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Okay, now ladies.

Welcome to the pregame.

What's good y'all?

Caitlin Nicole here, and welcome back to another episode of the pregame.

Today's guest is someone who has quite literally seen

me at my strongest, my weakest, and every squat, lunge, and meltdown in between. He's been

my trainer, my motivator, and my unofficial therapist for the last like what, eight years now?

A long time. A long freaking time. His no excuse

approach to health and wellness has changed not just my body, but my mindset. But behind the

protein shakes and, you know, the insane workouts, he is someone, you know, with like real fears,

real stories and real wisdom to share. So today I'm really excited to get into it all. Please welcome to the pregame, my trainer, my friend. People call him Gerald. I call him G. How you doing? Welcome. I would give you a hug with his mic's in the way. Tell the people what we're drinking today. I asked G for his drink of choice and he selected. It's a tequila. I, well, no, no, no. Just say it. It's okay. It's a tequila soda. Okay. But before the soda was there, it was actually better. Just straight tequila. Before, yeah. Yeah. We're going to jump into things. the first quarter, ketchup and yap, I have a little game prepared for you.

So I'm going to give you a series of phrases

and you're going to tell me if it's truth or if it's trash. So we'll call this game truth or trash. Just get into it. Okay? First off the list, we've got pre-workout is essential. Truth or trash? Both.

No.

Truth.

Out the gate.

Wrong answer. Well, truth. Truth or trash? Is essential? Essential. Okay. Why is it? Because one, if you try to go in there just raw dog it, it's not going to be, you're not going to have a good time. But the pre-workout could be caffeine, could be coffee, could be, you know, Celsius, could be, you know, Jack 3D back in the day. Yeah, there's a lot of options. So it's not just one pre-workout, whatever your caffeine preference of choice. Yeah. I'll say the truth. I'm not about to go work out without having some type of caffeine in me. For me, it really depends on where I'm at mentally. Like, sometimes I can just fuel myself with anger and rage. You know what I mean? Just go in there straight off of emotion. Yeah, sometimes. Raw dog, everything. But I find myself when I'm kind of like bored with working out, I do need a little caffeine, espresso, Celsius combo pack.

So what's both in? Because if you have some, truth or trash?

This is the game we're playing? We don't have time for some demons in there.

We don't have time for gray areas. Okay, next question. Lifting makes women bulky. Truth or trash? Why is that trash? If women are bulky, they try to be bulky. Like, you don't just fall in, too,

and just grow into Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. It happens. You lift heavy. Right. You're not bulky. Right. I don't consider myself. Aesthetic, silhouette, soft, curvy, right. Yeah. Things don't move, right? So you don't really miss that many days in the gym. Of lifting, yeah. Right, right. So, yeah, it's trash. Yeah, that's a common misconception. People think that if you lift heavy as a woman, you're going to bulk up. The women who do look bulky, it literally happened on purpose. They are aesthetically striving for that. Exactly. It didn't just happen overnight. You literally tried and you saw yourself, you're like, I want more. Right. So, and then you took some stuff to get bulky as well. A little protein, a little ADHD. A little more than that. A little dark side. Okay. A little dark side. You need 10,000 steps a day to be in shape. Truth or trash. Man, these are, these are, I would say truth, because if you don't move enough, you're not going to be in shape. If you're moving 3,000 steps, you're not in shape. You're sedentary. You're in the office, 12, like 9 to 5, regular job, not moving. You are literally not in shape. Yeah. There's no way.

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