
M A, xp, a, c, maximum powerand core.
That's what the max pack standsfor maximum power and core.
So Google the max packcom, goto the products page and see the
sale event, because it reallycan save youa lot of money, and

(01:22:42):
if you want to come pick it uplocally, it can save you on the
shipping.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Right, Exactly so if you, if you want that, come pick
it up locally.
It can save you on the shipping.
Right, exactly so if you, ifyou want that, you can
coordinate it.
We can always have them here atthe studio.
You can come here and check outthe studio at the same time and
pick up your max pack.
Absolutely so um so you can,you can find her, like she said.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
And the MaxPak is my product, so I'm on both on
social media.
Andrea Hammer is also on there,if you just put Andrea.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
Hammer it comes up, so you won't be able to miss her
.
Andrea Hammer and the MaxPakand enjoy the MaxPak.
So we're going to go becausewe've been on for a while here,
yeah, so much fun.
We could keep talking forever.
There's so many things we cantalk about, so we'll probably
have Andrea again on a secondtime.
We'll do a part two with her,because I have a couple of

(01:23:29):
people like like Sharon now thatwas here.
I need to do a part two withher, also because there's so
much we can talk about andnobody wants to listen to us for
three hours.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
So we should have an event though One day.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Yeah, we're going, oh also before I, we're having a
wellness fair.
I haven't done the date yet.
I believe we're going to doNovember 26th.
It's a Sunday.
That's what we're planning todo.
Keep in touch with us.
We've rooted Mindset.
It's like the end ofThanksgiving weekend.
Anyway, we're going to sign offfor right now, jc, if you can

(01:24:01):
just pause it on the top there,and then I will take care of the
rest.

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