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Speaker: Welcome back to Fitness Manifesto.
Speaker: I am one of your hosts, Kim, and joining me is... Justin, welcome to this new show that we've started, which focuses on life, awesomeness, friendship, and fitness as a whole.
Speaker: Well, we're recording back in the studio again today and we took a week off because my wife ended up getting what we think is COVID again.
Speaker: She's finally mobile.
Speaker: She's doing well, but we're back in it today.
Speaker: She is surviving and she is healthy.
Speaker: She is.
Speaker: And she even said that this time, Kim is my witness, that I was a good husband.
Speaker: He actually was a good nanny this time and took care of the children.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And I'm not always great at that because I'm trying to do a million things at once.
Speaker: And so I had to take a lot of time.
Speaker: And you're a man.
Speaker: I mean, sorry.
Speaker: No pinch, Justin, but I mean.
Speaker: You know, 50 seconds in, we're already talking about sexism.
Speaker: I love it.
Speaker: High fives you, Kim.
Speaker: I had to hit on that.
Speaker: I'm sorry.
Speaker: I'm sorry.
Speaker: But, you know, I'm glad you stepped up your game this time.
Speaker: And I'm not dogging men because usually men are phenomenal.
Speaker: Oh, hey, you know, but there's little truisms to all these things, right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, yeah.
Speaker: And I will fully admit that, you know, after I think it was like eight, nine days of being Mr. Mom, I got to say it was very hard to run business, to cycle, do everything else.
Speaker: And today, this morning, I was a little testy.
Speaker: I will admit, even Kelly said that, but the show has helped me get untesty.
Speaker: But even me being a mom, I do that with my children too.
Speaker: You are not alone in that.
Speaker: Sometimes too much time is, well, too much time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And I got to say, I mean, because we're both parents, like one of the things that always has blown me away about being a parent are single parents.
Speaker: I have mad respect for single parents.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: I have no idea.
Speaker: I had my wife home, so if I needed anything, she could still do it even though she was sick, right?
Speaker: And you've got Ted and everything else, right?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: But how do you do it on your own?
Speaker: I have no idea.
Speaker: It's hard.
Speaker: You don't get, well, I guess that's when grandparents come into play.
Speaker: Uh, yeah, maybe friends and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I mean, occasionally you just do need a break.
Speaker: I mean, no matter how much you love them, right?
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: That's true.
Speaker: It is true.
Speaker: Some, some days you just gotta take a step back, especially if they're all up in your business all the time, you know, you gotta breed too.
Speaker: Kids are all up in your business.
Speaker: Are you sure?
Speaker: Are you shocked?
Speaker: I know it's crazy, right?
Speaker: I don't know about you, but every time I'm getting ready in the morning and I'm like out of the towel and I'm just that naked for a few seconds, whatever, I swear one of my kids walks in right at that moment.
Speaker: I'm like, come on.
Speaker: This is my time.
Speaker: Go away.
Speaker: What are you doing?
Speaker: Like, why?
Speaker: And I think there's like a kid radar because I don't remember, like, I think it's a new thing because when you were a kid, I don't remember walking into my parents.
Speaker: Like I did it once to my mom and all I remember is just like, I don't want to ever see that again.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: I knew that if the door was shut, you don't come in.
Speaker: And if you need something, you knock, but you do not open that door.
Speaker: It's a respect level.
Speaker: And I don't know what's happened to the world today, but they see a closed door and somehow they feel like they can still come in.
Speaker: It's almost like an open invitation, right?
Speaker: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker: They feel that sometimes.
Speaker: Kids, kids are gross.
Speaker: I tell you what, I loved them.
Speaker: But my son is 17 and he's a boy.
Speaker: His room stinks.
Speaker: Gross.
Speaker: Oh, even when you try to clean, I told you, so I've got a 13 year old and I've got like, my kids are all about three and a half years apart.
Speaker: So my oldest son, before they went on their trip a couple of weeks ago, it was very clear.
Speaker: Like, Hey Seth, you got to clean up your room.
Speaker: To him, that meant throw all of his crap on his bed.
Speaker: And as long as his floor was clean, it was good.
Speaker: So he came back and I didn't touch it.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: He's like, Oh, my room stinks.
Speaker: I'm like, yeah, because you're disgusting.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And the dirty clothes hamper, like when it's cold, you got to bring it to the laundry room to be washed.
Speaker: It just can't sit there.
Speaker: Ew.
Speaker: No, but that's what happened.
Speaker: It's so funny because I know that when I was a teenager, I was gross, like obviously.
Speaker: We all were.
Speaker: But it's so weird being a parent and seeing it.
Speaker: Now I'm like, oh God, how did we survive as a species?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I would call my mom and be like, mom, was my room like this?
Speaker: And she's like, yes.
Speaker: Yes, it was.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And not only was it like this, in fact, it was like this for eight years.
Speaker: Yes, exactly.
Speaker: I remember my brother, my oldest brother, he is nine years older than me.
Speaker: And he'd be like, hey, if you clean my room or pick up my room, you know, all the dirty clothes and stuff on the ground, you can have all the coins that are on the floor.
Speaker: And I'll tell you what, there is times I made bank picking up coins, but I look back at that now and that wasn't worth it.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: And it's funny you bring up coins.
Speaker: My kids did a lemonade stand a few weeks ago.
Speaker: Oh, awesome.
Speaker: Before they went on their thing.
Speaker: And it was for my daughter.
Speaker: Bless her heart.
Speaker: She wants to help animals.
Speaker: So she was trying to raise money for a shelter, like an animal shelter.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: That's awesome.
Speaker: She's got a soft heart.
Speaker: Huge soft heart.
Speaker: I mean, great humanitarian, just a great person in general.
Speaker: She's a very soft and very wonderful soul.
Speaker: But the funny part was they realized that if they asked for money, they wouldn't get paid.
Speaker: So they had to use Kelly's Venmo account.
Speaker: Oh my gosh, I didn't even think about that.
Speaker: That's funny because my daughter wants to do a lemonade stand too.
Speaker: So I'm glad you got thrown to the sharks first.
Speaker: Oh, absolutely.
Speaker: Well, maybe we can combine next time because it's so funny because again, no one has changed.
Speaker: Like no one has money on them.
Speaker: It's all, you know, it's starting to go more digital.
Speaker: And it was one thing that never occurred to me.
Speaker: And so we had this whole thing, like I got her, I went to the bank and got a thing of quarters and a thing of dimes and a thing of nickels that she never used.
Speaker: You're all prepared.
Speaker: And well, that was like a modern day shock there.
Speaker: I ran into this yesterday.
Speaker: I went to try on Rise, May Stresses.
Speaker: My brother's going to get married.
Speaker: We were in a bougie part of town.
Speaker: We walked in and honestly, I normally deal with only cash.
Speaker: We did Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover years ago.
Speaker: So usually we pay all our bills, pull all our spending cash out.
Speaker: And that's what we use.
Speaker: And I walked into this restaurant and it said no cash accepted here.
Speaker: And I was like, oh,
Speaker: Damn it.
Speaker: So yes, plastic is accepted everywhere.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: And it makes it very hard for people that are trying to do like the Dave Ramsey method where basically, you know, you pay down all your debt, you go to cash and then you set a certain number aside.
Speaker: And if you run out of it, you run out of it and you're done.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And it's a great philosophy to get back on track.
Speaker: But in today's world, I wonder what the new version of that is, because it is all digital.
Speaker: Like the other day, one of my clients is in New Zealand and she usually pays through, I think through PayPal or whatever like that.
Speaker: Well, because of the change in currency value, their currency has gone like completely the other way.
Speaker: It's lost like 10% of its value to the US dollar.
Speaker: So to help her out, I changed my pricing.
Speaker: But because I did that, she had to pay me a different way.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It was so weird.
Speaker: That's why so many people are in debt.
Speaker: They do credit cards.
Speaker: Whenever you pay with cash, you feel that cash coming out of your pocket.
Speaker: Oh, it sucks.
Speaker: When you're sitting there going, oh my gosh, I had $100 yesterday and dinner cost me $75.
Speaker: That hurts.
Speaker: It hurts a lot.
Speaker: It's funny because the other day we went out to dinner, we don't drink a lot anymore.
Speaker: In fact, I don't drink hardly at all.
Speaker: And Kelly- We're the same way.
Speaker: We didn't actually drink at all that night for whatever reason.
Speaker: And so the bill for two of us between
Speaker: Six different people, right?
Speaker: So we broke it up three different ways.
Speaker: Our bill for dinner was $126 with tip, okay?
Speaker: Ouch, no alcohol.
Speaker: No, that's the thing.
Speaker: And so afterward, we just split it all the way around.
Speaker: So afterwards, each of the other couples gave us each $30 because that was the impact of their alcohol.
Speaker: So we got, I mean, we got $60.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: And it was just crazy.
Speaker: That's how much it adds up over time.
Speaker: Cause I was like, that's how much the five of us go out and spend, you know?
Speaker: And I was like, two of us, I was kind of mad.
Speaker: And then they're like, okay, we'll each pay you $30.
Speaker: And I was like, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker: I mean, hangovers as adults is no fun.
Speaker: Oh, it blows.
Speaker: And you pay for that.
Speaker: Oh my gosh.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And not just a day.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Usually I'm like, see you next week.
Speaker: But you pay in so many ways, right?
Speaker: You pay out of pocket, like literally.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Literally.
Speaker: You pay mentally and you pay, you know, in the long run, so you're less productive.
Speaker: So yeah.
Speaker: Your body feels it and it's, oh, it's rough.
Speaker: One of the ladies at Psychobar that works with us recently got pregnant.
Speaker: And it's funny because she used to be a big drinker, big kind of, I don't want to call her a partier, but she imbibed a bit.
Speaker: And the minute she started going cold turkey, she was even mentioning to me last week when we all got together, like she has more energy.
Speaker: She feels better overall.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: It's true.
Speaker: I mean, just the difference that you feel.
Speaker: And, you know, so many people that go and work out hungover.
Speaker: I'm like, y'all, that's, it's not good on your body for one, but it's dangerous.
Speaker: It's crazy dangerous because no one thinks about dehydration, right?
Speaker: Right, right.
Speaker: Well, and your muscles aren't strong.
Speaker: They're weak from one, staying up, partying to dehydrating them.
Speaker: You just don't have it like you did.
Speaker: You weren't drinking.
Speaker: A hundred percent.
Speaker: And I remember, I don't think I've at least in the last 10 years ever worked out with any sort of buzz or anything like that.
Speaker: But I remember when I was younger and I would go in college and stuff like that, we would go out and party and I was on crew and then we go crew the next day.
Speaker: I mean, I know that I wasn't in my peak performance, but I could still do it.
Speaker: Thinking about that now in my forties, like trying to think about, I get like the shiver.
Speaker: I'm like, yeah.
Speaker: Sounds miserable.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: I agree with that.
Speaker: Well, like the other day we did a ride and it was a big kickoff ride for one of our new rides, our foundations ride.
Speaker: And we were allowed to have alcohol on the bike.
Speaker: So I grabbed a, it was like a, it's like a foo-foo drink.
Speaker: It's like a, it's not a wine cooler, a hard seltzer.
Speaker: Maybe I don't know what it was.
Speaker: I mean, me and one of the other instructors were drinking it and we high fived and yeah, no water, water, water, water is definitely the best thing for any type of workout.
Speaker: I don't even think I finished that.
Speaker: I think I ended up throwing it away.
Speaker: Well, I think you went through two because the first one was so gross because it was like mango or whatever.
Speaker: And I took a sip of it and you're like, does this taste bad?
Speaker: I'm like, that is not good.
Speaker: And then you got another one and I don't think you finished it.
Speaker: But I'll tell you right now that when I was growing up, things that came in a can were not good.
Speaker: And now it seems to be becoming bougie to get stuff in a can.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Everybody does stuff in a can now.
Speaker: Which is weird, right?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: It's just, it's an odd thing.
Speaker: I got to tell you working out now, because with a buzz, it'd probably feel pretty good, right?
Speaker: You're like, yeah, I got the energy, whatever.
Speaker: But I can only imagine the come down from that.
Speaker: Oh my gosh.
Speaker: No, imagine going up a hill with your resistance.
Speaker: You know, your gear is sitting at eight to 10 and going, I got to come down this other side.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: And I think that brings us, you know, to kind of the subject we were going to talk about today.
Speaker: And that is like dealing with adversity a little bit, right?
Speaker: So I think this is a great kind of launching pad into that.
Speaker: So high five, Kim.
Speaker: Great job.
Speaker: You set me up perfect.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: I was going to slide it right in there.
Speaker: We shared that.
Speaker: We're looking through the computer screen, although we're again, right across from each other, which for those that see the B-roll, you'll see that we're right across from each other.
Speaker: But it is funny because of two giant monitors.
Speaker: We actually can't see each other.
Speaker: No, unless I lean to the side, which I do a lot.
Speaker: And Justin makes fun of me.
Speaker: Maybe we wrap up today.
Speaker: We'll do that.
Speaker: Does that sound fair?
Speaker: That sounds fair.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: One of the things that we're going through right now is like, we love cycling a lot.
Speaker: We truly love it.
Speaker: We think it's one of the best things.
Speaker: It is the best thing.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: It's not one of the best things.
Speaker: Like it is the best thing.
Speaker: All right.
Speaker: Fair enough.
Speaker: Fair enough.
Speaker: I will concede that point.
Speaker: But we're feeling like right now in the situation that we're in, we're not getting a lot of support from our studio right now.
Speaker: Very little.
Speaker: In fact, we were talking right before we came on here, we were going through our Instagram feed and looking that there were two pictures that were our studio.
Speaker: One happened to be from a while ago, but posted recently.
Speaker: And then another one of some recent ride, someone signing a hundredth ride thing.
Speaker: And then the one below it was some random dude.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Not obviously.
Speaker: Like a generic picture?
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: It was so weird.
Speaker: And we started realizing that like, you know, how do you persevere in an environment where you are feeling not necessarily supported as much as you want to be?
Speaker: You love what you're doing, but you feel like your management is kind of sucking butt.
Speaker: Nope.
Speaker: Where you put in all the effort and show up and you don't feel like they come to the table.
Speaker: At all.
Speaker: And the funny part is we'll have these rules like, hey, look, before you do a specialty ride, which we call a theme ride here, right?
Speaker: Which we have a boy band one coming up.
Speaker: Heck yeah.
Speaker: Next and not this week, but the following week.
Speaker: I can't wait.
Speaker: Justin is team NSYNC and I'm team Backstreet Boys.
Speaker: All the way.
Speaker: And don't worry.
Speaker: It'll be bye, bye, bye.
Speaker: Oh, it's okay.
Speaker: You can feel wrong.
Speaker: We'll do promo for that.
Speaker: Don't worry.
Speaker: And it's funny because like the rule for us is that we have to give it to them about eight days in advance.
Speaker: We have followed that rule for months and I'd say 50% of the time our stuff gets posted.
Speaker: Is that fair or no?
Speaker: Maybe less?
Speaker: I would say it's probably less.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So we put all this time and effort in Canva to create this stuff.
Speaker: I got to tell you, Kim's has been phenomenal.
Speaker: Her last one was this cool videotape.
Speaker: It was just awesome.
Speaker: It was like a VHS.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: I got to give my husband the credit.
Speaker: He's the one who does them together.
Speaker: He is a photographer.
Speaker: He's got all the software.
Speaker: So I tell him, I'm like, Ted, this is what I need.
Speaker: And he creates, he's the artiste.
Speaker: I am not.
Speaker: Well, he's brilliant and he does a great job.
Speaker: So Ted, great job.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: I agree.
Speaker: He's pretty awesome.
Speaker: He's pretty awesome.
Speaker: And so, you know, we still, but we still show up.
Speaker: And I guess the point of this is, is that even when you're going through periods where you are feeling frustrated, whatever, there's got to be things you can do to help the situation, right?
Speaker: Because you want to write out quick because you love what you're doing.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: One of the things is that I was going to start with and then kind of pass it off to you, Kim, is that I think having someone you can bond with over this and kind of gripe with and, you know, you don't want to silly build like this pity party, but you definitely want to have an avenue to expunge those bad thoughts, those bad ideas, and then kind of move forward with.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I think having to ride or die, I think is really important.
Speaker: What do you think?
Speaker: I do agree with that too.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: Having that person where, you know, you both know what's going on.
Speaker: You know what's going on in the background.
Speaker: Yes, you can vent to each other about it, but also don't keep it all in the negative because if you keep yourself in the negative and everything about it is bad, you will start hating it.
Speaker: You will learn to dislike it and you'll not want to show up for your writers, which you love.
Speaker: Remember, you love what you do.
Speaker: So you've got to show up for that.
Speaker: And having somebody to laugh about it with.
Speaker: Justin and I laugh about this all the time, just stuff that goes on.
Speaker: I mean, just random stuff.
Speaker: We'll just do a side chat and be like, really?
Speaker: And then we'll laugh.
Speaker: I mean, what do you think, Justin?
Speaker: I think that's 100% right.
Speaker: And I think that's the other avenue to this.
Speaker: I think that making it humorous, because it's easy to go on that path of darkness, right?
Speaker: Because especially when you're frustrated, it's easy to look at it and go, I'm stuck here.
Speaker: But I think laughing it off is so important, especially when you're an athlete, because it's so easy to get serious because you're having to show up and when you go up on stage, you're doing a show, right?
Speaker: You're being yourself, but you're putting a show on for someone.
Speaker: Someone is paying for you to perform.
Speaker: You're needing to perform so that they can hit their levels as well.
Speaker: It's very easy to get caught in that mindset of be professional, be professional.
Speaker: But one of the things that's also professional is laughing and having fun, right?
Speaker: Absolutely, it is.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And if you're laughing and having fun, your writers will see that.
Speaker: The people who come to ride with you will see that.
Speaker: And while they're seeing you laughing and having fun and enjoying it, they don't see everything going on in the background, which they don't need to see.
Speaker: They don't need to see any of the negativity or the dark cloud that surrounds all of that.
Speaker: They need to see you because that's what they're there for.
Speaker: With seeing you and showing up to work out with you, they get a good workout in.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And it's somewhat cathartic and therapeutic for you as well, right?
Speaker: Because you are realizing that you're rising above the level that they're at to perform and meet your objectives.
Speaker: And I think that one of the things that we talk about a lot offline is just the stupidness, like the pettiness of things.
Speaker: Oh, so petty.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: The stupidness.
Speaker: Here's a great example.
Speaker: So there was a woman that we were in training with last week.
Speaker: I don't know, there were six or seven of us there.
Speaker: We all went around and had to ride.
Speaker: We had to like, we basically picked a song for someone else.
Speaker: And then that person had to find the beat and basically figured it all out.
Speaker: So it was kind of like a impromptu improv kind of thing.
Speaker: It was fun.
Speaker: It was a ton of fun.
Speaker: And it came to her and they were like, okay, it's your turn.
Speaker: She's like, no.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: She's like, no, no, come on up here.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: And I think it was three or four no's.
Speaker: And then we finally had to move on past it.
Speaker: But afterwards, Kim, what just happened?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You get up in front of people every day and teach, but you can't get up in front of your fellow instructors who we are in this as a team together and ride in front of them.
Speaker: I'm sorry, that speaks pretty loud.
Speaker: It does.
Speaker: And I think that goes back to the point of like, you've got to be there for each other, right?
Speaker: Like being on a team means that you all go through it together.
Speaker: And even if you're scared, I mean, it's not fun to get up when you don't know the song and you don't know that.
Speaker: I mean, I can't remember who had mine, but I think it was anyways, someone had mine.
Speaker: I did.
Speaker: Oh, you did.
Speaker: That's right.
Speaker: And I knew that.
Speaker: I gave you Modest Mouse Float On and I thought you would take the low, slow beat and you didn't.
Speaker: You popped in that saddle and you were gone.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: I forgot that I'd asked for a slower song.
Speaker: I was like, all right, we're going to rock this.
Speaker: And afterwards, I was like, whoo.
Speaker: And it was like 48 RPMs and you took it to the other end of that spectrum.
Speaker: We had fun, but it was definitely a different type of ride for a minute.
Speaker: It was.
Speaker: The point was, it's not about screwing someone else.
Speaker: It's about setting them up for success, but also challenging them.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Well, and also in doing that, you get to help them grow.
Speaker: When they do that, you are helping to build them up.
Speaker: And if they're struggling with stuff, you work through it as a team and help build off of that.
Speaker: And by simply just saying, no, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker: I mean, it's...
Speaker: It's dangerous.
Speaker: Yeah, it is.
Speaker: Because then, I mean, how can you get up in front of an audience and right in front of them when you won't get up in front of your teammates?
Speaker: It's just, I don't know.
Speaker: It blew my mind.
Speaker: Well, I think it goes back to, because I agree with everything you're saying, it's for me was the fact that I lose trust in the individual immediately, right?
Speaker: Because we're all, no one in there.
Speaker: I mean, we have people in there that are crazy reserve shy.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And this person is even, I'd say, 100%.
Speaker: higher than some of those other individuals that are there.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: No one complained.
Speaker: No one got up there and said, oh shit.
Speaker: Now a few people had to take a deep breath and everything, which is fine, right?
Speaker: You got to get set for it.
Speaker: But it's a supportive environment.
Speaker: No one's going to tease you.
Speaker: And guess what?
Speaker: If you mess up, you get to correct yourself next time.
Speaker: No one's going to chastise you.
Speaker: And that's what we're there for.
Speaker: We're there to help build each other up and fix those little things or help them fix.
Speaker: I said last time I have MS.
Speaker: And a lot of the time, if I am riding out of the saddle fast, my right leg will drop out completely.
Speaker: I struggle with keeping that beat, anything above 80.
Speaker: It's just the card that I was dealt and it's okay.
Speaker: I am very fortunate to be here and God has blessed me with that.
Speaker: I was, my leg was spasming.
Speaker: And honestly, I have nerves that are out of this world whenever it comes up to getting up in front of people.
Speaker: And I usually tell them, I feel like I could vomit or pee.
Speaker: I'm not for sure which one, but I still clip in and do it.
Speaker: Every time.
Speaker: And it's funny because Kim, it's one of my favorite things about her is that she gets so caught up in her head and then she gets on stage.
Speaker: It's like, oh, okay.
Speaker: It's ridiculous.
Speaker: I know it's terrible.
Speaker: I know Justin, you're so like down to earth.
Speaker: You're like, this is nothing.
Speaker: And you clip in and you go.
Speaker: Yeah, but what I don't show is because I've been a performer most of my life is that I'm dying inside.
Speaker: That's why whenever they ask for a volunteer, I always try to go first or I go last.
Speaker: I never go in the middle because I either want to get it over with or I want to watch and see what I can do.
Speaker: Those are my two mindsets.
Speaker: Yeah, no, I understand that.
Speaker: And it's funny, but inside, I never get up there and go, all right.
Speaker: I just kind of clear my head and I realize, okay, Kim's going to set me up for success.
Speaker: I know I'm going to do okay in this.
Speaker: I know what I'm doing.
Speaker: Let's just ride with it.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: Yeah, you knew I wasn't going to set you up for failure.
Speaker: You know better than that, Justin.
Speaker: Of course.
Speaker: That's why I was excited.
Speaker: It was fun.
Speaker: And then you took it.
Speaker: I thought you were going to go real low and slow and heavy.
Speaker: And evidently you wanted to like run out of that place because we ran.
Speaker: Well, the hard part of that day was we had already ridden.
Speaker: We did a full ride.
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: And then we did an additional almost hour of, you know, everyone else riding through their stuff, too.
Speaker: So it was, you know, it was already exhausted.
Speaker: So by the time I got home that night, I passed out.
Speaker: Yes, it was.
Speaker: And it was hot in there.
Speaker: A little caliente.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: That studio is so muggy and it shouldn't be.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: And I guess that, again, it's all these things that we talk about, right?
Speaker: Like you just said a great word, like it shouldn't be, but yet we still show up.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And I think the biggest thing is you've got to show up if you're on a team.
Speaker: You need to represent, even if you're in an uncomfortable situation where you aren't feeling supported, where you're not feeling...
Speaker: You're just not feeling, I don't want to use the word, but I can't leave another one, but like love, like you're not feeling that like camaraderie.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: When you're putting all your stuff forward and you kind of see the frustration of other people, you've got to show up because other people are expecting you to.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: And just think about it.
Speaker: If you don't show up for them, they're going to stop showing up for you.
Speaker: I mean, really.
Speaker: Nice.
Speaker: And once you step up and you clip in, I mean, I tell my writers all the time, there is power in movement.
Speaker: And I've probably said this last time, but the mood that or funk that you had coming into the studio is not going to be the same when you're walking out.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: Because it changes.
Speaker: It absolutely does.
Speaker: If you've never worked out or felt like truly, if you're one of those people who says, I don't work out, like I've met a few of those.
Speaker: My mom is one of those.
Speaker: She does yoga, which is great.
Speaker: And that is her.
Speaker: She does little Pilates now, which is very good for her, but getting her heart rate up, it's just not her thing.
Speaker: She's never done that.
Speaker: I always encourage you to try something like this because the endorphin release that you get is so extreme.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: And it's in such a judgment-free environment.
Speaker: Because I think one of the hardest parts for a lot of people too is that they feel
Speaker: I'm not going to be as good as someone else in there.
Speaker: Well, guess what?
Speaker: There's always someone better.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: I can say that as an instructor.
Speaker: There's absolutely people better than me.
Speaker: A hundred percent.
Speaker: But knowing that makes me want to keep improving, right?
Speaker: Like I know that I'm not going to stay stagnant here.
Speaker: Like, like for instance, you and I both were some of the first that said, we'll try that new format before it even came out.
Speaker: Kim, I think was the very first person on the call goes, I want to teach that.
Speaker: You know, honestly, I really, really enjoyed it.
Speaker: It's interesting.
Speaker: Again, I mean, part of the frustration that we had this week, in addition to what we're talking about here, is that this is a brand new thing that just got released, I think, last week for the first time company-wide.
Speaker: August 1st.
Speaker: August 1st.
Speaker: Thank you.
Speaker: So Monday was the very first time across the nation this new format got released and deployed.
Speaker: All right, we got trained on it a little bit on Friday and then Saturday was a little deeper dive and then Monday, the rest of the week we went live.
Speaker: My point here is that like, it should have been promoted the heck out of this.
Speaker: Like it's great for beginners, it's great for new people, but it also has stuff for advanced writers where you learn, where you focus on your technique as opposed to the speed of it.
Speaker: And your form.
Speaker: And I mean, we take it way back and we help you build you and your strengths.
Speaker: We work on them and your weaknesses.
Speaker: We work on them.
Speaker: We coach through all of that together as a team so that you will build up and build up and keep going to those more difficult rides.
Speaker: And then you'll go and be like, I don't know.
Speaker: Why was I scared of this ride?
Speaker: 100%.
Speaker: We're just taking it all back.
Speaker: Bringing it back like they like to say the kids these days, right?
Speaker: Yep.
Speaker: But we had, there was nothing about it.
Speaker: Like literally on our Instagram page for the company, there was nothing.
Speaker: Zero this week.
Speaker: There wasn't about a new format.
Speaker: It went over the theme rides, but nothing about this new ride, nothing.
Speaker: And yet we all showed up, we did our part and we crushed it.
Speaker: And so-
Speaker: When we were training, they did do the new foundation format.
Speaker: There was one post about it, come to the free ride to learn the new format.
Speaker: But I thought it would have been sold out.
Speaker: I held off booking a spot as an instructor to let all of our other customers book and they didn't.
Speaker: No, it was about half full, I'd say.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, and you know, now when they see it on the schedule, they don't know what it is.
Speaker: No.
Speaker: And that's part of it too, is getting your message out there is part of, if you, if you love what you do and you do this for a reason, especially when it comes to fitness and this applies to all areas of your life, but especially in the fitness world, as an instructor, they expect you to not only know what you're doing, but also promote it a little bit.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So you feel comfortable enough.
Speaker: Even when you get on that bike for the first time, you've never taught a foundations class.
Speaker: It should look like you've done it a million times.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And even if you mess up, you can't go, oh shit, I messed up.
Speaker: You've got to go.
Speaker: You're absolutely, but then you also got to think if you mess up, they don't know the format.
Speaker: So they don't know that you messed up.
Speaker: So then you get to pull yourself back and get back on points because remember they showed up for you.
Speaker: Absolutely.
Speaker: So, you know, as we kind of wrap up today, I think one of the major points here is that one, showing up is really key.
Speaker: Being a good team member and having someone that's really there to help support you along the way.
Speaker: And if you're struggling with that, reach out to us.
Speaker: Like we're definitely, we love people.
Speaker: We are happy to be your friend and commiserate with you.
Speaker: We like to talk.
Speaker: Do we?
Speaker: Maybe.
Speaker: No, I think that we do.
Speaker: Okay, definitely.
Speaker: So as we wrap up, I will tell you a funny story about Kim on my Thursday ride.
Speaker: I'm ending my ride.
Speaker: I'm exhausted.
Speaker: And I've announced the doors come flying open.
Speaker: And I'm like, oh, and welcome in Chloe.
Speaker: And I look over and there's this chick with bright yellow Crocs on and she's got, it's Kim.
Speaker: It was me.
Speaker: And it totally made my day.
Speaker: It was a great way to end my class.
Speaker: And so, you know, surprise your fellow writers, surprise your fellow athletes out there.
Speaker: Like keep it fresh.
Speaker: Always be looking out for each other.
Speaker: And don't ever give up.
Speaker: Do not give in to honestly to the darkness.
Speaker: Don't do it.
Speaker: If you are passionate and you love it, keep your head up.
Speaker: Keep your head up.
Speaker: Don't give up.
Speaker: Of course, always show up for yourself.
Speaker: Show up for your writers because it will come full circle.
Speaker: And that concludes today's episode of the Fitness Manifesto.
Speaker: I know you guys enjoyed it.
Speaker: And Kim, I want to say thank you to you and to our audience for making this podcast what it is.
Speaker: Yes, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys.
Speaker: And stay tuned for the next episode.
