Meet the Coach: Chelsie Lind

Join us for an inspiring episode of Fit & Healthy Sioux Falls, where we promise to debunk common fitness and nutrition myths that hold you back. We sit down with our incredible Coach Chelsie from Fit Body's Westside location, who takes us through her journey from fitness enthusiast to dedicated coach. You'll also hear about her husband’s transformation from cardio skeptic to gym devotee, emphasizing the transformative power of a supportive fitness environment.

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Healthy Living With Coach Chelsea

Speaker 1 0:00

What is going on everybody? Welcome to the next episode of the Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls show. I have an amazing guest in store for you today, and she's sitting right next to me. We're going to have some fun. An awesome coach that honestly has a just wealth of knowledge in the fitness and health industry. Let's dive in today with the one and the only Coach, chelsea. Coach Chelsea. What is going on?

Speaker 2 0:48

Not a lot. It's a nice rainy day out. Oh, I know right.

Speaker 1 0:51

You know it's weird. We had a ton of rain in the beginning of summer and then it kind of died off. My lawn is actually looking like it could use the rain, right. So you know, we'll take it. We will take it. Well, this is fun and I've been looking forward to jumping on and doing our episode of Meet the Coach because, honestly, I actually have a lot of questions myself. So, first and foremost, for any of those that don't know you, who are you, where do you coach, and then we'll get into some more stuff so, yeah, your name and where you coach.

Speaker 2 1:26

I'm Chelsea. I coach over at our Westside location, was really privileged to be one of the coaches that helped open up that gym two years ago, so I really love being over there. I live on that side of town so it's just natural to be able to invite the people from that part of our community that I already know to come in and get fit with us?

Speaker 1 1:48

Yeah, and it's wild because when we were looking at, we were actually looking at opening East first, which I don't know if you know that, but I think you did. Okay, okay, well, hey, newsflash yeah, I bought a second Territory Right, obviously with Fit Body being a franchise. I bought the second territory right, obviously with Fit Body being a franchise. I bought the second territory right and I grew up originally on the east side of town and then I moved to Brandon when I was 11.

Speaker 1 2:13

And so we were kind of looking at east side and everything was pointing to the east side and we were looking and as we were looking, I don't even know what it was, but then it was one of the realtors I was working with all of a sudden said well, have you ever looked at the west side? And I hadn't. I mean, the plan was eventually to go, you know, east and west, and it just so happened to work out that west happened. And it's wild because, being an east sider originally, the west side is like, like you said, a whole different community. It is. And I started driving out there in like houses upon houses. And funny because my wife and I we had our first kind of meeting or meetup at Shenanigans in the mall, station 7.

Speaker 1 3:01

Right Now it's Station 7. And when they moved where they moved, everybody thought like what are they doing? It was a field. But now you go out there and there's just a whole, like you said, other community.

Speaker 2 3:11

And every day it's changing.

Speaker 1 3:12

It's wild Continuous buildings going up and it is very cool to see. But if we kind of rewind the clock a little bit, you uh became a client of FitBody without your husband originally right, no actually one of the coaches, coach Maddie went to the same church as we did. What church did you go to?

Speaker 2 3:34

Well, we at the time we were going to church at the gate, which is where they were at as well Um, and just knew her. Well, it's just a sweet, sweet person, yeah, and she had invited us to come check it out. And honestly, I was really content just doing my lifting on my own.

Speaker 1 3:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 3:51

But I could tell my husband was getting bored with it. He often would get up, the alarm would go off and I'd say, hey, are you coming?

Speaker 2 3:57

He's like, eh, I just don't feel like it today, and so I knew something needed to change for him because it was important that we that was something we still did together. So I said you know, maddie mentioned that she's coaches at this gym in Sioux Falls that we should come try it out. Let's just try it and see if maybe that gets your interest back into you know, getting active again. And so we made the trek to Central from way out west and he fell in love with it which shocked me because he was not a cardio guy.

Speaker 2 4:29

He really, I really thought forever and ever he would just be lifting. So, um, I remember he struggled with that first workout and I thought oh man, he's, this is not going to be for him. Um, but he got to know some people and it was actually funny to me because I was usually the one who would get wrapped up in conversations. And all of a sudden, the workout would be over and I'd be saying we got to go.

Speaker 2 4:52

We got to go get the kids up for school and get them out the door and he's sitting there chatting with some new friends he had found. And really speaks volumes, I think, to our community in both locations. But he was like I think this is what I want to keep doing, and so we kept at it, and then soon you guys announced you were opening the Westside location.

Speaker 1 5:13

I love that and that's awesome because there are so many moving parts and as the gym has grown, my role has shifted and is continually shifting and obviously, being the owner of the gym, you have to just go into the role that the gym and the business needs. At the time and at that time I wasn't super involved and so I I didn't know exactly how you guys started. Cool and and oddly enough, I actually ran into Maddie just last weekend. She was at Axel's birthday party coach Aqua, ex coach Aqua's baby and it was just so cool to to see her and to know that she invited you guys.

Speaker 1 5:54

And I even left that birthday party just a couple of weekends ago and I thought to myself and I talked to Mel even I was like you know one thing that I can, I can honestly say that I am proud of, no matter what is the relationships that happen at Fit Body, whether the clients stay clients at Fit Body or not, there's relationships that are being built that they'll change your life and I do think and I say this often, I'm going to continue to say this I think that life is a team sport and I think that you need an amazing team, you need friends, you need connections, a team sport, and I think that you need an amazing team, you need friends, you need connections.

Speaker 1 6:31

But I knew, though, that that you and Darren obviously were coming, and we ended up working out often together at the same time slot. I may have probably even been one of those ones that held Darren up. So if your kids were ever late to school, my apologies, but I I kind of knew or somehow seen that there's this gal that coaches pound or instructs pound, and I was like I don't really know what pound is, but I kind of knew what pound is and then come to find out like you're one of, like, the main pound instructors in Sioux Falls. So for anyone that doesn't know, like explain what even is pound.

Speaker 2 7:07

Oh, we call it a rock out workout. Rock out workout Cardio drumming. It's a 45 minute choreographed drumming simulated class. Yeah, we go song by song about 11 songs, through a lot of different muscles and get worked worked. Oftentimes people will say, oh, that must be a great arm workout, because they're visualizing drumming. And I said, uh-huh, just come and try it. And oftentimes they are very pleasantly surprised that their legs are what they work the most, but it flies by because it's great music.

Speaker 1 7:41

You're so focused on making the movements.

Speaker 1 7:44

And then yeah, just it's contagious too, I think, yeah, I mean I finally went to my first pound. I've been invited by you many times over the last several years to come and try one, and I don't know if it's just maybe I'm busy or maybe I was like intimidated by it, I don't know what it was. Uh, call it, whatever we want to call it, but I finally got to one of your sessions or classes at pound and, uh, it was fun. I had a blast. Um, my legs, yes. My hip flexors, yes. My core, yes, um, all the things. Uh, it was a really fun experience. And what's so fun too is group workout can be intimidating, no matter what it is, but what I have found, obviously with Fit Body and then with Pound, like you're all there just to one, get a little bit better, have fun and move your body For sure, like our bodies are made to move. Yep Right, how long ago did you find pound?

Fitness Journey and Wellness Careers

Speaker 2 8:49

Uh, we just celebrated. My friend, amber and I were trained at the same time, but I had found it just a little bit over five years ago. Okay, um, I used to watch the show. This is us. Okay, I don't know if you've ever watched it, but there was an episode where one of the characters had to go away to basically what they were calling fat camp. She really needed to focus on losing some weight and in this episode she's at this retreat and she went into a session and it was a pound class.

Speaker 2 9:18

She was seated and she was just drumming and I remember sitting there thinking I have been teaching fitness for years and I've never heard of this, so I instantly went online and Googled pound and this is pre COVID. So every opportunity to get trained you, you were had to travel somewhere around the country. So I reached out to them and I said, hey, we don't really have this in my state. If I, if we, were to have a training here, what would that take?

Speaker 1 9:45

Yeah.

Speaker 2 9:45

And so we worked that out and I was able to host a training that, um, there were. I think there were about 10 of us from all over. Other people from other States even came for it, but I'm really one of the few that still teaches it in our area, Um, my friend. Amber teaches it in Canton and she's amazing as well. Um, and there are a few other gyms that have it sporadically but yeah, saw it on a TV show, knew that it was something I wanted to try something that we didn't have in our area and before COVID was wildly highly attended.

Speaker 1 10:17

Yeah, and I'm seeing that it's starting to pick back up, though I do feel that as well. People are starting to realize that working out by yourself is not nearly as effective as being in a group of people. I thought that it would, but people are finally realizing that we need to get out from behind the screens. We need to get out from behind our desk, working out by herself, doing things isolated, and have that connection More than ever.

Speaker 1 10:55

You can go only so long as a society, a community, as a world. You can only go so long until you realize, hey, we were not created to be isolated. And we're seeing that, you know, we're seeing that at Fit Body, more and more people coming every time that you host a pound, because a lot of times you do it at a church, I believe, is that like your main spot that you do it, or a church and a brewery.

Speaker 2 11:20

Yes, okay, kind of funny right.

Speaker 1 11:21

Yeah, yeah, jesus and beer.

Speaker 2 11:30

You meet people where they're at right, and even in my faith. I'm not only going to go to churches to meet people, but to meet all types of people who might be looking for fitness or for faith or for whatever it might be. So, yeah, we do do them in breweries pound and pour. Some people choose to have a beer, some people choose to have water.

Speaker 1 11:42

Yeah, that's awesome, and I see, like the pictures that you post, they seem like they're being more and more attended and so people can buy like a punch card. Yeah To that, or how do they? How do you purchase pound?

Speaker 2 11:55

Yeah, it's, I usually charge a straight $10 per class but they can do a punch card which will bring it down to $8.

Speaker 1 12:01

Okay, so got you. And when we have it at Fit Body, it's like once a month or once a quarter. How often do we have it?

Speaker 2 12:07

We've typically been doing once a quarter, but recently I'm kind of doing that a little bit more over the summer as I've been doing some special events. So as often as they want it, I'm willing.

Speaker 1 12:17

And the cool thing with that is, if you're not a member at Fit Body, you can come and attend that and it's $10. And so, or they can also use. If they have a punch card for you, they can use it at their also, like anywhere you teach it Absolutely Very cool. So you mentioned, when you found Pound on, this Is Us, that you said well, I've been teaching fitness for a long time. Let's dive into that. How long is a long time and what have you been doing for fitness?

Speaker 2 12:46

Yeah, so my youngest son, who's 13, is when I decided that I wanted to kind of test the waters with this whole teaching a group fitness format. And so we lived in Faribault, minnesota, at the time and I was lifting at a gym in that community and I just approached the gal who owned it and I said do you need any more help teaching classes? And I said I've never done it but, I would love to try and learn how.

Speaker 1 13:12

Roughly what year. So he was born in 2011.

Speaker 2 13:15

So it was probably 2012. Um, yeah, so 20 or 12 years ago. Yeah, I was gonna say 22, 12 years ago. Um is really when I got started with teaching others in a group format. And so just a group classes, did my group fitness certification and loved, loved those 5 am classes with them. And then we moved back to South Dakota in 2014. And once we got settled here again, connected with another gym and said, hey, I used to teach.

Speaker 2 13:44

I would love to do more of that around here. Um, and this particular gym was looking for a personal trainer. Um, so I went ahead and got certified in personal training and took on clients at that gym in. Hartford, um, and then I've also just taught at some other um did the Sanford wellness center for a while as well.

Speaker 1 14:03

The Sanford Wellness Center kind of holds a dear spot in my heart.

Speaker 2 14:06

That was.

Speaker 1 14:07

that was the one on Oxbow. That was the original gym that I started my health and fitness journey, and so, yeah, I that I was out on the West side at the family wellness center.

Speaker 2 14:19

But I was teaching a couple of classes a week mid mornings, after my boys would go to school and I would, I'd bring the toddler along. And at some point it just became where I desired to do it more, on a not maybe full-time basis but regular setting. And so an opportunity opened up at Showplace Cabinetry where they needed about 32 hours a week, and that's in Harrisburg, so it was a bit of a drive for me. But I was their wellness coordinator so I got to coordinate on-site fitness challenges, nutrition challenges, nutrition courses.

Speaker 2 14:57

And then they had a full fitness center at their manufacturing facility so I taught lunch hour classes which many of like the office HR, you know executives would come to, but some people from the facility would also join us.

Speaker 1 15:10

That's cool. I love that job, yeah, yeah. What year, what timeframe was this?

Speaker 2 15:14

It's a great question yeah.

Speaker 1 15:16

And if we're not right on.

Speaker 2 15:17

Yeah, I was there. I wasn't there as long as I would have wanted to be. I left to be a caregiver for my mom, but I was there for, uh, about two years. Okay, I would say before I had to leave.

Speaker 1 15:30

Yeah, yeah, that's uh, that's so cool. I know there's a couple of different bigger companies in town. Um, I know poet also has like an on staff or they used to anyways. Um, you know, fitness wellness coordinator, Um, and I think that that's super cool, because those I mean when you are active and you're fit and you're moving your body and you're working towards a better version of yourself, you're just more productive in life, you get more done, you feel better about yourself and for me, that's actually why I opened Fit Body was I lacked confidence and I wanted to build confidence and I found that through health and fitness, but through others connecting with them at a gym, and so very cool to see that.

Speaker 1 16:14

And I think there's like a little life lesson to be taught in what you're talking about. You went out and sought out the opportunity A lot of times. I feel that we as humans, we wait for opportunity to land in our lap, Like we think that somehow it's just going to fall on us and this opportunity or this next best thing is going to somehow just be here. But I feel that your health and fitness journey, career journey, has been one of seeking out opportunities and putting yourself out there being vulnerable. Yeah, knowing that rejection is an option, like the the, the no answer is an option. So did that at all play with your mind at all? Like what if they say no?

Speaker 2 17:04

Not necessarily. I feel like there are so many opportunities in in any community. I mean there's some, I mean there's a gym everywhere, everywhere every kind of like a gas station.

Speaker 1 17:14

Right.

Speaker 2 17:15

Um. So I sought out the ones that I felt that I would connect with or be the right fit for, but knowing that if they say no, I'll figure something else out.

Speaker 1 17:25

Yep. So Showplace Cabinetry. The wellness coordinator has fitness. That seems like maybe one of your more prominent wellness jobs. Have you had any other jobs in your career, Like what else is in your career path?

Speaker 2 17:42

I was a daycare provider.

Speaker 1 17:44

Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 17:45

Before we moved back to South Dakota that was in Minnesota, minnesota, okay, our kids were tiny.

Speaker 1 17:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 17:51

And prior to that I had been a director of children's ministry.

Speaker 1 17:55

Okay.

Speaker 2 17:55

So loved being in that position. But you know that kind of a income doesn't really pay for childcare. So I had to look at what I was making and versus, once our second son was born, what I was paying and it just didn't make sense anymore. Uh so I decided to stay home and um had some friends very quickly start to say oh, would you be able to watch my kiddo while I go to a doctor's appointment.

Speaker 1 18:17

Could you watch my?

Speaker 2 18:18

kids while I do this and found that I really enjoyed being in that caregiver role again. And so just decided. You know what I'm home watching these kids anyway. We might as well make it a daycare and we had a great time.

Parenting, Sports, Health, and Nutrition

Speaker 1 18:32

But I had to close to be able to move move our family back, and that was in Minnesota and you had it in your home. I did Okay, very cool. You mentioned kids. How many kids do you have?

Speaker 2 18:42

We have three boys.

Speaker 1 18:43

Okay.

Speaker 2 18:44

Our oldest is actually starting his senior year tomorrow, tomorrow.

Speaker 1 18:49

Yeah, my baby just turned 18.

Speaker 2 18:51

And then we have another boy who is 15, going to be a sophomore, and a 13 year old who will be an eighth grader 18, 15, 13.

Speaker 1 19:00

All boys, all boys. Wow, yeah, I've got, I've got three of my own uh, two girls and and the youngest boy and yeah, boys, boys are rowdy, boys are rambunctious.

Speaker 2 19:09

When they're little. Yeah, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Speaker 1 19:13

Yeah.

Speaker 2 19:13

They'll chill out. They'll chill out.

Speaker 1 19:14

Okay, okay, well, yeah.

Speaker 2 19:16

But they don't get any cheaper. Yeah, no, I'm just going to say they eat. The girls don't either. No, yeah, they all have food.

Speaker 1 19:21

Their clothes and their. But you know, hey, I feel it comes with the territory. That's right. I feel that from what I do know of your. But I still uh, keep on remembering that uh video of Darren and your boy wrestling on the lily pad and, um, I mean Darren's a big dude like he can hold his own, but I don't know your boys definitely were were giving him a run for his money.

Speaker 2 19:51

Yeah, yeah, we're excited for football season.

Speaker 1 19:53

Yeah, for sure. So what um sports are your kids in?

Speaker 2 19:56

in. Seth is the oldest and he's in football. So, he's got that starting right. He's in the middle of it right now. Our middle son is not sure that he'll continue to play basketball, but he's been a basketball player, and then our youngest is also mainly focused on football.

Speaker 1 20:12

Sure Okay, Did you play any sports Chelsea?

Speaker 2 20:14

I did, I did. I grew up in Parker South.

Speaker 1 20:17

Dakota Okay.

Speaker 2 20:18

Small town America class of like 30-some people yeah. So we pretty much were all in something.

Speaker 1 20:24

Sure.

Speaker 2 20:24

If you're going to have a team.

Speaker 1 20:25

Yeah, yeah, you need it, we needed everybody.

Speaker 2 20:27

All hands on deck, so yeah, Basketball volleyball track.

Speaker 1 20:31

All the things, all. Have you ever, at any point in your life, struggled with health or fitness? For sure, yeah.

Speaker 2 20:40

Yeah, I mean I've obviously I've gone through having three children as well, and that is a journey in a woman's body. I remember growing up with a mom who was very focused on her journey.

Speaker 1 20:52

Yeah.

Speaker 2 20:53

Always trying different diets and different exercise programs. I remember being in the basement and we would do Taibo together because she loved her videos. Good old Billy Blanks.

Speaker 1 21:03

Hey, that was an era, it was it was so.

Speaker 2 21:06

I you know, even back then it just watching her go through her journey had my mind recognizing that, oh, I need to take care of this body I've been given whether it's through what I eat or how?

Speaker 1 21:17

I move.

Speaker 2 21:19

So yeah, and I would say, after my third son was born, I was really curious about how to transform my body into that lean, muscular. Look, I had been a runner when our first son was born, I decided out of the blue to become a runner and I was going to train for grandma's marathon. Our pastor, who was in his sixties, I believe, was training for a marathon. And in my twenties I thought he can do it, I can do that. So I went from doing almost nothing to training for a marathon.

Speaker 1 21:50

There you go, couch to whatever they call those yeah.

Speaker 2 21:53

Basically followed those programs but I had been running and running and running and just not seeing and feeling the changes in my body and I didn't understand why. So I did hire a coach virtually. She lived in Texas. Um, she gave me my strength lifting protocol and my nutrition protocol.

Speaker 1 22:09

Yeah.

Speaker 2 22:10

And I didn't believe. She handed me the nutrition protocol and told me I was going to have to eat 1900 calories to lose weight and in my head I was like there's no way you don't lose weight eating. You lose weight eating 1200 calories, or you know just all the things that that social media and um that I had seen online. So I said, okay, I'll try it. We'll see how this goes Um, so followed it to the. I'm kind of a rule follower. I'm a little bit um.

Speaker 2 22:37

Hey, we need those people, I'll do what you say, but I don't think it's going to work. Um, and lo and behold, it did work. Um, and it was.

Speaker 1 22:46

it was incredible to see, and feel how when you follow a plan and you eat the right things.

Speaker 2 22:50

That your body does respond it was really cool.

Speaker 1 22:53

You know, I think we need to dive into that a little bit, because I think that there is such a misunderstanding as it pertains to nutrition. So many people, many of our clients, myself at times have fallen into that belief that in order to lose weight, you need to eat less. And I have found I mean, we've been, I've owned Fit Body now for almost 10 years and I have found I mean, we've been, I've owned Fit Body now for almost 10 years and I have found hundreds, if not, by this time, thousands, of times that our clients will get better results when they actually, more times than not, eat more. Right, because so many Americans are low in protein, they are deficient in it. And I tell you what, if you're not like tracking it, you're not even getting close, because everything you eat like it's in the goofy thing is is like labeling and marketing. Wow, they do a great job for sure, but you'll grab something in it like big, bold words protein pancakes. You look on the back of the box five grams of protein, like compared to the one gram that a non-protein pancake. So you get four extra grams in this protein thing. Yeah, and I think that that is a true testament to what you said. You're living, breathing proof that it worked.

Speaker 1 24:12

So help unpack this for a little bit, for anyone that may, you know, hear hey, in order to lose weight, you need to eat more, right? Where did you heard that for the first time? Yeah, and your brain was like no way right. Unpack that for us a little bit, maybe help someone understand. Like, what do you do with that? Because it doesn't for some reason, doesn't make sense. So how do you make sense of that? And how did you just decide to follow it, even though, like, it doesn't make sense? So how do you make sense of that? And how did you just decide to follow it, even though?

Speaker 2 24:40

like it doesn't make sense in my brain. Yeah Well, number one, I had to trust that. She was the expert right. She had done her research, she was trained. She had done it before. She'd help other people um have great results. But in my head I had watched a mom who would do LA weight loss diets or these cleanses where she didn't eat for days.

Speaker 2 25:00

And yeah, she lost weight. So that was my only training or knowledge of of how to do this. Before um had not learned anything about adequate protein and balancing out my carbs and fats, in addition to how much I was moving my body um and how important strength training was to get those results as well, so um it's, it is now fun to sit down with clients at. Fit Body and give them their numbers and have them have that same reaction that.

Speaker 2 25:29

I had so many years ago. I was like I know it sounds like a lot and it might feel that way for a little bit, but your body will adapt and you're going to start craving the protein foods. You know the rich foods that you're feeding it.

Speaker 1 25:42

Yeah.

Speaker 2 25:43

And so, and actually just recently, met with a boyfriend and girlfriend. Yes, and they're both just like what. How much do you want you seriously want? Me to eat that much food and just two, three days later, just they're feeling so much better. Their workouts are going better. 20 sessions in from face to face, the boyfriend has like face looks completely different already.

Speaker 1 26:08

So you know, and they're committed though.

Speaker 2 26:10

That's the exciting thing about working with clients is when they're in it when I say to win it Like they show up with a mindset of I'm going to do what you tell me. I promise, and I tell you what like that's.

Speaker 1 26:21

That's the thing we're all busy with. Everything under the sun. And the thing that I love and I mean, obviously I'm a little biased, I own Fit Body but the thing that I love about it is like, well, let's take the guesswork out of what you should do for your workout. You want to get a little more serious? Let's take the guesswork out of what you should do for nutrition. And wait, also, did you know that you can actually eat the foods that you really enjoy in moderation? Yep, and like I am a foodie, yeah For sure. Burgers, fries, sweets, cakes, pies, you name it. I love it all. Yeah, and I don't not get it. And, to be truthful, chelsea, I probably get it more than I should get it. But I also know, when I hit a certain point, what to do to totally get to where I want.

Speaker 1 27:07

And I feel that we have this mentality in life where we're all just going through life. We're not actually working towards anything Like, we're just living. And I think when you can decide that I'm done living to just live, I'm ready to live on purpose, my best life, why I was placed here you can then start really getting fulfilled. And so many times we seek to every other person or every other thing to get filled up and you can't, you, you have to. I mean, we're both faith-based people, so I would say, look to Jesus. But if, if you're not a faith-based person, you have to work on yourself. And work on filling yourself up. Um, and I think so with you, with nutrition, realizing oh, my goodness, I'm going to have to eat more than I ever thought. You, I believe, actually did competitions.

Speaker 2 28:07

I did Correct. Yes, how many? I did four.

Speaker 1 28:10

You did four of them.

Speaker 2 28:11

I did.

Speaker 1 28:12

In how many years? Like what was that?

Speaker 2 28:15

My last one was in 2019. So I probably started in 2012.

Speaker 1 28:23

Okay, it was before we moved back here.

Speaker 2 28:25

Yeah, but yeah it was. Doing those competitions was a huge step in courage for me. I consider myself a very modest person, and so to present yourself you know in high heels and a swimming suit on stage and pose and do all these crazy things that are way out of my comfort zone, um, but I looked at it more as a challenge of getting out of my comfort zone, learning how to do hard things, how to be, brave um to show myself that that I could do it and do it well.

Speaker 1 29:04

Yeah, so four of them. So I'm not super well-versed, like honestly. The only real knowledge that I have in, uh, in comp competing that way, is just what I know from from my best friend, mick Um. But there are different categories that you can compete in. What is the category that you competed in?

Speaker 2 29:23

I competed in the figure category and I think the categories have even changed in the last few years, I think there's an added fitness category.

Speaker 1 29:30

Okay.

Speaker 2 29:31

But figure is what I was in. So to kind of like show where they're at Bikini is what I would say is not, um, not the lowest level, but the first at the first level. They're looking for more. Um, just toned a little bit softer, look not a lot of muscularity, Um, but just showing that you have leaned out um in equally across your body and then in figure it's a. It's another level up. There's um. They're looking for more muscle symmetry.

Speaker 1 30:01

Um, you're posing all sides of your body from side to side. Like is this calf in in comparison to this calf? The right muscle you know density and look, I mean it's, it's intense.

Speaker 2 30:16

And a lot of it, unfortunately, in my mind, comes down to how you pose, because if you know how to showcase your muscle better than the person next to you, you're going to do better.

Speaker 1 30:25

Well and Mick even said that too he's like he would and I'm sure you did as well practice posing, oh you know you need to, but I finally went to one of his shows and and watch, and you could clearly tell those competing that didn't practice their posing as much and those that did. And what's crazy is, as they were walking out on stage you could just, from their walk, look at some of these people and be like, oh, they're going to do great, yeah. Then they get to posing and it's like wait a minute, what happened? Yeah, where'd you go? Yeah, where'd you go a minute? What happened? Yeah, where'd you go? Yeah, where'd you go? Yeah. So, yeah, you taking that step and not only having to get your body into a certain physical aspect and physical shape, but then to learn how to hold it and I remember talking to Mick afterwards like it's a workout holding that pose and doing it in high heels yeah, not easy.

Speaker 1 31:14

No, and I'm like boys to do that?

Speaker 2 31:16

Ah, well, but it's hard. Yeah, it's really hard. Boys to do that Well, but it's hard.

Speaker 1 31:19

Yeah, it's really hard. Yeah, absolutely, and, and, but you did it. And not only did you do it once, you did it four times. Yes, do you think that you'll ever do it again?

Speaker 2 31:30

I, I'm interested.

Speaker 1 31:31

Are you?

Speaker 2 31:32

The last few years have been a challenge just within family and personal things, so it's I feel like I need to. I think I'll know when. I'm ready. They have a class for those who are 40 and older called the master's class, aka the old people group, so that's where I would get to compete this time, which? I was under 40 when I did it last, so I am curious to see if I still have what it takes to get back on the stage and do it again. And I'm getting there.

Celebrating Victories in Coaching Progress

Speaker 1 32:02

Yeah, yeah. So that might be in your future, right now, at Fit Body Chelsea. What is your kind of schedule? Do you only work mornings? Do you only work nights? Is it kind of a mix? And like if someone was looking to come work out with you or take a session led by you, when could they find you?

Speaker 2 32:20

I do go in a rotation between mornings and afternoons. So it's yeah, I really I'm doing both of those schedules right now. Yeah, about 30 hours per week.

Speaker 1 32:31

Yeah, what would you say because you've been coaching now for about two plus years? What would you say is your favorite thing about being a coach at Fit Body?

Speaker 2 32:41

I've always loved to see progress. You know, when somebody comes in on day one and they're doing pushups with their butt in the air and just completely out of form and to be able to work with them every single day that they show up and to have somebody eager to learn how to do it correctly. But. But just yesterday I was coaching and somebody was on the floor doing pushups and I looked at her and I said look at you Like wow, what a difference from day one and she just smiled like yeah, I'm doing this, I'm doing it and to the world puts a standard definition of what progress looks like.

Speaker 1 33:16

They put a standard definition of what success looks like. They put a standard definition of what success looks like as it pertains to health and fitness, but I feel that, as it pertains to your health and your fitness journey number one, there's no end point, and I think that's one of the biggest stigmas that we need to break, because if you are doing health and fitness with an end point in mind, like you're already lost, you've already lost, and that's hard though, because that's what the world preaches. Do this next 21 day thing, this next, you know six week thing, do a 10 week thing, and it'll be all better, but it won't. Like your life continues. And so, yeah, like you said, seeing that progress, whether it be pushup form or even just one of my favorite ones, the most non really way to ever tell anything but is when someone starts and you can just see their face, they're intimidated, they're kind of scared, they don't know if they really should be doing this, and the next thing you know they're coming in with a smile, their fist bumping, they're high fiving people that they didn't even know a couple of weeks ago, and to me like being coming that to me just lights me up, because I was that person that walked into a room like do I belong, do I should I be here?

Speaker 1 34:27

And that's not a good feeling, but we all have that when we start. But we can help push that comfort zone and help break you out of that. Let me ask you this what has been in your two years of coaching at Fit Body? What has been some of your most kind of proudest moments as a coach, whether that's even personally, on the team, as a business, maybe different events that we've done, or with the clients that you've worked with? When I say Chelsea in the last two years, what are some of the proudest moments you've had with Fit Body? What kind of comes to mind proudest moments you've had with Fit?

Speaker 2 35:04

Body. What kind of comes to mind?

Speaker 2 35:05

I still remember when I was still over here at Central kind of, in my training period there was a gal who had came in brand new and a lot of what you talked about. She didn't have confidence that she was going to be able to do hardly anything Kind of walked with her for a few sessions and I remember she came up to me one day and she said I have to do hardly anything. Um kind of walked with her for a few sessions and I remember she came up to me one day and she said I have to tell you something. So I did a pushup on my toes today for the first time. Um, so those, those moments really are, are huge, or you know the, the non-skill victories that people have. You know, I was playing with my grandkids and I could go for like way longer than I used to be able to.

Speaker 2 35:46

Or their clothes are fitting Like hey. I tried on this dress that I never thought I'd be able to wear again. Yeah, and it actually fits really well.

Speaker 1 35:53

Yeah.

Speaker 2 35:55

Or just they see pictures of themselves.

Speaker 1 35:57

Right yeah.

Speaker 2 35:58

So I just I'm always. It's always fun when they feel connected enough to me to share those wins to come up to me and kind of confide in me, on how proud they are of themselves.

Healthy Mindset and Nutrition Tips

Speaker 1 36:11

That's awesome, and being proud of yourself it's a good thing and you should do it and you should celebrate yourself when you have a win. Let's kind of unpack a little bit of Chelsea's knowledge and maybe even to just honestly how you do it. You're a mom of three, you're a wife, you live a very busy lifestyle like the rest of us. You've got kids and sports. One of the hardest things is nutrition. Yes, how the heck do you do it? Like what? What is some of your tips that maybe work for your clients or even for yourself as it pertains to having a family and going to different sporting events? Like what do you do to stay nutritiously nourished while on the go?

Speaker 2 37:01

Sure, I think I learned a lot in that first stage of working with a trainer and having a nutrition coach really pour into me, um, help me see results from from what I was eating. So I think over time I just I have my go-to protein sources. I know how important it is and I know how different I feel when I don't get that in. Um, so, as the one who grocery shops for our family, you know.

Speaker 1 37:29

I.

Speaker 2 37:29

I know what I need to grab for that's quick and easy. I you know I've learned because I tracked for so long so diligently with um, the competition training. I'm really good now at eyeballing what a serving of protein is. So, back then, yeah, I weighed and I measured everything because I wanted, I wanted to do it exactly right.

Speaker 1 37:50

Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:50

But and I do encourage new clients when they're learning, it's the best way to know and to learn. So you won't have to do this for the rest of your life. You know, nobody wants to weigh and measure their food for the rest of their life. But it is an important step in learning so that in the future you can go to the grocery store and just know intuitively I'm going to need this, this and this this week to fill the gaps.

Speaker 1 38:13

Yeah, do you have maybe two to three items that are really low on the prep time or low on the effort scale to have readily available for protein sources. So what would be two or three protein sources that you kind of have readily available to yourself?

Speaker 2 38:36

Sure and, of course, depending on people's allergies or dietary needs. They may or may not work, but cottage cheese, greek yogurt, beef, jerky, tuna packets. Costco is a godsend for a lot of protein options. They've got prepackaged, you know, grilled chicken breast strips. There's just lots of things like that that are pre-cooked. I consider fairly healthy. That, I know, make me feel good that I keep in the fridge or in the pantry at all times.

Speaker 1 39:05

Yeah, we actually have from a corporate fit body, corporate. They put together like a Costco easy meal prep guy, um. So what we'll do is in the show notes of this show we'll link that as well, so people can have that um as just a free gift to them, so that they can. I mean meal, meal prepping and having the right nurse. You can work out every day, right, you can go run yourself into the ground every day, but if you're not nourishing your body the right way, you're not going to see the results that you're looking for. And so I do.

Speaker 1 39:36

I grab, grab that guide. You guys, look at it, easy it's, it's no cooking. Actually, like you said, costco has all those things ready to go, but a lot of times we don't think of it. You know, the thing that I've been really enjoying is the gas stations nowadays are starting to have more healthy options. If you look for them, if you look, you know we've obviously all of us, whatever age you're at, you've basically gone that age of having your go-tos and we all operate out-tos and we all operate out of a routine and we all operate out of convenience. Yes, but if you can break your routine a little bit, break your convenience a little bit and realize that there are healthy options. That can then start being your routine and your convenience and, next thing you know, results are happening on autopilot.

Speaker 2 40:24

Yeah, you have to go into a gas station with blinders on, because it's not easy.

Speaker 1 40:27

No.

Speaker 2 40:28

There's a lot of distractions. No A lot of shiny marketing. Yeah, and our stomachs are just you know, sometimes our brains. Yeah, they have a brain of their own. We have to use our actual brain. So yeah, going to those sections where there might be some, you know, individual size cottage cheese or yogurts going to the beef jerky Yep. Sticking away from the sugary.

Speaker 1 40:49

Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 40:51

The sugars?

Speaker 1 40:52

Yeah, absolutely. You know, chelsea, I think that there's been a ton that we have unpacked. It's been super fun just to kind of get to know your journey. No idea that you had a childcare business your journey. No idea that you had a childcare business I did. You know no idea that you were a wellness coordinator at Showplace. So super cool to kind of get that insight.

Speaker 1 41:12

As it comes to mindset, mindset is one of the biggest things and you know I've said this before and I'll continually say it I don't think that it was by accident that our mind got put on the top of our body and if you think of it like it's tough, trickles down.

Speaker 1 41:26

So if we can get our mind right and just let that trickle down to the rest of our body, I think that we can really do a lot of good in our lives. What has been some of the best mindset advice that you have gotten along your journey that maybe you could share with our audience today? You know some of our audience of course they're clients and that right, there is one of the biggest privileges to know that we've got clients that we get to pour into all the time. But others of our audience maybe they don't know if fitness is right for them Fit body or not, fitness is right for them. Maybe they don't know if starting a health or fitness journey is right for them. What would be some really good mindset advice for someone that just doesn't know if they can do it or if they have what it takes.

Speaker 2 42:12

Oftentimes in the gym, when I'm coaching, I'm encouraging people to use the strongest muscle in their body that they have, which is the six inches between their ears. Which is the six inches between their ears. Um, when the rest of the body starts to feel like it doesn't want to, that it wants to give up, that it's too tired, that's when we have to use what I call our mental muscle. Um, it's so important and it the mind, is a far more powerful tool than I think any of us give it credit for. Um, you know, an attitude of gratitude is is also what I talk to everyone about.

Speaker 2 42:44

So when we get in those moods of I just don't want to do this today, I don't feel good.

Speaker 1 42:48

I don't.

Speaker 2 42:49

This is going to be. You know I don't feel good, so the workout's not going to be good. You control a hundred percent of how that goes. How you process your thoughts, um, and it's not easy. But to just turn those thoughts around, instead of I have to, I get to being thankful that you have a body that can move that. There's an opportunity out there for someone to help you learn how to do that.

Speaker 2 43:16

It's the way we frame everything, and so if they're not framing it in a positive way, the body is going to respond. So the reason their body is feeling tired and feeling sore and not wanting to continue is because you're allowing your brain to tell your body that, um, the more you speak, life to yourself and to others I mean positivity flows from that.

Speaker 1 43:38

Yeah, I love that, I love that training the mental muscle, making sure that every day, you are working that muscle. Also, you know, and one of the ways to work it is when you, you know, like you said, add to gratitude, when you start feeling a little down, there is nothing better than shooting out three, four, however many gratitude texts to people in your group. Yes, and you're not doing it for a selfish reason, but I'll tell you that you do that. If you shoot out three of them, guarantee that within an hour or two, one of them is going to respond with something that you need to hear, with something that's going to be like you're right, I do have this, and the world is a hard place and we all are dealing with our different struggles, and so, if you can remove yourself from your own pity for just a little bit, share some gratitude, share some love, it's going to come back tenfold and you're going to be able to keep on going. Yeah, yeah, this has been awesome, you guys. Um, chelsea, honestly, is is a gift to to fit body. Um, I don't probably tell you enough, um, but the appreciation that I have to have someone like yourself on our team, um, what we do at fit body is impossible without our team. Um, and so I just appreciate you. Uh, like I said, more than I probably ever tell you, uh, it's awesome to have been able to get to know you more, and also to you guys, we just rolled out some some new core values to our team and actually just yesterday I was meeting with our leadership team and we were just kind of reviewing them or whatever, and talking and I said, you know, one of the things that I'd just seen that totally lit me up is one of the core values that we rolled out is team driven.

Speaker 1 45:26

Because when I, when I opened Fit Body, I prayed a very specific prayer and I said, lord, if you are going to bless me enough to keep this business open, bless me enough to have a team, because I cannot and nor do I want to do it on my own. I want to do it on my own. And so I really wanted team driven to be one of our core values, our core focuses, and to see just recently the amount of effort that you put in, without anybody asking, to coordinate baby showers for our two West side babies that are coming soon, it meant the world to myself walking to the West side, fit body and seeing clients supporting our coaches, supporting our team um, your husband supporting you and your idea by helping decorate. So shout out to Darren um for for putting up and helping set up the gym. But I just want to give you accolades for that and and let uh the clients know and and really you, you know that it doesn't go unnoticed and really you're changing more lives by just being yourself and living the way that you live. So be encouraged today. You guys that are watching listening, ladies that are watching listening, be encouraged today.

Speaker 1 46:38

And if you want to catch Coach Chelsea, there's also going to be a link down in the description where you can grab a free week and you can go hang out with Coach Chelsea on the West side. Ask her any questions you have, pick her brain. I mean, she's got years of knowledge with fitness and we want to pour that knowledge into you guys. So, chelsea, thank you for being here. We have to get rocking and rolling. We've got our next team meeting coming up and so we're going to get to that. But you guys, hey, like subscribe, share this episode. It's been such a pleasure getting to know Coach Chelsea even more today and we will catch you guys on the next episode of the Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls show. Go out and be great today. Bye you guys, see you. Falls show go out and be great today. Bye you guys, see you.