GYM GIRLS LOCKER ROOM - Oyinda on ‘toxic’ #75hard, Finally Understanding Weight Loss & Finding Yourself Online

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

EP11 - This is an episode you don't want to miss! Syd sits down with Oyinda to deep dive into her health and fitness joureny. In this episode they cover: F45, cultural thoughts on wanting to reduce body fat, is 75 Hard toxic, how Oyinda got started in the gym, her football career, hitting 1M followers, getting signed with Gymshark, dating at the gym, mindfulness practices and more. WATCH the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l5mUYFajvyU connect with Oyinda: https://www.instagram.com/oyinda_fitness/ 💘 join the GGLR community: INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/gymgirlslockerroom/ FACEBOOK COMMUNITY PAGE - https://bit.ly/3TqhxDG TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@gymgirlslockerroom/ 📲 find Syd on socials: INSTA - https://www.instagram.com/sydgrows/ TIKTOK - https://www.tiktok.com/@sydgrows/ TOPICS COVERED: 0:00 - intro 5:45 - training in the morning vs evening 10:45 - intermittent fasting 22:10 - Oyinda's football career 29:15 - is 75 hard toxic? 35:30 - Oyinda's fitness journey 43:25 - why Oyinda started making content 51:58 - getting signed with Gymshark 1:05:05 - current training split 1:15:10 - what's next for Oyinda Want to work with Gym Girls Locker Room? Email us: [e-mail] GYMSHARK - 10% off code: SYDNEY

you've had a undeniable incredible transformation oh guys stop it you're happy but like bouncing off what you were saying about like food habits has there been like a huge transition for you once you get yourself like in the downward spiral it's so hard to kind of come back from it growing up was just trying to understand that actually i still i can still eat that but i could just control my portions a bit. I think for me, I was more annoyed that I let myself get this way. How did we get here? Do you know what I mean? Like, we need to get back to how it was before.

You don't want to be that girl that just doesn't want to do anything because she feels, like, insecure about her body. I think that's where the learning point comes through, like, balancing it all, because you just don't know until you look back and be like, actually, I should have done better. But we learn we're only human you know absolutely you can say that again hello and welcome back to the gym girls locker room podcast hosted by me Sydney Cassidy okay so gross um guys we've got we end it on today i loved this episode i feel so like energized after we've literally got it all for you guys this is a really lovely conversation uh we discussed her

insane transformation we covered how she got into fitness and the trauma that was being in lockdown and um starting your fitness grind so I know a lot of you guys will relate to that we also covered just kind of like stepping into your own and just not worrying and giving a damn we spoke about the early morning grind and doing the workout in the morning getting it done getting it over and honestly we kind of covered everything in between um so I hope you guys love this episode as much as I did and um do not forget to give us a follow at gym girls locker room on all platforms also we have a clips channel now so if you can't get enough of our content and you just want to see more gym girls locker room um podcasts bits and pieces it's at ggr

podcast on instagram without further ado i think we'll get into the episode enjoy hi yo how you doing i'm good how are you i'm fine thanks uh thanks for coming on the broadcast guys i'm so happy to be here this this is a this is an honor you know my God, it's a dream come true. This was also, well, I was about to say this was kind of light work for you to come here because you're in Manchester, but then also kind of there was a bit of a caveat, which is like there was loads of traffic. Bro, that traffic. Manchester traffic.

It should have been like a 15 minute journey. It took me 35 minutes. Yes. By the way, guys guys Sydney was late but hey I was but I was doing big girl slay boss things that's not an excuse it's fine I was like margin I was like you were like one minute late it's not that deep fine I apologize um what did you do today training wise do you know what i've been trying to get into my functional bag so i've been like i have f45 in the mornings mate i feel

like you know six o'clock in the morning i'm like yeah let's do it f45 in the morning i'm trying to get to like my high rocks bag you know i want to do it man because you know i've done the marathon you can run but as well you can i know but it's just it's hard you know like one like high rocks is not like easy um so i'm trying to like slowly like build it up so i would do like f45 in the morning and then what did i do today what else i did today f45 for anyone that doesn't know oh yeah sorry is just because i realize a little side note yeah i think you'll find this funny um did you see on my story like the other day that i said that i'd like snuck into a virgin jim oh what you're no virgin active oh virgin i thought i don't know why i thought yeah virgin i was like what yeah so that's what someone was saying someone was saying anyone who's not british yeah will have just heard you say

i just gained access into a virgin oh my god that's what because when you said virgin i was just like wait what were you talking about virgin gym yeah so context is needed because we are worldwide with yeah i actually only figured out that f the 45 was like 45 minutes yeah and f was functional yeah but it made sense though it made 45 yeah so 45 minutes of functional workouts with the group um but the unique thing about us and the place you go is that it's like all of our friends that are doing it yeah literally like that's how i knew about it because i saw emily and. And I was like, girl, where are you training at? I want to do that. And they were like, yeah, come through.

And literally hooked. Because it's so quick. It's literally 45 minutes. You don't even have to think about what you're doing. They literally just say to you, guys, this is what we're doing today. 45 minutes. Let's go. And you're out.

Literally sweat. But you're like, by the time it's like seven o'clock, I've literally done all my workout. And I'm ready to stay. There's such a time and a place for like group workouts and like functional high intensity workouts is it no real i don't want to think i just want to do you can just see everyone else suffering and just like thank god it's not i mean honestly the people that do that alone i really respect no i i literally i think if it wasn't for the group and like people like not the not like the pts shout you but they give you like the encouragement it just takes it on another level because i feel what if i was to

do that by myself you know what forget this i don't need to do that i'll just be like outdoor have you always been a morning worker router as well yeah I would say so only because yeah because it started from uni basically because with uni you know how it is like you have like your timetable so for me it was like I need to do it before lectures because if you go after lectures one it's packed two you're just like you know what I can't bother for this so it's kind of like starting from uni basically I kind of like started building that you know early rise getting out of the way because once it starts getting dark I don't want to be back outside no stay inside I feel like I'm kind of surprised to hear that you're

you had like that level of structure at uni like me i was just all over the place you know what i think because it was like second year first year was just all over the place partying yeah yeah eating party but then when i was like to myself okay i want to take my fitness like serious and i realized that actually going after was the reason why i was making excuses for myself because i was like oh i'm tired i've had a long day of lectures blah blah blah but I was like you know what if I just wake up a little bit earlier go before lectures and then in the evening I could just do whatever I want yeah and it actually just started from there but yeah I was giving myself a lot of excuses I was like yeah oh I don't have enough time what a shame and then nothing ever got done

I kind of like, because I've always been an evening worker out. Like if I do have a full day, I'll be like, oh, I'll just check on the end. And that is hard. Yeah. You're knackered. Life is hard.

And I feel like you're not training the same intensity as well because you're tired. So even if I did make it to the gym, I would always be like, oh, okay, good. I've got leg day today. And I'm just like lifting, but I'm not training. I'm just like, oh yeah, you know. Leg day. I would always be like okay good I've got leg day today and I'm just like lifting but I'm not training I'm just like oh yeah you know I was always like I never really understood the whole

6 a.m like yeah I work out 6 a.m grind thing okay until you do it yeah and then you're like oh I get it because you feel truly unstoppable and the thing is like you've got the whole day like the whole you've you've already done something by the time what's that mean like when i when i was doing something you were doing niche yeah yeah so that's literally but it's actually i feel like it takes time because a lot of people is different because some people have kids some people have like you know crazy hours at work and stuff

so obviously some people can't make it count because obviously that's what like they need their sleep do you know what I mean but I just try to get up early

get out of the way just is the waking up still a struggle for you yeah okay depends

so like depending on the day so like for example if i've had like a long day the night before i think getting up early is like a massive like or if it's really cold and dark i feel like now it's getting easier because it's summer like well spring summertime so it doesn't even get late until like well it doesn't get dark until like nine o'clock now i think so it's just depending on like how i feel but i always try what i do is i go to bed put my phone away from my bed so it forces me to wake up and actually get off my bed to stop the alarm so clever because you

know like sometimes you just stop it when it's next to you you just stop it you're like oh yeah it's fine i only need about five more minutes and before you like you open you're like shit it's six o'clock I know I know the thing is though it's like

because I always I mean I don't disclaimer I don't get up earlier than like well actually

no I have been getting up early recently but that's irrelevant but you feel like death and then

you get into for me like I get out into then you get into, for me, like I get out into the corridor, get into the elevator and then I'm like, oh, I'm actually ready. Yeah, it's your body like playing mind tricks on you.

I know. Body's like, yeah, go to bed. It's because when you're warm, you're comfortable. But when you actually get up, it's the getting up part. When you're actually up, you need to like shower

or like put your clothes. Your body's like, okay, cool. You need to wake up. But it's when you're like still in bed. That's why I found out like, you know what shower or put your clothes. Your body's like, okay, cool, you need to wake up. But it's when you're still in bed. That's why I found out, you know what, if I put my phone away from myself, one, I go to bed a lot quicker because I'm not on TikTok or scrolling. And then two, I actually have to get up to get the phone.

And I'd imagine it's, I don't know, let me know what you think, but I'd imagine that it's kind of like a muscle that you're working and the more you set set these proper like yeah set in stone routines of like it's a non-negotiable i get up in the morning and i do this before i call it like the body clock it's like the same way like muscle memory like exercise like the body clock so you basically just like especially when for example for saturday suddenly i want to rest i find myself up at like early and it's like my body's like you need to go I'm like oh actually no I need to it's a routine basically but it's certainly annoying when you actually have to like you actually want to lie in you actually have to be up from early so do you and you mentioned before the we started filming that you're fasting so are you not having

breakfast yeah so I've doing like basically intermittent fasting so what i found was like obviously i finished the marathon because obviously training for london marathon it was like like you're like a full-time job bro like you're eating so much as well like you're constantly yeah you're constantly hungry like because obviously you gotta do your long runs your short runs your your body's constantly like burning calories on the go and things like running for me is not the best way that my body likes to like stay in shape and stuff like that so obviously now that i finished london marathon and the goal was like high rocks i actually felt like i would wake up and the first thing i would do is like eat breakfast and it's just i was like you know what i need to just get back into my fasting it just helps so I fast for like 16 hours and I eat for like eight so every day I'll eat um I'll start eating at one o'clock and then stop

eating at nine so I don't have to worry about food until like one o'clock because when we wake up we do so much like I gotta go to the gym and then I need to come back do some emails and you know so I find myself by the time it's like afternoon I'm like oh okay I've got a bit of time actually but yeah it's really yeah I mean obviously I'm also on a car at the moment so it kind of helps that as well um but yeah it's really really good i've learned a lot of like uh benefits on fasting like it's good for your brain um like it helps your body like into like flight and fight mode a bit more um and it's just like loads of other things but even like um i know the body like when you reach i think autography or something like that yeah yeah i don't want to go science

but like you get into that your body gets into that part where actually it starts like scanning and checking over all of the cells and like eating it's cells that are like incorrect or have potential to you know develop into cancerous yeah some people like fast for like crazy hours though like i know someone that does like he fasts for 19 hours and then eats for the rest obviously but i think 19 is a bit crazy yeah because yeah i obviously still want to like train still have want to have energy but your body gets used to it though because even before the marathon I was doing it I didn't actually feel hungry anymore it was more like a it just naturally kind of happened like I would just not eat until like one o'clock and then like yeah well I wonder because also I feel like we haven't really

evolved to just have this constant endless supply of yeah yeah so I wonder if like yeah because people like when you hear breakfast you think it's for the morning but that's what 21st century's made us think it's breakfast like you're just breaking your fast so you could do that in the afternoon if you wanted to or you could do it whatever time it doesn't have to be like oh 9am i must have porridge or toast or scrambled eggs it's just whenever you're ready to like break your fast and i found that like when i was obviously post-marathon i was just eating a lot like i was just and then i would eat like 11 p.m at night and like and then i'll be up all night because obviously my body's still awake trying to like digest everything i've just eaten so i was

like you know what i need to bring back the fasting so it's kind of like helped me like, you know, regulate my time and day. That makes sense. And you've had like a undeniable, incredible transformation. Oh, stop. The girls were saying today, they were like, we were just doing some research on you and they were like, sorry, but Oyinda's got the most beautiful bone structure. Who said that? Alex. Not the bone structure. said that alex not the bone structure guys stop it you're hyping up too much bouncing off my head's gonna be too big oh don't you you i'm gonna keep them coming this whole end of the episode um but like bouncing off what you were saying about like

food habits i'm wondering like has there been like a huge transition for you in was that the was that your your weakness let me get comfortable get comfortable i'm already yeah like basically you know like growing up from an african family like you're eating a lot girl we eating good oily oily chicken rice but it tastes so good of course but it's just like i think like when you're younger and you grow up in an african household a lot of it's just like you don't know your portion control you actually realize actually you don't need that much rice on the plate it tastes good but you don't need that much rice however much mom says exactly and you know your parents want you to eat good you know i mean so i think growing up was just trying to understand that actually i still

i can still eat that but i could just control my portions a bit. And I think, like I said, uni was like a waking point for me because I was just like, because when you're at uni, you're by yourself, your mom's not cooking as much. And I was thinking, bro, I used to eat a lot of food. And it wasn't like to the point where I would be full, but I'd be like, oh, I need to finish it because it's what's on the plate do you get it so like it'll be rude like in our like my culture it's kind of rude to kind of like you know not finish your food or your plate so i was just like damn i need to i need to finish this but now when i when i was a unit i was like you know what i was actually eating a lot more and then when i because african food is great but some of them are very

time consuming to make so obviously at uni i was not going to be making all those dishes so so when i started eating less of it i was just realizing actually maybe i was just overdoing it on on on the jollof rice you know chicken plantain and all that so then i was like you know what and then obviously the years gone past i started to learn a bit more about my body what works because the older you get our metabolism slowed down like i'm 25 and it's like my body at 25 is not the same body i had like when i was like 2018 so it's like you need to start learning more and more about your body what works so for me i know that for example i'm very like my upper body's always been a lot slender than my lower body that's just it's just like genetics you know um but i know that when i do gain weight a lot of it

will start showing on my lower body first rather than my upper body it's still gaining on my upper body but my lower body was always big so after a couple you know years i was like you know i need to start building better habits so even things like drinking more water having sure making sure i'm eating more like fiber like you know yeah because fiber is good for you everything out constipated or backed up no no no that's the thing so more fiber but a lot of things come like fiber in general it's just like from like fruit and veg just making sure I'm doing all that um but yeah like honestly looking back at was like, damn, I would eat like six slices of toast in the morning and just not even like think it's anything. Because I was like, oh yeah, six.

Yeah, you heard that right, guys. Six slices of toast in the morning. But this was like when I was like young, I didn't know. I was always like, yeah, I could out train. I could out work, you know. I don't have to like, because I was playing football back then as well. I was like, yeah, you know, I don't have to like because I was playing football back then as well I was like yeah you know I don't have to do anything and then it was catching up I really relate to what you say because like my I come from a family of foodies I love food though so I love

food and it's like such a big thing in my family and it's something that's been like encouraged and praised like she loves her food and like oh load it up Sid like in a way that's been like encouraged and praised. Like she loves her food and like, oh, load it up, Sid. Like in a way that's supposed to be healthy. It's supposed to encourage like, oh, you know, don't be shy. But actually it's been, yeah, like definitely a thing even I've learned, still continuing to learn, like I don't need to put all of that on the plate. And quite often if you put a smaller portion on, you're just as full. Yeah, no, this is what I'm saying. no and it's like i can still enjoy it i can enjoy the fact that it's it's a decent portion it tastes

good um but i think my parents as well they're starting to learn that actually it's it doesn't have to be like massive portions for someone to be like full and enjoy the food if that makes sense like there's always that option of going up to second um but even like my mom and my my dad have like realized actually you know what maybe we can have a bit of you know rice and a bit of salad on the side just to you know balance out their meal a bit more yeah um but i think from i mean some of them make fun of me and my family members and oh not everyone wants to go gym again da calm down like even on christmas day i'm like bro you guys can eat i'm not saying you can't eat but if i want a smaller portion you cannot judge me for that should i be like um but yeah i was gonna say culturally like how have you found kind of

not like because i wouldn't say you were ever like big right so culturally how have you found it kind of saying to like family and friends like oh i do want to like i am trying to lose weight because i know even for myself like i'm saying from like an objective point of view when i'm got i'm on a cut right now and i'm saying from an objective point of view i just want to lose some body fat percentage i'm not saying you're fat and i'm not saying i'm fat um and i just, I feel like because in certain cultures, I know there's, I would imagine it's more of a challenge than others, right? Yeah, I think, do you know what?

I think my family, they just banter me about it, but they know like, it's not like I'm going through like, you know, anything. It's just that, that's just what my lifestyle is. So I think they will never like scrutinize me for it and be like, oh, why are you not trying to eat? Or are you like you know I mean they always just say to me like you know what your body do whatever you want as long as you're happy that's fine but still make sure you eat something and then that's pretty much it but I think like you said like other people or some of my other friends that I've heard from they've always been like oh their family's a little bit

funny if they're not eating as much or they just you know want them to eat loads and yeah um because you don't want to be rude you know someone's prepared the meal for you and it's spent like hours cooking you want to kind of like make sure that you're showing them that you you're enjoying it um but yeah i think my my my family quite cool i've got a sporting like background so my yeah my brother's like play football my mom used to play football my dad used to play football so it's like they get it it's just crazy you're a family of footballers i know how so cliche no it's not how is that cliche i don't know maybe cliche is not the right word it's just like oh yeah fun fact i would love to be able to kick a ball sid you can kick a ball i can't no like girl i can't wait guys i'm gonna record sid kicking a ball you can kick a ball no like i would love to but i don't have the hand

eye coordination you can vouch for it i don't have hand eye you'll be fine it's just it's just practice i think obviously a lot of it is genetics like even when i was younger i was always like yeah i want to be a footballer i want to do this obviously then I stopped playing because I was like oh this is I don't like this anymore for that once you don't like something you won't do it but I do for fun now so like I think it's quite common with children that like they kind of grow out of their sport that they do as a child yeah yeah I was playing at such a like competitive level as well this is it so I think for me it was like when I was growing up I was like competitive level as well this is it so I think for me it was like when I was growing up I was like oh you know I can't go out today I've got football my

mates were like oh let's like do you want to go pizza because you know pizza was like the thing back then of course and then I was like you know guys sorry I've got a match tomorrow like I can't like go pizza but that's from a really young age so like I think it's built discipline for me like a young age but it's like at the same time you kind of lost a little bit of your childhood because you were like I was trained like three times a week and I was playing games on a weekend just what was it what is the kind of dynamic in those like for me I did competitive cycling but it's a really lovely environment I think it largely inspired like a lot of what I do now but I can imagine for some sports bro it builds character oh yeah like I could like some of the girls that I got over like some of the girls there but other girls I just knew

like yeah this is not yeah I don't know like not like bullied but like you know people just like take the piss and it's like it gets to the point where it's like oh yeah banter but it's not funny but yeah that kind of like yeah yeah it was very like clicky you know like very clicky um but i just came my mother always said oh yeah just play your football and just go like do you know i mean but it was very clicky like obviously competitive but also very clicky like you had to be like not like there was a popular group but you know i mean like there was always that like team or group of people um but yeah it was it was i think growing up though look back it definitely builds a lot of character um but obviously when you're there that position you're a bit like hmm i don't know this is a little bit a little weird not my vibe

yeah um but yeah i think i got to when i stopped playing was like uni because i played for the uni team and i was just like you know what i'm not feeling this anymore yeah i just thought you know i don't want to like and i think a lot of it came from the fact that i just felt like i didn't have anything else going on it was just like football football football football football do you know i mean i was just like hmm what's outside of this football thing do you know i mean like i want to know like and I think that's why, firstly, I went crazy. Because I was like, yeah, freedom. It's like, who am I without the football?

Yeah, like, what do I want to achieve? What am I without it? Yeah. Yeah, like, is there, like, anything else I would be good at? Obviously, never thought this is what I'd be doing, like, social media and that. But I was like, is there anything I want to do? Is there a way, like, anyone explore? Like, do I want to do, like, anything else explore like do I want to do like anything else because it was literally just like train train football

play matches come back you're tired because you're knackered you don't want to do anything after you're done um but yeah so like growing up because you said that your even your mum was a footballer so I was gonna ask you did you have many sort of sporting role models or actually just role models generally yeah um you know that look like you that are a black yeah black woman but I'm thinking maybe maybe your parents yeah my parents like both of them were like really like sporty my mum's obviously like she's like the strongest woman I know honestly like she's just amazing oh a queen a queen because what i'd give to go gym with my parents bro seriously honestly like and i used to show him like old pictures of her and i was thinking damn that's why i get my mom

that's why i get a bold structure from her she's got really nice cheekbones like really really nice cheekbones but yeah like i would say my mom like she's actually a super woman like raising like three kids because obviously i'm the oldest of three but i've got two brothers um and then um yeah my mom definitely obviously my dad as well like he had a career as well in football he's playing yeah but to see like a strong female yeah like to have yeah someone that also is very active as well i always give like props to parents you know because i think that people don't realize how especially in their time as well how hard it must have been to like raise kids like could you imagine no like it's crazy because obviously my dad used to play football she would stay at home be with us look

after us and stuff like that so it's literally like yeah man i give her all the all the props this bro i do do you want kids i do want kids but at the same time i feel the same i'm like so how they're gonna slot in with my lifestyle am i gonna like take them to the gym are they gonna come on a long run with oh yeah don't worry my new house i'm getting top priority home gym not but i get it i get it now i get why people do it like home games i used to think oh people just like showing off um but now i get it it's just accessible it's just there you could just quickly go in you can get it done get out yeah if the if the baby's taking a nap go in quickly bring the baby in you can just do that i've always loved the um crossfit gym because you don't really get

this in you know regular like sort of commercial like lifting gyms but crossfit gyms they i love it well as long as it's not like unhealthy like you know when they bring the babies in yeah or have you seen some of them with like like they're still pregnant and they're doing like cleaning yeah is that what it's called yeah bruh my goodness i know and they're like literally they give birth and they've got like a six-pack they get a lot of insane yeah i was talking about this with lucy actually they get a lot of hate like kind of unnecessarily so whilst pregnant or yeah training whilst pregnant but like what you have to understand about these women is they're like world-class athletes i think the advice goes again not medical advice but i've

heard very great fine um but i've heard that like as long as you keep up with the same level of fitness yeah like if you've not been running marathons don't run marathons while you're pregnant yeah but like those women are so used to that level of volume so it's like and I also think it's like a mental thing as well you know I imagine no but imagine you've gone from like doing like all that training you've competed in like the with the best of the best and obviously you got pregnant that's your choice you wanted to do that and all of a sudden they're like oh no you can't train for like what 30 something weeks and you're like what that's all I've ever done to kind of keep me going keep me sane so I think it's always like a mental thing as well because it's

like pregnancy is hard as it is from what I've seen and stuff um and like hormone levels are all over the place and whatnot so I can imagine them actually training being a proper like focus point like oh okay you know what this is something similar this is something I'm used to I know um but yeah I feel like people hate regardless of what you do honestly you can't do right the reason why I asked is because I was gonna say like um when you were just talking about your mom I was just saying like I really really have like so much well I know I can't understand completely because I don't have children but like I really as I get older start to like understand like how hard it must be how much work but like also specifically with regards to fitness and like take being able to sort of take that time as a parent to be like I'm going to do that I just I really have empathy with people and like with how expensive things are

like so who's gonna look after the kids? Yeah. Even everything like nursery. God, the list goes on. And it's only getting more and more expensive, you know? Yeah.

Like I've got a little like leases. I think I always speak to my, like, um, my auntie about it. And she'd be like, yeah, I have to go to pay this and that.

I think the childcare costs as much as people's salaries. So then a lot of people just don't. It's his name. Like Pampers. Oh God, the list goes on. Like, it's crazy. Yeah. I'm not trying to scare anyone out there, guys. If you want a kid, do it.

Do it, bro. But proceed with caution. Yeah. Proceed with caution. I'll just, it's nice to hold them, hand them back. Yeah, you know, for a bit. Like, oh, you're cute. bit oh you're cute oh you're cute I've got a dog

I'm good enough do you feel like 75 hard helped you implement a lot of that's a great question good lifestyle changes oh you know

we do we do try whoa research but is it like is 75 hard like hard toxic or is it actually really some beneficial lifestyle changes that you've implemented i always say to people like if you're gonna do it it's not gonna be like a longevity thing you do the 75 days you're like okay i finished my 70 what is it for people that don't know so 75 hard is a mental

toughness challenge so you basically do two workouts a day one has to be outdoors one has to be indoors both of them have to be 45 minutes a day no alcohol or cheat meals and you have to drink a gallon of water and take a progress picture like every day um oh and read 10 pages of a book um yeah I think 75 hard you do definitely pick habits from it I think that's how I got into reading and I still read now like because I never used to read a book I was like oh boring but those 10 pages 10 pages a day really like help and you actually get into the to the book what you're reading that's how I've actually managed to read like a lot of books and I've still read books now um but in terms of training twice a day I think it's very unrealistic unless it's like your full-time job or you're training towards something

um I think the whole point of the challenge is to keep you disciplined like if you want to build some sort of like discipline I definitely recommend doing it because obviously 75 days is a long time it's like three three months i think for you just to constantly do it you do see like obviously results um but i don't i don't think it's toxic i just think like longevity wise it's very unsustainable yeah you can't you can't always say i'm gonna wake up and do two workouts a day one has to be outdoors one has to be indoors forever i think it's just crazy and if you could do that then that's amazing but is it i mean it's kind of like going cold turkey as well like that's quite a severe challenge from the get-go yeah and then like what what i found like by the time i got

to like day 30 it was like your body starts to fatigue so then i had to like i was never trained at like a high intensity because normally i would have like rest days and then we go back again in the gym we're hitting the intensity but most of my outdoor workouts just started becoming like a 45 minute walk but even then because your body's so sore from working out it just gets up here we're like you're like oh i'm gonna actually burn out so but yeah i i reckon i reckon people should try it see if they like it obviously there's 75 hard at 75 soft at 75 medium um yeah so 75 soft is like you can still like drink on like social occasions you only have to do like one workout a day for 75 days so there's different like um variations of it i think you

just gotta pick whichever one works for you and one of my friends actually done it she only got to day 50 which is still impressive by the way um but she said you know she still learned stuff about herself in you know because normally you would like for example when you have to do the outdoor workout it kind of teaches you that no matter the weather you still have to go out and get it yeah it builds that discipline you know come rain or shine yeah and it was raining oh it was raining so okay so how come you decided to do it twice oh yeah well basically when it was like the first time i'd done it must have been a couple of years ago it's like a couple years ago yeah yeah it wasn't a couple years ago i can't remember oh that was when it was like first trending so i remember actually it was like uh one of the gym guys was like oh yeah you know i'm doing this challenge 75 hard

because we were at the canteen and everyone was eating brownies and he was and i was like what's that about so i searched up and i saw like trending on tiktok so you know what let me just jump on it so i just done it. And then I done it again this time because I was not disciplined. Like I literally got to the point where I was just like, bro, like what are you doing? Like, you know, you just get into a rut

where you're like, okay. You're being sloppy. You're not committing to the promises you're making. You're not doing what you know you can do. Like the potential is there, but it's not there. Do you know what I mean? So I was like, right, we're doing it again we're doing it again we're getting up we're doing

the workouts and i was like you know what let me just document it properly like this time because when i first done i was just like yay 75 far done but i actually didn't show people like what i was doing like step by steps and stuff like that and then yeah i was like you know it got to that day you know 20 i was like okay got a groove day 30 was hard it goes out day 40 and the last like 10 days were like felt like like felt like ages but yeah for me was just to build my discipline up again and get into my routine because I was like if I know I have to wake up and do two workouts I need to plan my day like properly so I need to wake up early get the workouts done um but yeah I think for me yeah it was definitely disciplining because I was just

it's a bit sloppy like a bit like sluggish I was just like it was literally just before yeah I've done it up to just before new year's I started in October so even through Christmas I was doing it which was that was hard because it wasn't like the actual you know like the Christmas dinner it's actually all right it's just chicken Yorkshire pudding potatoes it's actually not like it was the sweet treats it was like the cake the chocolate that was hard but once I got past Christmas I was like you know what that's pretty good of you I thought I was gonna break it on Christmas did you get any like sugar withdrawals no really no I think because yeah I think I was obviously eating fruits and things like that so it didn't feel like it was

like I had no sugar whatsoever you know um I think yeah when I got to like I had my first cheat meal I think what did I have I think I had pizza or cheesecake no I had a first cheat meal. I think, what did I have? I think I had pizza or cheesecake. No, I had a cheesecake because I kept going with cheesecake. You know, the Biscoff ones.

Oh, I do know those. They're good. Yeah, they're so good. So I had that. I was just like, oh,

this is great. But then it didn't really, you know, I was just like, oh. But yeah, it was, yeah, I wouldn't do it again anytime soon though

we can leave it there nah um getting into gym was that in uni yeah whilst you were working in a gym so so basically obviously you played football stopped playing football first year uni was like yay fun let's all get kebab after the rave at 4am in the morning yeah standard standard and everything obviously back then i say back then like i'm ancient oh god i'm getting old but everything was so much cheaper than it is now oh you're sounding hella old now but you know i mean like back in my days no but for real though everything's been so much expensive since covid yeah so like you can imagine like a kebab and chips as I used to be like four

quid maybe a three quid it's convenient and they used to like give you the portions like the do you know I mean now that's seven quid ten quid even like it's insane um so basically getting to the gym yeah it started off basically where after first year i was i really like i was never like obese i was never like over like i don't know i don't know how to explain it yeah like i was just a little bit on the thicker side yeah yeah um and i've always been on the thicker side you know um but i i said to myself like it got to a point where i was like only wearing like dark colors where i was like only wearing like dark colors because i was like oh you know dark colors make you look like slimmer you know like

black um and then i was like usually like in summertime i was always like covered up you know i wasn't really confident i said to myself you know what okay now we need to make a change because obviously you don't want to be that girl that just doesn't want to do anything because she feels like insecure about her body so i used to go on youtube typing like 15 minute ab workouts you know i feel like everyone did used to just like because i didn't know what i was doing like i had a you know a few things but i was like i need to actually learn um and i remember i would always like train with like the guys on my uni because you know the guys the guys were like, gym bros, yeah. So they used to show me some stuff as well.

And then, yeah, it just kind of got from there because I was really at the place where I was like, bro, I feel really insecure. And I'm actually a confident person. And for me to feel like insecure, I was just like, yeah, this is like, you know, you look good, you feel good. That's like how I was imagining it. And yeah yeah just literally

started doing that getting into the gym and then obviously lockdown happened um that was fun for everyone and then i was like okay cool no gym what am i gonna do so i started just going for runs like i was just gonna catch the 5k that's how the running thing kind of started actually during lockdown and then that was the long we had looked at for three years didn't we three years wasn't it don't remind me bro that's why i feel old because i'm like i lost three years yeah lost time i lost them for years in my mind i'm still 23 and i think that's in line with covid yeah no i'm actually 26 so every time i'm like so i'm gonna be 26 july and i like, technically I'm not 26. Nah, nah, nah. I don't feel it anyway.

Nothing but a number. But a number. But yeah, that's how I got into it. Like, just wanted to build confidence, man. You are at a point where you're feeling self-conscious and you're feeling like, I think I want to make like a decision to action, like change. What was that like for you? Like actually kind of, you weren weren't doing were you doing sports at the time so I yeah I just stopped playing football completely did it did it feel like a

big barrier or did you actually feel did you feel like okay because I feel like especially with weight it feels like it's this whole like enigma and you just don't even know how to understand it and it is this hill that's in front of you and you're just like great where do I begin so like because like I was obviously growing up playing football I knew like back of my head like you know I'm not really I'm not new to exercises because obviously when we were playing we still had like strength and conditioning coaches we still had to do like other things on the side to keep us fit and stuff like that so I knew that I think for me I was more annoyed that I let myself get this way coming from a coming from a background of sports like do you know I mean because I'm like you know I would train three

times a week play matches on the weekend like I was always doing that so I think for me it was more like a how did we get here do you know I mean like we need to get back to how it was before obviously it's a new environment now we're not on the football pitch but we need to apply like that same energy we did with training and all that just back that into the gym and I think for me it was just like that's what I wanted to do kind of like start off with that because it's so easy to kind of like once you get yourself like in the downward spiral it's so hard to kind of come back from it so I kind of always like kind of remember myself you know what you used to play like football like at good level you need to get yourself back into it and obviously there's a lot of doubts there was a lot of like you know thinking

oh what's the point I might as well give up I'm not training towards I think for me it was like oh because I'm not training towards anything anymore I don't need to train it's fine i could just do whatever i want but actually i was like you know i need to get back to that intensity and that like i need to go to the gym i need to do this i need to eat healthier make healthier choices you know obviously whilst being at uni um but yeah that was pretty much it i always i always did like a ton of sports growing up as well. Like literally. Did you ever play rugby?

I feel like you did. No. You look like you would play rugby. No, but I'm down to try it. Yeah. I don't know. I just always like. Give me a little bit of tackle. I could do that.

Give me a little bit of tackle. Bosh. Yeah. Or like fighting or something. I don't know. No, I've never done that. But people think like rugby. I played it when I was at school. You know know like a pe just they just make you do everything oh you're set one yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah but that rugby is tough you know i've never seen i did literally every single sport under the sun but it's such a like thrill like oh my god yeah but then you like go home with loads of bruises when i went home with loads of my mom was like yeah stop yeah no um but what I was gonna say is like I I I did every sport under the sun always always had this on Monday Tuesday this on Wednesday and then I went into like competitive sports and my parents kind of did that my parents have been very open about it in kind of saying like sport is so important as a child so that you're teaching your children like kind of like the value of it and that when they do it when they stop doing it as an adult they'll kind of miss it so not only do you have like

muscle memory yeah so that when you do pick up exercise your muscles kind of remember what to do and it's a lot better easier to get back in shape but you also kind of and it sounds like that's what you had have this like kind of real core like messaging of you need this for a healthy life and like you kind of understand like i feel like god i have so much like sort of sympathy for people that haven't ever grown up with sports yeah as a child it's a tricky one because there's a there's like a fire line between obviously getting to sport obviously just for a lot of people do it for their children like social element that's how i met a lot of my friends when i was growing up you know through like football and just any sports really after

school clubs you know that's how you make friends but I think it gets to a point where obviously the older you get you kind of obviously start to make your own decisions so it's like yeah you've had that like PE I guess background but obviously you know you're also like okay now I need a social life I need to do other things other things start coming into place and you kind of think oh how do I balance all of it and I think that's where like the learning point comes through like balancing it all because you just don't know until you look back and be like actually I should have done better you know I should have you know privatized my time more but again we learn we're only human you know absolutely you can say that again so when was the point in which you started making content?

Also, congratulations on the Millie. A Millie, a Millie, a Millie. Do you know that song by Little Wayne? A Millie, a Millie, a Millie, a Millie. So have you celebrated it as well? Because when I last saw you, you said you had actually taken a moment to pause, take it all in, be present. I did.

I went out to eat with my friend. I went out to eat. We had to celebrate. She had a work promotion as well so i was like you know what let's do something let's let's celebrate us so we had some food um and then i bought myself what did i buy myself new trainers i bought some new trainers you know and then yeah like i just took some time to actually take it all in like a million is a lot of people it's a hell of a lot of people

more than a lot of like countries yeah it's insane I literally like I couldn't believe it honestly I actually couldn't believe it because I was just like because it was the same week when the London Marathon was happening I was just so like focused on a run in and then I was like oh my god we are like 999 what and then it just yeah but so you started when lockdown like oh so it's been the two have been like parallel yeah so basically like this is like the time like went to uni um i had the page i actually called it something else before i called it in the fitness i can't remember what it was but i had the page um i didn't post anything on it like I was always posting one random selfie of me going to the gym like once every like three weeks and then delete it and then delete it because I went to yeah

yeah because I was obviously as well I was studying at uni so it's like I done my dissertation when it was like the second I don't know first lockdown so I was still writing my dissertation whilst everything was going on in the world and it was a nightmare because it was my dissertation my final piece of work and I couldn't see any of my teachers I couldn't get feedback properly it was hell and that's how I started basically because when I did finish my dissertation I was like okay so what do I do now I literally had like a tripod obviously from when I thought I was going to take it seriously and I just started documenting like my fitness journey so I was doing like home workouts for

people to follow along I actually reached my first 10k lockdown so I think it was like the second lockdown I reached 10k and which was like a whoa what were you posting then it was still like the same because obviously we were still stuck in lockdown you know they were doing eat out to help out then we went back into lockdown it was just a lot going on so it was literally like gyms were weren't open because obviously you know hygiene and all that which made sense so it was literally just posting like i kid you not like if you saw these videos they were like recorded on my iphone 14 or whatever 15 and it was literally just me in my living room with a mat resistant bands because we had no weights yeah oh god resist the band but it was because obviously that's what everyone was doing at the time everyone was getting on the health like wanted

to be healthy you know they wanted to like fight covid and everything so and then yeah just start doing it from there and then i had no idea about anything like you know monetization i just knew that i just kept posting and the growth was there and then fun fact though my first viral video was a dance video um it wasn't actually a gym video i mean it doesn't surprise me it's kind of on brand yeah a little shaky little little twerky in it what was it you actually no i wasn't twerking jesus oh my god no it was a it was a video of me dancing outside pickety like square oh yeah um but yeah and it just it would just start going from there and then like just start posting more and more and then when it was lockdown was finished because I was still working in retail so I was working at

H&M back there I was working retail and then I was like you know I want to get a job into like because I had done a sports science degree I was like I want to get a job at a gym or just something in this fitness you know space because I was like folding clothes and I was like I have a degree in sports science this doesn't make sense and I felt like it was time to leave anyway so I went to yeah got a job after like six different gyms said no finally got a job I was working like 40 hours a week but I also I always knew I wanted to do content so what I would do is like before work I would go to the gym film edit on my lunch break post and I kept doing that i kept doing that and i'm doing that what were you were you level two at that point had you had you got a qualification

so yeah so i was level i was i was i had a sports science degree but i was also a level three personal trainer oh oh yeah so because when i was so summer school we had something called summer school uni and it basically i know know god and they were basically like oh yeah you could pick there were so many things you could pick from there was like first aider and i was like oh yeah you know i do like personal training so we done our level two level three it was literally like a night you did that in one summer yeah uni yeah so it was like a nine to five like every day yeah i'm not surprised and then we had like you did it in two weeks yeah we had exams because obviously when you do sports science it's literally like all this like oh it's all the theory stuff it's like i know this already i just need to do the practical stuff so it was like

literally like an ice cream cake it was like yeah done um so yeah two weeks and then i was like you know what i might as well use that qualification to use rather than my degree because like every job you had it was like oh yeah you're not experienced enough yeah of course I'm not experienced enough I've just been in uni for three years hello I know

you need to get more you need to get more experience you need to do like another year out or whatever you need a degree but you also need two years in industry

oh so how am I supposed to and then COVID happened as well so how was I supposed to do you know what I mean so I was like you know what let me just use my PT qualifications

so yeah I got that at the gym just working at the gym for like i was working for a gym for a year a little bit maybe just before no because i was a gym shot athlete then so when i was still at the gym working I was the gym shot athlete there and then I was like to myself okay I need to just make a decision am I doing this full-time or am I still gonna work at the gym and I just took a plunge did you have the means to do so at the time or I was scared because I was like how am I gonna make like you know you think about money all the time like how am I gonna make money how am i gonna make like you know money yeah like money money money money but i was like again i'm not gonna grow if i stay

at this job because doing filming content it takes time and people don't know how much like work it goes into it and i was like okay again though you just need to take the plunge just do it and i haven't looked back since yeah no risk guys no reward no risk no reward and you know what also really sticks out is like um just from so many conversations i've been having recently like for for this podcast with people that are absolutely crushing it because we all of us creators get asked so many times how did you do it yeah and it's like this insatiable hunger for success and that end goal. I see it in you. I see it.

I definitely had that. I was working as like a nanny and I would finish. I'd finish work at eight. I'd get to the gym. I'd go and film the content. I'd go to bed at 11 p.m. Like once I had my dinner and then I'd start the whole thing the next day and I'd edit in between my lunch break or like because I was a nanny fortunately I didn't have to do it but like then I was speaking with

Ali the other day and she was exactly the same posting like all the time and it's not necessarily I mean this is this could be applicable to anything but it's just that that real burning desire for the goal you're working yeah I always tell people like you know if you're going to do something just give it a hundred percent and yeah it's actually interesting to hear that people everyone's kind of done the same thing because i remember one of my colleagues would just be like oh why are you like always editing what you edited i'm just like bro you just wouldn't get it yeah you just you just don't understand yeah um and like it was hard because i was waking up at like my shift would start like let's say 10 a.m in the morning i would wake up at like six just to purely go to the gym film content it's like you know and then there was always times

where I would want to give up and be like is this even worth it like am I making enough like I guess money from this I have followers great I think I was like on 70k followers when I was still working at the gym and I was like yeah but this is great but what's what what's happening like do you know what I mean and then you just gotta stick it out just gotta thug it out absolutely what was the experience for you then in being asked to be a athlete oh my god so I'll never forget this yeah this is a story i always say because number one i didn't even know like i was a whole lot of jimmy shark but in my mind it just never crossed that i would be one of it like i know it's just one of them was just like yeah right again though like okay cool dream big

like dream big dream big girl but like but girl not that big like calm down do you know what i mean like you would always like see these athletes and stuff and you just be like I even I remember do you know what it's so crazy full circle moment um so I was looking at my during lockdown when I was posting videos I ordered from one of their Black Friday sales right I remember it it was like a Gymshark legacy shorts with like long sleeved like crop top and then I said to myself said you know what this is going to be the last thing I buy from Gymshark because I either want them to obviously be like send me like a monthly package every now and then or like I just do like a campaign or something with them that'd be really cool never in a million years I thought athlete was in my

head so obviously fast forward to when I was working at the gym and then i literally looked i remember it was my work break i was editing looking through my dms and i get like a dm bear in mind this dm was like two weeks old i was like i fucked it i've done it i fucked it i was like bro check your dms like what um so i look on my lunch break i will never forget it looked at my dms and it's like oh hey it's so and so from gym shop we'll love to invite you down to an event and I was like oh an event of course um and then bearing in mind I was working a shift I had to switch with my mate I said bro I need you to switch your shift with me I need to go to this thing because if I don't

go then I think I've just like lost the absolutely like just dream opportunity and I'll never forget it was Saffron Hamlin's um run club because she was she was doing um London Marathon so she how funny is that she'll do London Marathon make a wish um and yeah so i i literally got my they were like oh any sets you want just let us know i was like bloody hell so i just picked up like a set they literally sent it to me that the next day i got the socks from like head to toe gymshark um and then i literally got on a train it took me like god knows three hours and then i had to get on like a rail replacement bus thing but i made it you know i made it because you know the Gymshark HQ is the middle of nowhere

I know so I was like oh my god I need to actually still get to the HQ got there and then

they're literally just like I was just chatting with everyone I was just happy to be there I was like hey I even said hi

to Saffron and then they were like oh and they pulled me to one side it was actually Sam pulled me to one side yeah

and then it was like oh we would like you you to be one of our like athletes i was like pardon i was like what they're like yeah like right then and then i was like oh my god no way and i was like why me he was like they were like oh we've been watching you for like months they see everything months and i was thinking imagine if i quit when i was like working like full time i was like oh my god i don't have enough time and and they were like yeah we'll be watching for your mom so we'll be like your content we really like your videos like what you're about and i was just like what you've been stalking me for months and i'm like yeah and then i literally like i think i was sort of shocked i was just like okay cool this is not happening and then

when i went to the second event and then they've put me upstairs i was just having a chat with me again i'm like yeah we want you to work with us like etc etc and i just started crying i was really emotional i was like i was really crying because i was thinking like wow in person as well yeah and i was like wow the hard work actually paid off do you know what i mean like because i was because that point i was doubting myself so much about the content thing. I was like, am I going to do this full time?

Is this even what I want to do? Is this a risk? Like, I've got this new job now. Do I really want to like, and I was really, really doubting myself. And then they were like, yeah, and I just thought, I just, you know,

like tears of joy, you know what I'm saying? And then that was a mad experience. And then yeah, I think my third year now, mad. It's gone so quick. And you've been york times square flown everywhere bro like it's it's mad i've done i don't know how many i've done so many campaigns with them like honestly like such a cool brand to work with you just i mean i think that really that story really like

proves that you just don't even know what is right around the corner honestly you don't know who's watching you don't know what wheels are in motion like just whatever you're working towards just don't give up and check your dms guys and check your dms bro i was sweating i said no and then i missed it i was like hey um just wanted to know like is this still happening like they're like i missed it they're like is she playing hard to get and then literally like and the thing is like because you would think it would be like jim shock that would message you it was like literally one of the like athlete managers yeah he's got like less than like 2k followers like very like incognito and then literally just like message you like you think it's like a regular person or someone's

trying to have you on like you know like a player prank on you that's how it was it was so casual do you know what i mean and i was like you know i gotta take my chance man yeah and then when they sent me the stuff and i was like okay it's gymshark that's you just you get so many like emails and stuff that you don't know if it's legit or not yeah how do you navigate like the whole online space you seem like someone who's just like very easygoing shit doesn't really get to you compliments are floating oh they're cute don't worry I've got them they're ready to come but like yeah you do seem like you're someone who does have quite a good level of resilience or maybe just like a kind of thick skin would that be an accurate assumption or yeah I think do you know what it took I think when I first started it was there was no thick skin it was like oh my god someone just said I

look fat delete that post or is my stretch marks showing or do I have cellulite you know I mean like I was always over analyzing my videos because I thought you know what people are watching me yeah and I was like people are watching me yeah and I was like people are watching me if they're seeing that if I'm seeing that they're seeing that and they're thinking oh and I'm like you know I used to be those that type of person but then I realized to myself so actually the reason why people follow you is because they know that you're just being yourself they want to see your stretch marks because they probably have stretch marks too and if they see someone that's got a stretch mark on the internet and know that oh actually this is normal and i think it comes with age as well because when you're

younger you all of those things used to be like oh my god no one can see my stretch mark no one can see i've got cellulite uh like do i have like flabby arms and but the older you get you just think actually no this is actually all normal things yeah like skinny people have stretch marks yeah it's just like this kind of acceptance yeah like you just you just accept it you just realize actually someone's probably following you because they look like you and they have the same body type as you and they know that they can relate to you and I think since then I just kind of thought yeah and plus it's exhausting when you're thinking about posting all the time you're thinking how bad do I look sometimes I'm just like okay I have a spot that's fine normal post it yeah do you know what I mean like no just just do it man no one

cares yeah I think caring about yourself and your insecurities is so draining like you're literally like sitting down you're literally looking at the video that you spent like an hour like shooting and then you're editing it you're thinking oh i've got stretch marks oh should i delete it and it's like no mate just post it because you've just spent one hour doing it and two it's absolutely normal and i think having brothers as well helps because my brothers were like just post it shut up just post it clay used to tell them to watch it if i like you know post they were like bro you look fine i'm like oh you didn't see my like you didn't see my spot and they're like what spot you literally zoomed in to have a look that's why and i'm like yeah

you're right i'm perfect let me just post it but yeah it's taken a while to kind of like build that because it is hard but i feel like once you get to that place where you're like i actually don't care yeah and and what you realize is no matter what you say or do or look someone's always going to be out there trying to pick out the bad in you anyway and you're just like you know what this is draining i'm just going to post because i want to post what I want to post not because I care too much about how I look you know um but yeah I heard this thing and it's I keep repeating it guys I'm actually so sorry because I've literally said it so many times on here but I love this thing of like especially for creators but it really could apply to like anyone really that you're like here to create not consume yeah so

you're putting out your your piece you liked it because you filmed it 100 and you made it and just let it be let it exist and don't let allow people's yeah like you know get in yeah I feel like as well like this age like so many people like on social media and stuff and i think we're at that era where people just actually like you for being you well yeah that's what i want to see what you look like in the morning like no one knows like there's no way you've just woken up with a full face of like javi like you look perfect you know i mean like people want to see that authentic side of you like you know yes guys today i look like shit but it's fine because not every day i'm gonna look perfect you know and i think there's a lot of creators that do it so

well that they just vlog their whole day like this is what i look like i'm wearing odd socks and it's cool you know i haven't got that perfect hair my hair's slicked back you know um but yeah i think nowadays people just want to see who you are yeah they follow you for you you know not for how many abs you got or yeah well it's like everyone like just lean into the messiness of it all you know like all rough and yeah we're all gonna have the perfect you know laid bed every day like you know i mean what like people we work even like from monday to friday like people don't have time for that yeah um but yeah so it's taken me a while to like kind of get into that place where i'm just like fuck it but when i figured out it was taking me more energy to actually pick up my flaws i was like girl you

need to stop doing this this is draining like you'll get to that point where mentally you're like oh this has to be perfect you know and then yeah just kind of like start chilling out let's relax him do you like that kind of like i feel like you yeah just kind of like start chilling out let's relax him do you like that kind of like i feel like you're just giving very like hippie laid-back chilled vibes like you've really got this shit down do you practice like any mindfulness stuff or actually it's just something that you've managed to work out in yourself um i think so like i've got this thing where i'm just like um i have this like you know like i just just do it like in my head i'm just like don't think about it too much just do it because i feel like once you start thinking about stuff too much

you honestly talk yourself out of it you're like ruminating it bro you're literally like like i could be like okay cool i'm thinking of this this um like content idea and i'm in my head i'm thinking okay is it gonna be weird are people gonna like it i'm so you know what do it post it and see how it does and those ones are actually the ones that do way better than the ones that you you've planned so much about because people relate to it it's more natural so in my head i just like just just do it and i also also tell myself that i need to make time for like to have more fun so for example monday to friday is on my filming day i do as many content as i want and it's saturday sunday it's like okay i'm going out my friend i'm chilling i'm going out to get a coffee or eating or whatever just that because you might need the reset as well

especially when you're self-employed i think it's so easy to just be like go go go go go all the time and then your mind just like burns out and you're always like nitpicking on different things so i just give myself time to kind of relax, take a breather. Switch off. Switch off, yeah. Like, and after, and I, the best thing I actually did was get two phones. Work phone and a personal phone. Never mixed the two together.

My goodness. Yeah, that's what I did. And now I'm paying for two contracts and they're a mess. No, I got, I got two phones because my work phone is like my work phone. So that, like, after like, I think six o'clock latest, I'm putting it away. I don't, it's away, it's out of sight. If your messages come in, they come in. Because what I used to do is have everything on one phone.

And my goodness, I was up to like 10 o'clock just replying to emails. Everything's on WhatsApp as well. So you can't like avoid it. Pink, pink, pink, family group chats on WhatsApp, work group chats on WhatsApp, like, you know, friends, brand deals, whatever. And it was like, I had like loads of messages coming out thinking, girl, this is not you relaxing.

You need to like get a separate thing personal work you can't mix them both that's what i've learned anyway um but yeah just have time to like relax give myself time to relax to have a chill pill you know i think it's important to have a moment um i forgot i forgot to ask you this at the start and this was like it's fine bro i'm gonna ask you now what's your split my workout split yeah oh girl we ask everyone here to be honest though oh my hair changes so much because i get bored easily so if i'm literally like okay i've been doing this for like six weeks now boring next um right now though because i do this is why i love f45 because i don't even have to worry about all that i just turn up in the morning so it's this you're doing

it basically it's f45 whatever that much space so in f45 there's a mixture of resistance and cardio and then you might do a high rock style workout as well so i basically do that from monday to friday and there's every saturday i do like a run in the morning whether it be like 5k or 10k whatever and then sunday i'm resting so it's it's a hard one with i can't really say it's a split because when functional training you're doing everything yeah it's full body you know um it's just that it's at different intensity so it's kind of hard for me to be like monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I do this. So will you go into the gym for content? Yeah, so if I go to the gym,

it's either for like, I need to do like mobility stuff or if I want to hit the weights. So like, for example, I might do like a F45 that's very like lower body base one day. And I'm like, you know what, I really fancy hitting some back and biceps. So I'll that and then if i'm at the gym i might you know film content i always have my filming days different from my workout days i i i thought yeah that's kind of what i was angling at because i thought that's what you were doing and i think that is

so yeah helpful like even for anyone that just generally films at the gym i think like just have those days where you don't it makes a bloody difference doesn't it what i used to do is i'll be like yeah i'll work out first and then i'll film after but then it's like no because now i'm in the gym for four hours literally yeah and it's like working out takes long but filming also takes longer well filming also uses like your your mind isn't in it no because you're also doing that so when we were doing crossfit we would literally i mean i'd imagine it's the same like people aren't really out here with like filming cameras and that yeah so i mean that you actually at that app at that box you weren't actually allowed to so it was like oh wow this

is quite a big boundary for me or you're not actually allowed to film. So I would go and I would just really like, like the first time in years since before this whole journey with social media that I've actually been in the moment, a newbie just focusing on my workout, lost in it. That's the thing as well. Don't underestimate that. Yeah, you made a good point. It's about actually focusing on that,

what you're doing. Because it's like, if you're thinking, oh, in the back of my head, I still got to film, I still got to film. You're like, oh, do I want to be too sweaty?

That's why I really, I'm thinking about going to F45. Yeah, it's literally like, and I literally spend like, literally, and then filming wise, I could just, I have like a content book.

I call it my content book. Oh, a Bible. Yeah. So it's got like, all like the content I've filmed in the past, but I just have a tick sheet. I have like a like content book I call it my content book oh a bible yeah so it's got like all like the content I've filmed in the past but I just have a tick sheet I'm like oh okay I filmed that I filmed that I filmed that and it's so much productive than doing on the same day you work out because I literally spent like an hour and a half in the gym just filming content I'm going through the videos like like that um because it's just it's just making sure that you're using your time well work smarter not harder tell you absolutely yeah you need to come to f45 you said no jay would you go but you have to get up at 6 a.m listen i'm telling you before work

listen the first couple days it's like oh my god 6am. But honestly, it's like the best thing. 45 minutes. People like drive in. By 5.30, it's bright outside. Is that what time it starts? No, no. That's the time I like wake up because it's around the corner from mine. But it's bright outside.

You can actually see the road and see like different things. Yeah. I also love like the whole, I know you don't wear makeup because you're good enough without it. Girl. On like a filming filming day i do like to like i think it's really nice to actually just not care about what you're wearing yeah not care about how you roll in the morning just get there and get your workout done and in the morning i look like i look like i've just been hit by a truck bro my hair is like all over the place and then i'm just i'm just happy to be there i'm sorry i made it to six o'clock but then after i'm like oh i'm awake i mean i'm switched on you're speaking of outfits

you're quite the fashionista i wouldn't say that i feel like yeah you do have your moments right too too kind too kind but do you do you sort of give that level of like intention and and focus to your gym outfits or do you not really care yeah so i mean recently i've been telling myself that i used to be one of those people, I used to be like, oh my God, I've got to show as much skin as I can. I used to wear like, I used to wear like shorts every time, like short shorts. I'd be like, yeah, the more skin I show,

the more better my video is going to do. And it's like, now, half of the time, I'm in sweats and trackies, literally. Why? Because I'm just, that's actually me. Like, I actually live in sweats and trackies. And I'm more comfortable. I was i was gonna say you're like i shop in a men's section and the women's section so i'm just more comfortable with the way i look like i just like just want to put on a bag of tea yeah

and like the content i film like the humor and all that stuff i don't really need to like it's just more natural more natural it's it's so much more because your content moved a lot more into sort of like i guess like yeah humor related personality and it's like there's that's so much more than skin deep like yeah so it's actually not about and the way i see it is like you know the way i see is like there's so many fitness influencers out there i hate the word influencer by the way but there's so many like fitness content creators out there that you know everyone's got like abs people have like good bums and it's like what makes you stand out do you know i mean i think i kind of remember like got to the point where i was like you know what

i don't want to be like everyone else i'm not saying it's bad like everyone's got their own thing like they want to do but i just want to kind of like stand out with my own thing and i was like i want to show my personality more and i because i i knew i was like i'm a bubbly person but i feel like i felt like people weren't really getting that from like oh yeah come and do an abs work up with me you know people don't really get that from me it's like oh you're showing me your workout but you're not showing me your personality and i think that's why i was just like you know i want to do more like skits i want to do more humor stuff i want to like be out there a bit more look a bit silly like i want people to scroll and be like oh shit she's funny do you know what i mean yeah because

i feel like it's so easy to just be like come and do a squat video with me today or and plus you get bored of doing that i don't know like it's like exercise videos all the time and i used to be like okay we've done the same ab workout now what's next you know it's exhausting like in life but also as a content creator it's exhausting doing something that's not completely authentic and aligned with you when you're just doing something that is just you to your core then you know like this kind of stuff is very much more aligned with you yeah then the serious like posey stuff that's not you so then everything just feels like it takes so much more effort obviously like sometimes i do like you know pictures i pose like you know photoshoots

because you've got to mix it up but but it makes it makes it more exciting when you don't because you're not used to doing all of that so when you do switch up it's like oh you're actually excited to post about it and your audience sees like you in a different like way as well yeah i always tell people that you can't like box yourself in you kind of have to do a bit of everything vlogs and you know exercise videos and you look goofy whatever just do whatever you want to do um whatever you know you feel like doing yeah but yeah i i agree i feel like the more diverse you are the better you know yeah definitely what's like would you be interested in going for like someone who's into the gym what's your opinion on that you're not with anyone no are you into a gym goer um

gym goer do you know what i always say to people i don't know you know i feel like yeah similarities are great fantastic but differences also matter do you know i mean absolutely um i i wouldn't go for like a oh my god bodybuilder like gym but i would like to go for someone like actually like internet fitness as well yeah you don't have to be like you know us and be like yeah it must be like this like you know at least you like you know how to look after yourself you know like or it's like the gym doesn't scare you like you know if I'm like oh yeah I'm gonna just go to the gym today you're not gonna oh why you do that for what's your like opinion on like gym etiquette like would you ever go up to a girl in the gym would i i wonder if it's different for girls than how it is like you know because there's that whole like dialogue of like guys walking up to girls and making girls feel uncomfortable

i mean i'm in a gym trying to work out so i feel like if it was yeah i don't think i would you know yeah no no because i'm literally in and out like so i don't know but i feel like to people you know when a girl's feeling you regardless of what environment you're in you know like if a guy i feel like if a guy does it to a girl i feel like there's some sort of like reciprocate energy there i think it's only weird where you like force it upon a girl do you know i mean that's weird when they're like reading the vibe yeah like way wrong like you're just like get away from me do i mean but i mean i mean i personally wouldn't i don't like recommend um what do you have coming what's on the agenda?

You know what? That's a good question. I need to ask myself that as well because I'm like, what? I don't know. I think right now because I've just finished a marathon, hit a million, moved into a new apartment. In a new city. In a new city.

Opposite end of the country. Yeah, for me right now, I think it's just a bit like just relax you know I feel like the last couple months I was very like go go go go because I was looking at places that I was like packing and I was like moving and I was training like six times a week and it's just like running everywhere um I think for me right now it was just to really just relax enjoy the summer like really just go on holiday like i'm gonna go to dubai um obviously i want to go to paris as well so just actually just take time to just chill um but yeah i think obviously we'd love to do more like events in manchester that'd be cool um i feel like the manchester community is crazy

fitness wise like yeah you gotta come to one of our run clubs bro there one time yo you know what i was actually gonna message you because i saw one on sunday was it sunday yeah in the morning right first sunday of every month yeah london manchester we need to do it i'll be there next year the you know like it's really not even not that it would ever be a chore but it like really is just like not even a hard sell like it's yeah so chilled out chilled yeah the manchester community is very different like bro everyone's just so sound and like so nice they're all just wanting to everyone's getting coffee and literally staying there for like hours just chatting and everyone's like oh should we go for food next time after and I'm like yeah yes I went to I went to

I went to End in the city yeah and literally met one of the the guys at a till who was serving me and I was just

we were just having a chit chat and I was just like I'll be in a new mansion he was like oh what's your socials literally got each other's socials and he was like whenever you're ready

just message me and we can go out together London could never never London would be like they won't even talk to you no they'll just message me and we can go out together. London could never. Never. London would be like, they won't even talk to you. No. They'll just pack your bags, like, get out.

Yeah. Do you want a fattie bag? Next. See you later. I'm packing still. Bro, like, I'm telling you. So, yeah, Manchester's lovely. Yeah, really good vibe.

I reckon it'll become like a mini London, though, in a couple years. See, they're building more and more like apartments and stuff it's crazy yeah it's non-stop bro it's crazy insane um your eyebrows look nice thanks sorry i just i just clocked i was like what i do try um you're not gonna tell me my eyebrows they look great just like watching the size of the head in the... It's floating away. Where can people find you? Guys, you can find me on Instagram, yinda underscore fitness. I know, underscore fitness is so cliche.

I know, I know. And TikTok, underscore yinda. Oh, wow. When I hear myself say that, it's so like, oh, really? I know. But yeah, it's the same one. And then that's it.

Facebook as well. I'm trying to be more like Facebook-y, you know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, man. That's the difference. The engagement's over there. Bro, I heard. But it's like you're throwing yourself to the wolves.

So don't check the comments. Yeah, I know. Oh. Just do it. Just do it. Yeah, I mean, that's why I'm like that. Don't read. Listen, comments can make you or break you, you know.

You look through comments, you figure, is that me? Are you talking about me? But now I'm like, whatever. You don't need that on your psyche. Nah, nah. But yeah, guys. Thank you so much. No, thank you for having me, guys.

Absolute pleasure. I'll be back soon, don't worry. All right, then. Thanks so much for listening, guys. Remember, you can find us at Gym Girls Locker Room on all platforms. And we'll see you in the next one bye