Welcome to fit to be real and a little extra. Thank you for remembering to say it this time. What's up?
Listen you throw that camera on me and I forget what I'm doing what my name is where I am I
Have to be myself
So hard so hard. Sorry. I'm just in my fur coat today guys. So so hard so hard
So hard it's cold. It's 10 degrees. It's very doesn't like heat in her place. Ah
Is the heat on it's on 65. Oh my god. That's so cold. So I had to wear my fur and my disco balls
People yes, because that is when you think one degree temperatures outside. I think it's like eight right now. Yeah, I
Think disco balls. However, just putting it out there. This is not a real fur
This is faux fur. Don't come at me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, who you talking to don't come at me the people
But it is very warm. I
Have it in black. Yes, she does so I can't make fun of it. I actually really like it
But she will but I will make fun of the earrings what I never get to wear these
Why do you own those who doesn't have disco ball earrings you doesn't seem like a you
Item I have three different sizes. These are my middle. I have large ones and I have small
None of this was I was expecting I was middle of the road disco today
As you do sorry on a Tuesday morning
We are yes, we are cold so we are cozying up for our fireside chat with you can't see it, but we do have fire
There is a candle
Right there. Mm-hmm. Three wicks. It's it's a big guy three John wicks. Yep, and do you know who John wick is?
No, I don't I didn't think you did. I just know that it's a like a movie
Is it a movie?
John Wick
We're gonna we're gonna move on okay
John three wicks
John three wicks it will forever be now called
Is that a Yoda sentence yes, it was it felt wrong it felt wrong. I do feel the breeze coming from my window now that you say it
It's freezing in here. The heat is on but the window is drift. Yeah, so the fur coat is a must
I'm just trying to justify my fur coat. My fur coat is alive and
Well and well this pepper
And she's sleeping so before we get started to what we're actually talking about which is a it's a Carly day. Yeah
It's a Carly day. Yeah, I'm the boss now
We all need to ask the the question no I didn't no I didn't I didn't I didn't have time let me I
Did not have time this week. This was busy week
Okay, well what we're referring to I didn't even have to ask which is amazing. It was all you were gonna ask me
Yeah, okay. Yeah, no, I'm smart the book you were given last week the entire episode
We talked about you were at least supposed to read like a paragraph didn't have to be a chapter
You did text me yesterday and you said let it and I did know that that was not a chapter in the book
And that you made that up because they wrote you back and said let it was not in the book
It's let me and let them there's no let it none of this counts because the only reason you know that is from what I'm forced
To read on this couch and not your own self reading at home
I took a picture check out Instagram of where the book was as of Saturday. Wait. Were you in my house? Yes
Where was the book on it was close to your bed
It was on your stairs up to your bedroom my landing on the little landing
And I took a picture of it
It was actually such a fast-paced thing. I had to run in and get where why were you at my house?
I mean you're allowed, but like I did I know you were there?
Yes, I asked you where where something was to bring to dad our dad just got a new replacement
Oh, and you told me it was unopened something that she's gotten about six to nine months ago and
I
Thought you had opened it and used it so I had to find it Andrew had to find it and in the midst of getting to your bedroom
I said that has not made it. That's not made it. So I'm gonna take a picture at least
It's not in my car because that's where things usually go to die
Children included included they get left in the car because if you give me something
It makes it to the car and then stays there forever
Okay, child services. This is not real. Don't say in the car everybody calm down. But yes, it's oh my god
So you're very lucky car that it not only made it into the house
But it made it close to the bedroom where it will die on my nightstand. I'll read a couple pages
But there's three books stacked on my nightstand here's what's gonna be annoying
We're gonna what why?
Cuz I have three books that I'm gonna read Jessica Simpson. Oh my god. Oh my god. Paris Hilton and Britney Spears
memoirs
But are you taking a moment of silence?
Because others I fix you
I
Can't quit you
Thanks you broke back mountain inappropriate
But at least there's books there
Do you think if they're coming in through osmosis and a book of secrets?
It's literally a book that says secrets on the outside
I've yet to write any the secret like no my secrets that I have to write down
It's a notebook and on the outside it says secrets
So if I ever die and you need to know any secrets, I have to write them down in there
That's a really horrible title
Anyone can understand what's in there right so if I die that's the first thing you go run to get
So you need invisible ink or something because anybody can read it. I want you to what about
That's the point. What about a burglar if I go missing if I go dead
What
Like if I go missing and you're like, oh my gosh, where did she go? Maybe she wrote something down
It'll say go to my phone
Scroll you can't find my phone if you can't find my phone
You go to my bedside table and then or if I die
I'll have like my social security number all my all my in case I go missing stuff. Did you learn nothing from crime junkies?
Yeah, stay weird. That's what I learned from crime junkies
If they say write your stuff down so that in case you go missing
Like you'll have someplace to anyone kidnapping me will return me
return to sender
immediately and in better condition so
Your book is empty. Yeah, who cares? Yeah, my kids keep looking at it going
When you gotta put some secrets in here like I gotta get to it. You don't have any secrets. Yes, like I do I
Do have secrets
But it's also not just for secrets. It's information like passwords to my computer
Passwords to my phone. So if you need to find me, I can tell you I could tell you shut up
I only have one password for it everything. I know
Shut up Pedro is rolling in his chair right now
So I'll sell you'll find it on the first page. I
Don't think you need to write it
I don't think you need to write it the people in your circle that are gonna lie down
The people in your circle that are gonna look at the secret book
We know and you can find me faster than had I not written down the secrets
You'll be able to find me. Check me
See who killed me. Maybe I wrote something in that book about Andrew
Guys the secrets out. It's not this is not confusing
Secrets out. I mean Andrew or Dean
I've made it past the 10-year mark when I said he was gonna kill me in my sleep
Because I didn't think he would last 10 years with me and we passed that mark. So
Now I don't know who's gonna murder me. Are you giving him 10 years? You were like listen
At 10, it's all right. Yeah. No, I just thought by 10 years. He would have killed me in my sleep, which is fine
But I mean like I I'm happy that we have passed that no we is not it
I'm happy that he's passed it. I didn't think he could deal with me longer than 10 years
I'm a lot. She says with her disco ball earrings and her cheetah print fur
On the couch. I'm a lot
I'm Victoria. Hey guys. Oh carly
What are we talking about today? It's not my secrets
Nope
It is fitness trends of 2025 though. It is we are um, we are talking about
The fitness trends of 2025 she looked down the moment she looked down at her phone
She lost track of what her her mind was telling her. I knew I knew it. Listen
Why didn't you write this down in your handy dandy notebook? Because I already failed my new year's intention resolution
Where I didn't write it down because I wrote it in my phone because it was there
I couldn't find my book. My book was in the car. I didn't want to go outside to get it
So I just did it on my phone
And also Andrew just texted me
Stop saying intention resolution with quotes
First of all, I say resolution. Victoria says intention. It's an intent to resolute whatever
We are you're a failure either way
Right because I did not do it. I did not do it
But we are talking about the predictions that actually their predictions. They're not nothing is set in stone
They're predictions of the fitness trends to watch out for in 2025
Watch out. Watch out. Watch out. They're coming. They're coming
All right, well give us the first one first one
All right, these are what's cool in fitness right now. So I'm I'm according to you according to me. They're cool
um, so that doesn't
I mean actually mean you have to do these or that we want you to do them or we think you should do them
These are just what's out there. That's new or newer
And that's popular. We are not like we'd love to be sponsored by one of these and we'll talk
Amazingly about them, but until then we'll just give you the facts. We're not doing a great start so far
Oh, oh the speaking part. No no. All right, the first one. Yes scroll through scroll through
I hate you. Actually, you have the first one
I do artificial intelligence because I wrote it down in my blues clues notebook. Shut up, which is what it took me
It took me a week to realize what this
This spine reminded me of and it's the blues clues notebook. Oh, yeah, it just his is this way. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, so
And it was blue
I know everything. I'm gonna because he knew everything that dog knew everything
Okay, AI is artificial intelligence and now they're putting it in with personal training
So you can have a personal trainer on your phone
within any app and that goes two ways so
So trainers are now creating their own app through systems and it's you know, if you want to go to trainer a
And he already has his own app then you download that app and yada yada yada
As well as things like peloton where it's all
artificial classes, but the real people obviously like on those bikes and doing all the things
As well as virtual groups
Which I took as more of like a Facebook
Like community community. Yeah community
So like-minded people doing the same thing and it could be something like joining a zoom of a certain amount of people
Doing the same workout basically together. Yeah, keeping you accountable
Keeping you accountable
We'll get there Carly. Oh, sorry slow your roll
So we have a piece of not AI but
It comes through as this virtual workout of our online library
Yeah, like that's our version of c-fits virtual workout
So we record all of our classes and then you can purchase the online membership for our library and do the classes as if you were there
You know in person
And that's great
What we do is amazing. We're so amazing
But there is a there's a challenge to this this trend and it's just the lack of human connection
Is what it said and I completely agree and it's really hard to do it on your own
And I some people are really good at that and are very regimented
But my last of my five colleges
Just putting that out there was I went to college by myself like online
Before before that was a thing before yes before it was a thing is you know in 2018 tell tell the people
I had to show up to my
online class
This was my senior year to graduate and it was really hard if you are not yeah
used to
sitting down on your own time
and
doing the work
Without being in an actual building or a class or or somebody in front of you even like at a lecture
It is I I can't tell you how hard it is. I would have never chosen that
For myself. I think it's more of having like a good work ethic
because it mmm
Which I didn't I just wanted to get out and work. I did I
Clearly I went to five colleges. I was not good in college. I didn't like it. I didn't want to be sitting in a class
I wanted to go out and work and which is what this last college did for me
but getting that last year in of me
sitting down in my desk and just going to class by myself
handing in the work by midnight on a certain day and making like
I'm the kind of person that like started that day
And was like I have to get this done by midnight when you really had six weeks to do it
But like I did not time manage well. Yeah. Yeah. And so that
That kind of workout style for me
I need to be in front of people. Well now here's why you're while you were talking
I was thinking that what you're describing is exactly what's happening now in the world, but you were a pre pandemic
Millennial. Yeah, so that was foreign. It was completely foreign to how we did school and learning and especially college. Yeah
and then
post pandemic
That's all they know
That's all they know and a lot of people who got healthy in 2020, which was us. Yeah
You you had no other choice in 2020
That's true. So a lot of people got really good at the
time management at home work ethic. Some people didn't I'm not saying this is like across the board
But I think there was a piece of like
Necessity that has changed since then. Yeah, that's true yours was new of like you're doing what?
How?
Without a professor in the room like it was it was wild. Yeah
But I think 2020 changed the mindset of of how things are done. So a lot of people
Learned that home workout at home in 2020 and either lost it or kept it wherever you are today
I don't know that's a different thing could be in the middle
Maybe you like to go to group fitness classes or go to the gym in person three days a week
But two days a week you like to work out by yourself
You know so that's that's another one. We'll go to that one a very good okay virtual and hybrid
So it's a mix now
It's this is perfect timing because it's a mix of AI
Of doing the stuff if you have the app at home if you have the group workout if you have the online library
But the other couple days after your job or before your job or wherever you're doing you go in person to a gym
Or to a trainer or to a facility that there are other humans in the room
And so it's that hybrid which I think is happening with a lot of the workplace
I mean a lot of a lot of workplaces
This is shocking to me. How sad is this? They have gyms in their building. Yeah, like at
Yeah, I I don't know the nine to five life. I don't know the like office job
Life the people who work for other people
How convenient is that do that? I know
Yeah
Well, we used to go into the city and we did this a few times where we would teach corporate at corporate offices
We would teach fitness at five o'clock when the work day was done in a conference room
And we would teach I did bar. Yeah, I did mainly bar. Did you cardio? Yeah, we did cardio cardio. Yeah
Wait, did I go with you? Yes
Do you think I do things by myself? Are you talking about Philadelphia? Philly? Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes
We did it in New York too. I did a couple for our old boss
And you see yeah, I did a couple for our old boss
But that was when Zumba was big and I taught Zumba in corporate buildings when we moved home to Philadelphia
We did like our mix up or or cardio our cardio class our cardio. So I did bar in New York
Because I don't know if they had showers, but I'm thinking if they brought in mean to do bar. They had showers
Yeah, so I don't know but either way they sweat so
Yikes
But that virtual hybrid thing I think is good. I think it's better than the 100%
Artificial why is your mouth moving like that because I was gonna say something and then I was like, no, I'll let you speak. She was like
That was really you were like a fish
Then the AI thing 100% just because you need you need to be with people. Yeah, you just do you just do
Even if you don't want to I know suck it on. No. Well because I mean if you know us
You know, we're not the socialist people socialist is the wrong word
The socialist of people when we don't have to be so I understand. Okay, hold on. That makes it sound bad
Socialist is the wrong word, but socialist was the right word. Yeah, I'm not the socialist kind of I actually understand that
I approve um
Which means that if
We understand if you're at a job where you're with a lot of people a lot of the time
The last thing you might want to do is go to a gym with a lot of people. I think it's the serve
I think it's service. Yeah, like if you talk and interact with people all the time
Then you just kind of want to be by yourself. Right. So off time
I like the hybrid idea where you can
Go or not or you can do both in the week and I think that's perfect. I mean you do that
Yeah, you go you work out because it's your well because it's your job
Um, but you're with people but you then you
Then you row at home and then I talked to my brother and his girlfriend and andrae about it afterwards
I eat a lot of chips and salsa this weekend
And I'm feeling really good about it
Listen, sometimes I do our own workouts at home. I'll text her and be like, oh my gosh
I just did our 10 minute ad video. Oh my gosh. I just did our hit video
not that I love listening to our old jokes or
Our jokes in general or listening to my voice when I don't have to be but sometimes
Just to zone out and do it at home for 20 minutes if that's all you have
I'll do I'll do my own. I will not do that. No, she does not
She doesn't like to see me when she's not
Wasn't gonna say that but there's a piece of truth to it next trend moving on
competitions competitions
Uh in the gyms and fitness studios are on the rise and that means you go to orange theory if you go to crossfit if
Any kind of gym where they can compete?
It's within themselves though. It's not for any like a ward or anything
It's just competition type of fitness and it's not now. I can't speak to orange theory
Um, but crossfit
We can yeah
It's not a competition with anybody else in your group. It's within yourself right
That's like f45 too. If you've ever been to f45. I probably loves f45. Yeah, only in Vegas. Only in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah here
see fit um
And I like that I feel like there's a piece of that
At see fit in class where you're just like you want to keep up which is why the group mentality is good, but we're not like
Record your time of how many steps you got in this song like there's no competition in that so many rounds
Did you get like we're not into I think if you like that mentality?
Then that is perfect for you
Like that'll keep you motivated because then the next time you go
I do that with my clients because I write down every single workout that they do
And I'll write little notes, which are really fun to come back to sometimes
There'll be like a little star that's like crush this bad ass. Yeah, and then there's some that are like didn't feel it today
But but there's reason sometimes it's because they didn't eat before like I write down everything
That is something you cannot get with an AI personal trainer. I will tell you that that's true
Because they have no idea who you are and they don't necessarily care. Yeah, but yeah, that's true
um
But someday is I'll flip back so today's
January 21st
I'll look back last year January 21st
2024 and see what that workout was and see if I want to repeat it or tweak it or up their weights and see if
We've advanced from that. Hopefully and usually we have yeah
But there's things that that's fun to do that so they come in and like all right
We did this this time this day last year. We're doing it again
This is how it's different or we're keeping it the same beat the time
Yeah, and you can do that within yourself too like even if you're just doing a weight class that no real competition is involved
You track it yourself
Six weeks ago. I used eight pound weights
Six weeks from now. I'd like to up it to 10 six weeks from them and I'd like to up it to 12 you compete with yourself
You have to have that kind of brain now like that you can just right some people don't care. Yeah. Yeah, and that's okay
But that's why the competition
Trend is you know might be something you want to watch out for
Watch out in 2025 box out watch out
We're sporty. We're sports
No, yeah, we're sports all of them
Especially me
in my fur
The more you pop your fur collar the more you hide your disco balls shoot
So, you know prioritize. Yeah, sorry
Are we moving on from competition? Yes, we're gonna move on to me first
I'm gonna go we're gonna talk about wearables
wearables are on the rise in 2025 than edibles
You know completely different than edibles. It's a different episode. No wearables are Carly's not invited
No, I wouldn't be no fun
um wearables are
Your smart watch. I think the the aura ring am I saying that right?
Ara ara, I think it's ara. I don't know pepper. Would you like to raise your hand?
Her belly is hot. So she is in a really fun pose right now
Um the aura I'm gonna say ara. No, I'm gonna say aura. I'm like you're saying both. Okay at this point
Anyway, a sleep cycle ring whatever you want to wear for that
There are new socks now that track your bmi. Hold on. Is the ar ring only for sleep? No, I think it's for
It's like a pip bit. Yeah
Yeah, um bmi for there's socks that have bmi so and they count wait, so there's socks. It's like you're overweight
Basically every step you take it's like you're technically obese. Well, they also track your sets
So like if you don't like wearing a watch there are now socks that can track your sets
Which to me is like a little much
I'm just seeing some sort of robot movie where they start to form to the skin and you can't take the socks off
and now you are this hybrid of like
Death
I mean, I feel like that's what it's coming to like that's to me a lot
I didn't know they existed until right now. So I have to wrap my head around that
Yeah, I think it's cool
There's a specific trend called wearables like you can wear this stuff counts your cholesterol levels it counts your
Sleep cycles it counts your you know, like I said bmi your what does it say sleep habits blood glucose levels?
So some things that maybe are important like if you are
If you need to track those kinds of things the
Science has gotten a lot. Yeah, it's good way more intricate if you need those things
But a little bit it's a lot of it
A little bit. It's a lot of it a little bit a lot of it
I mean, some people don't even like to wear watches or count their calories. So I don't anymore. I did
Yeah, because I got obsessed with it
And then I got obsessed in the wrong way where I wasn't happy with any workout because it wasn't the number I wanted
It versus like enjoying what I was doing right? So I took my watch off and I don't think I will ever put one on however
I like
tracking my my mileage for a walk like I like to know how far that loop is
or
I do think I do think heart rate is really important to see
Like where what kind of class brought your heart rate up that high and like was a safe level
And you know in regards to a lower intensity. I think that if there was a watch that just did that did nothing else
Maybe I would wear that for a workout. Well, you're gonna be the only one that doesn't get risk cancer. I will tell you that
I feel like they all have that stuff in them. I mean, they're a phone. You're not supposed to put it up to your ear
I know all of that stuff and I'm not sure that watches don't have those radioactive waves too
If you would just be more confident whether you were confident with the word you were saying but like don't second guess it
It is it's the emf
You're saying let us you're just saying letters
I forget what they're
Called emf. I forget what it stands for but the electromagnetic frequency
That's what there you go. Wow. That was good and that that's why there's bracelets and necklaces to block the emf
Oh, so if you have a phone or you wear the watch or you're around a lot of electronic think of what your house has like a tv
computer laptop ipads phones
multiples of these things the smart refrigerator like anything that you have
all gives off
Frequency everything that we have gives off frequency, but these specific ones are emf and it's not good for you
And it lowers your own frequency
So they have these things that like block
Yeah, your intake that's crazy of them and it's they're good. They're really expensive. I know I feel like it's all very
I know we've talked about this before the um
What's it back to the future? It's all very back to the future for me like
Science is moving so fast and everybody wants the best of the best and the the newest product
Just like that's why I don't really love trends that much because
We don't know scientifically if they're gonna like in five years. They're gonna say oh, don't use that anymore. That's bad
We didn't know but now it is we talked about that in the shopping one
We're all of the people in that Netflix documentary talking about we're like
We only thought of how to make it and how to make it better and bigger. We didn't think about
We didn't think about what was gonna happen in the end game and faster. Yeah, and how fast can we get it out there? I'm gonna like
Room in the world. Yeah, so that's why I'm not I'm not like a huge
advocate for the wearables
Because I don't know what's in the socks. That's you know, radioactive waves
That's on your feet all day that goes in through the bottom of like I don't I don't know about all that stuff the bottom of our feet are very
susceptible
Yeah to
A lot of thing good things a bad thing, you know, they're supposed to put a cut
not supposed to but you can put a
sliced
Onion uh-huh in a sock on the bottom of your foot when you're sick and it will pull all the toxins out of your body because the bottom of our feet are just
very receptive
and I've never done it but now
I always think I'm going to and I never remember but if you think about that
It's like okay if something can pull something out of your feet like that and now you're putting a sock on that's tracking your bmi and
Tracking your steps. What's what is it putting into your body to get that information? That's what I'm like meh exactly
I don't like it just put an onion on it. So we are not sponsored by any sort of wearables anymore
No, we never were never were we never were with that said
Hold on this has nothing to do with the talking about other than that onion
I just talked about if you put that other half of the onion the cut onion in the refrigerator
And then go to eat it later. You're now eating all the bacteria because it sucked out onions suck out the bacteria
Why would we eat something we put in our foot?
No
Also, yes, don't do that
I am disgusting the other half of that onion. Okay
You wrapped it up or you put it in the refrigerator probably throw it out. But yeah
Yeah, you don't eat that the other half the half that wasn't on your foot. Okay the other half that wasn't on your foot
Okay, I missed that part. Yeah, when you say it is better
Onions pull the bacteria from the refrigerator
Oh, yeah, so you don't cover it properly like cut onions that you got from the store or that you did yourself
If you do not cover them or put them in safe Tupperware type of thing it takes all the bacteria
That's like in the refrigerator, which it's everywhere bacteria is everywhere. Shut your face then you cut it up
Then you eat it and it's you know
She didn't like that no
I don't like that because I don't cover anything correctly. Ew. You know, I don't I don't have time for that
I don't have time to read. I don't have time to cover my onions
Okay, like I I can't fix you
Ah
Go
Okay, I want to hear some more trends
power training
Which is a surprise that it's trending
Power training because it's been around since like the cavemen
Has it I don't know I tell us more carly. No, you tell us more and I'll let you know if what I said was right
So power training is good for all people, but they're definitely finding that it is really good for aging
So as as you age continue with power training. Don't stop or if you haven't started yet
Really good time to do it. It is fast twitch muscles keeping those reactive
Because you we lose them as we age. So it's stuff like plyometrics where there's a little bit of resistance
Um, could be body weight. It could be actual resistance. You're holding with weights or resistance bands
but you use them in your workout and then you you
You you not create you build power. So it's more endurance stability mobility
Um for everyday function. We're going up the stairs won't keep you winded. Right. I mean it
I say that
You can work out every day. You're going up flights of stairs. You're gonna be winded like it's one of the hardest things
ever which is why people go to
Like the track and just go up and down the bleachers bleachers. Yep
So that's but that's everyday function. So it's like squatting to pick up the grocery bag. That's a little bit heavier
Well, you work for that. That's power training
so
Why is it on the
So here's we're I'm gonna have event session at the end of this
Let's get to the last one and then then I'm gonna tell you how I feel but go ahead continue on your power training
I can't wait to hear how you feel
Oh, that was basically it. I'll read you what I wrote down
But it's quick controlled movements with moderate resistance to build power safely. That's it
Okay, I think it's more for the aging like I think that's why it's trending
because more people are
Thankfully, I think this is a good thing training for longevity for the future. Yeah, instead of just like how I want to look
Today, it's what can I do now that will keep me moving when I'm 99 like dick van dyke
Did you send me that meme or did I send it to you when it was like dick van dyke has like a quote?
He's 99
Still working out in the gym every day and he said in my 30s. It was to look good
In my 40s
It was to get healthy in my 50s and like he went on and he said in my 90s
It's to prove that I can still do it which is interesting because he
Was in his 30s at a time when working out like wasn't popular. Yeah. No, it wasn't popular at all. So good for him. Yeah
Good for you dick van dyke like every decade for him was a different reason why he worked out now
It's just like to prove prove it like that he can still do it at 99
He's and it's a video of him on a leg machine at the gym
So I think that
Will never this trend of like power training will never go out of style. I think it's really important for everybody to do
No, and I don't think there's a it's too late to start for it. Like today's a great day to start
Either way. Yeah, so all right next one power shifts. This was a new one for me a lot of them
We see a repeat sometimes
This is called a power shift and it's a trend that means you're training like a specific athlete
so I thought this was interesting because
This type of workout is if you want to look like a swimmer you train the way swimmers train if you want to look like a
Crossfitter you train the way a crossfitter trains if you want to look like keep going keep going. Okay
Do them all do them all
But that's what this trend is. It's training like the athlete you want to look like
My problem with this is not everybody's bodies are the same
So if I want to look like a swimmer or a ballet dancer
My body might not be genetically made up to look that way. Is it for the look the visual or is it for the health?
No, I guess it could be for both train as a swimmer because
They have the best oxygen levels being able to breathe and all the things that swimmers can do that. I can't do well
Yeah, that's true. It's not
What I read wasn't that specific. It was just training like the athlete you want to be
So whether that's health wise or looks wise
I guess that's up to you. Well health wise. I think it's more inclusive
Like if you condition yourself for better lung capacity, then you will eventually have better lung capacity
But if you condition yourself because you want that giant broad like Michael Phelps
Upper body that doesn't necessarily mean your body is going to do that right without like
Surgery, right? So the health part I can understand
Like the stamina of a swimmer is going to be different than a stamina of
Sports over here, right?
sports
so
I got that though because maybe it's a lifestyle thing. Maybe it's
You have access to something more than you have, you know
You have a pool in your backyard. I don't know but that trend is called power shifting
Which is basically you're shifting into a different power
I didn't write this stuff guys. All right
Are you done? I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. All right. This one's my favorite
Recovery
Doesn't mean I'm good at it. But it's my favorite. She would
Recovery because you cannot overuse a body and continue to have the same results stamina wise endurance wise
Muscle gain wise. Why are you looking at people like that?
I'm just listening to you talk and and putting it into my own. Yes, you will burn out. Look at her
That's what you're gonna do
I'm not let me just hide behind my fur. You can though. That's why you're wearing it. That's exactly why
I know it's for recovery for overall health and it comes in a couple different forms
I wrote them down because I'm tired and my brain couldn't remember. I love that. This is trending by the way, but go ahead
I'm gonna remember you said that okay foam roll
massage guns
Compression gear which you just said you want I do I want the leg compression the leg ones
cold therapy and saunas and if you live in this area
Cold plunge Philly just came to Havertown. Yes, I think you can get into a cold plunge
literally a very very very cold bath and also get into a sauna and there's so many benefits that it's
Maybe we'll have one of them in to talk about it. Oh, yeah, we should do that
wildly beneficial
And now it's at your fingertips and they're everywhere like things like that. There's in the gyms
I think the health plex used to have a sauna or something like that. I don't know about the ice baths or whatever, but
That's part of the recovery process. So it reduces inflammation. It speeds up the recovery process for your muscles
so when you're really working hard and you're doing those competitions at CrossFit or you're working at Sifa every single solitary day
and your muscles are really sore then
Daily or with a really good consistency going into a cold plunge or a sauna or something like that
Will help the muscles recover better so you can go again, you know hard the next day and do it like that
But it also prevents injury
So the more you stretch your muscles and do stuff like that then you won't get hurt and then you won't be out for weeks at a time
Yeah, the article didn't add this but I am yoga and stretching
And I don't know why they didn't add those two to recovery
I think Pilates is in that as well and Pilates. Yeah
I think yeah people
Don't think of those as like because they right now they think I want to crush my goals
I want to crush my new year's resolution. I want to lose 50 pounds in two weeks
So they don't think of yoga Pilates and stretching as part of a fitness routine, right?
if you're just starting but
It is probably the most important part of the workout
Someone just came into our office after class and asked us for a specific stretch
and we immediately
Were able to give her options, especially ones that she could remember to do on her own
And Carly was like
Oh, here's a good one. It's my favorite. I don't do it. I should do it a lot more
I don't do it at all and then she gets into this like pigeon on you know the edge of a bed
And she's showing it to her on the couch and she looked like George Costanza
In her boxers on the couch if you don't know what that references look up George Costanza boxers
That's what Carly looks like
Complete sweaty mess and she's like I should do this more we all should do this more
I'm gonna do this more like you were talking yourself into stretching
I know because I
It you don't think of I mean of all people we should be doing it
And you just don't think of like doing that as part of your workout and it's so important
And so until she asked us I
I didn't like it just
Or your daily routine Andrew get we talked about this before Andrew gets up and does a few
I don't know what he does anymore, but a few stretches right out of bed right out of bed right out the gate as
You should
As you should I'm before bed
He'll go downstairs in the basement with his yoga mat and he's like I'm gonna go stretch for 10 minutes
And he'll stretch before he goes to bed
He's gonna outlive you. Oh my god for sure
For sure. He's gonna look at my book of secrets
See what I wrote down and like the number one thing is going to be like guys. It's probably not Andrew, but
It could be
And then he's gonna stretch
I don't know what you said before is like why is this what did you say? Why is this trending or?
Yeah, I feel like it shouldn't be trending because these are known things that have been
Happening for since the beginning of time like these are the but I think it's an aspect of mental health
Which is trending which is trending. Yes since 2020
I think it's a good thing to know that you're not going to be able to stretch your body
Which is trending which is trending. Yes since 2020
20 years ago in 2020 because that's how long it's been since oh my god
But I think that's trending and I think to slow down
and do the opposite of what
We do every single day
Is beneficial? Yes for the body, but it's really beneficial for the mind
And I think that's what's trending right? I don't necessarily think they're like oh good idea stretch. Yeah, this is new
Right, which is why you're not doing it
No, but I do yoga and that is newer for me since the pandemic
Definitely and the oldest and first form of exercise in the world
Truly yeah, all right. You want to hear how I feel?
We sure do
Hold on. Let me pop my collar
Let me get on my soapbox. Yeah, just got really cold in here. Yeah, it did. Oh, it went down to 63
It's about to get icy with what I'm about to say. Oh, no
All right, here's how I feel about this whole episode in general
Even though I picked it
And this is my idea true true. I don't like it
I don't like it. Why I don't think fitness should be trendy
I think you need to eat well drink water and move your body. I don't feel that anybody needs the most expensive equipment
or the latest contraption or the
computer-generated personal trainer or
the hottest fitness class like I feel like
We say it all the time the go back to the basics like there shouldn't be a trending
Popularity contest in fitness. You should just go outside and get your body moving and eat well and drink water
Which is interesting coming from a person who owns a boutique fitness studio, but that's how I feel
Oh, are you coming at me? I can't tell no
No
because
in owning something
That is in such a fast-paced and constantly changing industry
You would think you want trending because you want to be the next trend and you want to continue the trend and you want it to constantly be popular
Right when in all reality
It's just do what you like
Every day right like just find something that you like and then continue to keep doing that until you
die
Until you die
I was gonna say until you don't like it anymore, but no no until forever
You know you just find what you like and keep doing it and you'll be healthy
You'll mentally feel good and then you'll physically feel good. I mean, it's it's not rocket science
I mean we do all the research. We see all the popular things and you know in december
I go oh victoria. We need to do this. We need to do this. We need to add this
We need to add this and she goes no no no this doesn't work
No because we've done all that before we've tried to and I love saying no to you
She does and in the text form when it's just right down the list. No no no
um
And those things are fleeting
Those trends and those popular things that I keep trying to add because everybody else is doing it and that's just it doesn't work because
That's what happens. We've done that and now we're a storage unit for it
Because they asked for step classes. We got a bunch of steps. We did steps that was trending and popular for an entire year more than a year
Oh, yeah, we did in like 2017 to 2020 very long time
Yeah, and then we did kettlebells because they asked for kettlebells and at the time we didn't have weights in classes
So like that was really big. We still have a lot of kettlebells. We still use them
But we have them and then that class started to die off because they wanted to do something different
And then we got trampolines because that was trending and we still have them and I love them
We love moving them for all of our kid parties
It's a really fun workout
But that's what that's exactly what I mean the trending things are popular at the moment
But what has kept us open for 14 years coming up on 14 years this month
Is the old staple of dance fitness because it's fun because it gets your heart rate up and yes
In the past 10 years, we've added a lot of strengthening and weight training and that's popular because it's always been popular
So right we go back to the basics
cardio and weights
And we add in yoga and pilates and stretch and like that's all you need so
my problem with this episode that I picked is
Stay away from trends
Do what you like do what makes you happy. Hey if dance fitness isn't what you like. Don't do it
Don't do it. Don't do it because she'll just get really mad that you're standing there looking miserable anyway
So it's a it's a lose lose for everybody. I will come for you in class in remind
But that's what we like. That's what we got into
Thank god so many other people like it too
Well to to pat our own selves and to tutor our own horn
It's because of us. Yeah
Like we know that we know what we put out there is exactly what we want to put out there and it's who we are
and that's a lot I I do
We hear it all the time
It's why people come back because there's a bunch of dance fitness places all over the place and small studios
And really small studios it depends on who's there
It's that human connection that a lot of these trends just don't have
And that's why they don't I think that's where the trend comes because they die
Right the trend is the ebb and flow and like we've been ebbing and we're still going right because
of who
Who's a part of our community who we've
What we've created and the other teachers we have yes
we attract
Our teachers are very like-minded to us how we like to
Put our motto and our community out there and our teachers are the same way
And I think that's why it always works because we're very much like the same type of person, but
I just
I'm going to be confident because that was my new year's resolution intention thing. Oh my god. No
No
And say
Do what you like not what's popular. I think my mom said that to me nine million times growing up and it
Applies to this and everything do what you like
Not what's popular
Put it on a shirt
Fit to be real listen to what you like not what's popular fit to be real
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't need the bmi socks you don't need
All that fancy stuff to tell you that you're alive and moving like just
Just go out and take a walk
To see fit and then take our class and then walk home and then walk. It's a it's a long day
But you'll be happy about it
I I get it. I totally get what you're saying
And I actually agree with you what?
What I'll do you articulated a grain
But I never said that was my new year's resolution intention this year
I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this microphone at your head because I'm making fun of you because you don't like the word resolution
You like intention because that means something's wrong
That means you're trying to change
Something that didn't work for you or a part of you that you don't like a resolution to resolve a part of you that that failed
Right. Well, that's cool because I didn't make any this year
You don't make any any no, I did last year. I wanted to save $20,000
Yes, and you wrote it down and then did nothing about it. I thought if you wrote it down it would just happen
Like I would be manifesting
Don't say manifest
I didn't have to manifest you did that's weird and it's not manifest. It's blasphemous
manifest
You sound stupid
Manifest in mani yank at the Grammys
Well didn't work
I manifested manifest manifested it didn't work didn't get the 20,000
We call it 20,000
We're on a first name basis 20,000
Uh, didn't happen. So I just decided to give up and not do any resolutions this year and just see what happens
Just see what happens. Cool. That's really cool because that's the opposite of the entire episode we did last year
And you know what people change things change. Um, and you should let them yes and and how dare you
Because you haven't opened the book
Let them take their time
Let them do it on their own time
Let me I regret so much
So much god, I'm crying
I need tissues
They're right there and they're out of reach and I refuse to hand one to you. Let me so
Fitness trends of 2025 or not. I think that's the new title
Or don't here. Hey listen, you might like these and you might try them and that's totally cool
That's what makes the world go around and all the gyms stay open and there's enough space in this world for all the gyms. So
Pick it pick a gym and go
You were doing really well do it for too long. I don't know when to stop you mom. We know that we know that
You were doing really well. I know
Oh, my new that's my resolution intention. I'm gonna know when to stop this year. Less is more in 2025
I gotta find something that rhymes you have to find anything and stick to it anything
I'm gonna thrive in 2025. I hate the word thrive. That's a trendy word. I absolutely hate you a lot of hate in you
No, I don't every week you find something new that you hate. No, I don't hate it. I don't like trends
Trigger words. I hate that
Human I I don't I like humans. I don't like when people call me a human. You're a human. Okay
moist
Nobody likes that
I'm gonna find a motto for 2025 that rhymes because I think that's the most important part
We're gonna work we have a lot to work on
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