Kim (00:01.646)
Hello, sister -in -law.
Melissa Erin Glazier (00:03.455)
Bye!
Kim (00:05.87)
I told everybody in the intro that you are my sister -in -law and the reason that I wanted to have you on the podcast is mainly because you kick women's asses and you work really hard and you have, we're gonna talk about your story and how you got into fitness, but your kind of main thing is helping women get over this fear of doing really hard things and lifting heavy weight and well, we have a personal story about.
Jack, what were they called? Bicep
Melissa Erin Glazier (00:37.919)
doing a jumping jack while doing bicep curls at the same time and you said why?
Kim (00:44.045)
Yes, so why would I do this? This is not functional. This was way, this is probably, I don't know, 18 years, 17, I don't know, a long time ago. And we were at the gym together and this is, you had evolved, you'd started personal training. And so we're like, okay, personal train me. And we went to the gym and she had me doing bicep jacks. And I was looking at her with side eyes and
Melissa Erin Glazier (00:52.595)
Yep. Yep.
Melissa Erin Glazier (01:05.415)
it's like, it's just the folly of my youth. mean, it's not necessary. Yeah, so I guess I was a show off. But that's what happens when you're young, so whatever, it's still good.
Kim (01:20.216)
We all like to be lit. So what happened, what brought you to fitness? If I think back to when we first met, so again, you are my sister -in you're married to my brother, and when we first met, you and my brother were nowhere near anything to do with bicep jacks or gyms or anything like that. And now you, if you are the epitome, you had a poster.
Melissa Erin Glazier (01:44.377)
my
Kim (01:48.256)
in the Lululemon store. So this is she is a fitness influencer. She is amazing. So what was the what got you to where you are now?
Melissa Erin Glazier (01:53.359)
Stop it some more, my god. So you're absolutely right, like when I was young I was you know athletic and I...
did swimming team track and all that kind of stuff. And then in my 20s, I kind of got away from fitness. Towards my late 20s and into my 30s, I had a membership at a big box gym and I'd go and do step aerobics once every two weeks and then be like, there's my fitness. And then after we got married and your brother and I've been married for 23 years together for 26, I think. And then we just started to start a family and we have a beautiful
She's 19. We're proud of her. That's probably my greatest accomplishment right there as my kid. And in my mind, I'd always kind of envisioned having a bigger family, you know, maybe two or three kids. And so when my daughter was a toddler, we tried to start expanding our family. And unfortunately, that did not work out for me. I had no trouble getting pregnant. I just couldn't stay pregnant. So I had multiple miscarriages. And it was traumatic for me. I can talk about it very easily now. I can smile about it. But at the time, it
devastating and sometimes the miscarriages were in the second trimester sometimes in the first and so after the last one I was like I'm done you know I hated my body and it was not that I was you know 400 pounds and look at me now it was that my body was not functioning the way you know for all intents and purposes that I wanted it to so I felt really really bad about myself and so a couple of things happened I was at my lowest point and you gave me a book about the power of manifestation and
positive thinking, I know is like woo woo whatever, but it works, so I don't even care. So that happened and then I don't remember if it was you or someone else said you should watch, do the P90 videos with Tony Horton. I was like P90X, what's that? So I turned the video on and I was like this guy, like he's just too much. But I watched the video and then I write down all the notes and then I went to my big box gym and I would walk into the weight room, there's all these meatheads and they're looking at me and I'm like god, I was still kind of
Kim (03:46.506)
P90X.
Melissa Erin Glazier (04:05.225)
I looking and I just, but I have a lot of grit. So I went into the weight room where I really didn't feel like I belonged and within about two or three months, I started to see that my body was changing and as a result of that, I was feeling strong and I also felt stronger mentally. And so I kind of had an epiphany, which is kind of cheesy, but I thought if this amount of exercise in such a short period of time has made me feel so much better about myself, I'd like to become a personal trainer. And I knew from the get go that I was gonna be a personal trainer
specifically wanted to work with women in their homes because I know how intimidating it is to walk into a gym and feel like you don't belong there. So that's exactly what I did. I became a fitness instructor and then I followed that with personal training and I started a business back on the east coast of Canada which is pretty far from where we are now. It's like the polar opposite. But it really, it worked and it was a very successful thing for both me and my clients and my participants and I wouldn't change a thing about it.
So I know it sounds a little hippie -dippie, this really sad thing that happened in our lives turned into something that has been this major, major gift in my life today. So I'm pretty happy about that.
Kim (05:15.739)
Yeah, I remember, you know, I obviously was part of that whole evolution and being on the East Coast and we were on the West Coast, we didn't see each other that often. So I wasn't I wasn't seeing necessarily the changes until one time we were there. We would usually go for a couple of weeks each summer. And I remember you in the you were in the kitchen as you you love cooking and you were I don't know what you were making. But I looked and I was like, what? Your arms? What happened to your
Melissa Erin Glazier (05:20.553)
Mm -hmm.
Kim (05:44.699)
They were just like, I couldn't, it was crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
Melissa Erin Glazier (05:46.111)
baby, every day is arm day for me, every day. You know, I'd skip legs if I could, but we don't let friends skip leg day, I love, so there's a story that I tell which I'm sure my clients are so tired of hearing me say it, but there was a movie when I was younger that really had a very profound effect on me, and that was Terminator 2. And so when she's doing the pull -ups and I was like.
Kim (06:09.773)
Yes, yes, yes, I wanna, I still.
Melissa Erin Glazier (06:12.553)
That's what I want to be able to do. I can't really do that still, but I can do push -ups and I can do a lot of things that make me feel strong. you know, when people come to take my class and they ask which weights to pick up, and I always tell them to pick up something heavy. I'm picking up 20s and 25s for bicep curls. That's what makes me feel strong and that's what kind of inspired me.
Kim (06:33.233)
Yep, yep, Linda Hamilton, also still am, I really want the bicep vein. That's been like the thing that I really want. I don't know.
Melissa Erin Glazier (06:39.687)
Yeah, yeah, the big vein is always it's always a good and I've got one here I got one in my neck sometimes on my forehead Right Mm -hmm Lily she was so checked
Kim (06:45.476)
Yeah. Depends on the day. Yes, I remember Linda Hamilton. The other was lost. Evangeline Lilly also. I'm a big, yeah, arm day all the time. Okay. So you start training clients and you're going to gyms. You're in your renting community halls. You're running fitness classes. You had a gym in the house. And I remember whenever we would come to visit,
Melissa Erin Glazier (06:59.069)
Yeah, yeah.
Melissa Erin Glazier (07:12.627)
I had my own little studio.
Kim (07:14.147)
yep, we would do the Glazier Vapni Olympics and the kids would get in there and we all we have many photos of our children dying on the floor because Auntie Melissa has done things that were too hard. Yeah. Okay, so picking up heavy weights. I want to talk about that because that's a big part of what I'm trying to build confidence, especially in the population. I work with women who have maybe been told they can't lift anything heavy anymore.
Melissa Erin Glazier (07:17.555)
Yeah.
Kim (07:42.084)
or they shouldn't or it's gonna make things worse or maybe they do have some symptoms when they do it. there was a really cool piece of research that, she's actually Canadian, but she lives in Australia. She's a pelvic floor physical therapist. she, this over 4 ,000 women or just under 4 ,000 women and a sub population of the study talked about people with prolapse who were lifting heavy weights. Again, most people think they shouldn't or they can't or they don't want to. And in this group, they had heavy, moderate and light.
Melissa Erin Glazier (08:03.283)
Mm
Kim (08:10.58)
and the people lifting the heaviest amount of weight had the fewest prolapse symptoms. So it's not talking about if it's improving or worsening, it's just the symptomatology, which is usually a big driver for what holds us back sometimes. So I rely on that study a lot when I'm trying to encourage people, especially in the phase of life of perimenopause menopause, which is a huge piece of my community, we need to really be concerned of our muscle mass and our bone density.
When you are training, especially a new client, they, what, what are they, if they see a heavy weight, what is their resistance or what did, like the wide eye that you just did, how do you get them to feel more comfortable with
Melissa Erin Glazier (08:51.209)
typically in my world.
And I train women anywhere from in their, you their 20s up until their late 70s. And they're pretty beastly the way they train with me, like in a good way. I'm not talking CrossFit or anything like that. But I do encourage people to pick up heavy weights, whether it's in my class or when it's one -on -one. And typically women, they get the eyes because they're scared of getting bulky. And I'm like, okay, there is not a dumbbell in this gym that you're going to pick up that's going to make you bulky. You got to take some kind of supplement that's going to make that happen to you.
You know, so for example, I teach at a private country club here in Southern California. And what has happened is that, golf club rather, women are picking up heavy weights with me and it's improving their golf game or their pickleball or their tennis or whatever. So the proof is in the pudding for them. And they're walking around and they're proud of themselves because now they can lift a 12 pounder instead of an eight. And they're not running around looking like, you know, some juiced up meathead, right? So I always encourage people to, of course, barring
injuries and you know I'm not going to ask you to pick up a 20 -pounder if there's something wrong with your elbow or your wrist or whatever. The other thing thanks to you that I started doing a long time ago especially with classes and I have to kind of do a little qualifier at the beginning of each class or at the beginning of an exercise if I'm asking you to do jumping jacks and that doesn't work for you or jump squats I will give you a modification. Don't do these things if it makes you feel like you're going to pee your pants. Honestly I'll say that and first people like you know they don't really know how to take it but
listen to it because it's true. So thanks to you.
Kim (10:23.783)
Yep. Yep.
Well, thank you for preaching as well. Because I think that's a big thing is, especially in a group class, everybody wants to do what the teacher's doing, or everybody wants to do what the hardest version is. And sometimes they feel a little bit of pressure. the fact that you are saying that and bringing it up, think, is so comforting and normalizing for people in this. Because there is a lot of people who are leaking or who have these symptoms that they are just kind of masking and feeling like, if I just push through, maybe I'll get stronger and then it won't happen anymore.
Melissa Erin Glazier (10:34.175)
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Melissa Erin Glazier (10:53.831)
I don't want people to feel uncomfortable with that. That's why I give so many different options. think any good instructor would do that. But I mean, yeah, they've learned it from me and I know that it's hard at the beginning or they might say, well, I don't like doing pushups or I don't like doing burpees or whatever. Well, guess what? It's not a punishment to be able to do those things. It's something that you get to do with your body, which I think is an extraordinary thing. And we kind of tend to look at whether it's lifting heavy or doing HIIT or whatever circuit class or whatever.
It's like a punishment or you get to reward yourself with a certain food or something after and it's just like, no, you're not a dog. Don't give yourself a treat like a dog. This is something we get to do. And my people have heard me say this a million times. You're in here working out like a complete badass. I don't care if you're 70 years old or 50 or 25. And there are people walking past this room with the glass wall and they're going, my God, I wish I could do that. I wish I could do that. So it's a privilege that we get to do those kinds of things.
And we have to always meet our people where they're at. Again, I'm not going to force someone who has a prolapse or an injury of some sort to do something that makes them feel uncomfortable or that is dangerous.
Kim (12:01.489)
Yep. I always use, in my community, people will say, you know, they'll make a comment on a workout or an exercise and they'll say, I can't do this one. And I always say dot dot dot yet. You can't do it yet for whatever reason. But I want to try to, similar to what you just said, that we get to do this. This is not a punishment. And if we are not able to do an exercise for whatever reason right now, that doesn't mean that we don't have opportunities to get stronger.
We, right now in this phase of life that I'm in watching my parents age, having watched my in -laws, it is becoming so much more, it's hitting home I guess is what I'll say, that the need to continuously move, the need to be able to get yourself out of a chair, get yourself off the floor
For those people who want to travel, lifting something over your head to put in the overhead bin in an airplane, like we're training for life really. Back when we were younger, we were training because we want to look good and know, right? And then our motivations changed. But right now it's really, we need to train for longevity. And sometimes we have to do some hard things because that makes the other things that happen in life a little bit easier.
Melissa Erin Glazier (12:59.263)
Mm -hmm
Yes.
Melissa Erin Glazier (13:18.911)
Yeah, exactly what I always say is what you do inside the gym, I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna or an infomercial, but the things that you do inside the gym is what makes your life better outside of it. think about, like for me, I go to the grocery store and if you think I'm gonna take 10 bags of groceries and do two trips from my car inside the house, you're kidding yourself. No, no, no, these are not feather dusters. I pick up those heavy weights so I can lift the heavy groceries or like...
I went to the pet store and there was like a 50 pound bag of dog food in it. It's all relative, you know, like what's heavy for me is going to be light for someone else or too heavy for someone else. But we all train where we're at. And one of my biggest pet peeves is when people are like, here's an exercise hack. Exercise is the hack. Okay. We're not out there like plowing the fields and like, you know, doing whatever, like to keep ourselves fit. mean, not most of us. Exercise is the hack. There's no like shortcut around it. Sorry.
Kim (14:13.423)
Yep, wholeheartedly agree. Yep, I reached into the choir. So when you have, you've just said, you we get to, so you're instilling this life and longevity and this opportunity and privilege that we have to move our bodies. When, what resistance other than I want to get bulky, do you have other resistance that people will say to
Melissa Erin Glazier (14:14.927)
Preaching to the choir.
Melissa Erin Glazier (14:37.725)
You know, for women especially, I don't want to get bulky. I don't want to get too manly. But also that it's intimidating to walk into a gym. So whether it's a, you're taking a class for the first time and you're like, everyone's looking at me. those are the kinds of things that seem to get it in my people's way. But once, and I train with a very small population, you know, and I have my entire career. I'm not a virtual trainer per se or anything like that. So my audience is pretty small and I think
fortunate in that I have way of making the experience not altogether unpleasant and accessible and welcoming. I think fear of being in the gym and fear of turning into something you don't want to turn into are the two biggest things for me. And fear of looking stupid because you can't do something. But as I say, you can meet people where they're at and you can show them different modifications so that maybe this is where they start, but eventually this is where they're going end up.
Kim (15:35.255)
Yeah. And you bring such an amazing sense of humor to your workouts as well too. it's, you know, the people who you've been, there's people you've been working with for years and years and years, and some of it virtually, because they don't want to let you go, because they just, they love you so much. And I don't disagree. But okay.
Melissa Erin Glazier (15:47.455)
Mm -hmm, yeah, that's so sweet. I have this disease, Kim, it's called look at me disease. So it's perfect as a fitness instructor, I'm like, look at me. So as long as I can make people laugh for the most part, it kind of takes the edge off a little. Yeah.
Kim (16:04.62)
Yeah, and it's a good outward code, right? Laughter is a good outward code.
How do you, I know you're not a nutritionist, you have sent me a few books. So I send you the books like The Secret, you send me the, I don't know, what was it, like the Paleo or something. You sent me something about the fasting mimicking. You send me all the different ways of eating. And both of us, I think, have tried lots of different ways of eating over the years. But what has worked best for you or maybe in this phase of life where you're at right now, what works best? Or how do you then guide?
Melissa Erin Glazier (16:22.579)
Yeah. Sure.
Kim (16:36.139)
also your clients who are in different phases of life from an eating standpoint. Again, you're not a nutritionist per se, you're not crafting out meal plans, but generally people who are now working out, who are starting to get fit, they are going to have questions about what to eat. So how do you navigate that conversation?
Melissa Erin Glazier (16:41.406)
Mm -mm.
Melissa Erin Glazier (16:52.153)
I mean, I think there's a...
In a perfect world, there's a different method for every body. And that could be cultural and religious, and there's a whole host of reasons why people eat a certain way. I've been vegetarian in my life. I've eaten all the things. I typically, for the most part, I follow a fairly low carb diet in the sense that I eat pretty high protein. I eat all kinds of carbs. It's just that they come out of the ground. They're vegetables instead of something that comes out of an oven.
to go and have a piece of cake. I tell them do, I don't crave those things, but I allow myself, there's no, so that I even allow myself, I'll do it without even thinking because it's not the end of the world. So somewhat low carb and high protein and high fat is what has worked best for me. I for the most part don't eat until around lunchtime and I don't limit myself. If I want to eat six ounces of steak or three ounces of steak, I eat until I feel like I'm good to go. You know what I mean?
I just think that it as a personal trainer you have to be so careful because you don't want to put yourself in a place where you're You know helping someone get into like disordered eating, you know like counting every single blueberry and then Punishing yourself and say okay. Well now I worked out so now I get to have this again going back to that You know the dog analogy But that's what's worked best for me. I do have a history of diabetes in my family So that is another thing that works in my favor eating that low carb. I don't feel
when I eat a ton of bread or sweets or things like that. But with that said, when I go on vacation for a week, I whatever I want. I do. And I don't feel bad about it because I know that one week is not going to completely derail the whole system. You know what I'm saying? So when clients ask me for assistance, I can guide them and help them with a meal plan. I'd never want to put someone on a meal plan that's going set them up for failure. You know, like if you came to me and you said, well, here's your new meal plan. You're eating.
Kim (18:37.907)
Yeah, yeah.
Melissa Erin Glazier (18:53.505)
Portobello burgers and I'd like no I'm not because I don't eat mushrooms like no so I try to get an understanding of how they like to eat okay you're having spaghetti here you're having a steak here you know whatever and then I I can craft something which is within my purview as a personal trainer that kind of mimics what they were doing but maybe is a little bit lower carb version of what they were doing so maybe one day has more carbs today you have a sandwich this day you're having salad you know like that it makes it more manageable because if you feel like you're on the super restrictive way of eating
you're gonna be like screw this I'm
Kim (19:25.554)
Yeah. Melissa is an extraordinary cook for the people who are listening. And every time we've ever gone to their home, whether it's in California, when they were living on the East Coast, she would cook these extraordinary meals. And I would say, can you please send me the recipe? And I even bought the domain. Can you send me the recipe? Because we had this thing. like, we can start a business here. Like, you make extraordinary foods. And it was going to be. then we were also going to, well, I was nudging you.
Melissa Erin Glazier (19:46.739)
my
Kim (19:53.876)
forcefully sometimes to start your blog wheatgrass and wine Yeah Yeah, one day it might still happen Okay So supplement wise that's another conversation or another question that sometimes people will have and and the world is if anybody spends any time on social media It's confusing about how to work out. It's confusing about what foods to eat It's confusing about supplements to take or not to take
Melissa Erin Glazier (19:56.273)
Mm -hmm. -hmm. Long time ago, yeah.
You never know.
Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Melissa Erin Glazier (20:21.833)
Mm -hmm.
Kim (20:22.451)
So where do you land with regards to supplements and are there ones that you would say like that you are bullish about or do you just kind of just leave it up to the
Melissa Erin Glazier (20:34.321)
I
There was a time when I would maybe take a pre -workout before working out, know, something that has a fair bit of caffeine. I don't do that anymore. I don't need it. I work out with my participants. That is my workout, and I get energy from their energy. So I don't do anything like that. I don't take anything after a workout. I usually just try and get some protein in my life. But someone suggested that I get into some creatine, so I'm doing that, as well as collagen. And the collagen, I haven't been on creatine all that long, but
am already maybe a month starting to notice a difference in my recovery and my strength. So that's exciting. And the collagen has been a game changer. I put a scoop of that in my coffee every morning. Number one, it tastes delicious. And my husband and I have both noticed a difference in our skin, feeling just a little bit dewier and also in his eyeballs because he gets dry eyes. And so the collagen seems to be helping with that as well. Whether that's a placebo, I don't know. I'm not a physician, but it works for us. So those are the two main things that
I eat a pretty balanced diet and as you know if you're doing okay diet wise if you want to call it that way or method of eating then you shouldn't really have to take a ton of supplements on top of that is my field. Keep it simple. This is my motto.
Kim (21:50.992)
What's your target for protein? There's, you know, I think a lot of people who under eat protein and I myself never really, I almost did a degree in nutrition. I've always been fascinated with food, but I think I've always felt like, I eat healthfully, but I've learned a lot more now where I really don't think that I have been super healthful and really conscious of, just, think I was, because I was skinny or thin,
Melissa Erin Glazier (22:10.963)
Right.
Kim (22:19.121)
you kind of, it's like you have a free pass. So I could eat whatever I wanted. And I never really thought about actually the nourishment piece. It was just about feeding hunger or taste, that kind of thing. But I'm becoming quite bullish on protein. For those of you who are listening, go back and listen to my conversation with Stacy Sims where Dr. Stacy Sims, where we talk about creatine, we talk about protein as well. So do you have a target? Like I'm hearing the 0 .75 to one gram of protein per pound of body weight.
Melissa Erin Glazier (22:47.773)
Yeah, that's what I'm aspiring to and it's not easy to get that much protein in, but I do work towards typically a gram per pound of your goal body weight. So it can be a bit of a, I don't want to call it a chore. You just have to plan and prepare properly and pay attention to what you're eating and the right amounts. That's why I don't limit myself. I'm not going to sit down and be like, I'm going to have a piece of meat the size of, no, I just, I try get in as much as I can.
works for me and that's what I try to advocate for my clients and they can be a little surprised by that at first but they come around to it.
Kim (23:25.38)
What does, you mentioned that you work out with your clients. do you have, are those, those are your only workouts or do you have workout sessions on your own? Like what is it, what does a week of working out look like for
Melissa Erin Glazier (23:35.463)
So my week of working out has changed considerably since we were doing bicep jacks, which was I was going to the gym six days a week, like going hard and then teaching classes on top of that. And I was much younger so I could pull it off and I looked like I did that too. And that ship has sailed. Okay, I take a much gentler approach now in the sense that I teach, you know, anywhere from four to six classes a week and that includes spin and arms classes and you know, basically bootcamp style workouts.
There's nothing fancy yet. My body doesn't zumba. So a lot of squats and pushups and bicep curls and things of that nature. So my participants love when I work out with them instead of just standing there and like, you know, and I've done that as well. I've coached at places where I'm there to do one rep to demo and then I'm monitoring it. But I love working out with my people and they love working out with me. So I don't, you know, do a ton of cardio. I feel like I deserve an award if I can get on the treadmill and walk for 15 minutes.
I'm like, my God, this is so boring, but give me some hit or some Tabata and we're good to go. So, you know, Monday through Saturday, I'm teaching anywhere from 30 to 60 minute classes. And then if I feel motivated and I have the time, maybe I'll, you know, walk outside with the dogs or I'll go for a hike or I will get on the treadmill at work for 30 minutes. I seldom, okay, I never run ever. I only walk and then I'll crank up the incline, which gets you nice and sweaty as well. So yeah, I work out.
four to six times a week, just not as hard as I used to, but I'm almost 50 years old and I'm feeling pretty good about where I am strength -wise and stamina and that sort of thing. In the summers when I'm not as busy, I reactivate my yoga membership, so I go to yoga two or three times a week as well, which is really important for me, especially because of the thing in here. Always, and then also my balance, it makes a big difference with balance for me.
Kim (25:34.506)
And that's another big thing that I'm really, really trying to instill in the people that I work with and coaching is balance. And obviously our core and our pelvic floor is going to play a role in that. But the importance of being able to stand on one leg or recover quickly if you stumble is so, so important.
Melissa Erin Glazier (25:49.257)
Mm -hmm.
Melissa Erin Glazier (25:57.738)
my god. I work with a population, as I said earlier.
that is in their 70s and 80s. And one of the biggest fears that people in that demographic have is of falling. And I have clients who have fallen. And I've made videos to show this is what happens. You have three scenarios if you're by yourself. You're by yourself and there's nothing around to help you. You're by yourself and there's something to help you. So there's all ways to get up off the ground. I think that's such a good point that you made. It's so important because it's a super
empowering feeling for people to know that they can, if they find themselves in that position, that they can get themselves up without help. It's so important. It could be the difference between your life or not.
Kim (26:39.053)
Yeah. Yep.
Yeah, yep, yep. We were just at our cabin on Gambier Island and there's a woman there, her and her husband have a place and probably, she said was seven weeks ago, she was there limbing a tree and she fell off the ladder. Thankfully she had put her phone not too far away but she had broken her back. She didn't realize it at the time but she broke her back and she broke her pelvis and.
Melissa Erin Glazier (27:08.653)
my
Kim (27:09.322)
We were not on the island, there was an emergency chat and we were watching her basically saying, I've fallen and I can't walk. And so it was just like what happened afterwards was incredible from the community response. But we saw her yesterday walking with crutches, but still she said, I'm out walking. And a lot of people are amazed by that. And I said, that's what's going to help you get stronger. And even with knee replacements, it's happening now too. Gone are the days where
weight it out, you lay down, we have to get up and move and that's what ultimately is creating the strength and the adaptations that we want in our bodies. But she's, I'm not sure her age, she's close to 70 I believe. yeah, so good on her, but it's scary.
Melissa Erin Glazier (27:49.663)
Okay, yeah.
Melissa Erin Glazier (27:53.725)
I don't care how old you are, like even if you're in your 40s, 50s and up, working on balance, like we can all fall, right? And especially if you're deconditioned.
it's important to have that body strength to get up off the ground. It's like when people say, well, I don't like doing burpees. Okay, well guess what? Maybe it's not totally a functional exercise, but your ability to go from a standing position down onto the ground and get back up could save your life. What if you're by yourself and you drop a piece of medicine and it rolls onto your bed and that's something that you have to take to stay alive and you can't get down there and then get back up? What are you gonna do? I know that's a pretty basic example, but I'm not wrong. Yeah.
Kim (28:28.604)
It's true and it happens. yep, it does. What would be, we're gonna wrap it up at a couple questions. So what would be your tips or your top tips? I think we've kind of covered them, but if I've missed one, what would you say for women who want to age powerfully, who are thinking about longevity, who don't want to be the frail people falling, who want to have good balance?
What would you say to them? What are your top tips?
Melissa Erin Glazier (28:59.319)
I think if you're looking at starting some kind of exercise program, have to find something that resonates with you that you know that you can be consistent with. again, if you were to come at me and say, we're going to do Zumba six times a week, and then we're going to, that doesn't work for me. What works for me is something that's different. So you have to find something that...
makes you feel happy or at the very least you don't completely hate when you're doing it. And whatever you decide on, I think, and I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but I think one of the most important things is lifting weights. And so not everyone needs to do bicep curls with 25 -pounders. But challenge yourself to pick up something as heavy as you can because doing that is what's going to set you up for success down the road. Otherwise, you're going to find yourself sitting in a chair, lying in a bed, and
I don't ever want to see someone that's in that position because it's too late. And they didn't do something 20 years ago when you had the opportunity to. Yeah.
Kim (29:58.186)
Yeah, you have inspired me so much along the way because one, I'm looking at the arms, of course, but I was always, even though I know the same information you do for hypertrophy or strength or power, all the different ways you can train, I still was always in the, you know, kind of 12 to 15 rep and what could I do? And I never really pushed myself farther. It was just like, well, and so I always kind of stayed where I never really improved or changed.
And I'm grateful for watching you and you pushing me and coming and doing your boot camps when we get to come and visit and they're always
Melissa Erin Glazier (30:40.319)
I like when we can push ourselves and push each other. I firmly believe in an accountability system. I know people find this hard to believe, but I don't work out unless I'm with other people. That's what makes me want to work out. It kind of lifts me up and it gives me energy. There was a time when I was younger and I was doing all that crazy stuff that I could go to the gym for two hours. I'd rather poke my eyes out than do that. Let's get in, let's get out. 45 minutes, 60 minutes tops, and you can get a lot done. yeah, mean, we can
really really so when people are like in my class like my god this is so hard I'm like I know it's hard but you've probably done something harder than this this week whether it was emotionally or whatever so just get through it we can do this and we're doing it all together so yeah
Kim (31:21.203)
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yeah, the power in the community. What's your final wrap up here? What's your favorite exercise?
Melissa Erin Glazier (31:32.445)
I'll be honest, I love push -ups because I think that that's an exercise as a girl. There was always this kind of feeling around push -ups, like you're doing push -ups like a girl, which makes me crazy. I don't care if you're doing, I do push -ups on my knees. Sometimes I do them on my toes. You wanna do push -ups like a girl? Come at me.
So I love push -ups because it's one of the best exercises you can do, not just for your arms, but for your core and your chest and the whole bit. that's on an emotional level, I think it's an empowering one. And on a physical level, I think it's a really important one. I'm pretty basic.
Kim (32:06.375)
I remember the photo, but the photo you had when you were first starting your website and what have you, I think it was you down on the dock when you were living on the East Coast in a perfect form push up. was like, okay, that's badass. I love it. It was awesome. You are amazing and I know that you're not super active on social media, but I would love to.
Melissa Erin Glazier (32:18.975)
You're so sweet. Thank you.
Kim (32:29.023)
people can go watch a little bit of what happens in your life on your Instagram channel and give you a little plug over there. But thank you for inspiring me and doing all that you do to help. Especially, I know you train both male and female, but I think especially the female clientele, obviously that's the world that I work in. I love what you're doing to help move the needle forward with getting women to do hard things and lift heavy things and
Melissa Erin Glazier (32:31.539)
Sure. Yep.
Melissa Erin Glazier (32:42.173)
I do.
Melissa Erin Glazier (32:53.811)
Thank you. You're always such a big supporter and I appreciate you so much.
Kim (32:57.946)
Yeah, thank
Melissa Erin Glazier (32:59.773)
Bye!
Kim (33:02.842)
Don't
