Healthier, Happier, Ageless Living w/ Ageless Workout Founder/Guru Nathaniel Wilkins

Raise your hand if you want to have an “ageless” body! What if we told you the key to an ageless body is an ageless mindset?

Here’s the skinny: sometimes, we get overwhelmed with messages that bombard us about dieting and fasting and planks and crunches and Stairmasters and Anti-Aging Serums. Some days we would rather roll over and give in to excuses vs. exercise and Nutter Butters vs. Nutrition.

This is when we all need someone like Nate Wilkins, Founder of Ageless Workout, to step in and help us out! Even the Ageless Workout’s vision statement encourages everyone to stay “centered on taking back and owning their lives at the core level of playing, having fun, learning, loving, connecting and living a better lifestyle through health, fitness and healing.”

This episode taught us so much about how to stay fit and fabulous while living a life full of vibrant vitality!

Click and listen as the guru, Nate Wilkins, teaches us all about the choices, changes, and commitments we’ll need to make in order to get our minds and bodies in tip top shape, because we’ve still got a long life to live with this ageless body!

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Nate Wilkins [00:00:00]:

And most of us move away from things that hurt and move closer to the things that make us feel good. So it's still possible to do stuff that makes you feel good and get the benefit of being physical.

Sandy Kovach [00:00:10]:

The benefits of getting healthier are pretty clear, but it can be very intimidating, especially as we get older. Our guest on today's podcast, though, says it really doesn't need to be.

Lanée Blaise [00:00:21]:

Welcome to Imagine Yourself. We're Lanee and Sandy, and let's do something different Today, let's imagine that we're on a quest because centuries ago, Ponce de Leon traveled to Florida to search for the fountain of you. And today, we are traveling via Zoom to Miami, Florida to search For the secrets of you, how to stay fit and vibrant. So here's the deal. If you wanna take your health to a higher level And take your age to a fun level. We have help from a multifaceted Miami, Florida man Who is a navy vet, who spent 27 years as a parks and rec administrator. He's an aging specialist, a youth conditioning specialist, a Fitness instructor, and then here's my favorite, a no pain, all gain stretch advocate. We are very excited it.

Lanée Blaise [00:01:18]:

To introduce Nathaniel Wilkins, the founder of Ageless Workout.

Nate Wilkins [00:01:24]:

Were you talking about me? Oh my goodness. You know, I was listening. I was like, who is this person that she's talking about? But anyway, you know

Sandy Kovach [00:01:32]:

Pretty impressive. I gotta say.

Nate Wilkins [00:01:34]:

I gotta live up to the stuff that she just shared about me. So, you know, I'm excited because this is, something that's near and dear to my heart. It. Some people call it a passion, and, you know, I call it my mission that it's up to me to share and find like minded people who wanna be a part of this journey that we're on.

Sandy Kovach [00:01:56]:

So let's talk about that journey a little bit. We've noticed that as we get a little bit older, we don't have enough it. Or as much energy. We've got those aches and pains. We might lack a little motivation, like, why am I gonna bother now? But after seeing what you have accomplished, it's not only impressive, but I wanna know what motivated you to do it, and why is it so important for us to be concerned with working out and being healthy as we get older.

Nate Wilkins [00:02:26]:

You know, that question is loaded. I'll just share with you. That is a loaded question. You know, every time I get a chance to go on a podcast, I always talk about things that wake you up. Right? For me, it was it. Having some problems when I was on the job, pain in my heart, and having sense enough to realize I need to go to the doctor. I went to the hospital, the emergency room. They help me for weeks at a time, having an ICU, people who work for me at the time came looking sad because the word was I wasn't going to make it.

Nate Wilkins [00:02:57]:

In as a lie there, figuring out what I was gonna do. I said to myself, man, one more time. If I ever get out of here, it's over. So that went to one appointment with a cardiologist. They were trying to figure it out, gave me nitroglycerin, all these different medicines and stuff. That stuff made me feel worse than I did before. So I said, I'm not doing it anymore. Started walking, exercising, changing what I was eating because I hanging out with all the wrong people, eating all the wrong food.

Nate Wilkins [00:03:23]:

What's so funny is I used to laugh at myself because, you know, I was gaining a fat more weight. But I used to say the clothes are getting too small when it was I was seeing a whole lot more of me and huffing and puffing, just doing all of that kinda crazy stuff not dealing with the issues. Mind you, you know, I've done some sports. I was active long before, but something about the job world, something about having some niceties and living a different life, drinking enough beer, drinking, you know, wine maybe I should stop. But eating the type of foods that I knew were wrong for me, that's how I got in that place. Does that answer your question?

Sandy Kovach [00:04:02]:

Right. So you were kinda, like, the average older adult who's well, you said unhealthy lifestyle, maybe. But it is Pretty normal American eating, isn't it, and drinking the beer? And then you got to this place where you had a crisis.

Nate Wilkins [00:04:18]:

I was trying to be nice. I tried to be nice. I said beer. You know? I I could've went on. , you know, Jack Daniels,

Nate Wilkins [00:04:28]:

And that started to be a part of my circle with the kinds of friends. You know, you're going to these places. And at the time, I was like, well, you know, somebody gotta eat and drink this stuff. I might be well be one of those.

Sandy Kovach [00:04:38]:

Right.

Nate Wilkins [00:04:39]:

Does that give you a little bit more insight?

Sandy Kovach [00:04:41]:

Sure.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:41]:

Now you've actually got me thinking, okay, because now here's a connection that we have that I don't even know if Sandy knows this, but I spent almost all of the nineties living in Miami. And then you live in Miami now. There are lots of temptations there in more ways than 1. But the difference was that I kinda have to be aware of the changes and the choices. Because back then, I could eat and drink and stay up late and do all different types of things and not have to worry about exercise. But one day, I woke up and my body didn't wanna cooperate with all that. But I also didn't live in Miami anymore. Now I live in Michigan.

Lanée Blaise [00:05:20]:

But I had to figure out how How to make different choices because my body was different, my situation was different. And I'm just thinking that a lot of people we'll our bodies. And so we will get older, but we don't have to get old. So tell us how age Let's work out and how that whole mindset can make sure we don't let that happen to us.

Nate Wilkins [00:05:55]:

So let me let me be clear. I'm not trying to run anybody down, and I'm not trying to judge anybody. What I'm really saying, and particularly right now as we deal with issues relevant to COVID nineteen, social distancing, living with people, and just going through what are some unusual circumstances. And when we have that, as I found for myself, there is some opportunity for me to allow things to happen, not to take charge. It's just easy enough to sit and wait for things to come my way, whether it be the check that they talked about or whether somebody is on Zoom or whatever, and they're saying, get up, Nate. Do something. So what I'm really saying is that it's time that we take responsibility for ourselves. You can't leave that to somebody else.

Nate Wilkins [00:06:49]:

That it's time for us to become our own health advocates. 15 minutes at a doctor, and all they do is look at you and then give some prescription or something like that, and you don't ask any questions. That's your problem and not theirs because they see death all the time. We also need to do the research about what is important to our lives and what have you. So if this whole notion of taking charge of what's important to you, if you wanna live the kinda life that you live in. I hope I'm talking to somebody. I hope I'm reaching out to somebody right now who is who are where I am right now. I wanna do something differently.

Nate Wilkins [00:07:21]:

Don't let that old mindset of a old person because you age. I know some 30 year olds that can't do some of the stuff that you and I can do. So it. It's really not necessarily about age. It's about aging to a place where you owe honey. You know how people talk sometime back? They live so long, and and and they got a whole lot more life to live. But they talking about, oh, you don't know about me. So, really, what you gotta do is say that was that old person.

Nate Wilkins [00:07:50]:

Now I'm talking about a new person. As what they say in scripture, you can't put new wine in old wine in. How about that?

Sandy Kovach [00:07:57]:

That's right.

Lanée Blaise [00:07:58]:

How about that? Yes. Because everything you're saying just remind me of my grandmother. She would've been 99 this month, But she lived to be 93, and she was healthy all the way up until, like, the last couple years of her life. It. But I promise you, she did do that with the mindset, oh, pumpkin. She started this when I was 7 years old. If I'm still alive To go to your graduation. And if I'm still alive to go to your wedding, and if I'm still alive for you to have children.

Lanée Blaise [00:08:29]:

And yet, she it. Went through remarkably well. But now that I look back, I wish that she had embraced some of the vibrance and enjoyed some of it instead of waiting it. To get got.

Nate Wilkins [00:08:44]:

Don't wait for it. It's coming. It's gonna come. You all you gotta do is just keep on moving and living. It's gonna come. You, me, everybody is gonna have to experience this thing. What we're talking about is how to really live and take back your life. That's the stuff.

Nate Wilkins [00:09:00]:

Take charge. Whatever we can do, let's do it at the level that we could do it and then move to something else.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:07]:

So how do we do this, Nate? Or do you prefer Nathaniel or Nate? Or does it matter?

Nate Wilkins [00:09:13]:

When I was in the business world, like most people, I wanted to be called Nathanial because, you know, I had arrived. But now I just you know, Nate is alright with me. I'm you know, I'm living the Nate life, and I'm trying to enjoy this. So you call me Nate.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:26]:

Yeah. It feels more like you're Nate to me. So

Nate Wilkins [00:09:28]:

Yeah. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:28]:

Yeah. With that. So we've made this decision. We're gonna kick this old person out of our bodies, and we're gonna invite the, newer person in. And so Where do we start, Nate?

Nate Wilkins [00:09:40]:

In your head.

Sandy Kovach [00:09:41]:

In your head.

Nate Wilkins [00:09:42]:

Yeah. First of all, you gotta start talking to yourself different than what you've been talking to yourself. Aches and pains. We all got them. But, you know, we we all got some stuff going on. Right? So hit your mind, fix your mouth. Start talking a little bit different. If you talk different and if you get around some different kind of people, at some place, things start to change.

Nate Wilkins [00:10:02]:

And even if you are actually saying it. Let me give you a prime example. I used to smoke cigarettes. Right? Mhmm. And I and I wanted to quit, but I was so bad at it. I would play sports and then get off the feel and smoke a cigarette. And so I wanted to stop smoking. And one of the things I did while I was smoking, I would tell myself I don't smoke anymore.

Nate Wilkins [00:10:23]:

And then all of a sudden, one day one day, I just stopped. I wasn't smoking anymore. I haven't smoked a cigarette like that in years.

Sandy Kovach [00:10:30]:

Just cold turkey.

Nate Wilkins [00:10:31]:

What we gotta do is start talking about things differently and then changing the environments that we're around. Here's the deal. If you bring some fatty stuff in, like, I like if you bring potato chips in this house, if you bring Oreos in this house, Katie bar more because somebody's gonna eat them, and it's probably me.

Sandy Kovach [00:10:49]:

Yeah. I got the Oreo thing going too. Lanee knows all about that.

Nate Wilkins [00:10:52]:

I gotta get these things away from me. You know, I started realizing I had to even get away and get some of my friends away from me because every time I turn around, they wanna go do something else, and I wanted to go to the gym. So they win. I'd go do their stuff, and they wouldn't do my stuff. So at some point, you gotta change what you think about yourself and all the conversations that you have with yourself. So sometimes you gotta be willing to let some people go and some things go that don't necessarily work for you.

Lanée Blaise [00:11:18]:

What do

Sandy Kovach [00:11:18]:

you say to people who say, at this point in my life. I wanna enjoy the Oreos and the whatevers. Name your passion. Salty, sweet, everybody's got their thing. What do you say to that?

Nate Wilkins [00:11:31]:

Raise your hands up and testify. Like, yeah. I really like potato chips. I really like Oreos and ice cream and all that stuff, and I'm willing to deal with that. But are you willing to do something different? I that's I guess that's really the question. Are you willing to change a little bit of that? Right? So are you willing to put some good stuff in some whole foods? Are you willing to get some good sleep? Are you willing to change some of your habits? Maybe not so much potato chips, maybe not so much eating out at fast food restaurants, maybe not so much staying up late. So to changing gradually, here we go right here is what I'm saying is that inch by inch. We gotta be willing to change not drastically because I've never seen change happen like that.

Nate Wilkins [00:12:15]:

What I see change happen is that a little bit at a time, if you're willing. Somewhere, there has to be a place called willingness. If you're not willing, then the conversation is over, and I'm not even talking to you anyway.

Sandy Kovach [00:12:30]:

So, like, when a client comes to you, do you make sure they're serious before you take them on?

Nate Wilkins [00:12:34]:

At this point in my life, six 6 years young. I better be taking on some people that are serious because we don't know what tomorrow may bring. I'm not saying I beat people up. I just need to know where they are on a scale of 1 to 10. On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely are you to exercise 2 to 3 times a week? If you say one, then then I ain't your person. Because you gotta do that.

Nate Wilkins [00:12:58]:

I'd like you to drink lot a lot more water. If you say no, then you need to go find somebody else because you're seriously not serious. Am I making sense that really cares somebody else out there that will take you and do it the way that you wanna do it. But this is not for those kinds of people. This is for the people who have decided that, man, I've tried it this way. I tried it that way. So now what I'm willing to do is take a little bit of this and a little bit of that and create a new formula that says here is the new person, my new mindset, set my new actions. And by the end, by the time I get done, I will like who this is.

Nate Wilkins [00:13:41]:

Not that I don't like me, but I like this person even better because I see less of it. I'm having less aches and pains. My body don't hurt the way that it used to hurt, that I'm willing to do the kinds of things that I wanna do. I can bend over and pick up something. I don't have to ask, hey, honey. Can you get that for me?

Lanée Blaise [00:13:58]:

Yes. See, everything you're saying is making me think. You said that you had to have a Big huge thing happen in your life health wise, like a health crisis to get you to really open your eyes. And then if you have people who are listening, who who don't want to have to learn the hard way and don't want to have to wait until the crisis hits and they hit that brick wall. It's really important to start now. Like you said, little steps, baby steps. I read on your website. It says the ageless workout offers beyond tough talk And harsh workouts. Clients always see the value of personal modification in our trainings, And it is important that we see the results.

Lanée Blaise [00:14:31]:

Like you said, even if you start to notice, wow, my joints don't hurt. It doesn't hurt as much when I get up and do different things, And it's not all about just harsh, harsh, harsh. Keep going with these workouts until you pass out. I definitely thought when we started this podcast it. That we were going to have these very specific activities that we'd have to do, and you're teaching me that it's very specific mental work that we have to do to get to where we need to be.

Nate Wilkins [00:15:08]:

Can I interject in there? Because what you asked me was, how do you start that. People think that you start by exercising, and you gotta get yourself checked out. You gotta have a mindset if you're serious about doing something different because you probably if you where I am and you understand, you've done that before. You've tried that before, and you always fail because you get started really fast and you do all of the wrong stuff. Good people actually check themselves out. They find good coaches do the kinds of things that they need to do for themselves. Maybe it's just a wall. Maybe it's some stretching.

Nate Wilkins [00:15:46]:

Maybe it's water. We don't know. Everybody's body is different. So this is the ageless workout method and strategy. This is not that stuff that you see where people are saying, know, I gotta do a 1,000 push ups. Although I do it for my own mental toughness. Today, I went to a boxing class because I lost a client last night that meant something to me, and I had some work that I thought I was gonna do and wrap my mind around. And so in order for me to push that off and go to the next thing, I went to hit a bag and to do some exercise so I could be mentally tough to let that situation go so I can move on to something else.

Nate Wilkins [00:16:26]:

Am I making sense?

Lanée Blaise [00:16:28]:

Yeah. Yeah. You're giving ideas too that you don't have to do the same old thing also Because I think a lot of people listening are looking for different new ways to be active. We can definitely take our walks. And some of us like the gym, some don't like the gym. Because of COVID, sometimes we might want to stay away from the gym. But do you have any ideas or examples of some different things to stay active? Kinda like you were saying with boxing, but Stay active to get your mind right, to get your body right, that people don't always think about.

Nate Wilkins [00:17:03]:

Here's the thing that I always to just to people and and particularly if you live in Florida. We gotta have some sunshine. Right? So we gotta either get outside in the sun, pull up your curtains or your blinds or what have you, first get some fun. But maybe all it is that you need to do is find some activity if it's activity at you. Like, there any number. Like, for me, I do Pilates. And what I do is this thing called tremble Pilates. Before, I was like, that's not for me.

Nate Wilkins [00:17:29]:

But when I went, I took that class, and it started to really give me some some of the little muscles and the stuff that I needed. Then I go to a place called ADAPT, and ADAPT is more functional stuff. It. I do stretching. So I'm examining all types of things. And so this notion of the agent's workout takes on adventure that you're trying out new things. Maybe that's not for you, but you try it because you're opening up your mindset and do spinning. I just told you, I go to boxing.

Nate Wilkins [00:18:02]:

I'm I wasn't always doing boxing, but I like that boxing training now because it shows me some stuff about self defense, but at Same time, it's challenging enough for me that I go and I'm and early in the morning, I get my mindset because I'm going to something else. The workout prepared me for what I need to do. And it doesn't have to be a lot of money. You could do the stuff online. Right? There any number of virtual classes. There's an array of things. I mean, we go on and on and on. But what I think is those basic things that you do stuff that allows you to do your basic movements that you can stand up and sit down, that you could put your baggage in the baggage counter if you're traveling, that you could carry groceries and stuff like that.

Nate Wilkins [00:18:45]:

That is really those kinds of things, and then you move to the other levels that you don't just do all of that overnight. And, you know, if somebody wants to reach out to me, I'll be glad to share some more about how to expand it, but the Asia's workout is more about health. It's more about composition. It's more about eating well, developing a passionate. It's about drinking the water. It's about having a relationship and a tribe of people that can encourage you to do the kinds of things that you need to do. So that's the work that we're attempting to do.

Lanée Blaise [00:19:15]:

I always ask Sandy when I'm gonna share something personal. I'm like, Sandy, should I go ahead and share this?

Sandy Kovach [00:19:20]:

Do you think I say?

Lanée Blaise [00:19:21]:

Tell me go for it. Right? So you mentioned one big thing that I cannot let go of, stretching. It. Stretching saved my life because I had foot surgery on both feet 3 years ago. And when I recovered, I just couldn't get right. My back hurt. My knees hurt. Everything hurt.

Lanée Blaise [00:19:43]:

And the podiatrist told me that it has to do with the fact it. Underused and just in bad shape. He said you have got to stretch every day, at least once a day, in certain ways it. If you want to get yourself back together. And Sandy told me that you have an ebook all about stretching. Let's just go ahead and talk about you have other books also. You have a book, The Now Factors For Success, books 1, 2, and 3. You have Stretching Secrets.

Lanée Blaise [00:20:25]:

And even you said that if people wanna reach out to you, how do they reach out to you? Through your website, through social media. It. Tell us that so that anybody who is listening knows how to get some direct access to help through the books for help through to you directly.

Nate Wilkins [00:20:40]:

Yeah. So if you go to the site to the website agents workout.com, as for the newsletter or or the ebook, we'll send that out to you. Of course, we send it out as complimentary, and we wanna stay in touch, and we're trying to develop that tribe of people. Those other books, the Now Factor books. The 3 book series goes back and sort of chronicles my challenges of trying to make it in because I reinvented myself for, like, a 1000 I think a 1000 times, and it talks about all of these kind of things, these gyrations that you have to do, you know, that can be used for younger people, older people who are at a place right now. I look at success up and down all different kinds of ways, and I've been all kinds of stuff. Right? So those books. But then I'm also working on a book right now called If You See A Turtle on a Stump Somebody Put in There, how to be an active navigator.

Nate Wilkins [00:21:34]:

Another book called The Ageless Workout and then Bloopers and Blunders of Fitness and what have you. All of this came about when COVID hit. That's how these podcast thing came about as well. I need to work on my communication skills, so you've allowed me to continue to work on communication skills. So it's a communication in terms of writing. It's also in terms of speaking. And so these are my legacy kinds of pieces, not because I wanna make dollars from the work, but I wanted to leave some sense. I wanted to strike a chord with the universe that I was here, that I actually use whatever the creator gave to me.

Nate Wilkins [00:22:10]:

I'm not gonna get religious on you, but what I'm saying to you is that I I just needed to let people know that I wasn't done yet, that corona wasn't gonna get ahold of me, that it wasn't gonna take me out of here without me laying some foundation without me saying something about it.

Sandy Kovach [00:22:23]:

we can have church if you want.

Lanée Blaise [00:22:27]:

We believe in the power of faith. You're sounding right now I had read a quote recently by Denzel Washington when he turned 60. He said, I looked in the mirror it. And said, Denzel, this is not a dress rehearsal. This is life. It's not a matter of how much you have. The question is what you're gonna do with your talents and your gifts. I knew in my heart at 60 that I wanted to serve God, to serve my family, and to see others do well.

Lanée Blaise [00:22:54]:

And it seems like all 3 of us on this Call in many people listening, have that same thought. Like you said, wanting to make sure that people knew that I was here and that I left something as a legacy behind, something that'll benefit their mental health, their physical health, their ability to help others themselves.

Nate Wilkins [00:23:12]:

That's what it's all about. But did you hear what she said? She's trying to help me. She said, you look like Denzel. You talk like Denzel.

Lanée Blaise [00:23:18]:

Did you hear did you hear that?

Nate Wilkins [00:23:20]:

Is is that through. Really? I mean, do you really feel like

Lanée Blaise [00:23:24]:

You felt those vibes coming through on the Zoom.

Nate Wilkins [00:23:27]:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was, you know, I was like, oh, well, tell me more about myself. Fill my head up. And we all need to feel good about ourselves. Right? That's the other thing. We need to change the conversation.

Nate Wilkins [00:23:37]:

We need to do some different stuff around our lives because we got enough other crazy stuff going on.

Sandy Kovach [00:23:43]:

Yeah. And we do get older, and society has a lot of negative messages for us. It. I feel like like you're saying, taking responsibility for your health and using all the wisdom of your years passing it along in your case, it. It's magical.

Nate Wilkins [00:23:58]:

Yeah. Yeah. What would come on. Do we just need to pass time by? And when it's time for us to get out of here, you know, sweep us to the side when we can really do some stuff to help. And it's only for those people who want your help because otherwise, people don't care. So I'm excited about the opportunity to a little bit of time with you. Hopefully, out of this, there's some people that get touched. This notion of what we're doing is trying to find like minded people.

Nate Wilkins [00:24:27]:

You're developing this tribal people wherever they are. So Nate is saying something today, but maybe tomorrow, somebody else takes the lead and talks about how to live a different life, how to live life on your terms, take adventure, eat well. You don't have to necessarily exercise like I do, but get some besides take better care of your life, your family, all those things that are important to you, and then somebody else can do it. And so we form all of these different circles, and people are feeling good and doing more things for themselves and for community, and we change at that core level. It. And all of the world seems to feel a whole lot better about themselves and who they are and where we're going. You know I know that sounds like pie in the sky, but, you know, it can happen. Right?

Sandy Kovach [00:25:12]:

It can definitely happen.

Lanée Blaise [00:25:14]:

It happens when you say it's going to happen, And it happens too. Here's another thing you have me thinking about as far as the way that we influence the way that we think. Because Sandy Started talking about this a minute ago. How we can go through this world and start to think, it's hard out here for somebody who's over 40 years old. Like, we are not supposed to Be discarded. We are not supposed to be resigned to a life of just being over to the side because of ageless workout. I wanted to think about ageless wonders. This is that part and this brings it back to faith.

Lanée Blaise [00:25:47]:

When you fix your eyes up above on God, on Jesus, when you fix your eyes it. That's when you can see the beauty. Does anybody sit and think about the fact that we still have our sweet Betty White around here, and She is 99 years old, and we have Star Trek's captain Kirk. William Shatner is 89. Tina Turner at 81. It. These people are not just surviving, but they are thriving. Norman Lear is another one, 90 plus, still making shows.

Lanée Blaise [00:26:18]:

It is just awesome when we look around. Now these are all celebrities, but a lot of people are influenced by celebrities. Why not use it to our advantage and think about the fact That there's still so much living left to do. We may as well keep our bodies and minds sharp so that we can keep on going.

Sandy Kovach [00:26:36]:

And there's your motivation right there. Right?

Nate Wilkins [00:26:38]:

It. Yeah. Yeah. I like the title of your podcast. I mean, that says it all. People just don't realize what they have because, of course, we've been beat down from all kinds of pandemic or whatever else is going on. You know? If we watch so much television voice doom and gloom. But if you stop to think and, you know, and say, oh, look at what these people are doing with themselves.

Nate Wilkins [00:27:01]:

What can I do? That sorta again, the motivation to step out and do things a little bit different, create some different circumstances for yourself.

Sandy Kovach [00:27:12]:

Definitely, Nate, you have a lot of great resources when people go on ageless workout.com. That would be more specific, maybe things that they can do for their health it. And maybe hire you as a coach or just look around your website, get your ebook. But let me just ask you this. We talked a little about nutrition. We talked a little bit about workout. Is it an equal marriage of both, or is one more important than the other?

Nate Wilkins [00:27:36]:

If I were to to make a professional recommendation. I think it's nutrition. All the research suggests that what we put in our stomach actually has some in impact on the brain as well. So food can set mood. Right? So if you're eating the right kind of food and your body is moving well, it, then you don't feel bad, and you'll be able to go and do exercise the right kinds of exercises. Again, we talked about what is that for a particular person. But for sure, movement is medicine as well as food is medicine. So we put all those together.

Nate Wilkins [00:28:13]:

But if I were to tell you the formula, I think you got somewhere at about 80% nutrition and not diet, but eating well, eating clean, and not suggesting that you can't have some cheap stuff. Right? I'm saying that you do that stuff clean up front. And then the exercise and the movement and the sleeping and the relationships, it. It is a ball of things. It's not just 1 piece because the body is 1. Our life is 1. It's not just this or it's not just that. All of it makes a difference if we wanna have a well rounded life.

Nate Wilkins [00:28:45]:

Eating well and whatever that is for whoever, because I know that there may be some economic challenges, what have you. But when you can eat well, when you can sleep well, when you can move, maybe it's not going to the gym. Maybe it's taking a walk or spending some time doing gardening or whatever the case may be, that these are the key pieces, right, that you have something that you're passionate about, that you have some relationships that matter to you. And all of these kinds of things coming together will give you a a well rounded life.

Lanée Blaise [00:29:16]:

Yeah. And also I maybe think too, some foods are not for everybody. Just because you see in a magazine that, oh, everybody's supposed To eat this and not supposed to eat that, we have to be mindful of the fact that sometimes our bodies process foods differently than everybody else. I'll give an example. Many times people say that dairy is bad. They just label things as bad, but certain types of Greek yogurts and things like that have been very good for me. But my sister, not good for her. The same way I was kinda saying with exercises.

Lanée Blaise [00:29:50]:

Everybody should go to the gym and do this particular do the stairmaster, do planks. Not everybody should because people have had different injuries or different things that they don't like about that or they're less likely to do an exercise that they don't even like doing so we can kind of customize some of these things too.

Nate Wilkins [00:30:09]:

It. Yeah. So what we end up doing is really trying to find where people are. We have all types of things that people can do, many trampolines. And sometimes it's just sitting and squeezing a ball because maybe you have arthritis in your fingers or something like that. We're moving more toward sort of medical fitness. Right? So people who have Parkinson's or stroke or any other, you know, sort of challenges in life. We help them do those kinds of things.

Nate Wilkins [00:30:38]:

So feel better, this healing kind of thing. Because, again and most of us move away from things that hurt and move closer to the things that make us feel good. So it's still possible to do stuff that makes you feel good and get the benefit of being physical. And sometimes what we find is that if you jump out and start running, lifting all kinds of weights, you're not gonna get to the place that you wanna get to in the 1st place. So you really have to have a a new way of looking at what it is that you're trying to accomplish. And what we're talking about is taking back and owning your own life.

Sandy Kovach [00:31:11]:

Nate, do you do this kind of coaching online as well?

Nate Wilkins [00:31:14]:

I do it on a virtual level and, again, any sort of workouts that are on the website. And it's not just the workout. Right? Sometimes people need coaching, and some people call it life coaching. And I call it life flushing.

Sandy Kovach [00:31:30]:

Life flushing? Flushing the bad stuff down the commode?

Nate Wilkins [00:31:34]:

Yeah. Flushing out the bad and putting in the good. Like, I'm having fun. Yes. That's, you know, that's some of some of what we're doing. But, again, it goes back to where are you in your journey it. And what is it that you need to do? Because sometimes, like you referred to earlier, sometimes it's mental stuff that has to clean up before we can even get to the physical.

Sandy Kovach [00:31:56]:

Right.

Lanée Blaise [00:31:57]:

Well, now we wanted to give the opportunity for you to just it. Give one last overarching message to anybody who is listening. The one big thing that you wanna make sure that they take away from today's talk is

Nate Wilkins [00:32:15]:

Do something for yourself. Love yourself a little bit more than in what you think that you've been able to do. Get out if you want to and try something new. Find some adventure. Go some from places that you haven't gone before. Spend a little bit more time with the people that mean the most to you, and I'm sure that that will turn into something meaningful.

Lanée Blaise [00:32:37]:

Reminds me of that quote, if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. I don't know if I have that, but that's that's okay. We wanna thank you so much For sharing the different insights, for getting into our brains and making sure that we're reflecting on and taking a real good look at what we're doing, why we're doing it, how we're doing it. Sandy, anything you've got for us too before we go?

Sandy Kovach [00:33:00]:

For takeaway time, I love Nate's takeaway, and my Big takeaway from this talk has really been driving home that you've gotta want it. You gotta wanna change the mindset. You gotta kick that old mindset out. And once you do that, and you're open yourself up to possibilities, and personally, I would need someone like Nate. I don't feel like I can do it by myself. I feel like I need will you call it a tribe?

Nate Wilkins [00:33:26]:

I have coaches who coach me.

Sandy Kovach [00:33:28]:

Really?

Nate Wilkins [00:33:29]:

I try to find I try to go where the best people are so that I can cut the time down. You all have been wonderful. I thank you so, so very much for the opportunity to share some new thoughts and not just necessarily about workouts, but about life in general. That it's really all about how do we choose to live the rest of what we have.

Lanée Blaise [00:33:51]:

And it's kinda like you told us right before the show started, Nate, you mentioned the reason that you live in Miami, Florida is to make sure you can

Nate Wilkins [00:34:00]:

Get some sunshine, get the sand in my toes, and just have some fun. I don't know when the next day is gonna happen, but for sure, I'm a make the most out of it today.

Lanée Blaise [00:34:10]:

That's what I'm talking about. So we just wanna let everybody think about this. Imagine yourself finally connecting the dots it. To what is gonna put you on the best path to vitality, energy, healing, and all the elements it. That can make it so that you too can be an ageless wonder using ageless workout techniques. Thanks for joining us.

Sandy Kovach [00:34:37]:

Here's to your help. Let us know how it goes. Keep in touch with us via imagine yourself podcast.com Or you can subscribe to our blog, connect with us on social media, and follow us on any platform where you like to listen to our podcast, Apple, Google Play, Spotify and more. And until next time when we have something new to imagine. Take care.

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