LadyGang - LG QUICKIE: How to Stay True to Yourself in ’22

Episode Date: January 13, 2022

It’s a new year and time to go to the alter of Walter... that even Becca has faith in. And while he’ll make your butt tight and your calves popping in epic obé classes, he’ll make you understand how movement is medicine and how to love yourself even more. This episode is brought to you by obé Fitness! Use code LADYGANG to get a WHOLE MONTH FREE at obefitness.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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with Lady Gang Quickie. Here's Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek. Let's make this quick. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the Lady Gang Quickie. It is Becca here with Jack and Kelty and a very, very special guest who guest stars in my living room often, but never in person. Kelty, who do we have? Okay, so today, Lady Gang, get ready. We are going to the altar of Walter. This man is here to inspire your 2022. One of our favorite instructors from Obey Fitness. My personal like guru, Rebecca's like, this is just someone that is so special. And obviously, he's gonna make your butt tight and like get those caps popping. But he's also gonna like inspire your soul. And so I want to welcome to the Lady Gang podcast, Walter Kemp. hello everybody what's up lady gang how y'all doing welcome we're so good so i want to start with um your story walter is so inspiring so last year just a few months ago walter was featured in a lore like a two-page spread like he's the most famous and and the reason they featured him was

because he has this incredible story because you assume that when you look at someone like him who's so fit, so perfect, so happy, so blessed that like, he's always been that way, but you had sort of a countdown and transformed your life. Yes. And it's so funny because the allure, um, the title he, he used was just so remarkable. He said, can a fitness class be a spiritual experience? And if you have to ask this question, you haven't met Walter Kemp. And that just was like so dope for me because um for me the my biggest goal in life is to create a spiritual experience through movement for people you know what i'm saying because that's what it is for me um i used to be 250 pounds and i lost 100 pounds just um sticking to cardio sticking to eating well

and just pouring into myself but along that journey is when i fell in love with my own self it's when i started to actually love myself i started to look in the mirror and like what i saw I started to wake up in the morning and I appreciated the thoughts that were going through my mind I wasn't thinking thoughts of like oh my god I have to do this or oh I can't fit this or this doesn't look right it was like I'm excited to be better I just want to be better than I was yesterday and that's kind of like that's been my journey that's been my entire journey what I love about what you just said and what I hope everyone really is hearing is that and and something that We've really made a conscious effort on Lady Gang to, like, get away from, hey, it's the new year or whatever.

You need to go on a diet or take this smooth move tea or eat this smoothie. And, like, it really is about taking wherever you are at your life and having energy, doing the thing that your body wants you to do, doing the thing that makes you feel when you wake up in the morning that you're not sad to be around, you know? And that's so different. That's why I keep saying health journey, because it's like, it's mind health, it's body health. And yeah, so some people may experience a weight loss, some people might experience a muscle growth, some people might experience a lift in their tush. But that's, to me, besides the point of like what you do a little bit. I mean, it's just so interesting, because I love that you said health journey, because that's exactly what it is. Like, I've lost 100 pounds, I gained 50 back, I lost 20. And then I put 30 back on. And it's just been a journey of the up and down. But the thing about it is once you fully understand that things outside of you, they come and go. But the one thing that remains is yourself. And you're going as long as you're alive, you're going to be on this self health journey. So that's not something that's ever going to go away. So whoever you are, wherever you are, I want to encourage you to start right now because you're stuck with you.

So you might as well figure out what it is that you need to do that not only keeps you healthy, but keeps you happy because happiness fuels the healthy. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't do nothing that I don't enjoy doing. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, especially when it comes to moving and exercising, if I take a class and it started to make me feel like, oh, I hate my life, then I'm walking out. But when I get to move my body through dance and certain specific type of movement, that just fuels me and that makes me happy and that makes me want to come back for more.

So if you're starting your fitness journey, you have to first look at the things that you enjoy. And that is the full, that's one, that's key for sticking with something. I'm not going to stick to something I hate, but I will stick with something I'm enjoying. Whether it's dance, whether it's getting on a bike, whether it's walking, whether it's twerking, I don't care. movement is medicine. And I just want to encourage you to continue to move your body, but also make sure it's something that you enjoy. Cause that's the only way you're going to stick to it, but it's a journey. Yes. Um, I'm going to let the other girls talk at some point in the show, but I want to say one more thing. I actually had an experience exactly what you're talking

about two days ago. So I went, I, it was like five o'clock and I was like, okay, I'm going to do my obey. And I went on the site and, um, because I'm on the West coast, I, and I don't get up that early um i and i like to work out at night i miss the live classes like i'm a replay girl which i've talked to you about before walter um and so i got on and all of a sudden i was like oh my god there's a live class happening right now and it was cardio boxing which i've done maybe twice in my life but i was like oh kelty just like fine just do the live class because you can enjoy the live class and i got like a minute and a half into this cardio boxing class and i was like no i hate this so much i will not be bopping around fake punching the air like this is not

for me some people like it and so i stopped down the live class they didn't even have that i didn't even i wasn't even on that board long enough for them to be like what's up kelty like i was in and i was like punching and i was out and then i went and found uh cat and i did a 10 minute lower leg sculpt with a weight like i like and i was like okay that's it for today like i did 13 full minutes and that's all i'm gonna do but i agree it's like like i mean way back in the day when i used to do tracy anderson like i would go for two hours and the whole thing was just terrible like i hated every minute of it and i was like i refuse to be that person anymore well i was gonna say kelty like that like your experience that you had last night was kind of like that's

my whole like exercise experience for probably the last 15 years of my life because back when i was like kind of sad and i was trying to like find you know my happiness and different things like i was working out so much but i hated every second of it and i was doing things that like didn't make me feel good that i wasn't good at like i am not a cardio girl like i'm a school i'm a yoga i'm a hike type of a person now and that's the kind of thing i do now that i'm very very even a long walk i'm like this is this is the exercise that my body likes very low impact But like, back in the day, I was just, I felt like the more it hurt, like the better it was for me, but then it was just making me not feel good at the end of the day. So I think that discovery is huge. Yes. And also, I just want to say this. Do not sleep on low-impact workouts. I am telling you, there is something about flow and control movement that gets the heart rate up and gets you moving. Like I said, once again, movement is medicine. No matter if you're doing high-impact or low-impact, I've created so many low-impact workouts. I've even created a chair workout that I made called Have Several Seats. And it's literally a cardio workout in a chair.

so like those workouts they're effective too a lot of people feel like they have to go crazy um crazy like do all this high intensity interval training and you really don't just move your body so shout out to you with your low impact walks with your hiking i'm here for it i'm so here for it i have many seats that is so epic oh it's so good i'm here for it you know some i had a real aha moment, um, recently with, with just exercise and movement. And I've really been getting on my sister who wants so desperately to get back into her fighting shape. She's had two kids, she works full time and she's really, really busy. And so she wants it so badly. And I can see that she wants it so badly. She deserves it so badly to have those like 10 minutes or 28

minutes to herself. And I get on her and I'm like, did you do something today? Did you do something today and then i realized that i've kind of fallen off the wagon with my movement you know the last couple weeks and i thought i think my sister deserves this so like i also deserve this and the feeling that i get of my sister when i'm so proud of her for doing something i've done that for myself too like the insane enthusiasm after my 28 minute sculpt class this morning i was like good job you did it and so it's like almost that thing about talking to yourself the way you talk to people that you love yes and it's a whole reframe of oh i have to do this thing it's like no i'm going to do this thing that makes me feel good and proud and i think um it's such a testament

i think you guys instill that a lot and obey um it's a it's a spiritual thing it's it's like nothing else i mean i always say early in the morning at the end of the day all you have is yourself you know what i'm saying you can have your partner you wake up next to your partner but you truly wake up within yourself and if you aren't your biggest cheerleader trust and believe nobody's going to root for you somebody walks in your house and your house is dirty they're going to throw trash on your floor they come into your home and your home is spotless they're going to treat it according the same exact thing with yourself so if you're going to love on yourself you know what i'm saying you're teaching people how to love you as well we look for inspiration

outside of us but everything ends and begins with your own self even shakespeare said it to thine own self be true that like that sticks with me like i'm my biggest cheerleader and sometimes i get in trouble for cursing when i'm on obey but i'm in there like yes bitch we need that that's the shit that pumps me up you know what i'm saying but it's so hard to kind of give them what they need without giving me what i need and at that moment that's what i need to keep going so it's real you gotta you gotta pour into yourself even my best friend like when he's like talking back to himself i'm like yo be nice to my friend don't do him like that you know what i'm saying it's the same thing so yeah the same way you run for your sister you gotta root for yourself

you're next in line for your encouragement you're next in line for your love you're next in line it's you gotta give it to you first period the altar when we come back walter's tips and tricks to staying on the right path this season of your life today's episode of lady gang is brought to you by obey fitness so the new year is upon us i feel a little bit anxious and stressed out and when i'm feeling like a little jittery on the inside i like to get my body moving and i love doing that with obey fitness so obey is the perfect fit for any schedule especially during you know when you're starting the year over again and you can choose from 10 minute express classes, their signature 28 minute workouts, or all in power hours to make

the most of your me time. And if you don't have any equipment, there's no problem. Obey has thousands of body weight only classes and every fitness style made for any screen and any place. You can turn your room into a boutique fitness studio or bring Obey to the gym and level up with extra gear. So whether you're new to fitness or fitness obsessed, you'll find a workout that is right for you with class types, including dance hits, strength, Pilates, cardio, boxing, yoga, and so much more and the best part is if you want to try it we have a whole free month for you to get through the january month just use code lady gang at obey fitness that's obe fitness.com code lady gang the lady gang all right we're back we are back with walter from obey he is um you

know here's the thing i know the first five days of january everyone did the thing that they said they were going to do and now we're like in mid mid jan and mid jan is like the fall off this is the fall off it's the first fall off and so you know walter like what do you offer us in a way of inspiration or thought to just be consistent or to to just keep going um i would say talk about it honestly that's my biggest thing i get like my my mom sometimes or my friends they say walter you're too open i share all of my thoughts like it's really hard for some reason like if i don't say what i'm thinking i feel like i'm lying to the world i'm like i'm holding back so like i share my thoughts i share my dreams i share it share it share it and a lot of times what that do for me is

like the moments where i'm feeling down and feeling insecure i'm feeling like it's not going to happen the people that i shared it with holds holds me up usually as my friend sometimes it's through a sticky tab sometimes it's through a shirt that i will wear you know what i mean but like it's these little reminders that you that you put in place just by simply speaking like there's power in the tongue there's so much power in the tongue you ever had something happen to you and you're like oh my god i just said that i just said that and all of a sudden it happened same thing with your goals and your dreams i need you to just say it and keep saying it so that's a trick for me i always talk about it and then like i have friends that say oh you said you were going to do that

right when are you doing it i'm like tomorrow yeah yeah yeah i forgot about that so like one like that's one of my biggest tips like don't stop talking about your goals and also talk about it like it's already here it can't be this thing that is so far away from you like you like when it comes to faith faith is knowing without knowing right so you have to fully understand within yourself before it manifests outside of you like it cannot happen out of you until it happens within you and if there's doubt and there's fear within you there's going to be doubt and fear in what you're trying to accomplish so you got to bring your fullness to it so that it can happen i've never heard the word faith and connected to it until you just explained it

like literally am i religious now i'm like i just got baptized i'm into it no and i mean i'm not religious at all i'm very i'm very spiritual Like, I just believe that there is the energy out there that works the best for me. And that's what I lean on. I love that. Walter, I think for me, the thing that and growing up in the dance world, as you did as well, like, you know, we're kind of these all or nothing people, right? So it's like when I when I stopped dancing, I had to figure out how to exist as a normal person because I was I would a show was coming up and we would like, you know, only eat vegetables and work out six hours a day in preparation. Like it was like, you know, I my whole life is a study in extremes.

So I'm trying to I'm trying to come into the middle and like live at like this just low middle level. and I think that fitness my fitness journey I think this the thing that I keep coming back to is consistency so for me it's like there's definitely those days where I wake up and it's bad we're on the wrong side of the chair or the bed and it's a hard day something's gone in my life and I can't do it that day you know like I just can't do it sometimes I can say Kelty just do the stretch class just do the 10 minutes like you'll feel better after which you always do but there's some days that you just can't do it like it's not happening today i'm not logging on today and i think the secret is that in my past lives one day off was like now

we're on a six month nosedive of not taking care of yourself at all like i'm never coming back and what i've learned especially with obey it's so helpful is like i just i fall off one day because it's a bad day but the next day is a new day can you can you offer any advice on just like consistency because i feel like that's what people really need i may not be the best person for that one um because i follow my i follow what i want to do if i don't want to get up and do it i don't do it and if i want to do it i do it and that's on period i honor myself like i'm not going to do that to myself like sometimes you're protecting sometimes that voice is truly protecting you like when when there's something to say hey i don't think you should go there and then at that

party there's something tragic happens you know what I mean same thing with your body I don't think you should work out today you might need to rest that day you know what I'm saying so I honor my body I honor my thoughts and when I don't feel like working out I don't feel like working out but I don't give up failure isn't an option I always say I say you know this when it gets hard we modify we don't give up and if modifying means taking a nap or not working out that day then you don't do that and when you feel ready you get into it my spiritual advisor says she said she says walter you got to ride the highs the exact same way you ride the lows and you got to ride the lows exact same way you ride those highs so it's just about riding the tide sometimes it's up and

sometimes it's down but you never stop moving you never stop moving you proceed you proceed you proceed well it's intuitive how intuitive eating is so like buzzy right now not buzzy It's probably the best thing that's ever happened. But intuitive movement and exercise, it's so true. We're so often like just taking cues from the outside world of what we're supposed to be doing with ourselves. And instead, if you get quiet, you kind of do know. You're like, yes, I can get my ass off the couch right now. You are healthy.

You should be grateful. You're fine. And then other days it is. It's like I'm going to be gentle with myself and I'm going to let myself off the hook and that's okay. That's how people – it's like you end up getting hurt if you're like pushing yourself to do something that your body doesn't want to do, you can end up getting sick. Like I think listening to your body in like every different way is so helpful. And then you will give yourself what you need at the end of the day. I like once again, everything ends and begins with you like all of the answers

like it lies right within you. But like you said, you got to get quiet. I think getting quiet is one of the most important things shushing out the noise so that you can understand you because a lot of times what we're doing is what's best for other people or what someone has poured onto us but we have to sit with ourselves and we have to get quiet and we have to tap in and then the answers they're all there they're all there so now i want to talk about you walter what is it like for you now being this like celebrity hot as shit instructor extraordinaire um it's it you know what it's really the same i'm doing what i've always done it's just that people are watching now um that is pretty much the same i wake up every day and i work out i wake up every day and i

meditate i stretch i i love on myself i listen to my body i laugh listen when it's time when there's something funny. I push myself to laugh hard as hell. I'm like, you know, like if I want to dance, I get up and I dance. Whether it's a group dancing or not, I move my body. Like it's the same thing. Like I said, when I'm in that box, I don't curve. Like I have good days. I have bad days. I come in and some days I'm like, I don't really feel like doing this, but they're paying me. So I'm going to do it. You know what I'm saying? Like it's literally,

it's literally the same thing. There's no difference. I'm just happy that I'm helping people because for so long, I felt like my dreams only only concerned me. And now I'm able to take the things that I love and I enjoy and help heal the world. So it's just nice to align my passion with my purpose. You're just so special. Yeah, you are. You really are just like this very, very special. I know that we have I know we have a ton of obeyers in the lady gang.

Yes. And and and I so if you have not taken Walter's class, please go take a Walter class. You'll understand exactly what we're talking about. If you have no idea what we're talking about, Obey is a great online fitness destination. They have a zillion classes, live replay, cute music, short. I did a meditation last night because I was being gentle with myself. I was like, I really don't want to miss a workout all of January. And I was like, you know, a girl, you need to just sit down and do some breath work here. um and so you can actually use our code lady gang for an entire month free you can go to the altar of walter and and it's like it's strange and i think the girls would agree like i said this to you when i saw you in new york in thanksgiving walter it's like walter's my best friend but he doesn't know me yeah it's like walter and marmar and cat and i'm like i know you i know you very i'm like i have spent hours and hours and hours with my best friend walter telling like don't give up like when i see your face i'm like everything's gonna be okay like it's it's weirdly intimate for like an online program is that it is right you know absolutely it's so i

realized this the other day i did a yoga class and i actually had and it's like the spiritual tie-in I think that the ability to work out with no eyes on you, you're just with yourself. You're just there with you. And then there's that teacher. And it does feel like personal and a weird ability to truly detach because you're in a gym or you're in an exercise class. You're like pulling up your waistband because your little your little rolls coming over. You're worried about your hair being looking crazy and like you're looking at that girl

and you're comparing yourself and you can't be totally internalized with your work. and here you can do that yo that right there is heavy that is heavy I've never heard it put like that but that is so true because even for me in the box you know what I'm saying everyone's like you're in here how do you keep this energy up and it's no one in here it's literally me the production assistant and three cameras and a lot of times it's just me and the cameras but it feels like I'm by myself so like I don't have to worry about like oh someone's looking at me doing this i totally forget that i'm teaching a million millions of people but i'm with myself in myself doing for myself and that brings in the spiritual component yes that's heavy yeah it's different

it's totally changed my my relationship with exercise because even with even with like boutique fitness a lot of these girls like i used to teach at with boutique fitness they come into these classes with their crop tops and their shorts and then they're trying to be cute and they're And like four Cartier bracelets. I'm like, bitch, how can you do a push-up with those on? With instructors, you know what I'm saying? It's not personal. It's not personal.

But being able to log on to Obey Fitness, being able to take that one class with yourself is personal. It's personal because not only that, you're teaching yourself to push your own self. Because you don't have someone standing in front of you saying, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. We're not watching you. So it's like, how hard would you motivate yourself? How hard can you push yourself? And that's just a, yeah, I'm sorry. That took me.

That took me out. I'm done. Bye, guys. That's what it is. That's why we were addicted. We're fully addicted. Fully addicted. To you and to Obey.

I have one last hot tip for 2022. So if you're anything like me and you fall off your fitness journey like once a week, I want to tell you what I give you full ability to do, which is once a week, you are allowed to take an Obey class and you put the Obey class on your laptop or your phone and you take it on and you mute it and on your ipad you put on housewives and you watch oc housewives while you're doing your leg lifts now not every class because you need to hear the instructors you want to hear it's not a walter class we would never mute walter but like when you're like i can't do this today here's a hot tip i have done this a couple times and it really is like

when you feel like you can't do it a trashy tv show in an obey wait are you actually doing the class or are you just putting it on while i do the class like i lay down on the floor listen there might be more celties out there i did not have such an easy time with this do oh because yeah we becca and i tried to do an obey class while we watched oc housewives and she was like i need the cues for i need i need marmar telling me to scoop my pelvis i need you know what i mean like i need the cues so i'm just saying but if you get desperate this is an option that's open i thought you meant you were just gonna put it on so it said that you did a class even though you're just laying watching the housewives no but you know the funny thing is like i've heard

people do that like they will turn it on and just listen to it because honestly they call they say oh baby they they coined this word entertainment where it's training but it's entertaining as well it's a lot of people that turn this on and just watch it and just watching it motivates people like even if you don't physically feel good to do it in that moment you turn it on and you you hear me throwing out those little gems and stuff like that maybe like an hour to you like oh no you know what let me get my ass up nah yeah now i'm ready because sometimes you just need that motivation just to see a person doing it that motivates you so that's another thing you can do as well turn her on listen to it watch it it's tv baby well walter we love you everyone please go

follow walter at walter camp 2 you'll recognize him because his little green headband is on his shirt right now and it's on his instagram profile he's so inspiring and please if you go take a class if you go to the altar of walter please tag him in your sweaty selfie and tell him that the lady gang sent you so that we can so he can learn all the who the lady gang is like the girls that are you know let yourself be known he's a very good reposter so is obey if you tag them and of course we have a special deal for you use our code lady gang for a free month of obey fitness and Let's all go on this fitness journey. It's going to be wonderful.

We're going to stay consistent. We're going to do it when we need to. It's going to be a spiritual event spirit. It's going to come together like this in a way we never thought of before. We weren't here for a long time. We were here for a sweaty time. Sweaty time. Thanks for listening.

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