This is a headgum podcast. This is Aaron McGowan, certified personal trainer and writing a solo. Today here on the Dumbbells A Comedy Fitness Podcast, I'm going to be bringing you inspiration. And sometimes information, hey dumbbells, let's get dumb. That's right, Bell babies, it's your girl Aaron, I'm Ryan Solo today, but I have to tell you, this podcast would have sucked if Sanger would have been there. Me and my girl Jade Catapreda have a blast, okay, so please welcome to the weight room the hilarious comic actress Jade Catapreda. All right, I'd like to welcome everybody to the weight room, Jade Catapreda. Hello girl, what's up? Hey girl, you know, same stuff, I just moved, which was so calm, so calming. Oh, I've heard, I've heard that moves are one of the easiest things you can do. This is not stressful at all, you know, packing up my life out of a tiny seven-year apartment that I spent gathering with. Oh my gosh, yeah, seven years, that'll do it. I think anything past three, you got to get movers, you got to get help, you got to get outside eyes because you don't see it anymore, you don't see the stuff you've accumulated. I did it. You got to get a friend. I know I had one friend and he was not an LA friend, obviously, he's a New York friend. Only New York friends help you move. LA friends tell you they're going to help you move, they're like, "Oh, that's so cute. I'll totally be there." No. But then something comes up. Auditions come up. Auditions come up. Really? It's dry out here. Oh my God. Where are you in the world? I'm in Playa now. I moved in with my girl. Oh my gosh. Cool. Thank you. It's pretty exciting. Oh my gosh. And then I'm in Virginia as well. So half of my stuff yesterday movers just picked up and they're driving across country, putting it in my house in Virginia. I think that's perfect. I mean, half of your stuff, California, half of your stuff, Virginia, then you get to buy a bunch of new stuff because your stuff is two places and who knows where it's just a nice time. I'm done buying stuff. I'm done buying stuff. I'm ready. I'm ready to shit. You need a bed? Yeah, I want it all. I'm in my marketplace. I've just been like, "Anybody have any face like Marguerite?" Girl, you could come leave it on my street. People take stuff I put out there all the time. I put a medicine ball out there the other day that was kind of old and nasty and I just didn't feel like cleaning it up. And it's gone. I was like, "Good for you, somebody. You get your bread." You have an extra bread. I was like, "What are the balancing balls called? The bonsam ball?" Bonsam ball? Bonsam ball? My girlfriend. Bonsam. So if you get rid of yours, you'll let me know. Oh, my gosh. Just get one. There's one of my favorite things in the whole world. They're like 100 bucks. Yeah, but they last forever. I mean, truly. I've had mine for, I don't know, 10 years, maybe not, but like a long time. Like, at least since the beginning of the pandemic, sorry. Erin, I think it's time for you to give that away. I think... Yeah. I'll set it out. I'll give you a text. Okay. You can swing by the valley. We're here. We're dying. Yeah. Well, Jay, this is a fitness podcast. Excited. So, I know it does sound like a moving podcast, but it is, it's a fitness podcast where we will, you know, we'll laugh, we'll get to do it, but I want to hear... I want to hear... The audience wants to hear your life and time in fitness. Yeah. I like to start from when you're little, like where you grew up, did you do sports, did you not do sports, inside kid, outside kid, wild animal? What is your origin story? Well, you know, I grew up in Brazil. So my parents put me in dance right away and I thought they just saw a spark in me, but it turns out it's because I had sclerosis and I was like, they know I have charisma. I did it. I like had no rhythm at all. Like, my sister just had natural rhythm and I was like, so I started in dance really early on. And then I always played sports or dance, even though I was kind of bad. Like I played lacrosse and I think it's just 'cause I was like a hidden dike, but I also... Like I was always in something physical and I never liked to accept dance 'cause dance is like a little puzzle on your brain, you know? Like once you get the movements, it's sort of like a little puzzle that you're beating. It's sort of mathematics in a way. Like you kind of like, you know, you're adding stuff in your head and you know what's coming next and it's kind of like comedy. It's kind of like comedy in a way because you have to be very aware of what's happening in front of you. But then you also have to be like, what's next? Kind of what's coming up next. So I started with dance, did a little bit of lacrosse. I sucked. My sister played lacrosse in college, so she was like really good, broke her nose like a few times. Okay. Can you remind me what the fuck is lacrosse? Lacrosse? Who knows? Is it a really... Is this the one with the like basket? It's a basket. There's a basket that you don't like this. And then you like shove people and... It's like Quidditch is what I hear. Yeah, and it's... I kind of have the thing down now, like when you catch it, like I can still feel how it feels. I did it a couple of times in my career. Oh, that's cool. This is horses or no horses? No horses. Aaron, I played this in high school. What's the one with horses? This is their own horses. Polo. Polo. Okay. But then there's a water polo, too. What school did you go to where they're like, they had a polo club? I did not go to that school. Okay. I just heard about it. That's why I give my wires crossed. Okay. So you did the one without horses. Yeah. And then I always was like in physical therapy for my back, because I have really bad scoliosis as you know. You guys can't tell, but I'm really curvy. It's my bad. Am I spying? Yeah, maybe. Okay. So you had the spark of a dancer young. You had sports in your blood, then you have the scoliosis situation. You find out right away, or was it like you found out later and it explained a lot? No. Well, no, right away. Like when I was like in like right when I moved to America, they were like, you need a brace. I was like, I know I'm an immigrant and I can barely speak English and I'm flat. Like I'm not also going to have a brace, you know what I mean? Like I chose friends instead, which I regret because I don't even speak to those people anymore. But yeah, yeah, I'm still crooked as shit and I got no friends. I always thought those were a scam. I thought scoliosis was a scam when I was little because you would have to like go in this little room. It would be like scoliosis to check day and go in this little room. And there would be like one person in there, which would be absolutely illegal now. But you could wear a bathing suit or you didn't have to, but I always chose for a bathing suit because you would like take your shirt off, but you would like have your back to them because they were checking your back. And but I was always like, this feels fake. This is like a fake thing. That's how fake you are. You're like, I want to be a bathing suit says like says no teenage girl. I know. I didn't want my naked back to show. So I wanted a bathing suit because I was like so nervous. Okay. Yeah. I couldn't have my little, my little boobies hanging loose. So scary. They made us do it like in a line. Like I remember it was like a bunch of us in a line and you had to bend down and touch your toes. And I basically won what I wanted. I was like, they're like, there's an alarm went off. They're like, everybody leave, please. It's an assembly time. And I always like, yeah, I always struggled with stuff like curl ups. I could never like, I was always kind of like crooked and I never really learned until, you know, this last year, the year before that like how I was basically working out incorrectly my entire life, like it's a very real thing. Like it affects the way you work out and you can't just work out regularly because you start to like build these weird muscles in places that are not correct because you're not straight. Yeah, your imbalances are pronounced. Yeah. And like I went through every type of therapy that you can think of. Like there was one where I had like a weight, like on my head and I would have to like reach up to it. And I had to like, I have, I have, I have trauma from it. I also used to have to go to the chiropractor, like all the time, which I think no offense, but I think chiropractor. I think. I think. Yeah. They never get shit for me. I will say this. There are people that have really great experiences. And for that, for them, I'm like, great, go with God. But I only, I went to chiropractor after Jason and I's accident and they just like gave me like a heating pad, basically. Exactly. That sound too, the cracking sound, like I can't even hear it from far away. It gives me like, like flashbacks, flashbacks. And then I remember like when I was, I want to say like high school, middle of high school, I felt completely in love with yoga. Like I remember my first. I thought you were going to say you. I fell in love with myself. That hasn't happened. I'm still waiting. Okay. Okay. Any day. Any day. Okay. So yoga, I found yoga and I just remember being like so into yoga because it was like, I was so flexible. So I could always like fake all the things that I wasn't strong enough for. So yoga was a big deal for me. And then in college, I was like obsessed with yoga. And then I was also dancing and this whole time I was dancing. And then in college, I was doing point. So that's when I like really fuck shit up because I was a point. So I also don't know a point is, but we're going to come back to that. Like this. On your feet. Ballet. Like ballet. Yeah. Oh, dang. Okay. That's intense. It was intense. Let's like to the top. And I'm also good. I'm like, why is my right side so much better? I couldn't like turn one side. Back to the left. Oh my God. I can't believe it. Okay. Wait. So then so going back to when you were little and like in your household was nutrition, a part of like where you guys talking about food was food important. Yeah. Fun. What was food like in your house? My mom was like very attentive, like would fold my songs. Like I wasn't really allowed to have sugar until I was like a teenager. Okay. Hold on. I'm like, yeah. No wonder I'm all messed up. Like no wonder I need attention from strangers, like my mom was so funny. Yeah. Yeah. That's so funny. She cooked. She cooked. There was always fresh food. Like we were always into like salad fruits. And my sister was like basically a professional gymnast when we're young. Like whoa. Like she was just like naturally physically gifted. And I was just like this weird scrawny, like crooked like, you know, I could always be me to her. So that's how I. Yeah. That's how that to be as funny as you are. Yeah. But yeah, it was always like a thing in our household, like eating healthy, you know, we were bad sleepers. We would sleep at like what we had no bedtime routines and stuff. Cool. Yeah. Food was cool. I didn't realize like how much work it was. Mom would always have like cut fruit and cut vegetables in the fridge, like in Tupperwares. And I have like, gosh. Yeah. And then I got older. I was like, oh my God, that was so much effort. Like everything peeled, everything cut, you know, wow. Okay. Very lucky. My mom would bring me like a piece of toast with peanut butter in the morning before school. And I thought I was like, you know, blessed. That's very lucky. Yeah. No, it's very blessed. But my mom just ate that way. So she just wanted us to eat that way. That's really nice. She's like, all right, I'm doing this for me. I'm doing this for y'all ain't nobody in some different. That's really cool. Did you did that stay the same when you moved to the States? Yeah. No, it was like that in the beginning of the States. And then I think like, you know, late high school, she stopped caring as much like she like she had done it for so long that she was like, all right, you guys got this now. And then did you kind of go crazy or did you keep it? No, I kept it. And that's just kind of the kind of food I like. Like my sister and I, when I were really hungry, we were like, with like a crunchy salad and people were like, ew, you're gross. I'm like, I just want watermelon. I just want watermelon, yeah, that's so, that's so nice. I mean, good for your, good for your mom. Really instilling it without making you like want to rebel against it at some point. Well, cause when you're pregnant, I think when she was pregnant, all she ate was watermelon and veggies. Yeah. And I was like, that's what we consumed in the belly. Oh my gosh. What was your, my pregnant addiction? Yeah. I, I ate a lot of watermelon too. I would, Jason would just cut one and half and bring me half and I would just sit on the couch and eat a half a watermelon. Yeah. But I also ate a lot of everything because unlike, I guess what normal happens to normal people in the first trimester is like, they're too sick to eat. Yeah. For my, like, when I get sick, I want to eat, it's like, I want to eat more. There's something that happens to me that's like, I have to protect myself. Yeah. Comfort something. And so like I gained like 20 pounds in the first trimester and my doctor was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I've talked about it. It's awful. But it was like, but watermelon was huge. It was cold and crisp and, and sweet. I still, I mean, I'll still eat it. Even if it's kind of bad. I'll eat it. I'll eat it a day like, you know what, trick, if like watermelons getting a little too old, you put a little salt on it, kind of brings it back to life a little. Oh, good to know. Yeah. Because I'm like, a whole watermelon left, like, you know what I mean, you don't get to it. You're like, I can't wait. Yeah. You can't have a watermelon. Yeah. Nope. Nope. Yeah. Jason brought me some, some, maybe two old watermelon the other day and I just ate it. I was like, I don't care. I love it. Sorry. This is a broad statement. Men can't pick up vegetables and fruit. It's like when you get a bad chopper, you're like, this is the fruit you picked. This is this, the one brown one in the pile. I love finding my watermelon. I'm the woman over there like, okay, so what's your trick? What's your, what do you do? I, I try to find one that I listen, I know the sound I'm listening for, which is kind of like, it almost sounds hollow, but not all the way hollow, but like watery at the same time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's soft. Oh, I've never known this. The bus was supposed to be soft and it's supposed to be a little bit yellow on the bottom, which means it's sat enough and got enough sunlight that the bottom was yellow is yellow. Okay. So like it's good when it has a little yellow, but okay, little yellow, but a lighter, but a soft button. Are you talking about like the Rhine where the Rhine is? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You want that to go in a little bit. You can feel it. I don't know anything else, but I got watermelon tips. Damn. Okay. So you're going through dancing, you're going through lacrosse, you've gone, moved on from lacrosse. Now your yoga dancing, you've got pointy dancing, went to Dave Matthews, tried cocaine for the first time. All the big things, all the things you do in high school, you know, um, Oh my God. That's almost exactly my high school experience. So like almost exactly just like with trombones instead of cocaine, you know. Oh, that's right. You I forget. Yeah. No, like, and I got really sick. And I was like, you guys, I told my parents was like, I did go game. And then I had the stomach flu and then I was like in trouble, but sick, the same. Damn. Did you do a cocaine again? Like, did you like feel like you learned your lesson? It was not. It's never been my thing. Yeah. That's like me with pineapple on pizza. I got sick after I had pineapple on my pizza when I was like, like five. And I was like, never again. And I don't think it was the pineapple. I think I just got the stomach flu, but I was just like, yeah, once the memory sticks with the taste or smell, it's over like for me, men, like for me, men, you know, like for me. Yeah. Had too many. Okay. So you're doing when you were doing yoga, because I come across this with some of my, my clients. Are you like hyper flexible? So is that why you're able to do the moves without actually kind of doing the moves? Yeah. And I didn't realize that until I started doing like bickering, like different like harder forms of yoga where you have to like hold forms or like be slower with the form because I was just doing like kind of like, I don't know, like cardio yoga where it's like, you're going through the vignassa, but you're going through the vignassa really fast. Yeah. And I started to realize like, Oh, okay. I'm not really actually like holding my core really strong. I'm just sort of like sitting in like the deepest form of it because I was flexible. Yeah. My flexibility, you always kind of like, I think it hurt me and dance too, because I don't think I ever got like strong enough. I would just kind of like cheat. I didn't know I was cheating. It's just what it. Right. Like, but I developed a lot of bad habits because there was not anybody going like, okay, actually the scoliosis version of this looks like this. So yeah, that's about my and I wish that there was more like information like in class, like when you said, you know, cause they'll always be like, if you have an injury, raise your hand, but there's never like, Hey, if you have scoliosis, raise your hand. So I educate people more now on it. Yeah. I think it's important. I think I do want to get to it, but I don't want to like speed there because I do think that scoliosis stuff really does matter. Yeah. And, and not a lot of people talk about it. And I think people have like, like levels of scoliosis. Yeah. And so I think like you would just like maybe ignore it at a certain level, but you're still kind of always, it needs to be in the back of your mind. And it should be brought up to a trainer. Like if you're like, it is like, at one of the group classes I go to, they say, if you need any adjustments. And I like that because I think that that's, it's really inclusive language. And that I think is, it's made me feel comfortable saying what I need. And I would help somebody like you that would feel like, Oh, that actually works for what I have and need. So well, I didn't even know, like I thought in a way it was kind of like a defeat to go like, Oh yeah, I actually need an adjustment. Like I always saw it as like, I can't do the thing that's correct that everyone's doing. But now that I've seen the results of like working, I'll get to this, but we're working with like a specialist on this, my body like completely transformed and I was like, Oh my God. Yeah. I can't believe I didn't know that I didn't know to do that. It took me until I also was scared to face it. Yeah. I think that's something a lot of us have that with like body stuff. It's like, what if I find out it's like this thing that I can't fix or this thing that I will never go away. So let's move through the, you're doing bikram yoga. Are you still dancing? Like, are you still dancing now? Was this going to be the through line? I mean, you're still dancing now. I, well, I'm not dancing like I'm not like in jazz and hip-hop in ballet, but I am like full-time Zumba in sale and you know it. Yes. I love a Zumba dude. I am into Zumba went to jazz or size the other day. I was the only person in the class. Oh. Yeah. Shocking. And how dare you? Jazz or size is an incredible form of cardio. I would, I would go. I love dance aerobics. Yeah. I love it all. I love Zumba. I love it. I love jazz or anything where I get to, I love step. I love any of it. I love. I still have my step. I have a private gym now downstairs. We did a cardio class this morning. I'm obsessed with the Peloton app. Okay. Wait. Okay. I'm going too excited. I'm going too excited. I get too excited. No, I know. Me too. Okay. So you are, so what is that college? We're doing Bicroom yoga. College age time. Yeah. And then right outside of college, that's when I got like really into, really into Bicroom. Like right when I was living in New York, because it was always so cold and it was like such a nice way to like sweat. And there was one right by my house where I lived. So Bicroom was kind of my jam. And then I, that's when I started doing like Zumba, really aggressive, and that's actually, and that's when I tried acupuncture for the first time. Oh, how did that feel with, with your body? It was, I remember like, because I'm a little masochistic when I first got cupping done, I was like, Oh my God, I don't know if this did anything, but it felt good, you know? I can't tell if it does anything. I've never got cupping done. You must. I need to. I really need to. I made the mistake of seeing it done to Jason, and then I was like, I'll never do that. That's horrifying. No, it hurts just for like 30 seconds. And then it like releases. The journey is actually really powerful for your mind, because the whole point of acupuncture is like, you're like this, you know, because it's like kind of uncomfortable on its needles. And then when you release, that's when you're getting the work, like that's when the work happens. Yeah. It's really nice. I mean, I like doing it, but I just can't tell if it really does anything. Like it's a nice meditation session, you know, you don't feel it in your body, like afterwards, like, whoo, I'm young again. No. Okay. All right. Absolutely not. Yeah. I mean, I wish. Oh my God, I have to show you like not part of the podcast, but look at that little tiny bear on the corner. Where? Oh my gosh. Yeah. And then little son. Oh my gosh. Just a little. Just a little baby. It's a little baby. My dogs are a daycare right now. Big boys. Big boys. They gotta go to daycare. Yeah. They're gonna run around. They gotta learn. They gotta be educated. I can't do it every day. It's too much. The baby. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Okay. So you're doing it. You know, you're doing it. Zumba. No. Are you doing this? Are you doing this because of the love of the game? Are you doing this? Like, because you feel like a need for fitness or in your life or like what is kind of your drive at this point? Yeah. Just like vanity. Vanity. And like health. Yeah. Like, I just like always wanted to be in shape and I have a lot of energy, you know? And I think it was also like a social thing for me. Like I had friends that would come with me and so we would go together and then I got really hooked on like they do these like 30 day challenges in background. That would be a challenge. Yeah. Me too. And I like once you're like, you can't do that. I'm like, yes I can. And it was cheaper to do the challenge. Do you know what I mean? So I think it was always like, it was like being poor and being like, what's the cheapest way to work out and keep myself? And you know, not to overshare too much on mental stuff, but I definitely need exercise for my mental. Oh, me too. Yeah. For mental stuff. Like if I don't release this energy, I'm like manic, I'm depressed. So yeah, the indoor friends are definitely like a need for me. Oh, I forgot to tell you this in college. I also ran cross country for like a half a second. Oh my gosh. But I was bad. I was real bad. I think cross country seems like the best of the track things because you get to like run through the woods, right? I imagine. I mean, you have to because you're eventually going to hit woods because you run for so long. You know what I mean? Like, where are you running? I had an ex who ran like 11 miles at like 11 miles a day and I was like, what are you running from? I always thought he was gay, but I was like, what are you running from? He's not, but. No, but that's I kind of have that thought too of like, let's feel on this buddy. Because when I'm mad, I can run for a long time. I like running when I'm like feeling kind of down and you just want to clear your mind. I'm actually more into running now than I've ever been. So that's interesting. I always like to ask people that do like to run every once in a while. Is there a song, a go to song that you're like, this is going to get me running? I actually don't like listening to anything. I like hearing my steps and like my breath. Oh, okay. I also like have been kind of nervous about like, the brain cancer we're getting from Bluetooth. Oh. So like I have what I usually have connected ones, but I just packed on my shit. So I don't know where anything is, but yeah. I usually don't wear these to run because also like, I just anything that's fidgety, I can't have it. Yeah. Like I take off all my like, I can't have any like anything hitting you or yeah, nothing like it distracts me so much. How do you put your hair up? Because that's another thing I think about. I do tight and then I button it up and tight like it has that's by the way, that's that's another exercise thing. My hair has to be up like, you know, people that go to dance guys with their hair down, like what are we doing? I don't know what they're doing. I think they think it's sexy. They don't want to crease their hair probably like they just got to blow up. Like we're scrunchy. Like what I can't do it. It distracts me so much. Yeah, I have a really I have heavy hair. So when I run, I have to, I usually have to do a ponytail because buns, they usually will like shake out and make me so mad. So I. Yeah. It makes me mad too. It's like nothing worse than your hair starts to go. You're like, damn it. But I got, I got used to running with my phone in my hand and and so I listened to music out loud in on my phone because I don't like the ears because I, I'm a huge sweater. I sweat like crazy. So the AirPods will just start sliding. Like what? Yeah. They're like what? It's so nasty. They're like, it's so bad. They're so gross. Have you actually looked at your earpods? They're disgusting. Yes. I tried to clean mine and then I ruined them forever. I had to get new one. Oh shit. Yeah. And I've only been using an AirPods situation for like a year. So I feel like I'm a little behind on the, the brain. Yeah. Now I've been getting, I've been giving it to myself. I like full flights like down like as long as they, as they're alive, I wear them. Sometimes I just wear them for like the noise cancellation. I'm like, I'm killing myself. Yeah. No, but does it hurt your brain if you're just using him for brain, I mean, brain for me. Yes. For cancellation of the sounds. Yes. Because, well, I maybe not because it's the Bluetooth that they say. Okay. Okay. Good to know. Whatever. Everything gives you cancer. Melissa and I have a song called that. Yeah. It's true. And it's the most depressing song in the world. And people loved it. And also people hated it. But it's just us singing a list of everything that gives you cancer and it's everything. So. Yeah. But a lot of stuff doesn't like pussy. We don't know. Don't you remember? We know. Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas supposedly got mouth cancer for me now because she had HPV. Oh, that's, that's the, the rest of the story. I only listened to a part about Michael Douglas. You're going to have the story, babe. I'm trying to be a girl's girl. I don't care what she did to him. Well, she gave it to him, but it was his fault. Okay. Sorry. Okay. So you're zooming. You're living. You're in New York at this point. I'm in New York. I'm riding my bike everywhere. Oh, fine. Like loving it. Loving it, always sweaty, like just always it's on my butt. Just sweaty loving it, not knowing that my back is so crooked. Just loving life, like taking really hard yoga classes and in New York, the yoga classes are like squashed, like you have no room, like, and I just love the community of it. Like, yeah, it just made me, I don't know, I just love it. I love the meditation aspect of yoga too. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so you vibe in New York, then you come to LA. What happens? Oh, also, when I was in New York, I was playing a character on TV that was like a yoga teacher and a spin teacher, so they paid for my Equinox for a year. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's really nice. Yeah. So really nice. So I was just going over there, stealing lotion, loving life. I know. Did you know that they changed from kills to something else? Oh, do I. Okay. Great. I just had to bring you up to speed in case you hadn't heard. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what usually when people from New York moved to LA, one, they like get like excited because you can be outside all the time, but two, they're in their car so much more. So then they're like, uh oh, we're like activity level has fallen because of that. Did you notice any of that when you got over here? Well, I was bicosil the whole time and by, yeah, I was by the whole time. So I was over here. My across the board. My across the board. I was already over here addicted. Okay. Okay. So you had your, you were, you understood what the, what the deal was. Yeah. And I did all the gross hikes to cause I used to live in Hollywood. Yeah. So I would do, what's that one called? Oh my God. Runyon. Runyon haven't been there in so long, Runyon Griffith, like I loved hiking and Cheryl before she was like old lady, which is like, on all the hikes with me, um, I was fit back then when I used to do the hike. So I wasn't jogging up the mountain like, oh my gosh, maybe at the top. There's a career, um, and, uh, the casting agents are sitting up there just, they're sitting there waiting, not you, um, all right, I'll try again tomorrow. I know. All right. I'll be here again and tell you love me, um, I can't think Griffin's walking, walking at Runyon. That was like one of my first like LA sightings was Kathy Griffin walking Runyon and I was like, okay, we're here. We're doing this, baby. Yeah. At least a run at like Holly Ridge or something, just fast walking and I was like, I'm the right place. Oh my God. At the right time. She's a real housewife. Yeah. Yeah. Well, now she's a model and an actress. Oh, twist model later in life. Yes. Cool. Yeah. She's awesome. Her. There's hope for all of us. She's doing it. You keep going up that mountain. You keep going up that mountain. You get that casting director eventually they will say yes queen come through here. Oh my God. I'm going to help me. I'm going to be like 70 on the road like somebody right somebody I have me help help don't even joke. I'm going to start crying. Stop. I'm going to give a new career like I did jade you're funny. I can't do I got school. I'm too crooked. I can't be like a trainer. You could do another job. You can't do that. What am I going to? What am I going to do? There's nothing else. I'm good at. Okay. Okay. So you're okay. So you're a hiker over here. What else? Also really into yoga. So okay. Yoga and Zumba always I start I've been going to the same guy for Zumba for like seven years. I know I really want to go with you to that class if life ever if life ever leads us to it. It will happen. I have to left on my pass and before I leave for Virginia we could do on maybe this week. Maybe this week. No, you know what? I have to leave early to go to my freaking grandma's funeral not to drag this podcast down to the sadness but I know I know I wish I could go to Zumba. I wish my grandma was alive and I could go to Zumba. Hey, crying is the best form of exercise I heard. Good. Really? Really? No. Offering this in my sessions. I'm so sorry. No, it's okay. Someone you love dying one, two, three. I'm sorry. Five more, three, two, one. You're ready? No, but let's keep it in our back pocket because I was a Zumba hound when I lived in Nashville. The teacher I had there was my favorite. She made me feel like I was a great dancer and I am not and it was great to the listener. She's been telling me she's going to do Zumba with me for like two years. Yeah, but I did have a baby. You had a baby, I guess. Oh, sucks. Okay. So I'm really hard to have it. You had it. So what led you to train with me? Oh, Stevie's arms. Oh hell yeah. My girl Stevie. Stevie's arms are just looking so twy. Mike. Stevie really tight naturally. I came out very thin always, but I started to really crave wanting more definition and I wasn't really getting that with dance. I had never really done any weight training ever, ever, ever. And then yeah, I saw Stevie's arms and I was like, "Enough is enough." And we had just gone through the pandemic and I was doing a lot of Zumba in my living room. And then I was like, "Oh, I guess I could just do whatever I want in my living room." And that's when he magically came into my life, which was the best. I loved working out with you. I think probably a couple of the things I shouldn't have been doing. Sure. Probably. Looking back now. Yeah. Looking back now. But like, oh my God, my arms were like, I look back on my comedy, all my stand-up clips from that era and my arms look so good. But I would like you really do build muscle, like you build visible muscle quickly. And so I always like you, you could have that again. Like we didn't, like we worked together maybe a year, a little, maybe a little over. Yeah. And I mean, it was pretty quick. You saw like your biceps pop, your shoulders pop. Dude, I miss it. Yeah. I mean, I'm not bad now, but I miss like, you know what is happening now that is really, I mean, getting older sucks. And I'm going through perimenopause, which I would love to speak upon just because it really affects your body and your mind and stuff. Yeah. When I look down, like when I bend down now, my legs are all like my thighs are all like cellulite, like bumpy, like the whole front and the back. And you know, it's scary, like accepting that and being like, that's beautiful. It's cool. It's where I'm at. Like I feel healthy and I feel good, but it is wild, you know, our bodies change so drastically and it's, we have to work so much harder as we get older. Yeah. To just kind of stay normal a little the same. It's like, you're like kind of like an uphill, you know, battle and then you're just like trying to hang on. Yeah. When please. When I got pregnant. Let me have a butt. My, um, you know, I did IVF so I had to take like estrogen, I was on progesterone. So like my legs, I've always had like cellulite on the back of my thighs and, but it was like my legs like were like cellulite central. And I was like, I never knew that that was from hormones cause I'm on, I'm on hormone therapy now. Yeah. And I'm not sure if like it's the correct thing yet, like I need second opinions and stuff. But yeah, like I never noticed, but when you're stretching after zoom, but like you can't see when I'm standing up. But when I bend down, like in the front and I was like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. It's so had white. Do I just chop off my legs? Or like what? I think that's what the men want us. Yeah. I think that would be really great for them or society, maybe in general as a whole. Yeah. I think they just don't want, they don't even understand that that's natural. Like so it's up to us to normalize like that's a natural body tip thing. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. But we're not going to do that. Truly everyone has everyone will or has had cellulite. Yeah. That's okay. I like it when I see a guys with it makes you feel good. I've never seen a guy was, I've never noticed that I'm going to look out for that now. Yeah. You have, I mean, it's harder to see because they usually wear long shorts. It's like, you know, their thing, but you got to squish them. You got to kind of run after them and like squeeze their skin a little bit. I see it. Yeah. Watch it. Like the freaking witch from Hansel and Gretel just running out for men just let me say it. You got cellulite to you son of a bitch. Oh my God. Okay. So, so let's, so you worked with me and then we stopped working together because you're like, hey, I'm going to go work with these people that are specifically like, like kind of like working with people. I just almost call it like spinal, like only thinking of the word spy. Well, it is spinal correction. It is a spinal correction. It's like whether you have scoliosis or you've had like a major injury or you've had, you know, they're called functional pattern like total shout out. I think they're incredible. Like I was on a waiting list for a while until I was on a waiting list, my girlfriend and she told me about it. And I think like I told you, I was kind of like scared to face it and it was very difficult at first because they're very like, there's a picture of your back. This is what your back looks like when you do this. Here's your what your back looks like when you do that, like, and they're very, it's just very little movement. And then I started to understand like, okay, I was doing incorrectly it like literally after every workout, I would have full abs, like abs would just completely show up. And it was like these very little, like you're holding onto the machine, you're just lifting your leg like, and it was hot. It's really difficult. Like it's not fun work at all. But I remember you were like, I can't do anything like you were like, I can't like smoke weed. I can't like, they're like on my ass, like I can't do any other workouts. No, they were no, they asked you to like, it's sort of a lifestyle, right? Like people joke that it's like a little culty, but like it's a lifestyle change. So like they really make you examine your lifestyle, like your circadian rhythm. Like are you on your phone right before bed? Are you getting enough sunlight when you're outside? What are the products that you're affecting your endocrine system with? What's your diet? What's medication that you've been taking? I realized that I was like on what's it called that stuff that for allergies? Flones. Flones. I've done flow nays for like however long for like years and years when I probably didn't need it. And like weed was just one of those things that he was like, let's just like investigate whether you, you know, like maybe you can cut back on it a while. And I didn't smoke for a long time. I was off for like a few months. For me, that's like what? Yeah. And I did start to see like really impactful changes in my life. Just like slowing down my system a little and I really loved it, but it's so expensive. Oh, I'm sure. I mean, anything that's helpful. Exactly. Like actually helps. And he, and he really worked with me and like he is willing to work with me for like trading or like, you know, whatever, like he's so helpful and he's so involved. And I just felt nice to have someone like that was on the journey with me. Just like the way I felt like I had you, you know, like, yeah, I was kind of joking to Chantal. I was like, she was kind of my therapist for a year too, because we were just, I would just complain to you. But that's, but I love just having someone knowing everything. Like, do I use this lotion? Like, is this a better cream for me? Is this like, like they're really big on not like putting on a tennis on screen too. I'm like getting a lot of sunlight on your skin and like what time you get the sun, circadian rhythm is their whole thing. Yeah. And then their other whole thing is MFR, my alfacial release. Yeah. Okay. Which is finding pressure points and kind of releasing them. So that became sort of a daily practice for me. I've kind of, I'm slagging on it lately, but just like a lacrosse ball, putting pressure with the lacrosse ball, just me and the lacrosse ball have gotten very close. And I have a, I got a ball called the orb and it is, oh, it hurts. Yeah. Okay. You know about it. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. I love it. I like when I'm waiting for my clients, I just lean against the wall and I put it in my shoulder crook, because it, what is this, the neck crook, it, you're the trainer, Aaron. What do you ask him to move? I'm off the clock. Fish. I don't know. I don't know. What's the thing? Your arm. I had like, by the way, this is a thing that happens in perimenopause. One of the things that happens besides like joint pain, osteoporosis, heart disease, all the stuff that you get more prone to. One of the things is dead shoulder. Oh, yes. Like a weird dead shoulder. I've heard about this. So my shoulder was like, like, it was like almost disconnected. I couldn't like, like one day I reached too far back and I was like, and like, it just, it took months to recover it. And then of course I found out, I was like, oh, and there's just not enough estrogen telling my brain that you need lubrication there. Yeah. It's so cool. That took me a long time. It's so cool. It's so cool. I've been so angry. You have no idea. And then I'm like talking about perimenopause all the time. It's all I talk about, you know, and people are like, I'm not going through yet. I'm like, how old are you? 42. Check again. We're in denial, right? Yeah. Cause we're like, no, my leg just hurts because I didn't work out or it's just because it's like, cause we don't have hormones in our body, like navigating. God. Oh my God. Yeah. I'm 40. So it's coming. It's coming. Yeah. It might be early. Well, also when you have a baby, it's different because you have all the hormones that you get from pregnancy. Yeah. So I think it does give you a little bit of time. It starts to teeter off, but yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Okay. So when you did this, what was it called again? The functional pattern of functional pattern. When you worked with them, did you notice a difference in your day-to-day life, like physically, like how you moved and kind of went about? So like now that you've been through that program, at least a little- I haven't been through it. I wish I could take, I wish I could do it three times a week still. I would be jacked. Like you get so jacked, you get so jacked. Can you, can you like take what you learned and extra like kind of strength train now? Yes. But I'm a baby. I want somebody being like, this is exactly, I'm so scared to do anything incorrectly. Like really, my only thing that I do on my own is like maybe lift a little bit of weights cardio. Yeah. This is like strength training, but it's a lot of their work is machine-based, but he did teach me a few things that were like, you know, this is how you do like, you know, the stuff on your back where you like lift your hips kind of a thing. Yeah. What is that called? Like a bridge. Yeah. A glute bridge. And I notice also like after I started to do this because I started to train my core the correct way, I can run so much better now. Wow. I love that. Like they do this thing in the very beginning where they tape you running on one of those like kind of scary, like no hands thing. Yes. Yeah. And at first I was running like really like this. And I noticed that I had like this, I never had a chin, like I was a kind of, remember I would always complain to you about my second chin. Oh, yeah. It really helped like my alignment really helped this like so at first in the video, I'm running like, and you can see that I'm like this, double chin and then like, I like my form is like, like you can just see my legs kind of leading. Wow. And like the before and after is also, my back is like more corrected. Like I had a thing that popped out and like in my standup, now I really notice when I, in my posture, obviously like helped, but I do miss yoga, like I do miss yoga. I miss it and I wish I could take it again, but I think it's just not an exercise that's like good. Yeah. It's good for me meditatively, but like that's not a word, but it ain't, it ain't sound to physically. I liked it. I know what I'm into now to cold plunges, love them. Oh my gosh. Yeah, you do. You do. You love your mess. Yeah. As a kiss. Yeah, that's right. That feels right. Well, what's up? We were going to go do the hot and cold plunge. And I did that. I did that by myself. And it was so freaking cool. I loved it. So nice. The pause one. Did you go to pause? Yeah. I love it there. And they do really good IVs too, which people are like all hyped about now. I don't know if I'll ever get into that. Maybe I'll do it once. It kind of feels fake, but you're like, whatever. I know it feels like that will be the final like nail on the coffin of like Hollywood bitch. Or I'm like telling my mom back home like, yeah, I got a an IV for five. IV for five. It's just cool late. They're literally pulling cool late in your system. It's just Gatorade. It's just, it's like straight up saline. They're like just taking four hundred and fifty dollars and you're just like, I feel great. Yeah. No woman. Yeah. No, but when I started, I stopped smoking weed, like that was one of the things that I was doing just to like clear out my system because like, literally my blood was just all marijuana. So they were like, let's do this. Okay, so, so now you've been through your, you know, the functional, functional training stuff. Yeah. You're back. You're on the other side of that. You're not keeping up with everything. Are you keeping up with some of it? Yeah. No. Well, now I have like this very convenient gym downstairs fully equipped with the Peloton app. So now I started loving that loving it. Like I'll do like a 20 minute cardio and then like a 20 minute strength training and then I'll run. I'm on the beach. So I just go run the beach like, oh my gosh, that's so nice. It's been so sick. Like if I don't go downstairs and work out, it's like get your life together. And then I'll do a MFR still, I'll still stretch and do MFR and I, a new thing. I never had a bathtub like in my old apartment. So it's nice have baths now to do after. Oh my gosh. Are you doing Epsom salts? Yes. Yeah. Because I didn't realize one of my things is like, I'll go too hard and then I hurt myself rather than going just hard enough and giving myself time to heal. You know, the, we talked about this, you know, it's important to have days to allow yourself to heal. Yeah. Rest. So you're close enough that you can go run the beach. I'm two blocks away. That's incredible. I can see it from here is crazy. That feels like, like that, like that feels like that, like what I want to do when I'm like retired. And so now I'm like, it's a retired community. It's an entire community. Like we're all mad that the kids next door like don't take care of their plants. I'm like, take care of your plants. They've left their shoes out for three days. And I'm like, I'm saying something to the landlord. I don't know what's happened to me. We call them the youth. We use the youth and, but yeah, like, I think if I just do a little bit every day, like for perimenopause, they're really big on like strength training when you do resistance training is their big thing. I don't know who they is, but they say that you have to get into strength training, which I like, I like, you know, I love doing this. Love doing this. I think they suck. Well, I mean they all suck, but you do love the bicep curl and you love the shoulder press. So I, but I do think I wonder if they use those machines because they are a little more controlled. Like the, the track that they're on is a little bit more controlled. And for someone with hyper flexibility, hyper mobility, like it really can help stay in. Well, it's all about how you twist and like there's all these adjustments. Like it's all about like pulling, I, but I couldn't even pull my shoulders up like this before. Wow. Functional pattern. Like I could not do this at all. Yeah. So it's like all about this. Like, and then like he'll watch your back. So it's like, do this, do this, do this, do this. And then you get your back completely straight and then you do the workout. So it's about like aligning completely, then doing the pull versus like just doing the pull while you're crooked. Yeah. God. How cool. So I, it's incredible. I wish he lived in my pocket. He's amazing. Because Mike, if you guys are looking to do it, say I recommend to do maybe he'll give me free classes, but he also does my own fashion release on you, where he'll like work you out on a table beforehand if you're really tight. And that is just like, talk about pain. I've never felt pain like that. I love it. It's like I probably need it so much. And also I fear it. It hurts so bad. Yeah. Like, you know, your shoulder stuff. Like, oh my God, he digs in with like his elbow. I'm like, like, yeah, I like my thighs out. Oh, God. Oh, thighs are the worst calves, thighs, shoulders. Those are my getaway for me. God, Jay, this has been really cool. Is there anything else you want to say about period menopause for the, for the ladies out there? Hey, if you're feeling a little off, it's important to get your hormones tested and it's important to do it at a certain time of your cycle, the 26 day, I believe the fourth day of your period. So if you're like in your late 30s, early 40s, just start to investigate and start to write down things that you're feeling like are a little off migraines, buzzing in your ear, joint pain, anything like that. It's just really important to get your, and just like to speak to your doctor, ask as many questions as you can and educate yourself on what's going on and, you know, settle in. Settle in. Settle in. It's going to be a wild ride. I got my prenatal, uh, period menopause, like I, I like, got like this like, certification through NASM and whoa, it was, it was really, it was good, but it like, felt like it only scratched the surface and makes sense, uh, women's health is barely investigated. It's a new thing. It's a new thing we're getting into. So, you know, I, I'm glad I did it. It was really fun and felt really special to do when I was pregnant and, and I'm, I was pregnant with a girl. So it felt like I also was like, I'm sorry, uh, for what you're about to have to do. Um, cause. Yeah, but they're going to have so much more information. Yeah. Yeah. Like so we didn't know our moms had it. No. No, I didn't even know, perimenopause, perimenopause was a thing at all until like maybe two years ago, um, just a little spritz, spritz to keep going. Thank you. Also nice shout out to AG one, maybe. Oh yeah. Sorry. It's just the bottle. I don't like the stuff. I mean, I don't dislike the stuff. I just, not enough to like, you know, yeah, shout out. Um, I just joke cause it was like, there are only ads for like so long and it was, oh, it was hilarious. It was crazy. Hey, g one. Yeah. I was like, please. Yeah. Let us end. Um, okay. And Jade, is there a place people can find you? Is there stuff you want to promote? You're very funny. You know, I've been healthy. I've been healthy. So I haven't been online as much, but I need to so that my career continues on at Jade Cadda Prada across the board. If you want to come see me do comedy at jadecomedy.com and yeah, come out. I'm at the comedy store. I don't know if this comes out right away, but I'm at the comedy store and the improv this Saturday and yeah, just keep an eye out. You're there a lot at the comedy store. So yeah, and they can find your schedule on your website. Yeah. Yeah. Jade comedy.com. Hell yeah. Well, thank you so much for doing this podcast. Do you want to help me with the sign off? Yeah, what do we do? You have to learn one line. Got it. Kind of too. I messed this up. Like I'm an actress. Okay. You could do this. I like it. I'll prep you. Okay. So we're going to say I'm going to say I'd like everybody out there listening to train dirty is what I'll say. And then you're going to say eat clean and then we say together live in between. Eat clean. Live in between. Okay. Cool. Okay. Oh, you know what? I will say you can find the dumbbells at the dumbbells on Instagram and at the dumbbells.pot on TikTok. Okay. Thank you guys. And now you're messing up. I know train dirty, eat clean, live in between. Okay. On behalf of the dumbbells, me, Erin McGowan, Ryan Stanger, wherever you are in the world and our wonderful guest, Jade Katopretta, we'd like to remind everybody out there listening to train dirty. Eat clean. Live, live in between. Good chow. That was a hit them podcast. [BLANK_AUDIO]
