#22 - Peter Jomides

Peter Jomides shares his story as a personal trainer. Inspired by 80's action movies, Peter inspires his clients to push through their challenges and stay fit so they can maintain an active lifestyle. He has also started teaching weekly evening fitness classes arranged by a school in Bunnell and it sounds like the program is growing and can be arranged for in other schools in Florida. He trains at his gym and has YouTube workouts. His business is Fitness Pro 

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This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast. To help others in their fitness journey. It's all possible! It’s time to wake up. Here we go. Hello, everyone. This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast, where I talk to professionals in the field and also everyday people about their journey in health and fitness to help inspire others to live their best life. And today we have on with us Peter Jomides. Hi, Peter. How you doing? Hi, Angela. How are you? So nice to see you. Great. I'm doing really good. Peter is a trainer that used to work with me at a gym that we both worked out for quite a few years until they closed down. We got to know each other really well, and his style of training is very good, and he impressed me. So it's a good reason to have you on the show, Peter. Let's go ahead and go way back to when you were younger and you had an interest in the health and fitness field. How did that all start? Who inspired you? I would have to say that growing up and being born in like 79, that a lot of the films that were out that I would have to say that really kind of watching them over and over again, coming up from school and seeing them and this and that, you know, you got your Sylvester Stallone Rocky movies, you had your Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator Commando and all this type of you know, I really do believe, seen all these films that as an adult, I had to say that it was really Sylvester Stallone that really delivered fitness to America. I really believe that because before that, you had your gym goers who were, you know, Steve Reeves and these guys that needed Arnold Schwarzenegger at 70 would be winning Mr. Olympia, like seven, eight, nine. Not everyone knew about that type of training. And as soon as Hollywood glamorized it with the eighties genre of action films. Everybody added sure it all. And then growing up in that time, seeing that and be like and and you know all the way about at school and one arm push up in the right aides and we tried all that as kids you know and I would have to say though around 11 or 12 I was enrolled in martial arts and because of course, another hot actor on the scene with muscles was Jean-Claude Van Damme. And not only was he like, you know, Bruce Lee in some of these movies in the seventies, early, early seventies, they would hardly be shot. And when they were on, I wouldn't be able to see them or they were dubbed in from Chinese English. So once I think those martial arts movies started getting a little bit more Hollywood jazzed up and, you know, technology with Hollywood was starting making still really good. Jean-Claude Van Damme was on the scene. I was loving it. I was practicing these kicks and stuff in the house he'd been before, was enrolled in taekwondo. And my dad actually had gotten sick. And when he was sick, he told my mom, he said, listen, I enrolled him in karate to, you know, one day I might not be here and I want to learn how to defend himself. And so I really do have to say that the discipline of me doing what I do now has been literally put in concrete way back when. So the martial arts, the way they ran their school, they weren't American, they were Korean. So it was like old school martial arts training and discipline. And that kind of set the bar in my own head as to, okay, this study done over and over again, it's something that's got to be worked on. And it's not like something you could buy at a store and you have it and then it's there when you need it. So it was then that I'm like, okay, this hard is painful. And then from there I would have to say, you know, hit 1780. When you join a gym, you start to see how everybody else in there is. You got your normal gym goers who are seeing results and they're older. All the guys were old in me and that's how you learn and you're going, you know this like, yeah, some of the things you did and I've seen you in in the way you train teaches. So like me because that's where wisdom comes from. It's that it comes from doing it. And you can learn all the books in the world and read all the books of the world. Once you start doing it, it's on a whole nother level. And I would have to say that it was around 1819, still doing the martial arts, but at the same time now incorporating the weight. Then I'm like, Read that. That's how Jean-Claude Van Damme got his body. That's how Sylvester Stallone got that with the. Oh, it's hours, hours, hours. And like, you know, when you meet someone, a potential new client and they say, and I've had this I've had this. Hey, Peter, this picture here, I love to look like that. What's what's the chance? What do you think? Months. And in my mind, I'm like three months or, oh, get you a good start. But this picture here is 20 years of this person doing this. It's a lifestyle. And that's what that's what I come to realize. As time went on getting into this business, I didn't start out that way. I was, you know, up in New Jersey before I moved here and I was working for Construction Company once. I really got once they got, like I would say a year before I got married, started in stocks that bought me the whole workout about being strong in the construction field. Those it necessarily mean you look nice in proportion. I mean you have a lot of men in the construction field all lumber all day long or hall mason blocks long way stronger than I am. But does it look like that guy in how And so I realized, well, the construction people will get you strong, but the gym will make you look nice. And I learned that low topic. Very good. And you ran with it. And I ran with it and stayed with it. So did you ever have any struggles throughout your life where you didn't keep up on your workouts or you went through things in your life where it fell aside? And if so, how were you able to get yourself back? Because that's the hardest thing for people. I have to be completely honest with you. Once this started becoming, I would have to say, once I got married to Whitney, I met Melissa. I was 23, 22, probably 20, got married at 24, had Juliette around 25, 26. But I have to tell you, the whole dating and courting thing, you know, the gym is there and all my memories and my knowledge of martial arts there. But you're thinking about making money, you're thinking about the future and things like that. But it was really probably I would have to see 25 is when I really turned a switch on and said, okay, this is not just something that can be done once in a while because everybody knows you get married and in £5 and that is the comfort. But I've never said I want to look good just or meeting a girl. That's not what even martial arts instilled in my brain. It was a way of life, right? So I would have to say, Angela, I'm 44 now from 25 years old to now. I have to tell you, there has not been a week that's gone by where I did not get in workout. I would have to say four days. Excellent. Unless I know we had COVID, unless you get a flu and you got to take a couple of days off to heal. But even on vacation, I would have to tell you we booked a cruise or we booked a trip anywhere. I would find out where the nearest gym was. I would find out if there was nothing. I'd be like, okay, you know what? I'm in a cabin up in Lake George where there's no gyms around. And knowing the exercise, you put a, you know, little paper, a little pencil, and you just go through it and you do it. And I'm telling you right now, if it was easy, everyone would do it. Sure. So do you try to instill that practice into the people that you work with and you're trying to help at the moment? You know, you know how the gyms work with selling, selling, showering. Okay, here's a new person. Here's a folder. So since I would have to say full time doing this and what's a full time doing this? So I got out of the construction industry and said, You know what? Let me try something. I really love passion construction with paying the bills. And it bought me a lot of work ethic and people and customers and clients in that sense. Okay. And with the funny part is when you're in construction, some of the people that are in that, you know, even the customers, the homeowners is not very happy their house is getting worn down, feel like. So they're not really a good frame of mind. Right. But the personalities that you meet when somebody walks into a gym, they're putting their their troubles in the car or leaving in the car and find out a steep beam for an hour or 45 minutes or whatever it is. So they're in a better frame of mind. Then once they realize the door are kicking in, it's still even better. So you go through this whole ordeal with every single client? No, A lot of them just know that I work at this facility or that facility or. Well, this Sister Jen closed. We had to adapt. And they don't ask me a if I see a resume, they might see like I have in my gym set up at the house a rack of all my outs in karate, you know, and do martial arts. And then they'll see a couple of trophies and medals and this and that. Then I'm at wrap yourself and like you, you've always been since I've known you, we fit in this business. It does help. Like you did have all the knowledge in the world from books, but it does help me. We wear our resin. Yes. We have to project our our image in a good way. Otherwise, who's going to believe what we have to say? Who's going to come to us? Right? Who's going to choose us over somebody else? That's for sure. Yeah. You were talking a little bit about fitness and travel, so can you talk about that a little bit more? Yeah. You come up with a program for yourself, but what can we tell others about when they're traveling so that they don't become so sedentary and just focus on the food and the relaxation and how do we get them motivated to stay in shape? I think Ryan Read once said that it took him know months to get in shape for this movie that then like one day to get out. He's funny, comedic a little bit, right But but it's is it that true? No he's being exact He was exaggerating. But you know, you can say to an individual that maybe they're booking a cruise and I had this one client now in and his wife love booking cruises and going on. They both work, but at the same time, they're able to escape and do these cruises. And then the more you do, the more, I guess, this counter you get on the next one or that. So they're always book maybe for a year, I don't know. But I have to tell you, when I met him, I met this one and he was in a car accident before I met seeing a physical therapist for modern months and he would not let this guy go. This man is physical therapist, got him out of a wheelchair and got him walking again. And he was so loyal to end. But this man, this physical therapist, was great to lead that place and open up his new practice somewhere else. But he stayed with this client, my client now. And it was his only client just to get in walking and deliver him to me. Basically. He basically said, Randy man's name is Randy. I'm sure he wouldn't mind me using it. He said, I'm going to get you walk it. But the second you were able to walk, I'm going to move and go up and my. Okay, so in the meantime, find someone in your local gym and they will take you from here on out. And then he walked into our establishment and met me all of a sudden his folder laid it on my desk. I called, called him, and it went from there. The man like he's the type of person you how some some clients will stay with you because the trust there is huge the way you are is really or in some type deciding you know is the way you are that it's like when you take a plug according to Wall, it just works, right? Mm hmm. So anyway, he loves going to cruises. So his format what I trained him now is every time it's okay. So you park your car wherever they watch the boat, and you got to now walk all that way into the boat. Mind you, you can take as many rest breaks you need. So we have and do like farmers walks here. Try to simulate carry maybe a piece of suitcase or a piece of luggage. So anything that makes his normal everyday life easier is what we try to do here. You know, if somebody were to come to me and say, Listen, I want to look like Mr. Galecki, that's a whole other thing. It's a whole nother format, as you know. But as far as radio and go it away going on vacation, that's that's and I begged him, I say, Ready, Fleet, are you going to go on the trip? Are you going to, you know, maybe do a little gambling or pool lounging. But do me a favor, If you book a massage. Wonderful. Do me a favor. Walk up to the front of the boat, look at the gym there and see maybe you and your Mrs. can do a little something there. And it could be 20 minutes. Does not. Not every workout has to be. You know that Every workout requires it all. I got to sit down, wipe myself while I'm because here's a thing these clients Angela and you might agree with me I want them to train so that they can also train tomorrow. You see what I mean? Because if we kill our bodies, are we going to be up or tomorrow? Is there are we going to be you saw. So I always say to every single person I see, okay, to be ending on their limit what they can do, whether they're 25, whether they're 55 or 80, I say let's train today so that you can potentially do something tomorrow. You going to start without me? But you can actually physically do something tomorrow. You're not sitting down hopping a leap and add Bill with ice pack. So that's not the right way of training. And I've never traded. Now, I think a lot of it had to do with when I got into this field as a business, I was already seasoned below like whites. I wasn't. What are you getting into it? I was like, like 30 getting and then having my mom, my mom's 80 years old. I physically know what she's able and capable of doing. So whenever I questioned, I'm like, That's an 80 year old Zeke walking around mind you, if she was like, you know, Jane father or fit like that over the years, she'd probably be a little bit better shape. But who can be like that? Not everybody could be a Jane Fonda advocate. Be someone that can invest all this time like you think you will find success in fitness if you find one aspect of it that you like it, it's yoga. Go with it. If it's karate, go with it. If it's Zumba, go with it. If it's bodybuilding, like Schwarzenegger, go with it. It's maybe you have to find something, join in it. Because if you're doing it with a run, it's not going to happen. And that's why a lot of clients actually need to pay for this to make them do it, make it just admirable. Yes. Yeah. The only thing is that I try to get my clients to have a rounded program, because if we do too much of one thing, there seems to be weaknesses. It's good to enjoy what you're doing. But change is good too. Exposing your body to different kinds of workouts. And there's so many different kinds out there. If you want to do strength training doesn't have to be free weights. It could be be with bands that could be have a Bowflex machine. And so many people enjoy the Bowflex machine compared to free weights, kettlebells. You know, there's so many different ways to strengthen the body. Yoga is great for flexibility, range of motion, but it can also be toning if done in a different kind of way. Instead of saying, Oh, I like this kind of yoga, or I like that kind of yoga, try it all, you know, to expose the body to to different kinds of yoga and different kinds of workouts. I see that you have several different kinds of certifications, too. You instill them in most of your clients, or do you kind of stick to what they like so they keep on coming back for more? It's funny, I guess when like you write, like you and me, we're kind of it's we're not I wouldn't call it newbies or green so we can deliver something that might be uncomfortable for them, but we know they need it. We can deliver to them in a way that they'll be like, okay, I'll do it all in a go with it. Because Angela's making it seem fun. Angela Making it seem it's doable. And not only that, we are adjusting our workout to the client, so I'm but it's, I must say this right now that they're saying about, oh, there's no cookie cutter workouts, those cookie cutter workouts, they'll work for. Well, yes, they're right to an extent. Same time, there are basic movements that every single one of us are meant to do and have to be, whether it is activating our exercises with sitting in a chair and getting up, activating our leg exercise. If someone can't squat, how are we going to get those muscles working? We have to come up with a way to help them to possibly sit in a chair, stand up. So there are like compound movements that are very important for every single what the muscle moves this way or the body moves this way. It should it should move, it should we should give it resistance to be able to, whether it's a band, cable weight on isometric anything to get that muscle that's and to do work work and you have the knack I know about that because I've seen you do the work thing to keep them interested, keep their confidence level up top here because if somebody doesn't have competence in doing it, then it's a little how are they going have longevity? They might be like, you know what, I'm not comfortable with it. I want somebody has competence and I can have them do something here in the house in my whole gym. And once they leave, I know that they're going to be doing this elsewhere. But I like, give them a tip. I say, okay. And was were performing a simple step up. I know you don't have stairs in the house, but you use like I used to have stairs now. So that seems in the house now but I used so let's simulate this step up while we hold on to this railing that we're using. It's not really railing. It's stopping there. You can aid them in. And I tell them a lot of times, Sue, what happens if all of a sudden you're in a taxi or an Uber and the guy says, Oh my goodness, I have a flat pipe and the all over. Now you're in the middle of all things Road and Palm Coast Parkway. You're out of your comfort zone and the curve is this high. Now, can you do it with that? Here's a way that you can do it. Not having a railing is the safest way. So I teach them the way they're comfortable with for the muscle to grow and improve. And then I teach them a way that they can do it. God forbid they're stranded somewhere, and there's nothing that. So it's like the safety factor as well as they are too. In this way, it gives them cop confidence. You continue that superport I think so, yeah. Functional fitness is high on my list of priorities, especially as people get a little bit older. Being able to do things for everyday life or even to challenge themselves a little bit if they want to go out and go for a walk or be involved in a sport or play with their grandkids, you know, we have to have functional fitness that's so important. And when you try to get people to do things that you feel like everyone should do, like go up a higher step, they're so surprised at, wow, why is this so hard for me, you know, or taking a longer step or even getting down on the floor and being able to get up again? You know, little things like that, being able to pick up that grandbaby, you know, and not hurt your back, all these different things. So we have to strengthen all those muscles with every day movements with a little bit of weight to get people in shape for everyday life. It's so important. So I work with a lot of people doing doing that. Do you work in groups also or just one on one? I have in training class, even a fitness one. We were training in that classroom and heading on. You got that weekend. We got it. And in the pasta at the gym I used to train at in New Jersey, same thing, classes occasionally. And I actually one day a week it just so happened to work out where five clients who all know each other said, What would you girls think about this? And instead of paying a rice, you pay like a little portion and the trainer gets compensated for it. But we all have a wonderful work out as a matter I think the youngest at the time was maybe 25 in the room and the oldest was 81. And and I'm of course I'll be I'm old the exercise I will use it gone girls thought they bothered and but I'm kind of near and close to the 80 year old and all of the other girls in the room understand why and and we're all friends and they all have a wonderful work out of the old, you know, sip of water between set and all that stuff. So, yeah, I at the moment I do have group training going. I also at the moment am running a fitness class in one of the schools in by now, which is for young kids from 5 to 50, a little bit of mixed martial arts, cardio kickboxing. Yeah. And it's in an gymnasium so we'll run back out to like, you know, lapsed back and forth and out all the movement and then once and then we'll play like a little game depending on their age group and things like that. So the parents are there. It's very controlled. It's through a company that is out of Arizona. I randomly send them a resume stuff that if my time on a monday night. So it's in addition to my bread and butter at the moment it's Monday to Saturday, one on one client, occasional group, and it's all spaced out because a lot of it is at my house at a gym. Oh, hey, Susie. Charlie just showed up. Hang on one second, Charlie. Jump on the treadmill for about 15 minutes and I'll come get you in a little bit. So it can't have run like that now. But you picture like a studio of all weights and some cardio weight and things that I use for every single one of my clients. I can't have it overlap unless it's intended to be a class and there's room for the class and some of these other people do not all know each other, obviously. So let's just say I have a client

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00. My next client would be at 1130, obviously. So they're from 10 to 11. Have a wonderful day. See you on the next DC outside DC therapy meeting. You could grow, make, use the bathroom, or if you need a shake when we shake or something, but at least it gives me a window before the next person comes in. It's not like Grand Central Station. There is the days when I had one person. There's been days when I had seven and night before. I'm like, How am I going to do? It's a rate for them in the date also, which is nice, you know, getting out of the house. And some of them have come in the afternoon, they work their day. So I do training and let them know. I say, listen, whatever we do in this room here, you know, I like to know what else they have in mind for the day. Are you going home to relax or you get to go Publix and Kohl's and all these other areas is then I'll tailor our workout so it's not outsourced. I'll give you an example. One client I have now, she was also gone to physical therapy before she met me. Because of the something she went through. She would come to see me the day after she went to the physical therapist and she could not move. She was in a and I said, Listen, the person may be wonderful, he may be awesome. He or she may know exactly what they're doing. But just do me a favor and let him know this next time. Let him know that you have to go to Kohl's, you have to go to Publix. You'll be doing some shopping, have other things in the day to need to do. So please let him know not to. Whatever he gives you don't deplete your higher ed because if we do a little bit every single day, that's going to make our function a white better. Then like I said earlier this interview, destroy your body. So the next three you know what? She did this and told him she said that he was completely okay with it. And then he realized I understand what this guy's say. And it was just a suggestion. I didn't say go tell back. I couldn't be. I don't have a physical therapy degree, but I kind of from like you and I working with clients over the years to get an idea on our limits of what we should do, got to be able to continue to live our life and not be so exhausted and broken down to, but to the point where you could possibly get an injury from that we have to respect our bodies for sure. You were talking a little bit about the kids that you're working with. That excites me. That's amazing. So young children, I don't know how it was when you were growing up. I'm a little bit older than you, but we had he like three times a week when I was growing up and it never went away. It was all year long. Just the type of sport changed because I lived up north, there was winter, so wintertime we were doing sports inside the spring and fall outside, but there was always P.E. and now the schools, it's like semester, a semester of P.E. and then on to the next thing, whatever their extra curricular activity is for that semester. So it really excites me to hear that you're working with kids. Is that like after school? Yes. Classes at the moment are probably, I would say it's a three hour window, but there's four class requirements. 6 p.m. start time. I got a little earlier just to set up and get my idea, get my radio set up,

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00 and the last class leave as the night goes on, it's the younger ones in the beginning and then the more older ones attend or an 815 class, you know, around the door. Nine and all the moms there, they'll either they'll even drop them off at and there's a girl up front that school, one of the girls that school volunteers I to make sure they sign in and that sometimes it works it gets them moving and they know I do this also I don't think a lot of them see it's a little different personal training. It's like they know kind of everything about you, you know, once you build a relationship with someone. Right. But she'd had them come to your house, you know, some of the clients built Melissa. They might see my daughter leaving school or this or going to work or school. So it's a little bit more personal where this is. They don't know what I think. I've had anyone ask me maybe one or two parents might do this also full time. So again, you could of working for a company are not handing out this kind of like I'm keeping the two worlds separate a little bit at the moment but it's a whole nother thing working with it, working with children at the whole lot of things. Children have very little attention span. So you have to go from one thing that you actually can't beat. 20 reps of squats like I would give to you. It would be completely different. So it's a whole and they burn out very easy. It's their they'll want as fast they can touch the back wall, want to stress they can back to the spot they started on and their shot they like, you know so it's just one step to moving a little bit. And I think a lot of it has to do with personality. So if you're an outlaw and like we all know, growing up, like you said, growing up in school, I remember my gym teacher being like I remember I had a couple of one guy. He also ran a sports shop in town. So we also would be like, Hey, Mr. Marlow, we want you. But he was like, He would spit out was like a ballplayer, like the way you look, like a ballplayer, a baseball player. He'd be chewing on the sunflower seeds during gym and and he was really outgoing. And that's what the boys. But then the other gym teacher was a little bit more newer, newer stuff, but was a little bit more maybe not as enthusiastic and more of a dry personality. We still love this stuff she came up with. It was great, but it depended on, you know, like a boy or you maybe gravitates to guy, you know, like a maybe a a a role model type thing where the girls liked her. And I completely understand. But we also do not have these back that the phones that just absorbs everybody every kids time right now and stare using labels all day long leaning forward we want to getting major neck problems this time goes on. But you know, how many days a week do you work with these children to reschedule? At the moment, it's one day a week because it's set up to be one day week at the moment, but it's getting so large yet I believe next semester might have to be split into two nights. Again, I was being trained into this somebody, just somebody. It was coaching me a little bit. And then he said, Pete, you ready to fly? And it's based on the attendance. She signs up. That's how you get paid. But in the beginning when I was training, it was just an hourly rate until it's handed over to me. Probably going to be any day now. The way it works is the more places he can get set up in the state of Florida, which is a it's a company that's based out of Arizona and states around Arizona are pretty busy. But he launched he talked to the owner and he wants the Florida he probably has four locations at the moment. And by now he's the busiest right now. And it might have to break all separate nights again. Same time, I don't want it to cancel somebody that needs me here. Right. To go do that. So I call and listen. Let's see how this night goes and next semester we'll figure it out. Because at that point, people around you know how it is working. And so the word things are always changing. Yeah, yeah, I know. We were all busy up until Coban happened, and then the world was like, What's going on? And then everybody now still misses fitness. One Oh, I hear that all the time. I mean, there was such variety at that gym, variety of things to do, variety of people that work there, though you can't find another facility in this area that have has all that that place. And now everybody's going here, there and everywhere, you know, and having to put more money out of their pockets. But things change. Nothing ever stays the same. Right. And we have to change also to make our lives stay good. So let's talk a little bit about diet and nutrition. Do you help a lot of your clients in that area by recommendation? I will do that. I kind of feel that not one diet might be right, one person or what? Let's put it this way one way, be right. I believe you're on a system right now where you don't call it a diet. Angela I think it's just the way you eat and because you do it for so long, you have a nice, lean, lazy, certain ones. Over the years I had try Jenny Craig tried weight watch tried this very bet and they'll see results immediately. This would provide see to it some of my clients here but then all of a sudden it plateaus and that's it. So now what's going on? You going off the point system? Weight Watchers has the weight system. Oh my goodness. Apple that it's cherry this that all that all the fruits don't have any points so my client well what was this person doing all would go easy on fruit that had zero points but hello Rudi's sugar. You're doing that all throughout the day. You're going to hit a wall, right? It's not going to be suitable to see the scale drop a little bit. Or is it necessarily the scale it has to drop? Is it more your body composition? That's a chain. So depends on the person. I think that like the automobile, you put lousy gasoline in your car, you think it's going to go far, you know. So what's the sense and I would just see you to that illustration today with another morning, same picture you would you buy or that body be, but then pop the hood and it's like a 1914 rusted motor inside? No. Well, would you buy a 19 state of the art motor 24 motor inside, maybe a body from the seventies where it needs a little bit of work. You go, Hell yeah. So it's true. It what we're eating. It's perfect on the inside. All right. Maybe our muscle not where it should be, but we saw organs and kidneys or liver. All this stuff is functioning properly. So you can't do 20 pushups so you don't look like a Jack will weigh or did or what's? Or these guys you all or these actresses that look airbrushed on 12. So what At least the insides are working right. So is there one diet for everyone? I don't think so. I tried a few and I did Palio for six months Angel last year and Palio is like the caveman diet. So no starches whatsoever. And I'm trying to. I did it for six months, right? I'm trying to get my gains off with certain exercises and I sort of hadn't severe pain in my shoulders. And it it dawned on me a right way round rice, a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of those type of things. That is carbohydrates for your muscles, hydration, your muscles, also 40, your muscles. So I started incorporating a little bit of carbohydrate help once and the pains went away. I'm like, oh my goodness, is it? I'm 43, 43 now. I won't have to worry about my shoulder being a And sure enough, it was from that it was from hardcore Palio. So are these weight, these certain types of nutrition? Are they meant to be long term? I'm telling you, it's still it depends on the person. Yeah. We need to give the body the nutrition it needs in order to stay healthy, making lifestyle changes so that can get through and do all the things we want to do and hopefully not overindulging in too many of those bad things or if we do, coming back to program again so that we can feel good, right? Yeah. And getting good sleep too is so important to let the body rest and recuperate so that we can stay on track to. As far as a nutrition, I'm not a nutrition next, but seeing what other people have been through and then trying this, them trying that dirt gauge, well, I'll get up, I'll make hard boiled eggs out to eat the eggs. I feel like maybe I get a little too much the day before servings. Alli good. The next day it's like one trip. What would you say on the ground now you get up and you press on and you try not to think about it. Just like you said. Let's take it from here on out. So, hey, you know, you go rock climbing, you traveled the country and did a bunch of activities. If you want baby a crazy speed in a day, like a maybe climbing one of the mountain. However, I don't like white dude yet. So what if you're a little hungrier later where the next day you maybe didn't do so, but you spend more time with family chatting, talking so your body may not need that fuel. So but then again, it's enlisted. Somebody told me these football players, they're eating like five, 6000 calories a day, training and performing the sport. But then when they retire, Michael Strahan in his nutrition program probably trained, changed drastically because now he looks nice, lean. He's in a suit and he's on a TV show. Right? A talk show. So if you don't, you're going to refresh your radar. Perry was a football player for many years ago. He was so big,£360 in season, right when he retired. You didn't change what he ate. He gained another 5000. Oh, that well, we're now why do I have any problems of biology from YouTube to that? So everything in moderation? Yes. Okay. I would like to hear you share maybe one or two success stories, like an amazing success stories of. One of your client. We always we always have people that come to us, which could be health issues. It could be their bodies have fallen apart or they want to make a big change in their life. Do you have a story you want to share? Maybe more than one. I have two that are off the top of my head and one of them, a client of mine who was in commercial real estate. And he met me and he was younger than me probably about maybe five, six years younger than me. But he was like, I would say 309 people. And he goes, Pete, you know, picture us Sylvester Stallone, but very overweight. And with me, he was able to come to the gym or days, five days a week and put in the time because of his schedule. Maybe the numbers were profitable for him to be able to do this right. And I would have to say in six months he lost£100. He literally his mind and he was not dating anyone that go in restaurant. I actually put him on a nutrition plan. I said, Do this is what I do the way I you and I very similar about the food allergies immediately. I know that food allergy. But one thing I was told is never go into buy, never tell them go buy this fat bird or go buy this supplement vitamin shopper. Because there were stories where people did that, traders did that. The person took it a step further and then had a heart attack and dropped. So we were never told to say, go do this or take this. But you can say, I recommend this is what I did. It might not work, but you might. So anyway, this nutrition plan, you know, a little bit of a little bit of cottage cheese and grilled chicken, some fish, no booze, water, only not even juice. Just for right now. Man lost£100 in six months. Right. And but I did tell him, I said this is something where, you know, you're going to meet a girl, you're going to wear a lot of these places, end up in a restaurant, make the right choice. So that was success. Story number one, He became so not just a client, but like a really true friend. When Corbett I moved down here, he was up north. I moved out here before Corbett app. He goes cheap. Let's sync up on Zoom. I will do out. I need you, I need. So it was more like, I don't want to use the word psychiatrist, but to exercise, he needed me to do it and then he had no weight. So we were doing things. He watch the and doing all this during the lockdown. He gets because he's seen his girl gets married, but a nice big house. And I tell him exactly what to buy. Money's not an option. He can afford it. He went out and made his Jim at home look like my based on the video. I would do it by that, by that, by that. You know, he didn't need a dumbbells. So buy up to whatever you can£30 or whatever but got the Mac at the bench got all that stuff. So that's success story number one. Success story number two, a whole different dynamic 80 year old woman, 81. The client I have now, husband passed away before I met her. This is, by the way, the client that was going physical therapy. And she told and listen, we need a little bit of gas in the tank for me to be able to do the other things. But regardless, she was in a couple accidents, car accident. Somebody rear ended her so she got one of her feet are inverted where it's not outside like the outside of your foot. When you walk, it's on the inside. So because of that, her gates talked a little bit. Her balance is off. So we work on that. But that's a long story short. So the real meat to this story, when I met her, she was scared to death, scared to death of falling. So she would have somebody else take out her garbage. Hint she would drive to Publix and beg somebody to get her be the car. So she give you the card is balanced. She was so a good stubborn. She was a good stubborn in the sense that she didn't want a wheelchair because she already knew me. I said, You're not using a walker. We're going to get you what we're going to get you to feel competent to do the things you want to do with force. I didn't want her to walk, and I taught. I said, exercise number one, we're going to learn to get up off the ground. She was scared to death of the idea. What I broke it down in steps. She memorized that. You know, to this day, we had certain monthly challenges, you know, whether it's bridges on the floor or squats, everybody loves a squat challenge. Her challenge for the month of November is and we did this a while back too, but we all repeat them back to back. So her monthly challenge at the moment right now is in a week's time you're doing an up and down so to a day, you two a day you can do Saturday or Sunday, you know, pick whatever days you want one day re tomorrow. So the up and down is basically standing up, squatting, squatting, squatting to your hands, you on the floor, you backed your feet to where you're on your knees and then from there you got to get back up. So reverse the whole load, move the hands up a little bit, get one foot underneath you, get the other foot underneath you into your fingers back, rub your shins, grab your knees, push yourself to withstand and then bounce. And I don't tell them to stand straight because, you know, I'm shredded that I saw it happening go that way. But I always tell that being athletic like a martial arts stole a lot of the martial arts. History comes in here and there were some of these clients without even me. Ellen, You know, but that success story number two, that a woman who was scared to death of falling now can the carpet and not to lead her car, what to get a car and walk into Publix or take her garbage can out herself because get all the driveways. It's the solemn like that that's worried about going down. A little friendlier. Coming up, a little art, because, of course, if you're not lifting the point at all, you sneakers going to rub the concrete coming back, Right. So it's these little tricks that I explain that if just saying do this, do that and dap you go like stupid it sometimes they somewhat understand why you say so. You built her up and instilled confidence in her so she can just do her normal everyday things in. Life. That's great. Yeah. Right. So what's in the future for you, Peter? Anything new at the moment? Daughter is going to be 89 on Friday. Now she's finishing her 12th year senior year, so that's very exciting As far as I want to do a little bit more travel, I don't get to travel. So I to Melissa and I were just talking about it maybe during the winter season, maybe going so cooler, breaking up jackets in the monceau traveling, I'd add. Oh my goodness. I forgot to tell you, I just did my 20th anniversary last month. Congratulations, September. So it's it's huge. It's a lot. So because of that, you know, instead of sneaking away for three days in the state, maybe doing something there. So no matter what I do, no matter where I go, I will instill in the clients like I still in myself. Whatever you do, just think resistance training. Because the military years ago you'd see the soldiers with their white t shirts on the field under the drum. They're doing jumping jacks, they're doing burpees, they're doing pushups, they're doing sit ups. Maybe they'll do pull ups and then tactical training, right, to learn how to shoot judo and combat. Lately, scientists and the trainers, the personal trainers that are up, you're in Stripe conditioning, coach. They're really, really advanced and run the show on this whole market have started incorporating bodybuilding and strength training with the soldiers in camp. So it's not just the old school burpees and jumping jacks and pushups. It weights out because of what it does with bone density. As far as you're concerned, you probably already know that your clients are probably already aware, but I just want to instill this now in these clients that I have now the importance of bone density and and it's everywhere now, the hate in the health insurance company. What? So it's it's so much more a thing now than it was years ago. Yes. I love you. You plug in that in their bone density. They say after you turn 30 old that if you're not doing some kind of resistance training, that bone density can start going down. That's pretty young. Most people don't realize that. And that's about the age when people a lot of people, you know, they're getting involved with their families and their children and it's like their healthy habits are pushed aside because they don't have time for it. So it's important. But as far as a goal, I know you asking me and other Clyde this year, people 80, why don't you open up a gym? And I'm like, and I've seen the kids and the stress that the owners go throughout the years. Whoever all in the gym. Don't get me wrong, my old boss, very successful, owned three gyms. Well, fancy car, but the man stress level is up here all the time. I barely got time to exercise, barely got time, but was always at the gym saying hello, wiping down would have his men men to stop too. But they'll be sporting the barbells, making them all nice, nice just to shop ace the stress level with that. It's just not something I ever wanted. But I can control is what I'd have go out more. My take on anything more than that, the hell on me won't be as where you want my help. Good for every one that I have and be strong for them too. So it's like. It's like to a t knife sharpening each other. Help me help you. Right kind of thing. So. So whenever somebody asks me, I would immediately shut that they are like, I don't think that's what I can. And yeah, I'm not an entrepreneur. So people are good with numbers and maybe that man up that I knew was great with numbers. And I think the owner of this one was also very successful in another company as well. So I just I don't at this I want to do this today, this tomorrow, this the next day. And along the way have some fun with family, friends and all that type of thing. And just I would hope that one day I can be like, you know, like carrots it or Right. I love in the end job. I wish you could be eight years old and still fit and fiddle and be able to ride my bike. You know what it is? It's now it's what you do now. Getting back, first thing we said that people say, I want to look like that. Well, three months is going to do it all. It's going to be a lifestyle. Definitely. Sounds like you got it figured out, mate. I've learned from you. I'm learning from you and my clients and I'm just bring it out. So that's it. But I enjoy this. So we have to keep our minds open so that we can learn from each other. There's so much knowledge out there and absorbing from other people what they do and how they do it. Yeah, why not, right? We don't know at all. We got to get our wisdom from other people, too. All right. So Peter, can you give our listeners a goal so that they can live a better life and maybe give them a path to get there? Don't set the bar too high. Whatever you want. Right? You have an idea, something that you like to do. You have to try it, go discarded, saying that's in part, okay, nothing is impossible. Everybody thinks something is impossible until someone does it. Right. And I didn't come up with that. That's something. It's something steady. Years always stay. That was one quote. Another quote was don't play down, say five months at five months, I'll want to be this ought to be that. Don't rush this because that's rushing life to tomorrow has got itself problems. Right? Worry about today. Worry about what you're going to do today, what type of workout you might apple, what type of meal you might make that tomorrow has its own and it's all thing because it you project people they get discouraged real quick because they realize that it might be too overwhelming. And sometimes life life itself is overwhelmed right. And we're all just pretending to know what we're doing so or pretend to know we all have a voice. So let's voice our reality. We can't get overwhelmed because we don't know what tomorrow at all. Look what happened in Maine. Look what happened in Israel. So do what you can today and plan the day accordingly. And don't stress about tomorrow because Ma's got its own anxiety. Great advice. Life is a journey enjoy every single bit of it, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, Peter, thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. I know the listeners are going to gain some knowledge from what you've had to share. Thank you. It's been great. Thank you so much, Angela. This is Angela Grayson from the Loving Life Fitness Podcast To help others in their fitness journey. It’s all possible! It’s time to wake up. Here we go.