Ackeem Emmons Turns Tragedy Into A Fitness Journey After Being Hit By A Car, 10-Min Workouts + More
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up. It's way for Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh my gosh, and I feel like there's some accountability
coming today a Keim Emmons is here having me thank
you for coming here. And the other day I was
in an event for Tonal, So you'll explain all of that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But you're a strength coach for Tonal.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
By the way, strength training is like my weakness when
it comes to work, and I'll do cardio all day,
but strength core, all of that is really tough for me.
But I'm glad you're here because everybody right now is
trying to get their summer.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Body ready just the season.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, and you have such an interesting story about how
you even got into this space.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So sometimes we feel like we procrastinate or we feel like, oh,
I'm just not built like that, or my body is
my body.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is what it is. I just have to accept that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But you went through a lot, right, So I would
love for you to just give our audience your backstory
on what made you get into this space of fitness.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I would definitely say that Finish found me and it
was probably the best thing that happened to me. So
the origin of the story was actually getting hit by
a car in Jamaica, Queens. I was running to the
Long Island Railroad. At this time, I worked in Brooklyn
and a crossing the street. This woman was speeding down
the block and it kind of obstructed both of our
visions because a column was blocking and so I stepped
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into the street and by the time we made eye
contact before it even happened, and she hit me, flipped
in the air and I just landed on the floor,
had my uniform in my hand. At the time, I
didn't know how long I was out. So I got
up and I got up, grabbed my clothes, trying to
get back to work, and I was surrounded by a
group of people and they were like, you need to
calm down and relax, and I was like, no, you
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need to get out. My waist flipped, flipped in the air,
landed on to the ground on my face. That's where
this car came from. And I just thought it was
a little scratch and I put my hand to my
head and my hand was covered in blood. I was
in a state of shock, passed out onto the floor.
The ambulance came, but that leads to me being unable
to walk for three months. Wow, And I lost everything
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at that time.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You know, you're young. I had a card, had an apartment.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm an adult at this time, and everything just flipped
through my fingers because I couldn't go to work, so
I had to move in with my mom, had to
go to pt and the little things that I would
take for granted, like these banded exercises, you know, this
electro therapy work.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know, like the little things that exercise you'll see.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
People do and just kind of undermine them with the
things that got me back on my feet literally and figuratively.
So with that being said, I was heavily in the
restaurant industry, like that was my passion. That's what I
went to school for. And I mean we talked about
the origin story. My first race was against my dad.
So I'm running with something I love to do my
entire life and not being able.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
To do so.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And you're from Trinidad, by the way, you got to
make sure you know so music level, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Regae come on, Adile just passed and uh yeah, So
just having a gift of walking and running taking away
from you just really shifted my perspective.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And how did that change?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Your body too, because the you know, not even like
having the ability to physically be able to walk, you know,
that has to be in your muscles.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I remember somebody I OGA hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Her kneecap slid down because she wasn't even able to
you know, move her legs when she was in the bed.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So a lot out of a lot of the pain
and injury was on my lower back and on my knees. Aesthetically,
my I just say, I got soft around the edges, right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And that doesn't feel good like mentally, you know, aside
from all of that, aside from the fact that physically
you're impaired, but it also takes a toll on you mentally.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, and again, like they say, it sounds super cliche.
When you look good, you feel good. When you look bad,
you feel bad, and you feel bad, you know. So
my face was messed up, my body didn't. I didn't
feel confident in the skin I was in, and it
definitely took a toll on my.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
My self esteem, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So after a time had gone by and I had
healed up, and then I just fell in love with
movement again, right, Like I stopped taking walking for granted,
to stop taking running for granted.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And we can go deep into that story, but that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so you were doing at that time. You had
to go in and literally like learn how to walk again.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, I had to go to pet every day. I
was going about five days a week and have the
weekends off. I remember during the process walking to PT
felt like a victory. Wow, every one time, you know,
I had to. I didn't take a cab. I just
had the strength to walk. And I remember just walking
there and I felt like Superman that day.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And at the same time all this is happening, you're
happy to be alive.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Because and you're part of the culture. I mean, shoes, clothes, jewelry,
these things mean a lot to us, a lot of
in that period of time, it defined me.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And after the accident, just being alive was the gift.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
The clothes, the shoes, the jewelry.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Didn't mean anything anymore, right, I just had a completely
different perspective, and like this thing that we call like
that we take for granted, really meant it means the most.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I came, I got to ask you financially, did
insurance cover this too, because because that's a whole nother
issue that you have to think about. You're not working,
you move back home with your mom. But then what
ended up happening? I mean, you got hit by a car,
if it's her fault, to her insurance coverage, did you
have to pay for it get reimbursed?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Like did your insurance? What ended up happening there?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Again, I was in the restaurant industry and I'm barely
making minimum wage. I'm working off of tips, so insurance
wasn't really a big thing. I had to pay out
of pocket for a lot of things. I had to
pay a lot because in order for me to win
the lawsuit, I had to not go to work for
at least a year. I already lost everything in the
first month. You're talking about eleven more months in my
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mom's basement.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, first of my train of.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Daddy and mom at that, you know, you know, so
you know, I love my moment.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Studio in an account, you know, thank god, you had to.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Thank god she had the basement and a little bit
of privacy. But I told the story so many times.
No one's ever asked that. But financially, it definitely did
take a tone on me.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, because that doesn't do much for your and it's
either but also feeling like, damn, I didn't even have insurance,
and that's not an easy thing to admit because you know,
we all think we're responsible in that way, and we
also sometimes just take a risk in not having insurance
and thinking like, well, nothing's going to happen to me,
or let me just gamble and hope that nothing happens. Yes,
and that way I don't want to have to pay
you know, the monthly health insurance fees here in America.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Health insurance is not a given.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It isn't a given, and life can change in an instant, right,
take care of yourself, get insurance, and do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right. So now let's talk about this the positive side.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Talk about some good stuff. Ye come on, let's like the.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Move because you're alive, so that is I think really
the main thing is that, yes, it was a lot
of I'm sure struggles mentally, financially, physically, but thank God
you are alive at the end of all. I know
every day you had to be like thanking God because
it could have went a whole other way, you know.
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All Right, So then you started deciding that you were
going to take after doing pt five days a week.
Take this seriuriously, when did that come into your head?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
When did that click?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
So, after I was back on my feet, went back
to work, I'm in the restaurant and I just didn't
feel happy there anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It didn't fulfill me the way that I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I mean, sharing a joyous experience or you know, making
people's day when they go out like that fulfilled me.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And it just no longer was fulfilling.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So at this time, I actually was working at Del
Frisco's at Rockefeller Center.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, I worked in that building as serious no so, and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Del Frisco's had a gem in the basement, a New
York Sports Club. So one of the representatives of New
York Sports Club came upstairs and offered us a corporate
discount for about maybe ten dollars a month. Oh wow,
like fifty yeah, I was like, but it's the funny
thing is, out of the fifty people, only two of
us raised our hands.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What two of us raised our iss?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I one of the two so got the membership, went
into the gym, and then I saw these group of
guys that looked like Greek gods, and I said, well,
what's the.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Secret, you know?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So I started following them around and doing whatever they
were doing, like an old lady in the casino, right
at the slot machine. So they were doing exercise. They
would leave, then I'll go do the exercise. And this
went on for a couple of weeks until one of
the guys said, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know what I mean, Just join us, Just say
hello exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So then I did say hello, I joined them, and
then it was now a team. You talked about accountability
at the top of this interview. Now you have a
group of guys who are anticipating you to come in
when you want to tap out. In the last few
reps there, you know the sharing. You want to get
it done right. And I wanted to be at the
gym water and I wanted to go at the restaurant anymore.
So I switched on my schedule and I've started going
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from two times a week to three times a week.
They would go five days a week right after work.
They had a normal nine to five job, right, And
I literally switched my schedule to start to train. And
that was again another chapter of the journey.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And then you also made sure that you got all
kinds of certifications. So talk about that, because I do
love to encourage people if you find something that you love,
take those to classes, those steps to get whatever certifications
you need so that you can actually become a master
at that.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes, so it's funny you say that because unfortunately, during
that time I did get injured. I was deadlifting way
too much, you know, one of those to keep up
with the Greek gods. I wasn't Greek. I'm training stand
up and injuring myself made me want to read more
and learn more. And then I also became a trainer
at Equinox and get hired without a certification. They have
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in house education and continued education. So then something that
you're so passionate about you just naturally want to learn more.
And if I do have clients and people are going
to give me that trust, I wanted to make sure
I had the education and I had the understanding and
experience to guide them.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, So yeah, definitely education was key.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Now, when I first came across, she was with Tonal,
and so I just went to a Tonal event and
you know, originally i'd seen it when I was at
the mall. They have like a Tonal story Short Hills Mall,
and I was like, let me go in there and
just like, you know, try it out. And what's great
about Tonal is that it's something that doesn't take up
a lot of space. You know, we're in New York
and it's not like, yeah, it's not like we got
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you know, fifteen thousand square feet, not even sometimes one
thousand square feet. But the fact that you can have
this really flat screen on your wall, and then you
have a bench that you can pull out when you
need to and that goes up against the wall too.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
If necessary.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Talk to us about what Tonal is and how you
got involved.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh goat.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So phitness has been a part of my life for
over a decade now, and digital fitness is I say,
it's still relatively new. During COVID actually wanted to purchase
a Tonal, and then months later I was actually offered
a job for Tonal.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, all right, so had already no no, no, no,
thank god, free exactly exactly, but more of the Tonal.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I love the fact that you actually experienced it because
you described it really well.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
For those who are unfamiliar.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Just imagine about a tablet on your wall which has
two arms on the sides with over two hundred and
seventy five exercises plus with the bench, and the possibilities
are endless.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So it's a small tablet.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
All you need is about six feet by six feet
of space to complete all of the exercises comfortably.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And you have a library of on demand classes.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We do live classes, and again the amount of exercise
that you can do it is about over two hundred
and eighty exercise statia.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We've seen Lebron doing this right.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
On Lebron's on point.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
There's what time it is, and the good thing about
it too is that timing wise, you know how sometimes
you might be like I only got fifteen minutes to
work out today. You can choose whatever time, whatever you
want to focus on. It will all customize to whatever
it is that you feel like you want to focus
on within yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
With fitness, convenience breeds consistency. This thing lives in your apartment,
so there's no commute, and again you could just type
in or filter through the classes. We have classes that
range from fifteen minutes all the way to an hour plus.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's a it's so great that you really can't hang
your laundry on it like you can on a tread miss,
So it won't end up dry your clothes.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It won't become a hanger. No, this will.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
This is very sexy, it's very esthetic, it's very beautiful,
and you're going to be attracted to use it on
a consistent basis.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, now, this is going to be a hard
question because clearly you love me.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Clearly you love strength training, right, and I told you
already that was something that I've always been like, oh,
but it's great to do it because it's great because
like my back, I'm always like leaned over and I know,
like I've had trainings before. I told me, you got
to continue to work out like your back muscles. That's
that's what's going to help you with any back issues
that you have, your upper back issues.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What do you not like to do?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If you got to say your least favorite thing to
do when you work out.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Is, if I'm being honest, yes, and I hate doing core.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, anything with core that burn and the belly that
I just I can never get used to it. I know,
I know, right because it comes with a six pack.
But the thing with core is that you can train
your core without having to isolate it. So there's a
unilateral work. There's just a variety of exercise that you
can do which will engage your core without you having
to isolated. So, although I don't like training, my core
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exclusively is always incorporated in its own capacity.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
For some reason, I thought you were going to say cardio,
because I feel like people who love strength training don't
like cardio and vice versa. Like I love cardio, but
I know a lot of people who love cardio also
are like, oh, I don't want to have to do
strength training.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, what that's personally why I feel like the anomaly
I started off as a runner and then turned into it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I know if it was the inverse now to you
still run?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know a lot of people talk about how running
is really tough on your knees, on your bones, on
your ankles, what about you?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
So I think anything in excess and you definitely have
to listen to your body. I personally am a sprinter, OK,
so I'm doing really short bursts of intervals. One of
my favorite is kind of going on the I call
it the dreadmill, and I'll do about thirty to forty
seconds at my top speed and then sixty seconds of recovery.
I call it the thirty dozen. I do twelve of
those at the time, so it's about under twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Okay maybe, And that's for and for long distance runners.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I do want to let people know that what the
athletes do in practice isn't what they do on game day.
And what I mean by that is that you don't
have to go one thousand percent all of the time
and then you're gonna beat your body down.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Right, You can build up to it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Make sure you have a plan, make sure you have
a program, and you're not killing your body in the process.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Now, isn't worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Let's just say you don't have a lot of time
to work out, but to do like a ten minute
workout or is it like, let me just wait until
I have at least forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Listen, if you only have ten minutes, do do the
ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A little bit of something. It's better than a lot
of nothing. It's real easier. I don't got this, and
you better stop it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Even with mobility, because as we age, our body changes,
and I think mobility is one of the first things
to go. A ten minute stretch routine or yoga routine
found on Tono, it's going to be a world of
bit difference.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, Well, let's talk about the things the training
that you can find on Tona Because, like you said,
there's yoga, there's strength training, there is cardio for people
like me who love cardio.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
What else is on there?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We have boxing classes as well?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So wait, how does the boxing work?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Because I know, like when I was doing the curls,
you could you know, have the straps and then you
can feel the resistance.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
How does the boxing work?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So the boxing is not going to actually use the
handles at all, Like even with yoga, you're not using
any of the handles or the resisted way. Okay, So
in addition to the strength training, the cardio, there's boxing,
there's mobility work. Shout out to Casey who's like the
queen of that. And now wheelhouse and yeah again, the
possibilities are endless. But what I do love the most
about Tonal is that sometimes we can go to the
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gym with the right intention, but we can't execute because
we don't have a plan or a program. Right Tonal,
you have to just show up. You can pick the
work out and will guide you through every step of
the way.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You know what else is great about it that you
don't have to be embarrassed, because I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Be out about it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Sometimes when the gym in a while, I don't need
nobody to see me like start.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Running and then stop.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, and then out of breast silently judging.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, it is nice and to be able to
do this in the convenience of your own home and
not feel like people are watching you or somebody's you know,
filming you, or you're in the background or some shot
in the gym. I think it is nice to be
able to do that at home and then there's no
excuse for being like I don't have time to go,
you know, fine parking, go to the gym, go do this.
It's nice to be able to say I can just
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do this at my own convenience, on my own time,
right before I go to bed, as soon as I get.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Up in the morning, or randomly in the middle of
the day.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Because sometimes I also feel like when I go to
the gym certain times it's so crowded.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The primetime hours.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Right that I just go back.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And I'm like, ah, like it's gonna be too crowded
if I don't now, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's I love that you said that too, because being
a coach in this space, you would think that you're
training a bunch of Greek gods or a bunch of athletes. No,
you get a lot of regular people who do feel
very insecure in that space. And it's really changed the
way that I coach and the way that I approach it.
I say that my coach is like honey on a medicine.
So I'm not like the drill sergeant. I'm not going
to make this the most grueling part of your Day's
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actually going to be enjoyable and fun and with Tonal,
it is for the everyday person, right. If you do
work in nine to five and you don't want to
go to a crowded gym, you could do it at home.
If you only have twenty minutes when you wake up,
you don't even got to change the clothes. Guessweating in pajamas,
you know what I mean. So that convenience breeds consistency,
and it really is for everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm glad that I just gave you all my excuses,
and now we know there are none.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I also want to know what's your least favorite my
life cardio.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I really don't like strength training or yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I don't know the curls the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
That's my yeah, but I need to do it, and
it actually does make me feel a lot better, you know,
with my back, like whenever I have any issues with
my back. I like doing yoga a lot because that,
to me is better than any massage. That is like
a full body stretch yourself out. And it's also, like
we said, so meditative, and it also makes your battles
nice and easy.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I mean that's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It really is. It really is.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's one thing about working out.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It will definitely make you regular, whether you like it
or not. But I would say that, yeah, because I
really enjoy cardio. I like running, I like doing the elliptical.
All of those things I'm fine with. It's just like weights.
It's tough for me and I think it's my arms
are like you know, so week. But it feels so
powerful when you're able to start doing small things and
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then build it up and then you can see like
the little cut coming in that right.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
There was the was the gem total start you off
at a baseline low weight, like it learns you right,
so your very first work. I might start off at
five pounds track every single rep the house.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Strugg Why did Tim have me at like fifteen?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So I'll talk to Tim.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You I get to but total will you do an
assessment at the beginning? It finds out where you are
and then over time without you even thinking about it
or having to give it a second thought. Like say,
Missy is consistent for the past four weeks and she's
been lifting up this five pounds easily, they'll just bump
it up to six.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's like, is this AI with this?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes it is AI, Yes it is, but it's a
good age.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
AI.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But I just want to make sure we mentioned that too,
because a lot of people are scared of AI. But
when it comes to nutrition, when it comes to working out,
AI can be very beneficial because it does have like
a very unbiased view of what it is that you're
doing and can work with you want to.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And AI has been behind the scenes for a long
period of time, Like the reason why feed looks the
way it does, the reason why we're fed certain information
is because it's kind of constantly learning us, right, And
so with TONA in the best way, learning your limitations,
learning your strengths and just making sure that you never plateau.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's always there to help you grow.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And even on the inverse, if something is too heavy
and it is too much, Tona will do the inverse
and decrease the weight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You'll be like, bruh, you can't do this, You're struggling.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It'll it'll make you to make your hope you real quick.
That does humble you. And yeah, it's just a great
piece of machinery.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And they do have pre and post natal workouts too,
which I think is amazing to be able to do that,
so I love it. You can concentrate on full body,
upper body, lower body, core, any of those things. I'm stretches,
which always you should be doing at the end of
every work out in the beginning too, right.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Absolutely, like brushing your teeth, you know what I mean,
Like personally.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Some people don't some people don't floss.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So we got a flaws. So we got to train, Okay,
we gotta stretch.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So and how expensive is this because that's another thing
that people are going to want to ask, like what
if I feel like this sounds great, but I know
extra money to be able to do this, how does
that work?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
We do have a way that you can pay month
to month for the subscription and for the tonelad itself.
We have a white glove service, so all you have
to do is sit back, relax and we install it
for you. So there are various ways to pay for Tonal.
It doesn't have to be a one stop shop. And
not even challenge people who say that they don't have
the money to go ahead and tally up how much
you're paying for membership at the gym, how much you're
probably investing in the trainer, how much time and you know,
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map out the numbers and see if it works for you.
But I guarantee that if you run the numbers, ton
is done.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But the cost of a Chanel bag, I mean, if
you get your body.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Together for one bag, you get too beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right, and listen for everybody that is doing whatever it
is that they need to do to make sure that
they feel confident in themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, consistency is important.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So even whether or not you decide I want to
get surgery, I want to take weight loss medication, or
I just want to not do those things and work
out all of those things still require that you continue
to be consistent in working out and implement those things
if you haven't done that yet. So whatever it is
that you're doing to achieve the look that you want
to achieve, just remember it's not going to stay that
way if you're not consistent about taking care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And also even if it isn't about looks, even if
you're not driven the boy looks and you just want
to live a full life, you know, like some people
like to travel, some people love what they like to do.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
You want to be alive.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You want to be alive, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Training shouldn't just be for looks and for the aesthetics.
Is just because we want this life to be the
best life. And even if you aren't consistent, like you
said earlier, a little bit of something is better than
a lot of nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All right, Well, how can people find you?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And if they want to also get tonal or go
on there and find you on there, let us know
how we can find you both on social media and
on Tonal.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, like coming to America, My name is Aqim.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You spell it with a c aka oct on stop
and that is my tagline, dnt STP.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Once you start, don't stop, And that's where you can
find me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
All right, Well, thank you so much for joining us.
I appreciate you so much. All Right, I'm gonna check
back in. I feel like I have some accountability.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, someone, let's go for a run and then do
some strength training right after that. Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't have on the right sneakers, but next time,
all right, Well yet, wait up,
What's up. It's way for Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh my gosh, and I feel like there's some accountability
coming today a Keim Emmons is here having me thank
you for coming here. And the other day I was
in an event for Tonal, So you'll explain all of that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But you're a strength coach for Tonal.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
By the way, strength training is like my weakness when
it comes to work, and I'll do cardio all day,
but strength core, all of that is really tough for me.
But I'm glad you're here because everybody right now is
trying to get their summer.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Body ready just the season.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, and you have such an interesting story about how
you even got into this space.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
So sometimes we feel like we procrastinate or we feel like, oh,
I'm just not built like that, or my body is
my body.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is what it is. I just have to accept that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
But you went through a lot, right, So I would
love for you to just give our audience your backstory
on what made you get into this space of fitness.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I would definitely say that Finish found me and it
was probably the best thing that happened to me. So
the origin of the story was actually getting hit by
a car in Jamaica, Queens. I was running to the
Long Island Railroad. At this time, I worked in Brooklyn
and a crossing the street. This woman was speeding down
the block and it kind of obstructed both of our
visions because a column was blocking and so I stepped
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into the street and by the time we made eye
contact before it even happened, and she hit me, flipped
in the air and I just landed on the floor,
had my uniform in my hand. At the time, I
didn't know how long I was out. So I got
up and I got up, grabbed my clothes, trying to
get back to work, and I was surrounded by a
group of people and they were like, you need to
calm down and relax, and I was like, no, you
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need to get out. My waist flipped, flipped in the air,
landed on to the ground on my face. That's where
this car came from. And I just thought it was
a little scratch and I put my hand to my
head and my hand was covered in blood. I was
in a state of shock, passed out onto the floor.
The ambulance came, but that leads to me being unable
to walk for three months. Wow, And I lost everything
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at that time.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
You know, you're young. I had a card, had an apartment.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I'm an adult at this time, and everything just flipped
through my fingers because I couldn't go to work, so
I had to move in with my mom, had to
go to pt and the little things that I would
take for granted, like these banded exercises, you know, this
electro therapy work.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know, like the little things that exercise you'll see.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
People do and just kind of undermine them with the
things that got me back on my feet literally and figuratively.
So with that being said, I was heavily in the
restaurant industry, like that was my passion. That's what I
went to school for. And I mean we talked about
the origin story. My first race was against my dad.
So I'm running with something I love to do my
entire life and not being able.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
To do so.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And you're from Trinidad, by the way, you got to
make sure you know so music level, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Regae come on, Adile just passed and uh yeah, So
just having a gift of walking and running taking away
from you just really shifted my perspective.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And how did that change?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Your body too, because the you know, not even like
having the ability to physically be able to walk, you know,
that has to be in your muscles.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I remember somebody I OGA hit by a car.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Her kneecap slid down because she wasn't even able to
you know, move her legs when she was in the bed.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So a lot out of a lot of the pain
and injury was on my lower back and on my knees. Aesthetically,
my I just say, I got soft around the edges, right.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And that doesn't feel good like mentally, you know, aside
from all of that, aside from the fact that physically
you're impaired, but it also takes a toll on you mentally.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yeah, and again, like they say, it sounds super cliche.
When you look good, you feel good. When you look bad,
you feel bad, and you feel bad, you know. So
my face was messed up, my body didn't. I didn't
feel confident in the skin I was in, and it
definitely took a toll on my.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
My self esteem, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So after a time had gone by and I had
healed up, and then I just fell in love with
movement again, right, Like I stopped taking walking for granted,
to stop taking running for granted.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And we can go deep into that story, but that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
And so you were doing at that time. You had
to go in and literally like learn how to walk again.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, I had to go to pet every day. I
was going about five days a week and have the
weekends off. I remember during the process walking to PT
felt like a victory. Wow, every one time, you know,
I had to. I didn't take a cab. I just
had the strength to walk. And I remember just walking
there and I felt like Superman that day.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And at the same time all this is happening, you're
happy to be alive.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Because and you're part of the culture. I mean, shoes, clothes, jewelry,
these things mean a lot to us, a lot of
in that period of time, it defined me.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
And after the accident, just being alive was the gift.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Right.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
The clothes, the shoes, the jewelry.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Didn't mean anything anymore, right, I just had a completely
different perspective, and like this thing that we call like
that we take for granted, really meant it means the most.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And I came, I got to ask you financially, did
insurance cover this too, because because that's a whole nother
issue that you have to think about. You're not working,
you move back home with your mom. But then what
ended up happening? I mean, you got hit by a car,
if it's her fault, to her insurance coverage, did you
have to pay for it get reimbursed?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Like did your insurance? What ended up happening there?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Again, I was in the restaurant industry and I'm barely
making minimum wage. I'm working off of tips, so insurance
wasn't really a big thing. I had to pay out
of pocket for a lot of things. I had to
pay a lot because in order for me to win
the lawsuit, I had to not go to work for
at least a year. I already lost everything in the
first month. You're talking about eleven more months in my
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mom's basement.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, first of my train of.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Daddy and mom at that, you know, you know, so
you know, I love my moment.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Studio in an account, you know, thank god, you had to.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Thank god she had the basement and a little bit
of privacy. But I told the story so many times.
No one's ever asked that. But financially, it definitely did
take a tone on me.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, because that doesn't do much for your and it's
either but also feeling like, damn, I didn't even have insurance,
and that's not an easy thing to admit because you know,
we all think we're responsible in that way, and we
also sometimes just take a risk in not having insurance
and thinking like, well, nothing's going to happen to me,
or let me just gamble and hope that nothing happens. Yes,
and that way I don't want to have to pay
you know, the monthly health insurance fees here in America.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Health insurance is not a given.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It isn't a given, and life can change in an instant, right,
take care of yourself, get insurance, and do the right thing.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
All right. So now let's talk about this the positive side.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Talk about some good stuff. Ye come on, let's like the.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Move because you're alive, so that is I think really
the main thing is that, yes, it was a lot
of I'm sure struggles mentally, financially, physically, but thank God
you are alive at the end of all. I know
every day you had to be like thanking God because
it could have went a whole other way, you know.
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All Right, So then you started deciding that you were
going to take after doing pt five days a week.
Take this seriuriously, when did that come into your head?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Like?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
When did that click?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
So, after I was back on my feet, went back
to work, I'm in the restaurant and I just didn't
feel happy there anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
It didn't fulfill me the way that I used to.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I mean, sharing a joyous experience or you know, making
people's day when they go out like that fulfilled me.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And it just no longer was fulfilling.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So at this time, I actually was working at Del
Frisco's at Rockefeller Center.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, I worked in that building as serious no so, and.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Del Frisco's had a gem in the basement, a New
York Sports Club. So one of the representatives of New
York Sports Club came upstairs and offered us a corporate
discount for about maybe ten dollars a month. Oh wow,
like fifty yeah, I was like, but it's the funny
thing is, out of the fifty people, only two of
us raised our hands.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
What two of us raised our iss?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
I one of the two so got the membership, went
into the gym, and then I saw these group of
guys that looked like Greek gods, and I said, well,
what's the.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Secret, you know?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
So I started following them around and doing whatever they
were doing, like an old lady in the casino, right
at the slot machine. So they were doing exercise. They
would leave, then I'll go do the exercise. And this
went on for a couple of weeks until one of
the guys said, what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know what I mean, Just join us, Just say
hello exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So then I did say hello, I joined them, and
then it was now a team. You talked about accountability
at the top of this interview. Now you have a
group of guys who are anticipating you to come in
when you want to tap out. In the last few
reps there, you know the sharing. You want to get
it done right. And I wanted to be at the
gym water and I wanted to go at the restaurant anymore.
So I switched on my schedule and I've started going
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from two times a week to three times a week.
They would go five days a week right after work.
They had a normal nine to five job, right, And
I literally switched my schedule to start to train. And
that was again another chapter of the journey.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
And then you also made sure that you got all
kinds of certifications. So talk about that, because I do
love to encourage people if you find something that you love,
take those to classes, those steps to get whatever certifications
you need so that you can actually become a master
at that.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Yes, so it's funny you say that because unfortunately, during
that time I did get injured. I was deadlifting way
too much, you know, one of those to keep up
with the Greek gods. I wasn't Greek. I'm training stand
up and injuring myself made me want to read more
and learn more. And then I also became a trainer
at Equinox and get hired without a certification. They have
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in house education and continued education. So then something that
you're so passionate about you just naturally want to learn more.
And if I do have clients and people are going
to give me that trust, I wanted to make sure
I had the education and I had the understanding and
experience to guide them.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, So yeah, definitely education was key.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Now, when I first came across, she was with Tonal,
and so I just went to a Tonal event and
you know, originally i'd seen it when I was at
the mall. They have like a Tonal story Short Hills Mall,
and I was like, let me go in there and
just like, you know, try it out. And what's great
about Tonal is that it's something that doesn't take up
a lot of space. You know, we're in New York
and it's not like, yeah, it's not like we got
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you know, fifteen thousand square feet, not even sometimes one
thousand square feet. But the fact that you can have
this really flat screen on your wall, and then you
have a bench that you can pull out when you
need to and that goes up against the wall too.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
If necessary.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Talk to us about what Tonal is and how you
got involved.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Oh goat.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
So phitness has been a part of my life for
over a decade now, and digital fitness is I say,
it's still relatively new. During COVID actually wanted to purchase
a Tonal, and then months later I was actually offered
a job for Tonal.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Okay, all right, so had already no no, no, no,
thank god, free exactly exactly, but more of the Tonal.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I love the fact that you actually experienced it because
you described it really well.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
For those who are unfamiliar.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Just imagine about a tablet on your wall which has
two arms on the sides with over two hundred and
seventy five exercises plus with the bench, and the possibilities
are endless.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So it's a small tablet.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
All you need is about six feet by six feet
of space to complete all of the exercises comfortably.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
And you have a library of on demand classes.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
We do live classes, and again the amount of exercise
that you can do it is about over two hundred
and eighty exercise statia.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
We've seen Lebron doing this right.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
On Lebron's on point.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
There's what time it is, and the good thing about
it too is that timing wise, you know how sometimes
you might be like I only got fifteen minutes to
work out today. You can choose whatever time, whatever you
want to focus on. It will all customize to whatever
it is that you feel like you want to focus
on within yourself.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
With fitness, convenience breeds consistency. This thing lives in your apartment,
so there's no commute, and again you could just type
in or filter through the classes. We have classes that
range from fifteen minutes all the way to an hour plus.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's a it's so great that you really can't hang
your laundry on it like you can on a tread miss,
So it won't end up dry your clothes.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
It won't become a hanger. No, this will.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
This is very sexy, it's very esthetic, it's very beautiful,
and you're going to be attracted to use it on
a consistent basis.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
All right, now, this is going to be a hard
question because clearly you love me.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Clearly you love strength training, right, and I told you
already that was something that I've always been like, oh,
but it's great to do it because it's great because
like my back, I'm always like leaned over and I know,
like I've had trainings before. I told me, you got
to continue to work out like your back muscles. That's
that's what's going to help you with any back issues
that you have, your upper back issues.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
What do you not like to do?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
If you got to say your least favorite thing to
do when you work out.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Is, if I'm being honest, yes, and I hate doing core.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Yeah, anything with core that burn and the belly that
I just I can never get used to it. I know,
I know, right because it comes with a six pack.
But the thing with core is that you can train
your core without having to isolate it. So there's a
unilateral work. There's just a variety of exercise that you
can do which will engage your core without you having
to isolated. So, although I don't like training, my core
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exclusively is always incorporated in its own capacity.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
For some reason, I thought you were going to say cardio,
because I feel like people who love strength training don't
like cardio and vice versa. Like I love cardio, but
I know a lot of people who love cardio also
are like, oh, I don't want to have to do
strength training.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, what that's personally why I feel like the anomaly
I started off as a runner and then turned into it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I know if it was the inverse now to you
still run?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know a lot of people talk about how running
is really tough on your knees, on your bones, on
your ankles, what about you?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
So I think anything in excess and you definitely have
to listen to your body. I personally am a sprinter, OK,
so I'm doing really short bursts of intervals. One of
my favorite is kind of going on the I call
it the dreadmill, and I'll do about thirty to forty
seconds at my top speed and then sixty seconds of recovery.
I call it the thirty dozen. I do twelve of
those at the time, so it's about under twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Okay maybe, And that's for and for long distance runners.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I do want to let people know that what the
athletes do in practice isn't what they do on game day.
And what I mean by that is that you don't
have to go one thousand percent all of the time
and then you're gonna beat your body down.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Right, You can build up to it.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Make sure you have a plan, make sure you have
a program, and you're not killing your body in the process.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Now, isn't worthwhile.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Let's just say you don't have a lot of time
to work out, but to do like a ten minute
workout or is it like, let me just wait until
I have at least forty minutes.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Listen, if you only have ten minutes, do do the
ten minutes?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A little bit of something. It's better than a lot
of nothing. It's real easier. I don't got this, and
you better stop it.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Even with mobility, because as we age, our body changes,
and I think mobility is one of the first things
to go. A ten minute stretch routine or yoga routine
found on Tono, it's going to be a world of
bit difference.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, Well, let's talk about the things the training
that you can find on Tona Because, like you said,
there's yoga, there's strength training, there is cardio for people
like me who love cardio.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
What else is on there?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
We have boxing classes as well?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So wait, how does the boxing work?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Because I know, like when I was doing the curls,
you could you know, have the straps and then you
can feel the resistance.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
How does the boxing work?
Speaker 4 (15:07):
So the boxing is not going to actually use the
handles at all, Like even with yoga, you're not using
any of the handles or the resisted way. Okay, So
in addition to the strength training, the cardio, there's boxing,
there's mobility work. Shout out to Casey who's like the
queen of that. And now wheelhouse and yeah again, the
possibilities are endless. But what I do love the most
about Tonal is that sometimes we can go to the
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gym with the right intention, but we can't execute because
we don't have a plan or a program. Right Tonal,
you have to just show up. You can pick the
work out and will guide you through every step of
the way.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You know what else is great about it that you
don't have to be embarrassed, because I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Be out about it.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Sometimes when the gym in a while, I don't need
nobody to see me like start.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Running and then stop.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, and then out of breast silently judging.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know, it is nice and to be able to
do this in the convenience of your own home and
not feel like people are watching you or somebody's you know,
filming you, or you're in the background or some shot
in the gym. I think it is nice to be
able to do that at home and then there's no
excuse for being like I don't have time to go,
you know, fine parking, go to the gym, go do this.
It's nice to be able to say I can just
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do this at my own convenience, on my own time,
right before I go to bed, as soon as I get.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Up in the morning, or randomly in the middle of
the day.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Because sometimes I also feel like when I go to
the gym certain times it's so crowded.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
The primetime hours.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Right that I just go back.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
And I'm like, ah, like it's gonna be too crowded
if I don't now, yeah, and.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
That's I love that you said that too, because being
a coach in this space, you would think that you're
training a bunch of Greek gods or a bunch of athletes. No,
you get a lot of regular people who do feel
very insecure in that space. And it's really changed the
way that I coach and the way that I approach it.
I say that my coach is like honey on a medicine.
So I'm not like the drill sergeant. I'm not going
to make this the most grueling part of your Day's
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actually going to be enjoyable and fun and with Tonal,
it is for the everyday person, right. If you do
work in nine to five and you don't want to
go to a crowded gym, you could do it at home.
If you only have twenty minutes when you wake up,
you don't even got to change the clothes. Guessweating in pajamas,
you know what I mean. So that convenience breeds consistency,
and it really is for everyone.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
I'm glad that I just gave you all my excuses,
and now we know there are none.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I also want to know what's your least favorite my
life cardio.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I really don't like strength training or yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I don't know the curls the other day.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
That's my yeah, but I need to do it, and
it actually does make me feel a lot better, you know,
with my back, like whenever I have any issues with
my back. I like doing yoga a lot because that,
to me is better than any massage. That is like
a full body stretch yourself out. And it's also, like
we said, so meditative, and it also makes your battles
nice and easy.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I mean that's a real thing.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It really is. It really is.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
That's one thing about working out.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It will definitely make you regular, whether you like it
or not. But I would say that, yeah, because I
really enjoy cardio. I like running, I like doing the elliptical.
All of those things I'm fine with. It's just like weights.
It's tough for me and I think it's my arms
are like you know, so week. But it feels so
powerful when you're able to start doing small things and
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then build it up and then you can see like
the little cut coming in that right.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
There was the was the gem total start you off
at a baseline low weight, like it learns you right,
so your very first work. I might start off at
five pounds track every single rep the house.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Strugg Why did Tim have me at like fifteen?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
So I'll talk to Tim.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
You I get to but total will you do an
assessment at the beginning? It finds out where you are
and then over time without you even thinking about it
or having to give it a second thought. Like say,
Missy is consistent for the past four weeks and she's
been lifting up this five pounds easily, they'll just bump
it up to six.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
It's like, is this AI with this?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yes it is AI, Yes it is, but it's a
good age.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
AI.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
But I just want to make sure we mentioned that too,
because a lot of people are scared of AI. But
when it comes to nutrition, when it comes to working out,
AI can be very beneficial because it does have like
a very unbiased view of what it is that you're
doing and can work with you want to.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
And AI has been behind the scenes for a long
period of time, Like the reason why feed looks the
way it does, the reason why we're fed certain information
is because it's kind of constantly learning us, right, And
so with TONA in the best way, learning your limitations,
learning your strengths and just making sure that you never plateau.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
It's always there to help you grow.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
And even on the inverse, if something is too heavy
and it is too much, Tona will do the inverse
and decrease the weight.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You'll be like, bruh, you can't do this, You're struggling.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It'll it'll make you to make your hope you real quick.
That does humble you. And yeah, it's just a great
piece of machinery.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
And they do have pre and post natal workouts too,
which I think is amazing to be able to do that,
so I love it. You can concentrate on full body,
upper body, lower body, core, any of those things. I'm stretches,
which always you should be doing at the end of
every work out in the beginning too, right.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Absolutely, like brushing your teeth, you know what I mean,
Like personally.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Some people don't some people don't floss.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
So we got a flaws. So we got to train, Okay,
we gotta stretch.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So and how expensive is this because that's another thing
that people are going to want to ask, like what
if I feel like this sounds great, but I know
extra money to be able to do this, how does
that work?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Well?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
We do have a way that you can pay month
to month for the subscription and for the tonelad itself.
We have a white glove service, so all you have
to do is sit back, relax and we install it
for you. So there are various ways to pay for Tonal.
It doesn't have to be a one stop shop. And
not even challenge people who say that they don't have
the money to go ahead and tally up how much
you're paying for membership at the gym, how much you're
probably investing in the trainer, how much time and you know,
(20:29):
map out the numbers and see if it works for you.
But I guarantee that if you run the numbers, ton
is done.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
But the cost of a Chanel bag, I mean, if
you get your body.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Together for one bag, you get too beautiful.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Right, and listen for everybody that is doing whatever it
is that they need to do to make sure that
they feel confident in themselves.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, consistency is important.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
So even whether or not you decide I want to
get surgery, I want to take weight loss medication, or
I just want to not do those things and work
out all of those things still require that you continue
to be consistent in working out and implement those things
if you haven't done that yet. So whatever it is
that you're doing to achieve the look that you want
to achieve, just remember it's not going to stay that
way if you're not consistent about taking care of yourself.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
And also even if it isn't about looks, even if
you're not driven the boy looks and you just want
to live a full life, you know, like some people
like to travel, some people love what they like to do.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
You want to be alive.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
You want to be alive, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
Training shouldn't just be for looks and for the aesthetics.
Is just because we want this life to be the
best life. And even if you aren't consistent, like you
said earlier, a little bit of something is better than
a lot of nothing.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All right, Well, how can people find you?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And if they want to also get tonal or go
on there and find you on there, let us know
how we can find you both on social media and
on Tonal.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Well, like coming to America, My name is Aqim.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You spell it with a c aka oct on stop
and that is my tagline, dnt STP.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Once you start, don't stop, And that's where you can
find me.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
All right, Well, thank you so much for joining us.
I appreciate you so much. All Right, I'm gonna check
back in. I feel like I have some accountability.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah, someone, let's go for a run and then do
some strength training right after that. Sounds good.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I don't have on the right sneakers, but next time,
all right, Well yet, wait up,
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