Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - Grape Therapy: Anna Victoria

Episode Date: April 18, 2019

Kaitlyn hangs out with personal trainer, founder of the Fit Body Guide and Fit Body App, and reluctantly deemed social media influencer Anna Victoria! Listen in as these gorgeous gals gab about Anna's background and eventual start in the fitness industry, Anna shares some of what she believes to be the foundation of a productive personal fitness journey, and in confessions we learn about Anna's history with the term, "MasterBaiter"! BruMate - Go to Brumate.com and enter code VINE for 15% off your first purchase 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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Let's shake it up some more. Here's Caitlin. All right. Welcome to Grape Therapy. I'm your host, Caitlin Bristow. Your session is now starting in the studio. Wait, first of all, I should have asked you this. you like to be introduced gosh it's like what is your title i mean it's the hardest question to

answer because i feel like should i go the professional route where i'm like i'm a personal trainer yeah and like creator of fitbody app like that's like or like people really want to know like oh you're an influencer you know right right that's what you do you're on instagram you know so are you are you influencing people i always hate the term influence oh wait you're yes i yeah i saw that tweet anna victoria is here in the studio i was i was like i guess i should say your name people won't just know if you're saying fitness. But yeah, that same thing. I'm like, what does that even mean?

Yeah, I just, I don't like it because I feel like it has a pretentious connotation of like, oh, I just show off my beautiful life on Instagram. And that's not at all what I do. And so I'm just like, ah, I don't like being under that umbrella. But it's also not bad because if we use it for good. Exactly. No, there's, we always say about social media that it's like a curse and a blessing. It's, there's so many, like I love following you because you are inspiring with fitness and

you also are very real with certain things which obviously I love because likewise yes it's so nice to just get a breath of fresh air on Instagram every once in a while even while you're still doing what you do like you're very passionate about fitness obviously and and it's what you do and it's your lifestyle and but you do it in the right way where it's not like you know I don't know I don't want to insult any other fitness people you know but it's like you you make sure that you have that healthy balance of I work really hard for my body but also if you see it from this ankle you might see something different don't don't let your mind get the best of you on instagram so that's i love that yeah absolutely i think it's important for people

to show the like one the the 99% of the reality which like you only see the one percent of like the super fake and posed and flexed and tense and it's like yeah it's hard because you're right like you don't want to knock people because i do it too and i'm proud of those pictures right because that's that's your that's your career yeah and i've worked hard yeah but at the same time it's like I remember it was kind of maybe back in 2015 2014 where I was like oh I'm really getting sick of the comments that are like oh my gosh you're so perfect like I can never have such a flat stomach where I'm like that my stomach is like where I carry things you know and so I'm like that's not real life what you're seeing and so I just like was I felt so compelled to be like

hey guys like oh so that's what did it for you because people think maybe that that would be nice to be told that all the time but that's like setting the bar too high and living up to too much like that's so much pressure right and i think even as what do you okay fitness like you how did you get into fitness by the way so i'll try to like summarize it yeah um so pretty much i grew up in a small town of northern california okay um i actually grew up with tyler rich and he was just on the podcast yes oh he's fabulous yeah so um oh that's funny yeah so um i grew up in a small town and i grew up eating fast food three times a day and I loved it oh me too I yeah I mean it was amazing and when you're young it doesn't show right and you don't care and I also didn't have anyone telling me

anything different so I just ate for pure indulgence there was nothing about food that equated to health or how I fell or how I looked even at that point in time and so fast forward to my early 20s when I was in college I killed over one day because I had such a sharp pain in my stomach I couldn't even stand. And I had to go to the emergency room. Oh, wow. And they were like, hey, here's this medicine for your digestive and GI systems that aren't working anymore. And I didn't think to ask, well, why aren't they working? You know, and what is this medicine going to do? Is it going to actually help me or just how old were you at this point? I was 22. Okay. And so pretty much, I started taking the medicine. I could tell that it wasn't really getting down to the root cause. It was just

kind of covering things up. But like, really, I was like, I don't want to work out. Like, that That is way too much of an effort for me. I love my Taco Bell and McDonald's. Right. So I wasn't even in the mental space to make any changes. Okay. And this was when I started dating my boyfriend at the time, who is now my husband. Amazing.

And he is Italian, like born and raised in Rome. And so they eat very whole fresh, natural foods. And so when we started dating and he saw that I was eating Goldfish crockers for dinner. And he was like, you can't do that. I mean, that's a great choice. But I mean, I'm seriously obsessed with goldfish. Yeah. And so, you know, I would tell him, like, leave me alone.

Like, I'm fine. Yeah. And so pretty much over the course of a few months, I realized, like, okay, maybe I'm not fine. Like, maybe the goldfish and the Taco Bell and all that is, you know, what's causing me to have health issues. And my dad has health issues. And so I kind of was like, oh, I don't want to go down that road of where it becomes chronic. Right. And it's irreversible.

So pretty much by this point in time, we are living in San Diego at the time when I was in college. We decided to move to China. Wow. Wow. Yeah, we moved to Shanghai for a year together. Just because? Well, I graduated with my degree, and he was living in the U.S. only for six months on his student visa to learn English. Yeah.

And so his visa expired. Yeah. And so, and I graduated. And I grew up working full time, like, since I was, you know, 18, you know, also working from 16. And so I was like, yeah, let's like blow this joint. Let's get out in here. Let's go live life, you know. Like, I'm going to escape with my Italian boyfriend.

friends and go to China. So he did his master's in Shanghai. I studied Mandarin for the year. Oh, no. Good for you. It was my second language. Like, I'm not a language person. It was just like, why not? Yeah. Good for you. I mean, that traveling to me is like, it just shapes you, you know? Like, I want, when I have kids, I'm like, they're going to travel. They're going to be, like, well-educated in, like, different cultures. It should be a prerequisite. Yeah, especially for Americans, you know, like, just to see what else is out there. Americans don't even know, like, Canada. Yeah.

I'm like, we learn all about you guys in school, and you're like, but that's not your fault. It's this, you know, it's the school system. Yeah. But it's true. Like, people are like, Edmonton, Alberta, where is that? And I'm like, what? Everyone's like Canada.

Oh, Vancouver or Toronto. Like, that's the two things that people know or Montreal. But that's so funny. But that's crazy China. Yeah. Wow. So pretty much, we were in Shanghai for a year. And that's when Luca, my husband's name is Luca.

He was like, okay, you know. longer have the excuse you're married to an Italian name Luca yeah that's what dreams are made of right there wow um so he was like you no longer have the excuse of you work full time and go to school full time so you don't have time to eat healthy and take care of yourself blah blah blah and so I really did start just kind of researching everything that you know I could about health and fitness and because it was so opposite what I grew up knowing um it just I was shocked that like oh my gosh food actually affects the way you feel like yeah i shouldn't be feeling lethargic all day long from my McDonald's sometimes a day like crazy you know so um i in november 2012 i was sitting

between mandarin classes and i was following a bunch of at this time instagram was not a thing yeah but there were some instagram pages that existed of like random fitness pages as are no influencers back then wow what a time to be alive right it was actually nice yeah a nice time to be life um so pretty much i decided to make an instagram page and i was anonymous for a year and i just posted things that motivated me things that i was learning and after a year is when i was like hey here's my transformation this is me yeah and that's kind of when things blew up how did it blow up though like what happened you know so what happened is people were like wait this is you like this is like your transformation how did you do it and i wanted to help people so bad because like it's hard

to start eating healthy and working out if you really if you like don't really care you know like about that whole scene like it's hard because i don't think people realize how much it's not just about appearance exactly i think it's like so much about how you feel i can't tell you i was never into working out until i met sean and then i was like well i guess i should like get on the fitness train like i danced my whole life so that you know i was in shape from dancing my whole life and i really did see a difference when i stopped dancing and then when i met sean i was like oh okay well like i'll try and get in get into the workout thing. And I realize how good it made me feel instead of like, you know, because I'm always, I'm a tiny person. So I wasn't concerned like, oh, I got to lose weight.

I was almost like I wanted to gain some. Right. And I realized, well, you could do that in the right way. And so, yeah, I got, I got into working out because of how it made me feel. And it goes both ways. It's like you feel the mental and emotional benefits, but it's also mentally so hard. It's almost more mentally hard than it is physically hard. It is. It's about getting your shoes on like just like to get there because you know you're going to feel good out of it and you know that once you if you eat healthy for a day have a good rest and work out you're like wow i feel like a million bucks but why is that so hard do you think for people to do it's just you know why i think it is it's the long term benefit and payoff versus the short term you know

people always will choose the short term of like oh this tastes so good that they're not willing to forego that for the long term gain so that's a good point that's usually that's a really good point actually. Yeah. And I do the same thing. Right. Yeah. Well, and so personally, like I've, because I came from such a junk food background, it's like, no matter how much I love working out and feeling great, I'm never not going to love junk food. Like, I'm always going to love it. So I don't ever completely like cancel it, you know, for my diet. So I do 80, 20, which is where I eat healthy. 80% of the time. The other 20% like I'm going to go have cake and cookies. What's 20% like on a Sunday? This is such a good question. I get asked this all the time um so it's not a hard calculation and i'm a numbers person and so i love like i am but this is

one area where i'm like it's an approach it's go have you know a night out with your girlfriends or with your partner yeah on a saturday night and like have a appetizer main dish and a dessert enjoy the heck out of it and then the rest of the week try to stay on track but if there are those moments you're like i just want a cookie have the cookie you know and it's not going to ruin your progress it's not going to derail you from your journey you know it's It's more about just kind of allowing those little treats here and there through the week. Yeah. But knowing that, like, you still need to keep the balances tipped at, like, 80, 20.

So don't let it go to 70, 30, 50. Right, but don't, like, don't punish yourself. Exactly. Exactly. All right, quick break. I have a question for you. Don't you just love warm alcohol? Well, neither did Dylan, the founder of Brewmate.

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So, I mean, there's something to be said about that, too, of just like, don't, you know, don't punish yourself. Don't feel guilty about still moderation and still allow yourself. And stress can do worse things to your body than what you eat, you know? It affects your hormones, especially for women. That can be really detrimental to our health or our mental and emotional health. So anyways. Yeah, it's true. When I'm stressed out and when I'm like not eating properly or when I'm like upset,

I carry everything in my lower stomach. Everything. It's so crazy because people are like, well, you're so tiny. And I'm like, yeah, but you haven't seen me naked. Like I'm like, yeah, I've got tiny arms and I'm like working so hard to try and build muscle. And then I'm like, but there's just something about the lower stomach. but I think that's women. I think that's where women, first of all,

and you have to look at that space with a little bit of love because you are meant to grow a child and create life there. So give a little bit of forgiveness to your lower stomach because that's like meant to build a child. Right. So I do remind myself of that. But yeah, that's like my area where I'm like, what the heck? That was like when I first started my journey.

Like it was for health reasons. But like, of course, I wouldn't say, know to having a flat stomach, you know. Of course. Of course. It was like something in my life that I was like, that's never going to happen. It's just not my body type. Like I kind of chalked up to that and kind of like made that excuse for myself. I'll just never get there. But it's like, no, I could. It just, you know, takes a lot of hard work. Well, and what's crazy is the amount of time it does take like, I think I always look back at when I said, oh, like if I start now, a year from now and be like, oh, thank God I did that. But it's so hard to like initially because you don't

see results. Like, and people want results. And especially. like look at people on Instagram you scroll and if you see a one minute video you're like that's a lot of my time yeah like but somehow you're just sitting for hours scrolling but one minute video is too much for you and so I think people are just about convenience and like results and seeing something right away and I think that's really hard for people to understand that sometimes it can actually take a year of living a healthy lifestyle to like see but it's how bad you want it right and yeah and that's why I personally try to tell like my my girls my community to not focus on like the physical side just focus on how great it feels your world also gets a bad rep

and i might even be guilty of thinking this way of that you think fitness people are just so into themselves and that it's like a very vain world where everyone's like just so full of themselves because they're like you know well i'm doing this for appearance and like right i think your your world probably gets a bad rep for that and like honestly there are some people that are like that and so you just have to like kind of pick people like that in every industry right but that's honestly why i was personally so disillusioned with the fitness industry when I was growing up because I was like, oh, you guys just think you're so cool because you work out, you think you're better than people

because you eat healthy. I've had those feelings towards people, you know? Like I've had that same thing being like, okay, we get it. Right. No. And so for someone who grew up thinking that way, I try to check myself any time that I might be going down a route where it's like just getting too, you know,

I personally don't think I've ever gotten there because I try to check myself a lot, you know, but that definitely is a huge flaw. the fitness industry for sure yeah of course and again there's flaws in every you know industry but how do you feel that working on your physical health has affected your mental health um I think that it is especially for women it's really empowering because like we see like we're so strong so strong and like if you do that first workout like it's going to be hard and ladies like don't let that discourage you it's supposed to be hard that's how you're going to get stronger right and I think

that once you do get stronger you're like damn like I can can do this. And you get so proud of yourself and you feel like you can do anything. Exactly. Well, and so so many girls from my community, I have, so I had the fit body guides. I created those in 2015. Then I released the Fit Body app December 2017. And so my community is the FBG community from the fit body guys. So my FBG girls, like so many of them have told me like, Anna, I left an emotionally abusive relationship because of what your, the strength that I've gotten from working out and all this. Or I've left this job that I hated. Like, that's serious. Yeah, because what separates your app and your program and what you are with fitness from

the others? Because, I mean, I say that because I know you have an answer to that. Well, you know, and it's actually a really simple answer that I feel like other people, if you were to ask them this question, they might have a, oh, well, my programs are this is not, no, it's the person. It's if you connect to the person, if you feel motivated by them. And I don't want to say totally like rely on motivation because I have an issue with motivation too. I can talk about that later but you know it's it's your ability to connect with a person and feel like there's a purpose in your journey like at the end of the day no one is reinventing the wheel anymore like there's nothing new or everyone is reinventing the wheel there's there's nothing brand new in fitness anymore

you know you can do any workout and you know and as long as you stick to it you're going to get results but whether you stick to it depends on your personal connection to whoever is you know pretty much the face of the program these days so yeah that's true connection's a big a big one I think that's what I see on your social media and when I read people's comments towards you it's so

it's so cool to see it's such a community and people it's not just about how their body looks it's about how you can make someone feel and about how they feel like being a strong woman

because I was always what is your thought on this you probably hate this because I feel like most people do when girls don't want to lift weights because they're scared of getting bulky is that like you're Kenya and not like don't do that

so I have to be honest and say that in the beginning in my journey yeah i was like really like it's 2000 at that time you know whatever say 2015 like women don't have the testosterone levels to get big bulky muscles overnight and so i really was kind of pushing against that you know and saying like just lift just lift just lift but like at the end of the day like people they're just going to kind of block you out if you tell them that because it's not what they want to hear that's true and so i kind of take a more middle ground approach where i'm like well my programs specifically focus on like high intensity strength training so

it kind of gives you that balance of both, like, fat burn in the moment and building strength so that it's not so shocking towards like, I'm only lifting, I don't want to get bulky when they can kind of get into that mindset. Because when you're lifting, it does take a little bit longer to see results because of the, you know, it's lower intensity. Yeah. I just started getting into, like, lifting weights and doing that, like, maybe a year ago, and I'm seeing results now where I'm like, wow, yes, I'm actually, like, I never wanted

to be skinny and I always got teased for being skinny and it was like an insecurity of mine so I always wanted to like be strong and build muscle and so I but I again was like well I can't lift weights but now I'm like hell yeah I can hell yeah I can and I do and I do really I just feel stronger and you look amazing I feel pretty good but like I just feel stronger and boxing is my favorite workout yeah I think I've seen that I love boxing but I also am like I need to mix in some weights because otherwise I'm just going to be this little string bean punch in a bag. Yeah. Well, strength training does, it shapes women's bodies.

It gives us curves in all the right places, you know. And the women that you see that are like really, really muscular, A, like, that did not happen overnight. Yeah. And B, to each their own. Like if they want to look that way, let them, you don't have to. You can choose, you know. Well, that's the thing.

People are so judgmental on social media, especially when it comes to people's bodies. I don't know what that is. No, I do. It's other insecure people on the other side. But that's all it ever is. It's not ever, someone doesn't actually hate you for having, like, a hard, you're working hard and you have a great fit body that you worked hard for. And it's also a passion of yours. And people look at it, and if they have hate towards it, it's because they're like, I wish I looked like that.

Right. Yeah. And that's, I hate to break it to you people, but that's what it is. Yeah, it's life. Yeah. And that's, I don't think that'll ever change. It's the sad part. Right. I mean, it's human nature. And now it's just with social media. It's so much more, you know. Amplified. Yeah. Exactly. You are a big champion of self-love. What are the things that you love most about yourself? Oh, gosh. Do you hate being asked that? So, I don't want to say I hate being asked because everybody gets uncomfortable when they have to talk about things they love about themselves.

But you know, it's so funny is one of my team members just asked me, we did a post on like the app, Instagram. page and it says what do you love about yourself and I just commented it a few minutes ago so there are two things like one that's like mental emotional one that's physical so the like more mental one is I love my empathy and my compassion for people yeah like I just I love everyone like I want everyone to win I want everyone to believe in themselves like I believe in people like well that's probably why you have success in what you do yeah because you can't not have that and you know that's that's part the connection. Right. Yeah. So good for you for, you know, that's, that is probably a huge reason why you have success in your, in your world. And then the physical one is something that I used

to hate about myself, which is my eyes are really squinty. I could ask if I'm Asian sometimes. Really? Yeah. Like my dad has been asked. People want almond-shaped eyes. Mine are like, not even. Like, my smile. No, I would, that's so, well, I mean, again, everyone has there or something, but now you. I get comments and people are like, Anna, this is a nice picture, but your eyes aren't open. I'm like, yeah, they are. Really? Yes. So I used to hate it, but now I think it's different, you know, and so. Sometimes the things that you don't like about yourself, you focus on, and if you focus on them in the right way, you can turn it into something that you can appreciate. Like the, I'll never forget my health and wellness coach telling me, like, about the stomach thing, the lower stomach thing, like having a little compassion for that area of your body because of what your body's capable of.

I was like, wow, I will forever tell myself, like, I will forgive that part of my body because of, like, and like, get real, Caitlin. That's, it's not like, you know, I still have a flat stomach. It's just, you know, and if it was perfectly flat, I'd find something else. Exactly. Yeah. That's totally true. Yeah. So, I want to ask you.

Okay. What are the things that you love about yourself? Okay. That's funny. I'm not prepared for this. Yeah, I cheated. I was prepared. I, okay.

I always say about, like, physical, I'm like, you know what, girls got great skin. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. I'm glowing, okay? I look at the mirror. I'm like, you glow, girl. And that's something that a lot of women like.

But I work very hard for that. There you go. There you go. And then I just, I really, I'm the same way. I feel like I'm a very compassionate, empathetic person, almost to a fault sometimes. Like, I really feel people's feelings. But I would say, I just. I like my authenticity.

Yeah. Like I just think I've worked hard to be just who I am and own it. And I think I've, I just like when I show up to my podcast or to sort of, I feel like I'm really being myself. Yeah. And I love that. I can do that. I think that that's something that is really like, I don't know if you call the talent or just like a great characteristic because like, for example, I don't want to call Colton though. But last night on the episode, when he was talking about how he.

wanted his family to seem perfect. I think they were talking about divorce and like, he's like, oh, I didn't want to talk about it because I didn't want my family to not seem perfect. And I'm just like, why not? Everyone's a mess. I'm a mess. Like, my family's a mess. Like, what's wrong with that?

Like, and I mean, sure, you don't want to air your dirty laundry out, but like, I think that's part of how people are raised to you, you know? Like, that's just probably what he's been taught. Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, I can, I think about those kinds of things because I used to think that same way, but now I just think, like, there's, there's not one person. out there. And I think we're all starting to have more of a conversation around

dysfunction. But like it's like I don't think I've ever met a family that's it just doesn't exist. It doesn't happen. So it's it's better to just have honest conversation about it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that I just kind of grew up. I'm one of seven children. Whoa. Really? Are you really? Where are you in there? I'm number six. Holy shit. Seven? Yes. Wow. I would say that we are a very functional, dysfunctional. family and I just kind of grew up with a lot of chaos of course seven kids and so I've just always been like wait like people think that you know they need to be a perfect family like what is this right so there's a lot of people out there that do feel that though I mean hold I'm that's crazy

seven of you yeah are you guys all um just so different in your own ways so yeah literally every single one of the seven we are just so different from each other from all the other six and from you know the one above and below them yeah that's crazy and we're all very close too which is great i mean when we were young we wanted to kill absolutely kill each other but right now that we're older we're all really close we'll be right back with more off the vine great therapy Alexa isn't the only one with breaking news make sure to hang around at the end of this podcast for the latest breaking headlines on the api news minute all right everybody if you like my show then you're going to love gals on the go on podcast one join information

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And I like wanted to bring him so badly. I would have died. Well, my husband, so Luca, was not a dog person when we met. I don't know how I married him. Golden Retrievers will turn anybody into a dog person. Yes, he is now, but he still looks at him like it's his dog, and he's my child. I get it. And so anytime we talk about bringing him anywhere, he's just like, oh my gosh, no, like he's going to be wagging his tail all over.

Because he's a year and a half, so he's a puppy. Oh, you're so lucky. Gosh, can we call Luca? Luca, can you bring Rigatoni? I would and I love that his name is Rigatoni Yeah That's so Italian

I feel like I'm supposed to be Italian In another life That's why I get so passionate about this stuff But I'm like oh my gosh And you okay How do you travel with your dog So we've only traveled once And oh okay

Yeah we I just remember seeing a picture of Rigatoni I love it What do you call? Do you call it like rig? Yeah In the airport

And I was like wait what How do I get a traveling golden Yeah emotional support dog so okay so you did like paperwork and stuff for that okay that's what I need to do not like a what's the difference there's a service dog he's not a service dog okay just emotional support dog okay yeah that's I have a friend in Nashville who has a service dog Henry the Golden in Nashville he's incredible and he goes to like hospitals and old folks homes and like oh he was at my podcast I died but yeah I always because I obviously lost a dog in my in the

breakup and that is like killing me to this day and so i'm a crazy instagram stalker of anyone that has a golden or like golden accounts yeah like i'm just i'm obsessed rigatoni has one oh he does yes yes how do i not know that's done it to you okay yeah i'll have to follow because i mean i do you know dude dude the um i'm gonna show you a picture of this right now i can't remember what it is while we're while we're looking for this photo can you please um confess something to me Oh my gosh. Okay. I need a confession. This terrorized me, like, preparing for this trying to think of my confession. Really? So I did think of a few. And I did listen to your best confessions podcast. And I noticed that there was an overarching theme. A poop. Yes. Yes. So you've got a poop story for me. I have one. And I was like, do I really want to share this? And I think someone else on the podcast was kind of going through the same internal like battle, but she was talking about it. Vanessa? I think maybe. Yeah. So I was like, okay, if everyone else shared theirs, I'll share mine. So I'll share, I can share two, one that is like, you know, not a poop one. Okay. Which one do I start with? And it with the poop. Okay. So one of the confessions is that when I was in high school, I would say like early teens, I was a really big troublemaker. Like really? Big time. Like run-ins with the cops. Like what? Yes. I was, you know. No, I would say searching for, like, what's it called when kids are acting out because

they want attention and love, you know? You want, like, validation. Yeah, I just, I was pretty much independent from, like, 10 years old. Like, I could do whatever I wanted. Oh, maybe validation was not the right word. Like, you wanted, um, attention. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. Yeah.

And so I, it ended when I was at 16. So pretty much up until 16, I was a bit of a troublemaker. Nothing serious. You had like an age. You're like, I was from 10. At the 16, I was a little degenerate. There's a specific reason why, because there's an older woman that kind of became, like, a second mother to me that came in my life and, like, you know, showed me the love

that I was clearly yearning for, you know. And so before 16, when I didn't have that. Well, it's hard for a mom to give seven kids love. Yeah. So my mom actually moved to Mexico when I was 10. Wow. And so for work. And so I would go and visit her.

Okay. Oh, okay. She was, you know, away. Yeah. So I was raised by my dad. He commuted to work, you know, two hours around you up every day. So I was just by myself pretty much as a young kid, which I actually think was great. Like I shaped you.

Yeah, I'm very independent because of it. But so there's this one girl that I was friends with and we were troublemakers together. Yeah. We decided to go teepee the park, our local park, and like egg it and like shaving cream everywhere. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Not very nice. He saw it in the movies, didn't you?

Yeah. I mean, I think that I was getting in too much trouble from egging actual people's houses. Yeah. That it was like, okay, let's just do the park. hurt. Like, no one's going to get us in trouble. So, but what happened is I decided to carve into, like, the plastic slide, Master Bader. But it was Master Bader, B-A-I-T-E-R, because my mom, who moved to Mexico, she moved to Porta Vallarta. Yeah. And there was a tackle shop, like a fishing tackle shop called Master Baders. And I thought it was hilarious. And I was like, oh, Master Bader, this is so funny.

I'm going to carve this. This is hilarious. This is hilarious. hilarious. So I carved it. The cops got called. So we saw flashlights. Did they like test your handwriting and like match it with the masturbator like in grave? They found knives and they like pretty much just went, yeah. They pretty much just like went around the park and saw all the damage that we did. And there was no like court or anything involved, but like pretty much they made agreement with our parents that we were going to like clean the park, you know, in the summer, you know, time. And I had to sand out what I carved. I spent like weeks. sanding it out. So it's something that is like very opposite, like my persona now, you know? And I was,

oh, that's so interesting. There's a lot more stories of like my troublemaker time period. But like because of that, like I'm very like passionate about like kids and I'm going through a rough time. Like they're just like there's no bad kids. It's kids that have a rough upbringing, you know, a rough home. They just need a little bit of love. They need love. Yeah. So, you know, that's a whole other topic. But well, that's great. I do love. I feel like you're very passionate about helping people, which is a great quality to have. So. Now tell me the poop one. Okay. Now get to the poop. Yes. So I pretty much like dating. Like I don't know. I don't know if it was just me, but like it was a thing where like you don't poop around your boyfriends, you know. I'm so the opposite. I'm like, I don't know why, but I like want to like as I want them to know as soon as we start like girls poop. Yeah. Right. It's just a thing. And I'm going to talk about. about it to deal with it. Well, I think that's amazing. It's very healthy. Yeah. I feel like,

you know, physically. I think that where it started, I was a freshman in high school and this kid in my class, this boy that was like cute. And he was like, hey, girls don't poop, right? And I was like, no. Of course not. You know, I'm like, no, yeah, you're right. No. So pretty much that carried through all of my relationships. And then when I started dating Luca, we, you know, long story about how we met, he ended up moving to San Diego after we met. met in Italy and um so you guys are like a rom-com yeah i get told that we're like the lizzie mcguire story but we actually have a happy ending i've never seen the movies i can't well now you have to i know yeah so pretty much we were living together and i refuse to poop at home like i wouldn't

if he was there i refused to poop anywhere but home i wouldn't i would wait until i had to go to work and i would go poop next door at the McDonald's because i wouldn't even poop at work my god it was bad for how long i'm probably like a few months that's got to be hard on the old bod yeah yeah well it caused some issues clearly understandably so yeah and i like had to go to the doctor for it and he was like pressing me on like why are you why do you need to go to the doctor i had a hysterical breakdown of like yeah we were like laying in bed trying to go to sleep and i was like i poop i can't poop here See, this is what high school does to people. I totally agree.

One boy can tell you one thing and it will stick with you. And for some reason, you care to carry that through your whole life with other boys. Yeah. And that's really bad, especially with this situation. And you're married to an Italian. Like, you're eating some good food there. You got to get it. You know?

Yeah. So pretty much, I was hysterical and, like, bawling. Like, for, A, the fact that, like, I had to go to the doctor and, like, just also the pure fact that I had to admit this to him. It was literally traumatizing. And his response was like, okay. And I, and then I got even more. Oh, I was also in the moment, like, you don't care? Like, this is like traumatizing for me.

And so, but he really was like, yeah, like, it's no big deal. All right. And I just, of course, felt like an idiot, like all of that time and effort. That's so funny. So. That's a good one. That's a good. And you know what?

It's a, like, a lot of people confess about poop. But that was a different angle and I appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So for anyone listening, don't do that. Don't do that. It's bad for your health and your relationship. Right. And your self-love. Yeah.

Admit that you poop. If you take away anything from this podcast, girls poop. Yep. There you go. Okay, I'm trying to get, you know what? I want to get to questions from the audience because the audience, who do I think I am? The listeners. My huge audience. Claudia wanted to know, do you use a smart watch during your workouts?

So which one? Is it important to know our HR during FBG workouts? So that's obviously heart rate. Yes, yeah, heart rate. Yep. So I used to use a polar watch religiously. And it was like the one with like the strap around your chest. So it was like your heart rate, not like your wrist.

Right. Because your wrist is supposedly not as accurate. So I used to use those a lot when I lived in Italy. I don't know why. Like as soon as I moved to the U.S., I was just like, I lost, no, I lost the battery. And then I was like, okay, that's over. Like, I'm not going to do next. I could just go, you know, buy a new battery, but two years later, I still haven't.

So I did recently get an Apple watch, but I just, I don't like watches. I don't like clunky things on my wrist. Yeah. And so you went like a scrunchy on your wrist, just what you're saying? That's not clunky, though. Oh. Yeah, I would do that. Okay, I'll be sending you some.

Okay. So, okay, but to answer her question, like, do you need to? You don't need to. however I do think that I like stats and numbers so I did enjoy seeing like how many calories that I burn yeah my only thing is don't get so fixated on the number of how many calories you burn because that is literally not an exact like a direct representation of how effective it was yeah so how do you determine what an effective workout is how much you sweat yeah I mean you know actually sweating is not a direct it's not directly correlated with an effective workout

Sometimes I am like so sore the next day and have a solid workout and didn't sweat. Exactly. And vice versa. Sometimes you can sweat, but you're not sore. So like it literally just, are you challenging yourself? Like are you like what I always say to my girls is like by the 10th rep, say you need to do 10 reps. By the 9th and the 10th rep, are you like, you know, really like, you know, having to force yourself? Or are you like, I could have done five more.

Like be sure that you're actually exerting yourself by those final reps. Yeah. You know, just be sure that you're pushing yourself. Love it. um alana said what's the funniest thing rigatonia's done while you're trying to work out love seeing him interrupt your home workouts because my pup does that too i think that's so funny what because they're like what are you doing it looks like you're playing and you're on my level like you're getting down and you're on my level so why are you not playing with me yes no totally anytime i get down his level it's just like attack you know play time yeah so i would say that he just brings me his toys and he wants to play tug a war

yeah um he's not a humper thankfully oh tucker was oh really once in a while if he got excited yeah okay yeah yeah yeah that's like half of my every podcast i like do some sort of weird noise with my mouth yeah yeah um so i would just definitely say he just tries to bring me his toys and play tugel war okay so cute god i love dogs uh meg smith says best time to work out morning or afternoon. Tips for women that work full-time corporate positions, when is best to work out, and how do you get the motivation? Okay. So there's this like a three-parter. So the best time to work out, there is like scientifically no best time. Day, night. It doesn't matter. What matters is that you do it. So if for you morning workouts work best for your schedule, that's the best time

for you to work out. If for you evening workouts work better for your schedule, that is the best time for you to work out so to me i'm like i need to be in the morning otherwise i won't get it done that's that's how i am yeah the next thing is that i do generally recommend for people to work out in the morning because it's so easy to get home and be like oh yeah you know i'm tired i had a long day i don't want to work out my motivation is like negative and then you don't get a good workout out of it if you do go because you're like i'm not into it exactly so and also i do think morning workouts are great because you'll have so much more energy through the rest of the day And I'm a night owl, so like it's not even like I'm like, yeah, in the morning chipper.

I want to be up until 2 in the morning, like working or whatever. So for me to work out in the morning, it's like a huge effort. But it's just, it's, you know, it's worth it. You feel so much better. This person, Caroline Anderson said, A, V, KB, active, worst, scrunchy collab. That's genius. Yes. I'm going to come up with a workout scrunchy and you're going to collab with me on it.

We're doing it. You guys heard it here first. And it's called due. and you just said we're doing it. So perfect. Lisa Barker says, what's your advice to stay balanced for a student? I'm working full time and in school full time

and finding it hard to find time for the gym, but I know it's so important. You know, this is a really good question because I'm not the person that's going to be like, no excuses, you know? Like, really, people have real life responsibilities and, like, packed schedules.

And like, some of my girls are like, moms, business women, go to school. Like, literally, if you're 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. That's crazy. You know, make good, make your, the best food choices you can. You know, don't, don't strangle yourself and bash yourself to, like, fit in a workout if you absolutely can't. Like, at the same time, there are other times in your life where, like, you might need to, you know, cut the excuses. And, you know, it just kind of depends. You have to get real with yourself. Like, can you get a real beneficial workout in, like, 25 to 30 minutes?

Yes. My workouts are primarily, unless you're doing the lifting workouts, they're 30 minutes. Oh, amazing. And can you do them at home? Yep. Mm-hmm. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. What's the app called again? So fit body app. There are three workout programs shred, tone and sculpt. Shred and tone you can do it at home. Shred is only body weight, 30 minutes, super high intensity. It'll like kick your ass. It's pretty much like a, I'm going to do it. Yeah. Tone is dumbbells. So you can do it at home if you have dumbbells. And it's like high intensity strength circuits. And then lift, sculpt is lifting. So that one's at the gym. Oh, that's awesome. Options. Yeah. Great. That's so cool. I'm definitely going to get How many times do you think you need to work out? I would say three times a week. So kind of to answer her question is like, so my programs are three times a week strength and then three times a week cardio.

But you can kind of double those up so that if you only have three days a week, you can do strength in a cardio session. Three times a week can get all of your workouts done. So it doesn't need to be, you know, you don't need to work out every single day. It's not required for progress. And you should make any workout program that you're, following you should make it work for your schedule yeah yeah so um yeah i would say for her just do the best you can even if it's only two workouts a week that's better than none cool and last

question maria macius uh face beauty regime regimen is that same thing yeah yeah how do you keep your skin uh breakout free with all the working out so this is a question i get asked a lot i haven't answered it yeah i was going to do a youtube video you still can't down the pipeline i can yes but it's a really simple answer and i just i've never really had skin problems and i feel i feel so like stuck up saying that but it's like it's genetics yeah it's just some people you know are more prone to breakouts and some aren't i'm not but it kind of has comes back to like bite you in the ass later on because i'm like okay i'm 30 now i 30 is when i started getting skin problems exactly right and it's like i don't have all these years of taking care of my skin and

knowing what to do. And I'm just now like, wait, what is a moisturizer? Oh, yeah. I didn't wash my face for years. Yeah. No, same. I use like makeup remover wipes and like that's good. I didn't do that. I was terrible. And I didn't drink water. And your skin does look amazing. My girlfriends were like, what are you thinking? Like you don't wash your face. You don't drink water. You drink wine. And like you don't have breakouts. Then I went on the show. Stress gave me the breakout. And then I got over that. And then that's when I got really into like a skincare. routine, where I'm, like, obsessed with, like, vitamin C, skin suiticals in the morning. It's, like, B5 gel.

Then this H.A.5, intensifying cream. Yeah, I'm obsessed, then this moisturizer, and then you do this. I do masks, and I do, like, this. I got a, I got a, gosh, a laser facial. Oh, wow. By, like, Kim Kardashian's guy in Beverly Hills. Wow. Yeah.

So you know it was good. Oh, yeah, that's what I was like, yeah, that's great promotion right there. Kim Kay says it's good for your skin. And it's good for your skin. But I really liked it, yeah. But that's, I mean, aging is a bitch. Yeah. And it literally hits you when you turn 30.

It's like a switch. It's really right when you see, you see things start happening. You're like, oh, I'm 30 now. Which I am assuming, like, only gets worse as you age because that's life. Which is my self-love is so important. It is because you have to also be like, shit, I'm alive another year. This is a miracle. Like, life is beautiful.

Okay. Quick game of this or that. And then we're going to wrap it up. All right. Chocolate or chips? Chocolate. Yeah, me too. Easy.

See, no, it's not easy for me. I'm both. I'm like, that's like, that's not fair. You either have a sweet tooth or salty tooth. I'm like, well, I'm both. Right. Flying or road trips? Flying.

Waits or cardio? Waits. Cooking or cleaning? Neither. Yeah. I like cooking. If I have to, I'll clean. Okay.

Oh, really? Instagram posts or Instagram stories Oh, lately, stories I love the stories Morning or night For what? Great question In general

Oh, let's say night Yeah I come alive at night I'm a night out Coffee or wine Wine L.A or New York L.A

pasta or pizza Sorry pasta You American say pasta Yeah Wait what did you say? Canadian say pasta Yeah Oh my goodness

Would your husband just like die? Yeah pasta or pizza Oh, that's a hard one I know I'm the same way But if I had to choose

I can't choose I would choose the noodles Yeah I love pizza But noodles are like my weakness And since we're on the topic of Poop I've got a joke for you

Okay Well poop jokes are good They aren't my favorite But they're a solid number two Yeah Oh there you go that's a good one I was so excited to say that one

when you said poop up for the confession I was like yes great segue into my joke okay so tell everybody where they can find you if you have a website obviously you have a website or a blog or something yeah tell us everything of where we can find you so you can find me at Anna Victoria on Instagram

the app is on Google Play Store or iTunes Annavictoria.com and yeah and of course I have YouTube and all the other things but I'm mainly Instagram. Yeah, and I, again, I mean, I started with this, but I just want people to know that you do mix in good, healthy reminders of self-love and all of it. Like, how would you describe your Instagram?

Yeah, I would say that I try to show a real raw journey. Like, I'm going to tell you if I had a horrible day, but, like, I'm going to pick myself back up, you know, at the end of it. And I'm going to show you, like, hey, like, this is not a posed picture or selfie. And, like, you know, it's all good. And, yeah, I just try to be, you know, real, raw, authentic. I try to, I think a lot about, like, the young girls that are following me that, like, I don't want them to look at my page and be like, this is what life should be like, perfect. You know, like, no.

So, yeah, I just try to keep it real. Do you have a fitness role model? Is there somebody you look up to in your world, or are you kind of like, I'm my own role model? Yeah, I would say. You just compete with yourself. You just always want to be a better version of yourself. There you go. I love that.

A freaking man. Well, thank you. so much for coming on and is there anything i missed is there anything you want no we know i mean i keep going but how about let's save that for the next one okay i'm always down for a part too do you come to nashville um i haven't been but i wanted oh you need to yeah yeah well you can come over i've got a podcast studio in the house perfect and i will have wine and do a podcast all right sounds good bring your golden remember perfect That's recession is now in.

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