The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - #105: Stephen Pasterino - Founder of P.volve, Elongate Your Shape, Eliminate Bulk, Victoria's Secret Routines, & Fitness Misconceptions

Episode Date: March 12, 2018

On this episode we are joined by Stephen Pasterino the creator and founder of P.volve On this episode we discuss how to elongate your shape and eliminate bulk. What the Victoria's Secret angels do to prep for their shows, the importance of your hips in your fitness routine, and Diet/Fitness Misconceptions To try P.volve for free for 30 days go to https://my.pvolve.com/VIPaccess   and use Code: TSC30 The Code is Active until 4/16/18 To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE This episode is brought to you by Liquid I.V.  Liquid I.V. is the great-tasting, portable powder drink mix that is changing the way the world hydrates. The hydration multiplier uses the breakthrough science of Cellular Transport Technology (CTT) to deliver hydration to the bloodstream faster and more efficiently than water alone. Available in Lemon Lime and Acai Berry, Liquid I.V. contains three times the electrolytes of leading sports drinks and is free from preservatives, artificial sweeteners or colors. One stick can provide the same hydration as drinking two to three bottles of water. The benefits of proper hydration include improved athletic performance, fighting jet lag, burning calories, decreased signs of aging, and boosted mental clarity. go to www.liquid-iv.com and ENTER PROMO CODE SKINNY20 AT CHECKOUT TO RECEIVE 20% OFF YOUR ORDER This episode is brought to you by THRIVE MARKET. We use Thrive for our online grocery delivery on a weekly basis. They provide the highest quality products and ingredients delivered straight to our door with unbeatable prices.  Be sure to grab our deal by going to to https://thrivemarket.com/skinny to receive $60 of FREE organic groceries from Thrive Market + free shipping and a 30 day trial!" Keep in mind that Thrive Market's  prices are already 25- 50% below retail because they cut out the middleman. And now they are offering $60 off free organic groceries!  

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Welcome to the Skinny Confidential, him and her. Welcome back to the Skinny Confidential, him and her show. This week we have Steven Passerino on the show. We talk all things fitness, the Victoria's Secret pre-show regimen, how to implement physical therapy in your workout routine and nutrition. Hey guys, it's Lauren. And obviously it's Michael. Hi Michael. Hi Lauren. I thought it would be fun if before we got into the show, since this is so fitness heavy, if we talked about what we're doing for our fitness routines right now. So I've been doing a lot of heavy weights right now.

We know you talk about it every five seconds. Really, really strong. Probably one of the strongest guys around right now. And I'm just kidding. We've been doing a lot of aerobic workouts and cardio workouts, and I feel like I need to put on some more mass right now. So I switch it up and I'm doing a lot of heavy weights, a lot of low repetitions,

a lot of days off, right? When you're doing, when you're trying to build muscle mass, you need to take days off because you need your, you're breaking down your muscles and you need time to let them build and recover. And then when you're, when you're trying to lose weight, you want to, you want to hit it more frequently and, you know, not do such heavy weights for mass bulking. So give us an example of what a week of fitness is for you. Right now, I like this type of fitness a lot because in my opinion, it's the easiest, at least for me, because-

What's this type of fitness? Well, for me, it's trying to put on muscle. I think I can put on muscle luckily pretty easily, but the reason I like it the most, and that sounds arrogant, but the reason I like it the most right now is because I'm pretty much eating, not whatever I want, but I'm eating a lot. I've never seen you eat so much. You are stuffing your face. Normally you're not attached to food.

That's true. And I'm not so concerned with like healthy carbs or fats. I'm just basically eating to gain weight. That must be nice for you. It's nice right now. That's why I'm saying it's easiest. and yeah, and the workouts, you know, while they're tiring and they break down the muscle, they're not as high intensity. So I can just do a couple of weights, slam around here and there, and then

gain some biceps, you know? Love it. So for my workout routine for the last year, I have been doing three things that I think are really working for my body type, I have been doing three things that I think are really working for my body type. I've been doing workouts with Kim Kelly, who are launching the body guide revamped in like the next month. And we've been doing that probably three times a week. And we just do that at the beach or, uh, we'll go to my home gym and we'll just work out together for probably about an hour. Sometimes we'll only do 30 minutes if we don't have time. And that's a lot of kind of circuit training, a lot of butt, a lot of butt.

Has my butt gotten tighter? Butt's looking good. Butt's looking good. Okay. Almost said bite because I just want to take a bite out of it. So yeah, a lot of butt. We're doing a lot of arms, but we also stretch during the workout and we're going to bring all those workouts to the body guide. Another workout I've been doing,

if you guys follow me on Instagram is I've been doing a lot of reformer Pilates. I just feel like it works really well for my body. It stretches you out and lengthens you and why you're building like lean muscle. So that's been really interesting. And then also, of course, yoga. I do that more for mental clarity. I just feel like I go into yoga with files everywhere in my head. And then I take a yoga class and all the files are organized.

I did that this morning and I just have so much clarity after I leave. I've tried to think of that not as a workout, but more as something that just helps me mentally. But I want to say this. I did take Steven's workout. We did a class together. And what I really like about his workout is that he teaches you the mind-body connection of where to put it. So I noticed that I was putting a lot of my workouts in my quads. And after working out with Steven, I learned how to really put it in my ass. And he talks about this during the podcast. He talks about why it's so important to use the glute because it's the biggest muscle. And I've been noticing looking back that I haven't been using the glute as much. I'd been using my quad. So with his workouts, I just really, really learned where

to put it and to tell my brain to kind of put it in the glute instead of the quad. As I've gotten older with fitness, I've realized how important form is because a lot of people have really bad form. Stephen's really great with that. Yeah. And I think it's much more important to get form down and go slow and make sure that that's right as opposed to speeding through your workout and getting it done like slower, less weight or less repetitions with good form in the long run is much better yeah and next time you guys are working out notice where you're putting all your work and if it's in your quad try to switch it to your ass because the ass man told me he's known as the ass man in gq okay so tonight we will be on the red carpet.

Actually, we probably won't because you're not gonna be ready in time. We are going to the premiere of Tomb Raider and we're going to see Lara Croft. Do you know who Lara Croft is, Lauren? No, honey. You got to give me all the deets before we go. You hate when I see movies and I haven't seen the like prequels. You never grew up playing Tomb Raider? No, but I missed that part.

Angelina Jolie was in it for a while. Now it's a new one. Nope. Okay. So you're in for a while. Now it's a new one? Nope. Okay, so you're in for a surprise. Raiding some tombs. We're going to have a little champagne. I am known to fall asleep in the movie theater, though. We went to, remember when we went to the Cannes Film Festival

and you were asleep the whole time snoring? I was tired. I'm sure the film, the team that put that film together really appreciated you being asleep in their movie. I needed some electrolytes. That's true. You needed some electrolytes. And if you would have had some liquid IV, you might have been hydrated enough to get through the event. That's true.

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You call it whatever you want to call it. And we're getting ready to travel in the next 10 days. We'll be bringing them on every flight because high altitude, it's really easy to get dehydrated. Especially when you're on the plane. Yeah, it sucks. So just throw some in your bag, bring it, put in your water. Your purse. Yeah, your man purse.

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So when I was introduced to the electrolytes, I was obviously interested and did my research. I just think that staying hydrated is one of the most important things that you can do for your body, especially when you're hungover. So you'll hear on this interview how important it is for your skin and your fitness and your nutrition. Pretty much every skin and health expert that we've had on the podcast says their biggest tip is to stay hydrated. It sounds simple, but I feel like you forget.

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Add some of your teas if you want some extra flavor. Okay, for those of you who want to try this product, the team at Liquid IV is offering all TSC listeners 15% off at checkout when you enter the code SKINNY15. Definitely try this if you're jet lagged or you're hungover or you're working out. You won't be sorry. Get all your electrolytes in. Just go to liquid-iv.com and enter code SK15 at checkout to try this product. Enjoy. All right, Michael, let's get into the him and her tip of the week. Okay. My him tip this week, since we're talking fitness and we're talking to Steven, is about switching it up, right? Switching your fitness regimen up. We're talking a lot about

working out on this episode. My tip is to not get complacent and not do the same things all the time. Be open to new things. What happens if you've been doing the same workout for a long time is you start to feel yourself not getting the same results, right? You start to plateau. And that's because your body has probably gotten used to that workout and those exercises. And so you hit a point where doing the same thing repetitively over and over and over again stops getting you the results if you were to you know try something different or switch it up which is why you know I was doing a lot of aerobics a lot of cardio and now I'm switching to weights so it's shocked my body so I'm getting results really really quick I notice a lot of people

start working out and then they get discouraged because they're no longer getting the results they got in the beginning and that's because your body has gotten used to doing the same thing too many times. You ever seen those guys in the gym, they never do leg day and they go in there and they do the bench press over and over and they do biceps over and over and they just stay the same. Well, that's because they do the same thing over and over again. So guys and girls, it's important to switch it up. My entire life I've gone and done different workouts, switched things up, tried new things, weights, aerobics, stretching, whatever it is, activities. So if you're having a hard time, you're like, okay, where do I start? I would recommend maybe going outside the box, trying a different class,

maybe take up boxing, maybe take up yoga, maybe take up weights. I'm not a big fan of CrossFit, but if that's your cup of tea, then try that. The point is, is maybe try to switch it up every two to three months. I'm sure some trainers would come in and say sooner or later. The point is, is maybe try to switch it up every two to three months. I'm sure some trainers would come in and say sooner or later. I'm not, I'm not an expert, but all I know is that throughout my life, switching it up and shocking my body has gotten me a ton of results. So switch it up. I like it. Good tip. Speaking of switching it up, I'm actually not going to give a tip. I'm going to ask the audience for their help. This is like a major thing that I need help on.

It's a public service announcement. I think you're going to be really happy about this. I don't know shit about deodorant. You don't say. The other day we were podcasting with Jackie Schimmel and I was like, even I was like, whoa, dude. Okay, yeah, I got to put on some deodorant. Like this is like a thing. I know it's time. We have to repaint the walls of the studio. It's not that bad you guys. Okay. So I don't wear deodorant. There's something about

putting deodorant underneath my armpits that just grosses me out. I just don't like it near my boobs. It's too much going on, you know? So basically I am asking you guys, do you guys have a deodorant that works? Because I have tried every kind. I've tried the La Vanilla. I've tried a Primal Pit. I've tried everything and it doesn't work for me. So my tip of the week is actually an ask of the week. Can you go to my Instagram, please, on any picture and recommend a deodorant that works? Now, I have a couple specifics. I don't want aluminum in it. There's something about aluminum by my armpit that I'm just not into. We all know Michael uses Old Spice, which is... Old Spice is nice. Babe, Old Spice is illuminating me i'm gonna go down smelling spicy you do that

so i just really really need your advice if you have any you recommend you can tag the brand you can tell me why you like it probably coconut oil based if you can find one again the aluminum next to my boobs and my lymph nodes just doesn't work for me. Please, please, please help like anything. Okay. So that's, that's my, her tip. Let me reinforce that ask. Okay, guys, at this point, if you aren't using Thrive, what the fuck's going on? I'm not, I'm not quite sure that I get it. Every single person listening to our podcast should be listening to Thrive because you literally get $60 in free organic groceries and free shipping. Well, what the hell are you waiting for at this point? Pretty

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you have to drive to the store, load up your cart, wait in the line, check out, load the car back up, get back in the car, drive home, unload it. Waste of time. It's 2018 guys. The other day I bought so much detergent, all natural from Thrive. And I bought the spicy bone broth. They have a spicy bone broth. You know how I like my spice. And then I also bought Boom Boom popcorn and I was eating it all weekend. It was like the kettle corn. It comes in like the lilac bag. All three of those things, I would give an A plus to. They're totally TSC approved. In fact, I feel like I'm adding the popcorn to the master list. Yeah. It delivers your supplies every week or every month directly to your door. I mean, obviously that's nothing too special. It's 2018, but you don't have to waste all the time that you're going to waste in the grocery store and

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I found it on my own. I told you about Vigasport. Okay. Let's say you did, but I know you didn't. Okay. Anyways, I switched it. It's a plant-based protein. As a man, I always check to see if there's soy in the product because I don't think soy

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get $60 in free groceries and free shipping. Get the spicy bone broth, get the kettle corn popcorn, get the natural detergent. And again, that's thrivemarket.com slash skinny. It's not a coupon, guys. It's an actual link. Happy shopping. Steven Pastorino was dubbed the ass man by GQ magazine. His method is called P-Volve and helps to help people transform their bodies through

sustainable methods that create incredible tone and definition without straining, damaging, or bulking muscles. Perfect for us ladies. The P-Volv approach to fitness is very much about creating confidence and building a strength. Stephen's been obsessed with fitness for about 15 years and is very much focused on the functional science. Stephen incorporates physical therapy and rehabilitation movements into exercise to help clients develop long, lean muscle tone to eliminate bulk. He's worked with thousands of women to achieve real, visible results. He also happens to train a bunch of celebrities and Victoria's Secret models, so he knows his shit, guys.

He's a fitness disruptor, which is why we wanted him on the show, and today he's going to talk about why it's important for women to examine their approach to fitness and create long-term results. With that, let's welcome the ass man to the show. This is the skinny confidential him and her Steven Pastorino. That's right here live in the studio. First, you know, this is the first time we've ever recorded in the studio? Really? I swear to God, we just got this whole thing set up, just started Dear Media Studio, and you are the first ever guest in the studio for your first ever podcast. That's amazing.

We have a beautiful view. I mean, the weather out here is just amazing. It's insane. And we just got done with your workout. You trained me for an hour, and it was insane. We're going to get into it. Okay. First, I'll let Michael hop right into it.

So yeah, I mean, give us a little bit of background to start. We were talking a little bit before, like for those of you, for the people out there that haven't, that are not familiar with your work, give us a little background. All right. So I'm going to go back about 15 years. I mean, I've always been obsessed with fitness, you know, playing sports growing up. I was a swimmer. I played football.

I was always running, biking, and just always obsessed with the body, how to make it better, how to look better, how to feel better, you know, proportions and getting the ratios right, and how I could change muscle, maybe make one bigger or smaller, and basically became an expert like most men are in just you know developing muscle getting bigger lifting weights running sprints pushing sleds all that stuff and i actually you know before i even moved to new york i had like an epiphany at about 25 right before i moved there um i was breaking down my body so bad i was starting to get joint pain after about 10 years of working out. Just too big? You got too big? I wasn't too big, but just the wear and tear of exercise kind of took me to a place where I

thought, I think I'm actually doing more harm than good. And then everyone I knew who also was working out also wasn't feeling that great either. A lot of injuries, arthritis in their elbows, just crazy stuff. And anyway, moving on from that, and I'll touch back on that later. But I moved to New York five years ago, started training. I was in, you know, working in Soho and there was a lot of women in Soho working out, doing deadlifts, doing squats, just doing like NFL football workouts. You know, some workout that you might see online that was like a Navy SEAL workout,

you have these young girls doing it. And I just felt like it was counterintuitive to what they wanted. And I spent a lot of time listening to what they were looking for. And I just met a lot of different women, had a lot of conversations and people were frustrated. They just were working out so much, working out six days a week and weren't getting the results they were looking for so from

that point on i knew there had to be something different so how did you create this method like tell us about exactly how you how you went from a to b you're talking with these girls they're telling you all these issues how did you have that aha moment? Well, it started with, you know, going back to my background. I knew that just about 98% of the exercises they were doing were going to make them more swollen and bigger. So that was out. And I was still meeting a lot of women who were doing bar, Pilates, yoga. And, you know, those things are great. They're great workouts.

But it still wasn't bringing them to where they wanted to go and i just knew i had to reinvent this whole thing and and find a different way and i got really lucky i i came upon uh this this school called the gray institute and it's basically a group of physical therapists who have their own method of physical therapy. And they have a one-year program. I got in, was in school with all these doctors and just learned all about bone and joint motions. You know, understanding the body as a whole, how it works and not how it works when you're lifting a weight, but how it works when you're walking down a hill or up the stairs or, you know, just taking a step and rotating to pick something up. Our bodies are so complex, they're so dynamic, and there really is so much to understand. And it goes so much deeper than what we're all really used to. So, that really opened up a whole new world for me. And it just

changed the way I look at the body, changed the way I look at fitness. And from there, I started using this methodology, and I was turning it into exercise. And I spent years just testing it. And I opened a studio in New York, small studio, and it was really just my science lab. I had the clients, and I was just testing this stuff out, trying to do these new exercises, figuring things out, know how how to get a reaction out of one muscle versus another and um you know fast forward three years i was just having unbelievable results and here i am now and now we have p-volve which is you know we've got this workout down so good and i want to share it with just everybody that's why i have the

stream what is the what are the like the cornerstones or the keystones of P-Volv? So I'm focused on the hips and I'm focused on the joints. The biggest complaints I think are, for number one, we talked about this, is the inner thighs. Women have such a hard time toning their inner thighs. Oh, it's such a pain in the ass. It's such a pain. And a lot of women, I mean, thighs is the number one thing that I've gotten. It's definitely the hardest part of the body to change and tone up. And a lot of, I mean, nobody was doing it in New York.

And all these women were ending up in my gym. And the number one thing that produces the results are focusing on the hips. So explain, because I feel like in my life I have bad hips and I like other stuff's pretty rounded out. Maybe I don't have problems lower back, maybe, but hips are bad. So what specifically can you do for the hips? Because I don't think a lot of people, especially me, think about the hips in the workout regimen. Yeah.

So, you know, it's the crossroads, your body. I mean, your, your butts attached to it, your thighs are attached to it, your lower stomach runs through it. And usually when the hips are off, the whole body gets thrown off. It's a very complex biomechanical system. And, you know, getting all these different hip motions, creating the mobility, turns on muscles and then in turn yields results. So when we were working out today, I'm so used to putting all the work in my thighs. That's where I put the work. But you had me doing all these exercises that it wasn't like CrossFit, but it was exercises that you had to engage the hips. And how you did that was you flexed the butt. Yeah. So number one thing, everyone walking in that I've noticed, everyone's quad dominant.

They're more active in their quads versus their butt. And the reason why is because the body loves, takes the path of least resistance always. So, it doesn't matter what workout you're doing, nobody's focusing on what they're doing. They're just running through it. They're focusing on sweating, getting that burn, and they're becoming quad dominant. Your thighs aren't as strong as your butt. I always say this, the glutes are the biggest, strongest muscle in the body. They propel you. They take you in every direction.

They're dead center and they control everything that goes on. So, you know, step one, what is that? Let's get them more butt dominant. Let's get them out of the thighs. Let's get the hips open and let's get their butt bigger, stronger, and well, not bigger, but, you know, more lifted. And let's get that pressure out of the legs. That's step one. And as soon as you do that, you see the swelling go away almost instantly.

Why? It's just when you take it out of the hips and you take it to the butt, you can see inflammation go away? Literally. So, you know, inflammation, it doesn't matter if it's in the ankles, the calves, the back, the shoulders, you can always follow inflammation and link it to a joint, a joint restriction. And anytime a joint gets bound up, usually the hips because we're all sitting and sitting in cars and we're sitting all day long. So we get stuck in flexion. You can always trace inflammation back to a locked up joint. So release those joints.

The inflammation is going to start to go away. You know, activate the butt and you're getting all that pressure out of the thighs. Downward pressure, to me, is the number one enemy. You want your butt to do the work. You don't want your thighs to do the work. The thighs are more for stability and just transferring that energy from the glutes to the ground and back up. So if someone's sitting at home right now, and they want to do something that transfers the energy from their quads to their butt, what can they do?

The simplest thing, and you'll see, if you do my streaming or you work out with me, I say it nonstop, keep your knees back. So you can... Like not over the foot when you're squatting or whatever? Just don't keep the knee over the foot. Just keep it back. I always say put the weight in your heels.

Like you're sitting in a chair. Like you're sitting in a chair. And then the other thing that I do, so I don't do the knee over the foot. Just keep it back. I always say put the weight in your heels. Like you're sitting in a chair. Like you're sitting in a chair. And then the other thing that I do, so I don't do squats in my workout. I'm anti-squat and I'm anti-lunge. And the reason for that is because as soon as you go down in that position, where does that pressure go? It goes right into your quad. It goes right into your knees. So basically I took the squat and I cut maybe 80% of it off.

So I have the girls drop down into a, what I call a sit. And basically all they're doing is they're just dropping down low enough where it's just keeping the pressure in the glutes. And you're stopping right before that point where the pressure goes to the legs, um, and then reverse the motion and come back up. And that's training their brain to use their butt more than their thighs. So let me ask you this. Why women? Let me listen. Good looking guy.

I'm sure they're not complaining. But why, you know, we're talking about football and all sorts of sports. How did you get involved training women as opposed to men? And Victoria's Secret models. Yeah. But I'm curious because, you know, with your background, you think you'd train more men. Well, men are easy. And, you know, I'm a more men. Well, men are easy.

I grew up as a huge Arnold Schwarzenegger fan. You're a huge fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Love Arnold. He wrote the guideline to getting a perfect male physique. He wrote it all out. It's the same workout you've been seeing for 40 years. You go into any gym in America, what's everyone doing? They're doing that same workout, the crunches and the shoulder press. And, you know, that produces muscle development. You put on weight, you put on size. And, you know, for women, I don't think

anyone came up with a way to really tone up and just really accentuate the natural curves of a woman's body or a man's body. I mean this is the only, this is the workout I do now and it just brings me back to my natural shape and I don't think any workout was doing that and some of them might get close but... No, well listen I mean when Lauren would train, she would train with some of my trainers and it was a lot of the workouts you're talking about and she would complain and I I would ask the guys, I said, you know, like these are workouts that we do to try to bulk me up, bulk my legs up. And you know, there's the typical trainer thing where it's like, oh, you got to build

the muscle to burn the fat. But I think that if you're, there's no, there's no way around bulking, right? If those are the workouts you're doing, you're doing heavy squats and leg lifts and all the things you're going to bulk. So I think it's smart. I think it's extremely smart. Yeah. And when I started, it was like like how do i create a workout for an hour that will not bulk you at all and that was the number one complaint from women it was i'm working

out and i'm just bulking up and you know some people that's what you want if you want to develop that type of body but for the majority for all the conversations i was having it was how do I just get tighter and you know more contoured and this workout that I have it's a strength and conditioning program but it doesn't build you up and bulk you up it just takes you to a natural shape that you know fits your physique makes sense I mean I notice when I do spin and super gnarly crossfit I'm starving and I totally feel inflamed. Now today, after working out with you, I don't feel that same way at all. Can you talk to me about the difference

between something like CrossFit and what you do and what the differences are before and after the workout? Absolutely. So another big goal with P-Volv and what I've tried to do is, I never wanna break anybody's body down. I don't wanna break the muscle tissue down. Because that, when you want to get bigger, when you want to build up the muscle, what do you do? You break it down, you get a ton of food, it gets bigger. Same thing. And you repeat that over and over again. You know, I want the opposite.

So, let's work the muscles, let's get them very active. Let's condition them. But let's not take it so far that we're breaking up that muscle tissue. And, you know, when you do that, your body's starving. It's craving those calories. And it makes you hungry. And then everything you put in your body, it holds on to. I also think we talked a little bit about stress and cortisol. Can you kind of speak on that? Absolutely.

Another thing, you know, we have enough stress in our lives. Stress is like, it kills you. It's the worst thing. And it causes weight gain, causes inflammation. So, you know, you want to work out five, six days a week. That's great. But how can I deliver that and not put any stress on the body? So, you know, you got to watch your cortisol levels that equals weight gain. And one of the biggest things I see from women coming into my gym is, you know, they just work. They do so much. They just work themselves down. You know, they're super stressed out and actually end up gaining weight.

That is so nuts. I've seen that from a lot of women. You were telling me earlier, they work out seven days a week and it's almost too much. It's way too much. And, you know, when I was getting ready for the Victoria's Secret show I had a couple girls and you know we weren't doing more than five days a week and we were doing an hour a day and we were breaking it up so you know two days on one day off always giving the body a rest always giving it a chance to recover and you'll actually

find that you can work out x amount of days and then you'll start to swell. You gotta give your body a rest, let it recover. And it actually tightens up. So let's rewind a little bit because this is intriguing to me. How did you get involved with the Victoria's Secret women? My wife's looking at me with death stars. But I think a lot of people would be interested because to just casually. Do you want to walk as an angel in the show?

Like, I don't get it. Listen, I think a lot of people out there, you know, when I was doing the victoria's secret show sounds very casual but i mean that's obviously a milestone yeah how did you get involved you don't meet the height requirement i don't know uh let me i'm gonna get a few tips here and then maybe then that'll be my secondary job after this podcast over yeah you know for me it didn't start with victoria's secret models or actresses or celebrities it started with just everyday women and And, you know, all ages, backgrounds, lifestyles, body types, all coming to me saying, hey, I heard about you have this new workout. Let me see if it works. I heard about it from a friend. And, you know, I spent years in

the gym with just everyday women, getting them into phenomenal shape, better than anyone else was doing. And, you know, they might not be six foot tall, but their bodies really weren't any different than the VS models. I mean, the proportions, the contours in their thighs, the shape of their glutes, the perfect posture, you know, the toneness of the arms. They might have a different bone structure, but our anatomy is virtually all the same. And you get little differences but i i truly believe that if you can take any woman and just give her her natural body and get her you know accentuate her natural curves everyone looks amazing are you seeing that you have to also change the diet

along with the workout are you seeing this workout just give really really great results quickly i mean you absolutely have to eat well okay and uh you know even if you're not it's still going to give you the strength it's still going to start to move get rid of the inflammation it's gonna um you know accentuate your curves but if you want to get you know lose weight and really tighten up and bring out some crazy definition you you've got to get on a diet and you gotta hit the workout consistently. So how do you prepare these Victoria's Secret models for the show?

Like give us all the tips, I want all the juice, like everything. Well, step one with them is they gotta have strength. They gotta have a strong, they have to have perfect posture. They have to have a strong butt and they have to have very strong hips. And without that, without establishing that foundation, you're never gonna get into the best shape of your life.

So, and that's what we're going after here. You know, we're creating healthy bodies, but we're also, you know, getting that unrealized potential and taking it as far, you know, as far as you can. And, you know, step one is you have to have balanced muscles. You can't be overdeveloped anywhere or unbalanced. You have to have all the joints working perfectly, and you've got to have the strength in your glutes. You've got to have the strength in your hips, because once you fix that, everything else follows.

And now you're set up for just amazing success. And leading up to the show, that's all I'm doing. I'm establishing that strength. I'm establishing balanced muscles. And then getting closer to the show, now we're starting to do more toning exercises. But you always got to hit the functional workouts first, the stepping patterns. I do, you know, most of what I do is on two feet. All different movements that really just mimic what we're doing in real life every day.

Whether you're just playing tennis or you're picking up your kids out of a crib or, you know, walking in heels, or I'm trying to create an authentic environment so that when you leave the gym, those muscles are still working throughout the day. That's so interesting. You're almost retraining us to flex our ass, not our glutes or not our quads. Exactly. I love it. So let's go, let's go in a little bit of a different direction and kind of get specific

here. What are some of the biggest mistakes you see women and men making in the gym? If you could dial it in and say, okay, to give somebody some real value out there, they're working out consistently, they think they're in good shape, maybe they are in good shape, but they're doing something that in the long run is going to hurt them, whether it's going to not elongate their muscles or it's going to ruin their hips or their legs or whatever. What do you see as a common mistake? I think the biggest mistake is, you know, the majority of us live our day sitting down

or, you know, sitting, whether it's on a couch, a car, or at an office. So, this position we're in right here, this is just, this is flexion. You have flexion of your hips, you're kind of, your posture's down. And you live your whole, you spend your whole day in this position. And then when you go to the gym, what are you doing? You're doing crunches and deadlifts and squats. So, all you're doing is you're still working out in that same position you've been all day. So, that's what, you know, no wonder everyone's posture's bad.

Everyone's hips are tight. So, you have to reverse what you've been doing all day. So I primarily work out in extension through the spine, through the hips and constantly elongating because we're, you know, we're hunched over all day. Now we're looking at our phones. So you need to open everybody up, get their, you know, open up the shoulders, open up the stomach. And, you know, that's step one. And then after after that it's just working in the positions that we're probably stuck in all day and you talked a little bit about high heels and there's a lot of women listening can you give us some tips for someone that's a high heel lover so yeah so for the victoria's secret show going back to that you know they're walking in very high

heels with 50 pound wings on their back. It's, it's. That's how much those fucking wings wear? They're crazy. The way? Jesus Christ. And, you know, it's basically, you got a force coming down and you have a force coming up and, you know, you have to strengthen the core. And when I say strengthen the core, it's not doing sit-ups and push-ups.

That doesn't translate into real life. You have to do it all standing up. So it's rotation, it's extension, flexion of the torso. Everything I do is mostly it's standing up and you have to strengthen the core in a position that's going to translate into real life. It's going to translate onto the runway. Because going back to what I said before, if you're just trying to get abs by doing crunches and planks, you're just staying stuck in that position. Now I'm wondering what the hell those wings are made of, right?

I know that's like complete side tangent, but Jesus Christ, those things are heavy. Yeah. And going back to that too, I use a slant board like religiously and the slant board, all it does is it lifts up the heel, maybe four or five inches. So they're already in that heel up position and I'm training them to be strong in the position that they would be in their heels. Does this, so what happens, and Lauren, maybe you can answer this. You know those videos online and it's the girls and they're walking on the run

when they start wobbling in their heels and they fall off the runway or they fall into a pool? Oh, yeah. We were just talking about this earlier. Is that just like a lack of coordination? Is that the shoe or is that a lack of strength? It's a lack of strength. Wow. I mean, that's extremely hard to come back from.

But that is a length of strength, you know, through the ankle and through the calf and through the knee, all the way up to the hip. If you can establish a very, you know, and what this workout does is I'm trying to get all the muscles fired up, strengthened up. You got 600 muscles running through your body. How can you make them all work? And it's a lot of balance and stability. And it goes back to that same thing.

You see that wobble. Well, you want to have the strength through your ankle and your calf to pull that back, stabilize it. And where does it start? It's going to start in the butt. The more you have that thing fired up, the more stable you're going to be. And it's interesting. There was a girl who fell in the Victoria's Secret show this year. And what I went back to in the studio was, you know, I watched her falling in slow-mo, figured out exactly what happened, and then I recreated it through exercise. So, when the girls came back to the gym, just, I mean, right now they're all at Fashion Week. So, you know, she took a step forward.

She didn't have the strength in her butt, and she slid forward and she fell. And you just break it down in slow motion. So, how can I prevent my clients from ever getting to that position where they step in that high heel, slide forward? How do I create the strength to pull them back from that motion? And it all comes from your butt and your hips, or that's where it starts. It starts. I'm telling you, the more strength you have in your butt, the more stable you're going to be. And you look amazing. Okay. So say someone's at home right now and they can't go to new york and work out with you what can they do at home with their butt to just like lift it and make it that smile that we

throw that 50 pound backpack on yeah no no so heels i mean i have walking down the neighborhood so the exact workouts that i was doing with my clients in shanghai it's on my streaming program and i have it labeled like runway ready um you know everything's on there you know i was training blanca for seven months leading up to the show you know that is a victoria secret model blanca padilla yeah and she looked incredible and she i mean she went through a transformation over that course that seven months which you know got her the casting you know we got ready for that and then she got the show and it was it was something that wasn't on their radar and she is i mean she's killing it and um you know it all started seven months ago getting her ready building the foundation giving her that confidence to walk and you know building the glutes contouring

out the thighs and uh you know keeping her healthy throughout the whole time and you know a lot of people ask about like victoria's secret diets and you know what crazy things are they doing but you know we weren't doing anything crazy we had a very sustainable plan I mean the night before she had fish rice juice some spinach we didn't do anything dramatic and I know we were talking about this earlier you know out there there's so much there's so many crazy diets there's trainers that have you doing these insane workouts and quick fixes. And at the end of the day, they really don't work. They just make you really unhealthy.

So with P-Volv, I really wanted to get everyone to that best shape possible. Let's do it in a very healthy, sustainable way. And there is a way to do it. There's a way to, you know, lose weight without starving yourself. You don't have to cut carbs you don't have to go run 10 miles and do crazy cardio there's a more healthy way

to get in shape so what was the butt workout that she was doing is there anything they can do at home to lift the butt you were doing one with me I think where I was kicking my leg to the side yeah so no I have some really good exercises that are super simple that can get your butt lifted, I mean, in no time. And it doesn't, it's not a squat, it's not a lunge, I do steps. So, it's a step, you know, we did it too. You

step straight back, heel up, engage the butt, pull it back in. And people need to understand that your glutes are so complex, they're such big muscles. It takes a lot of different exercises to make that whole thing work. Like you can't just do a squat and a deadlift and a lunge straight, you know, forward and back. You need to hit all different angles, different foot positions, different pieces of equipment. It's really endless and in a single workout, I'll hit like 60, 70 different butt workouts all working your glutes and that's how you get the perfect shape. You know, you're working the top, you're working the bottom, the outside, the inside, the inside

bottom. And, you know, that's why, you know, GQ called me the ass master. I was going to ask you about that. Yeah, they came to my class and they were like, holy shit, everyone in this class's ass is insane. I'm going to work out with you every time I'm in New York because I want to get like tips from the ass master. Yeah. And if you look at the girls, you know, come to my class, you look at the girls gonna work out with you every time i'm in new york because i want to get like tips from the ass master yeah and and if you look at the girls you know come to my class you look at the girls that work out with me they look unbelievable if you if you watch the girls in

the victoria victoria secret show that worked out with me they look unreal and you know i've done it without doing any squats any lunges or deadlifts and it's all through what i was talking about earlier this physical therapy. And, you know, the same strategies they do to rehab someone from a hip surgery or, you know, a torn ACL, I took the same strategies and turned it into exercise. And it is, that's why the workout is so different. That's how I've set myself apart. And, you know, it started out as a way to keep people really healthy and the results have just been unbelievable and that's kind of how you know it's progressed and we've been perfecting it now i have it on the streaming so everyone can do it now you're the ass master that's amazing

that's what they used to call me no they never called you that so is they also describe you as prehab what what is that term so yeah prehab, that's what I studied. It's all injury prevention. So there's a lot of people with torn ACLs, you know, slipped discs, you know, twisted ankles, broken ankles, and all of that is preventable. And they do it a lot in sports training.

And a lot of people that I went to school with... Like sports medicine type training? Yeah, they work with like athletes in sports training and a lot of people that I went to school with like sports medicine type training yeah they work with like athletes and soccer and football and tennis but basically when basically when you get an injury especially in ACL tears a great example it comes from a restriction in usually the foot and they don't have that motion in their knee to internally rotate and they always tear it every time so what I would do is I will work in that threshold get the body conditioned for the motion that you know tears the acl and you know you're strong so we're working in different ranges of motion different thresholds

and you know going through the joints to make sure you have all that mobility all that motion so when you get you're playing a sport and you get into that motion where the acl is going to tear you've already worked out in that position does that make sense it makes sense so say what say there's somebody okay we've been talking a lot about like athletes and i think you know all of us i don't want to say you're an expert but i don't say like we're experts but we're in we're in decent physical shape for somebody that's starting out and they're thinking about getting in the gym where where would you recommend that they start or maybe not if they're starting out but somebody that's been you know getting serious about working out they're thinking about getting in the gym, where would you recommend that they start? Or maybe not that they're starting out, but somebody that's been getting serious about working out. They're dipping their toe in.

No, they're not just dipping their toe in, but they're serious about it now. They've made the commitment in their life that they want to get in shape. What would the first piece of advice be? I always say you got to start slow. Start with sustainable. Don't start off by doing a bunch of crazy shit.

You got to build a solid foundation and and the more work you can put into building that foundation the easier it is it's going to be to get into shape to stay in shape and you know to stay healthy throughout the whole journey and one thing i always say and everyone wants to start doing cardio and running i always say you have to get in shape to run you don't run to get in the shape i also feel like running and people might get mad at me for saying this for me i feel like it makes everything sag and i don't want my tits on the ground and i don't want you know my face on the ground like i'm trying to lift everything up so i don't for me like i don't like that constant repetitive motion running running running like that's just something i just feel is very aging and i'm all about anti-aging.

Yeah. So I would rather walk. Yeah, let's keep those tits up. So I don't do any running with my clients. That's like the one thing I cut out immediately. And walking is way better. You know, running is so propelled by momentum. Cortisol, I feel like.

And you're jacking up that cortisol you're pushing into your knees your thighs you're pounding on your ankles so you know i get rid of it completely my partner weston actually our partner weston is also one of my best friends um every time it's funny he goes in and out of wanting to get in shape and every time he wants to get in shape he start he just runs on the treadmill but it's like you know he gets to the point where he can run and run and run and run and he's not seeing the results i'm like man you're just kind of like staying in one motion for forever so it's interesting my workout i i don't do more than eight reps i don't repeat exercises so it's it's a continuous hour of movement and motion

i am so against repetitive working out because that's what leads to imbalance in the muscles that's what leads to bulking uh over development in your thighs like so many people have. So I'm constantly changing and there's so many ways to work your body. I do eight reps and I move on. Eight reps, move on. When you say move on, like your next exercise, you're not taking long breaks. It really was a really different kind of workout. I mean, I was really impressed by it. It's something that I've never done, but it makes so much sense when you break it down. I want to talk to you a little bit about, you know, there's so many fad diets out there. There's, there's women that are taking, you know, pills to lose weight. I want to talk about how that spikes women's cortisol and fucks

up their metabolism. I mean, I think that's something that, that a lot of girls are trying to just do a quick fix what are your recommendations there well i you know i hate the quick fix yeah um the quick fix is just going to bring you way back down um i the way i always explain it to people is you know think of your body as a pendulum and that pendulum swinging from left to right and the farther you bring it one direction nothing is going to come swinging back the other and you're going to get it way worse. Like a lot of girls love to take water pills and yeah, you're going to be ripped up for 24 hours,

but then your body is going to retain even more water and you're going to look worse. So what I try to explain to people is you want to do it sustainably and you want to slowly move that pendulum. You want to control the swing and you want to move it into the direction that you want to be. That way you're not getting these drastic changes. I just see so many different

people taking, you know, pills or I've even seen ADHD medication. People just, you know, I just think it fucks up your metabolism so bad. You're really asking for trouble when you start messing with that. You know, you gotta, you gotta create a lifestyle that's healthy. And, you know, you'll never reach your peak by using, you know, artificial drugs. You're just selling yourself short, and then you're gonna bounce back and look worse. So, you know, when it comes to diet, you know, don't jump into some crazy diet. You're just setting yourself up for failure. So, what I always do with my clients, I say, you know, write out a full diet, everything you eat, the exact time you eat it, and let me get a sense of what your schedule is and what you're eating. And I don't, if they have a list of 10 things that are shit on there, I don't cross them all out. I might cross one or

two out and, you know, add this, add some vegetables. And then next week I crossed two more things out. So it's slowly meaning weaning them off all the garbage they're eating which a lot of them don't even realize it's bad for you and then I'm slowly implementing more vegetables because you got to kind of change the way your brain responds to these things. You have to change your taste buds and you know by doing it that way, slow and sustainable, after six you know four or five six months you're not even thinking about it anymore. You want to eat healthy and when you put that garbage into your body it just tastes bad you know i just lauren gets mad at me for saying because and this is obnoxious i admit it is

obnoxious but i just had uh my first sip of alcohol on saturday for this whole year i haven't had any alcohol which is incredible it's pretty crazy for me volume 888 because he's told this story i wanted to tell you i wanted to say it because it's not that i did it more for focus not for her fitness yeah but it was interesting the first month was difficult and then i got to the point where my body was like it did not want it like it was like i was not craving it was actually retrained your taste buds repelling it and i think you know when people when people think oh my god i gotta do this diet or i gotta cut this out of my life it's gonna be so difficult it was almost like my body once it got rid of the alcohols like don't put that back in here it knows like it doesn't it didn't want it now i'm now i'm off the wagon again i'm fucked but

well it's that 30 days to create a new habit you know that shit never goes at it what is something that you see you said that there's a lot of people that will list things that they think are healthy but you're just like no that's not healthy what's something that you keep seeing people i mean i think people will have smoothies a lot with a ton of different stuff in it and not realize that it's really a hundred percent yeah i completely agree with that the number one thing that i see that everyone eats is uh nuts and nut butters i mean you want to gain weight that's yeah start eating nuts i mean it's good for you it It's healthy fats. But, you know, who's eating four almonds? Nobody. I'm eating like the whole jar of almond butter.

A hundred percent. You know, Tanya Zuckerbrot of F Factor said that too. She said we're in this day where everyone's like healthy fat, healthy fat, healthy fat. But it's almost too much healthy fat. Exactly. And, you know, cutting carbs, I think, is one of the worst things. Your body needs carbs. All my clients eat carbs. We just keep it clean. We don't put butter on it. um you know cutting carbs i think is one of the worst things your body needs carbs uh all my

clients eat carbs we just keep it clean we don't put butter on it you know we'll have a sweet potato but we'll put a little bit of olive oil or turmeric on it you know quinoa is great but for yeah my favorite recipe is uh turmeric quinoa my wife makes it for me like every night that sounds good it's amazing man i don't get any turmericera quinoa you get other things and you met your wife when you guys were working out yeah so you know she worked out with me for uh seven months and just didn't leave me alone i just didn't pay any attention to her and then finally one day i saw her you know in the studio and i was like oh wow and we've been together ever since and you know we got story here yeah just this one you know but she's she's um you know she's in phenomenal shape she

she's diehard about the program and you know she transformed her body and she got into such amazing shape and when i met her she was training with another vs trainer um doing like intense boxing workouts she had she has scoliosis and when she finally made her way to me she like couldn't move her back was completely fucked and she she couldn't sleep at night she had serious back pain because she was training like a fighter this little girl was training like you know doing these crazy workouts training like a fighter and we know when i met her she wasn't she was i mean i hope she doesn't mind me saying this but she wasn't even eating that much she she was trying to lose weight by drinking green tea all day. Right.

And I had to completely retrain her. I had to fix her back, get her scoliosis alleviated, which is something I spent a lot of time studying when I was in school. And getting the inflammation out of her body, get her moving again, get her mobile, and then get her on a very healthy, sustainable diet. And she's lost. She's transformed in about healthy, sustainable diet. And she's lost, uh, you know, she, she's gotten, she's transformed in about two, three years, but her diet every night is, you know, eating vegetables, eating, uh, she eats a lot of carbs, but you know, we burn it off every day and it's super clean. And that's really the idea with it all. Um, you know, keeping it clean, keeping it, um, not overburdening yourself.

I love it. What's something that the audience can buy? Is there anything that they could buy that would help with this workout? Is there a ball they could use or something to help with their posture and their hips? Yeah, so on my website, I actually invented a ball that is for the inner thighs. I used it today. It's so gnarly. It is unbelievable unbelievable and um i mean it transforms your midsection so it works everything from the belly button to the mid thigh and the way this came about was um you know going back years just having the same

conversation over you know women coming to me hey i want to get in the shape my biggest problem is my inner thigh nothing works i've been to every workout method i've tried every product that is true it's hard it's a really hard it is extremely hard and i mean i was like on a die-hard mission to like how do i tone this muscle there's got to be a way it's not there's there's muscle there how do i make it work and uh you know i figured that out through you know using physical tactics, but also I created this ball that sits at the very top of your thighs. It pushes right against the muscle that everyone's having a hard time with, and it activates it.

And you go through the workout, and you feel that muscle working. And after you take the ball off, that muscle's still active. So that's how you start to train it. You start to get it active. You start conditioning it. And you can really tone your inner thighs. A secondary thing that came with this ball was it really works your butt. And this is one way I became, you know, the ass master.

What a great thing to be known for, the ass master. That's like every guy's dream. Yeah, and well, I take it very seriously. And I've taken a very scientific approach to, you know, working your butt. And the biggest game changer that I've seen, and, you know, if you want to change the way someone's butt appears and really lift it up is you have to get the muscles that are at the very bottom inside of the glutes. It is so, it's almost impossible to get to it and it runs right into the inner thigh

and what the ball does, the P-ball as I call it, it activates that muscle. It puts the pressure right on it, works the inner thigh, works the inner glute and once you fire that muscle up, everything pushes up. The inner thighs tighten up, the butt lifts and it's a game changer and it's my client's favorite piece of equipment, it's their favorite workout and I've been testing it like crazy. I really liked it. I did it today. I was squeezing that ball as hard as I could to get those inner thighs going.

Good. Great. Hey, guys can use it too. I can throw it on you after this. How do you do that with your balls? It is very uncomfortable. Yeah. We just have to.

So I know you have a link for the listeners and we're going to get to it. But if you could leave one final message, the last message for the show that to, to give to the listeners, just a, just a takeaway. What would it, what would be the main takeaway that you want to leave them with? Um, yeah, for all the women out there who are trying to really just get into shape and understand what's happening with their body, um, you know, think differently about the exercises you're doing, you know, why are you doing it? What is the cost, you know, and what's the benefit. And, you know, if you don't know why what is the cost, you know, and what's the benefit. And, you know, if you don't know why you're doing a bunch of exercises and your trainer can't explain that to you, then get out and figure something out. And you have to, you know, everything you have to do is slow down, understand your body,

understand how this machine works. It's really a complex machine. And the more you learn about it and the more you can tune in to your own body, the better shape that you're going to get into. And I have a whole program online to help you do that. And it doesn't matter what you're into. If you still like, you know, love doing cardio or you love playing sports, it's awesome. This will enhance whatever it is you do and it will, you know, correct those balances,

you know, create mobility in your joints and the healthier you can be, the better shape you're going to get into. I hope all of you guys are flexing your ass through this entire interview and you're taking it out of the hips. Where can everyone find you? Pimp yourself out. So I'm on pvolv.com and my handle on Instagram is pvolv. And I know you have, you have a unique code for, for our listeners. Yeah. It's a 30 day free trial and it's uh my.pvolve.com slash vip access is that correct that's correct yeah okay so you can work you can work out with me you could do those vs workouts you can get the ball on amazon and you can really uh you know fire this up and start changing your body summer is about what four or five months away you got to start planning your summer body in the winter you have to 100 so important i have a trip in september and i was

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