Can't Be Broken
Can't Be Broken
Angie Quintero's Journey to Self-Love Through Strength Training
What happens when someone who "hated PE" transforms into a passionate fitness enthusiast? Angie Quintero, a recent Cal Berkeley graduate with a sociology degree, joins host C-Monster to share her remarkable journey from disordered eating to strength training advocate.
Angie candidly reveals how body changes during high school led her down a path of excessive cardio and calorie restriction—an approach she now recognizes was based on misinformation and fear. The turning point came when her parents connected her with strength training, helping her discover that proper nutrition wasn't the enemy but the essential fuel for building the body and life she wanted.
The conversation dives deep into practical strategies for maintaining fitness while navigating college life, from morning workout routines to meal prepping. Angie shares wisdom beyond her years about overcoming gym intimidation as a woman, creating sustainable fitness habits, and setting realistic goals instead of falling into the "all or nothing" mindset that derails so many fitness journeys.
Most powerfully, Angie articulates how strength training became much more than physical transformation—it became a philosophy for approaching life's challenges: "The discipline aspects and hard-working aspects that come from the gym bleed into other parts of your life." Her perspective on fitness as "the highest form of self-love" rather than punishment offers a refreshing counterpoint to toxic fitness culture.
Whether you're just beginning your fitness journey or looking to deepen your relationship with wellness, Angie's insights provide both practical wisdom and inspiring motivation. Her parting message resonates deeply: the mountains we face aren't obstacles but opportunities to discover the strength we never knew we possessed.
what up, what up, what up, and welcome to another episode of the can be Be Broken podcast. I am your host, seamonster, and today I have a young special lady, family friend, it's family and I'm so glad that I have her here. She's a very busy young lady who just graduated from Cal Berkeley with a degree in sociology and a minor in child development. She's a fitness enthusiast and her transformation is unreal and I just can't wait for this episode to air and her share her experiences of what it is to actually what caused her to embrace the fitness and wellness industry and journey, and also being a student the first year going there and how hard it is to balance everything. But welcome to the show, my good friend, angie Quintero.
Speaker 2:Hello, I'm so excited to be on yeah yeah, I'm excited to have you.
Speaker 1:I mean, I know, man, your family's amazing, your brother brother plays college baseball. Amazing, he's been coming to me since he was like 12. Then you started coming and embraced the journey a little bit, and then you took it upon yourself to just do your own thing. So I've seen you grow up into a young, beautiful lady. Your family's amazing, like I said, and so is James. Shout out to James Quintero.
Speaker 2:Shout out to James. Misso, shout out to James. Missed that dude and I'll probably miss him the whole year, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's going to be gone doing his thing summer ball but you'll be back, yeah, so I get one of the Quinteros back. Yeah, well, welcome to the show. Tell everybody a little bit of your journey, of where you grew up, where you went to high school, a little bit of college, and then we'll get into some questions about your fitness journey and some stuff about being a college student.
Speaker 2:So I was born and raised in Los Angeles, california. I have one brother, my little brother, james, and then just my parents and I, and we've lived in the same house my whole life. I went to middle and elementary school like right next to where you live actually is it like heart?
Speaker 1:is that? No, you didn't go there our lady of lords oh, right, here, that's right.
Speaker 2:So it's like right down the street, yeah, and I spent like 10 years there, so my whole childhood and then I went to high school at bishop alimani alimani and then I went to berkeley and I just graduated in winter.
Speaker 1:You graduated early too, yeah.
Speaker 2:I graduated a semester early, but I'm still living up in Berkeley for the next few weeks and then I'm going to move back.
Speaker 1:What a journey. And then you played sports.
Speaker 2:I played a couple of different sports. I played softball, I played volleyball and then in high school I did the dance team and I did a little bit of cheer too when I was younger and like dance, just kind of everything I kind of tried everything out. Nothing really like stuck for me yeah I played softball for like nine years and my dad and everyone really wanted me to continue playing, but I just love it yeah so, and it's funny because growing up I hated PE Like I hated running.
Speaker 2:I hated kind of exercise in general, like I didn't really like it. So, it's so interesting that now it's like my favorite thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's funny how sometimes you grow up liking, let's just say, a certain food runny eggs or something I don't know. That's what I used to like.
Speaker 2:And I hate them now.
Speaker 1:Now I can't have it, you know, or like what you said. You know you, man, sports, here, pe sucks. And now you're like this big fitness enthusiast, living a healthy lifestyle, like embracing that journey and and opening up a second account to say, hey, follow me on this journey rather than just my personal journey, um. So let's talk about that a little bit. Let's talk about not growing up, loving being a PE and doing all that. What was the transformation? Where did you feel? What age were you that you said? Let me embrace this a little bit more, let me go further and explore what this can do for me and what was your journey like?
Speaker 2:I think it kind of started in high school when I kind of like saw my body change a lot and I was kind of gaining weight that I wasn't used to.
Speaker 2:It was like kind of going from like my child body to like my woman adult body and you kind of start gaining weight and no one really warns you and you think it's like bad when it's really not because you're just like maturing and getting older, and I felt like this loss of control kind of, where I felt like, oh, I should be paying attention to what I eat more, maybe start working out, doing cardio, all this stuff. But I feel like I went into it kind of with the wrong mindset, with no knowledge and a lot of people do, where they think the way to lose weight is to not eat and do excessive cardio.
Speaker 2:And so I kind of was doing that for a while and eat and do excessive cardio. And so I kind of was doing that for a while and I kind of turned into like a disordered eating thing that I had going on and I just didn't really. I, looking back, I just didn't have the knowledge that I needed and I thought that was going to be the answer and it wasn't, and so I think that's really what catapulted me into like my fitness journey because I started going to my mom's gym and doing cardio for like an hour every day and kind of becoming obsessed with what I was eating.
Speaker 2:Um, but I really wasn't eating enough food. I wasn't feeling my body and I had like no muscle at this point. And I think my parents sort of noticed this and they were also at that time sending James to work out with you and I think they realized that like I wasn't really eating a lot of food. It was it was during COVID too. So I think there really eating a lot of food, it was it was during COVID too. So I think there was just a lot of stuff going on during that time and they decided to send me to you and they thought maybe that working out would kind of help me build up an appetite and like kind of make me start eating more, because I really wasn't eating a lot at that point. And it worked because obviously if I was doing like these strenuous workouts twice a week, my appetite was increasing.
Speaker 2:But also I started to realize that I really liked working out and I really liked how my body was changing from working out and then I sort of learned about, you know, high protein foods, whole foods and just like how, if you have the right diet, you can still eat a lot throughout the day, but you're not overeating, really like you're eating the right amount. You can still eat a lot throughout the day, but you're not overeating, really like you're eating the right amount for your body and yeah it just kind of turned into this like honestly obsession.
Speaker 2:I just like started loving working out and like really coming to you and learning the basics of working out and building that foundation is kind of what brought me into my fitness journey.
Speaker 1:But I would say it really did stem from having some eating issues as like a young teenager and kind of wanting to have control over my body yeah, I think I think you're 100% right that a lot of people um want to get healthier, change their body or feel a certain way and they're misinformed, uh, specifically on the yeah, and they feel like eating less and eating less calories and doing cardio is going to be the X factor and it's not. It's eating high protein, it's eating the correct foods at the right time, the good portions, and it's doing some strength work and core work and some cardio. And it just depends where you want to go in that fitness journey. You know, if you want to be a marathoner, it's a different thing than if you want to be, uh, um, in the physique industry or if you want to bulk up and, and you know, be a weightlifter or something. So everybody has their own journey, especially, uh, specifically also, athletes. You know baseball players and basketball players and football players they have their own journey. Yeah, it's going to be different and the calorie intake and proteins are going to be different from male to female and body weight and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:And it gets less talked about.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say gotten away, because I still have clients that are not athletes, specifically in college or high school or something, but I think one of the things that they don't do enough or I used to and I do is we don't talk about food enough, and if we do, it's like they put it in the back end. Everything's about working out. I'm going to work out, I'm going to burn calories. Now I can eat more. It's like, yeah, but no. I mean you can, you're supposed to eat, but you're not. That doesn't mean that now you can have that burger or the bad food, so that's good. I mean and I think at your age as well, in 2020 was a weird year, but I think that that's a big thing. I have a daughter, obviously, who's at Arizona State, and her first year is like you start going into feeling a certain way because your body changes, especially women and females that got a lot of things going on in their body, and so I'm sure it was a mental thing and things that you were going through emotionally.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then. So, if you're going through those emotional things, what do you suggest or what do you think was the catapult to change that? Was it like you started working out and then that changed? Or do you think you invested in yourself first, mentally, and kind of got prepared, or you were just done with it and said I don't care, I'm done feeling this way. I got to do something different.
Speaker 2:I think it was kind of a combination, but also having the support from my parents to be like no, you need to eat more. You're not feeling your body properly and also knowing that long term, not eating enough is gonna like ruin my metabolism and then knowing that if I had like one cheat meal, I would like get so bloated and gain weight.
Speaker 2:And I just didn't like that, yeah, and I also just felt like I was like what's it called skinny fat, like I had no muscle whatsoever, like I was skinny but it was like I had no muscle whatsoever, like I was skinny, but it was like I had no muscle and so once I started building that muscle and I could tell just right away with like my appetite and like my physique, I was like, oh, like this is it for me.
Speaker 2:I'm just gonna keep going in this direction because, it allows me to eat what I want and eat enough food where I don't feel like fatigued the whole day or starved the whole day. But also I'm seeing, like these amazing results in my body and how I feel and in my health, that it's like it's just a win-win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and and you know what, um, I don't, I don't remember back when you first started here. I mean, I do, but I don't remember, like some of the workouts that we had.
Speaker 1:I know we're hard yeah and so I think I'm not sure you told me, but the ones that were hard in your mind, what were you thinking at that time? You're like, okay, I gotta get through it. Or you're like this sucks. And now I'm I'm assuming it's different like you go probably work on. You're like, if it, if it's not hard you feel like you got yeah, yeah like if it's not hard.
Speaker 2:You're like I feel cheated yeah, I didn't get a great workout in, you know, yeah, so it's funny because my brother and I were talking about how like you know how they say when you're a kid, like your parents, voice becomes your conscious and it becomes like your inner brain thoughts.
Speaker 2:I feel like when we work out we have like your voice in the back of our brain, like you're like our conscious when we work out like telling us, like thank you, like the no excuses mindset like what's hard for you is actually probably what's going to benefit you the most, and I learned that really quickly from coming to you that like the hardest workouts are like gonna give you the best results and that's what's gonna ultimately like. When you feel weak, you're really just getting stronger. And so I feel like now like I like to do the challenging workouts in the gym, even if they really really hurt. That I know like oh well, then something must be working.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, the transformation is unreal. I mean, I'll post up later when we do some stuff, probably where you were getting in shape but you had less muscle.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now the transformation is like you look. I wouldn't say you didn't look, look healthy, but you look super, like you're in the right stage, you know you're powerful, you're strong, you're healthy, you're lean, you look great and the energy is amazing.
Speaker 2:So, um, and that's the other thing I think it also goes back to what you said about food is like realizing that that's like not. That's just as important as the working out, if not more important because, if you, I feel like I was doing the same amount of, like I'm lifting the same amount. I'm doing the same workouts, but I'm just really locked into my diet right now and it makes all the difference and people don't talk about that a lot, like you said earlier.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we talk about it. You know what, though? It seems like it just goes oh okay, cool, I got to get that. And then the discipline is the hard part of that. Right, because you can show up and get workouts and pay a trainer and get a membership. But then you go home you're like I just killed myself. Okay, I can have that. It's like no, you can't. You're not being consistent with it, because consistency is the key. And that's leading into the next question, which is like what does your daily routine look like? What does it look like when it's at school? Like, how do you stay fit and healthy, you know, amongst other people that are partying and drinking? I'm sure you do your share of that stuff too but like, how do you maintain that in school and then come home and maintain that here, and what does that daily routine look like?
Speaker 2:So there was a time I'm not a student anymore right now, but when I was a student that I was taking classes, working part time, trying to maintain a social life and still go to the gym, and it was really challenging.
Speaker 2:But I feel like it all came down to just having like a solid schedule and plan and using like google calendar and planning out my day and my weeks ahead of time so that I knew, like at the beginning of the week, I'm gonna take these two hours every morning of this week and I'm gonna work out and I'm gonna go to the gym, even if it means waking up at 6 am, 5 am, like I'm gonna make sure that I get my workout in before my class.
Speaker 2:Um, and honestly, it came down to just knowing that if I didn't get my workout in, I wasn't going to feel good that day, like I was going to not have the benefits of having that workout in the morning. So I really did prioritize that. And then when I'm at school or when I'm working, I kind of do like to keep my weekends as my rest days, rest and recovery days. I still give myself the option if I want to take a workout class, if I want to go to the gym and do some cardio, like that option is there. But because that's more of like my open days, I like to use that as my designated rest days.
Speaker 2:So I would usually make my split during the week, like four or five days of lifting during the week, which can be like a little bit much because it's like back to back lifting. But it's worked for me and I'm sure when I move back home or when I have a more open schedule it won't be that way and I'll spread out the lifting more. But I just kind of have like a set routine and I go to the gym. I've always gone to the gym in the morning. I've found that for me I have the most energy in the morning and I'd rather wake up at like the butt crack of dawn than go to the gym when it's busy at night, like for me.
Speaker 2:I just I know, that about myself and sure it happens every now and then, but I try to avoid it for the most part because I, like, prefer to go to the gym in the morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and then how did you, when you went off to school and you're on your own over there? Did you meal prep? Did you just wing it? Did you eat a lot at home? Did you buy stuff? Did you use meal planning companies or whatnot? How does that look for you and what would you suggest for people that are going off and trying to stay?
Speaker 2:healthy. I would say, yeah, I definitely meal prep most of my meals and I don't eat out a lot, but that's also just because it's expensive as a student to eat out often and the options aren't always super healthy. Of course, I eat out every once in a while especially when I come back home and I miss you know In-N-Out and Chick-fil-A.
Speaker 2:But when I'm at school I really don't eat out a lot and I try to. I go grocery shopping one to two times a week to make sure I have a lot of fresh produce and I'm always stocked up. And lately, since I've been working, I meal prep on Sunday. Sunday is the day that I meal prep and I'll make all of my breakfast, my lunches and my dinners sort of for the week so that I'm prepared and I don't really have any excuses to not eat what I, what I made.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause if you kind of make it and you're like it's Thursday and I made it, I better eat it, cause if not, it's kind of a waste too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because you're like oh well, now I have to eat it. I don't really have a choice.
Speaker 1:My daughter ended up going to Arizona State and her first year she gained a little weight. I think my wife calls it the freshman 15.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know and I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's so true, though I never heard about that.
Speaker 1:It's so true about that I played baseball, and I was always kind of just working out Right, um, but what would be your suggestion there? Well, first of all, did that happen to you?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, oh, 100%, probably like the freshman 20, freshman 20. I gained a lot of weight in my freshman year. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you were still like like during that time right before the gym. Yeah, but you gained it just based on experiences and probably not staying committed and consistent. So what would you recommend, obviously for somebody going off to college the next year or this year, to try to make sure that that doesn't happen, or how to better prepare for it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, definitely stay consistent with the gym and cardio, especially if you know at that time you're going to be eating at the dining hall a lot. Yeah, I think I gained a lot of that weight from the dining hall honestly and drinking, probably because I still went to the gym. I just was not locked into my diet. And once I got an apartment and I could cook my meals, I lost it all really fast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what Tatiana had, it's okay. It's okay, that's what Tatiana had. Um, as well, we paid for meals. Um, she would get it two times and she just felt like it wasn't healthy, you know. And now she's in an apartment with a roommate and she does the same thing every week or whatever. She goes and trader joe's or whatever, and meal preps and cooks her food and she's eating at home and you can see the difference. Not only can you see the difference physically with her, but you can see the energy, you can see the investment, the energy in her and how she acts. It's totally different. I just think that some people don't give it enough time to see that difference, you know. So let me ask another question Do you track your calories macros? Do you use an app, or you just kind of know now, or did you do that at the beginning? How does that look like? How did it look like then? How does it look like now, and what do you suggest for people to do?
Speaker 2:I think for me I've learned that I've never tracked my calories or my macros just because, with my past of disordered eating and being restrictive, I know that if I did that it might kind of cause me to fall into old habits where I get a little bit like obsessive and controlling over my food and that's just not something that I would want to risk right now.
Speaker 2:I know that tracking I mean it's science like it would probably help me so much and bring me better results like it would anyone I think so. But I kind of have it down to like I kind of can roughly estimate how much protein is in my meals and how much protein I eat, and what I do is I just aim for 20 ish to 30 grams of protein per meal. I'm saying most meals I eat don't have less than 20. Like hardly ever when I eat a meal is it going to have less than 20 grams of protein. So if I eat about four meals a day, I'm hitting my goal of like a hundred to 130 grams of protein and that's that's what works for me.
Speaker 2:But I think if you're first starting out and you're trying to learn about food and macros and like what foods are high in calories, high in in protein, it's actually a really useful tool because you learn and then it becomes kind of like second nature, yeah, where you can look at something and say, oh, like there's about this many calories, this much protein, and I feel like I'm. That's kind of where I'm at right now. Um, it would obviously be helpful to track. Like I'm not saying that I'm above tracking or anything because, that's science like you can't beat that.
Speaker 2:But I think I've kind of got it down to something that works for me for now and if I really wanted to cut up fast or like gain more muscle, I would probably look into that.
Speaker 1:But right now I just try to like eat really lean proteins, mostly whole foods and, like I said, just four meals a day, high protein, and I'm usually like pretty good with that yeah, I mean, I have clients and I say look, the best way that I think is going to work is keep it simple, because if you over complicate stuff, you know you're tracking and, oh my god, I miss, and you get obsessed. Then you're like oh I messed up, I didn't know how many calories. Forget it, I'm just gonna eat whatever.
Speaker 1:Now yeah because I messed up and uh, it gets complicated, you know, and, and the best thing is what's going to work for you. I think one of the things that I did or I do with clients is, the first week I track what they're eating, like, don't change, we're going to train you. I want to see when you're eating, what you're eating, how much you're eating, what you're drinking and all that stuff. And then we're going to adjust that, like, you need to give up Coke, you need to eat this amount. You're not eating enough or you can't have that.
Speaker 1:You can't have these fats later on in the day and stuff, and so then we tweak that and then, like you said, education is good and then once they get in a routine of learning what's good for them and there's change, then you can kind of go away from that, unless you really wanted to compete and do something different with your body, but once you're there you just keep it simple because then it gets too much, you know, and then you quit.
Speaker 2:I remember you gave James like a list of foods to like cut out and what foods to kind of focus on eating, and I remember I was looking at that. But even like when you first start looking at something like that online, like what are some high protein foods and also finding foods that you like, I feel like people say like you don't have to eat chicken and rice every day, like if you don't like chicken, like you don't even have to eat chicken.
Speaker 2:Like there's so many other alternatives and there's times where I get really sick of foods and I just won't buy them. Like I ate so much chicken last year, so much that I like, for like six months I didn't buy chicken. And I was just eating like salmon and ground beef and like ground turkey and that's it has the same amount of protein, maybe chicken's a little more lean.
Speaker 2:But you know what's important is to eat something that you're going to want to eat and you're not going to get tired of because you're not going to stick to it if you're forcing yourself to eat chicken every single day.
Speaker 2:So finding like those high protein foods that you like, like you could eat them three times a day, like no one's saying you can't do that, like I eat so much cottage cheese and so much turkey bacon and there's so many other proteins out there, but that's my favorite forms of protein, so I stick to those yeah, I mean, uh, and if you don't know or don't have time, because everybody will make an excuse for something.
Speaker 1:And some of them are legit, some of them are like I don't know how to cook and I've never cooked in my life and I guess I can go and learn, but it's easier if I just buy the meal prep stuff.
Speaker 2:Great, go do that. Yeah, then do that, and then figure it out from there.
Speaker 1:Figure out what works for you and then slowly start learning it while you're doing. That, you know, and that kind of keeps it easy because they give you the, the um, the protein intake, the carbs and your fats and everything, so it calms. You know what you're getting in, um, and they have breakfast stuff and and snacks and everything. So there's those. There's always an option, you know. So those people that make excuse I can't get to the gym shit, wake up at three in the morning like you have before you know, I know yeah, there's excuses for everything.
Speaker 1:Oh, the gym is always too packed, there's no parking. Well, get there fucking earlier.
Speaker 2:Or get a different gym membership, or get a different gym membership Go drive further or run to it. You know, I don't know Like you have, to want it, Like your brain is going to make excuses, because that's just how our body is wired. Yeah, all these excuses. But if you start telling yourself, no, I can do it, then the answer is going to be right in front of you.
Speaker 1:You don't listen to it. There's a word that I always say is us humans are hedonistic, and hedonistic is we always want happiness and to be happy. That's what our mind wants is pleasure, to be pleasure, and I'm sorry, but life is hard and it's about making committed and disciplined decisions and and consistent to to change and do whatever you want to do, and that's the hard part, actually, right. So leading into the next question would be like what, what, uh? What is your factor like? What drives you to show up every time, what drives you to stay healthy, to stay disciplined and to show up to the gym all the time? What's your why?
Speaker 2:I think I would say my why is just knowing that this is the highest form of self-love and self-care and self-discipline that I could do for myself is take two hours out of my day just to completely dedicate it to myself. And knowing that, like everyone, we all spend so much time on other people at our jobs or at school, or on our friendships or on our relationships or on our family, which is like an expectation, like we're supposed to do that but there's so little time that we spend completely dedicated to ourselves and giving back to ourselves and I think that's super important because you can be a great student, but if you can't spend an hour just committed to yourself, I feel like I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's not as impressive, in my opinion, because you only have one body for the rest of your life and if you can't give yourself that time of day for your health, for your future, for your mind, for your body, it's just like what are you doing? You've got to give yourself some time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's almost. Sometimes the stigma is that working out and eating correctly is a punishment. Right, exactly that's the stigma. Is that, um, working out and eating correctly is a punishment? No, right, exactly that's the stigma, though you know like, yeah, I gotta go work out. God, I hate it. It's like, no, exactly what you just said. That's self-love, right, you are the host of all everything that's going on your body. You got one, that's it, and that's an investment in you.
Speaker 2:The biggest investment you can make, the best investment you can make, yourself and your health. Yeah, and that's an investment in you, the biggest investment you can make, the best investment you can make in yourself and your health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's exactly how people should feel, but people feel like I've got to go to the gym.
Speaker 2:No, you get to go to the gym. You get to go. Yeah, your body is able to move. You have these blessings.
Speaker 1:You're able to go to the gym and move your body.
Speaker 2:Some people can't.
Speaker 1:Some people can't and and uh, and that's the number one thing is to invest in yourself and um, it's not only investing in your. You know. People say well, who cares how I look? It's not about how you look, it's how you feel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and what it does to you and your in your mental aspect that's the other thing I was gonna say is like days that I don't work out, or like when I take a rest day. I feel like I can feel it, like I notice that I don't feel the same. I feel more irritated, I feel like I can't focus as well and even like other people will notice, like my mom or like my friends- they're like go to the gym. Yeah, they're like I can tell some things off.
Speaker 2:Maybe you need to go to the gym and it's so true because I feel like first thing in the morning, like doing something mentally taxing or physically taxing is going to set your day up so much different than if you don't. Because you feel like, oh, I already achieved this super hard thing in the morning. The rest of the day is light work compared to the grueling workout you did in the morning. Or just like achieving something Like it bleeds out into everything else in your life, into every other aspect, Like you can be disciplined with the gym, you can be disciplined with everything else with work, your relationships and it just kind of sets the tone for my day and it puts me in a really good headspace that I feel like if I don't go, I'm not getting that same start to my day.
Speaker 2:That makes me feel so good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you mentioned two things One that we were talking about earlier, which was obsession, and an obsession could be a good or bad thing, right? But I think you're using the obsession in a very positive way because, I mean, I was obsessed with baseball and it cost me to be, you know, to obviously get a scholarship to play D1 baseball and whatnot. I'm obsessed with golf right now, so I'm getting better, by the way, but you're obsessed with, you know, if we really break it down, you're obsessed with an investment in yourself. You know of, like, how you feel yeah, because you don't like feeling this other way.
Speaker 1:So you know that working out has these endorphins that come out that make you feel so good and so you're obsessed with that, which is not a bad thing. It's better than being obsessed with alcohol or something else. And then you mentioned discipline right now, and what do you think people can do to create more discipline or stay committed, because people will start something right, especially on like New Year, right, new Year resolutions and stuff. But what advice would you give to, say, people that start and then quit? How do they keep going?
Speaker 2:I think I was talking to my mom about this the other day Is making it easy for yourself, because I think that's the number one tip I would give is to like set yourself up for success and make it easy. So what I do every day is I set out my clothes for the night before, for the gym for the next day and I meal prep everything and I set up my gym bag down to like my water bottle being filled up so that when I wake up I don't really have to do much except change and get myself to the gym before I can even like fully wake up and like know what's going on.
Speaker 2:I'm like on my way to the gym, kind of, and I think doing that makes it a lot easier, and like it goes for other things too. Like if your gym is super far, then get a closer gym membership, get a membership at a gym you like, like do the things that are going to make it more attainable and easier for yourself. Um, and then get into a little routine and it'll just kind of flow from there. But I think, yeah, like set yourself up for success and also don't set these crazy, like don't go all or nothing with your goals.
Speaker 2:Don't set crazy goals for yourself right off the bat because it's just going to be a lot easier. I feel like to give up if you think what you're trying to achieve is not attainable. So like, for example, um about having like the all or nothing mindset. I really one of my goals this year was to start um, to stop neglecting my core, so to start hitting abs more often and it could have been.
Speaker 2:I could have been like, oh, like, I'm going to start hitting abs every single day after my lift, and that would have been so daunting and like way, like just something that I would probably not stick to because it's it's going from zero to 100 right away.
Speaker 2:But instead I told myself, okay, two times a week I'm gonna hit abs. I didn't say what, how I'm gonna hit abs or what I'm gonna do, just like, two times a week I'm gonna dedicate to hitting abs at the end of my workout. And I was able to stick to that because it was so low leverage. And now, if I have the time, I'll do three or four times a week, but if I only can hit it twice a week, I hit my goal. So I'm satisfied. Yeah, and I think that's a really good way to start with. A goal is that if you think you can only get to the gym once or twice a week, then do that for a little while until you can build up the stamina to go more times, because I feel like for most people, going all in is just not going to work long term.
Speaker 1:Yeah, going from zero to all in and all of a sudden you're like.
Speaker 2:I'm tired.
Speaker 1:I don't feel like what I thought I was going to feel. And then you just give up and I feel like that's how I started working out with you. I only came to you like twice a week and I didn't really probably once once, yeah, like once or twice a week With your brother, I think one time, and then.
Speaker 2:And then you added so I didn't even come to you that often. I saw changes coming once a week, so I think you have to now I work out what like every single day six times a week. I don't see you post up, so I so, yeah, I think you have to start off kind of slow and like baby steps. Yeah, Like my mom too just started, she's starting to go walk on the treadmill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good.
Speaker 2:And she was like I'm just going to start off with a goal four times a week, and some weeks she'll be like oh, I just did it today because I wanted to, but if she had a busy weekend she could only do four.
Speaker 1:Like she felt like proud of herself for hitting her goal. So it's like it kind of it's the same thing. Yeah, look at that. Now you're over there giving them advice hey, look, come over here. Let me tell you how I did it. Now we got to get bionic man on the bionic man over there. Uh, mr, mr, uh, george cantero.
Speaker 1:Oh, my dad I know um no, that's really great advice. I think that's what I do as well. If I know I'm going on a run the next day or going to the gym or doing whatever I'm doing, I have my stuff ready the night before what I'm going to wear, what I'm going to hydrate with, what I'm going to eat if it's a long run, or what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:And it tricks your brain into being kind of excited, I think.
Speaker 1:Excited accountable. It's there and just imagine like you wake up and you're like I'm not going and you have all that stuff there it's like embarrassing.
Speaker 2:It's embarrassing yeah.
Speaker 1:Like you almost feel ashamed with the stuff that you just did to yourself and you're like no, I gotta go, I'm going, you know, and you just go Because it's like if you don't have all that, stuff set up and you wake up and you're tired, you're like, eh, it's fine, I just won't go.
Speaker 2:But if you wake up and all your stuff is there, it's kind of like a reminder. You're like nope, you planned to do this.
Speaker 1:so get your ass up and one little thing you can make an excuse to. If you don't, I don't even look good in this shirt. I'm not gonna go. You know what? You drop your water bottle and spills that you because you're trying to get some water in your water bottle or a drink. Yeah, see, it doesn't want me to go. I'm going back to bed.
Speaker 1:You know you get frustrated now, but when it's ready, you're ready to roll like you said you don't even know what you're doing until you get to the gym yeah, I'm here, but I'm on the way to the gym, so uh, speaking of the gym, it could be pretty intimidating for women. Yeah, right, because it is. One, if you don't know the machines or what to do, it could be intimidating. But two, it's a bunch of dudes out there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, you don't know what. You're getting crazy. There's some young dudes that are hitting it, as well as females, but let's just talk about dudes. There's some testosterone dudes out there, and then there's some creepy dudes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, like waiting for a female to squat and see what the hell. Or go talk to them, talk to women and then you feel like, oh, are they looking? Am I doing the machine right? Am I doing this form right? You got people that want to give you advice. I mean, there's so many and there's people doing martial arts there.
Speaker 2:I don't know what the hell they do Like screaming, hitting the bag. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:I've seen some stuff. I don't go to the gym. I try to get out of here a couple times, but really I have, or what. Well, let's talk about what advice would you give a young lady, um, or anyone a female, of how to get over that, what to do, and then we'll go into also. You can elaborate on like things to look for. You know, yeah, and like creepiness, shit and and and whatnot, because that could be super intimidating. That's why probably some people don't go and I know that's why I've gotten clients that are females.
Speaker 2:They're like I don't like the gym, I'm coming to you yeah, I think I mean there's a couple reasons why, as a girl, you would be intimidated to go to the gym, I think. For me, I was personally just like scared of looking stupid, so I just didn't want to like be working out and people looking at me like what is she doing? Or like she doesn't have the form right, which is stupid, because I shouldn't care what people think. But that's just what was stopping me from getting in the weight room and I used to go to the gym and I would stay in the corner or go to the yoga studio and just do my entire workout there so no one could see me.
Speaker 2:And I mean, that's honestly a good start too is just getting to the gym and even if you're in like the corner, like you're getting your workout done, so it works. But it got to a point where I was like lifting heavier and I needed to start getting in the weight room and I was scared because I didn't. I didn't think I had the right tools and I think for that people that are struggling with that, it's get, get a trainer and having a trainer uag fit.
Speaker 1:yeah, u fit specifically. Just kidding.
Speaker 2:Just kidding, no, but it's true, because I feel like coming to you and learning like the basics and building that foundation is what gave me the confidence and made me comfortable enough to get into a gym and start lifting on my own, because you could watch YouTube videos and Instagram videos of people teaching you how to do the exercise. But it's another thing to have someone physically watching you and telling you your form is right or change this, because you don't get that same corrections from just an online video. And so I think once I had you telling me my form was solid and I felt confident and comfortable working out, then I was able to get in the weight room and.
Speaker 2:I was like sure of myself yeah, um also, I think when I started like lifting more and like using barbells and all that stuff I also had, I would go with my friends at um Berkeley, who were more? Um knowledgeable and had more experience in the gym and they would even, like one of my guy friends, taught me so much in the gym and I'm really appreciative, because when you go to the gym with a guy, even if it's just your friend, like other guys, aren't really gonna bother you yeah so that was really nice when I first got into the gym is having friends to go with and then um kind of planning ahead what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2:So when I got there I wasn't like looking around like a lost dog, yeah, but um, yeah, I would say um also just knowing that, like in the beginning, like you're gonna mess up, you're gonna look stupid, like it's kind of inevitable with anything. Like you could talk to anybody who's been working out for a while and they'll probably tell you that they cringe looking back at their older self, because it's just like you grow and you evolve and that's just like a part of life.
Speaker 2:So I did some stupid shit in the gym. It happened, but that's just like you grow and you evolve and that's just like a part of life.
Speaker 1:So I did some stupid shit in the gym. It happened, it happens.
Speaker 2:But that's just how you learn and everyone goes through it. So, yeah, I would say, getting trained, maybe even if it's for the first couple of weeks where you need to learn the basics, and then you can just go on your own or just continue to have a trainer. But I think it's really nice to have someone who's kind of has more knowledge and more experience guiding you whether it's going to the gym with you or training you to to feel confident in what you're doing, so that you can kind of eventually learn on your own and then grow on your own.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, no, that's really good advice. I mean having friends that are you know that know a little bit more or the same about in the gym or just being with them kind of keeps the creeps away as well. One and then a guy that you went to the gym with. But yeah, I mean it's intimidating and getting a trainer is important at the beginning. I believe so as well. Whether it be there, sometimes it's good there, sometimes that could be intimidating. You're like look, everybody's watching, they know I don't know shit. That's true. You, that could be intimidating. You're like look, everybody's watching, they know I don't know shit. That's true. You can look for a trainer somewhere else for a little bit and then kind of jump in. But it's also good because they're showing you around the gym and the equipment that's there.
Speaker 2:Because there's so much. When you first get into the gym, there's just all these machines.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all kinds of shit.
Speaker 2:I don't really know what to do the cables like. It takes some time to kind of get familiar with everything it's like a different language, honestly, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then like, okay, you're there, you go by on your own, like what are some of the creepos that you've seen? And like what do you? What do you give advice to like ladies that like, if guys are, you're coming up to them all the time and yeah, um, what do you do? And like what when advice could you give? Like also like, hey, look out for this, or this is what I recommend.
Speaker 2:Well, I used to go to a women's only gym actually that's a good advice right there already.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so look for a women's only gym.
Speaker 2:I'm sure there's a bunch out there, but also I feel like different gyms have different vibes. So the gym that I go to is relatively small and everyone kind of knows each other.
Speaker 2:So, the gym that I go to is relatively small and everyone kind of knows each other and I feel like a lot safer there because even like the staff, like I know the manager, a lot of the workers. So I feel like if I was ever in an uncomfortable situation or position, I could easily just go to one of them or go to someone that I recognize at the gym for help. And at other gyms I feel like it's a little bit different. Like bigger, more commercial gyms I would feel a little bit more intimidated because there's just so many people.
Speaker 2:I feel like a lot of people even go to those gyms to like socialize or pick up on people and I just like, really like my gym because I don't feel I don't really ever feel um that's good that way and um, yeah, I just feel like knowing the staff and a lot of the people that go creates like a comfortability that you wouldn't have at like a really large commercial gym where it's just like people coming in and out all the time. Um, but yeah, I would say like I just I use common sense, like I don't park far away when it's nighttime and I, if I can go with my brother when it's night, I'll go with my brother or my boyfriend, but I'm honestly I haven't had a lot of issues.
Speaker 1:Really, that's good, yeah yeah, no, I think you're 100% right. Common sense, being aware, um. I hear other people say you know, I I don't even listen to music, but I put on headphones so that people don't talk to you, people don't talk to you um and um and you know, to be honest, it it's not a bad place. I've actually for a man and a woman to meet that's how I met my boyfriend.
Speaker 1:There you go right, because it is a. It is a place of where like-minded people are there to invest in themselves right um but you are there to invest in themselves. Right, but you are there to invest in yourself. And sometimes some people like when I work out, I don't want anybody to bother me, like I'm here to hit it, my mindset's focused, I'm ready to rock you know, and then if I'm working out with somebody, my mindset of like a killer, monster attitude changes.
Speaker 1:I'm like, all right, we're going to tone it down because we're here to socialize and and still get a workout. Or if I know that guy's gonna come and work out hard, we're here both on the same mindset anyways. Um, I think I think that's really good advice in regards to getting to know your staff and um feeling comfortable with them if you had a problem to deal with it right there and then, um, but I mean, you don't really hear a lot of uh, horror.
Speaker 1:I think, more than anything, you've said it, it's just getting comfortable.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's more of like you, probably in your own head, yeah, and like keep your head down to like when I'm at the gym.
Speaker 2:I don't look like I want to talk to people. I just I look like I just want to get my workout done and I people will try to talk to me sometimes and I will ignore them, which is like mean, but it's like I just don't want to talk to you, you're a stranger I'm. I'm just trying to get my workout done yeah and I'll just pretend like I didn't hear them. I'll have my headphones and I'll just look down and I'll great pass them, you know.
Speaker 1:And the other aspect, though, from a man's point of view though too, because I've, I've gone, obviously, to the gym, whether it be, a fitness 24 or whatever. Sometimes I just want to ask them how many more sets they have.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, in that case obviously.
Speaker 1:Or like sometimes, like I don't know what have I done, Usually said, hey, how many more sets? Or something like that. Yeah, and I know they have headsets on, but I need to know if.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be able to use them Well in that case, definitely.
Speaker 1:But sometimes I feel like the woman looks at men too. I feel like the women looks at men too, and be like that's his pickup line. It's like how many sets of it? Then he can talk to me. It's like no, I just want to know how many sets you got, you know. And then guys will take it the opposite way too. If a girl comes up how many sets you got, like, oh, she wants to talk to me. It's like no, I mean, they just want to talk to you, you know. Or to a good looking woman or women in general that are investing themselves, but also, um, you know, you're like you said, head down, I'm here to focus and stuff.
Speaker 2:So I mean, like I don't think there was a time where I made so many friends at the gym and that's how I like met my boyfriend and I love like meeting other girls at the gym especially. I think it's really fun and a great way to meet like like-minded individuals, like you were saying, and also like now that I go to the gym at the same time every single day before work, you start to like recognize the people and the regulars and naturally you sort of meet them.
Speaker 1:And you're like hey, like I see you come at this time.
Speaker 2:And it's fun to talk about, like the gym, or like people will ask oh, like, can I ask you why you do this exercise? Or can I ask like like I was doing an exercise the other day and this um guy who works out at the same time at the gym as me at equinox um was like, how do you like doing?
Speaker 2:I was doing reverse barbell lunges and he wasn't even being creepy, he just was doing squats and he wanted to know if I liked doing lunges instead, because it's like a unilateral movement and he's trying to like make sure that his legs have even amount of muscle like he was just trying to get some advice and it wasn't creepy at all and like in that situation, obviously I love to engage with other people and talk about fitness like it's super fun. So it's not always like people that are trying to talk to you or like have the bad intentions.
Speaker 1:A lot of people just love the gym, like you like yeah, I mean, I've had exactly what you were going to bring up, or you brought up. I was going to say it was like I think one time I asked a girl like, oh, I haven't done that like as an ab exercise, how do you like it? And and the girl responded I love it. You know, sometimes they use it with weights or whatnot. But you could also get into the point where it's like yeah, I like it a lot. It's like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm just trying to, you know, figure it out for myself, because I never done that yeah and you're just trying to get some info, like not be a creepo.
Speaker 1:But you know, at the end of the day, especially my personality is I engage with everybody. If a woman or a man or somebody smells good or they look good or they have good energy, I'm going to give them a compliment. And how they take it, whether it be creepy or not, it's up to them at the end of the day. But I know my intentions weren't creepy, you know. Or certain people's intentions are creepy. I've gotten compliments and I'm like, oh, thank you very much, you know, but people are hesitant sometimes to do that based on the fact of the creepo mode or something you know. But, um, just be yourself right, and if you'll get that vibe, whether they are being creepy or not, the guy asked you a question, you answered it cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and now, like we talk every once in a while like, oh hey, good to see you.
Speaker 1:Are his legs looking good? It's just funny because like Is one bigger than the other.
Speaker 2:I know I was telling him to do that, but that exercise is just like it takes a long time because, yeah, you have to do each leg, but, um, it's like when you go to the gym at the same time and you that's another thing that I think keeps me very like um, accountable is when you go to the gym at the same time, you start to see the regulars and the people that come at the same time and it's kind of like a mutual reinforcement.
Speaker 2:When you like see them and you're like, okay, like they're getting here every day at this time, like I can do the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah, or when they tell you I didn't see you yesterday, like shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what am I gonna?
Speaker 1:tell them yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or you show up late and they're like, oh you're not what happened?
Speaker 1:You go out last night.
Speaker 2:But it's fun to like make friends at the gym and make really great friends or partners from the gym.
Speaker 1:Our partners. Yay, obviously you've gone through your own fitness and wellness journey and whatnot. Who are the people in the fitness industry in your age or whatnot, that you look up to, that you follow online, that you really kind of look and go God and that you learn from there? Who are those people that you kind of follow?
Speaker 2:I would say I follow a lot of workout influencers, mainly for recipes or workout ideas, and I look up to them, but I would say that I look up more to people in my actual life that work out. You have set a great example for my brother and I oh, thank you in working out and being consistent and not making excuses.
Speaker 2:I think once you learn I feel like I learned this from you and so did james but once you realize that so much of fitness and your life is mental, it's not physical, it like unlocks a whole new level of everything. And when you realize like, oh, like your, your brain is telling you you can't push through this one last rep, but like you can, like your body can it just like it bleeds into everything in your life and you realize how much our brain wants to make excuses for things and limit us, but like you can really fight back and like push your expectations of yourself. So I really look up to you for that and I'll pay you later for that.
Speaker 2:Give you that money and thank you for reading off the script right there.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding um.
Speaker 2:Thank you definitely you, and I look up to my brother, I look up to my boyfriend honestly anyone in my life who is consistent with the gym I look up to no matter what like stage they're in of their fitness journey.
Speaker 2:It's just like if someone is showing up to the gym every day, like that's a reminder and inspiration to me to keep doing it too, because that's how you make the progress and that's how you learn and keep evolving. After a couple of years of not working out, it's really impressive and inspiring, because that's hard to do, to really realize I haven't worked out in X amount of years and I'm going to do it. It's really hard and it's probably painful too on your body.
Speaker 2:It's harder at an older age and whatnot, and she says you inspire me, but she inspires me because I want to still be active at that age. Oh, my tia, she's a fitness instructor and a trainer.
Speaker 1:Shout out to who she's in her 40s. What's her?
Speaker 2:name April April Gonzalez.
Speaker 1:April Gonzalez Shout out.
Speaker 2:She doesn't have a fitness Instagram right now.
Speaker 1:It's okay, we're going to shout out to her because she's going to listen to this episode, hopefully.
Speaker 2:She trains. So she trains at Fitness 19 in Eagle Rock, I believe.
Speaker 1:Oh OK.
Speaker 2:I don't, I think it's Eagle Rock location, but I look up to her a lot because she's had two kids and she still looks amazing and she's super on her fitness grind. Every time I see her she like somehow looks more rift and like I hope that, like I can always like continue to stay active and even when I have kids and in the future like far future.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I really do want to like always incorporate working out into my lifestyle. So whenever I see like even older people at the gym, I always like like try to compliment them and be like wow, you look amazing, because that's super impressive that's like.
Speaker 1:You know, being old myself, that that means a lot. Actually it does so, like you people out there that just give a compliment to an older person sometimes because it's a battle. It's a battle to get a little older. You guys aren't there, but the body doesn't recover and feel as good as it used to. The energy is not as there as it used to, but the mind still thinks it's young and it's not, you know, but yeah, that's a really good thing. Compliments are great and it's not, you know, but yeah, that's a really good thing. Compliments are great. It makes you feel good. It makes you feel like your work and your journey.
Speaker 1:That you're doing is Is being recognized Is being recognized, you know, and obviously not in a creepy way. But yeah, do all that stuff. That's amazing. Yeah, your parents are amazing. I'm sure you look up both of them obviously.
Speaker 2:They're your staple, your whole family. Yeah, uh, it's a tribe, you know, of a group of people, your friends, my little brother a lot too, just because like, yeah, you guys have a great relationship. Yeah, I love my brother, yeah, but seeing how far he's come like in his fitness journey, like his push-ups, yeah, oh my god, let me get me started on that guy with push-ups but he, he's just come so far too, and he's always like supporting me, and so I I really look up to my little brother too.
Speaker 2:He teaches me a lot in the gym too. He'll always help me correct my form. Call me out if I'm not locked in.
Speaker 1:Lock it in, girl. Now you have your boyfriend who does that. He's into weightlifting. I remember when he came here we broke him down pretty good. It was a good one. He's a good guy and it's a good match, you know, and so that's good, it's funny because we're just like a total gym couple, like the stereotypical.
Speaker 2:Like for my birthday he got me protein powder and knee sleeves for the gym and that's all I could have asked for, yeah, my wife's like what do you want?
Speaker 1:she's like I have running shoes and leggings for working out yeah, he got me hocus for Christmas, like yeah, it's the same thing. Yeah, it's a good pair right there. Um, do you have like a favorite quote or a mantra or anything that you, um, it's your go-to, or that really kind of always speaks to you and you remember anybody?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have, I saved it so I could read it yeah. It's from a book, but it's the mountain that stands in front of you, is the calling of your life, your purpose for being here and your path finally made clear. One day, this mountain will be behind you, but who you become in the process of getting over it will stay with you always. In the end, it is not the mountain that you must master, but yourself, and it's by Brianna Weist. She's an author that I really like.
Speaker 1:That is really good. It's like really deep, it is really deep.
Speaker 2:I really like the message that the challenging things in front of you, like the mountains that are in front of you, seem so big and so daunting and just so like bad and so big and so daunting and just so like bad, and if you think that they're going to last forever and you eventually obviously overcome them and what stays with you is the person you become.
Speaker 2:you became in the process of dealing with them and I just really, really like that because, like all like, the trials and tribulations of your life end up making you into the person that you are.
Speaker 2:So you should kind of look at them sometimes in a more positive light, even though it may be really hard in certain situations. Like you become a stronger person from them or you learn a lesson from them. And I think, like in my fitness journey, like the mountain was my eating issues and never thinking that I would overcome them, and I thought that I was in a struggle with being obsessive with food and eating like for the rest of my life, like I didn't see an end and then, once I like got into fitness and I like, it kind of like transforms to something else, like now I'm. This is so much of who I am now, like I'm. It's such a big part of my personality and it wouldn't have happened if I didn't have those issues with eating way back when. So I think it's really nice to look at things and reframe the negative things in our life as something positive that end up forming us into the people that we become for the better.
Speaker 1:Yeah oh, that's a beautiful. I've never heard that and, uh, you're gonna have to send it to me. Actually, I'll probably share with some of the the people here in the gym because it really is. It's a really really good uh quote, um and story actually, and the way you should live your life. Wow, what an amazing conversation it's got. Time has flown flown by.
Speaker 2:Is there anything that we haven't talked about that you want to leave us with here that you think is important or like that we haven't talked about that I that we didn't mention, whether it be the fitness wellness industry or anything with the gym, or advice that you want to give um, I think, just like, one thing I'd want to kind of end on is for anyone who's like trying to get into the gym or start their fitness journey to know that it's not so physical and so like, like you're not just gonna transform your body and your health, but like your whole life is transformed when you start taking fitness more seriously.
Speaker 2:Because, like I said earlier, the discipline aspects and, um, the hard-working aspects that come from the gym bleed into other parts of your life and once you can, like achieve things that you didn't think you could achieve in the gym, you realized how much you can achieve other things in your life and how you're capable of so much more than you really think. And I think it's such a beautiful thing that a hobby that people think is just like to look better or to feel better, it can actually just transform your entire life and I think that's why it's so addicting is because, like, I don't know, like it's just, it's just great how much the gym and fitness can change your life in ways that aren't super physical and superficial, like it's it helps your mental.
Speaker 2:You always say like mind, body and spirit, and it's so true because they're connected and um. You can just really open your mind when you start taking your health and your fitness seriously and how.
Speaker 1:Doing hard things and putting yourself because it's not easy, right, waking up, have being disciplined, going to the gym, you know instilling pain in you. You know what I'm saying. You're doing it to yourself. Like I said, we're hedonistic people, so in doing that it changes you, it changes your mind, because now you're forcing yourself to do something that's difficult, man. The benefits and earning it is so much greater than anything else the delayed gratification, yeah, wow. That's amazing. I mean, I had a blast learning actually from you today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1:And it was good because we don't have these conversations. You come in here, you come to work, we ask you how your weekend was or how school and everything, but your mindset has changed and I really love it. I'm very proud of you. Thank you Very, very proud of you and your health and fitness journey. Where you're at. I'm super proud to be your friend and your family friend and to also train your brother, who's in college playing ball. So I'm super blessed. I'm more blessed than you think. So thank you for coming on the podcast thank you for having me before we leave?
Speaker 1:how do people find you if they want to find your fitness page or anything like that? What is that? So that people can reach out to you if they have any questions?
Speaker 2:I have an Instagram. It's like a fitness diary. I don't take it super seriously, but I just post like for my friends, family and anyone that wants to follow me and it's fitwithyou like the letter U, not U, spelled out and GQ. So it's fitwithyou and GQ.
Speaker 1:Fitwithyou the U and GQ. Yeah, thanks so much, honey. I appreciate you so much. Congrats on graduation and graduating from Cal Berkeley. Thank you so much. Let me see, I think there's a button here with a little applause, I'll graduation and graduating from Cal Berkeley. Let me see, I think there's a button here with a little applause. I don't get it wrong. Let's see. Oh, there you go. Congrats, there you go. And everybody listening listen. If you guys enjoyed this or want out or have some feedback or want to reach out to me at UAG Fit or Can Be Broken Podcast, I appreciate you guys. We're here for dialogue, we're here to learn, we're here to get better, go through some adversity, make sure we keep it in the right perspective. I really appreciate everybody. What a great episode to season four, starting off with Angie Quintero. Thank you for giving me this blessing. I appreciate it and remember everybody. You can't be broken.
