The Livy Method Podcast - Exercise and Weight Loss with Andrew Blakey - Fall 2025

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

In this episode, Gina and fitness expert Andrew Blakey get real about the role of exercise in your weight loss journey. They explore why movement should feel good—not punishing—and how small steps toward consistency can boost energy, improve strength, and support long-term health. From finding the right time to move to understanding the impact of strength training on metabolism, this conversation helps reframe exercise as a way to feel better, not just weigh less. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to build momentum, this is the motivation you didn’t know you needed.Where to find Andrew:Instagram: @iamandrewblakeyPodcast: The Aging Gracehttps://blakeybreakthrough.com/You can find the full video hosted at: www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2025To learn more about The Livy Method, visit www.livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm Gina Livy, and welcome to the Livy Method podcast. This is where you'll have access to all of the live streams for my 91-day weight loss program. With a combination of daily lives, guest expert interviews, and member stories, there is something new almost every day. Miss the morning live? Want to re-listen to one of our amazing guest experts? Well, this is the place. This podcast is hosted on ACAST, but it's available on all podcast platforms, including the one you're listening to right now, Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Music.

We're focusing on sustainable habits not restrictive. Is it an opportunity to get curious? We're here, help people get to their health goals. One piece it's a time. We build and build and build. Good morning. Thanks for joining me. Oh, my goodness. Are we okay? Jay's win. I mean, the excitement. Yeah, the down, the up, the down, the up. I like, I don't know. It's been absurd. It has been

crazy. I felt like we were like, I saw, I saw Jody earlier with all of his Jay's girl. I was like, I got to throw on a Jays jersey. You got to wrap it today, right? Yeah, you did. We brought on Jody yesterday when we were doing our morning live. Kim joined me for the tweak this week conversation, just talk about the game. So for everyone who didn't know, Jody works on the production side of things, and he does all of our podcast stuff for us. But we brought him out. We talked to him and people were like, who was? It's so nice to see you. I can't believe we waited this long. Yeah, it's been, I don't know, probably, probably a good. Actually, I have no idea when the last one was, but I'm happy to be glad we're doing this. So seven weeks in, you know, I try not

to talk too much about exercise in the beginning of the program because I think just the basic changes that people are making is enough. And people are already exercising. And then I hate for it to be one more thing that people have to do. But with where we're at the program now, this is where people have been eating all this good nutrient rich food. They're more in tune to their body. Their body's starting to give them more energy because they're giving their body what it needs. And they start to feel like, okay, I could do something here. So it's such a good time for people to start moving their bodies and being more active. But I find that people put a lot of pressure on themselves. So you have been, I mean, you have been connecting with our community. Andrew has

been with us for a while now. You're running your own fitness programs and whatnot. We'll talk about that and share that at the end. But what do you think our community needs to hear or talk about? Oh, well, you know what? Well, it's such an incredible, incredible community. And actually, funny, actually, Odette mentioned the other day that apparently it's, apparently it's our one year of knowing each other last week or something like that. So that was kind of exciting. But in terms of what I think the community needs to hear, I think that it really comes down

to knowing that fitness is your fitness journey, how fitness fits into your life. It's going to change. It's not, it's not static. It's not, okay, this week. this is this is it and then in a month it's it's the same your fitness journey is always going to change as you have your busy seasons in your life and it doesn't have to be perfect right from the get go you know i think weight loss is the same we loss is the same i had a conversation last night where it's kind of like people's weight is in flux right like here they're losing

learning how to lose weight in a healthy way beyond that acquiring the skills and tools to be able to maintain their weight but life happens and just like exercise you you can be like super fit and you know you're like you feel like you're the you know misfitness and then something happens in life and you don't have the time or you just get out of it and you got to get back in it like that ebb and flow that that that's just life that's that's just like but but when you are losing weight in a healthy way or making healthy changes beyond just starving and depriving yourself that that matters that's actually helping your body be healthy so even if you're you know going backwards

a little bit or you start to gain weight back or you just don't have the time and attention or something's happening in your life, what you've done, like every bit of fitness that you do makes a big difference when it comes to not just your help, but longevity, yeah? Yeah, absolutely. And that's the thing with fitness is, I mean, it's not so much of a secret per se, but one of the things I like to tell people is that same thing, you're going to get to those busy seasons of your life. Work is going to be insane. You're driving your kids all over the place. and sometimes it's all about just figuring out where in your week you can be intentional with your exercise and some weeks you're going to be able to be hitting at home and

hitting the ground running and other weeks is going to be just about you know doing something and as long as you're doing something you don't move them backwards right yes yeah yeah yeah um i want to talk to helen has this comment here she's like yes that's me i finally found a class and i like it and and feeling looser all over it hasn't helped the scale move though weird, but there may be some digestive issues. I only have 18 pounds left to lose, and it's a belly. So when I started this program many years ago, I used to say, like, exercise is the, is the worst weight loss tool.

Exercise. I mean, not in a sense that, of course, if you exercise, that's great for you, but people always look, I was a personal trainer for years, and the reason why, one of the reasons why I switched over to be specifically just talking about lifestyle changes, is that I would be at the gym. Everyone's at the gym, 5.30 in the morning. they're working out hard they want to work out harder everyone wants to lose weight and then they you know they're high stress they go all day without eating it like it's not that weight loss um exercise

sorry is a really crappy weight loss tool super beneficial for so many things but a really shitty weight loss tool because it's it's 80% life like what you are eating and lifestyle and all that but so where does exercise fit into our lives because i think he's longevity yeah i think exercise fits in as everything else. I mean, there was a stat that I read the other day where it was something like, this was about the U.S. population, but it was something that 50% of people have one or more chronic diseases. But over the ages of, I think, 65, that jumps to like 70 or 80% or something like that. And so I think exercise fits in as a way of making sure that you can keep doing what you're doing in 20, 30 years down the road. I mean, I think it's the number one factor for over 35 chronic diseases, which, to me is insane. And so that's where I think exercise and resistance training, that's where it fits in. That fits as a prevention measure. It helps to decrease the symptoms of all these different chronic diseases when it comes to, you know, not just lifespan, but health span and how many good years you've got. Exercise is, I think, hands down the way to ensure that you're healthy and able

to do everything you want to do down the road. Well, I think this is what happens after. After, you know, so many have been trying to lose weight, lose weight. Once they lose weight, obviously they want to work hard to maintain their weight, then they want to go live their life. And that's where, that's where like health span, that's where great, you want to live a long life, but you want to live a long and healthy life at the end of the day. I heard something crazy, like 85% of people don't meet the minimum requirements for movement, not just exercise, right? Like I think whenever we think exercise, like we have to go buy a gym membership and that's not it. Just moving your body alone is so important.

Yeah, absolutely. And whenever I think about that, I think of one of the one of the little stories you told me in one of our other conversations about about your mom lifting the car tires. And whenever I think about where fitness, you know, what it can do to people's lives, I think of, I think of that story. So backstory is my mom, I think two, I think it's almost two years. She's been working out with a personal trainer. I can't remember time is flying by, but my mom is like super active. She's got like a great, you know, social life. You know, she lives in a small town or all of her family's there.

Like it's probably a blue zone, right? Like, and I don't mean she still, she eats chips for dinner and, you know, drinks wine and all that. So I'm not talking like blues on. They're sitting around eating beans all day. But it's socially. And, you know, we were going to go on a trip a couple years ago to, you know, Anyway, we're going to go on a trip and it was going to be quite an active trip.

And I was like, mom, you got to like, you got to start working out. She always talked about it. She's like, I want to do it. I just, I don't know. I don't want to go to the gym. And so I got her a personal trainer. And I get that's very privileged. Like, I get that.

But it was to make her do it twice a week. And now she's like a rock star. It has changed her energy, her body, her strength. And she was telling me how she didn't really notice the change until one day she was able to lift her her winter tires out of her car herself like that was like she could do that herself or bring a whole case of water up the stairs herself right like and they're talking about now so much talk about especially for women building muscle and you know and like building muscle in your body is good is a the muscle you have in your body is an indication of like you how healthy you were going to be as you

age yeah absolutely and there's actually there's actually an interesting fitness test that we use and so whenever we're kind of assessing somebody one of the big ones is actually grip strength and because generally speaking if somebody's got good grip strength they're probably they're probably of a decent amount of muscle on the body too like you would never really find somebody who's got weak weak at grip strength but is super super strong right yeah they're kind of correlated in that sense yeah yeah i um i want to get into this comment here from nesneen i think the reason i am so much more committed to fitness and exercise now and stay in committed

because I finally stopped using it to lose weight. Ooh. That's a big one. My body's changed a lot because of weight lifting and I'm so much stronger and have so much energy. Maybe that is it, right? Maybe that is it.

Just like you have to have a why for showing up every day, you know, here to reach your goal. You have to have a why to exercise. And if you're why to exercise is weight loss, that is a little disconnected. I think. It's superficial, it's surface level. Yeah.

It's not motivating you intrinsically to, because listen, move in your body. Like, it's not the easiest thing to do for some of us. No, it's not at all. And especially getting started with fitness, it's not, it's not easy. I mean, any sort of change in any of our lives, I don't think it ever, it ever comes easy. But if we can kind of reframe what resistance training is in your life and what the purpose of it is, then I think it allows people to approach it much more in a sense. of this isn't just for a week or two months or three months. This is for life, right?

And the more you can figure out a way to fit it into your life that is sustainable, meaning that you're not killing yourself every single day doing it because, of course, recovery is super important. But if you can figure out a way to fit it in your life, then it's going to change your life. Okay, let's talk about tips and stuff because I was so excited to talk to you that I totally just blew over even introducing you. Yeah, that's right. Maybe. What I've always loved about Andrew is just this, like, is, you know, he's always so calm when he talks to us about all this stuff. But he has, his actual love and passion when it comes to aging. And so just maybe a little bit about yourself and, you know, why you're so passionate about this topic. And then let's get into some actual tips that we can share with everyone.

Yeah, sure. So, I mean, I first started doing this about about eight years ago, which is crazy to me. That's been almost a decade. I originally actually wanted to go into physio or chiropractic. But then once I started doing. personal training. I was like, this is it. I love doing it. And one of the reasons why I really focus on the over 40 crowd is because, and I've shared this story, kind of in one of our other conversations, but I mean, I grew up with my grandpa living at home with us. And I mean, he lived to be 98 years old. And so seeing him biking all over town and my mom being like, what are you doing? You're 90 years old. And you bike in 10, 15 kilometers a day. But I think that's one of one of the big reasons and one of the big influences for why I, really like to focus on that over 40 crowd is because I've seen firsthand not just not just with

my grandpa but with the clients and the people that I work with that if you're consistent with resistance training you really can keep up with whatever it is whether it's golf biking hiking you know anything you know outdoorsy and active you don't have to stop just because you hit a certain age if you're if you're focused if you are deliberate with where it fits into your life I mean there's no age where you have to stop doing any of that. What's a, what's a story or someone that comes to mind that you just are like, I want everyone to know that this is possible? Yeah, I mean, there's two. The first one that comes to mind is there was a gentleman that I was working with a long, long time ago.

He's since moved out to Niagara, which for anybody who doesn't know Ontario, it's about an hour and a half away, an hour away. But he was in his mid-70s, and one of his goals was to do a muscle up, which is basically where you pull yourself up to the bar. and all the way over top of the bar, which is, that is, I can't even do that. It is an extremely, extremely hard thing to do. And he's 75 years old, up there on the pull-up bar training so that one day he can do this muscle lap. And unfortunately, I mean, COVID hits,

we didn't actually get there, but we were getting pretty close. And so I just think that that's one example where it's, again, resistance training, if you do it, you can do some pretty crazy things. And that's not to say, everybody has to get up on a pull-up bar and start doing pull-ups yeah yeah for sure um what do what are we doing wrong what are we doing wrong about exercise like what are we how are we getting it wrong

that you just want to scream from the rooftops yeah i think because a lot of the people that i work with are i would say kind of in the beginning of their of their resistance training journey i mean i'm not really working with people who are like i want to get a six-pack i want to you know lift this much weight very much the people that I'm working with are people who they just want to be healthy. Those are the words I hear all the time. I'm doing this because I know it's important and I just want to be healthy. And so I think probably one of the biggest mistakes that I see when, again, when people are starting out or even early on in their journey is going from zero to 100 overnight and being

like going from not working out for 30, 40, 50 years and now being like, I'm going to go work out five days a week. And on paper, you know what, kudos to them because, you know, they are thinking about making changes in their life, which I think is the first step. But when it comes to being able to stick with this for life, I like to work from the bottom and work our way up. So I mean, even just one or two days of working out a week to start and building up from there versus trying to get the perfect routine and get five workouts in a week again after not working out in 40 or 50 years. It's not what we're seeing. online right like we you know let's see let's say like right now menopause is a big conversation

the importance of you know maintaining muscle mass building muscle and like I don't want to disrespect anyone but she's super jacked and she's like you got to work out and you got to do this and it just seems like every or maybe that's just my algorithm I don't know but everyone talking about women's fitness especially they're super jacked yeah I get the aspirational like I get the aspirational. And maybe that's like me talking about, you know, maybe it's like me talking about weight loss and, you know, me being like lean and not needing to lose weight myself. Maybe it's the same thing.

But that's a physical representation of what we think we need to be when like it's so, it's so far away from where some of us are. And even me fitness wise, right? Like I can't, like I can't aspire to that. So sometimes I feel like if I'm not achieving those results, then I'm not doing it properly. Yeah, and this is, I'm probably about to go on a big tangent here, actually. Go, go for it. I love a good tangent.

You're so calm about your tangent, though. I can flail my arms a little bit if it makes it better. But I think that when it comes to the things that we see on social media, I mean, we can look at all these different fitness influencers who are saying, well, you know what the science says, you need to lift heavy. You need to be doing it three or four days a week. You need to be doing this, this, and this. And I think it's really easy to look at the science and be like, on paper, this is what is going to get the best results. But I think when we do that, we completely neglect the psychological component of it, right? I mean, a lot of these studies are controlled.

They're very specific. But those controls don't always relate to somebody in their life. And I think that if we go about it from saying, yeah, on paper, this is. the best thing for you but people aren't able to stick with it and it doesn't feel like something that resonates with them then then it's useless because because they're not going to do it right so I think it's about figuring out what the science says but kind of easing into it and doing it in a way where it doesn't again doesn't feel like you're changing everything overnight yeah well and exercise is just so great for your brain like when I was going through menopause my weight was like creeping up

quite a bit and I just the thought of going to the gym was just like oh you're fucking kidding me like I just it really felt like one more thing to do and then so I just would go out for walks and I didn't I was just like let me just go at the door and I didn't put on gym clothes you know I wore my ugs I wore like you know wintertime big jacket like I didn't worry about it I just went out there and I would walk each time I go a little further and I'd look at the next lamp post or you know mailbox and be like okay I'm going to go to there and then by the end I was just walking and it was so good for my mental health and just like getting outside like that that was what i needed to do how can we figure out what we need to do like how can we i mean obviously seeing someone like you

and you can make a plan for us but so many people either just it's not accessible or they can afford it i know also you are offering a new course so well that just came to mind so we'll talk about that for people but how do we know where to start or what to do yeah i think that sometimes because it is it can be complicated. It does feel like a big, you know, a big endeavor going from not working out to be like, okay, what am I going to do? Am I wasting my time? Am I doing the stuff that I need to be doing? Yes. I mean, just like nutrition. Same thing. It's, it's, I think it's about, you know, small changes that that add up. And I think that the same thing goes with, with fitness. I mean, you know, if you're unable to to get to a gym, then start by doing some, you know, body weight stuff at home.

You know, I think that it's really easy to chalk it up to, okay, you need to be doing this much work to see results. But realistically, again, when somebody is within the first, you know, year or two of their, of their, you know, resistance training journey, they're going to see results no matter what they do. So it's about, it's about just starting and getting to it because the longer you wait, the longer it, I mean, the harder it's going to be realistically. Yeah, I want to talk about people who have injuries and stuff. But before that, let's talk about that because everyone's. being told you have to lift heavy weights and that's not exactly true you can lift lighter weights and do and do reps or women are different from men or all of that when reality just like any kind of exercise is good for us but what about your limit like here's a here's a question from

deborah i was wondering if weight training is comparable to doing outside chores like raking i want to do weights three times per week but yesterday i ended up raking and begging leaves for two hours as well as other outside chores. Are those activities comparable or should I be doing weights as well? That's a great question. I like that question actually because a lot of people are super active outside, outside of, you know, structured, structured exercise. And those are great because again, you're moving your body, you're getting the heart rate going. Those are certainly going to help. But I think where resistance training and structured working out fits in is that you know that you're doing a certain amount of work each week. I mean, you know, you're not,

you're not, realistically, you're not raking the lawn, you know, year around kind of thing. And sure, you got snow shoveling and stuff like that. But I think that it's really important for people to have a structured routine because that allows you to know that you're getting stronger. One of the, one of the biggest concepts when it comes to fitness is something called progressive overload. So gradually increasing the amount of work that you're doing. And that's one of the biggest concept when it comes to to progress in in training and in working out is gradually increasing that, you know, the stimulus and the amount of work that you're doing. And I think that it's just really hard to do that in a trackable way outside, outside of, outside of workout or the

gym or however somebody is doing it. Maybe it's just a matter being intentional about it and then being able to see like that it's actually, you know, you're seeing gains there. How much exercise is too much I know there's just a bunch of like bullshit out there about you know exercise spiking cortisol and all of that which is like there's good stress and there's bad stress and there's nothing ever bad about exercise but how much is too much and do we need like especially even starting out is there so much thing is too much I know you say all or nothing but that's the more the mentality where you work out hard you're sore and then you don't go back to it but in terms of like intensity frequency like is there such a thing and is it just the rest in between I mean, this question is like, I'm just going to go on for two hours. No, that's a big question. But it's one that I think is really important for us to touch on because recovery is, I mean, that's a huge, huge piece of the puzzle, right? And so one of the things that I like to say is that if you're not fully recovered or

at least very close to it by the time of your next training session, then you probably need to spread out your workouts a little bit more. So that's one little piece of advice that I have for that. Um, but over training is definitely a real thing. Um, you know, whether that is somebody who hasn't been doing a lot of walking and then is now doing a ton of walking. Um, the same thing. Every step we take is is a stress on our bones, our muscles, ligaments, tendons, all of that good stuff. Um, but so I think it's really important to, to listen to your body. So if you are incredibly sore the day after a workout and I'm talking about like you can't stand up off the toilet, then you've probably done

a little bit too much and it would probably be useful to kind of just tone it back a little bit because again a lot of the people that that you know are getting into it they're not doing it to feel beat up every single day they want to feel good they want to feel you know capable in their bodies right and i think if we train too hard too quick then it's really hard to want to go back and do it again yeah it is and and that used to be the measure before like when i taught a fitness class if you didn't feel like throwing up after the class it wasn't a great class like oh that was like too easy right you want you want you walk exercise should walk you away from exercise you should feel challenged you should feel a bit energetic not like you need

you know to like sit down and recover and all those things sure there might be moments where you're working on getting your heart rate up or whatever but it should make you feel good for the most part yeah yeah absolutely let's talk about people who have restrictions i hit i'm reading the comments because you know some of us are getting up there in age you know i had to frozen shoulder for like a year. Some of us have hip pain, knee pain. Lorraine here has an artificial knee. She can't even kneel on it. Yet it's so important, especially for all of us to continue to be active, or we're going to end up in old age homes, inactive with our brains going to mush and not be able to go to the bathroom by ourselves. Like that's the harsh reality of all of

this. And so when we have things that are stopping us from being active, what do you, what do we do? what do you what do you say there i think that it's really important before anybody does any sort of big change in their life i think it's really important to i don't want to necessarily call it like a life audit kind of thing but i think it's really important to kind of look at what your week looks like and be realistic with it because i mean same thing if you bite off more than you can chew you're you know you're going to be you're going to be missing your workout you're going to be missing your exercise you're going to kind of beat yourself up about it you're going to feel bad which is then going to cycle back through to missing your workout and so on and so forth.

And so the more that somebody can get some, you know, some wins early on, again, in their fitness journey and getting started with it, I think the better that they're setting themselves up for success. Well, you know, I love that. People are asking, like, where can we go? Where can we get some, you know, ideas and whatnot? I'm just thinking, like, if you have a bad knee, there's like aqua fit that you can do, but maybe you don't have access to a gym.

I'm thinking like, because some people just don't live anywhere. close to where they can get a gym. I talked to someone the other day, one of our, Spill the Teague asked. She drives 45 minutes to get to her gym. And so we might not have pools or gyms or whatever. What about YouTube videos? Like, when we're looking for videos, how do we know, and you're not, like, you're new to exercise, like, how do we know what's good, what's not good?

Like, do you have any tips for that? Yeah, I mean, I would say try a variety of different things. I mean, try as many different, you know, people on YouTube that that you can and figure out which style works for you. I mean, at the end of the day, sure, there's going to be all sorts of different exercises in these different videos. You know, one person is going to be recommending one thing,

another person's going to be recommending that. But just because those exercises are in the videos, doesn't mean that you have to do them. I mean, if you're doing an exercise and it's causing you pain, then don't do it, right? Yeah. Well, we're going to put up, we're going to put up, yeah, if it's causing you pain, don't do it.

We're going to put up. And that's such a great point. If you do an exercise, you're doing a, video and you don't like the exercise to skip it to the next exercise or like to do some breathing or something like that we're going to do an exercise share page in the group today so if you want to pop in people can share their favorite workout videos or books or like whatever that might be what a couple more questions here before we go what fitness tools or accessories are worth adding to your routine should we pick up some bands for some home stuff like what would you

love everyone to have if there's two pieces of equipment what would that be yeah absolutely I think I think you probably know my answer to this one the first one is definitely going to resistance bands. I talk about resistance bands all of the time. And the reason being is there's a couple, there's a couple of reasons that really come to mind. One is that they're super portable. It's super accessible. They're not super expensive. You can get them for like 30 bucks on the Amazon kind of thing. There's long loops with the handles. And one of the great things about those is I really do like to say, and I do believe that any exercise that you can do with a dumbbell or barbout, you can pretty much find a variation with the bands. And so if you get really comfortable with the

bands, there are so many different exercises that you can do, so many different benefits you can get out of it. And I think that, especially starting out, I think they're a little bit less intimidating for people for getting started with their journey as well. But I mean, just like myself, I mean, I got my bands right behind me here. But I mean, even on days where I'm not working out at the gym or whatever, then I'm here doing my banded stuff here. So, I mean, it really is good for everybody to kind of get started with those bands. That would be, I would say, probably the first piece of exercise I would recommend and then the second one I would say same thing just a small set of dumbbells you don't have to have a huge set but I mean if you pick up uh and this is just a generalization

um but if you pick up you know a five a 10 and a 12 or five a 10 and a 15 it's not going to break the bank but same thing it's going to allow you to change how you're training just a little bit okay great um what trends are all hype and not worth it like what's what people are seeing now what do you just like to skip it okay so bear away me on this one because there is definitely, definitely benefits. And I love lifting heavy. I love, love, love lifting heavy. I think it's incredible for bone density, muscle growth. There's so many great benefits of lifting heavy. But I think that, again, starting out, one, lifting heavy is relative. So that's really important to note. But two, same thing. If somebody is starting out

with exercise and they don't necessarily have their form down pat, then why am I getting them to lift, you know, a weight that they're going to feel very uncomfortable with. And not only that's going to greatly increase the risk of injuries. And so I'm kind of both on that one in that I love lifting heavy. I think when the form is down pat and somebody is able to handle it, then yes, absolutely, we should get you lifting some heavy weights. But I think same thing starting out, unless your form is something that you're very comfortable with.

I also think that it can cause a lot of harm as well. If someone can't walk and they don't have that. access to aqua fit what could they do seated stuff you can do seated stuff same thing i mean you if you if you have if you have the band you can hook it up to your door you can do all sorts of stuff you can do you can do curls you can do things like raises pull apart there's so much that you can do even while seated um i mean in fact there's there's a lady i'm working with right now who's having some lower body issues um so a lot a lot of the stuff we're doing is having are seated and supported um to to make to kind of not aggravate things so there's always a way to modify based on what somebody's

going through. I want to ask you about your new group that you're running. But before that, here's a great question. I hate to sound stupid. Listen, there's never a stupid. There's never a stupid question ever. And, you know, it's apologies for not breaking this down. I have a fitness background. And many of us don't. You know, 85% of us are not exercising, not even meeting minimum requirements. So we shouldn't assume that people know. But can you define resistance training? Like, I'm hearing that walking, hiking, biking are all recommended. But I always think that resistance is about building strength with bands or bells. Like, how does Pilates fit in, for example, or line dancing?

Yeah. So first, let's define what the resistance training is. So resistance training, I use that interchangeably with working out, you know, going to the gym. I kind of use those all pretty interchangeably. But resistance training is basically any sort of exercise where you're overcoming, overcoming some sort of resistance, whether that's the weight of a dumbbell, whether that's the weight of a resistance band or even doing even doing squats where you're overcoming

your own body weight anything where you're being intentional with kind of moving pushing pulling any of that kind of stuff and overcoming some sort of challenge or something you know pulling the opposite direction so line dancing could work if we are doing like line dancing squat maybe yeah right so technically we could make line dancing where? Yeah. Is that getting added to the program next time, line dancing class? You know, there is this place I hear about in Dr. Beverly lives in, where is it? I can't remember where it is, but apparently there's this really lit line dancing like place that I just a little far from me. Totally at Oxbridge. That's it. Uxbridge just got a great line dancing.

Okay, so that, oh my God, that just got my heart rate up. So push, pushing, pulling, lifting, using your own, so pushups would be resistance, squats, using your own body weight would be resistance, as opposed to lifting weights, like that having actually heavy weights. So that would be resistance training too. Same thing, because you're overcoming the weight of something pushing against you. Yeah. So anything where it's like those sorts of exercises, that kind of category or family, that would be like resistance training. Okay.

Got it. I know you I heard you're offering a new like can we tell people about it because I know you have limited spots are you already sold out on your course that you're doing so it is sold out but I'm opening up another 20 spots just for just for the liby losers so there's another there's another 20 spots that are opening up well are you talk about this because you know we really want to support we do not pay our experts all you guys and we always tell you where to find them but Andrew has created this tell us can you tell us about it yeah yeah absolutely I mean this is definitely a passion project of mine it's something I've been wanting to start for probably since January. I've had many, many, many messages from some incredible people that are going through the kind of the living method there. And it's something I've wanted to start, but it's basically resistance training that you can do at home using resistance bands, mini bands, and literally a space about as big as here. Oh, cool.

Yeah, it's for people all over 40, joint-friendly workouts, structured in a way where there's an educational component and the workouts. So there's a lot in this. There's a lot in this, but I'm very excited for it to start. Oh, I love that. So you can go to Blakey. Is that what you're calling it, Blakey Breakthrough? Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that's right. I will say, I mean, all of the work you guys have done has been a massive inspiration to me as well. So I always appreciate being in the group and being a part of you guys' community. Oh, well, we love you. You can go check out his program, blakey breakthrough.com. But listen, he's going to be back, y'all. He's going to be back.

I'm going to get you do some exercises for us. People are asking, you know, can you do some band stuff and tell us where to go and what to do as well? So Andrew will be back in the group sharing his stuff with us as well. But go check him out. You can also follow him on the Instagram. I am Andrew Blakey. He's always giving some great tips, just like he's just giving it away like me. He's like, here you go.

Sharon, sharing his knowledge. I love you for that. I love this conversation. I think the conversation that people have out there is like just untouchable for so many of us that we just need to like, do something, anything, you know, at the end of the day. And, you know, it's a lot easier said than done. And this is where, you know, as a community, we can feel more motivated together, join something like, what's the cost of your program, Andrew?

So it's $99 a month. Right now it's down to $79. And then for any of the liby losers, use the code Libby Loser for another $0.69 a month. All right. That's amazing. Okay, everyone, thanks for joining me. Like I said, Andrew, we'll be back. Have a great rest of your day.

Go, J's go. Oh, I got Jay's in six. What about you? You know, I'm going, I'm going in six, too. Fingers crossed, fingers crossed. Right? And it's Halloween, too. So it'll be like, yeah, you know, I remember. Manifested. All right, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for all your questions, your comments. We see them all. We love you. Have a great day, everyone. Andrew, as always, thank you. Awesome. Thank you.

Thank you.