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And I think as far as motivation goes, I think the whole root of all of it is fear. And it's like in your book, saying, blaming things, you know, so they're not coming to grips with the truth of why they can't move forward. And that is something that I am honored to help people do is really find out what the truth is behind it all. So they'll tell me a story and I'll say, yeah, what next? And then they'll go on and I'll say, yeah, and then what? And they keep getting down and down and down to the root and. And that's when they can finally get a breakthrough and say, aha.
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Today I'm joined by Jodi Jantomaso. Jodi is a life and wellness guide and strength coach based in St. Pete, Florida. Since 1984, she's been helping people adopt healthier lifestyles from the inside out, connecting physical strength, mental resilience and emotional well being. She works alongside and is endorsed by physicians supporting individuals, including those on weight loss journeys, who want to build lean muscle, protect bone density and restore energy without overwhelm or complicated programs.
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I think identity is huge. It's where we find our worth, it's where we find our motivation. If you don't have the worth and the identity part right, nothing else can kind of fall into place. And it does require a little bit of work and honesty, you know, real honesty. Like,
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Welcome to Beyond Blind Blaming. This is the place where we explore how easily hidden truths can hold us back, trapping us in cycles of frustration and blame, often without even realizing what's truly stopping us. Each week I'm joined by experts and professionals who share their journey of taking back control of their story, overcoming hidden challenges, and discover how to stop blind blaming from dictating their outcomes. The insights you're about to gain will help you see beyond your current limitations, find the courage to seek new perspectives, and ultimately live a life that both purposeful and powerful. So if you're ready to break free from blind blaming and discover what's possible, you'll definitely want to listen to my next guest. I'm your host, Kevin St. Clergy and today I'm joined by Jodi Jantomaso. Jodi is a life and wellness guide and strength coach based in St. Pete, Florida. Since 1984, she's been helping people adopt healthier lifestyles from the inside out, connecting physical strength, mental resilience and emotional well being. She works alongside and is endorsed by physicians supporting individuals, including those on weight loss journeys, who want to build Lean muscle, protect bone density and restore energy without overwhelm or complicated programs. Jodi is the creator of the PLT method, a simple 5 to 15 minute strength system designed to help people rebuild strength in a way that feels doable, safe and motivating. She's also the author of have youe Ever? A workbook and collection of 53 personal stories that help people discover the power of connection through shared experiences. And I loved the book. When she's not coaching, leading workshops or hosting retreats, Jodi loves spending time with her two adult daughters and enjoying the outdoors along the Gulf Coast. Jodi, welcome to the show.
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Thank you so much, Kevin. I'm excited to be here.
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Well, let's start with your journey. What led you to dedicate your life to helping people build strength from the inside out?
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I started when I was 18 years old. I got on the fitness train and I really enjoyed it. I was going to become a physical therapist and I am from a very entrepreneurial family. So I ended up starting my own businesses and that's how it all started. I've enjoyed working with everybody from professional athletes to moms to seniors and everybody in between. And it's been incredible. And as I went along the journey, it became more than just fitness. It became internal strength that people really, really needed. And I just started doing that about 25 years ago, even though I started much longer ago. But I added the whole life coaching, life guiding element into it because that's really the most important part of it all.
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And how has that made you feel by being able to do that?
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It's a purposeful and I won't even call it a job because it's not. But just connecting with people, finding out about their lives, sharing their stories, sharing my story with them, relatable experiences, and then just helping them navigate. Connect the dots, if you will, has been so exciting to see people's lives change. That's. That's what lights me up, is seeing them actually do simple little changes that change everything kind of how you do and you've done with me as well, Kevin, especially your book. I love that book and it's transformed my business and the way that I talk to people as well. So thanks.
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I love to hear things like that. You're welcome. And that's the reason I wrote it. So it's always good to hear and humbling to hear success stories and we're getting a ton of them. So thank you for that. Well, you've been doing this since 1984. What have you learned about why people struggle to stay consistent with their health and wellness goals. Because I think a lot of people out there know what to do, but they're just not consistent for whatever reason. Talk to us about that.
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Yeah, you know, I think it's a couple of things. I think people are confused. Number one, because there is so much information now on what they should be doing. And every time you open the news, there's another five new moves that are going to do this or that. And I think people really genuinely, they're confused. They're scared. They think if they start doing anything physical that they might get hurt, which of course lots of people do because they don't have the right trainer. And I think as far as motivation goes, I think the whole root of all of it is fear. And it's like in your book saying, blaming things so they're not coming to grips with the truth of why they can't move forward. And that is something that am honored to help people do is really find out what the truth is behind it all. So they'll tell me a story and I'll say, yeah, what next? And then they'll go on and I'll say, yeah, and then what? And they keep getting down and down and down to the root. And that's when they can finally get a breakthrough and say, aha, that's what it is. And this is what I need to do. And it's really simple. It's nothing complicated.
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That's really interesting because I went through a similar journey with my coach who's actually a physician. And it was interesting because they had me read a book called the Mountain is yous.
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I love that.
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Found out. I love it so much. I've recommended it so many times for clients who need some mindset work. And for me it was my identity. I never wanted to be that gallon toting gym rat douchebag who skipped out on wine night. And I kept self sabotaging myself. And so now I'm that gallon toting gym rat douchebag who walks 15,500 steps a day and works out for days a week. And I love it and I have a great time. It was just when I did that identity work is what made a difference for me. Do you ever get down deep to find other people went through what I went through or is it usually something else?
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Absolutely. I think identity is huge. It's where we find our worth, it's where we find our motivation. If you don't have the worth and the identity part right, nothing else can kind of fall into place. And it does require a little bit of work and honesty, you know, real honesty. Like, you know, I've gone through it myself. We all have. And that's why coaching is so much fun, because like you said, you've been through stuff, so now you can help somebody else. And I think that's a big reason why we end up going through challenges in life. Not to be poor, me, or anything like that, but so that in the future that gives us the ability to help other people and the empathy to help other people. But I love the identity piece, and I would highly recommend that book as well, and I do to my clients as well. The Mountain Is yous is a phenomenal, phenomenal read. So, yeah, I agree with you on that one for sure.
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Well, in health and fitness, blind blaming shows up constantly. People blame time, age, hormones, injuries, or other programs, or a lot of times they don't know it's hormones. I'm seeing that more than more and more because it's actually a story in the book. But how do you see blind blaming keeping people stuck physically and mentally?
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The same. Exactly what you just said. They're saying that they. Well, the mental part of it is the first part of it. So they say to themselves. It's the stories that they're saying to themselves, I don't have enough time. Well, let's take a look at what your time looks like. How much time do you need? They don't even know how much time they need. So time is thrown out the window for me because we need to look at the time. Like, I'll say, well, you know, even for me personally, building a business and stuff like that, I'll start telling myself that same lie, like, oh, I don't have time. But you know what? We do, and we'll make the time for the things that are most important. So then it comes down to the why. Why is it that you need to be healthy? It's for your children. It's for people that you love to be sticking around. There's a lot of why's behind it. And then it circles back to identity again. If you don't feel like your identity is worthwhile and you're purposeful and you're valuable to other people. And then it's kind of like, well, what the heck, you know, who cares? So I. I feel like time is always an excuse. Physical limitations are real. But guess what? There's ways to get around it, you know, so you can't get on the treadmill and walk for even 10 minutes. That's okay, you can sit in a chair and do plenty of other things. So there is really no excuse for getting healthier one way or another. And that could even just be emotionally aside from physically or spiritually. There's nothing that can stop you. But that's the first mindset that you have to have is that nothing is going to stop you.
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That's great. I love it. I think mindset's a lot, a lot of times at the, at the core of an issue of why people aren't getting healthy. But you mentioned the time thing, which I love, because can people really get fit in 30 minutes a day or less?
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They can get fit in 30 minutes or less a day. They really can. And it doesn't even have to be a 30 minutes at one time. I work with seniors and I just have them spread out these tiny movements in 10 minute increments three times through their, in their house. They don't even have to get out of their house. So there's definitely creative and I love coming up with creative ways to assist people so that they don't have any more excuses and that they can do it. It's doable. If you're looking at a two hour workout, there's no way nobody has time for the two hour workout unless you're just. I guess some people do, but. And they enjoy it, which is fine. But if you really want to get healthy, and I mean healthy, I'm not talking about buffed up or anything like that. I'm just talking about general overall wellness and health. There's lots of components. Of course, there's your mindset, there's your food, there's. There's rest. People forget the rest part of it and then there's the movement. So I just feel that it does not take a great deal of chunk out of your time. And so what, it takes five to 15 minutes, maybe 20 minutes to do this program in particular to build strength and muscle and bone density, not to mention get more energy. Because if you have strong muscles, then you're gaining energy. Of course that's coupled with your nutrition program too, obviously. But I'm just saying everybody has time. Five minutes, two minutes, one minute. I have these little one minute quickies and it's simple, but I think sometimes people just don't know where to start and where to begin. And that's something to get some help with.
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Talk to us about the one minute quickies. Give us an example. That was interesting.
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Yeah. Oh, I love the one minute quickies. So you can do them anywhere And I have probably 50 of them that you can do just in your house. I have one minute quickies in your bed, in your bathroom, in your tub, in your shower, in your car. And it's really isometrics. Isometrics just means without any movement. So you're holding a position. And as you hold that position for 60 seconds, it's literally building up your muscle while tearing down muscle fibers. So when we tear down muscle fibers, think of three strands of a rope, if you can picture that. And now you're putting a resistance on that rope, or you're pulling it. Let's say it's a tug of war. And you keep pulling and pulling and pulling, some of those fibers are going to start pulling apart. That's what's happening in the muscle. And then you rest for 48 hours in between. That's why it's three times a week. You rest for those 48 hours. And in that 48 hours, God does a miraculous thing. Our creator is pretty incredible. He puts those fibers back together even stronger. And so that's how we get the muscle gain. And I'm not talking about size, we're talking about strength. Okay? Muscle strength. So these one, I'll give you an example of one minute quickie. Just even in your kitchen. You can do a push up off of your countertop. You can do a leg lift while you're sitting in the chair. And you just hold it. You just hold it. There's no pumping, there's no pushing, there's no pulsing. It's an absolute. Just hold and you hold it and you count out loud or you sing a song. I mean, you can sing row, row, row your boat. And by the time you're done, you're done with the thing. So very, very simple, simple things to do while you're in your b. You could practice balance by standing on one leg. Of course, there's a plethora of stretches you can do for one minute. You can sit against a wall, make sure your form is correct. I'm all about form. But you can sit up against a wall with your back against the wall and just start with 10 seconds. Not even a whole minute, just 10 seconds. And watch your breathing as you're doing all these things. And Those are the one minute quickies.
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I love it.
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60 second quickies.
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I'll bet there's some people listening that are like, how am I supposed to do that when I'm back to back calls? And this is where I'll jump in a little bit. What I learned years ago Is that you are in complete control of your schedule. And if you do, if you are a business owner, you don't have a personal assistant. It's the first hire you need to make or the next hire that you need to make because you can actually hire somebody and tell them to protect you from yourself. And Christina's really good at this. You've worked with her a lot since we've been working together. And she schedules me a walk and a snack a couple times a day. And so people are always asking, well, how do you get 15,000 steps in a day? I was like, well, I just make it a priority. I live and die by my calendar like a lot of people listening do. And when there's a 30 minute walk and snack, I go for a 20 minute walk and I take 10 minutes to grab my mid, you know, morning or mid afternoon snack. And you just do it.
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That's a great program. I am all about keeping up your energy. That's the thing. We get so tired and then it's all, I don't have time or I'm too tired. And it's because you're not pacing, you're not pacing yourself. Someone said motivation. They were talking about motivation. Oh, I'm just not motivated. Motivated is nothing but making one movement forward.
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Well, now you're getting into some of the atomic habits advice. You know, just set a goal to do a one minute quickie, do one push up, you'll probably do a couple more.
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That's right. That's right. And they all add up all through the whole entire day. So there's a concept called neat, N E A T neuro exercise, activity, thermogenesis and all that fancy word. All those fancy words just simply mean it's activity through the day. So you don't say, I have to go work out. You say, I need to be active. And you don't say, for me, I have my clients change the way that they speak out loud. It's not, oh, I need to go do a five minute workout. It's oh, I get to do a five minute workout. I'm doing the five minute workout because I'm a healthy person. And as a healthy person, this is what I do. So I think a lot of it just starts in our mind and how we're framing it and as to what it is that we really need to do because of the great results that we're going to get.
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I love that. Well, you use the analogy of pressing pause instead of starting over. How does that mindset shift help people Break the cycle of guilt and inconsistency.
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Yeah. So I ask clients to imagine the old. Now I'm old school. I mean, I was in school in college back in the early 80s. And so imagine cassette recorders, okay? Young people listening may not even know what they look like, but it's in retro now, and people are starting to collect them back again. But back in the day, there was a cassette recorder, and you would put a cassette in the recorder and you would push play. And then when you couldn't listen or you were done or whatever, you'd push pause. But the thing is, the cassette was still in the player. The cassette had not changed. The music on the cassette had not changed. It was still there for you to press play again. So I just tell people that if they get discouraged and they need to pause, whether that's. You're walking along, like, with treadmill time, and you're all of a sudden out of breath, take a pause. It's okay. You still got the cassette in the cassette player. You're just pressing pause for a second. That music's still going. So just keep going, press play again, and it's okay. And it tells your brain what it does with neurosciences. It tells your brain that. That you're not a failure, that it's okay that you're really not starting over. You're just moving forward a little bit further by taking a pause. And it will give you. It will give your mind time to relax. It will restore your energy to pause. And just mentally, it makes you feel great that, hey, I'm just taking a pause. I'm not quitting. I'm not having to start over because I've already done the stuff in the past. So you're not starting over, you're just continuing. That's it. That's great.
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I love it. Well, now I want to move into your PLT method that we've discussed. You teach the PLT method, which can be done in just five to 15 minutes.
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Right.
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What is PLT and why is slow controlled resistance training so powerful?
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Okay, so PLT is an acronym that stands for Progressive Load training. Plt, or pretty little thing. PLT is a method that I learned back when I was in college. I had a professor, Dr. Anthony Abbott. He was actually the strength and conditioning coach for NASA. And he was phenomenal. And he came up. He was tasked with finding a program that the astronauts could do in space because they were at zero gravity. And in zero gravity, you are losing muscle mass very, very quickly. So he came up with the program to do progressive load training in space, which was really just resistance training, but doing it very, very, very slowly. So imagine you have a rubber band and you hold it and you start stretching it, and you're stretching it and then contract, release, contract, release, contract, release. We see this all the time in the gym with people doing like a bicep curl and going up and down and up and down, and it's quick. So what this does is when you stretch that rubber band out and you just hold it and you hold it for a few seconds, and then you widen it and you hold it for a few more seconds. What's happening? Those muscle fibers are tearing down faster. That's why this program is short and sweet and effective, because you're tearing the muscle fibers faster and more effectively in a slow workout. So I'll give you an example. Let's talk about a push up. Everybody knows what a push up is. You could get on a countertop, you know, put your hands on top of your kitchen counter and start doing a push up. But instead of going forward and back and forward and back like you typically would, what you're going to do is you're going to progress that load. And the way that you do it is through counting. And you would come down into the push up for two seconds and then slowly come back for two seconds. Then you would come down for four seconds and come back for four seconds. So you see how this is progressing. You would do 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 second holds. And at the end of that 12 second hold, it should be pretty difficult. I mean, you should be at that point like, okay, this is it. And what that does is it gets you to that maximum fatigue point, which is what the whole deal is with strength training. You got to get to a maximum fatigue point where you feel like you can't do one more and then you're done. And I hope that explains it. But that's what progressive load training is. You're progressing the load that you're putting on the resistance.
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Well, it does, and it made perfect sense. And it's interesting because when I lost that 40 pounds, I was never in the gym for longer than 30 minutes.
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There you go.
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I was eating carbs every day and had fun with my nutrition and enjoyed what I eating again. Kind of blew my physician or my doctors away, my regular doctors, because they're like, okay, just want to be clear. You're eating carbs because your A1C is down to normal. And I'm like, yeah, every day. And I'm still kind of pissed at you guys for telling me to cut
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them out because there's good carbs and bad carbs. Okay.
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Yeah. I'm not saying sugar cookies all day long.
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There's Twinkies and there's broccoli and there's, you know, there's Snicker bars and there's, you know, good carbs, you know, wheat pastas and all kinds of different things.
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Wheat bread and rice. I mean, I did wear a CGM for a while, continuous glucose monitor. And what made me really mad is because I hate brown rice. And when I did brown rice versus basami, I think I'm saying it correctly, there was no difference in the sugar spike. So I was like, well, I'm gonna go back to the rice that I like. And I still kept my A1C, my sugar. Everything's in check. It was just fascinating to me how different. You read one thing and then it turns out to be completely false online. And I think it keeps people stuck for years.
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Well, you mentioned something that's really important for people who are checking out glucose monitors. They're very, very effective, but they're different between every single person. So you are able to eat that rice and no spike in it, but I might eat it and find a high spike in it based on my metabolism. And so I do feel it's important if people are really trying to drop sugar and drop their A1C levels and get healthy and that in that little module, I think that a glucose monitor is very effective because. And then you mentioned something else. Hormones. You know, hormones play a huge part in our success as far as what we're looking as at. As success. We're not getting into nutrition here right now, but that's another whole podcast, probably. But as far as your strength training goes, it's going to. When you're in strength training mode and your muscle memory is learning that I can go more, I can do more. Your muscle is saying that every single time you do that one pushup, it's saying, I think I can do one more. And so when you do that, then all of this stuff that you're eating plays a huge, huge part in it because your muscle absorbs nutrients. And so they do go hand in hand with what I teach. We touch on nutrition a tiny bit, but I always refer them either to a nutritionist or. And I mean a nutritionist, not a regular MD doctor. They've only had 12 hours of nutrition training and all of their. All of their schooling as a medical doctor. So I would not go to that, but I definitely would go to not a dietitian, a nutritionist, people who understand balance. So, yeah, so that all plays a part in it. I think you've done such a great job, Kevin. You're a really great testament as to how it can be done, especially with your busy schedule and everything else. So kudos to you.
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Thanks. Well, many people think the strength requires a gym membership, heavy weights and long workouts, which is another lesson I learned. I have this huge garage Mahal that I've built and it's a full gym and all you really need to me was a treadmill and some free weights and you're golden and you can even get those little mini free weights. But what makes your approach different and more sustainable without the gym membership?
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Well, first of all, there's different fitness personalities. And at the end of this podcast, if you want to connect with me, I'm going to give you a fitness personality quiz. Some people I had a retreat that I ran several years ago and I had everybody at the playground and every I said, pretend you're in second grade. Imagine this, you're sitting in school and you're in second grade and the bell rings and it's time for recess and you're out on the playground. What piece of equipment are you running to first? Are you going to the jungle gym where you're hanging and moving? Are you going on the swings? Even on the swings? Are you the one that's trying to get the highest and then jump? Are you going on the teeter tot? Are you going down the slide? Do you have a ball and you're just tossing a ball with friends? Or are you sitting at the picnic table reading a book because you cannot stand gym? So you have a fitness personality. And I think it's really important to note you need to know what that is so that you can know the direction that you're going to be happiest and the environment that you're going to be happiest doing any type of a workout in, that's even including meditation, your environment's important. Where you can work out is really important. And it's great that you have the Taj Mahal gym with all this stuff, but like you said, you do not need it to get a great workout and to build strength. So this program is different because, number one, it's not time consuming. Number two, you're going to gain energy through it if you can be consistent, which is what my hope is. And it's doable, so I know you can be. And then the Other part of it is I use body weight only when people are starting this program. We'll be doing a webinar the end of March. It's on a Saturday morning, but we'll be doing a webinar. And I'll show you how you can use just your body weight alone to have some strength gains. Now then you can add in a kitchen towel, and you can take that kitchen towel and hold it from end to end. I call it the kitchen towel workout. And you can literally hold it and you keep it tight in the middle. You don't want a flabby middle. That's a double innuendo. So you don't want the flabby middle and you keep it tight, which puts a contraction on the muscle. It makes the muscle tight and you just hold it and you can bring it in and out. You can put it behind your back and do tricep extensions, you can do overhead presses. It's a phenomenal way. Just a simple, simple tool that everybody's got. I'm pretty sure everyone's got a kitchen towel in their kitchen. And then the other part is free weights. Like you mentioned, free weights are great. I always say to start low, but you've got to find out what number pounds that free weight is to begin with. If you're only using a 1 pound free weight for some of these moves, and you really could be at a 5, you need to know that. And the only way to do that is experiment, work with someone that knows what they're doing so that you know that you're doing the maximum. Because when you do plt, you're only doing six reps. And when I say reps, for people who don't understand reps and sets, reps are the one time that you do it, sets are the multiple times you do all those reps. So you've got to know what your fatigue point is going to be after you're done with just those six moves. So let's say I used a 1 pound for a bicep curl, and I did the PLT method, which was the progressive load, and I did my two count, four count, six, eight, 10 and 12 count. If I got to that 12 count, it was still really easy for me. I'm not going to do another set. I'm going to go to a higher weight. And so that's how you progress. That's the progressive part of progressive load training. And then you're loading it with your weight. And that's how it works. Did that explain that?
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It did Yep. That's great. You're fine. Well, you're also working with a lot of individuals on weight loss journeys that are on GLP1 medications. What strength and muscle loss issues are people overlooking during that rapid weight loss where they get really excited because they're finally seeing some progress, but I don't think they realize what's happening because that's why I was able to gain muscle mass and lose body fat. Fat which everybody told me wasn't possible to do at the same time, and we did it. So I want you to talk about that for a little bit.
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Well, people who are on rapid weight loss programs, such as GLP1s or even keto, or even any of these others, that you're losing weight really, really fast, maybe your body's going into ketosis or whatever that is. What they find is that 25% of the muscle that you're losing is 25% of that is lean muscle mass. And it's really, really important as you're losing the weight. So if you're just going on the GLP1 now, right now is the time to start. You did that right from the beginning, Kevin. That's why you did not lose what people said you might lose. So I would say that if you've been on the GLP1 and you have not been doing the strength training, don't worry about it. You've been on pause, right? And it's not too late to get started on it. And you need to start immediately, though, because what's going to happen is you're going to lose tone. So for women, especially my clients, they're so upset because they've got the excess skin and that type of thing. It depends. You know, if you've been 300 pounds and you want to be 130, you're going to have some skin. It's been stretched like that rubber band, and it's going to be stretched. But the good news is you can definitely have tone in there. And I have a woman right now, one of my clients, she's on the GLP1. She. She's doing phenomenal. And she didn't start it immediately. She started GLP1s eight months ago, and she's just started this program two months ago, but she's already seeing such a difference. So it's something that can happen pretty quickly where you can gain that muscle tone back very, very quickly. Also, I think that some people on the GLP1s and stuff that are hearing it, I think the doctors, for the most part, are saying to patients, you need to do some strength training, but that doesn't tell them what it is, how to do it, where to go for it, who to hire for it. So there's a lot of question marks there. So I would just encourage any listeners that say, yeah, you know, you're raising your hand going, yeah, I definitely want to do that, or I need to do that. You could get in touch with me, but even if it's not me, find a trainer that's got a very long history of training and ask them if they understand what progressive load training is. They might not know the PLT acronym because I'm the one that's trademark that, but they will know super slow training, and they will know slow training. So just make sure that whoever you're working with, that they understand the body, how it works and that the form is correct. Because I've seen people hurt themselves just doing a bicep curl incorrectly with the wrist position in a different angle that shouldn't be, or their feet turned out instead of in or whatever it is. So just be careful. And if you want really, really good training, just get with someone who's been doing it for a long, long time and knows what they're doing. But the GLP1 stuff is great. I wasn't on board with it, to be quite frank with you, from the beginning because I'm pretty holistic and it was just another drug. But as I researched it, this is why that's how important it is to research things. What I saw was that this was a diabetic medication. It has been for many years. It's just now been marketed a weight loss product. It's extremely expensive on the most part to get a hold of. But people that are doing it, what I'm seeing in them is something not even physical. Kevin. It is a mental shift, and I love seeing that mental shift where they've got confidence now that they feel like it's doable, that finally this is the answer to all of the up and down weight loss programs they've tried for 20 years. It's given them the motivation and inspiration to get, you know, to get going. It's like a head start. And so I'm on board with that. And another thing I've seen too is that they've dropped other medications, which is so cool. I've seen people drop blood pressure medications, cholesterol medications, even mental health medications have gone sleep apnea. I can list at least 10 things off the top of my head that I see that now that they're at a healthy weight they can now eliminate. So now they're only on one drug, which is the GLP one.
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B
That's really good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's, it's got a positive to it for sure.
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B
Well, there's one thing that I like. You've been an amazing guest. Thank you. There's one thing I always like to ask all of my guests and you've clearly learned to invest in yourself over the years and we'll put for people to get a hold of you. We'll, we'll let you say that after this question and we'll put it in the show notes of, of websites or that your webinar, anything you mentioned today will be in the show notes. But how do you like, what's the best way that you invest in yourself? Is it books? Is it live meetings? Is it podcasts? How do you like to invest in yourself so you can continue continually improve?
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Well, first I make a list of what I need improving it and I have a list. And in that list it might be that I need to learn something new. Like for instance on Canva. So I know I need to take that Canva Canva tutorial. And I love investing in that because once I know it, I know it. And then I love podcasts, especially when they align with something that I can pass on to my clients. That's something that's really cool. For me personally, I love to read. And it's usually the type of books are either inspirational, they might be self help, they might be strategies. I love hearing how different people do strategies. Like Atomic habits has great strategies in it. Your book has great strategies strategy. So I'm looking at it not just for myself, but I'm looking at how can I pass this along to someone else that I might meet. And then the other thing that I start every single morning with for me is I open my eyes and the first thing I do is start listing things that I'm super grateful for. This really sets the tone for mindset for the whole day. And then I pray and I ask the spirit to give me and whoever that is to you. It could be God, it could be divine, it could be spirit. Whatever it is, for me, it is God. So I will ask the Holy Spirit to guide my day and go before me and the people that I need to contact and the things that I need to accomplish. And that's how I start my day. And then I actually do physical work because I'm working with all my clients. So I get that by default. And Then on the days that I am not working with those people, which is three days a week, I'm swimming, I am walking the beach, I'm taking a mindful walk. I don't know if you've ever heard of Tai Chi walking or not. It's really cool. What you do is you say a word for every step, and it's usually like a positive thing, like I. We could just use it for this particular podcast. I am becoming healthy. And every single step that you walk, the first step is I, and the second step is am. And it's a very deliberate walking. And I might do that for five minutes. And I go over this mantra of whatever that is in that five minutes. And it's called Tai Chi walking. And it's a meditative type of walking. And I enjoy doing that on the beach especially. I live near. I'm on the Gulf of Mexico, so I'm near the beach. But anywhere near there's water is for is where I am always drawn to because I feel like water is just life. Even if it's a pond, even if it's a fountain, whatever it is, I'm always. That's what I do. Personally, I love it.
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B
It's great. Well, Jody, you've been amazing guest. Thank you for being here. Lots of great information for our listeners, especially those who are looking to lose weight or get healthy. So thank you again for being here. If people want to get in touch with you, what's the best way for them to get in touch?
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Well, first I just want to say that strength is from the inside out, and I know you can do this, and I'd be happy to be your cheerleader for that. You can get a hold of me@www.jodyj.com. i'm on Instagram as jodijantomaso and the PLT program is also on my website as far as signing up for the free webinar. And when you do that, you'll also get a Download for the 10 best ways to Build Muscle Without Going to the Gym. And if you'd like that fitness personality quiz, which I think is really a fun thing to take, you can also get in touch with me there.
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B
That's great. We'll make sure we put that in the show notes so everybody knows how to spell your name, which is Jody with an I, by the way. So thank you again, Jody. You're amazing guest. I can't wait to have you on the show again someday. So thanks again. We'll talk to you soon.
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A
Thank you so much. Have a great day.