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00:00hey welcome back what's up everybody welcome back to another episode of the one body podcast i'm
00:10your co-host juice and i am toya welcome back to a really special episode that we have for you all
00:16today today's a celebration yeah if you haven't noticed we have our jerseys on today we have our
00:22kobe jerseys um to celebrate our son he's a one-year-old wow so um if you didn't know his
00:30middle name is kobe um and this jersey actually has an eight on the front 24 in the back he was born
00:35august of 2024 so that's the right it's only right we do it you know so here we are and his birthday
00:43party was like sports themed it was his rookie year and so these are our jerseys for his rookie year
00:50sorry that we're parents now can y'all tell we're more excited we're probably more excited than he
00:55was for his birthday but um such a celebration for us and that's kind of what this episode is all
01:00about it's all about parenthood our first year of parenthood kind of the things that we've learned
01:06along the way um things that we kind of anticipated and some things that we just learned through
01:11experience so we just kind of wanted to share that with y'all along with um just some tips that we have
01:16because i don't know if y'all know know it or not we have maybe had a babysitter maybe we can count on
01:24one hand how many times somebody has watched him over the past years i can tell you exactly she can
01:28tell you actually over uh there was one time for two hours where we did a live workout and he was
01:35asleep for an hour and a half of that time there was once for an hour when i had a cardiologist appointment
01:41and then there was one for 45 minutes when we were home and got groceries moms moms know exactly
01:47the only three times yeah exactly when and where yeah so um other than that he's been present on
01:53every date night he's been in one of our hands at any time and the longest i've been without him i'm
01:59still breastfeeding and so the longest i've been gone i was gone for four hours one time um and it was
02:05awful um but i know a lot of comments are going to be like take that time you guys need to connect
02:12and like go do the things but we will and we have the time for that i think for us um it was a very
02:18traumatic first few months and so it was a different experience for us because i mean especially for me
02:24after that traumatic experience i didn't want to be away from him um and so that was something that i
02:30needed mentally and so now that we're getting into the swing of things of course it's a little bit
02:35easier he's a little bit older um but mentally in those first few months that's what i needed yeah
02:40that's what i did we were kind of robbed of the the kind of that initial joy uh that we got just
02:45kind of the things that we were going through so um but yeah let's celebrate today yeah and we also
02:51wanted to take today too as like fitness tips that we have um fitness and parenthood yeah fitness and
02:58parenthood and like how it's changed for us because that's a i think one of the biggest things we get
03:02is like how do you still work out or one of the things that we got a lot before becoming parents
03:07was like oh just wait until you have kids you'll never work out again so we just want to share how
03:11we've been able to make that work find that balance and still be able to reach goals while still being
03:17parents for sure so real quick housekeeping go get the juice and toy app we got programs recipes nutrition
03:23motivation and you can message us one-on-one one-on-one we have a bunch of messages that we have to get
03:29back to after this podcast so um but yeah it's a great feature uh go check it out um as long with
03:35our programs that's on the app as well people are doing them to this day um and we're also going to
03:39drop a new program we'll talk about that later on way later on but we're working on some new programs
03:44for the app too as well and a big one that we're focusing on as well live streams we're doing workouts
03:50live workouts with me we got one today yeah got one with toy today um but also we have even
03:55informational live streams so they're not always workout sometimes they're more information
03:59informational um nutrition whatever you guys questions we get a lot exactly we can't answer
04:05like all individually and so we just kind of do a video on it yeah so um the app is kind of where we
04:10want you all to uh feel heard so if you have any questions um any kind of specific questions along
04:16your journey we're here to help you out we wish we could help all two million of you on youtube but
04:21realistically we can't so the app is kind of our hub where we do that so check out the juice and toy app
04:25i'll link it right here on the screen or down in the description click that link it'll take you
04:29directly to the app yep and then lastly make sure you check out our merch on our onebodyla.com
04:34backflash shop um we get asked a lot also like how can we support it what can we do to support it and
04:40buying merch is one way that you can support us if you're not in the la area to support some of the
04:45in-person things so um go and grab you some merch so all right so let's get into the episode so
04:52the first thing if you're listening to this um obviously we're sharing our story but we want you
04:58to get some benefit from it too um and so if you're someone who's listening whether you're a parent or
05:03not just trying to find some balance between a busy lifestyle and still reaching your fitness goals
05:08or how you can still accomplish fitness goals when it seems impossible time-wise um so again we're
05:15parents but even before being parents we were running businesses and things get busy whether you're
05:21a parent or not and so there's always going to be something that might seem like i don't have time
05:26to do x y and z um and so we also don't have any family here we don't have babysitters nannies or
05:32anything like that and so for us we really had to find the time the balance balance keyword to be able
05:39to stay consistent and still reach our goals so that's kind of what we want to share today through
05:44this podcast um and just kind of share how we've been able to manage throughout the last year um and
05:52how it might help you as well for sure so let's just talk about um and also in this podcast too today
05:59even though we went through this process together we all we both have our different experiences right
06:05and our different adjustments to things too as well because it's not all built equal like toya was
06:09she's obviously feeding him you know what i mean she's breastfeeding so i can't do that so her
06:13experience with some of the things that we had to find balance with are a lot different than
06:17my experience as well so um just kind of don't want to give you some perspective and maybe you can
06:22kind of apply it to your situation too today so i say let's let's start from the very beginning like
06:27when we first had him and more so when we kind of got back from the hospital because that was an
06:32adjustment too like like from the hospital when he was born no like the hospital okay
06:37the hospital yeah so for those that don't know um we'll do a whole nother podcast on this but
06:44i got postpartum preeclampsia i was diagnosed at 10 days postpartum and so we were home for 10 days
06:50of like perfection um it was like the best time of our lives um it was yeah magical was like the
06:56perfect word and then on day 10 postpartum i was readmitted into the hospital and we were
07:01readmitted for eight days so um from days 10 to 18 postpartum was completely traumatic um and just
07:10you're in this tiny hospital room with the newborn with both of us he's sleeping literally on a chair
07:16no no not a chair it was it was like a 25 year old recliner i slept on that for 10 days or eight days
07:24eight days yes it was awful it was awful um and so when we came home from that experience
07:29um the beginning was okay like i thought okay like it's over you know we beat it and let's heal
07:37and then that turned into months of trauma it was not over it was far from over um and so yeah like i
07:45said we kind of i'll do a whole nother podcast on that but when that happened that really changed my
07:51perspective when it came to health and fitness because i got so sick and it was completely out of
07:59my control nothing i did wrong and really nothing i could do to fix it it came like a waiting game
08:05um and it was scary and so with that i had this whole plan of course of how i was going to recover
08:12um and it all got thrown out the window i mean i was like okay six weeks i'm going to pt i'm gonna
08:19start working out i'm doing this i'm doing that and none of that was able to happen because i got sick
08:24and so for me one of the biggest things was that perspective change on what health and fitness
08:30meant because i at that moment you've got this newborn who literally is depending on you and
08:37for me it was like oh like i will do anything to be healthy now and i meant that you know and so
08:44one of the big things with postpartum preeclampsia is it obviously affects your blood pressure and so
08:50one thing that can affect your blood pressure is sodium and i mean i was not putting salt in
08:55anything i checked the sodium on everything i mean i became so obsessed with what's in my food
09:01probably to an unhealthy point um but for me it was like okay if you're telling me the sodium is
09:07going to raise my blood pressure i'm not eating sodium like it became so bad that i needed to eat sodium
09:12because my sodium levels were low i mean it was just like a mess and so all of that to say like
09:18now i take my health a lot more seriously i thought i wanted to be healthy before i have lupus and i
09:25you know it was like oh i i don't want to have lupus affect my health and i want to be healthy
09:30but now i take it way more serious and what being healthy means is more so now like yeah i worked out
09:37to be strong and be lean and have abs and all these things but now the physical is no longer
09:43important now i want to be healthy because i don't want to go through that again i still take
09:48my blood pressure very serious i want to be able to get on the floor and play with my son and be able
09:54to get up with no pain i don't want to have to like hold on to things to be able to get off the ground or
09:59i want to be able to pick my son up and be able to hold him while holding a million other things so
10:04that i can comfort him if he needs it and also be able to go get the groceries out of the car like
10:09that is now what being healthy means to me whereas before i didn't have that perspective because it was
10:16all about me it was all you know like how i wanted to look and so now my workouts are less about
10:21you know like i still am trying to grow my glutes that's forever but now i also need to make sure that
10:28my core is strong whereas before i wanted to have abs now i need to have a strong core so it's a big
10:34difference on what that health means to me for sure and i think the big perspective we can both
10:39say is just like it turned from a physical kind of aesthetic um how we looked at fitness you know
10:46we kind of looked at it's just like we want to feel and look good and be confident you know we associate
10:50that with just sort of the surface level things but when you really are going through you know some
10:56trauma especially when you're dealing with your health you look at just fitness and health from a
11:01whole new standpoint even me i didn't go through it physically but just seeing her yeah like i mean
11:06i went through every step of the way with her and just seeing her um just struggle just with just being
11:12able to get up some days and just not have to worry about certain things like that was a struggle for her
11:17and just even the mental health aspect of things so obviously that changed my perspective too as well
11:22in the sense of like we wake up every day the biggest thing we worry about is just feeling good
11:28especially now you know with sleep like sleep is something that it's a game for us every day
11:33because we go to sleep at night every night not wondering if we're going to get a five-hour stretch
11:38an eight-hour stretch or a two-hour stretch it's just the nature of just having a baby and being a
11:43parent so we look at um health and fitness in a way of just like more so how we feel every day
11:49that's the biggest priority for us yeah when you're young you know when we were 24 25 like we
11:55you know you kind of take that yeah yeah and you kind of take that for granted you think you're
12:00young you know you're fine you don't really you kind of assume you're going to be healthy
12:04i want to focus on how i look now as we're older and as we've kind of dealt with some health challenges
12:10it's more so like how how we feel is really what matters and then everything else is kind of
12:14secondary for us so that's been the big perspective change and not that you know i want to preface this
12:19by saying not that you didn't take your health serious exactly exactly especially with the lupus
12:25like i definitely took it serious but now it just i don't know it's you have a dependent now you know
12:31i think also i lost my mom to cancer and so i obviously saw her sick growing up but now that
12:39has also changed of like how maybe how she felt knowing i am sick and i have kids and so that was a
12:47big thing for me when i was sick was like oh this is how my mom felt like i have to get better because
12:52i have this child that is depending on me like i have no choice i need to get better right and so
12:57you kind of get into that mode of like i'll do whatever you say and so before when with the lupus
13:03anytime i had a lupus challenge it was like yeah i need to get better yeah i want to feel good i don't
13:09feel good and i want to feel better but now it's like yeah i want to feel better but also this little
13:13baby needs milk this little baby needs me as his comfort as his literally provider so i think a
13:20big thing you said too like it was all physical but now it's a lot more like internal and the mental
13:26health matters and not to say the physical doesn't matter of course we still want to look good but
13:32now if we have to decide on our workout between doing something for aesthetics or doing something to
13:38help us like with more of that like actual health when it comes to like internal and mental that is
13:44kind of taking a priority over the aesthetic at this point for sure and honestly what that looks
13:49like for me i mean even you too we train even now more for strength than we do like muscle like tone
13:56or whatever you want to call it right like we want to be strong we want to be kind of physically
14:00able to do things more than we want to look at our baby he's heavy he's like like 30 pounds like
14:08and he wants to be held all day like he doesn't want to like be on the ground like a little koala
14:13bear he wants to be held so um that kind of puts us in a mindset like i want like if we're at disney
14:19world or disneyland and he wants to be held for a long time i want i need to be able to hold him for
14:24hour we want to do that we want to do that hold on now but i'm just saying we want to be able to i
14:32don't i want to i don't you know yeah yeah no a hundred percent um and then with that too i think
14:40obviously like it's changed our perspective and that has been one change but also another change
14:47of why we work out and how we work out has also been setting an example for him and
14:53a lot of people have said this over and over like you know your kids see what you do and they follow
14:58you they see what you do and they do what you do that is so real like he will try to i mean you saw
15:04the video of him trying to get into push-up or plank position whenever we're like working out filming a
15:10workout he's usually on the other side of the camera he will sit there and bounce when we're squatting
15:15i mean he it's like wild to see because he's a baby and i'm like how do you how are you knowing what
15:21we're doing but that he's seeing that and he's going to grow up knowing that exercise is a very
15:27important part of your lifestyle and it's not just to look good it is to be healthy he's going to
15:33know that his parents are strong he's going to know that his parents are doing everything they can
15:38to take their health into their own hands um and i want him to look at exercise that way too
15:43of course when he goes into playing sports and things like that he'll be training more specific
15:47but i don't want him to dread exercising i don't ever want to attack exercise that way and be like
15:54oh i have to work out today yeah it's i get to work out today and after that was taken away from me
15:59and even from him because when i was going through it he couldn't work out either he had to really help
16:04him be there once that's taken away from you you never take it for granted again you never look at it
16:09as i don't want to do this it's i get to do this you might dread certain workouts or certain exercises
16:15but the ability to move your body you don't ever take that for granted and so we want him to look
16:21at exercise and moving his body that same way so whether that's going on a walk whether it's you
16:28know lifting weights or going to play basketball whatever it is moving your body in some way
16:34is very important for longevity and we want to set that example for him yeah and that was one thing
16:40i just realized like um just as he kind of got older like how much he's paying attention to oh
16:46yeah and everything that we do like when we're when we roll out a mat in the living room and work out
16:50he's like staring at us intrigued yeah not even just intrigued he's like laughing at it like he's
16:56like entertained he'll just sit there and just watch us or sometimes he'll just stand by the
17:00the dumbbells and he's getting to grab yeah he'll try to grab the dumbbells and he's getting to this age
17:05too as well where he's like he wants to help and he wants to like share and give you things or like
17:10when we feed him he'll like share his food with you so like babies are sponges kids are sponges like
17:15they they see and they do so we understand the power of that and we want to just really continue that
17:21example as he gets older to where you know that's just something natural that he wants to do with his
17:26life he always wants to stay active i grew up a very had a very active lifestyle my dad had me in
17:31every sport every camp and i always see a lot of comments i hate this when people like don't force
17:35your kids to play sport it's not about playing sports yeah it's about teaching them the importance
17:41of activity moving their body and even if he becomes a painter he needs to move his body you know even if
17:47he does something that has nothing to do with sports he can be whatever he wants to be and he can get
17:53into whatever extracurriculars he wants to do but moving your body has nothing to do with playing
17:59sports it's for longevity regardless of what you choose to do for your extracurriculars so yeah so
18:05that's very that's been very important for us uh as we kind of gone along this journey so absolutely
18:11so i think those are kind of the different ways in which fitness has changed for us um which a lot of
18:18it we expected we knew you know like we are going to have to train a little bit differently we also
18:24before we had jakai we could go to the gym i could go for two hours if i wanted to
18:29you know but now that's not the case anymore like we don't have that expendable time but
18:35what i didn't expect out of it was how my perspective would do such a 360 and
18:41maybe if i didn't get sick after maybe it wouldn't have been as dramatic maybe but at the same time
18:47that healing from i had a c-section so the healing from a c-section that was also a big thing of having
18:53to train my core to get back into a place where i could do even the most simplest of exercises um but
19:00even like going back to doing a pull-up the first time i tried even just hanging there it felt like my
19:06my core was gonna rip it was the weirdest sensation and that was just a true testament of like what
19:12really was going on internally even though my scar was healed i was healed on the outside internally it
19:18was like oh my goodness you are nowhere near ready to do this pull-up and so um that was just kind of
19:24like a reminder of what your body really goes through and i think that was like four or five
19:29months postpartum too and so it's just kind of like your body goes through so much through pregnancy
19:35and you know that but until you're you feel it again it's kind of like oh my goodness yeah i need to
19:40like really take this time to heal so i didn't expect that big of a perspective but i'm almost glad it
19:47happened because it's really helped me to um take this journey at my own pace there's no rush there's
19:54no i don't need to get back to something physical i need to be able to heal so that i can do this for
20:01a long time you know i don't want to like rush back into the healing and then a year from now
20:05my core is not properly healed now i'm dealing with issues down the road so and that's another thing
20:10just with our profession and i know a lot of women go through this especially after they have
20:14uh babies and they feel this pressure to want to get back to their bodies you know especially like
20:20for us we're literally in front of a camera for a living right so you kind of have that
20:25you know and it's the pressure we put on ourselves it's not necessary like people understand look she
20:30just had a baby like of course she's not gonna obviously look her absolute best but it's the
20:34pressure that a lot of people um put on themselves to look a particular way and and that's why it's all
20:40about perspective too because even when she was like five or six months postpartum people was
20:45looking at her like wow like how'd you lose your you know baby weight so fast and and for her it was
20:53like she didn't care about that for her it's like yeah she might look the same or look better to a lot
20:59of you but she didn't feel strong she didn't feel like herself you know what i mean so the weight was
21:04back to normal but i was nowhere close to where she wanted to be and she's even to this day a year
21:10into it is still working to get back to where she was and she's made a lot of progress and she's
21:15stronger in certain areas than before before you know what i mean so i think it's all about perspective
21:20and for any trainers or people in the fitness industry i want to say like don't put that pressure
21:25on yourself like just focus on yourself focus on getting better um and who cares what the outside
21:31world thing because everybody has their own journey of where they need to get through everybody goes
21:35through this postpartum process a lot differently some people kind of get back to motion faster some
21:41people it takes a while and that's okay everybody's doing it's all about just focusing on yourself and
21:46you don't know what someone's going through like a lot of people didn't know how much i struggled with
21:51the postpartum pre-claims it was like yeah i had it and then it probably looked like everything was back
21:55to normal but i mean still i'm still in therapy once a week like it's still not back to normal but
22:01there was so much struggling that went on that a lot of people don't see so you never know what
22:06someone's going through postpartum too and it's like he said don't put that pressure on yourself
22:10but it is also easier said than done um but just a reminder that there's no pressure you know your
22:16body went through so much and you you hear it all the time like give your body grace like you're a
22:20human from scratch and you hear that and you know that but still your body and you still want to feel
22:26good so it can be really hard um so it's a journey it's definitely a process for sure um so with all
22:32that being said we want to also give you some tips on things that maybe have been beneficial for us to
22:39stay consistent but also find balance when it comes specifically to fitness but just wellness in
22:48general um because it is different for us and it's also been harder um the first thing i think we should
22:54talk about is being intentional um and i guess what we kind of mean by that too is like intentional
23:01with what you're trying to reach intentional with your goal um because it of course just speaking from
23:08my standpoint it can be easy to say like well i want to get back to what i was pre-pregnancy
23:12that might never be the case again you know like i again i could say like i want to get to my
23:18pre-pregnancy weight well i hit my pre-pregnancy weight really like a couple of months postpartum and i did
23:24not feel good at all so then it's like okay so what does that mean you know and so really be
23:29intentional with what you want to feel be intentional with what it is that you're trying to achieve
23:34because for most people you don't have the time that you once had um and so you really have to like
23:40hone in on what that goal is or what that overall thing is that you're chasing just be very specific
23:47and really just kind of hyper focus on what it is that you really want to get out of your journey
23:52but also we mentioned this in a previous podcast like you know have that primary goal but also
23:57understand the things that come with what you're trying to do so if your goal is to just kind of
24:02feel more confident again you want to feel strong again of course following in a program you know
24:06the nutrition all the good stuff but also just focus on you know or just understand that that just
24:11comes with just you're going to be healthier in general right just like you have that primary goal
24:16but focus on also the other things that are going to benefit you as well so be very specific with your
24:21goal but also with being intentional um for example that means be intentional with what you
24:27want to accomplish on a daily basis too as well that's one thing i had to learn a lot like if you
24:33kind of leave things in the air it's going to stay in the air you know what i mean so for example like
24:37i know um yesterday i was like look i want to start i just want to start the day with the workout
24:44right just have that mindset the day before i call it the day before mindset and if i keep it on my
24:48brain is most likely it's going to happen but if you go into it like uh i want to try to get in a
24:53workout tomorrow i want to try to get in some movement tomorrow it might not happen because
24:57you're not very intentional on what you want to accomplish and there has been days where i have
25:02been very intentional with what i wanted to accomplish you know but jakai had other plans
25:07he was very intentional you know what i mean exactly but at the same time on those days where i was
25:13intentional and things didn't go as planned i still found a way to do something you know what i mean
25:18i didn't get to go to the gym but i squeezed in 30 minutes at home of something um that i wanted to do
25:23because i had the mindset that i wanted to get in a good workout exactly so have that intentional
25:28mindset not only with your workouts your nutrition as well and that comes with preparation right so if
25:33you want like tomorrow let's say you want to just stay on track with your nutrition if you don't
25:37have anything prep just try to hit a head start on things and be intentional about what you want to
25:41have prep for you food wise if you want to be intentional with your workouts honestly they go
25:45hand in hand you got to be intentional with your nutrition as well so that's a big thing i had to
25:49learn is just having a proper mindset and the intention of getting things done when i need to get them
25:54done so the next thing i think is probably one of the most important is being realistic um with
26:01everything so being realistic with your goal being realistic with the time that you have to work out
26:06and when we say realistic too it's like be realistic when you set this program for yourself
26:12too because a lot of times um let's just use the app for example if there's a program that's five
26:18days a week people might be like okay i want to do this program six weeks i can do it but they know
26:23that they can only get in three days a week then they fall behind on the program and then they get
26:28frustrated and then they stop altogether right whereas if you would have just stuck with three days a week
26:34of a program then if you have a fourth day that pops up where you're like oh i've got time to do
26:39a workout today then you can squeeze in something like an extra cardio day extra strength day things
26:44like that so if you set yourself up for that realistic timeline it's also going to set you up for
26:49success but also you can get what you need done in that three days you don't have to work out
26:55five six seven days a week that's a big key right there a lot of times that is what kind of like
27:01deters people from their goal because they put this pressure that they have to work out every
27:06single day and don't confuse that with don't move every single day so you can get in a workout and
27:13then three days a week and then on the other days go on a walk go on a hike call it a workout if you
27:18want to but it's just intentional movement right but then let's say you don't get to go on a hike
27:24because you're so busy around the house you're still moving but you don't feel guilty for not getting in
27:30a workout right and so i think sometimes we lose sight of the fact that going on walks getting
27:36in movement by going to the grocery store playing with your kids all of those things if you're moving
27:41throughout the day it adds up and of course we can get into the details of like well it's not enough
27:47if i'm trying to build my glutes if i'm only working out two days a week okay sure that we're
27:51getting real you know so but be realistic then if you know you want to build your glutes but you can
27:56only get in three strength days a week one of those days needs to be a very glute emphasized
28:00day right and so we can get very specific into that but all in all be realistic with what you
28:07have the time for because that's going to set you up for success it's going to create consistency
28:12then once you create that consistency then you can always add on as you go yeah and i want to
28:18that's a good point like think of any program that you're following you have training days right
28:23we're training right we're trying to get better at something we're trying to achieve something right
28:28we're trying to go up and wait we're trying to hit our reps that we have planned right that's your
28:33training days so if you're saying like oh look i want to focus on having three to four training days
28:37a week those other days focus on movement where you're not necessarily training for something you're
28:42just trying to get in some type of active movement so for example on days we know like thursdays for us
28:47that's the day we know like realistically it's hard for us to get in a workout it's our busiest day of the
28:52week and it's also that day where it's just like we got to get through it like it's been a long week
28:56everything on thursdays we're tired sometimes jakai just doesn't sleep on wednesday nights
29:01just thursdays is just so we're just dragging you know what i mean so we it's the middle of the week
29:06slump he just hits a slump too you know so we kind of have this understanding like look thursdays
29:11you know we're not gonna train today like i don't we don't have the the we don't ever plan for a very
29:17heavy or like important training day on thursday for sure we're not in it to just try to get better
29:24that day we just want to move and stay active recover and then friday we like to just finish
29:29the week strong so just have that understanding of your schedule but also i want to add to um give
29:35yourself more time than you think you know what i mean because people put that pressure like i want
29:39to get back to it in two months and it's like you know you to get back into it two months requires you
29:44to really be um just on top of everything that might require a six day a week yeah exactly give
29:51yourself a little bit of kind of leeway with what you're trying to do so know that look yes i can make
29:56something happen in two months but just give me some you know give me some days where i might not
30:01be feeling good you're going to be sick or you're going to be um days where just schedule is crazy and
30:07if you just had a baby who knows what can happen you know what i mean so try to give yourself a little
30:11bit more time than what you think and then you can have some buffer time and really just kind of
30:15go at your own pace kind of take it slow and you're going to get there a lot faster than putting your
30:20pressure uh putting that pressure on yourself to try to get back quick you know what i mean so
30:24like you said i want to emphasize you can get great results and sometimes even better results
30:29doing three to four days a week of training than trying to do five six seven days we've had people
30:35say look i train seven day or i work out seven days a week i'm like where are you recovering when is
30:40your recovery time like and how long can you do this yes you know what i mean are you doing where
30:45you injure yourself or get burnt out so you mean tell me you're training 340 out of the 365 days a
30:53week i don't think that's a year really oh lord jeez a year you know i mean i don't think that's
30:59realistic you know what i mean so try to give yourself a little bit more time than what you think you need
31:03uh and don't put too much pressure on yourself to get back just quick yeah i like that comparison like
31:09the training versus the movement there is a difference so yeah and then the last key that
31:14we have for you is how important your nutrition really becomes especially if your training days
31:21get cut back so if you used to train four to five days a week now you only get in three or four days
31:27a week your nutrition is probably going to become even more important it's always important it's always
31:31the most important but now it's like you really got to focus on that as best as you can because
31:37that is going to be the difference maker too and so if you um know that your training days are cut
31:44back a little bit more just keep that nutrition in check really like focus on that not just to
31:49lose body fat stay lean or build muscle but also it's going to help you with that the energy levels
31:55it's going to help you within your recovery too um and especially especially getting those protein
32:02goals like that is going to be even more important as well so um yeah your nutrition focus on it as
32:09best as you can and so even if you're someone that's like well i don't have time to cook okay you have to
32:14order out you can make a better decision when ordering out instead of getting the fried chicken maybe get
32:19the chicken breast that's grilled or you know so just then making better decisions because we get it
32:25like there's been so many days where we forgot to take something out to thaw or we you know and
32:30jakai is eating complete solid meals now um and so if we have to order something we also have to be
32:38mindful now of what he's eating too um and so it's just made us make a lot better decisions too but
32:45with that being said it's also made us a lot more what's the word i'm looking for we've had to be a lot
32:51better with preparing meals ahead of time too or just preparing what we're going to eat ahead of
32:55time knowing that he's eating what we're eating now so we can't just like get away with just like
33:00ordering something quick anymore so we're like okay then what is he gonna eat like yeah um and i want
33:05to kind of emphasize just your the first four or five months of her journey like her biggest focus
33:12was her nutrition yeah she didn't even get like she got cleared to work out but she didn't feel
33:17comfortable working out just because with her blood pressure so like if she were to get her heart
33:21rate up or just to go really hard that was playing around with her blood pressure and her readings
33:25which we had to report these things back to her doctor to get anxiety i'm sorry to bring up the
33:30trauma but yeah the first four to five months nutrition was what got her to just even get to
33:36the point of feeling good enough to work out you know what i mean so if you're someone especially
33:40a woman who's um postpartum and you might not have gotten cleared initially to go work out that's
33:45where the nutrition can really just change just how you feel and even physically how you look as well
33:50you don't even really need to just feel like you need to train and we've mentioned this in previous
33:54podcasts like you can get to where you want you can lose body fat you can lose weight by just focusing
33:59on your nutrition and movement right and not necessarily focusing on the training aspect of
34:04everything so that's a very good point um because like a lot of people like how did you lose the baby
34:10weight so fast like i'm you know i've been working i've been doing that i didn't strength train until
34:16close to five months postpartum and all i did all i did was go on walks and maybe some stretching
34:23stretching and then like some core work like just your pt stuff yep and i started pt around three
34:28months postpartum and it was like deep breathing no planks not it was literally just like breathing
34:33and like focusing on that pelvic um mind muscle connection and so four or five probably like four
34:40and a half five months i started strength training and it was all body weight to begin with too
34:44um but all i did was focus on my nutrition and every day we went on a walk like and that was
34:49something we did together mostly for the mental health too like those walks were just so important
34:54for us um but that's all i did and i lost my baby weight i do want to preface that i strength
35:00trained pretty much up until i gave birth too and that played a big big role because i had a lot of
35:05muscle which helped my metabolism um so that played a big part in that as well but all of that to say
35:11like it is that walking is important but that nutrition huge back to what i said earlier i also
35:17was very very very detailed with my nutrition just because of the preeclampsia but um yeah i that's what
35:25i did though you know and that's what helped a lot and in turn because he was cooking he also
35:30was very very well because he was making the meals and i was so serious i was like you know and he was
35:37serious about it too because we wanted to get me healthy so all that to say your nutrition does play
35:42a very big part but it also helped my healing the nutrients i was eating my biggest thing i told him
35:48every meal i need protein i need protein i need protein and that i make these uh i call it a protein
35:53snack pack protein snack pack they were huge it's like one of a protein snack pack in our household is
35:59when you kind of have some extra protein left over you kind of put it in a little small container
36:03yeah and there's always this point in every day with toy is like i need some protein and then boom
36:08protein snack pack no they were huge in the recovery especially when like we were so into
36:14jakai land where it was like we didn't have time to cook something where i was like i just need
36:19something protein snack pack in the fridge ready to go and i mean there was like a turkey patty we had
36:24left over a little bit of chicken breast makes a big difference some shrimp yeah if you pack your
36:28food for lunch or for work hey make a little protein snack pack thank me later um anyways that's
36:35pretty much uh the tips that we have for you again to kind of re-emphasize be intentional about your
36:41goals be intentional about what you want to accomplish um because again time is limited you
36:46have a baby you have kids and even for all of you who have multiple kids you know like you don't have
36:51that much time so you really have to have a mindset and be intentional about what you want to
36:55accomplish not only over three six month period but also tomorrow yeah you know what i mean yeah
37:00um be realistic have a realistic training frequency and always start we always say start
37:04slow yeah start always add you know three days a week does not mean you're not going to see results
37:10fast like it also again doesn't mean those other days you're doing nothing you know you can move
37:14every day yep train three days a week kind of have that kind of mindset um but create a realistic
37:20frequency uh frequency what you want to accomplish on a weekly basis and then also really dial in on
37:25that nutrition now one thing i want to add with that i say it all the time and i'm gonna keep saying
37:29it i don't care how annoying it gets really learn about nutrition right really learn about what you're
37:35putting into your body be knowledgeable about it especially if you're someone who doesn't cook
37:39or doesn't prepare your own foods and you have to order out it's not realistic to say everybody can do
37:44that um but if you're someone like that ordering out you can kind of have a better
37:48understanding about the decisions and the choices that you make um with some of the food that you're
37:53choosing when you're ordering so that's a big key i just really understand more about food and that's
37:57going to change your perspective on how um you know what you put into your body in regards to your
38:02training and the goals that you're trying to reach and then one thing i also want to add to
38:06just as that i've kind of learned um you know especially those of you who might have multiple kids or
38:12you just don't have time you work a lot throughout the day find your time yep and i feel like a lot of
38:18us know like whether it's monday wednesdays and thursdays or on saturdays find your time where you
38:24know you have room to work out so for me even just a little pocket up a little pocket so for me if
38:30i really want to have like i it's easier for me to have like a those days where i can be at the gym
38:36for an hour and a half but that requires me to go at 5 a.m but i don't mind getting up if that means
38:42me you know getting in a great workout i'm gonna give up at 5 a.m so if that's for you 5 to 7 a.m
38:48to where your kids are still sleeping you can get in some workout find that time to where again be
38:53intentional about what you want to do and get up and get in your workout because you know if you
38:58don't have that time the rest of the day is not going to happen so find that time toy has those time
39:03and pockets throughout the week where she has nothing and she can really just you know focus on getting
39:08in the work and also i want to emphasize the workout on the weekends y'all just because of
39:12the weekend i mean i don't know why people like those days count as workout days training and i'm
39:16not being selfish like on youtube we see those numbers dip because people don't like to work
39:20out on the weekends but it's key like that's probably the best time to work out you might
39:24have even more time or it might be where you have less time kids are more active have like sports or
39:29things that you have to take them to on the weekends where you know the weekends i can't get in a
39:33workout so you need to be way more intentional during the week too and i'll emphasize to that
39:39point i know what you're about to say good what oh no oh well work out with your kid is that what
39:46you're gonna say there's been so many times that i had to work out with jakai and he is a koala bear
39:52he loves to be held and i'm like you know what this is the only time i have to work out what i was
39:57gonna say was if you're breastfeeding it is so much harder to find those times because if
40:03you're working out with full breasts it's painful if you are feeding but then you have to do something
40:08else in the middle and then you're getting close to that feeding time again you're like if i work
40:12out right now it's gonna hurt like it makes it harder trust me and so there have been times where
40:18i'm like this is the time i have to work out if i don't work out right now it's not getting done
40:22today but jakai really needs to be held he needs me i'm holding him i'm working out i might pivot my
40:28workout a little bit that's okay i'm still getting in something and so what i was gonna say was even
40:34if you're very intentional and he brought this up earlier you might have to pivot sometimes but the
40:39intention doesn't change and you're being realistic because you know okay am i going to be able to do
40:45this workout holding him absolutely not so i might have to change what i'm doing and that's okay so
40:50i since he's been born i don't think i've ever had a time where i can work out for an hour and a
40:54half it doesn't work just with breastfeeding and so i have to be very intentional with that time that
41:00i have but the time i get to the gym warm up get in my workout and have to get back home to feed him
41:05the warm-up is usually here yeah and then you know you got the hour with jakai here and then i probably
41:11have a actual training time of 50 minutes because then it's time to go back home and so again in that
41:18time i know i have to be intentional that means please don't talk to me please don't interrupt me
41:23i gotta focus i gotta lock in right like you really just have to get that workout in
41:28and then you know so yeah it's being intentional is very important because it really is like
41:34sometimes you only have 30 minutes and if 10 minutes of that time is spent scrolling yeah now
41:38you only have 20 minutes yeah look i'm apologizing in advance if y'all ever in the same gym with us
41:44and y'all see us look it's nothing personal say hi you say hi look i get it but we you know we on
41:51the clock you know what i mean we we are very locked in and that's the biggest thing that changed
41:55for us it's like we don't lollygag anymore we don't like my my screen time at the gym is very
42:01low you set your playlist and go so that's the playlist and go so um we hope you enjoyed this
42:06podcast today just a little perspective on just parenthood and fitness we kind of wanted to give
42:10you some tips but also our perspective uh maybe you can kind of relate to um what the things we kind
42:16of experienced over the last year or so can't believe like we're celebrating him being a one
42:22year that's wild to me i just remember he was a little nugget you know he's still alone he was
42:27just born yesterday so i don't know i don't know how we're doing a one-year-old podcast he was just
42:32born yesterday literally just it doesn't make sense but um time goes fast and you know just embrace
42:37every moment the best year it's literally been the best year it's been the hardest year but it's been
42:42the best year how did we even live without him i don't know it doesn't make sense um but you know
42:47we learn more than if there's one thing i can add we've embraced every moment more than i think we've
42:54because time is flying so fast it's like you know days where we just don't feel like it or you know
42:59we just are dragging around and we see him smiling and crawling around the floor we're just like
43:03every single moment we try to embrace because you know three months from now he's going to be a
43:08completely different human so and that's one thing i'll say is i think one thing that kind of
43:14bothers me what people said is when people are like you're never going to sleep again it's awful
43:18it's dreadful and of course you are tired and of course it's hard but one thing that's helped me is
43:25when he wakes up in the middle of the night i don't go into it with that mindset because it makes it even
43:30harder i go into it as like what my brother actually said this one day when i was like he woke up
43:37x amount of times my brother's like oh he missed you and when you go into it thinking of like he
43:42wakes up and he's looking for you like to me i'm like yes let me come for you you know and
43:47the mindset of that of course that doesn't change how tired i am but it does change how i approach it
43:53and how it makes me feel and it also makes it a little bit easier for me it might be different for
43:59you but for me just going into it like that and like holding him and snuggling him and loving him i'm
44:04like there is going to be a time where he's going to wake up and put himself back to sleep and i don't
44:09get those snuggles anymore and that's kind of how i have approached it and i don't go into it
44:14negatively because then it makes everything harder so but also again we had that time taken away from
44:20us where we didn't get to do that like we wanted to and so now we take advantage of those snuggles and
44:25we take advantage of that time because it's not forever and we do i we're tired but we get enough
44:32sleep like i got seven hours and 14 minutes yesterday i can't say the same but you know like
44:37that's the thing like he's getting up at five to work out and so like he said that's the sacrifice
44:42sometimes that comes with making sure you get in a workout but all that to say everyone's journey
44:48is different everyone's heart is going to be different i say that and there's still going to be
44:52someone that's going to comment on this and say just wait till you have two more like two more
44:56okay it's going to be harder there's people who have two kids who are have a lot harder situation
45:01than people who might even have six exactly like it just depends on the situation to that point
45:06everyone's parenthood journey is hard in a different way and we don't need to make it harder for someone
45:11by leaving comments that make it harder making comparisons yeah my mom had seven she made it look
45:17easy now that i'm a mom with one i'm like in a way what what and my mom was a single mother of seven
45:22and so i'm like but she made it when i was a child she made it look like we had everything we needed
45:28we were always taken care of and like we had each other but to that point we had each other and so
45:33maybe having those six other ones like we took care of each other jakai just has him so he wants one
45:38of us to you know and so to that point everyone's journey is hard comparing it doesn't make it any easier
45:45everyone has their own hard um and and you just find the best way to go through that journey and
45:53make it work for you sure so and then you know along with a little teamwork anything is possible
45:58teamwork that's right all right so now that we've gone through that that's kind of been our year
46:04experience um if y'all can do us a favor in the comments say happy birthday jakai our big one-year-old
46:12um and uh also down in the comments let us know how your um experience has changed as you had kids
46:20or you might be someone who's inspiring to have children one day um and just kind of leave like
46:25things that you kind of uh anything that you learned from this podcast that you can take with you
46:30um but we just we love the comments that you guys continue to leave comments for us we love engaging
46:34with you and reading uh just some of your stories and some of your testimonials um it kind of
46:39really just helps us just honestly just relate um and just kind of see some of your stories as well
46:44so drop those uh down or if you have tips that we didn't yeah give us some tips you stay consistent
46:48hey listen we're new here we'll take all the tips now we love tips we love tips but uh but that being
46:53said it's only fair if we do a parent joke parent joke parent joke you first all right you go first
47:00only got one today i got one also okay uh what type of cow is good at basketball i don't know but
47:08that's crazy because mine involves a cow too but um a mover a a cow's good at basketball it's a dead
47:19giveaway it's where it's kind of the hint is right in front of you
47:24give me help yeah kobe kobe beef kobe beef i didn't know a kobe cow honestly i don't know i think
47:38that's just type of beef i thought i don't know kobe i don't know kobe all right that's a good one
47:44mine is also a cow but not basketball okay here we go what do you get when you cross an ornery
47:51sheep with a crabby cow ornery sheep with a crabby cow what do you get i don't even know what that
47:59means so just go ahead like ornery is like like like i'm just acting a little bad
48:04like like think when jakai like grabs your moat and you say put that down he's like
48:11yeah right with a crabby cow
48:15a sheep and a cow
48:20i don't know a real bad mood
48:26wait come on bad mood
48:28a real bad mood
48:32please stop can we please stop i'm about to shut this camera off
48:36actually you know what i got one more okay i'm mad you had to end on that
48:40um why did the worker only get sick on his days off
48:47he only got sick on his days off because he didn't recover
48:53i thought you had a real answer
48:55he wasn't recovering properly so every time he had the time to rest he was sick
49:00nah he had a weakened immune system
49:02i get it so he had lupus all right all right so thank you all
49:14he didn't have lupus he just had a weekend weekend immune system
49:17weekend he only got sick on the weekend
49:20these were awful i'm sorry
49:21a real bad mood we're gonna get better as parents joke tellers
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