00:00I mean, I feel like maybe for Kissing Booth when I read the script and Marco was described as this just like God
00:06And I was like, oh, okay. Well
00:10Guess we have to kind of get to work. Hey, I'm Taylor Zakhar Perez and I'm gonna show you how I work out
00:24Feel like I was forced into fitness
00:26I was like a chubby kid and my parents were like you need to be in a sport
00:29So I chose swimming and I swam for 10 years. I like a very high level
00:33I think just having that 5 a.m. Practice every day and 2 p.m
00:37Practice so like being in the pool for three and a half hours a day all year
00:41Created that pattern that I just always want to be having like some kind of routine going on red white
00:47I get picked up at 4 30 in the morning sometimes and get home by 7. So it's really just dedication
00:52I always ask to stay in a place that has like a gym in there or I'll go steal kettlebells from the gym and bring
00:57Them in my room and get up at 3 in the morning and work out for 45 minutes because for me
01:01It just is like the day starter like it gets everything flowing in your body like the synovial fluid in your body
01:07I guess your brain going and just firing because if I wake up groggy
01:10And you have to go on set you have to say lines just kind of a miserable day
01:13Even if it's a day you succeeded in the morning, you know
01:17You're six o'clock seven o'clock workout and it kind of just kind of makes everything feel better. I
01:22Travel a lot. Sometimes it's hard to be consistent
01:25Like if I'm not home and if I'm not taking a class or like have my Peloton or something like that
01:29Just something that's normal to access. So I thought today would be cool to do a leg workout
01:35That wasn't crazy machine heavy and incorporating some cardio with some strength and like something that you can kind of do anywhere
01:43Okay, so today's warm-up is a functional football training
01:46And so we're gonna start with scoops, which I think really likes to you know
01:50Loosen up the full back of the leg my philosophy around fitness now
01:55I think it's definitely shifted like I used to spend maybe two two and a half hours at the gym
02:01It was like a social thing. You have your boys and you weightlift and now I'm like hour and 15 minutes max. I
02:11Think I've just really shifted my focus on on what I'm putting into my body what I'm what I'm eating
02:16So then I don't to go to the gym as much and still maintain my physique and this is a quad stretch with a
02:22calf raise with a big reach to the ceiling
02:25My mom always said it's all about
02:27moderation eggs in the morning with avocado and like maybe some some type of toast lunch is like a pretty big lunch and then
02:34Try to eat less for dinner, which is really hard
02:36Try to stay away from wheat unless it's like out of Europe if it's like a semolina flour from Italy
02:42I'm like, okay, like it doesn't mess with my body as much side-to-side
02:46Lunges pivoting back and forth. I usually do this for like 20 yards. So you get like a real good stretch and a good warm-up
02:57Growing up my mom was really mindful on health like she was an organic
03:02nut organic treats and our breakfast cereals were organic and we just thought it was like I
03:08Don't say it's not cool just people weren't eating like that
03:11And so for us we wanted like those Lunchables you wanted the gushers fruit by the foot and she's like I'm not buying that for
03:17You so we go to our friends houses and eat that all the time
03:19Like I remember a friend said like this giant snack drawer of like Costco size
03:23Junk food and it was incredible and then an active runners lunge with a with a chest over
03:37Now
03:42We have a back lunge with a twist on both sides I
03:47Mean I feel like maybe for kissing booth when I read the script and Marco was described as this just like God and I
03:55Was like, oh, okay. Well
03:57Guess we have to kind of get to work after I was cast
04:00We had about a month and so I was already kind of in good shape
04:03But I just had to like maybe get a little bit tighter from that
04:06I just wanted to stay in shape because when I don't work out
04:09Like my body feels it like my lower back or my legs are just like I'm always
04:14Trying to be like just always moving the body on a daily basis
04:18All right. So this first exercise is a hip thruster
04:21Usually if you need a pad to put on your hips, so you don't hurt yourself
04:24If you don't have one of the bar pads, I would just grab a yoga mat because they're pretty much in every gym
04:31Finished swimming and I was like, okay, I guess it's time to go to the gym
04:33But I just didn't do it correctly
04:35learning actually was tough because I
04:37Hurt my back multiple times like through my neck out just because of improper lifting for me now at 32
04:44I'm like, okay
04:45This is the body that I have for the rest of my life and I just have to protect it
04:48And so now instead of like lifting very heavily
04:51I just lift enough to challenge myself not hurt myself because I think it's good for everything about in your body
04:57It's just to have a good workout. We're gonna do some cable machine single leg back lunges
05:04All right, usually I'll do this with a bar at an angle but since we don't have the holder for it today
05:09we're gonna do it on the cable machine and
05:13Make sure it's a nice solid weight that one leg can handle and just kind of burn it out with like 8 to 12 reps
05:20I think leg day is like the most important day
05:23just for
05:25Strengthening obviously, but just keeping your body
05:28I think at either at the age that you are or keeping it younger than you are and I think like that is the key
05:34To having and living like a long and healthy comfortable life
05:38This one I hate it's a resistance band trainer
05:42Resistance training is tough and I like to incorporate this into my leg days
05:46You're kind of just always active while you're on this piece of equipment
05:52so you kind of step back a little bit and make sure it's tight and
05:56You do side to side steps and you can also jump it's like a resisted jump and it pulls you right back down and it's
06:02Difficult, but today we're just gonna do side to sides with a hold and a knee
06:07going in and out
06:11So the step up with dumbbells I do a little bit differently I make sure I do a march on the top of the
06:18bench every time just to like make sure
06:20My body knows where all the weight needs to go keeps the balance in that front foot and keeps, you know
06:26Everything active and in alignment
06:31Like I love the all-in podcast it's great or like a Dax Shepard podcast
06:35But when it comes to working out, I just need upbeat music. I mean even just
06:42What what's my my go to I thought good a nice house music is good
06:46Like a tropical house like just something that keeps the mood up and makes me want to be there or some nice 90s
06:53Like R&B remixes that are fun
06:55Next we have some side lunges. I'll usually use two dumbbells
06:59maybe
07:0125 pounds each but today I'm gonna use a kettlebell and it's really all about form making sure that 90-degree angle in
07:09your
07:10Leg that's stepping out and engaging your entire leg. That's supposed to be active
07:16I
07:21Know a lot of gyms don't have quad machines
07:24They have the seated quad machine
07:26so I like to get on like a higher bench and grab either a kettlebell that can fit on your shoe and do single leg
07:32quad lifts or
07:34Like a 40 pound weight that'll go between your feet and then you lift and hold for about a second or a second and a half
07:41It's kind of like cooking. I think working out like you have all these ingredients that
07:45You're putting into this dish
07:47But if you forget one of them at the store and you have an alternative in your pantry or in your fridge you can use
07:52it deadlift
07:54Deadlifting make sure you have the proper form. You're gonna hurt yourself if you don't
07:59So go light just use the bar or you can even use a trap bar, which is great and do you know?
08:07Five to ten and just learn what feels good on your body
08:12And
08:14So then I'm incorporating a burpee jump turn which kind of gets your heart rate up and
08:20In this it's just kind of a killer
08:22finisher
08:37I'm Taylor the car Perez and thank you for joining me for my workout
08:41You
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