Every day is a great day to get started on a path to better fitness

Baltimore Positive

January 8, 2024

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We all love our New Year’s resolutions to be more healthier every January. So in the spirit of your future, Quinton Dailey of Planet Fitness joins Nestor to discuss today being the perfect day to start a new health journey. Time to get moving…

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SPEAKERS

Nestor J. Aparicio, Quinton Dailey

Nestor J. Aparicio 00:01

Welcome Home and happy new year we are wn S T am 1570, Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive. We got so many cool sponsors around here and, and in a couple of weeks, I’m putting the band together. We’re gonna like do one of those all in, especially if the ravens are in the Super Bowl, radio row week. So Well stay tuned for crabcake row and, you know with us for, I guess about two decades. I mean, it’s going back into the aughts. Now, it’s 24. I saw all those Planet Fitness hats and everybody’s smooching and all that New Year’s Eve and, you know, I mean, all Dick Clark, the whole deal, I saw that, so I figured you know what, it’s time for me to get my PF go in here. We’re into the new year. Honestly, when I left this guy couple months ago, at the gym, I’m still like sort of struggling with some core strength. I took some of his advice, and so much of that I need to where can I get a good massage? Where can I get a good hydro massage? Quick daily. My main cue joins us back from Planet Fitness to start the new year right. You know, I get at this honest because I came out and I met you on your own turf. Right. I mean, I came out, we walked the gym, we talked about weights, my age, what other people were doing. And it’s New Years and I’m thinking like, is the gym a little more crowded today than it was a week ago? To be honest with me.

Quinton Dailey 01:26

It’s getting there. I will say, you know, day by day, we started to get those people to start their journeys, for sure. Well,

Nestor J. Aparicio 01:32

and I guess from starting a journey, I can tell you my journey happened. When I got pictures back in 2006. I was 38 years old. We went my wife and I went to, to South America, drank a lot of wine, ate a lot of red meat, you know, had a lot of fun. And we chased the stones around we went and I got the pictures back and I’m like, you know, it looked like I had like a chipmunk like I had stuff in my and I’m like, Are those my jobs? What do I weigh. And then I got weighed in. And I had a friend who challenged me that I would never get back to the weight on my driver’s license, which was then 148 pounds. And he laughed at me, and he threw my license at me, he’s like, you’ll never weigh that again. I weighed about 180 then, you know, my wife may say 178 I think she’s been generous. I weigh as we sit here today, 151 always within two, three pounds of that no matter how much eggnog or cookies, but man I had to find you know, my Creator, and find my Mojo and find a place where I could take better care of myself and I, you know, I’m unabashed about that I was called Doughboy I was called meatball for years as a kid. So like anybody that knows me from holla bird knows that all that’s true. And, you know, so I come at it honest, Q, I am that guy, we’re talking to that cow, whoever you identify out there is where you are, even if you hurt yourself, this is an opportunity. And I want you to come on and talk about what you find this time of year. Because I will see you save lives, what you sort of, you know, somebody comes in there and they find fitness and they find a better way of doing things. It adds quality of life. And I guess that’s my point, big

03:22

time. And you ended up with one of the things that I want to hone in on in 2024. And you know, years to come. Number one, I always start off the new year by saying every day is a resolution, right? People will normally want to wait until January 1 To resolve certain things that they know they should have, or, you know, they jumped straight into action as to what they should be doing as opposed to preparing themselves. And that’s when we get the trickle off effects. Right as opposed to get in that mindset of, alright, I know, this change did not happen overnight. So I wouldn’t expect it to be tomorrow, when I do see change. So it has to be like you said, a part of life but a lifestyle, a lifestyle for sure.

Nestor J. Aparicio 04:08

I always tell people in any time of crisis or wherever they’re going, be good to yourself, right? Like I’ve had to learn I’m 55 years old. I you know, we’ve all had that morning we’ve been hard on ourselves or got on the scale or saw a picture we didn’t like or mean even before it came home. You I gotta say this for everybody pF, I want to let you know, that started the year right? I wasn’t going to like jump in the shower and shave it. And I’m like, You know what, I’m going to look good to start the year here and do my planet fit. But you know, I’m I’m very fond of everything. All of you do a planet fitness and we’ve been doing this so long. And look, I don’t want to be the guy that’s, you know, goes to church twice a year just shows up on New Year’s Day or just shows up on Cinco Demayo or just shows up on a day because that’s not I mean, we both know and you’re being you’re being dishonest yourself if you think that’s where it is. But you’re also being dishonest with yourself, you can’t start and you think you can’t start by having a good habit. And I’ve always told you this and I, and I always joke with Justin, which everybody comes on I, I say, you know, I went to this is a funny story because I started to think about a massage the other day, and I thought, I went to holiday spa, what do you the Bally’s and holiday spa in 1982, they called it a spa. Because they wanted to make it sound like some place you would just get fanned. And you know, they would just feed your grapes, you know what I mean? And then you realize, oh, you got to do something, besides just go in and sweat right or whatever. And, you know, I think there’s a thing about fitness and the word fitness in Planet Fitness, the fitness is different for everybody. And I loved when the beginning there was lunk, alarm and judgment free and all of these things. And I know, you know, as a brand ambassador for what you’ve done for all these years, and even as it expands, and I can’t do about the massages, but they it’s true. And if you missed our segment from a couple of months ago, he was gonna fill us in on all that. But, you know, for me with with making that first step that there’s so many people that just feel like, you know, a short walk is, you know, a good place to start. But when you join in a place like Planet Fitness, it costs a lot of money. I guess that was my point about holiday spa, this was a real decision about a monthly bill, that was a lot, there was a fee, it was all of that. And I think for anybody my age who’s you know, hadn’t been to a gym in a while, or they joined and paid too much than going off or whatever. Or they just went because the pool or this or that, that they really want to get to your 50s. And things happen, you know, you want to get strong, you need a starting point. And you need Honestly, I’d loved my time with you because I like people that are smarter than me telling me what I should or shouldn’t do. And that’s where I think you really have a lot of help and a lot of assistance. When you come into Planet Fitness. Not only is it really affordable, where it really wasn’t 40 years ago, but from the minute you walk in it isn’t stacks and weights. And it’s it’s very welcoming to say, what are we trying to get done here to make our life better in April measurably than it is in January?

07:09

Yes, sir. That’s the truth. I mean, you know, we have people like myself, fitness training support managers, general managers, and trainers at the grassroots level ready to exactly what you said at the door, I want to, you know, give you a hello. When you’re leaving, I want to give you a good vibe. So you know, I’m a part of your journey, just like, you know, you’re the pilot of such. And in this year, you know, definitely we’ve already passed the sedentary sit down time with COVID. You know, we’re getting back into moving a lot more having people in a brick and mortar building. But we still have, you know, exercises if a person is still preparing, I’ve want to keep using that word, prepping themselves to come into the gym and attack that New Year’s resolution as they wish to and I want you to but we have the planet fitness app, which is free to everybody, right? So you can go on there. And you can see my god, Teddy, he’ll take you through a full workout.

Nestor J. Aparicio 08:07

I mean, your Facebook friends do yeah. How about holiday? I mean, that’s it, church. I mean that. You know, shout out to you, bro. So I mean, I saw him out there. Yeah.

08:18

And, you know, we have a plethora of educated trainers, digital and in person that you can go see. So you’re not alone in this at all. I want to make that very clear. You are not alone in this process.

Nestor J. Aparicio 08:32

I was thought that quitting daily on because makes me think of the basketball player quit daily from many years ago, you’re not related to and I always, you know would make that point. But for my sports audience out there, because it’s Raven season around your I don’t know if you’ve heard or not, we’re pretty good. Tell me what you do. Because you have a fancy title. And the day I spent with you, we were out at a really premier location with new massage new of light therapy, just all sorts of fascinating things that maybe the holiday spa level 40 years ago, we weren’t thinking about. But also maybe people thought that there was a you know, you have to pay $100 a month to have these kinds of things. And I spent a whole day with you out there. It was really what it was spa like. And in many ways I’m a little stronger now. But I’ve been really stretching and peeking and really trying to work on my weaknesses, which there’s a New Year’s thought, right? Like if you don’t work on your weaknesses, they decay and then your knee buckles. And here I am 17 years later after a knee surgery where I had Condor Malaysia and 17 years later. It’s acting up que you know, so you know, I’ve been working on it. And but I’ve been getting stronger through all of this. When I came out to visit you. We were in Owings Mills, Randallstown Reisterstown area, and I think of you as being like the headquarter guy there because you knew everybody everybody knew, you know, but the truth is like you’re in Elkton one day, I mean, you’re all over the state, because what you do is get The people ready when they come in and they’re 55 and they had a back surgery 17 years ago and they probably squatted too much as a catcher play far too much tennis played far too much street ball play tackle football when it when we didn’t where we did stupid, right like just stood right like all that right I did all of that as a kid everybody that knows me knows all that. And my knees hokey My back’s screwy. And, you know, I’m always I’m not going to get hurt, which is why anybody knows I’m yoga. I’m noncontact, swaddle, play pickup basketball, I’d love to pick up a tennis racket. Maybe when I get my back repaired or, but like for me, I would come in to you and say, I just don’t want to get hurt. Right? And I think you’re you blew me away with the science part of the knowledge of how much science there is for someone like you to know. But then you train these folks, and you want them to meet me at the front door in Dundalk, Taos and golden ring, an apple wherever they are and say, All right, where are you because everybody’s coming in at a different level at this point. And nobody’s coming in to be Schwarzenegger. Let’s stop with that. Anytime.

11:04

Big time. I mean, you know, I make a point for most of my trainers, my staff to understand you want to meet the person where they are, right? If you give them this cookie cutter way about exercise, when you get that effect, you get, oh, you know too much impact on my ankles, knees and hip, you get too much torque on my lower back too much talking about thoracic spine, things like that. And spending time as a fitness training support manager. So I am the one that goes to the training and say, Hey, here’s how we can cater to this demographic better. You know, we always talk about special populations, we have adolescents, we have the elderly and we have pregnant, those things, you know, for the person that’s going out to get a certification or trying to start to train they might not think about that avenue or people that have pre existing injuries, COPD, how can I meet you where you are, so that this experience is enjoyable number one, but also is progressive. Right? Now there are times in which we notice that we get stagnant we plateau. But having somebody like myself, like my trainer, Kayla, they always have the antidote, if you will, you know, we never prescribe, but we always have the antidote as to Alright, let’s try this, you know, in the next one to two weeks, we’ll see some progress. And it’s not doing the whole kitchen sink, it’s those small wins, that’s going to elevate to those big ones. And we’ll get into you know, the science behind rest and recovery in a second. But for sure, that’s what what we do here at Planet Fitness.

Nestor J. Aparicio 12:39

Well, look, man, we’ve all been hurt. In one way or another. If you were old enough, we’ve, you know, I never broke arms or legs or any of that stuff when I was a kid. But as I’ve gotten older, I guess the old sports injuries and breaking down and at some point back hips, all that, you know, the notion that people were coming in there, everybody’s coming in, they’re imperfect. For some degree, it’s one of the reasons they’re there. And to say, this is something I gotta be careful about you’ll football injury, whatever that is, you know, and to start themselves by having a strategy, right. Like, I always talk about that with gambling with all the things we talked about here that advice oriented, or life oriented. It’s just, you know, know your outcome before you come in and know your goals, before you come in to say, what am I really trying to do? And if it’s, I don’t wanna see something simple, like lose five or 10 pounds, if that just makes you feel better in the mirror. But I think there’s a part of strengthening that I’ve understood that he never could have told me this when I was young and sexy in vain que you know, that it’s more about the number on the scale, right? Because I think society just has a i, I started this whole thing with what I weighed, right? That’s the measurement, right? I mean, just, we measure things, right. But I think that the measurement is, Hey, did I sleep? Well? am I waking up? Am I moving? Well, am I you know, can I sit in the car and make it to Philadelphia without my backfield like it’s going to break without me having to get up and stretch around? How much stretching do I need to do before and after? And how can I approach this to have better days for my knee for my cartilage for weightbearing for standing during this segment, maybe sitting in the next segment, like all of these postural things where I sit here and stare at a screen. If I told you we’re doing a crabcake row thing when February so I mean, I do all this exciting stuff. And I sit and stare at screens and computers and crank my neck and do all of this stuff. I just find that that hour, hour and a half that I have, that’s my outlet, right? My wife took a three mile walk in the woods the other day, it takes whatever that outlet is to get out. And as everybody at Planet Fitness would say move, right get out move at this time of the year. But I think specifically for what you guys do, and getting into a routine and having help and meeting new people. And the resolution of all of that is it’s really affordable, right? I mean, I think that’s the thing that anybody He can come in and give this a try. If you haven’t done it, and if you’re, you know, if you’re old school and you’ve been to gyms before, I think you’ll find it different. I mean, I know I found a different experience when I came in with you a couple of months ago, then what I remember before the plague, that’s

15:15

the truth. I mean, in the experience now, you know, small plug, if you will, the company is allowing, you know, you just sign up for 24 cents, you know, I mean, for cents, why 24 cents, or 24 cents for the $10, membership, a classic membership, way to get in, and you still have access to those things, we talked about the trainer, and the app, where you can still get education at the palm of your hand or education in person. And as you spoke to, you spoke to a few great points about you know, coming in with their pre existing injury and knowing Hey, you know, this might suck. Let’s have our starting point saying, all right, I’m scared, or I want to make this better, but I know it’s going to be difficult. Then we have a person like Kayla to say, hey, you know, you don’t have to go after the the intense exercises that you see your favorite fitness model on Instagram doing, here’s a way we can mimic that same effect and get the same result. And once again, going back to my words, the small wins, they add up, you know, in the mentality of making a change or behavioral change a lot of people they do the the race, as I call it, they do they pre contemplate I know fitness is a benefit, right? Then they contemplate maybe actually get a Planet Fitness membership. And then they prepare themselves, I’m gonna get the best water bottle, I’m gonna go get the leggings that I liked that fit that make me feel comfortable. And then they go into action. But what we see a lot of times a lot of times is the skip of contemplation, pre contemplation and preparation. If we skip those three, we are at a deficit, if you will, just like you helped me out setting up my audio, you know, hey, here’s, here’s the steps in what you need to take in order to be successful. I might have been heard without the audio setup I have right now but you would have been like hey, what workout exactly, it would have been half a workout, it wouldn’t have a workout. So those those things right there, don’t skip that part to the point where you’re susceptible to injury, this falling off a lot faster to not have in support group that you need it. So using that 24 cents down coming in, in that classic membership, you can still upgrade it if you wanted to. And if you you know choose to come in as a black card member, you get these amenities to rest and recovery like our hydro massage beds, our massage chairs, our cryotherapy lounge, all of those in which you’ve had tried you’ve tried

Nestor J. Aparicio 17:53

I love the hydro the hydro is the one I didn’t like the one that beat on me too much about you know the punching bag thing which you know felt kind of good certain places and other places like that there but don’t the hydro thing I love that thing. And I love the light the teller Buddy What that thing’s about because it was sort of space trippy, I thought yes.