January 29, 2025 • 51 mins
Dre & Bre dive into how fitness has impacted our relationship and why working out together can bring couples closer. From building trust and improving communication to boosting your mood and staying healthy for the long haul, fitness isn’t just about looking good—it’s about feeling good as a team. We also share our personal fitness journey, including Dre’s football background and Bre’s cheerleading experience, plus practical tips on:
✅ How to eat for better health
✅ How to work out effectively as a couple
✅ How to stay consistent and build a system that works for YOU
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✅ How to eat for better health
✅ How to work out effectively as a couple
✅ How to stay consistent and build a system that works for YOU
💬 Join the Relationship Restored Online Community or learn more HERE!
🎙️ Got a topic you’d love for us to cover? Request it HERE!
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Dre on IG: @itsdresmith
Bre on IG: @breannaaponte
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey guys, we are back with another episode and YouTube video,
and this episode we're talking about how fitness transformed our relationship.
If you're new here, make sure to subscribe join our
community by visiting visiting relationship restore dot com. If I
was on social media Asdre Smith, Brianna Ponte Smith on
(00:21):
Demand and relationship Restore. So we're gonna hop right into it.
We have been on this fitness kit lately. We've always
been healthy for the most part, for most of our relationship,
but as of recent we really got into a groove
of what's been working for us and we've been really excited.
If you watch some of my old, old, old videos,
(00:42):
I used to say that like motivation is lighting the
flame and discipline is sustaining the flame. But that discipline
mechanism has to be specific for you, and I think
we've tried different things to say discipline, but we've now
found the discipline mechanism that helps us sustain our flame
of motivation to be healthy. So today we're going to
(01:05):
jump into just things that we've noticed, like why fitness
as a couple is important, also our fitness history, what
things you should do to maintain your health and the
how to stay consistent through the process. So first breathe
you have, Yes, I was.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Gonna say that was first of all, Hi breeze here too,
you said, I want to give you, guys, just a
quick rundown of like Dre and I and our differences,
so that as you're watching this, if you're a woman,
you'll most likely be in the same boat as me,
but it also could be different, just based on you know,
(01:45):
your genetic makeup and all the things. But Dre is
like superhuman fit. It's really annoying. He is the quickest
metabolism anyone has ever seen. He can pretty much do
whatever he wants and he's going to look great. So
his health journey has been more about literal health. Mine,
as most of the women out there can relate to,
has been about weight loss, weight management, how to feel
(02:08):
and look good in our clothes and just the normal things.
So mine was less health, more fitness. How do I
look how I want to look, and I can look
at food and gain ten pounds, So there's a big difference,
and we will talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I mean, we could talk about now since you brought
it up. I have been that athlete for all my life.
I played football college, I played football high school. I
rant track. I've always been an athlete, So over those
years and decades of activity, my body has had became
accustomed to a fast metabolism and things of that nature.
(02:45):
So that's why my body typically can get into shape
really quickly through muscle.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Memory doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why my metabolism moves very.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Fast, doesn't matter. Why when I met him, he was
not doing any sports. He really wasn't working out, was
eat whenever he wanted, and he just looked great every day.
So exactly, I was twenty three twenty four. But like
you know, I struggled that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
When I met her, she was making cookies for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
First of all, chocolate, chocolate is good for you. Second
of all, it was hard out here in these streetsakfast,
I have business.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Chocolate chip cookies. I'm like what.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So, Also, to give you all background, I did sports
as well, because cheerlein is a whole sport. I did
cheer and dance. I did cheer and dance my whole childhood.
I did collegiate cheer and dance, and then I danced
for the NBA. So don't make it seem like just
because you're a football player. You got it all figured
out and you're great.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, But as they'll learn this video, muscle has a
higher metabolic rate which burns more than that.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Lifted a lot. So anyways, here we go. So that
is really our backgrounds. We're of different you know backgrounds
from a fitness standpoint. Also, my mom like ran track
in high school. My dad was pretty fit, So I'm
sure genetics possibly play a possible you know, part in
this as well. But here we are, and we have
to come together, even though we have differences of backgrounds
(04:19):
and different approaches and different needs, to figure out our
fitness journey together because what we learned it is that
if we go on it together, it is more beneficial
than trying to do it separately. So first things first,
why fitness has a couple's important? So the first thing
I want to say is health and longevity. I think
that's probably the number one most important thing outside of
(04:39):
look is that we made this vow to be with
each other for life, and we don't want that life
to be a short one. We want that life to
be a long one. Brie and I both have lost
parents and pretty much at a younger age in which
you think a parent should lose their life. So it's like,
for us, where are you living at?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Because I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
To thank for your parents?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh, that is so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Just for a reference, her dad was not in her
life and he was not a father to her at all.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A shout out to the daddy's out there. But because
I literally just.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Sitting her, I'm like, that's how much he was not
in her loss her parent Both have lost our dads.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And but my point is that inner life.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Or not issues.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, to health issues, but it was like it was
definitely probably avoidable at the age that they were at.
So it's just important when you're working on your fitness,
the longevity and the health aspect, like Brier brought that
up with me. For me, it was like I had
a physically fit looking body. I still wasn't at like
(05:47):
what I look like when I played football, which I'm
getting back to. But you know, for me, the biggest
thing was also like just my internal health, like how
my heart feels, like how my body feels, and my
fatigue all the time and things like that, and then
wanting to be around when my kids are older in
their thirties forties. I want to see my grandkids and
(06:08):
want to spend time with them. I want to expand
what they say, not just my house span, but my
lifespan in a sense of like how I feel when
I'm eighty or ninety, if I get blessed to be
at that age you have anything at health?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, of course. So I'm like, do you think you're
doing the show bout yourself today? No? You too, I
mean I'm waiting me turn Okay. Anyways, So a few things. One,
it's when I think of like the way that we
were raised, the things that we ate, the things that
we like weren't aware of. Like I am quite sure
(06:47):
that I ate ramen noodles for like thirty days straight
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. At one point when I
was a kid, I had no idea how bad they were,
Like it was all about right taste and convenience. So
when we think about as a family and as a unit,
what health, what our health journey looks like for us,
(07:09):
it's like creating a home that has healthy, whole food
in it, not a lot of fast food. All of
the things that you know, we were a customed to when
we were grown up, so that our kids can just
be used to that and that be their norm. And
then obviously the other part of it is also the
physical element of like I don't remember ever growing up
(07:31):
and seeing my mom have like a real workout routine.
Now she may have been working out, but I just
never seen it. It wasn't a part of our lifestyle. I
never like worked out with my mom, And so I
want to be, you know that mom who's like doing
yoga with their babies, and like they see you getting
up and going to the gym, because it is a
muscle that you have to work. It's more of a
mental than a physical muscle to wake up and be
(07:53):
consistent to a morning routine, especially when as entrepreneurs you
don't have to, Like we literally could go to sleep
and want and wake up when we want, but to
choose to wake up at the five ams the six
ams and have that set schedule. It builds resilience and
also confidence, Like, even if I'm not where I want
to be look wise, i feel super confident about myself
(08:13):
right now because I've been actively doing the hard things
over and over again. And it takes that for a
certain amount of time to actually see the results. So
we were really excited about creating a long term, sustainable
workout routine, not just like a quick fix. And then
so I said the food, the kids, and kind of
(08:33):
the lifestyle. And then I was gonna say to piggyback
on Dre's point, like the health stuff. So obviously for me, yes,
you want to be healthy, but it's like I have
to do these things in order to look good, whereas
for him, he can already look good, but he's like, well,
I have to also think about the insides of me
as well, and kind of like the idea of like
(08:57):
what are we actually putting into our body, which I'm
sure we'll talk about a little bit more later. He's
obsessed with added sugars right now. It's all al anying.
But sure it's great for.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Us, but oh it's not great for us.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
No, I'm saying you being obsessed with it now is
great for us.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But we made a good point. And one more that
the fitness journey that you're on is both mixed with
physical fitness and diet and eating, So it's like making
sure you're exercising, but also what you're consuming that's literally
the fuel for your body. You think if you put
milk in a gas tank of a car, like, that's
(09:36):
not what it runs on, so it will not run efficiently.
Ain't gonna even really start at all. But even if
you put the wrong gas in a car, it still
won't run efficiently. So our fuel and what we put
into our body is pretty much the number one thing
when it comes to our health because a lot of
our exercise. The World Health Organization recommends that we get
one hundred and fifty minutes of exercise per week, and
(10:00):
if you break that down, that's like five days at
thirty minutes a day, and that's moderate too intense, And
if you look at the whole week, that's two and
a half hours out of like one hundred and sixty eight.
And it's like, if you not dedicating at least two
hours or three hours out of one hundred and sixty
eight to just walk or to move, like, you don't
really care about your health or you know, your ability
(10:22):
to you know, even maintain your body composition, Like that's
not that hard to do to go for a walk,
you know, thirty minutes every day or throughout a seven
day week. So that's important. But then also the food
element is going to be really important too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But what's and then lastly why it's super important for
you as a couple is accountability. And what I mean
by that is having the routines and the support is
like the best way for you as an individual to
like stay committed to whatever you know, health and fitness
gools that you have. So prime example of this is
like if Dre and I are going through a season
(10:58):
where he's staying up later than normal and waking up
later than normal, it throws me off and vice versa.
So we had to come up with like a routine
where we were able to hold ourselves accountable, support each other,
but also have like our own time. So is there
a part in this way we talk about what our
new routines are? Should I say it now?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, we're talking about how to stay consistent, so.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We can talk about that, Okay, So yeah, we'll talk
about that in a little bit later. But that is
a big thing. It's like if only one person is
on a fitness and health journey and the other one's
sitting around in bomb bonds all day, Like at some
point the person who's not doing the activity is going
to start to feel bad about themselves, and then the
person who is being active, they might start to decline
and be less active because they're just meet you where
(11:43):
you are. So it's like doing it together as a
team is super important. That doesn't even have to do
the same things at the same time, but it means
having that support and accountability on the are no.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I agree. And one thing that's been helpful too is
like she talks about the accountability part, but I feel
like when you're trying to structure your day, if you
have like a thing that's like set at a specific time,
at a specific time, it allows you to shape the
rest of your day a lot easier. So it's like,
(12:14):
if we know we're getting up at six o'clock in
the morning to do a class, a boxing class at
seven fifteen, then we're able to like structure the rest
of our day around that very easily because that's like
the one thing that is steady and is, you know,
a part of our schedule no matter what. So that's
been helpful. A few other things why fitness as a
(12:35):
couple is important. Looking good for one another like that
is important. We want to maintain, you know, our look
as long as we possibly can, and you're gonna build
up some resentment if you're hitting the gym going crazy. Why,
like Bri said, you say bond bonds, bon bonds?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know while your other person is sitting on
the couch not doing nothing. So I think we owe
it to each other, you know, within your own body composite,
within your own genetics, but to continue to try to
still look good for your person and put an effort
to do that. But it's helpful if you guys go
after that journey together versus one person trying to do
it versus while the other person is not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I want to share a quick funny story. It's very fast.
So Drey does this thing where when he gets out
the shower, he's feeling good about himself. He like, or no,
not when you're yeah, because no, you'll take your shirt off.
I don't know. It's like he takes his shirt off
and then he does this like motion where all you
(13:36):
here is like he's like washing his hands on his abs,
and it is the most annoyed. I'll be looking at
him getting so bad because I don't have abs and
I want them so badly, and so I'll get mad
and I'll be like okay, or I'll act like I'm
not looking or I don't care, and then he'll be like,
whoo bay, this is for you. What you mad is
(13:57):
for you. You should like it. That look good, and
I'm like I do, but also I just did four
hours at the gym and I look nothing like you.
Get out of my face. I just think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You see what I'm saying. It's like this is hers
for her, and she's talking about I don't want would
you laugh at the opposite word. I'm putting a lot
of work throughout them.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But no, okay, time, no, lie, tell the people the truth.
All you gotta do is like five minutes of arm
workouts and then you your arm is swollen, like immediately.
Is that not the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's what naturally happens when somebody go to the gym.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
If they lift, it don't happen to me.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's going to go lifting heavy.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do be lifting heavy. We don't see it don't
be happening.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
She should be grateful that her husband has a great
body type.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
All I'm saying is like, can I get some of that?
Like our kids will be blessed, but like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Not she goes consistently, it's gonna work. Get about May
when you see her maid, she's gonna be like fou
yeah yeah. And lastly, uh, why fitness as a couple's
important so mood and relationship. I feel like it's definitely
helped my mood and definitely help our relationship in that way.
(15:07):
What are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I don't know why I'm so giggly today. First of all,
they are pounding away and I don't know why. But no,
I'm laughing because when you said mood, and I was like,
you'd be like you didn't work out today, did you?
Or you'll be like you didn't do your morning routine,
did you? Because I for sure, like Dre says, it
helps his mood, but he's typically in a good mood
(15:31):
every day. But for me, it's like which bree you
gonna get? And if I miss my morning routine, like
if I don't have that physical outlet and like that
structured again, it goes back to confidence. If I don't
have that, it's because I either woke up late, I
made some sort of excuse, and so I naturally am
certain the day off, not feeling confident, and then I
take that energy and give it to anyone who's around me,
(15:53):
and he'd be like, oh, she might work out, did you?
And I'm like nah, nah, but I'm gonna try. I'm
gonna go go tonight. And what happens I don't go tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Should be mad at me because I'd just be asking like, oh,
what's your class look like this week? Like don't worry
about it, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I was aka that means I haven't signed up.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
She mad because she has signed up for nothing, or
she ain't go that day. We're just fine. But it's
like cool. It helps move especially like we do boxing
no more, and so you get like all of it out,
but you feel good about yourself, but then helps you
to feel you know, better towards your person. And then
also when you see them committing like you're committing, you
like yo, you did it, Like yeah, happy for you.
(16:35):
And it also makes me happy because it's like you're
doing this, which is going to prolong your health, which
is awesome, and it's gonna give you the look and
body composition that you want, so that makes me happy too.
So it's just overall great for the relationship to do
those things together.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yes, you agree, I agreed.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Agreed, So we already talked about the history of our
fitness journeys and we know that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
However, no, because I do need to we do need
a slide in a little wedding photo, Bree while I
was on the beach looking good. I need to talk
about what I was doing. So Dre's history has been
that when we met, he really wasn't doing anything. He
would sporadically go to the gym and play basketball. That
was like his thing. He wasn't in No what you
(17:17):
didn't have a membership anywhere?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Pretty active as a person. I walked a lot. I
would like I would walk for hours. Okay, but I
was coming off of eight, what ten year career of
playing football.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Since you okay, well, all I'm saying is you didn't
have like a gym membership. You didn't have like a
set workout routine. I had a Orange Theory membership for
what probably two years?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, Orangeery. You had been life or sport and health.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah. Then I went to F forty five. So forty five,
oh yeah, that is, but F forty five for my
I was doing two a day's like morning and evening,
like four to five days a week and to prep
for the wedding. So we're just gonna insert a photo
(18:09):
of your girl here because she was Loka shlem shlam thick,
like my arms. Ooh, I want those arms back so bad.
We're getting there, We're getting there. But I was at
f forty five and then I had like a period
of time where I was doing at home workouts, like
at home and upstairs in the gym. Help of my
awesome friend Sean del Mar, he put together a little
(18:32):
fitness routine for me. Then I switched over to doing
uh Gina's workout workout with Gina, which was the in
gym routine, and that was cool. But then I started noticing,
like I'm not really seeing much results. So I went
back at forty five all to find the amazing gym
(18:53):
that we're at now, and I had to get out
of my membership. And now we'll talk about what our
actual gym situation is now. But I did want to
of that, like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I've always been active person. I've always pretty much ate
pretty clean or what I thought was very clean for
most of my life. For the most part, I would
play basketball because I don't like treadmills. I don't like bikes.
I don't I need to disguise my cardio in something
else versus just like doing it. I could run outside sometimes,
(19:25):
but that's still like you get to see stuff, listen
to things like just sitting in the gym doing cardio,
stare master all that stuff is not my thing. So
I would play basketball, but then I would do a
lot more like body weight things, because I just did
not want to lift like I lived in college. Like
I don't want a squad three hundred four hundred pounds.
I don't want to bench three hundred pounds like I
(19:45):
am good on that, Like I don't want to push
my bike that much. So I would do body weight.
Was I as consistent as I am now? No, But
I did enough to maintain a decent amount of you know,
muscle mass and things like that. But I just felt like,
you know, my body wasn't where I ultimately wanted it
to be and where I know it could be. So
(20:06):
I was looking for that thing that could help me
to maintain it and be consistent with it. And like
I said, we tried. It's not like the things that
we did before we got to where we are now
was for a lack of not trying. It's like, we
have an amazing gym in our building. We have amazing
friends who are fitness heads and give us great routines.
(20:28):
We tried different classes, like we tried the solid core
together and did that and started on it. But this
thing that we're now doing is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So this is for sure the most active we've ever been.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, So before we get into what our ultimate thing
is and the gym we joined, I just want to
talk about what things you can do to maintain your
health or should we go the opposite with then we
should go what things you should do to maintain your health?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
To talk about the gym first has a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right, let's go into the gym. You want to talk.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Are you going to insert videos or photos? I took
beautiful videos. I'm gonna get him to insert some videos.
So first of all, I'm in love. I'm I am
okay if I were to like have to live there,
you know, it's gorgeous. It's literally like my esthetic, but
(21:24):
in the gym format. Also side note, we were doing
a house project right now, so please ignore the tape on.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Our own And this is why the.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Beginning stages on the wall here, that's tape. So AnyWho,
now forgot I was saying, Oh, it's beautiful. It is beautiful.
So like when you walk in, you first of all,
you feel like you got money. Like it is just
such a sexy Yes, it's very expensive, but it is
a sexy, luxury, modern, super clean while taking care of space.
(21:56):
So that's first and foremost. The number one reason why
I wanted to join was because of the amount of
classes that they offer. So they have boxing, which is
really cool because they don't use normal boxing bags. It's
water filled bags, so it's easier on.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Your one second, I'm gonna do this to her because
she always does it to me. I don't think you
explained it right. We didn't even say the name of
the place yet. So where we go. It's a gym.
She talked about the aesthetic. That's how you know she is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I was gonna say that like thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Seconds about the esthetic, and they went straight into a
boxing bag.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Fill wardo.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So we go to a gym now called Club Studio.
I put her on to it initially thanks to our
friends Brandon and Mary. They told us about it, and
I told Brie, yeah, you should check this out. She
was like, nah, like F forty five, and then when
she actually saw it, she was.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Like, he did not tell me what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But anyways, it's a really dope concept because it's mainly
been on the East coast, but now I mean on
the West coast, but now it's on the East coast now.
But it's a really dope concept because it's a very
luxury gym. But they have like five different classes, which
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Is going to arrival way more than five.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Five different classrooms, and I think it's going to our
studios to where I think it's going to really affect
the business of like the Orange theories and the solid
cores and the F forty fives because these different rooms
pretty much cover all that for just about the same
price as like one of those places would be. Yeah,
so it's like Bree was paying ones seventy at F
(23:29):
forty five and then this membership is basically one seventy but.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Omitted all the classes.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So the first room you have is called Sweat and
that is like yoga, three different types of yoga, rebound class.
She loves rebound. It's like a trampoline class, really works
your legs have them burning and like hot pilates. Then
you have another riote class which is cycling, and then
you have Box, which is boxing and it's like really
(23:59):
cool n rounds the bags of field with waters water
as she said. Then you have a reform room, which
is your pilates just like a solid cores. And then
you have the CSES, which is essentially like.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
If you could combined the Orange Theory and F forty
five together, but sexier with better about it and wrap
around mirrors. Yeah no, not solid solid yeahs four. If
you were to combine the Orange Theory and F forty
five together, it's some sexy in there. So one thing
(24:32):
that I really like about the classes.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was going to finish with the classes and they
got another class which is like more like a cross
training class. They have like a separate section. Then the
one where our area where we live, which is Northern
Virginia and Tyson's has like is one of the biggest
club studios, so it has like this own like HWPO
which is like cross training, and they do classes in
there too.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah that I haven't tried. That class looks really scary.
But the reason why I like the class is so
much is that everything is light and sound connected, so
like there's music playing and the lights go to the
music and go to the workout. So their whole like
thing that makes them unique is that it feels like
you're at a club. So even in like ride, if
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it's your birthday or you're like I think it's like
your fiftieth class or a hunt oh gosh, one hundredth class,
they do like bottle service where they bring like lights
and signage out. This says like a happy birthday or
happy you know, one hundredth class, and it's like a
full on turn up. It's such a good time. So
like even when you don't feel like working out, you
can't get in one of their classes and not push
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because everyone's going, the lights are on the music line.
It's just it's such a vibe. It's so different than
a lot of other classes that are out there, so
it's very enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And then it's then there's still a full gym, so
it's a whole freeway area which is huge, and then
new levels machines upstairs with like Cardio, there's plenty of
spaces where it's just turf and like TRX's and medicine ball.
Then the HWPO area, which I was talking about, is
like more like body weight and like cross training, so
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there's like rings and all the type of stuff, AsSalt bikes,
so it's like pretty much everything you need, but it's
like really nice. And the biggest thing for me was
that I was if you follow me on Instagram, I'm
big on recovery, so like compression, boots, crypt cryo therapy,
different things like that like I enjoy and do often,
so having the ability to also do that there too,
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and it has sanna and it has a pool as well.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So say name it up, Name it up. My favorite
is the hydro massage.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The hydro massage here.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's so nice. You just lay there and it's like
water just massages your whole bottom back, bottom back, your
whole body. It's really nice. So a few things right.
They also when you join you get like a free
personal training session, you get a body analysis scan where
they're able to show you everything. Let's talk about our
results because in May we're gonna we're gonna come back
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to a follow up of this video and I'm gonna
give my new numbers because honestly, it's embarrassing. So Dre
again Superhuman has less than thirteen percent body fat, which
is insane. On the right side, it tells you how
much you need to gain or lose in like fat
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and muscle and whatever to be like healthy, and Dre's
numbers are zero zero zero, Like you don't have to
do anything, brauh, You're perfect, keep living your best life.
And then it's like he can eat like thirty five
hundred calories and not make a dent. I'm like, wow, exciting.
So then I get to mine. So basically forty percent
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body fat was like thirty nine point eight percent body fat,
so I'm almost fifty percent fat. I'm just walking around
and fifty percent of me is just flub like what
how disrespectful? Anyways, my weight, it says in order for
me to be considered healthy, I need to lose thirty
four pounds, which is insane because I am, for the record,
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one hundred and seventy three as of today, one hundred
and seventy. Let's say I'm one hundred and seventy pounds
and thirty four pounds like that would be insane. I
haven't been that light since like college, and I was tiny,
so I don't want to lose thirty five pounds, but
I do want to lose like fifteen to twenty I
think would be like the maximum. But I just want
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to share this funny story. I don't know, I'm so
giggly today. Yeah, like everything's so funny. So our friend Mary,
she's at the studio with us. We leave, we all
take like a yoga class and I was like, hm,
She's like, what's robepri? And I was like, I did
my body scant analysis and I'm fifty percent fat. She
was like what and I was like yeah, and she's like,
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let me see. So she grabs the papers and she's
like no, She's like this looks so good you're and
I'm like looking me and Dre both we're like, oh,
like what are you looking at? And I was like, Mary,
that's Dre's and she was like oh, and then she
flips it and she goes, oh well, and I was like,
I tellt you to that axiety who we have two
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different challenges in front of us right now.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But this is all about body types too, Like Bria
is not by any means, like you wouldn't look at
her if you saw her and be like she's overweight,
Like by even thirty, like thirty pounds, like no, no,
looks great. Even I've been to the doctor before and
because of my weight and height and stuff, they're like, oh,
you need to lose a little, But it's like I'm
all muscle, so that just weighs more than what a
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typical person my height or age will weigh. That's because
I'm an athlete. So you just have to understand those
type of things. But the cool thing is too about
about the gym that we go to is that the
staff is really awesome. Bre wasn't like I used to
all do recovery and she used to be like, oh,
you're going to recovery, you go into recovery.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But now was so boring.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Once she started doing it, she like, oh, this is
basically like my favorite thing. She love massages, so she
like this basically like it's not a massage but close
to it in the sense.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, so I do. Because the other thing that Drada
mentioned is they have red light therapy saanas, So for women, like,
the benefits for red light therapy, especially if you can
do full body red light therapy for like twenty minutes
a day, is insane. So I'm gonna do a video
that is like, hey, day one, I'm going to do
it for full sixty days and see what actually has
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like changed. But the things that I do in recovery,
because we don't do the same thing, is I do
the compression boots and arms, and then I'll do hydro
therapy massage and then the red light therapy. The boots
for a lot of people because people are like, what
what are compression boots if you haven't done it before.
It's essentially like a big old glove that comes on
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your legs and arms and it blows up and it
stresses or not stresses, it compresses and like squeezes that
body part to the point where it helps with like
blood circulation and restoring the same amount of time it
would take you to like go home and like rest
for a few days to feel ready and able to
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work out again. The boots essentially it helped like take
that time down significantly. I notice if I don't do
like the compression on whatever body part I worked out,
if I don't do it the next day and the
following day, I am so sore. But if I do
the compression boots or the arms same day that I
worked out, everything I wake up the next morning and
I feel like I can take on the world. So
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it makes a huge difference. And then for me the
hydro massage, I mostly do it on my lower back
and on my feet, and again it makes such a difference.
If I don't do it, I come home and I
feel the soreness. So it's nice because it gives you
that boost to feel like you can actually be active
every day, whereas before without doing recovery, I was so
sore that I didn't want to work out or barely
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clean or like move. So it definitely helps with your
activity level because you can do more more often.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, I do all that. I just add crowd therapy
with you do red light there. Well, no, I don't
do real like, but crowd therapy. I mean all this stuff.
Studies are still like, it's just about how it makes
you feel, really and crowd therapy is supposed to help
with inflammation. It helps, you know, with recovery because you
know the blood pumping out. But I think it's also
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a great way for me to start the day, especially
like working out early and you're tired and fatigued a
little bit, like when you get in that minus sixty
five degree freezer for three minutes. It like wakes you
up to be like WHOA, all right, let's go, And
it gives you like an energy boost and it helps
with a lot of things like stress all that stuff too,
So we enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, I just say, and that's why I walk to
and from the studio, Dre you drive. But the reason
why I've been walking is because just how Dra said,
like after his cryod therapy, he's like, ooh, I'm ready
to you know, do whatever. After my walk, I feel
the way, especially it's been under like fifteen degrees like
the last week. It's been crazy, so it's been feeling
like cryod therapy. But that walk to the gym makes
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it so that when I get there, I'm already warmed up,
like my body is ready to go. When I have drove,
I noticed when I get there and I go to
take a class, I'm still kind of like waking my
body up, so I'm not able to just like hit
the ground running. So I would say, if you have
a gym and you could walk there, you should walk.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But that's what I wanted to go into next, is
that we talked. I talked about the beginning, like sustaining
the flame, and that's a huge part of it. And
that's why I'm so thankful that this opened up. I
think it's God that helped us, honestly that this opened
up so close to our home, because part of the
issue is like the proximity to where you're working out,
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Like we didn't want to have a place where we
had to drive twenty minutes thirty minutes. Like I attended
a great gym, which is still I mean, the Saint
James is different than a gym. It's not even like
Club Studio in Saint James aren't in the same like
area because Saint James like a complex.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I was just gonna say it's the Sports and Wellness complex.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah it's a complex, but it has a gym essentially,
but Club Studio is specifically a gym. But like, the
ability to be able to go five minutes from our
house essentially is like a game changer for us and
allows us to be consistent. So if we're talking about
like how to build the mechanisms that work for you
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to make sure you're going consistently and doing it, I
think proximity and location are so important to that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, Well, because I was gonna say, it's also on
top of a Walmart, So it's like we shop at
Whole Foods for our groceries and stuff, but we would
always have to like get in the car and drive
to Walmart if we needed like grocery bags or this
or that. So it's really nice because not only does
it make it convenient as close as we are to
work out, but it also allows us to like get
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the things on our checklist. Whoever you know grabs it
first in a super easy and convenient way. And so
even with like the walking situation, for me, it's like
I can grab stuff from Walmart, put it in my
gym bag, and like walk home, so go right to
Whole Foods, grab what I need, and come up to
the apartment. So it's been really nice to have that convenience.
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So definitely, if you're looking to be consistent, you need
to find something that is convenient and hopefully inconvenient in
more ways than one.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, for sure. Another way that it helps us be consistent,
or one way that we've allowed ourselves to be more
consistent is like when you get an Apple Watch and
you start tracking your activity, like it makes you want
to hit and close those rings, So you have the steps,
you close yours and but you thout.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Out my rings today. Okay, it is one to fifty nine.
I have burned one thoy thirty eight active calories. Okay,
one hundred and eighty seven minutes of working all right,
eight hours of standing? How does that even work? Eight
out of ten hours of I don't know. I don't
hear what that anyone means? Twelve four hundred and seventeen
steps and six miles in distance as you like.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I said, she's very proud of her activity. But once
you do it consistently, it allows you to like really
want to hit those rings and track it. And then
also when you choose your workout, you can track like
how much calories you burn for that specific workout, what
zone your heart rate was in you want to being
zoned to a lot, you know for moderate to intense activity,
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so you can track that. So it's like really helped
us to stay accountable.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And you can share it. So you share your activity
with your partner or your friends. Like me and my girls,
we always type each other up and we see someone
did a work out, like yeah, ask go, I see
you three hundred fifty galleries. So it makes it.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I get a notification on my Apple Watch that
says like Bree closed all her rings today or something
like that, So well, that's really cool, and that helps
us to stay consistent as well. Us sharing our schedules
with us with each other helped us to stay consistent,
just so each person knows, like, all right, this is
not only the goals that I'm trying to accomplish, but
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this is the way I'm trying to accomplish those goals.
So these are the classes that I'm going to. These
are the things that I'm doing. We take some classes together,
we do somethings separately. So all those things help us
to maintain the ability to hold each other accountable, but
also to remain consistent as we're trying to grow in
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our fitness journey and to be better with our fitness.
So lastly, what things you should do to help maintain
your health. So there's a lot of things out there,
and for me, what I always tell Bree is like,
it's not necessarily about like dieting this way or counting
calories or macros and all that stuff, because when you
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try to break all that stuff down to a silence,
I feel to science. I feel like it's discouraging sometimes
to like a lot to keep that up because it's
a lot. But there are some like just easy things
overall things that if you follow these simple steps are
simple rules, it will just help your not only your
physical fitness from a look standpoint, but will also help
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your health for what's inside your body. So number one
is eating whole foods. Is what you should be eating
for your health, majority whole foods.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So that's do you know, somebody thought that eating whole
foods meant like that you could eat buy whatever from
from whole foods and that you buy from whole foods.
I'm not going to say who did, but they were
like they were like, yeah, I only buy my food
from whole foods, and I was like all the food
and whole Foods is not whole foods, Like it's not.
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It doesn't work that way anyways.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So basically, whole foods are things that either grow from
the ground or they eat will grow from the ground.
So it's like even if that's chicken, be if that's
you know, your vegetables, your nuts, different stuff like that,
but you want to stay away from like aultra processed foods,
it's kind of hard to avoid processed foods because like cans,
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beans and cans are like processed foods. Vegetables and cans
are processed foods, but your aultra processed foods like chips cereal,
which I lived off of at one point in my life.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Like really, anything that comes in a package that lasts
a long time. The longer something lasts usually the more
likely you shouldn't eat it.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, it's pretty much if you go to the grocery
store or anything in the middle is probably not the best.
All the things on the outside, which is usually like
the you know, vegetables and the fruits and the bakery
and like the seafood section and all that stuff like that.
So that's something that I discovered and realized, like wow,
like I thought eating special K was healthy or cheerios
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are good for your health and all that stuff and
good for your cholestero. Like they tell you it could
be not as bad as other things, but that doesn't
make it good. And I remember somebody saying, like on
a video I was watched, he was like, do you
think the food industry is concerned about your health? I
was like, yeah, probably not. They probably are more concerned
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about making a buck and if they got to frame
something that they make and to make it sound more healthier,
so I consume it. That's what they're going to do,
even though it's not healthy. So that's one thing. Whole
foods and then brinos the sugar aspect. When you consume
it sugar, there's certain things that are detrimental to your health,
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and added sugar is one of those things. It's the
cause for a lot of diseases as we know, like
heart disease the number one cause for death in the
US or I think close to around the world, and
then you have diabetes and stuff like that. But added
sugar is just really not good for you. It's literally
like a drug and it throws off pretty much everything
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in your body in a negative way. So having to
cut that out was very interesting because there's so many
things with sugar, Like if you start to really look
at it, like you drink a can of soda, it
has like thirty eight grams of sugar. It's on the
back of it. It will say like fifty percent sugar or
something like that. And then like growing up, we would
drink kool aid and it was like sugar, sugar, sugar
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or even like the cereals that we're eating. There's so
much sugar and it's not good for you. And I
could tell the benefit when I start cutting it because
Brethe used to know, I used to take naps religiously
every day, every.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Day, sometimes multiple times a day.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I couldn't not operate without a map.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But then recently I don't not all insane, and so
we have been cutting out all that stuff. And it's
been like a good like.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Month over a month cooking more.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And so when we did have something that had sugar
in it, we were like tweaking. We were like, oh
my god, this feels terrible, Like what in the world.
So you will definitely see the difference. Just look at
the back of whatever you're eating and look at the
sugars and then look at added sugars, and that will
let you know if it's something you should probably put
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back down and supplement for something else.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, So that's the simple things. It's whole foods, cut out,
ultra process, limit your sugar. I believe, like in the Bible,
Solomon says and Ecclesiastics that basically the rain falls on
adjusting to unjust alike essentially and he talks a lot
about that, like nothing new under the sun. But I
believe that, like you shouldn't live your life just like
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completely putting yourself in this hole, because there are gonna
be people who do that, and then some people who
eat eighty twenty and you ain't gonna live no longer
than them because their body can recover. So still enjoy yourself,
still eat things that you want to eat, but just
be conscious and limit your intake of the bad things
you want to have a nice healthy balance.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Drey didn't say the most important thing, which is to
drink more water the way.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That the most important.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It is the important thing because if you change nothing
at all, but you just increase your water intake and
stop drinking other things like juices, sodas, whatever, it makes
a really real big difference.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Cut out really.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Especially for women in general, if you cut out anything
else and just increase your water, you'll see a difference
without changing anything, no additional activity, no changing your diet.
It makes a really big difference.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
One thing she said that was good though, that I
will mention is that a lot of times people look
at these diets and first I don't like the diet,
or say we're on a diet, because then that just
puts the pressure of maintaining something that you're telling people
you this and they looking at you crazy when you
consume that. It's like most people feel like when they
go vegetarian or vegan that they feel a difference mainly
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because they're cutting out the ultra processed stuff, not necessarily
because the vegan diet is better for them or the
vegetarian diet is better than them. What they're really cutting out,
it's not what they're consuming as much, but what they're
cutting out, which is making them feel better.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, saying the meat, it's like, usually it's not.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Not the meat, the ultra process Oh what.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I'm saying the different Most people are like, oh, I
don't eat meat anymore and I feel better. But it's
not the meat. It's in general the lack of like
sugars and things because they're eating the vegan you know,
cheese option or the fat, you know, the supplemental stuff.
It's not really the meat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
It's not necessarily the meat that's the issue. It's all
the other stuff. If you eat a whole die with meat, fish,
stuff like that, you'll be fine. From the different things
that I've researched and study and on the other side,
I'm about to go to exercise.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Wait, no food. So for my ladies out there and men,
but probably more so the ladies. If you struggle with
hormonal imbalance, inflammation, and like digestive digestive issues. I did
a consultation with a nutritionist. Her name is Leslie Jackson.
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Her website is Leslie Jackson Wellness dot com, So go
check her out. She does a free consultation. I think
it's a free consultation. It was free when I did it,
but just check out the details on her site. But
she helps with those three things, which for women, it
is literally our biggest issue. It doesn't matter how much
you work out and all of that, if you're eating
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things that are literally making you flame up, have issues
with going to the bathroom. And my consultation with her
was so helpful, Like just in the free consultation, the
information she gave me and the things that she told
me to look out for and to think of when
choosing what I'm putting in my body, and even just
like what supplements to take to help was so helpful.
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So if you have issues with any of that, any
gut related things, Head over to Leslie's website and book
your consultation with her. Awesome welcome.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So going now to the exercise portion of things. Just
to keep it simple, I already said that the World
Health Organization recommends that you get one hundred and fifty
minutes of moderate to intense extra size per week. And
that is not a lot, like a thirty minute work.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Let's say per week. Yeah, I get that per day.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
That's what I'm saying. It's like, it's not that hard
to do because if you combine a good diet with
just walking like that is you know enough from a
health standpoint, if you're eating well to really you know,
have yourself feeling good. Now you can do more if
you're trying to, like I said, create a certain type
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of body composition, whether that's you know, trying to get
bigger or trying to lose more weight or anything like that.
But from a health standpoint, if you eat like we
had suggested earlier, and then you follow you know, just
a simple walking routine, maybe get a little jog and
maybe play some pickleball. I know that that's popular now.
People love that like that will make you or help
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you to feel a lot better about your health, and
it's not that hard to do, like just get up
and do stuff.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
And walking, not like in them on a treadmill, but
actually getting outside and walking again. For women, it is
such a benefit to actually have like the sunlight on
your face and to get no but women are hormones,
like the things that our body deals with that y'all
don't deal with, Like vitamin D specifically for women helps
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with all things like dealing with our twenty eight day cycle.
It is like a major thing that it's like, if
you're a girl, you should be getting outside at least
once a day. I have struggled with like anxiety and
depression stuff, and I feel like it's always worse when
I like don't get out the house. You can feel
a difference when it's like every day you're active, you're
getting outside and you're getting your steps in the beautiful
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sun or whatever is going on with the weather, but
just getting outside.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, And I would also suggest strength training as well,
or resistance training, so lifting weights, whether that's resistance, whether
that's body weight, whether that's free weights, because there are
so many like studies that link longevity to your ability
to to you know, maintain your muscle mass. Essentially, it's
seeing that people who are older are able to maintain
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their strength over time, so you want to do things
that continue to build that up. You want to be
seventy and eighty and still be able to take your
groceries in the house and do stuff like that and
not have to depend on other people. But you have
to work on those things, especially not only your biceps
and triceps, but your back, your legs, and all those
things like that. So if you follow all those things first.
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We are not doctors, we are not nutritionists. We are
just sharing our perspective on the things we learned. Please
consult a doctor of nutritionists or a healthcare professional if
you want to try any of these things or you know,
try to improve your health in a positive way. Even
though some doctors don't know nutrition, so you need to
make sure you're looking out for that. But honestly, going
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on this journey together, I think this past like a
couple of months has really helped us out and transform
I think, like our lives. And once you start going
to the gym like for a good like month, it
feels awkward not to go, so even times to where
it's like I don't make it in the morning, I'm like,
I'm still gonna go in the evening or I might
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just do recovery and come back. So it's like it
just feels awkward to miss days when you get consistent.
So it's really cool to have this accountability partner and
do it together. And I think it's going to make
our relationship great, not only for us, but when we
have kids them seeing us do it, and also like
the genes, like we making sure our jeens are right
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so we ain't passing down none of the you know,
lazy jeans.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Yeah, especially with the miscarriage situation, Like this gym was
literally the it thing you as well, but it was
like the thing that got me back to like feeling good,
got me motivated, It just had me in a really
healthy mental state, mental and physical state. Like it's really exciting.
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So now I'm just looking at it as a way
of like, Okay, we have the miscarriage. I don't necessarily
feel like I was in my best shape when we
got pregnant. I didn't think I would get pregnant that fast.
So now it's like I get what is it called
redo of getting into my best shape now so that
like everything I'm doing now, I can also maintain throughout
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the pregnancy and just have a healthier, more active pregnancy
to ultimately get the snap back. So we gonna catch
y'all in May. Y'all gonna see the before and afters.
Dra gonna look the same, I'm sure, just a little buffier.
And your girl she abs of some sort, abs of
some sorty, Lord, Lord, just give me two hater I
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said what I said.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
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Hey guys, we are back with another episode and YouTube video,
and this episode we're talking about how fitness transformed our relationship.
If you're new here, make sure to subscribe join our
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was on social media Asdre Smith, Brianna Ponte Smith on
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Demand and relationship Restore. So we're gonna hop right into it.
We have been on this fitness kit lately. We've always
been healthy for the most part, for most of our relationship,
but as of recent we really got into a groove
of what's been working for us and we've been really excited.
If you watch some of my old, old, old videos,
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I used to say that like motivation is lighting the
flame and discipline is sustaining the flame. But that discipline
mechanism has to be specific for you, and I think
we've tried different things to say discipline, but we've now
found the discipline mechanism that helps us sustain our flame
of motivation to be healthy. So today we're going to
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jump into just things that we've noticed, like why fitness
as a couple is important, also our fitness history, what
things you should do to maintain your health and the
how to stay consistent through the process. So first breathe
you have, Yes, I was.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Gonna say that was first of all, Hi breeze here too,
you said, I want to give you, guys, just a
quick rundown of like Dre and I and our differences,
so that as you're watching this, if you're a woman,
you'll most likely be in the same boat as me,
but it also could be different, just based on you know,
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your genetic makeup and all the things. But Dre is
like superhuman fit. It's really annoying. He is the quickest
metabolism anyone has ever seen. He can pretty much do
whatever he wants and he's going to look great. So
his health journey has been more about literal health. Mine,
as most of the women out there can relate to,
has been about weight loss, weight management, how to feel
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and look good in our clothes and just the normal things.
So mine was less health, more fitness. How do I
look how I want to look, and I can look
at food and gain ten pounds, So there's a big difference,
and we will talk more about that.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I mean, we could talk about now since you brought
it up. I have been that athlete for all my life.
I played football college, I played football high school. I
rant track. I've always been an athlete, So over those
years and decades of activity, my body has had became
accustomed to a fast metabolism and things of that nature.
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So that's why my body typically can get into shape
really quickly through muscle.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Memory doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Why my metabolism moves very.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Fast, doesn't matter. Why when I met him, he was
not doing any sports. He really wasn't working out, was
eat whenever he wanted, and he just looked great every day.
So exactly, I was twenty three twenty four. But like
you know, I struggled that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
When I met her, she was making cookies for breakfast.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
First of all, chocolate, chocolate is good for you. Second
of all, it was hard out here in these streetsakfast,
I have business.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Chocolate chip cookies. I'm like what.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
So, Also, to give you all background, I did sports
as well, because cheerlein is a whole sport. I did
cheer and dance. I did cheer and dance my whole childhood.
I did collegiate cheer and dance, and then I danced
for the NBA. So don't make it seem like just
because you're a football player. You got it all figured
out and you're great.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Okay, But as they'll learn this video, muscle has a
higher metabolic rate which burns more than that.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Lifted a lot. So anyways, here we go. So that
is really our backgrounds. We're of different you know backgrounds
from a fitness standpoint. Also, my mom like ran track
in high school. My dad was pretty fit, So I'm
sure genetics possibly play a possible you know, part in
this as well. But here we are, and we have
to come together, even though we have differences of backgrounds
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and different approaches and different needs, to figure out our
fitness journey together because what we learned it is that
if we go on it together, it is more beneficial
than trying to do it separately. So first things first,
why fitness has a couple's important? So the first thing
I want to say is health and longevity. I think
that's probably the number one most important thing outside of
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look is that we made this vow to be with
each other for life, and we don't want that life
to be a short one. We want that life to
be a long one. Brie and I both have lost
parents and pretty much at a younger age in which
you think a parent should lose their life. So it's like,
for us, where are you living at?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Because I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
To thank for your parents?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Oh, that is so bad.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Just for a reference, her dad was not in her
life and he was not a father to her at all.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
A shout out to the daddy's out there. But because
I literally just.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Sitting her, I'm like, that's how much he was not
in her loss her parent Both have lost our dads.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And but my point is that inner life.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Or not issues.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, to health issues, but it was like it was
definitely probably avoidable at the age that they were at.
So it's just important when you're working on your fitness,
the longevity and the health aspect, like Brier brought that
up with me. For me, it was like I had
a physically fit looking body. I still wasn't at like
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what I look like when I played football, which I'm
getting back to. But you know, for me, the biggest
thing was also like just my internal health, like how
my heart feels, like how my body feels, and my
fatigue all the time and things like that, and then
wanting to be around when my kids are older in
their thirties forties. I want to see my grandkids and
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want to spend time with them. I want to expand
what they say, not just my house span, but my
lifespan in a sense of like how I feel when
I'm eighty or ninety, if I get blessed to be
at that age you have anything at health?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yes, of course. So I'm like, do you think you're
doing the show bout yourself today? No? You too, I
mean I'm waiting me turn Okay. Anyways, So a few things. One,
it's when I think of like the way that we
were raised, the things that we ate, the things that
we like weren't aware of. Like I am quite sure
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that I ate ramen noodles for like thirty days straight
for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. At one point when I
was a kid, I had no idea how bad they were,
Like it was all about right taste and convenience. So
when we think about as a family and as a unit,
what health, what our health journey looks like for us,
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it's like creating a home that has healthy, whole food
in it, not a lot of fast food. All of
the things that you know, we were a customed to when
we were grown up, so that our kids can just
be used to that and that be their norm. And
then obviously the other part of it is also the
physical element of like I don't remember ever growing up
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and seeing my mom have like a real workout routine.
Now she may have been working out, but I just
never seen it. It wasn't a part of our lifestyle. I
never like worked out with my mom, And so I
want to be, you know that mom who's like doing
yoga with their babies, and like they see you getting
up and going to the gym, because it is a
muscle that you have to work. It's more of a
mental than a physical muscle to wake up and be
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consistent to a morning routine, especially when as entrepreneurs you
don't have to, Like we literally could go to sleep
and want and wake up when we want, but to
choose to wake up at the five ams the six
ams and have that set schedule. It builds resilience and
also confidence, Like, even if I'm not where I want
to be look wise, i feel super confident about myself
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right now because I've been actively doing the hard things
over and over again. And it takes that for a
certain amount of time to actually see the results. So
we were really excited about creating a long term, sustainable
workout routine, not just like a quick fix. And then
so I said the food, the kids, and kind of
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the lifestyle. And then I was gonna say to piggyback
on Dre's point, like the health stuff. So obviously for me, yes,
you want to be healthy, but it's like I have
to do these things in order to look good, whereas
for him, he can already look good, but he's like, well,
I have to also think about the insides of me
as well, and kind of like the idea of like
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what are we actually putting into our body, which I'm
sure we'll talk about a little bit more later. He's
obsessed with added sugars right now. It's all al anying.
But sure it's great for.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Us, but oh it's not great for us.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
No, I'm saying you being obsessed with it now is
great for us.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
But we made a good point. And one more that
the fitness journey that you're on is both mixed with
physical fitness and diet and eating, So it's like making
sure you're exercising, but also what you're consuming that's literally
the fuel for your body. You think if you put
milk in a gas tank of a car, like, that's
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not what it runs on, so it will not run efficiently.
Ain't gonna even really start at all. But even if
you put the wrong gas in a car, it still
won't run efficiently. So our fuel and what we put
into our body is pretty much the number one thing
when it comes to our health because a lot of
our exercise. The World Health Organization recommends that we get
one hundred and fifty minutes of exercise per week, and
(10:00):
if you break that down, that's like five days at
thirty minutes a day, and that's moderate too intense, And
if you look at the whole week, that's two and
a half hours out of like one hundred and sixty eight.
And it's like, if you not dedicating at least two
hours or three hours out of one hundred and sixty
eight to just walk or to move, like, you don't
really care about your health or you know, your ability
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to you know, even maintain your body composition, Like that's
not that hard to do to go for a walk,
you know, thirty minutes every day or throughout a seven
day week. So that's important. But then also the food
element is going to be really important too.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
But what's and then lastly why it's super important for
you as a couple is accountability. And what I mean
by that is having the routines and the support is
like the best way for you as an individual to
like stay committed to whatever you know, health and fitness
gools that you have. So prime example of this is
like if Dre and I are going through a season
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where he's staying up later than normal and waking up
later than normal, it throws me off and vice versa.
So we had to come up with like a routine
where we were able to hold ourselves accountable, support each other,
but also have like our own time. So is there
a part in this way we talk about what our
new routines are? Should I say it now?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, we're talking about how to stay consistent, so.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
We can talk about that, Okay, So yeah, we'll talk
about that in a little bit later. But that is
a big thing. It's like if only one person is
on a fitness and health journey and the other one's
sitting around in bomb bonds all day, Like at some
point the person who's not doing the activity is going
to start to feel bad about themselves, and then the
person who is being active, they might start to decline
and be less active because they're just meet you where
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you are. So it's like doing it together as a
team is super important. That doesn't even have to do
the same things at the same time, but it means
having that support and accountability on the are no.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I agree. And one thing that's been helpful too is
like she talks about the accountability part, but I feel
like when you're trying to structure your day, if you
have like a thing that's like set at a specific time,
at a specific time, it allows you to shape the
rest of your day a lot easier. So it's like,
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if we know we're getting up at six o'clock in
the morning to do a class, a boxing class at
seven fifteen, then we're able to like structure the rest
of our day around that very easily because that's like
the one thing that is steady and is, you know,
a part of our schedule no matter what. So that's
been helpful. A few other things why fitness as a
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couple is important. Looking good for one another like that
is important. We want to maintain, you know, our look
as long as we possibly can, and you're gonna build
up some resentment if you're hitting the gym going crazy. Why,
like Bri said, you say bond bonds, bon bonds?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Is that a thing?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I don't know while your other person is sitting on
the couch not doing nothing. So I think we owe
it to each other, you know, within your own body composite,
within your own genetics, but to continue to try to
still look good for your person and put an effort
to do that. But it's helpful if you guys go
after that journey together versus one person trying to do
it versus while the other person is not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I want to share a quick funny story. It's very fast.
So Drey does this thing where when he gets out
the shower, he's feeling good about himself. He like, or no,
not when you're yeah, because no, you'll take your shirt off.
I don't know. It's like he takes his shirt off
and then he does this like motion where all you
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here is like he's like washing his hands on his abs,
and it is the most annoyed. I'll be looking at
him getting so bad because I don't have abs and
I want them so badly, and so I'll get mad
and I'll be like okay, or I'll act like I'm
not looking or I don't care, and then he'll be like,
whoo bay, this is for you. What you mad is
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for you. You should like it. That look good, and
I'm like I do, but also I just did four
hours at the gym and I look nothing like you.
Get out of my face. I just think it's funny.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
You see what I'm saying. It's like this is hers
for her, and she's talking about I don't want would
you laugh at the opposite word. I'm putting a lot
of work throughout them.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
But no, okay, time, no, lie, tell the people the truth.
All you gotta do is like five minutes of arm
workouts and then you your arm is swollen, like immediately.
Is that not the truth?
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That's what naturally happens when somebody go to the gym.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
If they lift, it don't happen to me.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
It's going to go lifting heavy.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I do be lifting heavy. We don't see it don't
be happening.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
She should be grateful that her husband has a great
body type.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
All I'm saying is like, can I get some of that?
Like our kids will be blessed, but like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Not she goes consistently, it's gonna work. Get about May
when you see her maid, she's gonna be like fou
yeah yeah. And lastly, uh, why fitness as a couple's
important so mood and relationship. I feel like it's definitely
helped my mood and definitely help our relationship in that way.
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What are you laughing at?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I don't know why I'm so giggly today. First of all,
they are pounding away and I don't know why. But no,
I'm laughing because when you said mood, and I was like,
you'd be like you didn't work out today, did you?
Or you'll be like you didn't do your morning routine,
did you? Because I for sure, like Dre says, it
helps his mood, but he's typically in a good mood
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every day. But for me, it's like which bree you
gonna get? And if I miss my morning routine, like
if I don't have that physical outlet and like that
structured again, it goes back to confidence. If I don't
have that, it's because I either woke up late, I
made some sort of excuse, and so I naturally am
certain the day off, not feeling confident, and then I
take that energy and give it to anyone who's around me,
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and he'd be like, oh, she might work out, did you?
And I'm like nah, nah, but I'm gonna try. I'm
gonna go go tonight. And what happens I don't go tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Should be mad at me because I'd just be asking like, oh,
what's your class look like this week? Like don't worry
about it, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I was aka that means I haven't signed up.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
She mad because she has signed up for nothing, or
she ain't go that day. We're just fine. But it's
like cool. It helps move especially like we do boxing
no more, and so you get like all of it out,
but you feel good about yourself, but then helps you
to feel you know, better towards your person. And then
also when you see them committing like you're committing, you
like yo, you did it, Like yeah, happy for you.
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And it also makes me happy because it's like you're
doing this, which is going to prolong your health, which
is awesome, and it's gonna give you the look and
body composition that you want, so that makes me happy too.
So it's just overall great for the relationship to do
those things together.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Yes, you agree, I agreed.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Agreed, So we already talked about the history of our
fitness journeys and we know that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
However, no, because I do need to we do need
a slide in a little wedding photo, Bree while I
was on the beach looking good. I need to talk
about what I was doing. So Dre's history has been
that when we met, he really wasn't doing anything. He
would sporadically go to the gym and play basketball. That
was like his thing. He wasn't in No what you
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didn't have a membership anywhere?
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Pretty active as a person. I walked a lot. I
would like I would walk for hours. Okay, but I
was coming off of eight, what ten year career of
playing football.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Since you okay, well, all I'm saying is you didn't
have like a gym membership. You didn't have like a
set workout routine. I had a Orange Theory membership for
what probably two years?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, Orangeery. You had been life or sport and health.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah. Then I went to F forty five. So forty five,
oh yeah, that is, but F forty five for my
I was doing two a day's like morning and evening,
like four to five days a week and to prep
for the wedding. So we're just gonna insert a photo
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of your girl here because she was Loka shlem shlam thick,
like my arms. Ooh, I want those arms back so bad.
We're getting there, We're getting there. But I was at
f forty five and then I had like a period
of time where I was doing at home workouts, like
at home and upstairs in the gym. Help of my
awesome friend Sean del Mar, he put together a little
(18:32):
fitness routine for me. Then I switched over to doing
uh Gina's workout workout with Gina, which was the in
gym routine, and that was cool. But then I started noticing,
like I'm not really seeing much results. So I went
back at forty five all to find the amazing gym
(18:53):
that we're at now, and I had to get out
of my membership. And now we'll talk about what our
actual gym situation is now. But I did want to
of that, like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I've always been active person. I've always pretty much ate
pretty clean or what I thought was very clean for
most of my life. For the most part, I would
play basketball because I don't like treadmills. I don't like bikes.
I don't I need to disguise my cardio in something
else versus just like doing it. I could run outside sometimes,
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but that's still like you get to see stuff, listen
to things like just sitting in the gym doing cardio,
stare master all that stuff is not my thing. So
I would play basketball, but then I would do a
lot more like body weight things, because I just did
not want to lift like I lived in college. Like
I don't want a squad three hundred four hundred pounds.
I don't want to bench three hundred pounds like I
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am good on that, Like I don't want to push
my bike that much. So I would do body weight.
Was I as consistent as I am now? No, But
I did enough to maintain a decent amount of you know,
muscle mass and things like that. But I just felt like,
you know, my body wasn't where I ultimately wanted it
to be and where I know it could be. So
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I was looking for that thing that could help me
to maintain it and be consistent with it. And like
I said, we tried. It's not like the things that
we did before we got to where we are now
was for a lack of not trying. It's like, we
have an amazing gym in our building. We have amazing
friends who are fitness heads and give us great routines.
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We tried different classes, like we tried the solid core
together and did that and started on it. But this
thing that we're now doing is a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
So this is for sure the most active we've ever been.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, So before we get into what our ultimate thing
is and the gym we joined, I just want to
talk about what things you can do to maintain your
health or should we go the opposite with then we
should go what things you should do to maintain your health?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
To talk about the gym first has a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right, let's go into the gym. You want to talk.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Are you going to insert videos or photos? I took
beautiful videos. I'm gonna get him to insert some videos.
So first of all, I'm in love. I'm I am
okay if I were to like have to live there,
you know, it's gorgeous. It's literally like my esthetic, but
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in the gym format. Also side note, we were doing
a house project right now, so please ignore the tape on.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Our own And this is why the.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Beginning stages on the wall here, that's tape. So AnyWho,
now forgot I was saying, Oh, it's beautiful. It is beautiful.
So like when you walk in, you first of all,
you feel like you got money. Like it is just
such a sexy Yes, it's very expensive, but it is
a sexy, luxury, modern, super clean while taking care of space.
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So that's first and foremost. The number one reason why
I wanted to join was because of the amount of
classes that they offer. So they have boxing, which is
really cool because they don't use normal boxing bags. It's
water filled bags, so it's easier on.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Your one second, I'm gonna do this to her because
she always does it to me. I don't think you
explained it right. We didn't even say the name of
the place yet. So where we go. It's a gym.
She talked about the aesthetic. That's how you know she is.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I was gonna say that like thirty.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Seconds about the esthetic, and they went straight into a
boxing bag.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Fill wardo.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
So we go to a gym now called Club Studio.
I put her on to it initially thanks to our
friends Brandon and Mary. They told us about it, and
I told Brie, yeah, you should check this out. She
was like, nah, like F forty five, and then when
she actually saw it, she was.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Like, he did not tell me what it looked like.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But anyways, it's a really dope concept because it's mainly
been on the East coast, but now I mean on
the West coast, but now it's on the East coast now.
But it's a really dope concept because it's a very
luxury gym. But they have like five different classes, which
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Is going to arrival way more than five.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Five different classrooms, and I think it's going to our
studios to where I think it's going to really affect
the business of like the Orange theories and the solid
cores and the F forty fives because these different rooms
pretty much cover all that for just about the same
price as like one of those places would be. Yeah,
so it's like Bree was paying ones seventy at F
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forty five and then this membership is basically one seventy but.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Omitted all the classes.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So the first room you have is called Sweat and
that is like yoga, three different types of yoga, rebound class.
She loves rebound. It's like a trampoline class, really works
your legs have them burning and like hot pilates. Then
you have another riote class which is cycling, and then
you have Box, which is boxing and it's like really
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cool n rounds the bags of field with waters water
as she said. Then you have a reform room, which
is your pilates just like a solid cores. And then
you have the CSES, which is essentially like.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
If you could combined the Orange Theory and F forty
five together, but sexier with better about it and wrap
around mirrors. Yeah no, not solid solid yeahs four. If
you were to combine the Orange Theory and F forty
five together, it's some sexy in there. So one thing
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that I really like about the classes.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
I was going to finish with the classes and they
got another class which is like more like a cross
training class. They have like a separate section. Then the
one where our area where we live, which is Northern
Virginia and Tyson's has like is one of the biggest
club studios, so it has like this own like HWPO
which is like cross training, and they do classes in
there too.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah that I haven't tried. That class looks really scary.
But the reason why I like the class is so
much is that everything is light and sound connected, so
like there's music playing and the lights go to the
music and go to the workout. So their whole like
thing that makes them unique is that it feels like
you're at a club. So even in like ride, if
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it's your birthday or you're like I think it's like
your fiftieth class or a hunt oh gosh, one hundredth class,
they do like bottle service where they bring like lights
and signage out. This says like a happy birthday or
happy you know, one hundredth class, and it's like a
full on turn up. It's such a good time. So
like even when you don't feel like working out, you
can't get in one of their classes and not push
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because everyone's going, the lights are on the music line.
It's just it's such a vibe. It's so different than
a lot of other classes that are out there, so
it's very enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
And then it's then there's still a full gym, so
it's a whole freeway area which is huge, and then
new levels machines upstairs with like Cardio, there's plenty of
spaces where it's just turf and like TRX's and medicine ball.
Then the HWPO area, which I was talking about, is
like more like body weight and like cross training, so
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there's like rings and all the type of stuff, AsSalt bikes,
so it's like pretty much everything you need, but it's
like really nice. And the biggest thing for me was
that I was if you follow me on Instagram, I'm
big on recovery, so like compression, boots, crypt cryo therapy,
different things like that like I enjoy and do often,
so having the ability to also do that there too,
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and it has sanna and it has a pool as well.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
So say name it up, Name it up. My favorite
is the hydro massage.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
The hydro massage here.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
It's so nice. You just lay there and it's like
water just massages your whole bottom back, bottom back, your
whole body. It's really nice. So a few things right.
They also when you join you get like a free
personal training session, you get a body analysis scan where
they're able to show you everything. Let's talk about our
results because in May we're gonna we're gonna come back
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to a follow up of this video and I'm gonna
give my new numbers because honestly, it's embarrassing. So Dre
again Superhuman has less than thirteen percent body fat, which
is insane. On the right side, it tells you how
much you need to gain or lose in like fat
(27:27):
and muscle and whatever to be like healthy, and Dre's
numbers are zero zero zero, Like you don't have to
do anything, brauh, You're perfect, keep living your best life.
And then it's like he can eat like thirty five
hundred calories and not make a dent. I'm like, wow, exciting.
So then I get to mine. So basically forty percent
(27:48):
body fat was like thirty nine point eight percent body fat,
so I'm almost fifty percent fat. I'm just walking around
and fifty percent of me is just flub like what
how disrespectful? Anyways, my weight, it says in order for
me to be considered healthy, I need to lose thirty
four pounds, which is insane because I am, for the record,
(28:11):
one hundred and seventy three as of today, one hundred
and seventy. Let's say I'm one hundred and seventy pounds
and thirty four pounds like that would be insane. I
haven't been that light since like college, and I was tiny,
so I don't want to lose thirty five pounds, but
I do want to lose like fifteen to twenty I
think would be like the maximum. But I just want
(28:33):
to share this funny story. I don't know, I'm so
giggly today. Yeah, like everything's so funny. So our friend Mary,
she's at the studio with us. We leave, we all
take like a yoga class and I was like, hm,
She's like, what's robepri? And I was like, I did
my body scant analysis and I'm fifty percent fat. She
was like what and I was like yeah, and she's like,
(28:55):
let me see. So she grabs the papers and she's
like no, She's like this looks so good you're and
I'm like looking me and Dre both we're like, oh,
like what are you looking at? And I was like, Mary,
that's Dre's and she was like oh, and then she
flips it and she goes, oh well, and I was like,
I tellt you to that axiety who we have two
(29:19):
different challenges in front of us right now.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
But this is all about body types too, Like Bria
is not by any means, like you wouldn't look at
her if you saw her and be like she's overweight,
Like by even thirty, like thirty pounds, like no, no,
looks great. Even I've been to the doctor before and
because of my weight and height and stuff, they're like, oh,
you need to lose a little, But it's like I'm
all muscle, so that just weighs more than what a
(29:44):
typical person my height or age will weigh. That's because
I'm an athlete. So you just have to understand those
type of things. But the cool thing is too about
about the gym that we go to is that the
staff is really awesome. Bre wasn't like I used to
all do recovery and she used to be like, oh,
you're going to recovery, you go into recovery.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
But now was so boring.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Once she started doing it, she like, oh, this is
basically like my favorite thing. She love massages, so she
like this basically like it's not a massage but close
to it in the sense.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Yeah, so I do. Because the other thing that Drada
mentioned is they have red light therapy saanas, So for women, like,
the benefits for red light therapy, especially if you can
do full body red light therapy for like twenty minutes
a day, is insane. So I'm gonna do a video
that is like, hey, day one, I'm going to do
it for full sixty days and see what actually has
(30:36):
like changed. But the things that I do in recovery,
because we don't do the same thing, is I do
the compression boots and arms, and then I'll do hydro
therapy massage and then the red light therapy. The boots
for a lot of people because people are like, what
what are compression boots if you haven't done it before.
It's essentially like a big old glove that comes on
(30:57):
your legs and arms and it blows up and it
stresses or not stresses, it compresses and like squeezes that
body part to the point where it helps with like
blood circulation and restoring the same amount of time it
would take you to like go home and like rest
for a few days to feel ready and able to
(31:19):
work out again. The boots essentially it helped like take
that time down significantly. I notice if I don't do
like the compression on whatever body part I worked out,
if I don't do it the next day and the
following day, I am so sore. But if I do
the compression boots or the arms same day that I
worked out, everything I wake up the next morning and
I feel like I can take on the world. So
(31:40):
it makes a huge difference. And then for me the
hydro massage, I mostly do it on my lower back
and on my feet, and again it makes such a difference.
If I don't do it, I come home and I
feel the soreness. So it's nice because it gives you
that boost to feel like you can actually be active
every day, whereas before without doing recovery, I was so
sore that I didn't want to work out or barely
(32:03):
clean or like move. So it definitely helps with your
activity level because you can do more more often.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Yeah, I do all that. I just add crowd therapy
with you do red light there. Well, no, I don't
do real like, but crowd therapy. I mean all this stuff.
Studies are still like, it's just about how it makes
you feel, really and crowd therapy is supposed to help
with inflammation. It helps, you know, with recovery because you
know the blood pumping out. But I think it's also
(32:29):
a great way for me to start the day, especially
like working out early and you're tired and fatigued a
little bit, like when you get in that minus sixty
five degree freezer for three minutes. It like wakes you
up to be like WHOA, all right, let's go, And
it gives you like an energy boost and it helps
with a lot of things like stress all that stuff too,
So we enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
No, I just say, and that's why I walk to
and from the studio, Dre you drive. But the reason
why I've been walking is because just how Dra said,
like after his cryod therapy, he's like, ooh, I'm ready
to you know, do whatever. After my walk, I feel
the way, especially it's been under like fifteen degrees like
the last week. It's been crazy, so it's been feeling
like cryod therapy. But that walk to the gym makes
(33:14):
it so that when I get there, I'm already warmed up,
like my body is ready to go. When I have drove,
I noticed when I get there and I go to
take a class, I'm still kind of like waking my
body up, so I'm not able to just like hit
the ground running. So I would say, if you have
a gym and you could walk there, you should walk.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
But that's what I wanted to go into next, is
that we talked. I talked about the beginning, like sustaining
the flame, and that's a huge part of it. And
that's why I'm so thankful that this opened up. I
think it's God that helped us, honestly that this opened
up so close to our home, because part of the
issue is like the proximity to where you're working out,
(33:53):
Like we didn't want to have a place where we
had to drive twenty minutes thirty minutes. Like I attended
a great gym, which is still I mean, the Saint
James is different than a gym. It's not even like
Club Studio in Saint James aren't in the same like
area because Saint James like a complex.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I was just gonna say it's the Sports and Wellness complex.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah it's a complex, but it has a gym essentially,
but Club Studio is specifically a gym. But like, the
ability to be able to go five minutes from our
house essentially is like a game changer for us and
allows us to be consistent. So if we're talking about
like how to build the mechanisms that work for you
(34:34):
to make sure you're going consistently and doing it, I
think proximity and location are so important to that.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, Well, because I was gonna say, it's also on
top of a Walmart, So it's like we shop at
Whole Foods for our groceries and stuff, but we would
always have to like get in the car and drive
to Walmart if we needed like grocery bags or this
or that. So it's really nice because not only does
it make it convenient as close as we are to
work out, but it also allows us to like get
(35:01):
the things on our checklist. Whoever you know grabs it
first in a super easy and convenient way. And so
even with like the walking situation, for me, it's like
I can grab stuff from Walmart, put it in my
gym bag, and like walk home, so go right to
Whole Foods, grab what I need, and come up to
the apartment. So it's been really nice to have that convenience.
(35:23):
So definitely, if you're looking to be consistent, you need
to find something that is convenient and hopefully inconvenient in
more ways than one.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yeah, for sure. Another way that it helps us be consistent,
or one way that we've allowed ourselves to be more
consistent is like when you get an Apple Watch and
you start tracking your activity, like it makes you want
to hit and close those rings, So you have the steps,
you close yours and but you thout.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Out my rings today. Okay, it is one to fifty nine.
I have burned one thoy thirty eight active calories. Okay,
one hundred and eighty seven minutes of working all right,
eight hours of standing? How does that even work? Eight
out of ten hours of I don't know. I don't
hear what that anyone means? Twelve four hundred and seventeen
steps and six miles in distance as you like.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
I said, she's very proud of her activity. But once
you do it consistently, it allows you to like really
want to hit those rings and track it. And then
also when you choose your workout, you can track like
how much calories you burn for that specific workout, what
zone your heart rate was in you want to being
zoned to a lot, you know for moderate to intense activity,
(36:35):
so you can track that. So it's like really helped
us to stay accountable.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
And you can share it. So you share your activity
with your partner or your friends. Like me and my girls,
we always type each other up and we see someone
did a work out, like yeah, ask go, I see
you three hundred fifty galleries. So it makes it.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I get a notification on my Apple Watch that
says like Bree closed all her rings today or something
like that, So well, that's really cool, and that helps
us to stay consistent as well. Us sharing our schedules
with us with each other helped us to stay consistent,
just so each person knows, like, all right, this is
not only the goals that I'm trying to accomplish, but
(37:14):
this is the way I'm trying to accomplish those goals.
So these are the classes that I'm going to. These
are the things that I'm doing. We take some classes together,
we do somethings separately. So all those things help us
to maintain the ability to hold each other accountable, but
also to remain consistent as we're trying to grow in
(37:34):
our fitness journey and to be better with our fitness.
So lastly, what things you should do to help maintain
your health. So there's a lot of things out there,
and for me, what I always tell Bree is like,
it's not necessarily about like dieting this way or counting
calories or macros and all that stuff, because when you
(37:57):
try to break all that stuff down to a silence,
I feel to science. I feel like it's discouraging sometimes
to like a lot to keep that up because it's
a lot. But there are some like just easy things
overall things that if you follow these simple steps are
simple rules, it will just help your not only your
physical fitness from a look standpoint, but will also help
(38:17):
your health for what's inside your body. So number one
is eating whole foods. Is what you should be eating
for your health, majority whole foods.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So that's do you know, somebody thought that eating whole
foods meant like that you could eat buy whatever from
from whole foods and that you buy from whole foods.
I'm not going to say who did, but they were
like they were like, yeah, I only buy my food
from whole foods, and I was like all the food
and whole Foods is not whole foods, Like it's not.
(38:50):
It doesn't work that way anyways.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
So basically, whole foods are things that either grow from
the ground or they eat will grow from the ground.
So it's like even if that's chicken, be if that's
you know, your vegetables, your nuts, different stuff like that,
but you want to stay away from like aultra processed foods,
it's kind of hard to avoid processed foods because like cans,
(39:12):
beans and cans are like processed foods. Vegetables and cans
are processed foods, but your aultra processed foods like chips cereal,
which I lived off of at one point in my life.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Like really, anything that comes in a package that lasts
a long time. The longer something lasts usually the more
likely you shouldn't eat it.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
Yeah, it's pretty much if you go to the grocery
store or anything in the middle is probably not the best.
All the things on the outside, which is usually like
the you know, vegetables and the fruits and the bakery
and like the seafood section and all that stuff like that.
So that's something that I discovered and realized, like wow,
like I thought eating special K was healthy or cheerios
(39:55):
are good for your health and all that stuff and
good for your cholestero. Like they tell you it could
be not as bad as other things, but that doesn't
make it good. And I remember somebody saying, like on
a video I was watched, he was like, do you
think the food industry is concerned about your health? I
was like, yeah, probably not. They probably are more concerned
(40:16):
about making a buck and if they got to frame
something that they make and to make it sound more healthier,
so I consume it. That's what they're going to do,
even though it's not healthy. So that's one thing. Whole
foods and then brinos the sugar aspect. When you consume
it sugar, there's certain things that are detrimental to your health,
(40:38):
and added sugar is one of those things. It's the
cause for a lot of diseases as we know, like
heart disease the number one cause for death in the
US or I think close to around the world, and
then you have diabetes and stuff like that. But added
sugar is just really not good for you. It's literally
like a drug and it throws off pretty much everything
(40:59):
in your body in a negative way. So having to
cut that out was very interesting because there's so many
things with sugar, Like if you start to really look
at it, like you drink a can of soda, it
has like thirty eight grams of sugar. It's on the
back of it. It will say like fifty percent sugar or
something like that. And then like growing up, we would
drink kool aid and it was like sugar, sugar, sugar
(41:22):
or even like the cereals that we're eating. There's so
much sugar and it's not good for you. And I
could tell the benefit when I start cutting it because
Brethe used to know, I used to take naps religiously
every day, every.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Day, sometimes multiple times a day.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I couldn't not operate without a map.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
But then recently I don't not all insane, and so
we have been cutting out all that stuff. And it's
been like a good like.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Month over a month cooking more.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And so when we did have something that had sugar
in it, we were like tweaking. We were like, oh
my god, this feels terrible, Like what in the world.
So you will definitely see the difference. Just look at
the back of whatever you're eating and look at the
sugars and then look at added sugars, and that will
let you know if it's something you should probably put
(42:08):
back down and supplement for something else.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, So that's the simple things. It's whole foods, cut out,
ultra process, limit your sugar. I believe, like in the Bible,
Solomon says and Ecclesiastics that basically the rain falls on
adjusting to unjust alike essentially and he talks a lot
about that, like nothing new under the sun. But I
believe that, like you shouldn't live your life just like
(42:33):
completely putting yourself in this hole, because there are gonna
be people who do that, and then some people who
eat eighty twenty and you ain't gonna live no longer
than them because their body can recover. So still enjoy yourself,
still eat things that you want to eat, but just
be conscious and limit your intake of the bad things
you want to have a nice healthy balance.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Drey didn't say the most important thing, which is to
drink more water the way.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That the most important.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
It is the important thing because if you change nothing
at all, but you just increase your water intake and
stop drinking other things like juices, sodas, whatever, it makes
a really real big difference.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Cut out really.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Especially for women in general, if you cut out anything
else and just increase your water, you'll see a difference
without changing anything, no additional activity, no changing your diet.
It makes a really big difference.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
One thing she said that was good though, that I
will mention is that a lot of times people look
at these diets and first I don't like the diet,
or say we're on a diet, because then that just
puts the pressure of maintaining something that you're telling people
you this and they looking at you crazy when you
consume that. It's like most people feel like when they
go vegetarian or vegan that they feel a difference mainly
(43:43):
because they're cutting out the ultra processed stuff, not necessarily
because the vegan diet is better for them or the
vegetarian diet is better than them. What they're really cutting out,
it's not what they're consuming as much, but what they're
cutting out, which is making them feel better.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Yeah, saying the meat, it's like, usually it's not.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Not the meat, the ultra process Oh what.
Speaker 2 (44:04):
I'm saying the different Most people are like, oh, I
don't eat meat anymore and I feel better. But it's
not the meat. It's in general the lack of like
sugars and things because they're eating the vegan you know,
cheese option or the fat, you know, the supplemental stuff.
It's not really the meat.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
It's not necessarily the meat that's the issue. It's all
the other stuff. If you eat a whole die with meat, fish,
stuff like that, you'll be fine. From the different things
that I've researched and study and on the other side,
I'm about to go to exercise.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Wait, no food. So for my ladies out there and men,
but probably more so the ladies. If you struggle with
hormonal imbalance, inflammation, and like digestive digestive issues. I did
a consultation with a nutritionist. Her name is Leslie Jackson.
(44:55):
Her website is Leslie Jackson Wellness dot com, So go
check her out. She does a free consultation. I think
it's a free consultation. It was free when I did it,
but just check out the details on her site. But
she helps with those three things, which for women, it
is literally our biggest issue. It doesn't matter how much
you work out and all of that, if you're eating
(45:16):
things that are literally making you flame up, have issues
with going to the bathroom. And my consultation with her
was so helpful, Like just in the free consultation, the
information she gave me and the things that she told
me to look out for and to think of when
choosing what I'm putting in my body, and even just
like what supplements to take to help was so helpful.
(45:38):
So if you have issues with any of that, any
gut related things, Head over to Leslie's website and book
your consultation with her. Awesome welcome.
Speaker 1 (45:49):
So going now to the exercise portion of things. Just
to keep it simple, I already said that the World
Health Organization recommends that you get one hundred and fifty
minutes of moderate to intense extra size per week. And
that is not a lot, like a thirty minute work.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Let's say per week. Yeah, I get that per day.
Speaker 1 (46:07):
That's what I'm saying. It's like, it's not that hard
to do because if you combine a good diet with
just walking like that is you know enough from a
health standpoint, if you're eating well to really you know,
have yourself feeling good. Now you can do more if
you're trying to, like I said, create a certain type
(46:27):
of body composition, whether that's you know, trying to get
bigger or trying to lose more weight or anything like that.
But from a health standpoint, if you eat like we
had suggested earlier, and then you follow you know, just
a simple walking routine, maybe get a little jog and
maybe play some pickleball. I know that that's popular now.
People love that like that will make you or help
(46:49):
you to feel a lot better about your health, and
it's not that hard to do, like just get up
and do stuff.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
And walking, not like in them on a treadmill, but
actually getting outside and walking again. For women, it is
such a benefit to actually have like the sunlight on
your face and to get no but women are hormones,
like the things that our body deals with that y'all
don't deal with, Like vitamin D specifically for women helps
(47:18):
with all things like dealing with our twenty eight day cycle.
It is like a major thing that it's like, if
you're a girl, you should be getting outside at least
once a day. I have struggled with like anxiety and
depression stuff, and I feel like it's always worse when
I like don't get out the house. You can feel
a difference when it's like every day you're active, you're
getting outside and you're getting your steps in the beautiful
(47:40):
sun or whatever is going on with the weather, but
just getting outside.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Yeah, And I would also suggest strength training as well,
or resistance training, so lifting weights, whether that's resistance, whether
that's body weight, whether that's free weights, because there are
so many like studies that link longevity to your ability
to to you know, maintain your muscle mass. Essentially, it's
seeing that people who are older are able to maintain
(48:07):
their strength over time, so you want to do things
that continue to build that up. You want to be
seventy and eighty and still be able to take your
groceries in the house and do stuff like that and
not have to depend on other people. But you have
to work on those things, especially not only your biceps
and triceps, but your back, your legs, and all those
things like that. So if you follow all those things first.
(48:27):
We are not doctors, we are not nutritionists. We are
just sharing our perspective on the things we learned. Please
consult a doctor of nutritionists or a healthcare professional if
you want to try any of these things or you know,
try to improve your health in a positive way. Even
though some doctors don't know nutrition, so you need to
make sure you're looking out for that. But honestly, going
(48:50):
on this journey together, I think this past like a
couple of months has really helped us out and transform
I think, like our lives. And once you start going
to the gym like for a good like month, it
feels awkward not to go, so even times to where
it's like I don't make it in the morning, I'm like,
I'm still gonna go in the evening or I might
(49:11):
just do recovery and come back. So it's like it
just feels awkward to miss days when you get consistent.
So it's really cool to have this accountability partner and
do it together. And I think it's going to make
our relationship great, not only for us, but when we
have kids them seeing us do it, and also like
the genes, like we making sure our jeens are right
(49:33):
so we ain't passing down none of the you know,
lazy jeans.
Speaker 2 (49:37):
Yeah, especially with the miscarriage situation, Like this gym was
literally the it thing you as well, but it was
like the thing that got me back to like feeling good,
got me motivated, It just had me in a really
healthy mental state, mental and physical state. Like it's really exciting.
(50:00):
So now I'm just looking at it as a way
of like, Okay, we have the miscarriage. I don't necessarily
feel like I was in my best shape when we
got pregnant. I didn't think I would get pregnant that fast.
So now it's like I get what is it called
redo of getting into my best shape now so that
like everything I'm doing now, I can also maintain throughout
(50:21):
the pregnancy and just have a healthier, more active pregnancy
to ultimately get the snap back. So we gonna catch
y'all in May. Y'all gonna see the before and afters.
Dra gonna look the same, I'm sure, just a little buffier.
And your girl she abs of some sort, abs of
some sorty, Lord, Lord, just give me two hater I
(50:41):
said what I said.
Speaker 1 (50:43):
Well, thank you for watching this or listening to this.
If you're listening, make sure to subscribe to the channel.
If you love this content, make sure to follow us
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