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Episode #53 - Wellness Reimagined with Andrea Hammer's Max Pack
TODAY'S EPISODE #53 "HAMMER TIME," FEATURES ANDREA HAMMER AS OUR GUEST.
ANDREA HAMMER IS THE OWNER AND CEO OF HAMMER HEALTH & FITNESS, INC. HER IMPRESSIVE CREDENTIALS INCLUDE:
CERTIFIED FITNESS INSTRUCTOR
CERTIFIED HEALTH AND WELLNESS COACH
CERTIFIED SENIORFIT SPECIALIST
CERTIFIED FITNESS NUTRITION SPECIALIST
CERTIFIED WEIGHT MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
HAPPYLIFE COACH®
CREATOR OF "THE MAXPAC®" (MAXIMUM POWER AND CORE!) STRENGTH AND FITNESS TRAINING SYSTEM
Unlock the potential of your physical and mental well-being with the wisdom Andrea Hammer brings to our latest episode of Rebooted Mindset. As the creator of the Max Pack, Andrea joins us to discuss the evolution of weighted training and the comprehensive workouts her innovation enables. Throughout our conversation, we don't just talk shop about exercise; we delve into the profound connection between joy, consistency, and our health journey. Andrea and I share insights on how embracing small, sustainable health practices can lead to monumental changes in our lives.
This week, we unravel the complex tapestry of wellness, from the transformative effects of thoughtful eating to the sobering realities of unmanaged diabetes. Our guests open up about their personal battles and triumphs, offering stories of resilience that highlight the importance of informed dietary choices and the powerful influence of mindset. We also address the benefits of self-love and positive self-talk, providing you with strategies that foster a fulfilling and healthy existence. By the end of our discussion, you'll be equipped with a holistic perspective on health and the motivation to make intentional, impactful lifestyle adjustments.
In an episode rich with personal anecdotes and actionable advice, we spotlight the journey to health as a series of conscious decisions, each with the potential to pave the way towards a vibrant future. Whether it's through adopting a plant-based diet, understanding the implications of dairy consumption, or exploring the innovation behind the Max Pack, we provide you with the knowledge to craft a personalized path to wellness. Join us as we engage with topics that will not only inform but also inspire you to take control of your health and live fully, one step at a time.
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Hi, welcome to Rebooted Mindset, formerly Rebooted the Podcast. I'm your host, alita Hernandez. Come join me every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon at 2.30 pm Eastern Time to hear real-life conversations with experts around the world on how we can heal our body, mind, soul and spirit. So let's get talking. Hi, everybody, I'm back again Rebooted Mindset, formerly Rebooted the Podcast, and I have a great guest next to me here, andrea Hammer. So we're doing episode 53. It's Hammer Time Because we want to build these. We got to build these. Because she has hammers, I'm building mine.
Speaker 2:We're working on it. Yes, you did awesome the other day.
Speaker 1:So Andrea has a long list here. She's a certified fitness instructor, certified health and wellness coach, certified senior fit specialist, certified fitness nutrition specialist. She's also certified weight management specialist and a happy health coach, and she's a creator of the Max Pack, which is incredible. This is a Max Pack right here. This is eight pounds.
Speaker 2:It's a weighted training pack that is an alternative solution to dumbbells, weight plates and kettlebells. They still weigh as much, but they're more comfortable to grip, you can squeeze into them and there's hundreds and hundreds of variable fun exercises for beginning, intermediate, advanced and then for military level as well, Since I have sold them to the Pentagon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's been on the Pentagon with the Max Pack. Wonderful honor, yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. So I did a workout. We had a workout this past weekend at the park in Coral Springs and I worked out there with her. And let me tell you these little things, they do their work it. And let me tell you these little things, they do their work. It's full of sand, right, they have sand inside of it.
Speaker 2:Yes, there's 40 kinds of sand, so like since they're trademarked and patented, I learned in the 40 kinds.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, they all have a different weight and texture and how they move.
Speaker 2:So there's a proprietary kind in there that allow you to grip into it, because that's where your muscle is made it. Because that's where your muscle is made so when you squeeze it, if you can watch my forearms, see how the muscle activates, and watch my bicep that's my thumb and my index finger and you can feel and see that when you squeeze into it from your fingers fist, wrist, all the way through the form and the bicep to the shoulder, you have multiple muscles activated at once and then you go work out. So you're already on fire before you get exactly.
Speaker 1:You are on fire before because you're engaged already with your hands, and I have problems with my hands and some. I don't know if it's arthritis or whatever, but I find that, um, I was a little sore afterwards but from holding this, they're still comfortable right actually. Yes, it's comfortable. This is the sandwich sandwich grip. The sandwich grip. She has all these food names for these grips, so you'll remember them because you have to work that hard to get those off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead, show her the sandwich.
Speaker 1:So this is a sandwich grip right here flat like a pizza and one-handed.
Speaker 2:Press right, get your thumbs on there, then you can hold it like a taco shell or a hot dog bun right. So that makes it more wobbly. So it's more fist and wrist and forearm strength this way too, and you can hold it vertically or horizontally. Then you can hold it together like a pancake press, like this, so that one is, when you press together and then go forward or back or up or down, so that activates already immediately into the upper. It does, it hurts, it's already Look. No, it's a good, it's a challenge.
Speaker 1:It's a good challenge. It's a good challenge. I'm just saying it doesn't hurt. It's because it starts on one Right Like if you're going to have a dumbbell, it's.
Speaker 2:It's even in the cup of your hand, both sides there. I'm not trashing dumbbells, weight plates, kettlebells it'd be in the world forever. But I wanted something that you have to grip on purpose and because you do, your burn starts on one. So if you had a dumbbell set and you're going to 20 and then 17, 18, 19, 20 is your burnout. That's why you can work out in less time with greater results, because the muscle activation and the burn starts on one on one. So from one when you feel it and one to five, you're burnt out. Maybe you can get to 10 on some exercises, but that's how quick the body activates the total body and with the you know the principles and the training that I have. That is my signature training for it how to really use all the muscles in the body, with your stance and your grounding and your breathing and the movement all coordinated. Then your whole body is working out all the time. It's a total body workout.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it is because the minute you pick this up, you're engaged. So like I'm already engaged, right? So I mean it's already engaging if I move my fingers, squeeze into it, squeeze into it. Now watch, if I move my fingers, I mean squeeze into it.
Speaker 2:Squeeze into it Now watch. Watch Alita's forearm. Squeeze your index finger, squeeze your thumb, squeeze your feet. You can see it Play piano, drive your fingers through it.
Speaker 1:Cause you can't see the muscle. You can see the muscles in my arm moving. So as soon as I engage it, I'm already holding that muscle. Yeah, I engage it. I'm already holding that muscle. Yeah, it's a lot of fun and it's I felt it. So, the workout that I did with Andrea. I felt it on the sides, my obliques and my back. I felt it on my chest. I mean, I literally felt a part of my whole body working, even my feet.
Speaker 2:Yes, because she has it on.
Speaker 1:We stand on them, we stand on the big ones. Here they are. You can lift it up. You can lift it up, that's the big one. The big one, that's how many pounds.
Speaker 2:At 24.
Speaker 1:That's the 24. 16, 24 instead of 5, 10, 15.
Speaker 2:It's just the 16 one Right. So they are heavy and they're condensed butates for stretching, for breathing and for abs. It's a killer base to sit on this because when you squish your tush in it and you're off the ground and you balance on it and then you go do abs, your your whole core is immediately active and you can shred your core really really fast sitting on these for your ab workouts.
Speaker 1:And they're fun and they're nice to hold. I mean, this is a pound, it's not light. So, yeah, they'll build up your strength and it challenges you.
Speaker 2:So so the reason that I made them because I wanted something new and different, something innovative, something that's comfortable, something that's hypoallergenic. You can wipe them up with 409 or spritz them with. You know, use your wet wipes because it won't absorb any odor, bacteria, I mean. You can get them dirty, but they'll clean up, which is really good, and it won't get into the material, like neoprene types of equipment will, and and it's if you drop it on your foot or you clunk your head, it won't crush your bones because that's one of the reasons I bring it up.
Speaker 2:It's happened to me and you know I wanted something with bright colors. It's fun, because a lot of gym equipment is gray or black and color elicits emotion and fun. And then I put empowerment words on it strength, endurance, integrity and commitment. And those words are really important to me because of the values that I live by. So strength isn't you know, it isn't just your bicep. The strength is the strength of who you are as a person, inside, to to do good and be good and believe in yourself. And endurance isn't just how far you can run, but can you endure hardship and troubles and and and have perseverance and dedication to make it to your goals and come home alive and really withstand life and come out shining at the other end. And your integrity is the truth and the honor with which you live, even when nobody's looking Like right you can do the right thing.
Speaker 2:And your commitment is to yourself, god, your life, your country, your who you say, you are in what you do and how you act and how you conduct yourself as a human being on the planet. So I wanted these words to be embossed on the max pack, because maybe you might do one more. Maybe you might, you know, try a little harder. Maybe it might inspire you to find the strength within you and the integrity and and the endurance to last and to stick to your health and wellness goals, cause my passion is to inspire passion in you, to love your life and your health and want you to do all the right things, that you stay here at the party called life for as long as you can, Cause you know we've had a lot of troubles and things.
Speaker 2:Everyone's had something happen to them and you have to have something within you to be able to sustain you and bring you forward to your best self.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly. So I have to say I met Andrea through my sisterhood group. Yes, and it's been amazing with. Sherry and we have a great sisterhood group that we meet here. We met here already twice already. We'll be meeting again. I think there's going to be a workshop in February that we're doing all day workshop. Later on we'll show you. We also have a meditation and sound healing with Sharonada and Sharonada's in the sisterhood as well Amazing women amazing group of women.
Speaker 2:I'm so blessed to be here with them, and that's how I got to meet you. Yeah, that's how we got to meet.
Speaker 1:We had, we had our ceremony, we had our sisterhood ninth anniversary here at the studio. That's behind us, right, it's a great studio.
Speaker 2:Guys, if you have an event or something fun you want to do, call Alita, because I was so impressed by how she can move everything around and make space and accommodate for whatever event you have. And we had a wonderful, wonderful time. It was just so heartfelt and comfortable to be here. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1:Excuse me, I'm a little congested, so anyway, yeah, so we had a great time here. The studio is open for rentals on the weekend. During the week. Just hit us up at studio 33. Fll is our, it's our hashtag and our dot. Ourcom and everywhere in social media you find us, google us, you'll find us. If you look up event venue, you'll find us here. We also have dance classes. We're we're starting to have dance, salsa and batata classes, so please sign up, maybe a dance fitness class.
Speaker 1:A dance fitness class. Can you imagine doing salsa with one of these? This will Dance fitness class.
Speaker 2:Can you imagine doing salsa with one of these? This would be a workout. Well, we can modify for whatever you need. Right, We'll make it a fun dance class.
Speaker 1:We'll have to do a funky class like a 90s freestyle, we can do the side thing. We'll be like, yay, that'll work.
Speaker 2:After about three of those we'll be like, okay, I'm done, that's right, that's exactly right after about three of those to be like okay, I'm done, that's right, that's exactly right. After three of them.
Speaker 1:You're done, you're pretty much done. I mean just I'm joking around here and I'm lifting them up, but I'm feeling my arms like I'm getting a workout just doing that right muscles in motion.
Speaker 2:So not only is it cardio and balance, but strength training at the same time, and so you're kind of combining the ninja games with the Titan games and ninja warriors, a little bit with both.
Speaker 1:So so what do you think is like a question that most people ask you about fitness. Like I know, people want to like, they want to. They want to come in and go. How do I look like you fast?
Speaker 2:That's a very, that's a very common question I get all the time.
Speaker 2:And I tell them this everybody is unique and beautiful and you come in your own gifts and your own body that you are meant to thrive in and love the skin you're in. So whatever process works for you, for you, for you, for you, for you and your own unique beautifulness, that's what we start with and it's just a little bit every day. Consistency beats intensity hands down all the time. Consistency beats intensity hands down all the time. So I much rather somebody work out five really good minutes every day instead of go to the gym twice a week for an hour trying to just rush through and kill it. Because what are you doing the other five days if you're sitting down and not eating well or crunching by the TV? So five good minutes is like shaking up the salad dressing bottle right, getting all the seasoning off the bottom, because when we sit all day we're scooped and gooped Seriously collection and coagulation of food and toxins and it turns to sludge, and sludge is very hard to bunch.
Speaker 2:So I tell people just do what you love first, because if you start with what you love, you can branch out from there. If I tell them to do something they hated, it doesn't feel right to them, then they'll quit. So my personal and concierge training I sit with you and I find out what's important to you. What are your goals? How do you feel? What's your lifestyle like? How do you have kids? Are you rushing into this? What's your? How do you prepare your meals? Where in your own life that you already live in and do? Can you make this comfortable as an add in for what spot fits for you that can make you still feel like you're getting your goals and still running through your life without having it to be work?
Speaker 2:Because you're out of work and this should be in a free expression of movement. Your body should come alive. You should love to say my body can move freely, with strength and power and grace. You should just love being able to get up and down without hurting, without creaking, without having everything be a problem. So to make your body strong a little at a time and flexible a little at a time and full of nutrients and good immunity and clear thinking and good digestion and a good poop right. Seriously, there's a big class I have about pooping. Yeah, it's embarrassing, but if you don't get toxins out, they turn to disease in your body and it really, really is horrible. So when I do all the levels of health and well-being, it's directly guided to who you are in your own life, for what works for you, because no two people on this planet are the same. They're exactly zero. Who are you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have a clone anywhere, so nobody does.
Speaker 2:And so that's what's so special about about training and why I love it is I enjoy the journey I get. It's an honor for me to go on the journey with you and throw suggestions and ideas. Honor for me to go on the journey with you and throw suggestions and ideas out. But ultimately here's the thing that's most important to me is to honor your own authenticity, to honor your own decision-making. We can brainstorm and go look, these ideas would be very beneficial in this, this and this for fitness, food and feeling good. Right, how would you feel if we tried this first and did this action and this food and this meditation or whatever it is? And if they say no, then I have, from a to z, the alphabet to try to work with something that would motivate you, make you feel alive and good in your decision, and then honor that about you, because anyone can hand you a prescription and go pretend jumping jacks and eat a carrot stick and you might do that to please the trainer or to try and do it, but after a while it's boring and you don't like it and it won't work for you that's
Speaker 2:true. So you want to find the things that move your heart and move your soul and make you feel alive and joyful in your life. And then we pick what to do and usually, when that is your choice, you go after it with such river and such zest and such fun, and you make it so nice and easy that you can't fail it or fluff it up the first time even if it's the silliest little thing, right?
Speaker 2:Because if you accomplish it and it's happy to you, you'll do more, and that's the simple basis of how you move forward in progression and we make more challenges and more progressions and tweak more foods and get a little bit more detail it's all about.
Speaker 1:It's a learning curve. It's a learning curve. You know, none of us are perfect. I was working out consistently Most of you guys out there know when I've been doing the podcast and then I had about three or four months the last three or four months I did a hiatus. I was stressed out and I started eating and it's not that I was eating a lot, it was just that I added stuff that I don't usually eat. So I was craving chocolate, right. So then I said I'll make a couple of chocolate chip cookies.
Speaker 1:Oh no no no, then I'm like at night, at night, and then he's like give me one, you know. So now I'm having, you know, the fats, the sugar, all this other stuff. So, um, and our emotions have a lot to do with how we eat. Oh, yes, our emotions. I'm usually the type of person that if I'm going through a really bad time, I can't eat, so and that's not good either. So not eating is not good either, because, as I at least, at least I believe that the union throws off a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:If you don't eat, your body feels like it's in starvation mode.
Speaker 1:So it starts supporting yeah Right.
Speaker 2:So sort of storing the fat. Thanks, You're on a desert Island, so it needs to have as much fat as possible to live off of in case there's no more food, exactly.
Speaker 1:So all of a sudden, some weight in my arms and some in my stomach because of what I was eating.
Speaker 2:It was higher fat foods and like stress eating, yeah, and and, and it's comforting it is when you're hurting it's comforting it is.
Speaker 1:It's like that chocolate chip cookie. I don't know what it is about that. We've all been there, right? And I used to. I've had a pint of Haagen-Dazs. See, I stopped eating ice cream because I don't eat dairy, right? So I, we that was another thing too, and I would have our little scoop of ice cream. No more, I haven't had ice cream. No more ice cream. Um, you know, I tried. Now I stopped making the chocolate chip cookies. I said that's enough, no more. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2:Here's is beautiful you have to have a treat here and there. But call it a treat, yum it up and really enjoy it as you enjoy it, because if you call it a cheat and I cheated the energy is going to be bad, you're going to feel guilty, your digestive system is not going to break it down and you won't absorb it and your body will pack it in a fat cell because you feel bad about it. Your emotional sense creates chemicals that are inflammatory and in and unhealthy for you. But if you have a treat, your body goes okay, yeah, that's fun, and tomorrow you just walk it off or run it off or exactly a little bit better tomorrow, but exactly, you can't go through this whole beautiful life without having a cookie or a chip or a cup.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's true, I'm like. The other day I wanted chocolate. I bought a dark chocolate. Yeah, it was organic, was like. It was like 90 85 percent cocoa yes, it was no sugar yeah, it was high cocoa content, no sugar, and that killed my craving, right you know, because a craving is just a deficiency in the vitamin mineral.
Speaker 2:It really is, it's a deficiency in the vitamin mineral. So a lot of times too, if you're really craving chocolate, you might be low in magnesium. If you're craving potato chips because it has a lot of salt, you might be low in your electrolyte balance and sodium is part of your. You know, magnesium and sodium, potassium and calcium and magnets and zinc and things like that that are the mineral content that you need to keep your blood good with and flowing. The stuff right, right, right. So when you are just a little teeny bit can just be enough to satisfy you without having to eat like the whole entire bag Right, it's true, and so.
Speaker 2:I really, really do look at how we can break down our mindset. That's what happy life coaching comes in to find out why we're doing this. What's up, what's behind this? Right? Because if you go two steps behind and talk to the sparkles inside, you'll see that if something is the issue and you can move past that, then your avoidance behavior we always are pleasure seeking or pain avoiding, right? Yeah. So when we've come to terms with whatever some that's inside us that's not setting right, and align ourself with our truth and our intuition, our soul self, then things are so much easier and smooth sailing going forward.
Speaker 2:And then you don't want it anymore, instead of I can't have it anymore. That's why I never used the word diet. The first few letters of diet is die anyway. But the only thing that's really wrong about diet is that it has a beginning and an end date. So you do really good because it's a program. But then what do you do when it's over? You go back to what you were doing, thinking that now that you've lost a few pounds, it's okay to have this, and then you're right back where you started. So it's just this big yo-yo all the time.
Speaker 2:People go. How long do I have to do this for I go how long do you want to live? The whole point about. And I never say the word diet. I tell my, my students they call them students, not clients, because we're all learning something new every day to live better, right? So I say this to them instead of saying I'm on a diet, which has a resentment, it has a frustration, it has a kind of feeling which is a negative emotion already in the body, which is already inflammatory, right, boom, boom, boom, cortisol spewing. And I tell them to say I eat nutritiously, I just eat nutritiously. And what am I going to eat nutritiously? That's good for me today, right now. You don't have to think about next week. What can I eat today? Can I have some blackberries and blueberries and some polyphenol, high astaxanthin, you know, bioflavonoids, in the morning? That is going to really feed my cells when I feed myself.
Speaker 2:And so we work from where you are to where you want to go, a little at a time that makes you feel good and awesome about yourself.
Speaker 2:I want everybody to feel happy and love themselves and have great self-esteem and empowerment, because that's how you're going to go out there and rock the world and that energy is what you're going to bring out. You can only manifest out in the world that which is from within you and if you're sad, tired, broken, angry, blah, that's what you're sending out to people and you're going to get all that right back at you and then think the world sucks. But if you're full of love and joy and gratitude and your body feels good and you feel good in it, you go out there and kick some butt, you create new and amazing things and the world is in this expression of joy because you sent that out of you and that's you've got your body's got to work. If it's sick, tired or broken and you're stuck in your bed or in a hospital or the doctor's office, you're paying your doctor, your pharmacist, all your vacation money and you could be going to paris exactly, and all you have to do is change uh, change a little habit.
Speaker 1:Like I tell a lot of people is don't make it like it's um, how do you call it? Don't make it so hard on yourself. It's just like if you get rid of one little thing like, for example, so you use two, two teaspoons of sugar in your coffee Just start with doing one, do one and start getting used to it.
Speaker 2:All right, it's just one thing better today than yesterday and one less bad. Thing today than yesterday and just repeat it tomorrow. Right, I had a dear client who I love. She used to do two packs of cigarettes a day, which is what? 40 cigarettes. I said, okay, today smoke 40 cigarettes, However you do them throughout your day. Tomorrow take one out before you even start and tear it up, so then you still have your packs and you're going to do 39. Then the next day take two out and throw them away, and then.
Speaker 2:So we just backed it up from there a little bit at a time and just have them wherever you have them. So by the time she was down to one pack, she was okay with that because she strategically had them wherever they were and by the time she was down to 10, she was really good about it Because she already had you, so she weaned herself off, weaned herself off the two packs a day. And it took 40 days yeah.
Speaker 1:But she did it 40 days, yeah, but at least but she did it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but she did it and that's the whole bottom line resentment, without the resentment, because she really doesn't want to be a smoker.
Speaker 2:But when you're chemically addicted you have to give your body the chance to wash. So, then, what we did is, in addition to that, we washed out with more water, and we used more deep greens and some supplements that help the body become alive with better nutrient value, and so, the stronger she felt with this, and the more she did some exercise and improved her cardiovascular, the less she needed them, and it was great. I just got a fabulous text the other day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, from her yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you saved my life.
Speaker 1:And I was like, ah right, that's so nice, I love her, that's so awesome because it's so hard for so many people out there to quit smoking. You guys know who you are, at least, thank God, I never smoked a cigarette. Well, I shouldn't say, I did smoke a little bit, but I wasn't a smoker, right A casual Once in a while, yeah, but even that I didn't like it.
Speaker 1:I didn't like it. And then one time I was at a time of alcohol and I started picking up a cigarette and somebody was with me and he said don't be picking up. This is a bad habit. I wish I could get off it.
Speaker 2:Don't start it, because you're combining two yeah Right Right Vice partners.
Speaker 1:Yes, and then I said no, forget that. So I stopped that. I never did that again.
Speaker 2:How much willpower and strength and self-awareness was that? So I want to just acknowledge that truth and honor and beauty and grace that you recognize that about yourself and immediately took corrective action. That's brilliant and I, when I coach with somebody and they say something like that, I always back it up and bring that back to their awareness, because sometimes you say you don't really even really understand the importance of what you just did and how really life-changing your decision was to move you in the right direction towards radiant health. You don't just have regular slogging through it and surviving. You want radiant life force health. You want to feel really good and you can only really know that if you're in it right and you have to just try it.
Speaker 1:you have to step out of your comfort zone. So, talking about comfort zone, so, um, as you all know, after I I had the stroke, I had movement issues, so I had lost 50% of my left side and I had to regain it again. And so simple things that you do on a normal basis, all of a sudden I couldn't do it. So, for example, just to be in a standing position and then have to go down to the mat on the floor, that was an ordeal for me. And even still now I can get to the floor and I can do my exercise on the floor and I can get back up. I'm a little awkward. I feel a little awkward, like my, like I'm thinking one way and it's, it's really, it's, it's really unbelievable.
Speaker 2:The coordination the coordination.
Speaker 1:So my mind says I lost some oxygen to the right side of my brain right it affected my left side. So there's a little coordination gap between the brain signal to the to the movement, and I know what I want to do and I can do it and I used to be able to. But I'm like why is that I can't? So I'm just little by little I move a little bit, more I get to the floor, more I try to do a different way. I go, just trying to get myself used to again with the movement and look at you now kicking some butt all over town with everything you can do now.
Speaker 2:See the persistence, the determination and the commitment to being your best. Your belief in yourself is paramount to everything occurring. If you have to wait to see it to believe it, you will never get it. You have to see it in your imagination and believe it to be true, like you actually know. You can have this, you can do this. Your belief in that and your visualization of that and you seeing yourself at that success, that's how you're going to make it happen, because you're working on that excited, positive life force energy. If you're waiting and going, I don't know if that's going to happen or not that sucks, you'll never get it, because that's not the law of attraction.
Speaker 2:Well, it is the law of attraction. You're going to get exactly what you believe.
Speaker 1:So you're going to get healthier or you're going to start getting heavier or whatever it is. I know some people out there that have. I've seen them that they seem to have emotional eating issues and then other things like that, and it's a whole point. Is you have to get out of your head.
Speaker 2:Yes, Get out of your head, get in front of your cheekbones what's going on in your life.
Speaker 1:Look in the mirror. Yeah, I love you, I love who you are, I love the way I am, and then you know you can critique yourself. Where. Where can I make improvements? Right, where can I make improvements? Do I want to be a dress size less for the New Year's Eve party or something? Or my birthday is coming up. How may I feel better that day? Right, maybe if I start doing something like I said get rid of that one teaspoon of sugar that you put extra in your coffee, that you lose weight just from that. That's true. Putting, you know, the dressings on salad. Please take the dressing off. The salad Dressing has more calories in the salad that you're eating. Yes, okay, so I use balsamic vinegar and I use really good olive oil.
Speaker 3:Right, and you just sprinkle a little bit like you make your own, don't?
Speaker 1:buy anything store bought because it has sugar, sugar, sugar.
Speaker 2:That's all I'm saying. Also, dextrin guarba, exactly, they just put different words for it, but it's all sugar.
Speaker 1:And all the other chemicals.
Speaker 2:Like I said, the chemicals.
Speaker 1:Like I said, if I can't pronounce it, I'm not going to eat it. That's 100 true chemicals that are really messing up our, our, our digestion. You know that I read an article. I read an article that says that there's chemicals in our food and preservatives that will change your dna absolutely because of the chemistry of it so your genetic propensity and your DNA.
Speaker 2:As you a gene is. People think that I have this history in a genetic. You know my parents had it and I have. You know this history. However, your gene will express itself based on the stimulus you put on it. So through epigenetics you can truly change the expression of your health. If you come from a family of heart disease but you eat healthy foods and you exercise and you don't smoke and you drink water and you have a dog and you love life, you are going to avert as many of those dangers as possible. But if you smoke and eat you know saturated fat and meats and butters and white bread, and sit on the couch all day and eat junk food and fast food, drive-thru food, you are going to make that gene express heart disease, and so you have a choice.
Speaker 2:Everything's a choice every day to thrive or slog through and just try to survive. That's a huge difference in life force, energy and vitality. And here's the thing of all the days you get to live and nobody really knows for sure how many that is, and you want to really try to maximize them as much as possible. On the very last day when god goes hey babe, I'm watching you, did you love it? What is your answer? It? Was amazing, I such great stuff. I effed up really bad over here, but look what.
Speaker 2:I did to pull myself back. I had this really big bad thing happen to me. But look at me now. My muscles are strong, I love life. I've lost 70 pounds. I'm I'm active, I've have such a high vibration I'm changing the lives of other people. I'm out here kicking some butt and I love my life. I hope I did you proud and next time maybe I can come back and do it again somewhere else. I mean you want to work backwards from there, because if your life is not thrilling or wonderful or makes you feel happy, then change gears, change your mind, change talking nice to yourself. Say empowering words. Be nice to your own best friend in there self-talk is the biggest sabotage of all
Speaker 2:our life success and feeling unworthy or unloved, you're not good enough. That's the beginning of the downfall of everybody. And the only way to lift yourself up is be kind, be loving, see that you're a gift from God, see that you're meant to be here, see that you were born with your own special, beautiful, unique thing that's, that's just yours, and the real, real job is to figure out what that is, yum it up and bring it out to the world with all your love and joy, and that will bring you prosperity and happiness and friendships, and amazing things will come to you. From that perspective, if you choose joyfully, j-o-y-u-l-l. Joyful, fill up your gas tank of it.
Speaker 1:And it's so true because, once you start changing your thought process and your life and like Andrea said, being grateful, I'm grateful every day I wake up that I am alive that I have my family still around. I got my mom mom at 85 years old, almost 86 in a couple of months a bless, and there's a blessing to have her, my aunt, turning 84 in december now. Yeah. So I mean, and they're like, really I'm that old, they like they don't know it. No, they aren't their number, you don't have to be your number.
Speaker 2:That's the thing is, you have no say in the day you came out, but you have every bit of say on how you're going to live all your days while you're out in this world. And for all the birthdays I've had to, I'm never the age that is chronologically on my birth certificate. I just refuse to allow my mind to tell my body that I'm old. I'm just never going to be old. I'm going to have a lot of birthdays.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have 104 as many as I can rack up, but I don't ever want to be old Yep, me too.
Speaker 2:Right, I want to still be able to go and play and do and run and have fun and be here for as long as I can and then take myself from my jammies at 104 and say I got in the morning, that's it.
Speaker 1:I want to make it to 104 too. That would be awesome. My mother's on that, on that track. She said, oh, I'm going to be around.
Speaker 2:I said, no, you'll be around. There you go. You might have a history if you do all the things your mom's doing to stay there.
Speaker 1:My grandmother lived until a few months before she turned 90. Wow, and if it wasn't for some little sicknesses here and there, she could have lived longer. And my mother, physically she's great. It's just her memory, you know, unfortunately. You know, unfortunately she has.
Speaker 2:They say she has alzheimer's. I refuse to accept it. I know I see little signs, but I try to keep her eating healthy and enjoying her life. She comes here to dance salsa and as soon as I take her out to music, all the happy things will make her stay here. It's happiness that makes you stay here. It's aggravation and anger and all the negative energies that eat you up from the inside and cause you to shorten your life and it's, and we have to think about that because we live in a state in Florida.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of seniors here, right, yes, and I've seen a lot of seniors when I take my mother and my aunt to the doctor and I'm really sad because there's so many people alone Right, a lot of people alone, it's true. They can't drive anymore, they're taking too many medications, they're in wheelchairs. I mean, we don't have to live like that. You need to make a choice, like. It took me all my life to learn all these things. So I'm not telling you it's going to happen overnight, but you have to make a choice in your life and I chose life. So when I had the stroke, that was my, that was my signal from God. He warned me, woke me up in my dream and said Miss Hernandez, you just had a stroke and woke me up and I was. I got to the hospital in time, thank God. So thank God for that. I'm very grateful for that and that I don't have anything. People look at me like you didn't have a stroke.
Speaker 2:I guess I did. So. What miracle is that that you just made for yourself? It's your belief in life and your belief that you live in your will and your drive to do all the things to keep this mechanical machine with bones and blood running around so your soul has a place to be, so you can go do all the fun stuff in this world my mother too she's 85. She does water aerobics.
Speaker 2:She does yoga canasta bridge and Majan, I like to make an appointment and then sometimes she ushers at the township where she lives, in the, in the theater, all the programs to people and she gets to watch all the shows for free. Cause she does that out and about, it's cause she's living, you have to live Doesn't mean, when you get older, that you're supposed to stop.
Speaker 1:Okay, and and I see now that I'm older, the perspective on age is so different. So when we were kids, right that you're supposed to stop. No, and I see now that I'm older, the perspective on age is so different. So when we were kids, right, say, when we were like teenagers, 40 was so old. Oh my God. 40?, 40?, oh my God, never make up the 40. All right, so I'm going to be 59 in a couple of months. I'm 61. Look at this. It's amazing. We both look amazing. Look at our age. So it has nothing to do with the number that you can keep going. My good friend is having a big salsa. We're having a big salsa event here on November 4th it's my girlfriend's birthday. She's turning 70. Never, you would never know, never know. She dances every single weekend. She's amazing, she's, she's just amazing.
Speaker 2:She loves life.
Speaker 1:She's enjoying her life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but that's the key. That's the real, real job. People have to understand whatever occupation you have or you're a doctor, a dentist or an underwater basket weaver, it doesn't matter Right? The real, real job is to love your life and all that's in it. That's the job. What are you doing here on this planet, in your own body and in your own space that God's given you to run around and be here on? What are you doing that's making you happy and feel fulfilled and full of all your potentials that have been expressed and done? Like what's done off the where's your bucket list? It should be a wheelbarrow. Seriously, it should be the grand Canyon of stuff you want to do. Yeah, just keep doing them all the time and don't. Don't miss the fun for the money. Don't miss the fun Cause you're sick. Don't miss the fun because you're have a poopy attitude.
Speaker 1:Don't miss the fun. Just go. Just do it. Just do something new. There's so many things to do in most cities. Right now we're in Fort Lauderdale. There is so much to do in Fort Lauderdale and in Miami and West Palm Beach, just in South Florida alone. There's never a dull moment in the city. If you want to work out, you want to do yoga, you want to go swimming, you can go. Boating comedy dolphins everything.
Speaker 1:There's nothing you can't do here, so you can't do here so you can't say I have nothing to do. And if you don't have a lot of money, go to the park. The beach is free, go walk on the beach, enjoy the sun, watch people watching you know I love people watching, I love going to watch people. You know people interesting. So there's so much stuff you can do and and it just live a better life. And that's all we want to tell you here is just live a better life. Make the choices and realize that the choices, the situation in your life, is because of the choices you've made. Absolutely, and I've gone through the road, we've all gone through it. I've done bad choices and my life was going bad. Okay, why did I have a stroke? Because my life wasn't going good. I didn't take care of myself. I was drinking um more than normal. Um, I wasn't. I was eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, and that's the truth Steak, fried chicken, bacon, like anything. It didn't matter. If it felt, if it tasted good, I ate it. Okay, that kind of thing. And and and I knew in my mind that I wasn't doing it correctly. And then I was really full blown diabetic at that time. Well, so didn't really understand. And people, please.
Speaker 1:Diabetes is very serious. It's a serious disease because once you have it, if you don't get your sugars in control, what it does is when your sugars are high, it starts eating your organs. Okay, so what happens? Over time you spend years and years like this your organs start getting weaker and weaker. So your liver, your kidneys, your pancreas all that start will start going. And unfortunately we had, um uh, somebody in the family. Jc's cousin died three years ago because of that, because he had a broken heart. Unfortunately, he had a broken heart and he gave up. He just gave up on life. He stopped taking his medicine and he didn't take care of his diabetes. His sugars was 600, 800.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that's so he was only 47 years old. We're so sad that he's gone and his kidneys failed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Diabetes. Diabetes has a huge effect on your kidney function and your pancreas and your renal failure, and it's it's treatable, it's reversible.
Speaker 2:You don't have to live with it anymore. There are so many methodologies that can help have your body heal from this and change and be strong again. It's not an overnight process, but a little bit each day will help your body recover If you stick to it. Add more of a plant-based diet, get some more exercise, cause when you exercise your muscles are contracted and it takes the sugar, the glycogen, out of your muscles for energy to do the work. So exercise helps take out the sugar that's stored in your body. The over acts over an excess of sugar. So walking in in in some good aerobics and some strength training is vital to ward off your diabetes, so that your body can really push the sugar out and, of course, not overindulge and have it come back in, and a lot of starches of course turn to sugars and we're such a society that's a whole nother show.
Speaker 1:I know Well in our society, like I love pizza, okay, well, I don't love it as much. Let me just say that I used to love pizza. Like pizza was my to go thing. I grew up in New York. So when you're walking down the street I'm hungry and then slice, and you grab a slice of pizza and you walk down the street and you eat your pizza and then you know there was like a dollar for a slice of pizza, right, so we grew up eating pizza all the time, but it's dough and cheese.
Speaker 2:The sauce, the tomato I can deal with, but the cheese is fattening. Have you ever tried to peel the cheese off of melted cheese off?
Speaker 1:of bread, yeah.
Speaker 2:Now it's stuck Can you imagine, that's how cheese sticks inside your organs too, and why it's so hard to digest. And so when you say, get off the dairy, yes I'm, I'm 99.9% dairy free. I'm like every once in a while I want an ice cream, so like if I have one on my birthday or I have one on vacation, like it's a treat for me and I enjoy it and I don't worry about it. But in terms of having cheese and milk, and yogurt and and all kinds of dairy.
Speaker 2:Right yeah, first of all, there's no other creature.
Speaker 2:I just want to say this about dairy there's no other animal on this planet that drinks another animal's milk, I mean unless, like you know, in a farm, that you have a cow and a deer and the mother's gone and they help it. But that's an unusual circumstance, right? And no other animal, once their baby is weaned, drinks milk either the rest of their life. So milk from the animal that it is born from, a cow, has a calf and the calf can drink all that milk and digest it because it has that particular digestive enzyme. And if we took human breast milk and put it in Publix in a bottle bottle, would anybody drink it? And put it in their coffee? No, but it's human, yet we go and drink it from another animal who's attached to these squeezers?
Speaker 2:we're having milk from another pit, okay and we don't have the digestive enzymes in there to break it up. We don't, because a baby calf is supposed to turn into a 2 000 pound heifer and we're drinking milk all day long and you know we don't need that. No, you know, if we're gonna have a plant-based milk almond milk, cashew milk, flax milk's delicious, that's fast we just. Dairy is probably the biggest saturated fat weight producing thing.
Speaker 2:That's in like everything yes, and are we ever going to get away from it totally in our whole life? Not always. But you can make choices that are better for you that cut dairy out or cut it down, or have it in a plant-based formula that still tastes delicious and fewer calories and fewer saturated fats. That can substitute for full fat and full this and that and I'm not saying that you should never not have fat, because there are a lot of really good fats for you. Your brain is 75% fat.
Speaker 2:Avocado, olive oil, salmon, wal, know, flaxseed all of those are excellent omega-3 fatty acids that moisturize you and keep you limber on the inside. So, yes, you want good fats, but you know sausage, bacon, pepperoni all those deli meats that are have nitrates and sulfites and nitrites in them.
Speaker 1:Yeah no, that's the, the, yeah, that's the whole thing not so much and there's a lot of things that, um, I know people are saying how am I supposed to eat and everything. Don't make it stressful, right? You know the the the thing is like I. I talked to um my acupuncturist, dr love. So one time I love dr right, that's the love dr love wherever you are.
Speaker 1:So anyway, he goes to me. I said but they don't have fast food for vegan food. He goes yes, they do. It's called a salad. He says take a handful of greens, put in a bowl, cut up a tomato, put a cucumber, put a little onion are more and more health food places that are coming out that have organically grown food or hyponically grown food with no hormones and steroids and antibiotics in the animals.
Speaker 2:If you're going to have animal food and no less pesticides or no pesticides there, there's ways that we can eat cleaner that these chemicals and these additives do not get in us, especially in young women and girls. The hormones and steroids that we're eating in our animals are going into our endocrine system. If you look now in this day and age, almost every young girl is getting their period at eight, nine, 10 years old.
Speaker 1:No time ever should a child, be able to have a period and get pregnant, but that's another whole horrible thing anyway, but I'm just sidetracked.
Speaker 2:So the whole point is most women didn't get their period till 14, 15, 16, and now we're cutting that number in half because we're eating the hormones and steroids from animals and it's messing us up and causing these hormonal changes in our children, yeah, and, and man boobs in our boys, yeah, I've seen a lot like that and adding tons of extra calorie and weight to people, that it is just, uh well, we'll, we'll, we'll, let that go.
Speaker 1:It's just a point of health, wise I know, because they have made it and I'll be honest so they've made it in society that fat is pretty right that they made it honoring it, they're honoring it because you're a big woman and everything like that.
Speaker 1:Now there are people who are large, okay, but I'm sorry, everybody's born the same way. You know what I mean. You're born six, eight pounds, right, you were six, eight pounds, right. You're born the same way. So everything after you're born and what you do after that, you know right, that's what increases the.
Speaker 1:It's not like, oh, but my mama was always 350 pounds, so that's why I'm three. Well, excuse me, if you have a, if you have one person, especially the matriarch, right, if the mom is heavy and she's doing all the cooking, guess what?
Speaker 1:All of you are going to be the same like her, because you're eating the same food, right I'm saying but if she's cooking the same foods, then then that's why there was a whole thing on TV one day and it shows a whole family, right, and it shows the mama, the dad and all the kids and they were all very large, they were overweight, okay, and they're like oh, we all have generational heart disease. And I was like you know why generational heart disease? Because they have the same habits. They have the same habits. You're eating the same thing, so if you already have, the genetic propensity plus the habits right and the energy on it, you're going to have the same.
Speaker 2:You know prognosis. So here's the thing, too is we don't want to disrespect anyone because of their size, but the problem about being that size and we want to try and make that normal it's anything but normal. It truly is not normal to have your heart and your hips have to carry this mass around For every 10 pounds. You're overweight. Your heart has to pump four times heavy four times more.
Speaker 2:Your kidneys, your pancreas, your organs have to work harder to clean your blood and get toxins and things out. So it's not just a matter of honoring who you are. We always want to honor the soul of a person Truly.
Speaker 2:there's no disrespect there in any way only love, but medically and healthfully it's not healthful at all and it's very, very detrimental and the precursors for heart disease, diabetes, cancers, arthritis and all kinds of digestive issues as well. It is a downfall of your ability to live easily and move with grace and lightness. It's very difficult to be a super large, heavy person, and the problem with that isn't just that. It is our habits that make us that. The toxicity that resides inside you. A body builds a fat cell as a self-defense mechanism. It'll give you a big tush to protect you because all your organs, your brain, your heart, your lungs, your kidneys and stuff, everything is filtering to try to clean that out.
Speaker 2:And if you have 60,000 miles seriously like your hair, 60,000 miles of bloodstream through which everything and I mean absolutely everything you put in your mouth or on your skin travels internally through your body and your sensors and your, your self, your defense mechanisms, your white blood cells, your, your lymph nodes, everything as these soldiers that go through the bug going, what's that? What's that? What's that? We've got to remove this if it's toxic. And so your body works so hard to try to excrete toxins we pee, we poop, we throw up, we fart, we squish our eyes. Your body has a million processes to eject stuff that doesn't work. But after a while it gets so backed up that your body starts packing in and the farthest reaches of the universe under your skin, farther and farther out, to pull it away from the internal bloodstream so that it's outside at the farthest of your butt and your gut and under your arms and in your channel.
Speaker 2:So that's what a fat cell is. It's a garbage can internally to pack toxins in. And if you want to burn them off with exercise, want to burn them off with exercise. Fat burning right and aerobic. Also fat burning and strength training will help build muscle and burn fat is when you have this level of toxicity that sits in you. It's an amazing self-defense mechanism in every human that'll build more and more and more and more and more and more fat cells to wear out this big. How do we get in a car? How do we go to the bathroom? How do we get on a plane? How do you move easily in life? Because of this toxicity. So when you look at a fat cell, when I see someone and I hate to use the word fat that's absolutely the F word to me we aren't fat because we're fat, we're toxic. So when I see somebody who's obese, and especially morbidly obese, they're toxic, they're full of toxicity and that's why your body is storing that in there.
Speaker 2:Too much food undigested, unprocessed, unused you eat because you make fuel. Food turns into energy for your body, turns into energy for your body. But if you overdo it and all the processes, the processed foods and the chemicals. Your body, first of all, cannot process processed foods right off the bat. Your body has never been built to understand or use in any way processed foods. So every chemical and every additive, every red dye 40, everything that's an excipient or a binder or whatever it is to fluff up the food that is not from the ground, like the word apple, your body cannot use it and will fight to get it out. And if you're active maybe you'll burn it off, but if you're not, it's there.
Speaker 2:The body's going to extract it and pack me tell you, and it packs fast, and it packs deep and here's the thing about dieting when we lose weight and we go back to eating, we lose weight, come back, up and down, and up and down, and up and down. Every time we lose weight but then gain it back, the body goes oh my God, the danger's back. We need more fat cells faster, thicker, deeper, denser and we're going to have to protect the body even more, so then they become really reluctant to leave because they are protecting you from your toxicity Wow. So if you stop putting it in, the body doesn't need to make any more fat cells and you can burn off the ones you have, and then your body will transform into lean muscle mass and remove fat. So when people say they want to lose weight, weight is the worst terminology ever and everybody uses it all over the world.
Speaker 2:It's not weight Cause. If you think about how much your body weighs, what's the weight of your body? You have lean muscle mass, bone, mineral density, blood volume connective tissue, all your soft tissue, and then fat. You only want to lose the fat.
Speaker 2:You don't want to lose a structural foundation and health and fortitude of your body. And we do all these crazy diets and all these crazy shots and all this crazy chemical stuff and the body avalanches out and we just want the scale to be less. You leech out and seep out and eek out structural formation that is necessary, along with some fat. So we lose lean muscle mass, we lose some blood volume, we lose connective tissue strength, we lose bone mineral density strength, so that the body now is going uh-oh, what happened to myself here?
Speaker 2:And you'll have cravings, to put it all back because the body feels like it's just been shop-facked and so you only want to lose fat the proper way, with a little bit at a time. It's kind of like this you go on vacation. You come home, your whole house is robbed down to the studs. Everything's missing your you go on vacation. You come home, your whole house is robbed down to the studs, everything's missing. You have your TV and the wall unit's gone and the whole house is empty and you feel very violated, as opposed to having a garage sale where you just pick and choose the things that you don't like and the structure of your house stays the same.
Speaker 2:So we want to do a program of health and wellness that balances your nutritional needs for your body to thrive, and practice the exercises that help build the lean muscle and burn off the fat, in conjunction with meditation and calming things and prayer and things that make you enjoy your life, because it can't just be fitness and food. There's a spiritual component and a mindful component that drives those processes and it has to start with happiness. It has to start with joy and appreciation and gratitude that you're still here, that you didn't freaking kill yourself with all the stupid shit we did. Right, it's true, you're living proof of it. Right, I mean to say with the most love.
Speaker 2:But no, you're such an example of surviving and thriving now, from the lessons you learned about not taking care of yourself to now kicking some butt and taking names about it.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I couldn't be happier for you and proud of you for all the work you did to bring yourself to this level of health. And it's doable for everyone it is. We can always feel better, we can always do better. One thing better today than yesterday, yes. One less bad thing today than yesterday yes, and repeat tomorrow. That's how absolutely easy it is.
Speaker 1:It's not all at once.
Speaker 2:Yes, when less bad thing today than yesterday and repeat tomorrow. That's how absolutely easy.
Speaker 1:It is Little baby steps, it's not all at once. Yes, it has to be baby steps, because then you're not going to continue to do it so like in the beginning. I went straight vegan for about a year and a half, almost two years, because I was detoxing, cleaning out my body and everything. And it was rough in the beginning. What do I cook? What I make? And I make a lot of good things. And then poor JC right, I get him on the thing. I get him on. He's like I need a, I need a pork chop.
Speaker 1:I can't go without any meat. So he was sneaking out to get some meat, you know. But he lost so much weight because he was getting tired of vegetables and he started shrinking and shrink, I'll go and he lost a lot of weight. So then now, weight or muscle he lost muscle. So he was upset because he lost muscle. He lost fat and muscle, right? So that's what I'm saying. We lose a lot of other things. Yes, you do, I lost some muscle too.
Speaker 2:Blood cells you lose components of your osteoblasts and your bones, you lose a lot of important structural, foundational strength. No-transcript your level of exercise per your, your whole idea of life. But the most important thing is is finding what that is that works for you. And if you have animal products, make sure they're hormone free, steroid free, you know, antibiotic free, all these things that make it be toxic. And have a little bit of it here or there to add to the nutritional needs that you need. Right, but driving through McDonald's drive-thru or another, I shouldn't probably say a name pink slime, which was horrible, and you know Google meat glue.
Speaker 2:Go on Google and Google meat glue. And there's this unbelievably scary shit about the white powder. They take the old, dirty scraps of food. They put this white Starts with a G and I can't remember the sign Words for it and they put it together, they roll it together, they wrap it up in foil to put in the fridge. It looks like a petite filet. When you cut it out, it looks like perfect meat and you can't tell the difference. Google meat glue. Oh well, they also might not want to eat.
Speaker 1:They also have lab grown, which is another issue. They're starting to make chicken breasts in the lab and in some states that are selling this now, I'm not eating that. If that, at that point I will be vegan. Because I'm not eating that. If that, at that point I will be vegan. Because I'm not. Unless I have my own chicken in my yard, I am not doing it. Oh gosh, the things we do to obliterate and adulterate our food.
Speaker 2:It's already so bad and that's what's really scary for people is what am I going to eat? What am I going to do? This is so hard because there's nothing good to eat that's safe and in some aspects the fear is really true, and that is. But together with someone who's been there and done that, I go on shopping trips. I go to farmer's market, I take my peeps to where the good food is. We know what the packages are. We know what to choose. Once we try.
Speaker 2:When I have somebody come over as a private client, I bring them into my kitchen and we cook food and we make things and they taste stuff. So then they know if they like it.
Speaker 1:Then they can go outside and go get it. You have to be comfortable. Don't be afraid of vegetables. I know so many people and I'm telling you right I laugh about it but everybody nobody likes vegetables. I love vegetables.
Speaker 2:Rainbow is the happiest thing for me. But before we continue, we didn't do our commercial, but we're going to take.
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Speaker 1:And the other thing is Sharonada will be here October 24th. We are doing sound healing and meditation for the new moon coming up and we've been trying to do this monthly, unfortunately with scheduling so I'm still trying to figure that out, but we will be having it at least every other month until we get it to every month. And oh, and my last commercial was about salsa classes. So we're starting salsa classes here Mondays and Thursday nights. Really need to get some people start signing up, that way we can have a number for the class. We have specials that you can do pay per class, pay monthly. We have a three-month special as well. Just call us here, studio33flcom, and you can find out more information. So, continuing back to our conversation, we're talking about vegetables. So vegetables, vegetables are good vegetables have a lot of flavor, um, and you know, my aunt always tells, sells me, um, oh, I don't, like, they don't have any flavor. I should say, dude, they have broccoli flavor. Or they have Brussels sprouts flavor, like how you cook them and how you prepare them.
Speaker 2:But vegetables are your friends. Everybody are your best, like I make cauliflower uh, not cauliflower cabbage.
Speaker 1:I do. I take the whole cabbage, I slice it like an inch thick slices. I put it in a pan. I just a little bit of olive oil, some little bit of salt, some fresh garlic on there. I stick it in the oven for 20 minutes. It comes out. It's sweet. It tastes so good. So that's my side brussels sprouts and broccoli also are sweet when you cook them too.
Speaker 1:Brussels sprouts too yeah, brussels sprouts, their flavor changes so much when you roast them, yes, and if they get a little burnt on them, they're so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, drop a little balsamic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, it's so good oh really good yeah. Another thing is kale. Hi Hi, sorry, someone came in, so we also do. I do kale chips Like I take the kale, I just chop it up and just drizzle a little bit of olive oil and I put it in the oven. Make little chips. Oh yeah, so I've eaten those all day. So there's a lot of things.
Speaker 2:That's a way you can make healthy stuff for you as your snack, and it doesn't have to be a snicker bar, right, exactly. And I have to tell you if my students, my clients, my students, is I can find anything that you like, seriously, anything that you like with healthier ingredients. And then, once you know what those foods are, it makes shopping and food prep and meals so much easier to do and so much more enjoyable and you feel so empowered by choosing the right foods that feed yourselves. When you feed yourselves right and that's important, because deep down into the mitochondria of a cell, it's the powerhouse of every cell that makes every action happen the intracellular fluid, the extracellular fluid, the science you want to make sure that what you're giving your cell will make it be alive and thrive so it can do its job for you and all the different organ systems that you have. You have lung cells, you have kidney cells, you have heart cells, you have ovaries, you have a million cells that, when from infancy, that divide, all divided into exactly what it needed to do to make your body be a magical machine. And when you eat good foods and it feeds you at that atomic, molecular level, your body changes chemically into this really powerful machine and you feel differently.
Speaker 2:And serotonin, your happy chemical. In fact, we all make our own dose. I just want to talk about your happiness. We always so many people are on a lot of meds for their heads and anxiety and depression and things like that. And chemically, if that's what your physician needs you to do, there's ways that have to help you that way, but overall, blueberries and blackberries with astaxanthins, going for a walk and making your own serotonin.
Speaker 2:Serotonin is your happy chemical. You're yammy, it's made 80ok in your tummy. You are not going to be able to make it because the environment which it's grown is dead. And so when we take probiotics and prebiotics that help feed good bacteria microflora in the gut, you make your own happy serotonin 80% it goes to your brain and then you feel happy, clappy. So we have our own dose of meds that are our own chemistry dopamine, oxytocin, your love chemical. I love you and your friends, and how happy you feel in your love. Serotonin and endorphins and all of those we create through our nutrient value and our exercise and our, our feelings of yay, we love life. And so we can boost our own dose of our own stuff without having to take prescription over-the-counter narcotics. Yeah, try and fix our body where we can do it ourselves exactly, exactly and a lot of it.
Speaker 1:Again, we talk about food emotion. So, um, it goes hand in hand. When you're not happy like I wasn't happy for a long time with myself, who knows I was like, I was like the dog chasing your tail. You know how many people out there feel that way. You, you're like the dog chasing your tail because you're so unhappy and you're still trying to like I need to go that way.
Speaker 2:I just don't know what you don't know what to do.
Speaker 1:You're in the circles and because of that, everything affects you. Your alcohol, okay. Okay, Drinking alcohol it's a pain avoidance. It's a pain avoidance but it's a depressant. So you're depressed. I may have a drink, Great. Now you're more depressed, but you don't even realize that because now you got a buzz from the alcohol. So you think, okay, that'll numb me a little bit, but when you come down from that you're worse than you started. So it's a really. So I've been there, Um, I've done. I I mean I used to be on two different insulins, okay, Before, um, I stopped drinking and I mean I drink once in a while now, but I, I just can't do it anymore. Honestly, I don't enjoy it anymore. So that's because my mindset I've changed my mind, mind. I don't need the liquor, right you don't want it anymore.
Speaker 2:So I can't have it anymore. That's no, I don't want anything ever. You don't want it anymore. Instead of I can't have it anymore. Resentment and the frustration is not there and you don't want anymore, because it's joyful and happy for you to not put that in your body. Yeah, and it's a free, happy choice to do that where you feel so much more empowered about yourself.
Speaker 1:Yes, and that's. And that goes with alcohol, that goes with drugs. I did, I did cocaine in my life and it was very difficult. And then I think about it now where, why I was in that spot. I was miserable. Ok, I had a bad thing happen to me in my life and then I was just miserable. So it was.
Speaker 1:I don't want to feel anything. So when you're like that and you don't really, you don't know what to do with the emotions that you're going through and your brain. You're not connected with your heart and your head and thinking about how you're thinking about life. And again it goes about mindset. It's about thinking what do you want in your life? Are you happy? If you're not happy, you're the only one can change that. Else can change it. Right, nobody can change you. No one can live your life for you in any way. I remember years ago, um, when I was really unhappy and I was like I was going to move to australia. Okay, why? Because I just I always wanted to go to australia, but I figured, hey, maybe if I change scenario, right, if I change where I live, I'll make me happier. Guess what? I didn't go to australia, so don't.
Speaker 2:I didn't go to Australia, so don't worry.
Speaker 1:I was trying to run away from myself. I was running away from myself, didn't realize that I can't run away from myself. I need to fix me first. It doesn't matter where I live, it doesn't doesn't matter, because it's just amazing. So once in it, and it didn't happen overnight. So don't, I didn't do this overnight, it's taken me a long time. In the last almost seven years of my life has been a journey that I built a life with JC. Everybody knows me, knows JC's, my, my husband and we. We we've built together, we've learned together and we've we've changed our internal right To match our external. So we're enjoying more life and running a business, which is not easy, and we just think about things differently now we look at it. We look at it. Our family's happy, you know. Our house is good. You know. You just have to look at all the beautiful things out there in your life. I have two beautiful sons.
Speaker 1:Yeah, gratitude, everything's about gratitude. We had miss gangster gratitude gangster. Here she says it. Miss miss maya was in in in our podcast a couple of weeks ago and she talked about gratitude and a couple of things she's gone through.
Speaker 2:That changes everything gratitude changes everything when you can look at your life right now and find something good and wonderful. Just being on this side of the grass is the number one thing that you're grateful for is you're still here and have every opportunity to make a new decision and a new energy and a new excited thought that could move you forward to the thing that you want. So just being here is something to be grateful for. And if your body works, you can walk and you can talk and you can think and you can see, and that in and of itself, there's a lot of people who are missing limbs and body parts Exactly those things that are under major, that are worthwhile and mean something to you.
Speaker 2:Start there and, every day, wake up and go, thank you for all my blessings and let the day unfold with new wonderful things, because I'm always divinely love-guided and blessed. Everyone truly is. Unless you don't believe that or see it, you still are, but you might not feel it, because if you're resistant to that thought, but as soon as you open your heart to all good things and believe in them and want them and know that they're valuable and meant to be for you, you're supposed to love your life and you're supposed to have all this goodness. It comes to you. It comes to you if you believe in it and you do the work like.
Speaker 2:Alita did the work. She changed her life day by day, step by step. You might have a little step back here, but then you move one step forward two step forward, then six step forward, and then someone else comes into your life and says we love you and we think you're fabulous and we know that you can do this and we want to come along on the ride with you and boom, you feel so much better and then something else those arms right there, those arms, those are my next.
Speaker 1:That's my next goal. I started, I started. I have a little muscle there.
Speaker 2:Okay, watch this, do this all right, all of this is doable, everybody. Hold this like this, okay. Okay, hold it up like this and just twist your wrist in there. Watch, go ahead, do it one more time, twist it out, twist it up, twist your wrist. Oh, look at that, we didn't even do anything other than that. We didn't even do there. Squeeze your fingers now. Now do it with squeezing your thumb and squeeze your fingers and watch how much more you pop it oh, wow, oh, you can feel that yeah, yeah, right, so when you do that, you do this right.
Speaker 2:When you, when you hold your max back and twist it in right, I'm doing it backwards, here we go okay watch. This is my thumb and this is my index finger oh, wow right, that's extra, just because I squeezed it Right and if you look, it goes all the way into the shoulder and through the pecs Just from the grip.
Speaker 1:How long have you been training now? How long have you been doing this?
Speaker 2:all your life I've been a trainer for 25, almost 30 years doing it, no-transcript money and thank God I saved. You know enough to to support myself with and help my family. But after a while my friends would go. Oh God, andrew, you're not making any money here, you need to go first. You need to go be a trainer because that's your other job now, because you love it. But it made me realize that I had to follow my heart in a new direction because it really made such a change in so many people's lives. And I was doing it for fun. And she's like no, don't do it for fun, I go, I have to do it for fun. She don't do it for fun, I go, I have to do it for fun, she goes yes, but do it for your career.
Speaker 2:And so then, I, you know, I took what I knew and I just, um, you know, got all the different certifications to really educate myself and become, you know, the best at what I can do to bring the changes to people. And so that's where I am right now. So it's been 25, almost 30 years.
Speaker 1:When did you come up up with the MaxPak?
Speaker 2:So the MaxPak came out of necessity because somebody clunked me with their dumbbell in a training thing. I was turning to look to do something else and I turned back and I got clunked with it and I thought holy smugolus oh wow. Like my skull couldn't stick. And then somebody once dropped the kettlebell and I'm like there's got to be something else that's safer and more comfortable than this, and so I started in my garage with plastic and duct tape and like kitties that are in rocks and sand and anything I can find and I duct taped them together and it would always splash out Right.
Speaker 2:And then I went to vinyl and zippers. I went to my fabulous shoe repair guy who has this great machine, and I had him stitch a zipper for me on a vinyl thing and I still have to duct tape it on the inside, but if you slammed it down too much it still broke open. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2:So then, through the journey, I finally met a fitness manufacturer you know, who's done millions and millions of fitness equipment throughout the world right manufacturer, because I just couldn't figure out how to get it to be where you could slam them and do a million things, and I wanted a professional grade product, and so he helped me do that and got it manufactured for me and, you know, emptied my savings account and got a SBA loan and a personal loan because I just wanted it so bad that I just put everything into it and you know, here's the thing about manifesting your dreams and this is about how you believe it.
Speaker 2:I believed it so much, I could see it so much, that it came right and everybody's like what are you doing?
Speaker 2:This is ridiculous. No one's gone, I all the naysayers, but in my heart I brought something I believed in and made it and brought a new thing to the world a new fitness gym, weight training, fitness product that is safe and effective for all demographics, from beginning, intermediate, advanced, and there's thousands and thousands of ways to use them that are safe. And it's probably the most versatile piece of gym equipment that you can, because when you really study how I put the workouts together seriously, there's a million things to do and even partner drills and it's good for yoga and pilates and martial arts. You can use as a portable punching pack and can stand on them and sit on them and throw them and roll them and squat them and lunge them and balance on them and ab crunch on them, and there's a million tweaks and variations on every one of those things as well, and you can use one, you can use three. I use five of them when I go to the pentagon. They look at me cause I'm a little girl.
Speaker 2:Five foot to a hundred pounds. And you've got these big Sequoia gentlemen who flip tank tires and jump on airplanes. And they look at me who's this little chick with a red pillow?
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'm like it's not a pillow. So I challenged them to like the harder, like gym level, military level training that I do, cause I went into the gym and I studied all the PT training that's required to pass their PT tests, and then I added the max packs to all of those. And sitting on the people you know do the neck yanking, elbow flapping, shoulder pulling for abs, but as soon as you just work from your abs and you sit on them, they all fell off and they didn't. I mean, they're beautiful but they just didn't have that coordination and that that finesse that it took to do that. And they were like Whoa and so like when they do their pull-ups, I make them squeeze one of the big ones in between their quads and at the top of a pull-up as they're squeezing across, crunch up at the top. So instead of hanging a belt with a, a weight plate, through the middle which pulls on the spine with the chain.
Speaker 2:You have to, with your own work, squeeze it through your legs, which zips up in your abs. So it's already so much force and it's weighing you down, so you've got to squeeze across, you've got to pull up and then crunch up at the top against the pull of gravity. So it's an incredible workout. So if you practice like that and then you're just going to do your PT Tessa pull-ups, that's going to be a piece of cake for you and for, like, the pushups. You know they have to do a certain amount in like a minute.
Speaker 2:But when I do that, I hang their feet in TRX straps, I put another one in their quads and make them push through two under their hand and if you put the big one on their back, I load them up and they can barely guys could do a hundred pushups in a minute, could barely get five out. Wow, five, I said. If you can get to 10 on this, your a hundred pushups will be in 40 seconds. Because when you train more than what you need to do, and plus the finesse and the way you have to hold yourself, utilizes muscles in a completely different way.
Speaker 1:Just doing those little mess.
Speaker 2:The small muscles as well as the large muscles are also just doing that little thing with the twist of the arm.
Speaker 1:I feel that I already feel this here. That's why I said I gotta grab it the other side, because I could feel the muscle like it.
Speaker 2:It pulled the muscle because you grabbed it because a lot of times if people do a dumbbell, you don't, you don't, it sits in the corner of your hand, and most people do it with their finger right. They do and they they lift like this. I'm going to just use your napkin. I'll take this piece of paper so, like when they do a dumbbell can't even hold it.
Speaker 2:So when you do a dumbbell right, many people go like this and they leave their fingers open. There's nothing, there's not this, there's not this. Yeah, there's not this. It's not working. That it's your squeeze into it, it's the squeeze, it's the squeeze, the magic of the max. That's the grip right and this is working on my hands.
Speaker 1:Like I said, I have some. I have some wrist issues from working on the computer for so many years. So it's it feels good. I mean I used it last week. I had a pain, so my my knuckle here, because I always I get like a little arthritis here, yeah, there. So but but from using this I actually it felt pretty good. I mean it hurts me a little bit on my, my thumb, but not hurting, painful just because you're using i'm'm using that muscle.
Speaker 1:So, from just doing it look at that, I'm doing that I can feel it already engaging in my arm. So, but just just doing this is good because I can feel my wrist yeah, I feel the support like I'm getting a little stronger on the fingers and and then the feet also use it.
Speaker 2:you know, single hand, right each side and offset individual sides of the body, and there's no other gym equipment that you could put in your quads and squeeze through Right right as soon as you squeeze it in your quads. It doesn't look very ladylike, but it'll work up your abs.
Speaker 3:You put this in between your legs and then you hold it in your thighs right, and then you squeeze it.
Speaker 1:So she did an exercise that was just basically squeezing the pad just with your legs and it engages your quads Like there's an unbelievable core and everything and doing the crunches too, were amazing because if you sit on one on the big pad right, the max pack it helps you, because we can't sit like when you sit Indian style, you don't have that balance and that that that lift right on the butt.
Speaker 2:So what happens sometimes? Our hips are in a decline and it's hard for unless you're a yogi to sit up, really up on your butt bones. And we sit more in a C curvature to sit with. Our and our legs are kind of like this, but as soon as you sit on the max, pack it lifts your spinal column and your hips go down and your knees and you can sit in this beautiful elongated spinal position from the crown of your head to your coccyx bone where it aligns your vertebrae.
Speaker 2:And that's another part of my training is with breath work. So you want to inhale always and then go and use the oxygen and the force of your movement so that you get more clean oxygen in and you remove more carbon dioxide. So when you exhale here's a little tip for everybody when I asked this science question what's the largest excretory organ for fat? And people go well, you pee it out, you poop it out, and I go well, that's only about 20%. The largest excretory organ for fat burning is your lungs, because, like an ice cube, your fat gets hard, like cauliflower stuck in you right. And when you heat it up, like putting an ice cube in a pot of water, you heat it up, it melts, it turns to water, then it evaporates and turns to steam.
Speaker 2:So when you do fat burning, that hard, rocky, clumpy piece of fat gets burnt down into liquid, it goes through the bloodstream and it's converted to carbon dioxide in the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen in your lungs. And when you exhale, there goes your fat burning. So when I tell people to exhale long and strong, not only does it hold the contraction on the abs which tightens them like a dishrag, it's helping you with fat burning. So when people are holding their breath or they're puffing like this, fish puff out of their cheeks. You're not getting enough oxygen in and you're not removing enough carbon dioxide out and you're not aiding in your fat burning. So you want to get as much oxygen in and down to the bottom of your belly and your diaphragm and then squeeze your abs and breathe out the carbon dioxide in this long, deep, almost like lion's breath, right.
Speaker 2:And it makes a difference, in the back of your throat, because it really makes you contract so much more force in the body, which adds to the force of your workout.
Speaker 2:So when you have a force in your hands and your shoulders and your back and your butt and your legs and your contraction of your abs, how much internal force have you generated in that movement? That's why you burn out so fast. So the key principles of using the MaxPak are to grip it and to push to the farthest range of motion and then some and then return it so that as far as you go forward is as far as you go back and as much power as you use forward is as much power forward as you go backward. So you use the same amount of force in both directions at the farthest range of motion while you're exhaling and squeezing and grounding yourself. That's a lot. So when I say there's multiple muscle activation, you can have approximately 20 things going on inside you. That's really really firing up your engines and boosting your metabolism and building that muscle and burning that fat off. It's really an awesome program and once you learn how to work out with them.
Speaker 2:It's so much freaking fun.
Speaker 1:It really is, and we're we're planning to have some to do a workout here. Andrew is going to do a workout here at the studio. We haven't finalized what date yet, but I hope you guys come out. And if you're in south florida, please come out. We'll put it all on social media so you can find out when we're gonna have the class here. And and also she she has these max packs. You can buy them. They're actually on a big blowout sale, right?
Speaker 2:now because I have a lot of inventory that I had brought back from a big event, and so check out the max packcom M A, xp, a, c, maximum power and core. That's what the max pack stands for maximum power and core. So Google the max packcom, go to the products page and see the sale event, because it really can save youa lot of money, and if you want to come pick it up locally, it can save you on the shipping.
Speaker 1:Right, Exactly so if you, if you want that, come pick it up locally. It can save you on the shipping. Right, exactly so if you, if you want that, you can coordinate it. We can always have them here at the studio. You can come here and check out the studio at the same time and pick up your max pack. Absolutely so um so you can, you can find her, like she said.
Speaker 2:And the MaxPak is my product, so I'm on both on social media. Andrea Hammer is also on there, if you just put Andrea.
Speaker 1:Hammer it comes up, so you won't be able to miss her. Andrea Hammer and the MaxPak and enjoy the MaxPak. So we're going to go because we've been on for a while here, yeah, so much fun.
Speaker 1:We could keep talking forever. There's so many things we can talk about, so we'll probably have Andrea again on a second time. We'll do a part two with her, because I have a couple of people like like Sharon now that was here. I need to do a part two with her, also because there's so much we can talk about and nobody wants to listen to us for three hours.
Speaker 2:So we should have an event though One day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going, oh also before I, we're having a wellness fair. I haven't done the date yet. I believe we're going to do November 26th. It's a Sunday. That's what we're planning to do. Keep in touch with us. We've rooted Mindset. It's like the end of Thanksgiving weekend. Anyway, we're going to sign off for right now, jc, if you can just pause it on the top there, and then I will take care of the rest.
