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How Fitness Changed My Life: A Personal Journey
In this gripping episode, I sit down with Kordae, known as Fitness Babe 22, to explore her incredible transformation from struggling with body image to becoming a beacon of empowerment in the fitness community. Kordae candidly shares her journey—how she ventured into her fitness routine with Sean T's "Insanity" program and its ripple effect on her life. From facing the ups and downs of her health journey to becoming a motivational speaker, she exemplifies how resilience can shape our paths in unforeseen ways. Kordae and I discuss the pivotal moments that changed her mental outlook toward fitness, including her unforgettable encounters with Sean T, whose impact fueled her desire to inspire others. Throughout this engaging conversation, listeners will discover the importance of community support, the intertwining of mental health with fitness, and the delicate balance between personal wellness and societal pressure. Moreover, Kordae unveils her aspirations to become a certified fitness coach, driven by a passion to empower others. She shares invaluable insights on trusting the process and the importance of self-acceptance in one’s fitness journey. If you're navigating your health and fitness path, this episode is packed with relatable stories, friendly laughter, and practical advice to motivate you along the way. Join us for an uplifting dialogue that will not only resonate with anyone interested in fitness but will also inspire listeners to embrace their uniqueness. Remember, the journey to wellness is personal and should be rooted in authenticity. Ready to transform your approach to fitness? Tune in now and follow Kordae for continued inspiration!
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Music. It's all me and I chopped it off. Don't deal with it. Don't deal with it. But I'm still doper than what they had thought. Forget what they thought. Don't live my life in a box. If I did, it'd be the Cuba Rubik's. You too, stupid, foolish, never figure it out. But sometimes I like to shout I can get loud that all that time I ain't that loud. I might just hop in the crowd little bit, do the dab, then show them how to whip myself. Hey, bro, you can't say that.
Speaker 2:Is that too raunchy? All right, what's going on? Everybody, it's your boy modest. Back again with another episode of animation and activism. Today I have a very, very special guest, one of my closest friends from back in a day when I went to undergrad at bowie state. Uh, she used we used to party all the time. She took on this moniker of her own saying that she was so fine her name had to rhyme three times. I know her as Cordae Sine Mae. To the common folk, to the regular people, you know her as Fitness Babe 22. What up, how you doing.
Speaker 3:Thank you for the introduction, Jamal, and I'm great. Hey, what's going on everyone? It's your girl, Cordae, aka Fitness Babe 22. Kind of my thing.
Speaker 2:It is. It is kind of my thing. Yeah, it is, it is. You know, uh, and I've seen this journey from um for a long time. You know, uh, when I knew you, you've always been a plus size woman, right, yes, so, um, I've watched you go from one uh, I'm not gonna say end of spectrum, but like from one size, and then really like narrow in and focus on fitness and health and go to a complete different person, like it's a total 180, a different transformation. What got you into fitness to begin with?
Speaker 3:Yes, that's a great question, jamal, and thank you so much that you have recognized my journey and you've seen it. That means a lot to me. So I started my journey about, I would say, 10 to 12 years ago, when I was in college. I started with Sean T's workout. If anyone is familiar with Sean T, it's called Insanity. Familiar with Shaunti, it's called Insanity. My roommate and I, taylor at the time we watched the video we were like we're going to do this. But we were like, oh hell, no, we're not doing that. In my mind, I'm like I'm going to do it.
Speaker 3:I've always been motivated. I've always been determined and persistent and something so rigorous. I knew that I can do it. I was like 21 at the time. I don't even know why I thought I can do it, but I know that summer and it's my home and I completed 60 days and it all started there with insanity. I've completed the program copious amounts of times. I've also I'll say I've done it all. I've ran miles, I ran outside, inside, I didn't lift weights, I didn't bend to the gym a thousand times. I'm pretty gritted. All the machines. I still utilize the platform of insanity. So I mean, nothing really got me into it I, just of insanity so I mean, nothing really got me into it.
Speaker 2:I just we good, now we good. Yeah, I thought you just had some janky wi-fi all about like you gotta upgrade that xfinity over there is this cool?
Speaker 3:someone was calling me, they needed my services, um, but just to reference with what I was saying, I got into fitness honestly because I wanted to change my life. To be quite frank, um, I was, I was, I was unhappy with myself and I just I thought, well, at that time it was the way to go. So that's kind of my journey. And um, sean T, like he completely changed my life. I've met him twice. He's amazing.
Speaker 2:How was that experience?
Speaker 3:Oh, my goodness, it was magical, I shall say, because this is someone who has merely impacted my life on so many different tiers. The first time I met him, I met him in Dallas, texas, in August, and it was about 300 people in the line August, and it was about 300 people in the line and I, the type of person I am I wasn't about to be the the next person in line. I literally, uh, had my tripod up. I went over there. I said, hey, what's going on? Everyone, it's your girl Cordae, aka Fitness Day 22.
Speaker 3:My idol here is Sean T. I made it and, um, he was so amazed and like I just showed him who I was, like I am, I am great, I am dynamic, I'm resilient. I needed to show someone who has impacted my life who I was. So now, like, he connected with me on Instagram after that and he, he followed me and we communicate all the time. We communicate all the time.
Speaker 3:Um, so the second time when I see him he had an event in miami this past weekend and when I seen him was just more so like we're friends. Now we have a rapport, love you. It was more personable, I would say so and like crazy thing, when he was promoting this event, he chose me to open up the promo video. My friend sent it to me and I opened the video. She was like did you see this? I'm like, okay, I'm gonna watch it. And I I kept watching and I started hearing my voice. I'm like, oh, my goodness, like I couldn't believe that he chose me. You know it. But but I can believe it because I'm one of a kind.
Speaker 2:I've always been this way, I will say that I will attest to that. You know, you've always had like this, this, like this personality, this, this bright pop. Like I'm here. You're going to know I'm here, whether you like it or not, you're going to know I'm here, you're gonna know I'm here.
Speaker 2:Whether you like it or not, you're gonna know I'm here. There have been times I'm like, damn, she won't shut up. I don't like, but like you know. But but that's just that. It's been you like since I know you before. I've known you nine times out of ten. You know that's just been who you are, this, just this personality. So to see somebody like that gravitate towards you, you know, kind of to me it validates it in a way, because it's like, it's somebody that you know, you looked up to like and he sees it. Everybody know, you see it, because everybody know Cordae May Like that was just what we went by. So it's amazing and it's great to see your transformation and your growth and you know, your ability to meet somebody that you aspire to be like and that you looked up to for so long. How did that? Did that boost your confidence at all, did that? What did that do for you on, like, a mental level?
Speaker 3:That is a great question, jamai. Honestly, I will highly or strongly agree with you. When you said how someone of that like who I aspire to be like notices who I am, that I'll say that validates the person that I know I'm becoming, or who I've always been um. So definitely validity, for sure. But like I've already, I've already known this about myself. You know, I'm just like when am I going to really execute it? You know, because I want the neighbors know my name, my name, my name.
Speaker 2:So I'm just like I don't know if this is the way Trey was talking about it, but oh, I was just trying to put in. Okay, I didn't know if you was.
Speaker 3:I was trying to be like the world, like.
Speaker 2:The world know you're not Right.
Speaker 3:It was a little analogy, but it wasn't like yeah, so whatever Trey called it, okay I don't think y'all talk about the same way.
Speaker 2:People write me out your name Like you was talking about something totally different. So I'm just saying you know I'm screaming okay.
Speaker 3:The world need to know I'm screaming. Okay, the world need to know I need to see my name in lights. Is that a better one?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's better, I'll take that. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's from back in the day.
Speaker 2:Tyena, tyena, thank you, this is animation and activism, everything kids show back in the day, come on.
Speaker 3:This is what.
Speaker 2:I do. Why would what I do like that in your face?
Speaker 3:like that I don't know I apologize yeah but um, I would say what was the question how did that affect you mentally to meet somebody you idolize.
Speaker 3:Yeah, validity a, b, I would say that definitely put a flame onto me for sure. Right, I'll say that for sure. And it also affected me mentally. How can I wow, this is this is it is affecting me mentally overall. Like I have changed who I am, just in general. Like I I'm going to be candid I had a drinking problem, not like oh, I'm alcoholic, because I really thought I was for a long time, and so I'm just like, if I can control this, then is it real, is it really alcoholism?
Speaker 3:But, um, on this new journey, I'll say that I'm on ever since I met him and I'm like, ok, how can I be better? What can I do to reach, you know, my goal of success? I had I had to stop drinking and I didn't even. I mean, I still drink and I have a little cocktail. But like I have no desire, really my desire focus, focus and focus. It has, like meeting him has, like I stated previously, put a flame under me. Like I've networked. Crazy there, people were coming up to me saying, oh my god, I've seen you online, you're so inspirational. And like, again, that was more validity. And I'm just like, wow, like they really know who I am again. That was more validity and I'm just like, wow, like they really know who I am, like like how? I mean I know who they are because we're in this community. It's called a community and, um, it is a community and shaunty is the community leader right okay and um, it's a beautiful community.
Speaker 3:Like even when it's this event, people were coming up to me like I love you so much, cordae. Right, I need to take a picture with you. Oh my God, your energy is contagious and it's like it's just really getting to me mentally, like in a positive way, like the drinking hanging out. I've merely exercised myself myself, jama, from so many people and I'm talking about you know, we used to know a lot of friends like what center of the center you know spotlight yeah right and I'm just like and I was listening to david goggins over there he's like it's lonely at the top, you know everybody can't come with you.
Speaker 3:it's just like meeting Sean T, like my, I would say my mind has changed drastically, just in a way, in thinking like a successful person, honestly being disciplined, time management, um posting online. I need to working out in the morning, um changing my nutrition, like again ostracizing myself from people who aren't on my tier and I'm not saying that my tier is higher than theirs or vice versa, but we're not on the same.
Speaker 2:Y'all not on the same road At all At all You're going left they're going right. They both go across the country Right.
Speaker 3:And you're talking in my ear, bleed. I'm just like you feel me. Y'all talking about don julio echo folio and I'm trying to get up at 5 am lifting weights. I ain't no, don julio echo folio nothing, nothing.
Speaker 3:I'm like, I'm like what are your goals this week? I don't know, what is your passion in life? Like I'm telling you that when I met him, I'm like that flame, I'm asking questions, I'm trying to figure out what's what you know and like, honestly, like after meeting him, people just start dropping like flies, honestly. So, to answer your question, jamal, it just changed like my, my mental in a positive direction and thinking like a successful person right.
Speaker 2:So in that, you know, uh, that's crazy. You know I'm just thinking about like that, that's really crazy, like, but in such a good way that you know it's fun you to be like that and continue to push you on your journey, to make you, you know, want to lose, do everything you're doing. Um, from my perspective, the outside, looking at it, look like you, you know, a positive thing doing great. I see the pictures. I'm like that's the same girl from back in the day.
Speaker 2:So I do that's like how so how much weight did you lose and what's been the hardest part of that?
Speaker 3:that's a great question. So, oh, hi, leila, um kitty, how you doing cat? She wants to be a part, of course. Hey, leila, okay, sorry, so so that's a rude man I just don't understand, like she just layla, get, get down, get down, layla, she's not gonna get down. Sorry, apologize about that, but she, she wants to be in the podcast and she wants to also talk about her fitness journey as well. Uh, but back to your question. Um, so I have.
Speaker 3:My weight has been fluctuating for the past 12 years, jamaa like I'm talking about it had been up down, round around, all around town, okay, but um, in my newest journey, which was last year, I would say um, and let me, before that, I'll say like, 2020 was probably like, one of like was my heaviest. One of my like, one of my times like in my life, was the heaviest Because you know the pandemic I was eating green beans, tomato, tomato, chicken, turkey, chicken, turkey.
Speaker 2:You name it.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Literally. So it was just like yeah, it was giving blimps.
Speaker 2:So, 2021, it was giving blimp, so uh, so 2021, I gotta get with y'all. Don't get me canceled, man, at least you talk about yourself.
Speaker 3:Listen, I look at those pictures like that is eating hot. It's no way out. Can you curse with it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it ain't no way out, so curse with it yeah, there's no way out.
Speaker 3:So, uh, with this podcast. So, oh, I'm sorry, javon, okay anywho, 2020, blimp status. So 2021, I'm like, listen, I gotta get it together. And the only way I knew how to get it together was cardio. We're working out from home and I did the ketogenic diet four weeks. I lost 20 pounds. From then, I think I lost 40 pounds that year. So I think I was like 230 and I got to like 170 maybe. So I was good. I was cruising.
Speaker 3:Two years in, I met this guy. He ruined my life. I start back at it again, thanksgiving, you know so. And then, um, I'll say the end of last year, which was october of 2023, um, I had a lot, a lot going on and, and so that they have overcame those barriers, I've reached, like my heaviest again, literally gained all the weight back 40 pounds. Um, and I wanted to uh, mention the ketogenic diet because it's not healthy. I'm telling y'all now is a hoax. But, yeah, I gave you 20 pounds in four weeks. But, um, yeah, and I thought cardio was the way, weightlessness is the way, but that, for your question, I was 224 pounds. I told the 2023.
Speaker 3:And I started with my cardio. What I was doing. I moved into a new place and I started distant weights and so I'll say I probably lost about 30 pounds since then. But I went to my uh, my ob-gyn. I got weighed there because I don't use the scale, um and I was, I'm like 198 now, so I so I'm like probably a good 24 pounds down, but I've been lifting a lot of weights, so it's a lot of strength there opposed to fat, um, so let's say, 40 pounds okay, okay, yeah, because if you go to my instagram at fitness day, 22 underscore, and you go like down um, my um, just a little, this scroll, keep scrolling.
Speaker 3:Go to my um, what is it called halloween? And give and B it's given. Who's this, who's that, who's that girl? Crazy, I'm like that was not me, but yeah, it was you.
Speaker 2:It was you, ok, ok, you know that's your journey. So everybody's got a journey.
Speaker 3:I was getting the niggas back then and now I don't have not one phone call. I'm like, but these niggas are going to answer me, y'all like fat girls. I'm just saying, but that's another story for another day.
Speaker 2:So animation and activism is all for body positivity. I just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying the niggas like the BB, what I like my girl BB they ain't like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they on their drizzy.
Speaker 3:My phone was lit up.
Speaker 2:It is what it is, though, w-i-d Going down the line because it's not, it's all about body positivity, but at a certain point, you know, health does come and play a factor. So you know, one of the things I, um, I always talk about with people, you know, there's some people who genetically their predisposition to be larger. You know that there's some things you can do, but at the same time that it is what it is, but, um, it does get to a certain point where weight can be detrimental to your health and you have to do something about it. So, uh, for somebody like you who didn't get to that point, you know to go ahead and step up and do it. And I'm yeah, you know I'm a little little chub. I got a little little chub right here, you know I talked about this I mean, I've been working, I've been working on myself.
Speaker 2:Actually, you know, I see you and I'm like damn corday did that, so I gotta. So, uh, for christmas I bought my kwanzaa, christmas last kwanzaa, because we do a little bit of both we do both okay yeah, um, I put a home gym in my house for my wife, in the garage, so I put the mats down, all the rubber mats. I already had a punching bag out there, a heavy bag, so I like to do kickboxing. That's my, that's, that's my shit, that's my go-to.
Speaker 2:I love that I got her the weight set. The bench Already had an ab wheel, Already had a resistance band joint. We just needed to upgrade. I've upgraded it. We're going to continue to upgrade it because there's more stuff we want to put in the house. Just to make working out easier. And we have this garage. We don't put our, we don't put our cars in there, so it's like we might as well use it for something other than storage, because right so, uh, you know it's, but to see other people like you said, to see other people be able to do it, is very, uh, inspiring.
Speaker 2:I've lost, um. Since the year started, I uh lost four pounds. Okay, I'm like, okay, I'm getting back but I gained it back.
Speaker 2:That is great I gained it back, but so I'm worked on losing it. You feel me? I was down. I went to this award show in the beginning of december. I was down to 20. I was on like I was on the 205. Okay, all right, I hit my goal. 205, okay, that's my, that's my. I was my award show goal. My overall goal was like 190, but like, all right, cool, I'm 205, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna look good in this I'm good like yeah I'm gonna be fired.
Speaker 2:My wife got this beautiful dress. We're gonna be the. We're gonna be the finest, flyest motherfuckers in there. And we was. That was it. That was we was. But you know, after that I started a new job and my job was mad far from my house, so I ended up like I got home, I'd be getting home late, so I stopped and I wasn't working from home anymore, because I used to work from home.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So I just wasn't. I didn't have as much time to work out, so now I'm just kind of figuring that schedule back out. Right, trying to figure out that my workouts in. And because what happened? I went from my 205. I went back up to 211. And I was like oh shit, and it was like that.
Speaker 2:So I had to work to get it back down. But I look at people like you and I'm like damn. You know people can do this, because I've seen you go you know your ups and downs and come down. And then I've also seen you. You know you dipped into the fitness business, to the business aspect of it. But so what are you doing with that, with the fitness business aspect?
Speaker 3:That's also a great question, Jamal. So what? I'm doing like on my page, like I call. Well, I am. I'm a fitness coach, I'm a motivator and, like I get up every morning, up every morning I'm also a motivational speaker. Ultimately, I want to be a successful online fitness coach or personal trainer. Currently, I am studying to be a certified personal trainer through NASM, that is, the National Academy of Sports Medicine. I have a tutor. We'll be getting it in. I'll have my certification very soon. How's?
Speaker 2:that go for you Because, like with with fitness, I've noticed and you know you're more knowledgeable than I am, but like it seems very superficial, so like they want people want their trainers to look a certain way, they want them to talk a certain way. So for you, because you're still within your journey, how is that? How is that aspect, that fitness, that coaching aspect of it?
Speaker 2:Like what you mean Like, is it more difficult to like get people behind you because you're still on your journey, or do you see it like it's easier because they can grow with you?
Speaker 3:that's a great question. I honestly feel it is. It's easy for me because I always I feel I have a huge following. I mean, I have like a good 3,000 for almost 3,000 followers on Instagram. But I think that's a lot of people. A lot of people watch my story daily. I receive accolades throughout the week. They're asking questions, people are watching, so I know that I have that following already. Now, with how can I say this Because I have a lot how or how I feel about you know that whole, they want their personal trainer to look a certain way and things like that. I mean, honestly, I think I look amazing. I want to be quite frank, like my like, welcome to the gun show.
Speaker 2:But um, now, I can't be serious. I'm trying so bad like, but the guns, the gun show is crazy, the gun show is wild.
Speaker 3:Um, how I feel honestly. How can I say this? A huge following already, so I know that, like people have already been reaching out to me regarding training and things like that, I'm like, yes, you know, totally willing. However, you know, I want to obtain my certification first.
Speaker 3:Before you know, I go full throttle and even with my studies currently I know that there is a lot that I'm learning that I did not know, you know, and like I need to learn how to, or I am learning how to allocate fitness to my clients, as opposed to just myself and my body, you know. So that's what I'm learning in my studies. Now, this is how I feel about the status quo of fitness or personal trainers, I would say and how clients view them.
Speaker 3:Yes, they want them to have abs and we want them to look away. But these people like we were just talking about genetics these people probably just have abs because they have abs. I've met personal trainers Like I actually work at a gym at the front desk full of towels, but like I'm there because I, you know, once I, you know, obtain my certificate, I'm already in the gym. I get a lot of recommendation, everything I have a plan. But there are trainers there that I've spoken to that I'm just like what are you talking about? You know, these are people who don't eat well, who probably don't tell their clients to eat well, or what workouts are good for them, or like it's just, like it's mind-boggling and like society runs on results and that's not. And this is where I come in. Trust the process. Trust the process, and that's what I want to allocate to my clients and to anyone who's listening or watching this podcast. Trust the process.
Speaker 3:People want results, results, results. This is results-driven. Why? Because you want to look a certain way For who, not for yourself. I only get weight when I go to my doctor because the scale doesn't define who I am. You know, my toes define who I am. I look in the mirror when I go to the gym and I'm lifting heavier, when I'm moving quicker, when I'm like just now I went to the grocery store. I have a 32 pack of something and I think I was on Schwarzenegger walking up the steps.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we used to call me to come pick it up and say oh yeah, back in the day in the college.
Speaker 3:Hey, jamar, I can go.
Speaker 2:You in your room, come grab this water I'm about to bring this over here and like and I'm not taking it.
Speaker 3:We had that whole elevator in Boobly still not doing it. Can you take it up to steps right there? You should come from um. What's the dorm name?
Speaker 2:and I stayed everywhere. I stayed at canard, I stayed at buoy place, I stayed at homes and you and you were ra.
Speaker 3:It's given safety. You know you're a safety elementary, whatever it is all right all right, wait a little, god.
Speaker 2:But yeah, because, they, because they just that was the, the look. You know my aesthetic, yeah, and then I was choking you out in your room, so let's talk about that video so for everybody listening watching we were in college, cordae was trying to fight me and I was not.
Speaker 2:So she tried, I wrestled. So I had to let her know, like yo, leave me alone. So I had to get on her back and put the elbow in her a little bit, like yo, chill out, chill out. And we was good, we laughed about it, it wasn't a serious thing.
Speaker 3:It's a mount. That's what they say. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody. Mind you, it's 10 people in the room and him and I just well, I was doing right, he had me I was I could. I told her leave me alone.
Speaker 2:I told her leave me alone all the time.
Speaker 3:Why was I? All the time why was I doing that? This is water, by the way.
Speaker 2:This is water.
Speaker 3:You thought it was a red cup.
Speaker 2:We talk about fitness. I buy red cups. I buy a hundred pack, because that's what the store sells.
Speaker 3:They have blue.
Speaker 2:I'm not looking anywhere else. It's not blue cups for the cheap, it's red cups for the low. I'm getting red cups.
Speaker 3:That's what he said, but this is water.
Speaker 2:We're talking about fitness. I want everybody to know I'm drinking water.
Speaker 1:I pretty much only drink water.
Speaker 2:I got my cucumber lemon infused water with a little ginger and turmeric in there for health.
Speaker 3:Like I said, I'm trying.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to do better with all of that.
Speaker 3:Don't try dude.
Speaker 2:Facts I'm going to do it.
Speaker 3:Facts yes, Change of words. The words that we speak into the universe. We cast spells.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do it.
Speaker 3:There you go. You said you don't have the time. The number one, the number one barrier that I've learned in my studies that um individuals struggle with, but working out with the lack of time, lack of time, you can do a 10 minute workout, 20 minute workout, 30 minute workout. So do you encourage people just to?
Speaker 2:just that five. Just get five ten minutes in, if you got it easy.
Speaker 3:The goal is to move. The goal is to move and another five ten minutes of movement is good.
Speaker 2:Would you say that that's enough for like somebody that's trying to lose weight?
Speaker 3:that's, you're good I mean not necessarily good. I think that it's a start, because not that. And another thing is trust the process. I wouldn't recommend like, yes, I want to lose weight, but I would recommend for a client learn to sacrifice time to work out. Can you be consistent? These are two things time consistency. Are you going to do that? Because anyone could say, hey, I want a flat tummy and a fat ass, so I want to lose weight. But can you sacrifice the time and are you going to be consistent? Let's start there first, and then we can get to your macros and you know what you should eat in a day and how many times a week you should work out and what you should do how many times a week you should work out and what you should do.
Speaker 2:Let's focus on if you can do it, what you said you can. You speak, speak it into existence.
Speaker 3:You know, use your spell yeah, so another thing is I'm I just put myself on a schedule. My sister helped me create this uh schedule on my calendar and that was like filled. So my workout time is 7 15 am. My ultimate goal is it to is 5 am.
Speaker 2:Um, I've read this book my wife just started my favorite book 5 am.
Speaker 3:Every successful person that I've read about or any podcast I listen to, that's the time they wake up. These, this is what successful people do. 5 am is nothing to them, and society is. You know, 99.999% of society can't stand getting up in the morning. They always hit the snooze, like how can we differentiate ourselves from them? Get up, do what you have to do, and this is just advice. Get up, do what you have to do, and this is just advice. If you cannot find the day where you can focus on you and that includes working out you can work out for an hour. That's what let's say.
Speaker 2:You get prepared at 5 to 6, 5.30.
Speaker 3:You've done the workout at 6.30 am, easy 6 o'clock am. You can write, read, meditate. You have so much time in that I would say that in your day, the morning, the miracle morning, that's what the book is called by hell elroy, my favorite book. But um, I've read so many other books by successful people and that's every time I have ever read a book about a successful person. They, that's the time they get up I've bet. Not four.
Speaker 2:Kobe got up at four.
Speaker 3:I think Kevin Hart got up at four.
Speaker 2:Kobe got up at four he said I'm getting four workouts in.
Speaker 3:You know this. What is it? A mamba life.
Speaker 2:Mamba mentality. I'm not believing in fours.
Speaker 3:But I know who Kobe Bryant is and I know he was that.
Speaker 3:You know he was doing things period and he was doing things that normal people don't do. We have to differentiate ourselves from the normal person. The normal person put this news on. Normal person, don't get up in the morning and work out. The normal person don't eat. Well, the normal person go and eat out and you know I don't do that stuff. I'm not a normal person. I do not live a life of mediocrity. That's not who I want to be and I've been that person for a long time. And just to you know reference, you know the question that you asked me about how my mind has, or how my mental has, changed since I met Sean T. Like that, I've been preaching for a long time. Now it's time to execute. So once I receive that certification, it's on. I'm going to do my own business. I'm going to be training people in the gyms. I'm moving soon. You know you guys can hit me up at the fitness day. Twenty two underscore, ok. Period.
Speaker 2:Now, you know I love all this and but you know I got to I I gotta bring it back to some type of animation. We gotta talk about some cartoons on here, man.
Speaker 3:Listen, you know I'm not into anime.
Speaker 2:I know you're into anime, I know, but I gotta hit you where it hurts. I know what it feels like. Okay, perfect, I'm gonna make it easy. I'm gonna start off. So Batman, regular person, keeps up with superheroes, real superheroes.
Speaker 3:I don't consider Batman I don't like Batman for real.
Speaker 2:I'm not a big Batman fan.
Speaker 3:I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2:He can fix all these problems by throwing money at it, but that's a that's another story.
Speaker 3:I can't believe you think that of him he is a billionaire.
Speaker 2:The problem in gotham is that everybody's poor. Give them jobs, bruce.
Speaker 3:We don't need batman we need all the little um conferences that he'd be having in the movies and stuff the conference yeah, it'd be full.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he gives money to rich, other rich people for campaigns. He gives campaign donations. Man, go build a homeless shelter. Bruce, you're up here beating up the people and no, he's, he's beating up mentally ill people. Go go, go, give their people the resources they need. Man, give them a job at Wayne Industries. What are you?
Speaker 1:doing.
Speaker 2:You're beating up small. How are you going to beat up a nickel bag selling drug dealer and?
Speaker 1:then Falcone, what are?
Speaker 2:you doing? Penguin has a deformity. You're beating up the disabled. What? Why are we heralded? Never mind, I don't even want to get on that.
Speaker 3:I never heard of him.
Speaker 2:He's a multi-billionaire Go fix the city the problem with crime. There's a direct correlation between crime and poverty. Getting them people out of poverty, Bruce, Bring the manufacturing jobs to Gotham and you good after that.
Speaker 3:Well, you have to understand he was a little traumatized after his parents.
Speaker 2:I mean seeing your parents get murdered is traumatizing and it probably reprogrammed his mind.
Speaker 3:Yeah for revenge, but you've been on Revenge Quest for 40 years kind of like reprogrammed his mind.
Speaker 2:Yeah for revenge Right. But, you've been on Revenge Quest for 40 years. Talk about I'm cleaning up Gotham. No nigga.
Speaker 3:No, you're not. Yeah, you're right. All right, Jamal, you got that one.
Speaker 2:Anyway, back to Batman's fitness Right. What do you think he has to do to be able to keep up with the likes of the rest of the Justice League?
Speaker 3:Well, since he's a billionaire, he has access to any and anything regarding fitness. I'm talking about all types of food.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Grape food organic While people at Gotham starve.
Speaker 3:That part, the best fitness equipment. What does he have to do? I don't know. He's probably going to the next. He's probably going to the Middle East getting surgery. Who knows? He's a billionaire. We talking about Batman like Abdel Stel is crazy yeah he's cut up like a diamond, he chiseled no surgery, type shit.
Speaker 3:You know that's what young kids say type shit. But, um, I would say we're going to. You know definitely, um, I'll say nutrition firstly. Okay, I definitely feel like batman. We're going to use batman. He definitely eats well. He definitely follows a strict meal plan that is tailored to his particular macros. You know, um, eating the his to his body because a you know eating to his body Because a lot of people don't know that. You know you have to eat the correct amount of protein, carbohydrates and fats for your particular body. So he's eating like strict and he's following that strict and he's following that. I'll say like, yeah, his diet on a daily all the way.
Speaker 3:Somebody like him is probably working out five or six times a week, maybe an hour a day okay um, so, yeah, so strict diet, working out five, six times a week, I'll say for sure, a normal person three times a week okay and then he's sparring, and then he's sparring on top of all that, so he let's not forget he's successful. He's a successful building.
Speaker 2:He's not. He's not getting up at 5 am because he's been out all night beating up poor people and mentally disturbed people.
Speaker 3:But I'm telling you he's, but listen, he's a bad man.
Speaker 2:He doesn't run the company, he just gets the money.
Speaker 3:He's getting up that early.
Speaker 2:He's going to sleep by then. He's just getting back home.
Speaker 3:Somebody like him sleep for two hours.
Speaker 2:That's probably true, though.
Speaker 3:Two, three hours. He probably got a cold down in the basement. You never know.
Speaker 2:He works off catnaps. Power naps are the way to go. I'm going to hit you with some anime, though I only know the first Saitama from One Punch man.
Speaker 3:Never heard.
Speaker 2:Saitama is known for becoming strong from doing nothing but push-ups, sit-ups and running. He's strong enough to be considered an S-class, the strongest class superhero, where he can beat everybody with one single punch. How many push-ups, sit-ups and how many miles do you think somebody should run in a day if they want to say they want to knock out a bear, a grizzly bear?
Speaker 3:You're doing some really cool shit.
Speaker 2:I don't know. You're the fitness expert, so I gotta ask these type of questions. Because the people want to know what they gotta do so they can get one-punch manpower. How many push-ups?
Speaker 1:This is not no cocaine, man.
Speaker 3:Nobody not gonna really see. No cocaine man or no, what's it? Goofy and Maxie in the Woods.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Or Goofy movie in the woods, I don't know, on Goofy Movie, I don't remember. It's been a long time since.
Speaker 3:I've seen that it was like a hey everybody, bigfoot.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, they saw Sasquatch, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, sasquatch, okay, I would say Daily, daily.
Speaker 2:Daily One punch One hitter quitter Knock his ass out. Daily One punch One hitter quitter Knock his ass out cold he hibernating some type of Elon Musk type shit. Elon Musk what?
Speaker 3:some.
Speaker 2:Elon.
Speaker 3:Musk type invention what the fuck you gotta invest in it so let's go with pushups a day pushups probably like 500 500? Okay we said sit-ups.
Speaker 2:Sit-ups Because you got to get the core right to get that.
Speaker 3:I know I would say sit-ups definitely like 1,000.
Speaker 2:You said miles. Miles how many miles you got to run a day?
Speaker 3:10.
Speaker 2:10 miles. So you're saying 500 push-ups, 1,000 sit-ups and run 10 miles every day.
Speaker 3:Five to ten miles.
Speaker 2:Five to ten miles and you can knock out a grizzly bear.
Speaker 3:And what is the other?
Speaker 2:That was it. That's all he did. He push-ups, he did sit-ups and he ran.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, that's intense push-ups. He did sit-ups and he ran. Yeah, I mean that's intense. So, yeah, you could probably knock the fucking daylights out of a fucking man.
Speaker 2:That's a lot of push-ups and sit-ups, man.
Speaker 3:Because, like you're probably not going to stand All right. A bear.
Speaker 2:A bear.
Speaker 3:A bear.
Speaker 2:But I will say this. So, on the topic of anime, there have been a lot of anime that released the last few years and I go to, you know, I go to a lot of conventions and stuff and I've seen an increase in, uh, people that are fitness enthusiasts, because you know, it's the stereotype that nerds sit in their basement, they're out of shape, playing video games all day, bad skin. None of that shit is true. I know a lot of nerds, beautiful people, and there's a lot of nerds that are really into fitness.
Speaker 2:But then also in the anime world, you know, it's always been martial artists, but there has been, uh, a push, I'll say within the last like seven to eight years, there's been a push of anime where the, the main character, the protagonist, he doesn't, he or she doesn't necessarily have powers. They just worked out so much that they can kick everybody else's ass with the abilities, um, you see it with mashall, you see it with black clover, with storia one and sword, uh, one punch man, um, damn, I just watched another one where they, where they have the same thing we're like, so it's just based on hard work, no, no powers, except for the fact that they work their asses off I love it I think that, like that could possibly be something that would resonate with people in the fitness community.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to, I'm trying to bridge this gap here. How do we bridge the fitness and they're blurred, the nerd fitness gap, because you, because there's that gap, but there's, the anime is doing it.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Speaker 2:It connects with the people that love those anime, that look at that and be like you know what I could be like that you give them the recipe, the secret sauce, how to knock out bears.
Speaker 3:You know 50 million, push-ups 10,000,.
Speaker 2:yeah, easy, we're gonna we're gonna bridge that gap, we're gonna work that out. But, corday, oh, wait a minute.
Speaker 3:I'm a nerd, by the way something's like harry potter right something's like that's what we really want to talk about college and parties. It was giving straight A's.
Speaker 2:Niggas got 4.0's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, several times I'm talking about it.
Speaker 3:Degrees.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 3:I'm not really like oh, I got a piece of paper, but do I earn? Yeah, so the gap is me. I'm smart, I'm a nerd.
Speaker 2:You better brush up on your anime. You be good, you be alright. Go to a couple of cons.
Speaker 3:I know everybody say Naruto, but listen. Attack on Titan. Stop playing with me, hold on, I got one more Death Note.
Speaker 2:You're still mainstream, but we'll take it, we'll definitely take it. We'll take those, we'll take those and those are top tier. Okay, I'm in, you're cool, you're cool. You put your foot in the pond a little bit In the pool.
Speaker 3:I'll be watching the American version.
Speaker 2:They said that the Doves.
Speaker 3:The Doves.
Speaker 2:People, they have that debate Sub versus Dove. Oh the doves, nah man. So people, they have that debate sub versus dub. But like, if you watch it, you enjoy it. Whatever one piece has 1100, over 1100 episodes. I don't have time to sit and read 1100 episodes and catch up yeah, watch doves in the anime community.
Speaker 3:They be like you're an imposter.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. We've stopped that because most of us with fucking sense, we've stopped it.
Speaker 3:Because you're like one of the original.
Speaker 2:I've been doing this since I was a little kid. Yeah, and dubs, they do take away somewhat from the original story. I mean, they do sometimes change names, they do some other things, so it does take away, but at the same time the storyline doesn't necessarily change.
Speaker 2:And because the story doesn't change, you're still getting it, you still understand, it's still good. I don't like people that be like oh, I'm a sub watcher. Yeah, I'll watch it as sub, but that's mostly because I think the voice actors are better and I'm really paying attention to that.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I want to see it when it comes out and I don't want to wait for them to put it in English, because it takes like an extra two, three weeks. If I'm watching a series as it as it's released, I need to be able to read it.
Speaker 3:Right, I have a question for you, oh shit. Well, how long have you been like watching anime and why is why do you love it so much? What draws you to this world, or what has drawn you to this?
Speaker 2:world. Honestly, I was watching anime before I knew I was watching anime Because I was watching Dragon Ball Z, I was watching Big O, I was watching Geronimo. I was watching bigo. I was watching geroni. Kenshin inuyasha um beyblade when it first came out, zoids digimon like I didn't know you see, all those are anime you know most.
Speaker 2:Like a lot of us, we grew up watching it and we didn't think about it and they were just cartoons to us and they were on cartoon networks, or like yugioh was on fox kids or wb kids, whenever we know, before the name change or whatever like we just didn't think about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, hell, yeah. So pokemon, yeah, wow interesting and that's another thing.
Speaker 2:We was playing the car games, we had the Nintendo games no-transcript, and she's like I know you're not growing up, you're gonna be a kid forever. I was like, yeah, nigga, you married me, so you gotta, you gotta, accept that but that's just what it is. But you know we're crises yeah, just to put it in imaginative, to let y'all know like that's a fact but just being an imaginative person, I just I don't know. I've always loved it, I've always watched it.
Speaker 2:The storylines is always, they were relatable to me you know, somebody going through some type of struggle, they may make it out, and you know, growing up a kid in the, in the trenches, as they say now you gotta, you gotta try to make it out. So I was like I.
Speaker 1:I I get it, I get it right right so it was always that and that's.
Speaker 2:That's the story for a lot of people. If you ask a lot of black nerds, they're all gonna say the same thing we, everybody says that yo, I really relate to the story, the characters, their growth and their experiences in life. While it might not be racism, but there's like some similarities that they relate to shit like that that?
Speaker 3:wow that's, I never knew that. Yeah, so do you feel that you've reached you know a hierarchy in your life that you know you've kind of like crawled out of the pits of hell?
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna say I crawled out, I fought my way out, that miss though. But like I think I think I'm doing all right. Um, I'm actually. I'm actually playing the episode with a lot of my sisters and my mother, um, for women's month. Um, we'll be talking about, like, just how we grew up versus how we are now, because, you know, we all, we're all like I this is not me boasting or bragging, but like I have a beautiful wife. Um, she had two kids before we got married, so I have two, two handsome sons. Uh, I have a five bedroom house. You know, like I, I've done two degrees about to get a third one. I think I've done. My wife has two degrees. We both own businesses. Like I think we've done very well, we've done all right jimato I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 3:you really don't understand, like I know jimato so proud of you. You really don't understand how proud I am of you. I mean, well, I really knew, you know you were great, but you know, didn't see it being executed Like I love you so much. You're just such an amazing friend Like you, just you, just you, just yeah.
Speaker 2:You irky, but I'm going to wrap. Let's. Let's wrap this up, yeah, cause it's going to be an hour and I, you know I gotta get. Let's wrap this up. So, before so we can wrap this up, tell the people, first and foremost, give them one last bit of advice on their fitness journeys, and then tell them where they can find you and follow you up.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, well, wow, advice, advice, advice, advice. Honestly, my ultimate Okay, well, wow, advice, advice, advice, advice. Honestly, my ultimate advice is to trust the process. You know, don't, and always know that if this was easy, everyone would do it. Everyone go get surgery, they get surgery. They lay on the table, get a surgery.
Speaker 3:You know I don't mind on the surgery. They lay on the table, get a surgery. You know I don't mind on the surgery. You know they'll take the Ozempic. All that, all those I want to lose weight, quick schemes they're easy. That's why everyone does this.
Speaker 3:You Focus on your wellness. Learn your body, become the better version of yourself that you know you can be in this fitness realm. Trust the process and work your ass off. Be different. You are not mediocre and you do not live a life of mediocrity. You can do this. You are resilient, you are dynamic and you are cultivating.
Speaker 3:It's lonely at the top. Keep going, keep pedaling. Overcome those barriers. You can do this and, honestly again, trust the process. Don't focus on results. Honestly, I will throw away the scale, but I mean whatever. Each his own, but know that that mirror is going to tell you you're losing weight, your clothes, how you feel internally, externally, walking up those steps. You'll know. So trust the process and stay cool. Never change Peace out. You can follow me on the Facebook at Cordae May. That is K-O-R-D as in Delta, a-e-m-a-y, as in the month. Or you can follow me on the Instagram at fitnessbabe22 underscore. Okay, I am a motivational speaker. I post a lot of reels, I post me lifting heavy weights. Okay, yeah. So if you're looking for some motivation and a soon to be inspiring, amazing certified personal trainer, hit me up and, like I said, stay cool, never change and peace out and, as always, it's your boy, modest.
Speaker 2:It's been another great episode of Animation and Activism we'll holla at y'all next time.
Speaker 1:Thank you, that's a whip. Hey bro, you can't say that. Is that too raunchy? Maybe y'all need to come down Represent South of the South, east Point, ga. Ain't no more people where I stay, cause people get killed every day. I just got robbed yesterday, bam bam. But if I find them I'll temper my heat up. I'ma try hard not to catch a cave. Two eyes to make a mistake, wonder, I wonder why I'm so focused today, cause I couldn't be sitting up in somebody else's establishment to only get paid minimum wage. I'd rather get paid page by page, on stage, on stage.