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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 4 (00:43):
It's Later with mo Kelly k if I Am six forty.
We're live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app and
of course this Wellness Wednesday. Claude Cooper joins us in studio.
It's great to see you, Claudine. Let's get right to it.
We've talked about wellness within the context of working out
and living our lives in a day to day fashion.
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But what about this idea of wellness centric travel where
people are disconnecting, they're leaving their phones behind as best
they can, traveling to places where they're not enjoying the
trappings of modern lifestyle to somehow reset and recalibrate themselves.
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It seems like now we have wellness integrated in every
form and fashion of our lives. It's not just going
on a vacation, but a vacation which is wellness focused.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Where would you come out on that.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, here's my question. Do you work out when you're
on vacation?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh? Absolutely, well, I definitely work out.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Every time I go anywhere, I look for the hotel gym,
I look for classes in the area. I definitely look
for ways that I can move my body when I'm traveling.
But I read through the article that you sent and
I feel like we're seeking to get grounded or to
go do yoga out of the country. Why can't we
do it right here.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Maybe at Iconics or something.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I mean, we do it at Iconics, for sure, but
what about just getting outside in nature?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
What about connecting with the sunlight?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Now?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Granted, I am fully aware that there are people who
live in neighborhoods where it's unsafe for them to go outside.
So I want to hold space for people who can't
actually go out and experience nature because of where they live.
But I don't feel like we have to necessarily take
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a trip on an airplane to experience the benefits of
putting our feet in the grass, our face in the sunshine.
What the article said, resetting our connection with nature?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Why do we have to fly away for that?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
And I think there's something that would be for me
depressing about the other word I can think of if
you spend these thousands of dollars to go to this
exotic location and the play trip each way just burns
you out, so when you come back you feel as
if you've had no vacation at all. I try to
avoid spending a whole lot of money and putting so
much pressure on a physical location that makes me feel
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better about life.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Ooh, but now we're veering off in the direction of
people who actually live their lives to wait for the
next trip, the next vacation. You and I are one
of the rare few people who wake up every day
with a zest for life, excited to go do the
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job that we believe.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We were created to do.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But for many people, the joy that they find in
travel comes from the fact that every day they're going
to work at a job that really just maybe doesn't
fire them up. But they get their beans way. You know,
I've been there too. You know, they get their bills
paid and it's not horrible, but it's not great, and
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it's not it's not making them feel like this is
what I live for. You and I we probably go
on a vacation and be ready to come back to work.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Tell the truth, yes, vacations can be too long.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Same and as far as being on the plane for many,
many hours. I also feel that there are health challenges
involved in sitting on a plane for many hours. A
lot of people have to wear compression socks. There's a
swelling that happens when you're seated for hours and hours.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You're not careful exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
So me personally, if I'm thinking about finding ways to
recreate or reconnect with nature, I'm going to find ways
that are closer to me in proximity. What are some
ways in southern California that we can reconnect with nature
without having to get on an airplane pay thousands of
dollars to be in a wilderness retreat.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
It's interesting you say that, because, with the exception of
four h when I was growing up, I was not
one of those big outdoorsy people. We went to Joshua Tree,
we would camp, but that's not something I would do
as an adult. We were just talking about a story
yesterday about how Los Angeles City of Los Angeles is
ninety out of maybe one hundred major cities as far
as parks. In other words, those we live in a
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very urban environment and it doesn't lend itself to that.
So these are issues on top of issues as we
try to find that place to disconnect in this world
which is just full of electronic connections.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I don't know if there is an answer.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well, here's a few tips for anyone who's trying to
reconnect with nature and you live in an urban area,
there are still ways that you can adjust your lifestyle
so it's not dominated by screens and buy noises.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
So here's a few things that I do.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
I make sure that when the sun is up, my
drapes and shades are all so up. That's allowing natural
light to come in. And that's also resetting your circadian rhythm.
Meaning when the sun comes up at let's say six
in the morning, if you're up, that's when you lift
your drapes and shades or open your blinds. Right, That's
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one of the things that spoke of in the article,
that we are disconnected from our circadian rhythm, meaning we
go to bed at these odd hours, we sleep at
these odd hours. And as animals, which we are, we're
just like a regular animal.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
We need sunlight.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Our body needs rest, it needs water, and it needs sunlight.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
I mean, are we a plant or are we an animal?
But you know what I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Saying, No, absolutely, we need all those things, and sometimes
not that we are need to be watered like a plant,
but we need to be tended to consistently.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
And part of that is also how we treat ourselves.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It is another way is if you even have a
small patch of grass. Let's say, like for me, I
don't have a big yard. I definitely live in an
urban area, a concrete jungle. I live next door to
a football stadium, so there. It don't get much more
concrete jungle than that.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
They let you play on the field, ask I said.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Let yoga, Yeah, I sure have, Like, let's have a
yoga class. I think.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's coming. It's coming, right.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
But I say that to say you can use a
small patch of grass. Take your socks off, take your
shoes off, place your bare feet in that small patch
of grass, and you are connecting to the ground also
called grounding, sometimes called earthing, and there is a direct
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benefit to your health by placing your bare feet in
the grass or on the ground, not necessarily a concrete but.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
A viewer Darryl Sexton on our YouTube channel says, do
like die hard when you get to your destination, make
fists with your toes.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't know if that's the same thing. If the
same thing, we see it, we hear you, Darryl.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
When we come back, I gotta let you know about
Claudine's weekly free workout, which is going to be this Saturday,
and I'm gonna be there, so you get to CB fallout,
pass out with Claudine and she puts me through my
paces that are free community workout. Will tell you about
that next KFIM six forty, YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
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Speaker 4 (08:27):
Forty KFI is Later with Mo Kelly. We're live on YouTube,
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joining me right now as we continue our conversation is
Claudine Cooper. You can always go to Claudinecooper dot com
and find out what's going on with her. But a
part of what's going on with you, Claudine tell us
about this coming Saturday in which I'll be joining you.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Well every Saturday at nine am in Inglewood. There's a
free workout and you know, we just do calisthenics, body
weight conditioning. There's no equipment needed, there's no motors needed. Yep,
it's outside. There won't be any feet in the grass
because we have no grass. It's just on a basketball court.
You wear your tennis shoes, something comfortable, and you just
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come with a positive attitude and a willingness to exercise.
It's all levels, it's families, it's elders, it's children.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Everybody comes.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
You'd have the times that I've been, this will be
my third time you have anyone like one hundred to
two hundred people in my own You are correct.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I definitely have a big crowd.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I never know this is so here's something kind of
crazy about being in fitness mo And I think, you know,
people get caught up in numbers these days. But when
I've been teaching classes, sometimes I've had five people show
up and then sometimes I have five hundred people show up.
But because there's no registration, I have to have the
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same energy for five that I have for five hundred. Right,
And because I love what I do, I hope that
it does translate for five. But I remember a time
when do you remember this when the gyms used to
just tell you, hey, the aerobics class is at ten
(10:26):
am on Monday, right, And then people would just come
at ten am on Monday.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Right.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Okay, it's not like that anymore, guys. You got to
hear what they do now. Now you have to reserve
a spot. It's like Disneyland, literally, So check this out. No,
I got to tell you because it gets real crazy
about booking these spots. So the booking tool opens on
a certain day, so let's say tool. Yes, and it's
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not just our gym in Englewood Iconics, but it's all gyms.
In order for you to get into the class that
you want, you have to have your phone, you have
to have the app, you have to book the class,
reserve the space.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
So listen to this now.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Look, you told me to big up myself if there's
something I want to share. So I teach pilates in
a heated room. My pilates classes sell out in thirty seconds.
How many people is that thirty people can fit in
the room.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
And if I'm paying my money to the gym and
I can never get into the class I want to
get in.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Is there any type of recourse?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well, that's why I teach so many classes, because I'm
trying to accommodate the morning people, the night people, the
lunch hour exercisers. So I do my best to work
as much as I humanly possibly can. And then at
that point I usually will tell people, Hey, someone might
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drop off, just come check and see if you can
get a spot, and usually they can. But I really
miss the days when the class was at this time.
People just show up when the class starts and it's
first come, first served.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Okay, well, is there any penalty. Let's say I signed
up for your pilates class and I don't show.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Up, you are penalized. We charge a ten dollars no
show fee. Ah okay, that that really snatched people up
real quick. They stop, they stop doing that now they come.
It's also an accountability tool, absolutely yeah, because people don't
want to pay that ten dollars. I will say this though,
mom technology has helped in so many ways. One of
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the ways, obviously, is now you know how many people
are coming to your class, because if it books out,
it's saying this is how many people are coming.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But for my outdoor workouts, I like to keep it
old school.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Whoever comes comes, whoever can come, will come. And on
that style of training, it opens me up to new connections,
new people.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I don't have a list to go from.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
I just welcome everyone who wants to move their body
on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I want to move my body on a Saturday morning.
I'm going to join you in maybe one hundred to
one hundred and fifty people at the Inglewood Hollywood Park
retail district. Yeah, very quickly, let's explain how they should
get there, where they should park, and how they can
find us.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, at this point, most people know where Sofi Stadium is,
which is a good point of reference. But the actual
parking garage is on ninety seventh in Prairie, and we
validate the parking. There's a farmer's market. You can see
it from Prairie. It's kind of like tucked in the
basketball court. So once you get out of the parking garage,
you just walk through the community and you'll see us.
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It's a big crowd. You can't miss us.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
All right.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Do you have any specific plans for the weekend or
are you making it up.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
As you go.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I like to freestyle on the weekends. I work a
lot Monday through Friday. I just taught a class before
I came to see you, and I sat in ninety
minutes of traffic.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I do want to say that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I normally don't have to It's usually like somewhere between
an hour to an hour fifteen, but today, I don't
know what was going on on the freeways. Today I
ended up sitting in traffic for ninety minutes. But it
was well worth it because I got a chance to
see you guys out here, and I love my CAFI family.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
So just let you know I'm going to be out
there with Claudine on Saturday. If you forget all this information,
you can go to Claudinecooper dot com. But I would
love to see you, especially if you're in the chat.
Come out and work out with us. It's a beautiful
experience because you're outdoors. It's it's a different experience outdoors
as opposed to indoors, and it's a nice way for
(14:44):
me to reset. You know, I need to change up
my workout from every now and then. I've done this
hopketo tournament for the past three months. I need to
change a pace, and this is going to be my
change of pace. I'd love to see you out there,
and Claudie, you can go ahead and whoop my ass.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Again like you are. You know.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
He always says that you guys, but I want you
to know that Moe is very athletic.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I've never seen him fall out. Maybe he had to
catch his breath a couple of times, but that's all
part for the course.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Everyone in the life pace myself, I was just gonna
say it.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
I don't start fast out the gate because I know
it's a long way to go.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I always tell people, please work at your own pace.
We are all on a journey. Everyone's at a different
place on their journey. There's no pressure to go super
hard or super fast.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
So yeah, but man, we have this ego thing.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
We can't have the sixty five year old woman running
past us, and that's gonna happen on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Let me tell you death to the ego. I got
to tell you one to say, though. Yeah, I gotta
tell you one thing.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
There was one woman and she was in the midst
of chemo therapy, and she came out there with barely
any hair, and she just whooped everybody, and I said
to myself, girl, you are a beast because she was
going toe to toe with me every move. So I say,
go at your own pace, do your own thing. But
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if you can't push yourself, why.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Not Claudinecooper dot com. I will see you on Saturday, Claudide.
And also, please give out your social media.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I am Fit with three. You can find me on Instagram, TikTok.
I'm pretty much on all social media platforms, but I
did go private on Facebook because the trolling got out
of control.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Oh you gotta tell me, you know, you know, I
just said, you know what.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I'm gonna stay public on Instagram and TikTok, but I
am gonna go private for Facebook.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Always good to see you. I'll see you Saturday. Always
good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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