January 24, 2022 • 49 mins
Alex Foote, Amy's strength trainer chats with us about keeping and getting physically healthy. It’s not all about getting ripped with big muscles-personal training can help identify imbalances to keep you injury free doing your daily thing!
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Unknown (00:01):
Hi there. I'm Angela.
Amy. Hi, I'm Lila.
We're going to be discussingalternative health techniques.
So if you're looking to heal thephysical, mental or spiritual
parts of yourselves, or ifyou're just curious about what
to try, or what could help youlive your best life, you're
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absolutely in the right place.
So welcome, welcome. So today wehave a special guest. We are
going to chat a little bit withmy personal trainer and
behavioral coach. Alex Foote. Sothanks for being here today,
Alex. Thanks,guys for having me. I appreciate
it.
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Yeah. So Alex, why don't westart by you telling us why you
decided to be a personaltrainer.
I got into it when I was, I gotinto working out when I was 1415
really noticed that I needed tomake a change in my life.
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Because I was my, my father haddied when I was younger, that
perpetuated a behavior of eatingand trying to compensate for
terrible feelings, right. Andusing food as well as inactivity
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and trying to, you know, spaceout into the TV and let life
kind of just passed byI wouldn't know anything about
that. We just have been throughthe pandemic, right. Yeah.
Everyone just taken and stuff.
Yeah. So that transformed intosports, but more sports that
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were independent. I didn't playa lot of teams. I tried team
sports. Yeah, I was always veryheavy. So the consistency made
it tough to keep up witheverybody. Okay. Yeah. So then
that kind of pushed me away. SoI started skateboarding, doing
martial arts. And theseindependent sports kind of
taught me consistency anddiscipline. And if you keep up
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with something, you can getbetter at it, and incrementally
get there. So that then turnedinto let's be a janitor to Jim.
And it's so then cleaning uppeople's crap all the time. You
go, Okay, well, this is nice,but I've ended free membership
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is nice. But can I help peoplewith what I know, and you know,
make a living at it. And like Ihave something to offer, I maybe
have something of value that Icould give to somebody else.
Right. And that kind of startedmy journey of fitness. And then
that from there. I've been doingit for 15 years now. So has
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perpetuated into learning a lotmore about behaviors of people
and their knowledge of their ownbodies and their cell
themselves. That which is alsobrought me to you guys and
right. Yeah, I've been doing itever since and love it.
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Awesome. So Lila, you also havea strong background in like
group fitness and doing allkinds of I will suggest kind of
runs where we call thesemarathons. I don't know, talk to
you a little bit about how yourelate with any of this?
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Well, I mean, obviously, I wouldstart by saying like, kind of
like an endurance athlete is howI would sort of see myself. So
yeah, definitely, I mean,anything to get you stronger,
anything to get you faster Can Ido it longer was definitely my
mindset for a very long periodof time, you know, sometimes
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great, sometimes, not always sogreat, I think, you know, almost
to the reverse of what you'resaying, like you can sit for a
long period of time to sort ofescape things and you can also
run for very right to escapethings.
So I'm kind of the odd man outtoday where I'm like the, if
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you're listening to this, andyou really just need to get your
butt off the couch. I can relatewith you. But I think we can all
find like there's anundercurrent and just you know,
let me go here when I first wasintroduced to Alex, I remember
saying to you, I have thespiritual and the emotional
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piece pretty much under wraps,but I struggle with the physical
and I do so more with likemotivation. I love your cameras
in here because So yeah, justreally with like motivation. In
or I guess what I'm trying tosay is I don't lump myself in
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with athletes. I don't even lockmyself in with someone that
really should be in a gym. But Ido it. So if you're listening to
this, and you don't think you'rethe molds for the gym, I
definitely think we need torethink thing. Yeah, what do we
have to say about that,we all need to get in tune with
our bodies, because we have touse them daily. And they're a
machine that should be welloiled, greased and ready to go
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at a moment's notice. Becauseyou never know, when you're
going to encounter some ice haveto pick up a heavy bag, right.
And all these things. Anyinjuries or compensations can be
avoided if you do the work priorto that event, and try to be
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aware of what muscles to turn onand what muscles to turn off.
That way you write, you alwaysstay in the best of health, and
that helps with the consistencyand all those great things. I
think that most of us, we, weget distracted with all with the
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abundance of distractions. Andwe lose in the distractions, we
lose that connection with ourbody, our physical body, and we
go through the bad habit or themotion. And that can lead to a
negative consequence. It doesn'thave to, but it can, right so
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right. So really thinking aboutlike there's something deeper
going,there's something deeper. And,
and just the preparedness ofbeing used to using your body
and how to use it appropriately,I think can lead you to enjoying
your family, right? Like insteadof having a back injury that you
constantly think about, or pain.
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So I think what sets you apartfrom other trainers, because I
have a lot of different trainersand fitness instructors in my
life is that you tend to meetthe person where they are. And I
feel like you have a deeperunderstanding that like we this,
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you know is Earth and this islife. And our lives move on and
different things happen. And sothere are some days we push a
little harder. And then there'ssome days we have a herniated
disc. And we're not pushing ashard. And I think it there is
our whether you're a personaltrainer, or a teacher, or any
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kind of leader, we really needto, as a society start to look
at meeting people where they areinstead of just going in and
assuming that there they are.
Yep. And yeah, so talk to me alittle bit about that.
So, like you said, everyone'scoming at fitness, nutrition,
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their job, they're all indifferent stages of each one. So
you have to take all theinformation in and develop a
plan based on that individualand what they're facing on a
hourly basis. So they sit forlong periods of time, which most
people do you manage that persondifferently than the
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construction worker who isconstantly compressing their
body in different in differentways. And they're active, but
they may need to just, insteadof a lot of compound movements,
they might need to just isolatedifferent areas of their body,
and then be pulled apart, do alittle decompression, whereas
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the the person that's sittingstill needs the decompression,
but they're not moving. Andbecause of that, then you need
to teach them how to move theirbody appropriately. You may need
to teach that to theconstruction worker to but to
there, so they have been moving,right, like kind of balance to
Lila Have you have you workedwith a personal trainer?
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I have I have worked a longtime. Lots of times,
what do you feel you've learnedabout yourself?
Um, you know, I think it wouldbe hard but one of the things
that definitely helped me withpersonal training was that you
there's this sense ofaccomplishment, right? So if you
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decide, you know, whatever, I'mgonna try push ups or you're
working on upper body strengthor something and you know, you
can do the first one maybe youstruggle with that first push
up, but if you stick with it,and you keep going, eventually
you're gonna be able to do thatpush up and there is a
satisfaction there that can befor for anyone and it doesn't
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necessarily have to be likeheavy duty weights not Not
everybody wants to lookjust showing up as showing up
and when I show, yeah,repetitively I'm like I'm
winning. And then you feel likeyou notice a change, right?
Yeah. So if you do similar, andthen you start to think like,
wow, okay, yeah,exactly difference. So I didn't
realize how much it helps meuntil I injured my spine, which
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is completely unrelated to Alexwith anything I do with Alex.
And I really started to feelfrom the lack of movement. And,
like, the difference was unrealto me. That's really, right. So
as we do these things, whetherit's weight training, cardio,
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all of the above, it's doing alot more than you think. And
it's also helping you releaseenergy. So like, the emotional
piece and the spiritual piece. Iknow like, I call you Dear
Diary, I can't tell you, like, Igo home. And I'm like, Oh, just
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roll it off. I can't believe Ijust told them all that. But I
just because it's so vulnerable.
And I trust you. Like, I trustyou like a protector? Like a
protector that like you're notgonna let me get hurt.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that is mymain is do not get hurt, if
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anything come out of here betterthan you came in.
Right? So I think what I'm, whatI'm saying is, because there's
the there's the groundwork ofthe base of that, then like, you
start to do you know, like thestair climber, even for like
five minutes, all his shit comesup. And then all you should
comes up and you Alex isstanding there, and you trust
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him. So it's like telling yougirlfriend, your deepest. Love
this. What we do?
He's saying, right, yeah,definitely, definitely. And I
think it's, you know, importantto kind of keep in mind, like we
were saying, when you hurt yourback, and I would say, Alex, I'm
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sure. You know, that's the time,it's most important that you see
somebody who knows what it isyou're doing. Because even
though you may know yourworkouts, or you may download
whatever from Instagram, ifsomeone isn't watching you,
right, like you couldpotentially be
I know, in my own workouts, ifI'm not even watching myself in
the mirror, I can get out ofcontrol. So, right. Somebody
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looking from an outsideperspective definitely can give
you with knowledge of symmetryand, and body weight. And body
mechanics can give you a muchbetter situation then you could
possibly get on your own andthen along with the motivation
of them standing there andgoing, am I doing this right?
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Perfect, you are doingperfectly, right? Just that
reinforcement that you are doingit correctly, then solidifies
okay, this is what I'm supposedto be feeling that that then
transfers into, you know exactlywhat you should do. And
hopefully next time, right, so Ikind of think of it like
teaching someone to fish right.
So that that next time they canget that same feeling, I can
identify that that is what theyshould be feeling. And then from
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there, it's yours. Now you runfor the rest of your life. And
hopefully you can attain thatseveral more times that same
burn or that same feeling.
Honestly, I can't believe howpatient you are. Because I've
worked out with you for at leastfour years. And I don't get
anything right ever Lila like ohmy god, I'm the same
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way so I'll uncoordinated ifit's more than one thing. I'm
like, Alright, wait, stop, dothe whole thing over
your feet. How is your feet?
In like, I'm never in my head,the heel. So you know, you kind
of learn as you go along? Well,you're really patient, I just
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have to tell you.
Thank you very much.
So I think that's another thingis like really finding a trainer
that has like core values thatresonate for you. Yeah, is huge.
Yes. Right. And then likeactually like liking the person
like who they are. Becauseyou're kind of in each other's
energy.
You got to mix and mingle,right? Yeah, right. There's no
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way you can't if, if you're notconnected with the person and
how they're right. If you're notpersonally connected, you cannot
I find it's very hard to connectwith the other person's muscles
because they're not letting youin. They're not letting you
right. Some people come to meand they have an idea of what
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exercise is supposed to be iswhat you see in the magazines or
you see on TV, you see aGatorade commercial where
someone's pushing the sled ashard as they can sweat and
everywhere. And that could besomething you do someday. I'm
not against it, but for the mostbecause most people don't need
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that. They don't know it's notone size fits all. Exactly.
Yeah, they, but they, they thinkthey need that. Yeah. So it's my
job then to remind them thathey, maybe we start by feeling
your hamstring and thendeveloping your quad and then
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and then we can start to put thewhole chain together in with a
sled eventually. Right right. Sobut most people will come to me
going I'm ready sweat I'm gonnaget after it right yeah, like
like what? Whyare you I was a sweater. I say
that like as a complimentbecause you know all about the
body just releasing. Yeah. Lotsand lots of
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sweater too. I'm right therewith you.
So not I wish I was nowgoing to drink more. I do more
you drink the more you sweat.
Rightright. Yeah, so I know I think
that every it's everyone'sdifferent and it's finding your
own recipe. Absolutely talkedabout Lila secret sauce. So what
Alex might do with me is verydifferent than what he would do
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with you. Yes, and we know thisbecause I share him with a woman
that could pretty much jump in aCrossFit Yeah, I would never in
my life even walk like put a bigtoe in they're
very in tune with their musclesknows how to manipulate them
well and yeah, has that mindmuscle connection that that one
would hope to attain over yearsof working with your body
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right? But never once have youmade me feel inferior to her?
Like we don't have it's justVita needs this and Amy needs
this and then if we can evermeet in the middle we will we
willwake at the end or something.
YeahI know so well and Alex I would
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assume you do try to find thingsthat people enjoy doing right so
you know if you hate pushing thesled, you could hate
that and most of the time I findI don't even have enough time to
do the I try to incorporate somefun stuff but most of the time
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it's great business as usualwith but I encourage people to
go find their own fun activitiesthat they enjoy. And then we can
we can mix in some trainingexercises or maybe right if it
was a sport some dynamicstretching or something that
would make their sport moreenjoyable. So I I tend to take
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on the boring piece of exercisewhere it's like the stuff people
don't want to work like theirrear delts are right like I
can't even see it back there.
Why the hell do I need itRight exactly. So you want the
show we must Yeah, HollywoodHollywood stuff. Biceps triceps.
Stuff People can see I actuallyone
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time speaking of fun things weflipped like massive truck
tires. Yeah, I felt like like Icould do anything after I did
that. It was likeI told you guys I was a badass
it's a it's a weird feeling likewhen you first do it you're like
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this is so awkward and strangerthat afterwards. It's amazing.
You're like oh my god.
Like 200 pounds.
That have you done thatrecently?
Um, you know before the pandemicYeah, stupid pandemic just
ruined lowdown fitness for Oh yeah,
I'm sure and I'm sure it'simpacted your ability to train
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people.
I had to shut it down for threemonths go get another job and
then slowly get get everyonecomfortable back with getting to
the gym and being with otherpeople and I guess you're still
not quite back to its its, youknow, regularly scheduled
program but it's definitely it'sa different environment for
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sure. In the gym itself, as wellas just meeting people that are
just coming back right justthere. Right there are people
out there they're just goingbeen kind of cruising their
house and their job and that'sabout it. And then they're like,
Hey, if you guys been here youguys been doing stuff? Yeah.
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Yeah, come on in. Let's see. Soit's it's different. But it's
it's evening itself out right?
It's we're getting back to anormal.
What's your favorite activity?
My favorite activity? Isdo you mean in the gym outside
of the gym?
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Let's Let's talk in the gym.
My favorite activity in the gymwould have to be I think I
prefer boxing. As far as a as anactivity that I would go do Um,
my least favorite. Yeah. Itdoesn't you don't like any?
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It's tough. I learned muscles.
i It's it. There's somethinginside of me. That can't connect
to it. It's not that I don'tlike the word can't. It's almost
like, I don't have enough ofsomething to strum it up. Yeah.
Anger, maybe. But I just smashedpumpkins on my shoe. Wait, wait.
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So this wasn't my angel Amystorytime but maybe we tell this
one. So I my friend lives like15 minutes away. And her and her
husband are both trainers. Okay.
Okay. So because everyone in mylife is and they so she said,
can we come to your houseSmashing Pumpkins? Because I
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basically live like in the woodsin the middle of nowhere, and
the deer and coyotes will justcome eat them. So recycling,
right, like composting withother combos. So they came I had
two pretty big pumpkins they hadto and we and I took it over my
head and just gave it all mymind. Hit the mic. Rash you got
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you guys got the sound effects.
Yeah. And so and yeah, just it'sthe Have you ever done this? I
hadn't. And I was like, I needyou guys in my life more is what
I told them.
Not something breakable. Ihaven't but like a medicine.
Okay, yeah. Break open oranything exciting. You just got
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to pick it up. Yeah.
That was my first reaction. Itbroke open and then I go look at
all the seed.
Like you're gonna pump intoeverywhere in your yard. By the
way nextweek. We did it on the I live on
conservation land. So I liveright across the street from
conservation land, so we did iton the conservation. So you
wouldn't have a pumpkin patchyou know, so yeah, we did some
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Smashing Pumpkins. Where was Igoing with this? That was like a
really fun activity.
Oh, we're fighting Russian.
Oh, because I don't like boxing.
I just can't strum that up. Doyou? Have you thought of why you
don'tyou just my arms are too weak.
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Is that just what you're like?
Actually, what'sexhausting? I find it okay. I
didn't mind the punching part ofit. But I was like, it will take
me years to be able to do this.
Five whole minutes. Like I don'thave time for this.
So when all everyone was gettinginto like the boxing craze, I, I
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tried it. And then theinstructor made a very
inappropriate comment. And I wasjust like done yet. You would
just proof that this isn't forme. Yeah, so I'm like, no.
Yeah, there's I mean, there'ssome hurdles definitely this
smelly gloves right.
Oh, man, that's the worst. Andthen it's exhausted.
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Let's say yeah, that's that's agood part I think depending on
get too exhausted, butdefinitely.
So what's your yard? Because Iwant to start to talk about an
internal connection that you andI have chatted about how to take
people inside their bodies andactually observe what they're
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doing when they're working outin what they're feeling and what
like what what's really going onon the inside what what took me
to this was for you to relatewith the boxing or be able to
have some kind of love orpassion or whatever the right
words are there there has to besome kind of connection Do you
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know what it is?
The connection to the what whatto boxing?
Yeah, likewhat do you trudging up? When
you when Ibox yeah I think it's for me it
this may be a male thing. Idon't know. But it could or
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could just be a me thing. I'mtrying to go there but it's it
when I go in there to hit thebag. I it's it's a way for me to
get my energy out on something.
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And when I started boxing, itwas more about defending myself
and the end they'll go hardmentality of just work yourself
into the ground like like Rockybasically you go watch a rocky
montage and you basically seewhat's in it. I'm not in my head
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when I'm eating a bag. But nowit's it's about when I see a bag
because I'm more in tune with mybody mechanics. Yeah, it becomes
an energy release and how Ilike a drug that pees.
Well, kinda like, right?
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What if you listen back at this?
That's totally what he justdescribed.
I mark my turn. Yeah, right.
You just said in the beginning,like I, I release my energy, but
you're actually making contactwith some things. Yes. Kind of
like a dog that mark territory.
I see my connection.
I can see why say it. It's male.
Right? Yeah, I got it. Right. Iknow, intuitively, it's, it's
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right. Just listen to you guys.
Right? Like, I know that it'ssomething. Right? It's like, you
know, it goes wildwith this because I can, in a
way in a feminine way. Tell me.
All right, so I'm gonna dragthis audience you either relate
or you don't, and there's noright or wrong. So when I get
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like really dressed up, and nomatter what size my body is,
because I've been all differentsizes, I I really can like tune
into my goddess, and like,spread it out into the room. But
I'm not looking for anything inreturn. I'm not looking for
compliments. I'm not. It's justsomething inside of me. I can
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access that and like, feel it.
That's what he's describing inhis own way. This Lila, Baby, do
you ever get dressed up and youfeel that goddess see? Like, do
you know how to access that mostwomen don't? I don't know. I
need to teach a class on thisLila. Yeah, no, I
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don't see. And it's funnybecause I think more about like
boxing, especially if you'retalking like a bag or something
like that. Rhythmic. You knowwhat I mean? Like for me, so
like, I used to do a lot ofswimming. And the thing I liked
about swimming was a it wasquiet. But it was it was very
rhythmic. So I never reallythought like I wasn't thinking
anything at all. Besides therhythm of that. So kind of
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that's where I would connect tolike the boxing like, oh, like
rhythm oflike the hand. That's endurance.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just like, it'slike, you know, calming you fall
into like a pattern oflike the right like running. And
yeah, that was running as well.
Yeah,but can you see that? Like I'm
saying the same thing. This iswhen I make Lila think so deep,
is like, like when you enter aroom, and you just feeling like
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that female confidence. And youhave to hold it for like a
duration. That's endurance. Thenyou go home, I'm in my sweats
and my hands and I bought thatAMI to I post that on Instagram
a lot. I'll be like, This isreal me no makeup. No, this is
really what I look like, whichis one of the things that we
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were actually talking aboutbefore we started was this idea
of kind of real people at thegym. Like, not everybody looking
like a fitness.
Kardashian. I don't mean to pickon her. But she's beautiful.
Right? But is that real? I don'tknow. I mean, to her, it is,
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like me.
Yeah, that I mean, you have, youknow, kids, I know she has kids,
whatever, but I'm sure she hassome help, you know, you
probably have kids, you have ahouse, maybe you keep clean or,
you know, whatever, you have tolive your life, like, you know,
for her that is her whole life.
So she can look as fit as shewants to.
She's gotta keep it up forpromotional purposes. So, you
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know, it becomes a you know,your motivation leads to right
the the end result if you'remotivated, if you have enough
motivation you will probablyattend but you know, action does
spark motivation as well. Right?
All right,so let's talk about how moving
the body or exercise can thenlead to healing. So my
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interpretation of this is thatthe physical body is energy, the
emotions are energy, then thisspiritual energy and it's
possible that the that thephysical body is kind of like
the vehicle or some people usethe word temple, but it's a
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little dramatic. To to reallyhouse or bring all these
different areas together, sothat you can be healthy whole
whatever. This is making sense.
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Yeah, the physical is a piece ofthe puzzle. Absolutely. That can
then lead to the emotional andspiritual right right right. So
when someone goes to see Alexbecause they're feeling what why
would someone come see you Alex?
They're feeling uncomfortablewith themselves. They have fear
of some sort and inside and theyand they want to get rid of that
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fear. They want to talk tosomebody else they want
motivation to overcome, saidFear and in that I then become
their soundpost for anythingthat is, and then I can reassure
them that what they're feelingis very normal, and really start
to take away some of that fearso that they can understand that
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the more fear you have, that'swhat's driven you to where you
are, is fear. And if we can takeyou out of that fear, we can
then start to establish newhabits that will, and slowly,
incrementally benefit you overtime.
Right? So Alex is going to do itfrom the physical, physical,
where if you come see Angel,Amy, because I never really
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talked about on this podcastwhat I do, there's a there's a
big emotional piece to what Ido. I mean, you can see even
when we chit chat, I dragged theemotion out. I can't even help
myself.
And I would say like, for a lotof people, myself included, I
think it's much easier to beginat the physical place. Yes, it's
nowhere near as intimidating.
It's, it's, it's somewhat easierto walk in and say to Alex,
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like, I feel lousy, I've gainedweight I haven't been moving.
And then see where it goes fromthere. As you start working, you
might realize I'm fearful ofthis or I'm anxious around the
world. Yeah, exactly. Ifsomeone's looking to change
their life, and they're, theyreally don't know where to
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begin, I would actually tellthem to start they're, like,
start to go for walks, yes. Andjust observe, observe what
you're drawn to. Like, I'm nowI'm talking outside the body.
Like if you see a bird that youlike, are you saying hello to
the same, that real mindfulwalking, right? But then we're
going to start to talk about howto observe inside your body?
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Like, like, how do youphysically feel when you walk.
So I teach a lot about how inthe land of energy, the front
side of the body is actually thefemale side of the body. And
it's, it has to do with presentday or future. And so now I'm
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talking about how you feel likeany aches and pains. The back,
your back side of the body isthe masculine side of the body.
And it's all about the past. TheThe right side is the masculine
side, the left side is thefeminine side. And so you can
start to really learn about yourbody and who you are and what's
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going on with you deeper bylooking at what parts of your
body on What side do you feelreally good? And what parts of
your body in where do you notfeel so good?
That's so interesting, becauseWouldn't you say a lot of women
have a kind of weaker posteriorchain, like, I know,
it's a posterior chain.
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You see, that's your masculine?
Exactly, that's your masculine?
Yes, no, I definitely see a lotof women with a weaker posterior
side. Actually, a lot of people,that's probably their number
one, and as far as left andright, masculine, right, people
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tend to have a weaker, feminineside, the left side versus
masculine, right. So what doesthat
mean? I struggle on the left. Sowhat it means is that
what if you got masculine in theback and feminine on the left,
so masculine on the, like,You're weak in
the masculine on the back, andthe feminine, feminine on the
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left? That'sa lot of people's Yeah.
So if we were in an angel, Amysession, I would start to either
get, you know, connect andfigure out things that happened
to you, or we would talk aboutthings that happen to you in
childhood to do with Father, isthat back is is masculine. Yep.
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And then we would start to talkabout what you do for a living
and who you are in your home andhow much you give, because the
left side is receiving. Oh, andit's a female side, but it's
also receiving. So we just havea bunch of like daddy issues
with with a lot of minds on thefront. But yeah, yeah. Well, I
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have I have herniated discs.
Well, no, I lie. I just show upat the gym. Everybody. I just
show.
Alex does the rest, right. Yeah.
We monitor progress. Yeah. Sothere's that benefit, too, if
you're someone who just wants toshow up? Yeah. Personal Training
could be for you.
Yes. And then yes, hopefully, wecan set you up with Yeah, over
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time getting more consistent onyour own and
totally, definitely. Yeah, soDid that answer your question?
Thanks.
Yeah, that's that's justinteresting, really interesting,
I think. Thanks, Lila.
Yeah, trying to think what else?
I honestly, energetically thefeet are kind of like the root
of all things. So like the feettell you like the way you stand.
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Who else Alex and I have talkedabout this or the like, not only
the way, so the way you standwhen you're not thinking about
it, like, where do you shiftyour, your body weight? Where do
you you shift your energy? Soweight is energy. So where are
you shifting it? You know, andso that tells you usually, like,
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if, if you lean to one side, wehave some work to do and some
balance on some area, to toreally help balance you back
into neutral.
And Alex would probably saysomething similar, like we need
to work on your balance. Yes,I need to bring you back to the
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right. Nice square pelvis.
Right. One side is dipping alittle lower than the other.
Same with the shoulders. Andwhat's what's going on as far as
like scapula tipping or any leftside left trap versus right trap
elevation. That all very similarto what I would exactly what I
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would be assessing on someonethe first time that I meet him,
or even every time after that,consistently a war on gravity.
Yeah. So I'm someone thatdoesn't believe any more in
diets? Yeah. Like, I don't thinkit's one size fits all, like
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with nutrition. And are like,what's your take on this?
So I have a certification innutrition, and I studied it a
little bit in college and havemy opinion is probably going to
be that parroted of textbooksmore than anything. And other
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books I've read most. Like yourdiet is just anything you put in
your mouth, right? So. Soeverything's a diet, there is no
one diet for any person, becauseeveryone has different genes and
different allergies. And sonutrient deficiencies. Yeah. So
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there's, there's no one personthat should be mirroring another
person's food or lifestyle, doit all the time, all the time.
You hear somebody said, Oh, myGod, like all I ate was great
for whatever one grape and greentea and
right, it's like, Oh, great.
Yeah. Or like someone loses like50 pounds. And how did you do
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that? Well, and I think, youknow, just the word itself. Diet
is so loaded, especially, youknow, I say, especially for
women, but I'm sure it's loadedwith men as well. Because it's
it signifies so many thingsbeyond what you're saying, which
is it's really just the foodyou're putting in your mouth. It
has all these other like, is ita good diet? Is it a bad diet?
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Am I losing weight on this diet?
Exactly?
I prefer to talk in terms ofright deficit and surplus,
right? So are you in a deficitor a surplus? Are you at your
baseline, your resting metabolicrate? Or what whatever you want
to think of as the mean, medianground? Somewhere, we're not
losing weight, we're not gainingweight, you're just normal.
(38:28):
Right? And hopefully, mostpeople can be normal for as long
as they can. Right? That's anthere's cycles, there's trends,
right? And we just, that's whereyou kind of have to go inward
and understand. Am I consumingtoo much right now? And my is
this based on that emotion, ahabit? Or is this right? Am I
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hungry? Am I actually hungry?
Yeah, and most of the time, Ithink it's a little bit of
everything. Yeah. And but thehunger part, doesn't it? Kind
of, it's there. But I think itgets dis. If you if you put off
the hunger and go for food inthat doesn't satisfy what the
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body is looking for. You willcontinuously be hungry and the
emotional and habitual part willtake over to compensate for the
low recognition of hunger rightso you'll go through a negative
feedback loop consistentlybecause you you're you don't
know you're low on potassium ormagnesium or something right and
(39:37):
you keep putting whatever rightyou could put in good stuff and
still be missing the mark rightmissing like the nutrient
nutrients then right maybe evenright you bought low grade food
and the nutrients just aren'tgood enough in that particular
thing and just you that thatplus stressors at work times,
daily night nor daily. Eachnight eating habits right equal
(40:00):
five pounds that year. I don'tknow.
I just did. Dinner challenge fora month where I didn't make the
same recipe. Oh, that's tough.
Yeah. But I loved Oh, yeah. Whathappened to me? I loved it.
Yeah, like I this this is newfor me. Something shifted. See
(40:25):
Something shifted. I've madesome pretty insane things that
I'm proud of. That's awesome.
Yeah in so, but the whole thingis I haven't repeated. Yeah,
there's no repeatthat's hard because you get into
a rut right like something Yeah,like my two that I live with.
I'm like no more TAGOsTurkey tacos.
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I taught all the turkey tacos.
Julie, when we bring him backthe tacos mother
30 days of no tacos. That's allI know.
I used to say tacos. Does thatmean you're going out? Yeah. You
could just leave it on thestove.
(41:07):
So I've discovered and I hopethis helps somebody. I don't
like to cook at night. I like tocook in the morning or at noon
anytime before too. So I've donecrock pot. I've I've put in the
crock pot head end turn it on.
Like I'm just figuring me out.
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That's awesome later on in life.
And I'm loving this littledinnertime lifestyle. Like,
yeah, so you know, we're gonnastart repeating. So I
was gonna say what what wouldyou repeat out of the 30 days of
well,I need the best French onion
porkchop like, I don't even eatpork chops. Right, rarely.
(41:54):
Okay. Me too. But this was sogood. Like, so good. Where'd you
get the recipes? So I have thelittle websites I'll share with
you offline because I don'tknow. You know, they're gonna
like, do you want it? Do youwant me to highlight you or not?
I wish I will. We're takingspots this so anyways, I yeah,
(42:17):
there's I just have now thesecertain, you know, they went
they happen to be women. YouTubeis great. I'm loving the videos.
And yeah, I'm just That's great.
So my whole thing is I don'ttell them. Like I'm not. I'm not
telling Andy and Julia what I'mmaking. Because then you get the
I'm never gonna eat. Right? Soit's almost like if you you have
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me like, if I come in and he'slike, Okay, we're gonna run a
mile. But if I knew the nightbefore my elbow, I kind of like
the jogging. I miss it becauseof my back. But insert whatever,
you know, when you like, oh,yeah, you know, you get there
and you're just kind of yourYeah, your adrenaline kicks in.
You're like, okay, we're justdoing this now we're gonna.
(43:02):
Yeah, same thing. Some put infront of you. Just, we're just
gonna,you know, the chef made it for
you. That's what I always say.
Like, I make like, what's fordinner? And I'm like food? Yeah.
Because I know no matter what,like you can't play, you're not
gonna win.
(43:22):
No way. All right. So I've onemore Angelina storytime before
we go. This is such a fun way toend this. So I recently taught a
class to teens. And I basicallyput a bunch of stressed out
anxious teens in a room. fightit out. It was like Fight Club.
(43:43):
Yeah, no. So they had like allthese like really old souls. And
it was four weeks. And I waslike, my intention was
connection, and comfort. Socreating a safe space where they
could be whoever they are, andthen interact eventually with
each other. So on the last week,I had these index cards. And I
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told them, I would do it too.
And I had them put their name onit. And number the amount of
kids that were in the class andpass it to the child to the
left. And they had to write apositive adjective that they
felt about the person's name onthe card. So at the end, they
actually read their own card outloud. And so my 15 Almost 16
(44:31):
year old female, she says to onmine, she wrote she described me
so most people wrote like, youknow, leader or would make a
great leader. For me, she wrotecinnamon roll. So right, so she
(44:52):
was easily me. You I like theultimate breakfast food. Your
warmth and your sugary she saidthis to me on TV. She's like
describing me. We were allcrying. I'm like that is the
(45:12):
best compliment I've everreceived a warm she wrote warm
cinnamon roll. I told her I'mkeeping that forever. Memory.
Right. So yeah, I haven't hadthe same cinnamon roll and
yours. Have you? I mean, I'vemade them for Julia. And we
don't want them. No, I try notto eat wheat. I feel like I'm on
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this lifetime of gut healing forme. Oh, yeah, it's important.
Yeah, it's not it's so muchbetter than last year, but I'm
getting close to having I canidentify with that. Yeah, yeah.
But I think redheads naturallystruggle with gut. I have this
theory. Yeah, in pain. Wefeel more pain in our body.
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I thought it was less pain but Ithought it was more No,
I think we had like a higherpain tolerance.
I asked for one and childbirth.
Oh, God, I was like, I was a hotmath now. My first one I had the
world's best epidural because Iliterally could feel nothing. No
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sir. And on the second one whenit wasn't like that I was like
waithe shows up he's the man total
in there for toput that thing in my head. Yeah.
And I would have been soI used to joke you know, when
you do your birth plan andeverybody's and I remember
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thinking like a needle in myspine. Oh, dear God, like no,
I'm never gonna do that. Whenthat taking he could have put it
in my I was like, whatever youmight have heard though, for
redheads that that they havethey do because of it. It's like
the when you take meds, youdon't absorb the meds as well.
(47:00):
And you can feel the pain morethan
Yeah, so I when when I had my Csection, I had a double dose of
Well, I had a double dose ofanesthesia. Like the
anesthesiologist was like, Igave you enough. I don't even
know how you're awake. Me. Yeah,you have enough for like a 375
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pound man. He's in the fact thatyou're like happy and like
talking to me. I'm like, becauseI'm not in pain. Yeah. I was
afraid of five passed out. Thepain would come back.
Yeah, like, wake up and it'sjust all pain. But you're
right, Alex. So yeah, redheadsare like a whole different
animal. Yeah,yeah. Spine there. Yeah. Their
nervous system are one bigrecessive gene. You're
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special in air quotes.
And we both have redhead? Yes.
Extra. Oh, yeah. Extra Extra.
So Alex, this was so fun. Thankyou. Yeah, it's fun chatting up.
How can someone find you if theywant to reach out via services?
Well, if they want to reach outthey can find me at my email
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address is a is an Alex foot fote 336 at gmail.com. And if you
want to get something going, wecould definitely figure out what
your body needs and see if wecan come up with a plan that
would give you long term supportand in your in your health needs
and your behavioral habits.
Perfect andyou can always reach out to me.
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Yeah, if you know how to get meI know how to get Alex. So feel
free to reach out to me. And sowe just want to thank you
everyone for listening. And wehope you found this
enlightening. So please be sureto subscribe to our podcast. We
can be found wherever you getyour podcasts.
(48:56):
And we're on Instagram at Spinspilled the ginger tea podcast.
If you have questions, comments,you want to get a hold of Alex.
Any ideas for future shows?
Please message us there.
Thank you for joining us anduntil next time, be well
Hi there. I'm Angela.
Amy. Hi, I'm Lila.
We're going to be discussingalternative health techniques.
So if you're looking to heal thephysical, mental or spiritual
parts of yourselves, or ifyou're just curious about what
to try, or what could help youlive your best life, you're
(00:22):
absolutely in the right place.
So welcome, welcome. So today wehave a special guest. We are
going to chat a little bit withmy personal trainer and
behavioral coach. Alex Foote. Sothanks for being here today,
Alex. Thanks,guys for having me. I appreciate
it.
(00:43):
Yeah. So Alex, why don't westart by you telling us why you
decided to be a personaltrainer.
I got into it when I was, I gotinto working out when I was 1415
really noticed that I needed tomake a change in my life.
(01:03):
Because I was my, my father haddied when I was younger, that
perpetuated a behavior of eatingand trying to compensate for
terrible feelings, right. Andusing food as well as inactivity
(01:24):
and trying to, you know, spaceout into the TV and let life
kind of just passed byI wouldn't know anything about
that. We just have been throughthe pandemic, right. Yeah.
Everyone just taken and stuff.
Yeah. So that transformed intosports, but more sports that
(01:46):
were independent. I didn't playa lot of teams. I tried team
sports. Yeah, I was always veryheavy. So the consistency made
it tough to keep up witheverybody. Okay. Yeah. So then
that kind of pushed me away. SoI started skateboarding, doing
martial arts. And theseindependent sports kind of
taught me consistency anddiscipline. And if you keep up
(02:10):
with something, you can getbetter at it, and incrementally
get there. So that then turnedinto let's be a janitor to Jim.
And it's so then cleaning uppeople's crap all the time. You
go, Okay, well, this is nice,but I've ended free membership
(02:32):
is nice. But can I help peoplewith what I know, and you know,
make a living at it. And like Ihave something to offer, I maybe
have something of value that Icould give to somebody else.
Right. And that kind of startedmy journey of fitness. And then
that from there. I've been doingit for 15 years now. So has
(02:53):
perpetuated into learning a lotmore about behaviors of people
and their knowledge of their ownbodies and their cell
themselves. That which is alsobrought me to you guys and
right. Yeah, I've been doing itever since and love it.
(03:14):
Awesome. So Lila, you also havea strong background in like
group fitness and doing allkinds of I will suggest kind of
runs where we call thesemarathons. I don't know, talk to
you a little bit about how yourelate with any of this?
(03:35):
Well, I mean, obviously, I wouldstart by saying like, kind of
like an endurance athlete is howI would sort of see myself. So
yeah, definitely, I mean,anything to get you stronger,
anything to get you faster Can Ido it longer was definitely my
mindset for a very long periodof time, you know, sometimes
(03:57):
great, sometimes, not always sogreat, I think, you know, almost
to the reverse of what you'resaying, like you can sit for a
long period of time to sort ofescape things and you can also
run for very right to escapethings.
So I'm kind of the odd man outtoday where I'm like the, if
(04:18):
you're listening to this, andyou really just need to get your
butt off the couch. I can relatewith you. But I think we can all
find like there's anundercurrent and just you know,
let me go here when I first wasintroduced to Alex, I remember
saying to you, I have thespiritual and the emotional
(04:41):
piece pretty much under wraps,but I struggle with the physical
and I do so more with likemotivation. I love your cameras
in here because So yeah, justreally with like motivation. In
or I guess what I'm trying tosay is I don't lump myself in
(05:04):
with athletes. I don't even lockmyself in with someone that
really should be in a gym. But Ido it. So if you're listening to
this, and you don't think you'rethe molds for the gym, I
definitely think we need torethink thing. Yeah, what do we
have to say about that,we all need to get in tune with
our bodies, because we have touse them daily. And they're a
machine that should be welloiled, greased and ready to go
(05:29):
at a moment's notice. Becauseyou never know, when you're
going to encounter some ice haveto pick up a heavy bag, right.
And all these things. Anyinjuries or compensations can be
avoided if you do the work priorto that event, and try to be
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aware of what muscles to turn onand what muscles to turn off.
That way you write, you alwaysstay in the best of health, and
that helps with the consistencyand all those great things. I
think that most of us, we, weget distracted with all with the
(06:09):
abundance of distractions. Andwe lose in the distractions, we
lose that connection with ourbody, our physical body, and we
go through the bad habit or themotion. And that can lead to a
negative consequence. It doesn'thave to, but it can, right so
(06:31):
right. So really thinking aboutlike there's something deeper
going,there's something deeper. And,
and just the preparedness ofbeing used to using your body
and how to use it appropriately,I think can lead you to enjoying
your family, right? Like insteadof having a back injury that you
constantly think about, or pain.
(06:54):
So I think what sets you apartfrom other trainers, because I
have a lot of different trainersand fitness instructors in my
life is that you tend to meetthe person where they are. And I
feel like you have a deeperunderstanding that like we this,
(07:15):
you know is Earth and this islife. And our lives move on and
different things happen. And sothere are some days we push a
little harder. And then there'ssome days we have a herniated
disc. And we're not pushing ashard. And I think it there is
our whether you're a personaltrainer, or a teacher, or any
(07:42):
kind of leader, we really needto, as a society start to look
at meeting people where they areinstead of just going in and
assuming that there they are.
Yep. And yeah, so talk to me alittle bit about that.
So, like you said, everyone'scoming at fitness, nutrition,
(08:04):
their job, they're all indifferent stages of each one. So
you have to take all theinformation in and develop a
plan based on that individualand what they're facing on a
hourly basis. So they sit forlong periods of time, which most
people do you manage that persondifferently than the
(08:27):
construction worker who isconstantly compressing their
body in different in differentways. And they're active, but
they may need to just, insteadof a lot of compound movements,
they might need to just isolatedifferent areas of their body,
and then be pulled apart, do alittle decompression, whereas
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the the person that's sittingstill needs the decompression,
but they're not moving. Andbecause of that, then you need
to teach them how to move theirbody appropriately. You may need
to teach that to theconstruction worker to but to
there, so they have been moving,right, like kind of balance to
Lila Have you have you workedwith a personal trainer?
(09:12):
I have I have worked a longtime. Lots of times,
what do you feel you've learnedabout yourself?
Um, you know, I think it wouldbe hard but one of the things
that definitely helped me withpersonal training was that you
there's this sense ofaccomplishment, right? So if you
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decide, you know, whatever, I'mgonna try push ups or you're
working on upper body strengthor something and you know, you
can do the first one maybe youstruggle with that first push
up, but if you stick with it,and you keep going, eventually
you're gonna be able to do thatpush up and there is a
satisfaction there that can befor for anyone and it doesn't
(09:55):
necessarily have to be likeheavy duty weights not Not
everybody wants to lookjust showing up as showing up
and when I show, yeah,repetitively I'm like I'm
winning. And then you feel likeyou notice a change, right?
Yeah. So if you do similar, andthen you start to think like,
wow, okay, yeah,exactly difference. So I didn't
realize how much it helps meuntil I injured my spine, which
(10:18):
is completely unrelated to Alexwith anything I do with Alex.
And I really started to feelfrom the lack of movement. And,
like, the difference was unrealto me. That's really, right. So
as we do these things, whetherit's weight training, cardio,
(10:43):
all of the above, it's doing alot more than you think. And
it's also helping you releaseenergy. So like, the emotional
piece and the spiritual piece. Iknow like, I call you Dear
Diary, I can't tell you, like, Igo home. And I'm like, Oh, just
(11:03):
roll it off. I can't believe Ijust told them all that. But I
just because it's so vulnerable.
And I trust you. Like, I trustyou like a protector? Like a
protector that like you're notgonna let me get hurt.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that is mymain is do not get hurt, if
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anything come out of here betterthan you came in.
Right? So I think what I'm, whatI'm saying is, because there's
the there's the groundwork ofthe base of that, then like, you
start to do you know, like thestair climber, even for like
five minutes, all his shit comesup. And then all you should
comes up and you Alex isstanding there, and you trust
(11:45):
him. So it's like telling yougirlfriend, your deepest. Love
this. What we do?
He's saying, right, yeah,definitely, definitely. And I
think it's, you know, importantto kind of keep in mind, like we
were saying, when you hurt yourback, and I would say, Alex, I'm
(12:08):
sure. You know, that's the time,it's most important that you see
somebody who knows what it isyou're doing. Because even
though you may know yourworkouts, or you may download
whatever from Instagram, ifsomeone isn't watching you,
right, like you couldpotentially be
I know, in my own workouts, ifI'm not even watching myself in
the mirror, I can get out ofcontrol. So, right. Somebody
(12:29):
looking from an outsideperspective definitely can give
you with knowledge of symmetryand, and body weight. And body
mechanics can give you a muchbetter situation then you could
possibly get on your own andthen along with the motivation
of them standing there andgoing, am I doing this right?
(12:50):
Perfect, you are doingperfectly, right? Just that
reinforcement that you are doingit correctly, then solidifies
okay, this is what I'm supposedto be feeling that that then
transfers into, you know exactlywhat you should do. And
hopefully next time, right, so Ikind of think of it like
teaching someone to fish right.
So that that next time they canget that same feeling, I can
identify that that is what theyshould be feeling. And then from
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there, it's yours. Now you runfor the rest of your life. And
hopefully you can attain thatseveral more times that same
burn or that same feeling.
Honestly, I can't believe howpatient you are. Because I've
worked out with you for at leastfour years. And I don't get
anything right ever Lila like ohmy god, I'm the same
(13:35):
way so I'll uncoordinated ifit's more than one thing. I'm
like, Alright, wait, stop, dothe whole thing over
your feet. How is your feet?
In like, I'm never in my head,the heel. So you know, you kind
of learn as you go along? Well,you're really patient, I just
(13:55):
have to tell you.
Thank you very much.
So I think that's another thingis like really finding a trainer
that has like core values thatresonate for you. Yeah, is huge.
Yes. Right. And then likeactually like liking the person
like who they are. Becauseyou're kind of in each other's
energy.
You got to mix and mingle,right? Yeah, right. There's no
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way you can't if, if you're notconnected with the person and
how they're right. If you're notpersonally connected, you cannot
I find it's very hard to connectwith the other person's muscles
because they're not letting youin. They're not letting you
right. Some people come to meand they have an idea of what
(14:38):
exercise is supposed to be iswhat you see in the magazines or
you see on TV, you see aGatorade commercial where
someone's pushing the sled ashard as they can sweat and
everywhere. And that could besomething you do someday. I'm
not against it, but for the mostbecause most people don't need
(15:02):
that. They don't know it's notone size fits all. Exactly.
Yeah, they, but they, they thinkthey need that. Yeah. So it's my
job then to remind them thathey, maybe we start by feeling
your hamstring and thendeveloping your quad and then
(15:22):
and then we can start to put thewhole chain together in with a
sled eventually. Right right. Sobut most people will come to me
going I'm ready sweat I'm gonnaget after it right yeah, like
like what? Whyare you I was a sweater. I say
that like as a complimentbecause you know all about the
body just releasing. Yeah. Lotsand lots of
(15:45):
sweater too. I'm right therewith you.
So not I wish I was nowgoing to drink more. I do more
you drink the more you sweat.
Rightright. Yeah, so I know I think
that every it's everyone'sdifferent and it's finding your
own recipe. Absolutely talkedabout Lila secret sauce. So what
Alex might do with me is verydifferent than what he would do
(16:08):
with you. Yes, and we know thisbecause I share him with a woman
that could pretty much jump in aCrossFit Yeah, I would never in
my life even walk like put a bigtoe in they're
very in tune with their musclesknows how to manipulate them
well and yeah, has that mindmuscle connection that that one
would hope to attain over yearsof working with your body
(16:31):
right? But never once have youmade me feel inferior to her?
Like we don't have it's justVita needs this and Amy needs
this and then if we can evermeet in the middle we will we
willwake at the end or something.
YeahI know so well and Alex I would
(16:52):
assume you do try to find thingsthat people enjoy doing right so
you know if you hate pushing thesled, you could hate
that and most of the time I findI don't even have enough time to
do the I try to incorporate somefun stuff but most of the time
(17:15):
it's great business as usualwith but I encourage people to
go find their own fun activitiesthat they enjoy. And then we can
we can mix in some trainingexercises or maybe right if it
was a sport some dynamicstretching or something that
would make their sport moreenjoyable. So I I tend to take
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on the boring piece of exercisewhere it's like the stuff people
don't want to work like theirrear delts are right like I
can't even see it back there.
Why the hell do I need itRight exactly. So you want the
show we must Yeah, HollywoodHollywood stuff. Biceps triceps.
Stuff People can see I actuallyone
(18:01):
time speaking of fun things weflipped like massive truck
tires. Yeah, I felt like like Icould do anything after I did
that. It was likeI told you guys I was a badass
it's a it's a weird feeling likewhen you first do it you're like
(18:21):
this is so awkward and strangerthat afterwards. It's amazing.
You're like oh my god.
Like 200 pounds.
That have you done thatrecently?
Um, you know before the pandemicYeah, stupid pandemic just
ruined lowdown fitness for Oh yeah,
I'm sure and I'm sure it'simpacted your ability to train
(18:42):
people.
I had to shut it down for threemonths go get another job and
then slowly get get everyonecomfortable back with getting to
the gym and being with otherpeople and I guess you're still
not quite back to its its, youknow, regularly scheduled
program but it's definitely it'sa different environment for
(19:02):
sure. In the gym itself, as wellas just meeting people that are
just coming back right justthere. Right there are people
out there they're just goingbeen kind of cruising their
house and their job and that'sabout it. And then they're like,
Hey, if you guys been here youguys been doing stuff? Yeah.
(19:24):
Yeah, come on in. Let's see. Soit's it's different. But it's
it's evening itself out right?
It's we're getting back to anormal.
What's your favorite activity?
My favorite activity? Isdo you mean in the gym outside
of the gym?
(19:45):
Let's Let's talk in the gym.
My favorite activity in the gymwould have to be I think I
prefer boxing. As far as a as anactivity that I would go do Um,
my least favorite. Yeah. Itdoesn't you don't like any?
(20:05):
It's tough. I learned muscles.
i It's it. There's somethinginside of me. That can't connect
to it. It's not that I don'tlike the word can't. It's almost
like, I don't have enough ofsomething to strum it up. Yeah.
Anger, maybe. But I just smashedpumpkins on my shoe. Wait, wait.
(20:35):
So this wasn't my angel Amystorytime but maybe we tell this
one. So I my friend lives like15 minutes away. And her and her
husband are both trainers. Okay.
Okay. So because everyone in mylife is and they so she said,
can we come to your houseSmashing Pumpkins? Because I
(20:55):
basically live like in the woodsin the middle of nowhere, and
the deer and coyotes will justcome eat them. So recycling,
right, like composting withother combos. So they came I had
two pretty big pumpkins they hadto and we and I took it over my
head and just gave it all mymind. Hit the mic. Rash you got
(21:19):
you guys got the sound effects.
Yeah. And so and yeah, just it'sthe Have you ever done this? I
hadn't. And I was like, I needyou guys in my life more is what
I told them.
Not something breakable. Ihaven't but like a medicine.
Okay, yeah. Break open oranything exciting. You just got
(21:43):
to pick it up. Yeah.
That was my first reaction. Itbroke open and then I go look at
all the seed.
Like you're gonna pump intoeverywhere in your yard. By the
way nextweek. We did it on the I live on
conservation land. So I liveright across the street from
conservation land, so we did iton the conservation. So you
wouldn't have a pumpkin patchyou know, so yeah, we did some
(22:11):
Smashing Pumpkins. Where was Igoing with this? That was like a
really fun activity.
Oh, we're fighting Russian.
Oh, because I don't like boxing.
I just can't strum that up. Doyou? Have you thought of why you
don'tyou just my arms are too weak.
(22:31):
Is that just what you're like?
Actually, what'sexhausting? I find it okay. I
didn't mind the punching part ofit. But I was like, it will take
me years to be able to do this.
Five whole minutes. Like I don'thave time for this.
So when all everyone was gettinginto like the boxing craze, I, I
(22:52):
tried it. And then theinstructor made a very
inappropriate comment. And I wasjust like done yet. You would
just proof that this isn't forme. Yeah, so I'm like, no.
Yeah, there's I mean, there'ssome hurdles definitely this
smelly gloves right.
Oh, man, that's the worst. Andthen it's exhausted.
(23:13):
Let's say yeah, that's that's agood part I think depending on
get too exhausted, butdefinitely.
So what's your yard? Because Iwant to start to talk about an
internal connection that you andI have chatted about how to take
people inside their bodies andactually observe what they're
(23:34):
doing when they're working outin what they're feeling and what
like what what's really going onon the inside what what took me
to this was for you to relatewith the boxing or be able to
have some kind of love orpassion or whatever the right
words are there there has to besome kind of connection Do you
(23:57):
know what it is?
The connection to the what whatto boxing?
Yeah, likewhat do you trudging up? When
you when Ibox yeah I think it's for me it
this may be a male thing. Idon't know. But it could or
(24:18):
could just be a me thing. I'mtrying to go there but it's it
when I go in there to hit thebag. I it's it's a way for me to
get my energy out on something.
(24:40):
And when I started boxing, itwas more about defending myself
and the end they'll go hardmentality of just work yourself
into the ground like like Rockybasically you go watch a rocky
montage and you basically seewhat's in it. I'm not in my head
(25:00):
when I'm eating a bag. But nowit's it's about when I see a bag
because I'm more in tune with mybody mechanics. Yeah, it becomes
an energy release and how Ilike a drug that pees.
Well, kinda like, right?
(25:21):
What if you listen back at this?
That's totally what he justdescribed.
I mark my turn. Yeah, right.
You just said in the beginning,like I, I release my energy, but
you're actually making contactwith some things. Yes. Kind of
like a dog that mark territory.
I see my connection.
I can see why say it. It's male.
Right? Yeah, I got it. Right. Iknow, intuitively, it's, it's
(25:42):
right. Just listen to you guys.
Right? Like, I know that it'ssomething. Right? It's like, you
know, it goes wildwith this because I can, in a
way in a feminine way. Tell me.
All right, so I'm gonna dragthis audience you either relate
or you don't, and there's noright or wrong. So when I get
(26:03):
like really dressed up, and nomatter what size my body is,
because I've been all differentsizes, I I really can like tune
into my goddess, and like,spread it out into the room. But
I'm not looking for anything inreturn. I'm not looking for
compliments. I'm not. It's justsomething inside of me. I can
(26:25):
access that and like, feel it.
That's what he's describing inhis own way. This Lila, Baby, do
you ever get dressed up and youfeel that goddess see? Like, do
you know how to access that mostwomen don't? I don't know. I
need to teach a class on thisLila. Yeah, no, I
(26:45):
don't see. And it's funnybecause I think more about like
boxing, especially if you'retalking like a bag or something
like that. Rhythmic. You knowwhat I mean? Like for me, so
like, I used to do a lot ofswimming. And the thing I liked
about swimming was a it wasquiet. But it was it was very
rhythmic. So I never reallythought like I wasn't thinking
anything at all. Besides therhythm of that. So kind of
(27:09):
that's where I would connect tolike the boxing like, oh, like
rhythm oflike the hand. That's endurance.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just like, it'slike, you know, calming you fall
into like a pattern oflike the right like running. And
yeah, that was running as well.
Yeah,but can you see that? Like I'm
saying the same thing. This iswhen I make Lila think so deep,
is like, like when you enter aroom, and you just feeling like
(27:33):
that female confidence. And youhave to hold it for like a
duration. That's endurance. Thenyou go home, I'm in my sweats
and my hands and I bought thatAMI to I post that on Instagram
a lot. I'll be like, This isreal me no makeup. No, this is
really what I look like, whichis one of the things that we
(27:53):
were actually talking aboutbefore we started was this idea
of kind of real people at thegym. Like, not everybody looking
like a fitness.
Kardashian. I don't mean to pickon her. But she's beautiful.
Right? But is that real? I don'tknow. I mean, to her, it is,
(28:14):
like me.
Yeah, that I mean, you have, youknow, kids, I know she has kids,
whatever, but I'm sure she hassome help, you know, you
probably have kids, you have ahouse, maybe you keep clean or,
you know, whatever, you have tolive your life, like, you know,
for her that is her whole life.
So she can look as fit as shewants to.
She's gotta keep it up forpromotional purposes. So, you
(28:34):
know, it becomes a you know,your motivation leads to right
the the end result if you'remotivated, if you have enough
motivation you will probablyattend but you know, action does
spark motivation as well. Right?
All right,so let's talk about how moving
the body or exercise can thenlead to healing. So my
(28:56):
interpretation of this is thatthe physical body is energy, the
emotions are energy, then thisspiritual energy and it's
possible that the that thephysical body is kind of like
the vehicle or some people usethe word temple, but it's a
(29:18):
little dramatic. To to reallyhouse or bring all these
different areas together, sothat you can be healthy whole
whatever. This is making sense.
(29:40):
Yeah, the physical is a piece ofthe puzzle. Absolutely. That can
then lead to the emotional andspiritual right right right. So
when someone goes to see Alexbecause they're feeling what why
would someone come see you Alex?
They're feeling uncomfortablewith themselves. They have fear
of some sort and inside and theyand they want to get rid of that
(30:03):
fear. They want to talk tosomebody else they want
motivation to overcome, saidFear and in that I then become
their soundpost for anythingthat is, and then I can reassure
them that what they're feelingis very normal, and really start
to take away some of that fearso that they can understand that
(30:25):
the more fear you have, that'swhat's driven you to where you
are, is fear. And if we can takeyou out of that fear, we can
then start to establish newhabits that will, and slowly,
incrementally benefit you overtime.
Right? So Alex is going to do itfrom the physical, physical,
where if you come see Angel,Amy, because I never really
(30:47):
talked about on this podcastwhat I do, there's a there's a
big emotional piece to what Ido. I mean, you can see even
when we chit chat, I dragged theemotion out. I can't even help
myself.
And I would say like, for a lotof people, myself included, I
think it's much easier to beginat the physical place. Yes, it's
nowhere near as intimidating.
It's, it's, it's somewhat easierto walk in and say to Alex,
(31:10):
like, I feel lousy, I've gainedweight I haven't been moving.
And then see where it goes fromthere. As you start working, you
might realize I'm fearful ofthis or I'm anxious around the
world. Yeah, exactly. Ifsomeone's looking to change
their life, and they're, theyreally don't know where to
(31:30):
begin, I would actually tellthem to start they're, like,
start to go for walks, yes. Andjust observe, observe what
you're drawn to. Like, I'm nowI'm talking outside the body.
Like if you see a bird that youlike, are you saying hello to
the same, that real mindfulwalking, right? But then we're
going to start to talk about howto observe inside your body?
(31:53):
Like, like, how do youphysically feel when you walk.
So I teach a lot about how inthe land of energy, the front
side of the body is actually thefemale side of the body. And
it's, it has to do with presentday or future. And so now I'm
(32:16):
talking about how you feel likeany aches and pains. The back,
your back side of the body isthe masculine side of the body.
And it's all about the past. TheThe right side is the masculine
side, the left side is thefeminine side. And so you can
start to really learn about yourbody and who you are and what's
(32:39):
going on with you deeper bylooking at what parts of your
body on What side do you feelreally good? And what parts of
your body in where do you notfeel so good?
That's so interesting, becauseWouldn't you say a lot of women
have a kind of weaker posteriorchain, like, I know,
it's a posterior chain.
(33:01):
You see, that's your masculine?
Exactly, that's your masculine?
Yes, no, I definitely see a lotof women with a weaker posterior
side. Actually, a lot of people,that's probably their number
one, and as far as left andright, masculine, right, people
(33:23):
tend to have a weaker, feminineside, the left side versus
masculine, right. So what doesthat
mean? I struggle on the left. Sowhat it means is that
what if you got masculine in theback and feminine on the left,
so masculine on the, like,You're weak in
the masculine on the back, andthe feminine, feminine on the
(33:43):
left? That'sa lot of people's Yeah.
So if we were in an angel, Amysession, I would start to either
get, you know, connect andfigure out things that happened
to you, or we would talk aboutthings that happen to you in
childhood to do with Father, isthat back is is masculine. Yep.
(34:04):
And then we would start to talkabout what you do for a living
and who you are in your home andhow much you give, because the
left side is receiving. Oh, andit's a female side, but it's
also receiving. So we just havea bunch of like daddy issues
with with a lot of minds on thefront. But yeah, yeah. Well, I
(34:30):
have I have herniated discs.
Well, no, I lie. I just show upat the gym. Everybody. I just
show.
Alex does the rest, right. Yeah.
We monitor progress. Yeah. Sothere's that benefit, too, if
you're someone who just wants toshow up? Yeah. Personal Training
could be for you.
Yes. And then yes, hopefully, wecan set you up with Yeah, over
(34:53):
time getting more consistent onyour own and
totally, definitely. Yeah, soDid that answer your question?
Thanks.
Yeah, that's that's justinteresting, really interesting,
I think. Thanks, Lila.
Yeah, trying to think what else?
I honestly, energetically thefeet are kind of like the root
of all things. So like the feettell you like the way you stand.
(35:15):
Who else Alex and I have talkedabout this or the like, not only
the way, so the way you standwhen you're not thinking about
it, like, where do you shiftyour, your body weight? Where do
you you shift your energy? Soweight is energy. So where are
you shifting it? You know, andso that tells you usually, like,
(35:37):
if, if you lean to one side, wehave some work to do and some
balance on some area, to toreally help balance you back
into neutral.
And Alex would probably saysomething similar, like we need
to work on your balance. Yes,I need to bring you back to the
(35:57):
right. Nice square pelvis.
Right. One side is dipping alittle lower than the other.
Same with the shoulders. Andwhat's what's going on as far as
like scapula tipping or any leftside left trap versus right trap
elevation. That all very similarto what I would exactly what I
(36:19):
would be assessing on someonethe first time that I meet him,
or even every time after that,consistently a war on gravity.
Yeah. So I'm someone thatdoesn't believe any more in
diets? Yeah. Like, I don't thinkit's one size fits all, like
(36:41):
with nutrition. And are like,what's your take on this?
So I have a certification innutrition, and I studied it a
little bit in college and havemy opinion is probably going to
be that parroted of textbooksmore than anything. And other
(37:03):
books I've read most. Like yourdiet is just anything you put in
your mouth, right? So. Soeverything's a diet, there is no
one diet for any person, becauseeveryone has different genes and
different allergies. And sonutrient deficiencies. Yeah. So
(37:25):
there's, there's no one personthat should be mirroring another
person's food or lifestyle, doit all the time, all the time.
You hear somebody said, Oh, myGod, like all I ate was great
for whatever one grape and greentea and
right, it's like, Oh, great.
Yeah. Or like someone loses like50 pounds. And how did you do
(37:47):
that? Well, and I think, youknow, just the word itself. Diet
is so loaded, especially, youknow, I say, especially for
women, but I'm sure it's loadedwith men as well. Because it's
it signifies so many thingsbeyond what you're saying, which
is it's really just the foodyou're putting in your mouth. It
has all these other like, is ita good diet? Is it a bad diet?
(38:07):
Am I losing weight on this diet?
Exactly?
I prefer to talk in terms ofright deficit and surplus,
right? So are you in a deficitor a surplus? Are you at your
baseline, your resting metabolicrate? Or what whatever you want
to think of as the mean, medianground? Somewhere, we're not
losing weight, we're not gainingweight, you're just normal.
(38:28):
Right? And hopefully, mostpeople can be normal for as long
as they can. Right? That's anthere's cycles, there's trends,
right? And we just, that's whereyou kind of have to go inward
and understand. Am I consumingtoo much right now? And my is
this based on that emotion, ahabit? Or is this right? Am I
(38:51):
hungry? Am I actually hungry?
Yeah, and most of the time, Ithink it's a little bit of
everything. Yeah. And but thehunger part, doesn't it? Kind
of, it's there. But I think itgets dis. If you if you put off
the hunger and go for food inthat doesn't satisfy what the
(39:13):
body is looking for. You willcontinuously be hungry and the
emotional and habitual part willtake over to compensate for the
low recognition of hunger rightso you'll go through a negative
feedback loop consistentlybecause you you're you don't
know you're low on potassium ormagnesium or something right and
(39:37):
you keep putting whatever rightyou could put in good stuff and
still be missing the mark rightmissing like the nutrient
nutrients then right maybe evenright you bought low grade food
and the nutrients just aren'tgood enough in that particular
thing and just you that thatplus stressors at work times,
daily night nor daily. Eachnight eating habits right equal
(40:00):
five pounds that year. I don'tknow.
I just did. Dinner challenge fora month where I didn't make the
same recipe. Oh, that's tough.
Yeah. But I loved Oh, yeah. Whathappened to me? I loved it.
Yeah, like I this this is newfor me. Something shifted. See
(40:25):
Something shifted. I've madesome pretty insane things that
I'm proud of. That's awesome.
Yeah in so, but the whole thingis I haven't repeated. Yeah,
there's no repeatthat's hard because you get into
a rut right like something Yeah,like my two that I live with.
I'm like no more TAGOsTurkey tacos.
(40:46):
I taught all the turkey tacos.
Julie, when we bring him backthe tacos mother
30 days of no tacos. That's allI know.
I used to say tacos. Does thatmean you're going out? Yeah. You
could just leave it on thestove.
(41:07):
So I've discovered and I hopethis helps somebody. I don't
like to cook at night. I like tocook in the morning or at noon
anytime before too. So I've donecrock pot. I've I've put in the
crock pot head end turn it on.
Like I'm just figuring me out.
(41:30):
That's awesome later on in life.
And I'm loving this littledinnertime lifestyle. Like,
yeah, so you know, we're gonnastart repeating. So I
was gonna say what what wouldyou repeat out of the 30 days of
well,I need the best French onion
porkchop like, I don't even eatpork chops. Right, rarely.
(41:54):
Okay. Me too. But this was sogood. Like, so good. Where'd you
get the recipes? So I have thelittle websites I'll share with
you offline because I don'tknow. You know, they're gonna
like, do you want it? Do youwant me to highlight you or not?
I wish I will. We're takingspots this so anyways, I yeah,
(42:17):
there's I just have now thesecertain, you know, they went
they happen to be women. YouTubeis great. I'm loving the videos.
And yeah, I'm just That's great.
So my whole thing is I don'ttell them. Like I'm not. I'm not
telling Andy and Julia what I'mmaking. Because then you get the
I'm never gonna eat. Right? Soit's almost like if you you have
(42:41):
me like, if I come in and he'slike, Okay, we're gonna run a
mile. But if I knew the nightbefore my elbow, I kind of like
the jogging. I miss it becauseof my back. But insert whatever,
you know, when you like, oh,yeah, you know, you get there
and you're just kind of yourYeah, your adrenaline kicks in.
You're like, okay, we're justdoing this now we're gonna.
(43:02):
Yeah, same thing. Some put infront of you. Just, we're just
gonna,you know, the chef made it for
you. That's what I always say.
Like, I make like, what's fordinner? And I'm like food? Yeah.
Because I know no matter what,like you can't play, you're not
gonna win.
(43:22):
No way. All right. So I've onemore Angelina storytime before
we go. This is such a fun way toend this. So I recently taught a
class to teens. And I basicallyput a bunch of stressed out
anxious teens in a room. fightit out. It was like Fight Club.
(43:43):
Yeah, no. So they had like allthese like really old souls. And
it was four weeks. And I waslike, my intention was
connection, and comfort. Socreating a safe space where they
could be whoever they are, andthen interact eventually with
each other. So on the last week,I had these index cards. And I
(44:09):
told them, I would do it too.
And I had them put their name onit. And number the amount of
kids that were in the class andpass it to the child to the
left. And they had to write apositive adjective that they
felt about the person's name onthe card. So at the end, they
actually read their own card outloud. And so my 15 Almost 16
(44:31):
year old female, she says to onmine, she wrote she described me
so most people wrote like, youknow, leader or would make a
great leader. For me, she wrotecinnamon roll. So right, so she
(44:52):
was easily me. You I like theultimate breakfast food. Your
warmth and your sugary she saidthis to me on TV. She's like
describing me. We were allcrying. I'm like that is the
(45:12):
best compliment I've everreceived a warm she wrote warm
cinnamon roll. I told her I'mkeeping that forever. Memory.
Right. So yeah, I haven't hadthe same cinnamon roll and
yours. Have you? I mean, I'vemade them for Julia. And we
don't want them. No, I try notto eat wheat. I feel like I'm on
(45:36):
this lifetime of gut healing forme. Oh, yeah, it's important.
Yeah, it's not it's so muchbetter than last year, but I'm
getting close to having I canidentify with that. Yeah, yeah.
But I think redheads naturallystruggle with gut. I have this
theory. Yeah, in pain. Wefeel more pain in our body.
(45:58):
I thought it was less pain but Ithought it was more No,
I think we had like a higherpain tolerance.
I asked for one and childbirth.
Oh, God, I was like, I was a hotmath now. My first one I had the
world's best epidural because Iliterally could feel nothing. No
(46:19):
sir. And on the second one whenit wasn't like that I was like
waithe shows up he's the man total
in there for toput that thing in my head. Yeah.
And I would have been soI used to joke you know, when
you do your birth plan andeverybody's and I remember
(46:39):
thinking like a needle in myspine. Oh, dear God, like no,
I'm never gonna do that. Whenthat taking he could have put it
in my I was like, whatever youmight have heard though, for
redheads that that they havethey do because of it. It's like
the when you take meds, youdon't absorb the meds as well.
(47:00):
And you can feel the pain morethan
Yeah, so I when when I had my Csection, I had a double dose of
Well, I had a double dose ofanesthesia. Like the
anesthesiologist was like, Igave you enough. I don't even
know how you're awake. Me. Yeah,you have enough for like a 375
(47:24):
pound man. He's in the fact thatyou're like happy and like
talking to me. I'm like, becauseI'm not in pain. Yeah. I was
afraid of five passed out. Thepain would come back.
Yeah, like, wake up and it'sjust all pain. But you're
right, Alex. So yeah, redheadsare like a whole different
animal. Yeah,yeah. Spine there. Yeah. Their
nervous system are one bigrecessive gene. You're
(47:51):
special in air quotes.
And we both have redhead? Yes.
Extra. Oh, yeah. Extra Extra.
So Alex, this was so fun. Thankyou. Yeah, it's fun chatting up.
How can someone find you if theywant to reach out via services?
Well, if they want to reach outthey can find me at my email
(48:13):
address is a is an Alex foot fote 336 at gmail.com. And if you
want to get something going, wecould definitely figure out what
your body needs and see if wecan come up with a plan that
would give you long term supportand in your in your health needs
and your behavioral habits.
Perfect andyou can always reach out to me.
(48:33):
Yeah, if you know how to get meI know how to get Alex. So feel
free to reach out to me. And sowe just want to thank you
everyone for listening. And wehope you found this
enlightening. So please be sureto subscribe to our podcast. We
can be found wherever you getyour podcasts.
(48:56):
And we're on Instagram at Spinspilled the ginger tea podcast.
If you have questions, comments,you want to get a hold of Alex.
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Please message us there.
Thank you for joining us anduntil next time, be well
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