I know you like boobs. I know they're amazing. They say to me look at me. I know it's so good. Thanks, Mom. What's up, Warren Stone Nation ready? For some orange therapy? Welcome to week 6, my name is Christian Luger. I'm joined by Ria and Troy. What's up guys? Hey Christian in this episode. We're going to talk to our first Orangetheory trainer whose name is John James better known by as coach JJ if you want to reach the show and give us any feedback. We've been getting a lot of feedback via text via Instagram and most importantly in person. Um, if you want to reach us the you can get us triple five Triple Eight. If you're not on that text list just text the word OT podcast to Triple. Five Triple Eight. You can also get us on email Therapy Orange at gmail.com and we're on the gram as orange underscore therapy. The other cool part of this show that's taking place is we have our first sponsor. Yeah, and it's from a sports bar company called Shiva. You're welcome for having big boobs. So I want you to stay tuned because Rita's got a big boobs story because she tested the she fit bra and we have a discount code just for orange therapy. I've listened for sure. Sorry small-breasted ladies were working on another solution, but as I understand it you guys have a lot of solutions already. So it's true last last thing housekeeping. I wonder if you could review us on Spotify that would be great. We've got like seven reviews a big shout out to Jennifer which Jennifer is hyphenated last name. Yeah. Ferguson Jen Ferguson. Yeah, Jen Ferguson Jen is a member of OTF Smyrna. I believe that their home studio. She wrote us an actual review on iTunes. So take initiative and Jennifer if you get to finish the review, that would be cool to then. There's one person who left this a two-star review in charge. Trey has a message for you trade. What message do you have for the two star reviewer and second bitch? Bye Felicia, ah, oh, you know her name her name is Felicia. Like how unfortunate for you? Oh Felicia working out next to me this week. Oh missed you missed a golden opportunity, bye-bye. So this week at Orange. There was The 500-meter Benchmark or neuro. Travia. How do you do and how do you feel about it you go, so I just want you to know I finished number one in my age group. Yes, I appreciate that age group is under 25. Yes. Exactly. We should drink to that. Okay, hold on hold please. Yeah, so I finished and look me in the eye though. You know, that's like seven years of bad sex. Oh, no. I'm not taking my eyes off you. He sure is very scary. He's not gonna have sex at all. I would die. Okay, so I won't know another PR exactly. I that was a PR at 1 minute and 18 seconds flat and 20 times and how you say when 1828 to wait 10.0 but you okay what Japanese so wait you good? What was your best before 123 think I think it's great that so that's really good. Yeah, I Road until I just couldn't go anywhere. You gonna barf. Yeah when I got done I would like my throat is dry. What wrote what like number were you and I know I actually was at Cumberland Yeah a different Studio. I was I think I was on 13 because of the coach. Yeah. Yes. Okay. So 13 Lucky 13. That's Taylor Swift's favorite number so it proved. Okay. I'm glad that no tells you that my time was shitty. First of all do not do a benchmark on a Monday and especially don't do a benchmark on a Monday after you and I had a very tough weekend and Rugged Maniac. She was sore I was on my bruised all to hell. I look beat up that what that is. Everybody real is wearing a black tank top and she's got bruises all over her own. So she got out of a USA or Lifetime movie. You should see the other guy. I think so. I don't I don't remember really before I think my last time was 134 it but I couldn't look it up. I couldn't look it up because the thing was down. Okay, but I did one thirty-seven point two. I mean at 6 a.m. On Monday, I was tired and we had a rough week. We did we went so I really want to do it again. They'll come on. Maybe I'll just do it tomorrow. I'm going to be a Nails class tomorrow. Maybe I'll just do it get it. I'm gonna redeem myself get it. So what did you do? I'm sorry 118. Okay. So that's what I care where you are. I don't know that I'll hit that anytime in the near future. Yes, and I saw that I'm trying to catch that. What do you improve by six seconds of this thing to make it happen appropriate math switching speeds a little bit want to get into a little mushy on Instagram the handle Orangetheory motivation posted a story. About a woman named Natalie who's fighting breast cancer her brother Drew made a playlist for her and the whole class did a drive try to it because she really she really wanted to be there and she couldn't but the post said her surgeon was there her friends were there her family all showed up. They don't mention the the the studio her home studio. So if anybody knows the studio text us, it's triple five AAA will have a link to the Instagram post and the show Notes, but sorry I want to ask you. What is it about Orange Theory Fitness that creates like such a family atmosphere when you're younger and you have all these sports teams and things that it's a little family like your sports team. You'll never forget the like the kids that you grew up with playing football or swim with her baseball or whatever and as an adult. I don't think you really have that. So people are all in there all different levels, but still sort of going through the same things and working through, you know, kind of their own personal But you come together and you experience the same workout no matter where you are really in the world. So I think that helps and there's kind of that online community of people cheering each other on just want to go better for everybody. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know we can say look better than that. Yeah. Thank you Maria get it. Welcome. That's awesome that first of all like I work with Physicians that her surgeon was like I'm going to take the time to come and and do this workout with you. That's that's amazing. So shout out to you. You doctor so we'll post the link in the show notes for Instagram is Instagram post and then if anybody knows where Natalie's from which studio Texas triple five AAA it so we can give her a shout out and send Good Vibes her away. Yeah, because she'll be awesome. So moving on I want to go into show errors and omissions occasionally. We start a story about that. I should our chemistry between the three of us is so amazing that It off on these tangents and we forget to finish our story. Remember that last week. We started a story about a 40 when I was added and I was editing the show and we got off on a tangent about Trace Southern Roots. So we've gone over bullet belts and Buggies, but we forgot to tell you about before T. We are can you tell the audience the riveting story of the 40? Well back to Margaritaville right on it was supposed to be Margarita Friday's. Cause I was like, I'll just abort that's what we're drinking this week and we're drinking them again because it was so good. And so I said I'll pick everything up on my way. And so you gave me this list of stuff and I went with my buggy dad and so I could only grab a beer which is what the list said, right but it is I've never bought one beer. I usually buy like a six-pack. We all took it literally. She's like a southern evangelist biblethump on Beerus and tell me we're gonna buy Six beers buy a six-pack if there are any churches out there that need an evangelist. Rhea is a literal East trip textures triple. Five Triple Eight. I was trying to save money. Okay, so her venmo account is so I I found that they have single beers and so I picked up a 40 of Corona and I put it in a brown plastic bag because I'm Claudia walks into my house like she just got off a construction site. She's got a little brown paper bag with her 40 and a bottle of tequila. Yeah today. She walks in with another 40 Corona but to emphasize that joke, she walks in with a glass 32 ounce of Medela look from the girl behind the counter like what the hell so I'm sorry. It's our audience for forgetting the story about the 40 That's the riveting story of the 40. Okay, so I had a random thought of the week re-entry. Why don't people eat microwavable popcorn as much as they used to I feel like we used to eat that all the time. I don't think it is bad for you. We are waiting for the popcorn maybe both that can we like that really is a very random thought about microwave popcorn. We didn't answer the question. We know we never do. I don't know why question is crazy. This is why I was not popular in school because this is the ram of the ship or hero for the week. So if you're not familiar with Zero Hero we look at the Facebook meme group that Peter posted. It basically says what? What's your favorite motivational saying from one of your Orangetheory coaches, we pick two to three out each week and then rear tray give it a zero or hero. So this is I think it's Elliot Atkinson says that coach Jason Z of alt Richmond Orange Theory, which I looked it up before the show is in Trafford England. It's a it's a suburb of the greater Manchester City area Okay, the quote that coach NZ says is take your time but hurry up. Yeah take your time with that. But hurry the hell up. You have an iced tea you heard what nice to know that means to be nice. But nasty. I've never heard that another one of your said that you know, it's almost like saying bless you. So take your time, but hurry up as a hero. And yeah, that's like in a tornado or something when you're trying to get off the treadmill, but like you need to wait. Yeah. Well, I also kind of need Hey, bitch move. Yeah, I'm curious because he's British. I'm curious if he likes says it like an upbeat accent or it's more honest truth sophisticated hurry take your time. But hurry up. How would you say it and I'm pretty good time. I just know you don't pronounce the team, Tennessee English draw. The next one up is Michael hardens coach. He doesn't say who's coaches. He says you're jogging and running is still faster than your couch. No, I still don't like it. Yeah, no. Okay. So that's a whack. Don't say that. We're going back Brianna. Brianna. Barta says that coach Megan Anderson of Grand Forks North Dakota says you believe in Santa Closed for eight years. You can believe in yourself for one minute all out there a medium. Do we have a son? No, I'm the tiebreaker if y'all split. Okay. I am a hero. I'm a zero. I'm going with hero because I would like to piss myself laughing. Well, yeah, I mean, that's my mom. That's pretty awesome. I believe in myself for a minute. Yeah, I believe in myself for a minute but like why bring Santa into it, but that's the point Santa is This magical has no kids and orange there. Yeah, we like 16. I don't know. All right. Well that know we're going to move on. So John this guy jars really kind of these kind of weirding me out this week. So he posted a on Orangetheory memes which Rio probably knows I'm going with us about his balls. I saw that. Oh, okay, and he says for the men the rower I've had I can How many times I've had my balls fall under my underwear and I actually required to them. Are you bragging or complaining what you thought was funny? Here's what I can't figure out. So I'm Still A Guy. Yes, Trey you go Commandos to that can't be qualified as falling out. I don't think he made actually found in held. That's what I'm trying to understand. Like I wear like a compression type. Wonderful. Yes. It's meant so nothing can fall out. Oh, I'm trying to figure out some restrictive. Can you help me with the logistics of this? Like if you're wearing anything? How does it how do they fall in unless you have like elephantitis of the balls? Well that too but I think my understanding is he's wearing like short shorts and it's going to lay it out and it's falling out like with the built in mesh and I think it when he wouldn't be that's coming out. That's disgusting. I'd rather get crumbs on his sweaty. I got crap contested this morning again. I'd rather deal with about them have to like stare at We Poppin out the side of their running shorts. Oh, we're really wipe it down. Well, I mean at the end of the day look if he's blessed he can't help that but just know to cover it our big balls really blessed depending on what field you're in Rio about balls. I don't really care about balls why I mean like as long as they're there oh, oh they're fun to play with but like I don't you just don't need big bowling balls. I don't this likes that they're familiar there that okay there and like you can kind of go like, okay. So do you like bones trade? Do you have a preference on testicles? You know for me? I'm very shy I don't like to discuss that whatever but so he will have another drink so I don't know if that's okay. So it depend on what Happening. What do you know? I'll leave it at that. Yeah, it depends on what's Happening when I see some time with the mental and the way and sometimes you might need them really think about hard time thinking about those of you out there. Wouldn't you like to know do you hear me? Move it on I'd also like to give a big shout-out to the Orangetheory memes Facebook group. They just crossed 25,000 members. Yeah, and I would like to point out that it's 25,000 active. Members there's a lot of groups with a lot of people who don't participate very actively and we're actually going to have co-founder of the group Christian Puerto on the show next week. Yeah, so we'll have an interview with her. So one of the ways for you know is re-entry can attest to the show considering its a side hustle is pretty organized and we have a board where we keep the random ideas that we get for the show one of the ideas listed. From Rio this week is just says colored leggings and vagina sweat. Wow. It says nothing else but that on the board, so I'm assuming really did it. Actually, I don't know but I was soon it's not tray. So we are my question for you is what would you like to say about colored leggings and vagina switch honest when I just grew up tell me more. You've never seen vagina sweat in the gym. No, I'm not looking at that. I'm looking for a ball sweat. So here's try now. You just made it and here's the thing. So I order fabletics. Okay, just like take $50 out every month and I forget about it and like three or four questions by and so I like branched out of black leggings. That's what I normally this is a subscription box just for like yes, like liking it's outfits. Okay. I'm okay. So like they I just get like shirts and pants. Okay, but they have cute stuff and like it's a little different but I normally get black. I have a couple of colored ones and every time I get him, I'm like no so I got navy blue and I'm like, I'm branching out navy blue. Yeah, and I would and I walked in and my my workout Pi C was like oh and I was like, all right. Look, I'm gonna go through this and I the first workout I'm like, oh these are never wearing these again because you can actually see like sweat stains around like your beauty and your vagine and but like Gene Gene and so I'm like, no, it's not just me because you can see it like there are lots of ladies who maybe are Super Body confident that we're colored leggings but underneath the orange lights. Oh, sometimes it only dark colors are like is it pink or something? Like anything besides block anything besides black? What about white it takes a brave girl. So there are some so like coach Nikki. Yes and Coach coach. Nikki has a pair of white pants and she can rock them. She has amazing booty an amazing. Like I say, just get a quarter get a quarter at a bow. It's right off sure. So there are some people if you look like her you can wear whatever the hell you want to wear, but most people don't look like that. Okay, so was it the color of the manufacturer that was not necessarily manufacturer but like a color you will see like sweat stain. So even I'm not going to say her name, but she had on some shorts from Lulu the other day and they were peach-colored and you could they were peach-colored and you could see sweat down like way booty crack. I've just lost my appetite. Could you just saying like he got to be careful about the color? Well, you should talk about what are we doing it again this week and made to the Rugged Maniac which is a 5K and we went out like 25 obstacle 25 obstacles over the course of 3.2 miles. Yes talk about those that we serve as a girl in front of us as were climbing over obstacles were like, oh my God, and I think that she had on like peach colored lights and This Rugged Maniac. It's all these obstacles plus the orange Georgia Clay. Yes and divide because you have to go through mud pits. And so this poor unfortunate girl had on light-colored pants and then this orange clay and it's just just looked naked. I was like, she's nice. She's not naked. It's not good. We have some pictures of that. So yeah. Pictures of it when I posted that it was horrible. It was not good move it on. So this week. What is your intro music? You guys did very well last week me to go first this time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, three two one go. I'm going back to back by Drake. I was going to have a drink sing too. Okay, but I'm not least. I don't have to bleep myself out on the show this week. Well, maybe I will what is it? So no, I was I was feeling Rihanna this week. Okay, you know who doesn't have Rihanna songs boo Instagram and she loves her but if you can't Instagram something like is it worth saying I agree? So I was going to say Rockstar 101 as my intro music. Okay, then she says like make sure you forced me good technical. Yeah. Yeah, I like that song and then I'm wearing mine out. Because art for my all out song it was going to be S&M also by Rihanna, but they don't have it. So I'm going wait a minute. I thought we just do one song free. I know my song is going to be the princess herself Brittany talk. Wait a second. So are we going vertically toxic or one of the other reactions are no super losing out on my votes. Just so for me. I'm going to go with The Lion King Beyonce soundtrack shocker mood. I'm in a home and if you don't know that song my van, you know, when I woke up it is the her version of Hakuna Matata. Okay, let's do some listen to it. One of the things we're going out. We're talking about trade. Do you remember Columbia House? Music Club? Yes, I was the bait. Being on whether or not to bring this up because I don't know how much of our audience would remember Columbia house. But when just had a flashback, yeah basically for if you were probably born after 98, you may not remember Columbia house, but basically what they did is they tried to lure you into their Club to get more revenue from you by giving you usually 10 CDs for a penny. Yes. So the question I have Trey Andrea is of the ten CDs you got for a penny. Do you remember one of the first ten you got there can be a house. You do. Can you name it? It was Jessica since Simpson country album really because I was like, oh, let me test it out. And by the way, very good record. Mmm. Really? Do you remember won't just one you don't need to get this off. I remember and I liked was En Vogue which one it was a single and I actually liked the back. It was like something about stars. I'm shooting are Wishing on a Star on the back was like I said the song number two, but it was oh so I remember 8 of the 10, but I'm going to go with Jen blossoms new bills herbal experience new miserable experience as going to have to look that up. They only had like, I think they're one hit wonder if delicate involved here. We have like a slumber party, but did a dance to it and everything. Yeah, it was good. Thank you does not invoke have a problem. Is it that take the child's getting together again? FYI? Whoo? Get back together. It's definitely child. Hmm. One of them died. That's Lisa Left Eye Lopes. I'm it was a girl's group. So we're like TRC. Oh, yes heart TRL. No nothing on there. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So who's left Lisa Left-Eye Lisa Left Eye Lopes And your chili that is so appropriate. Although the hell are y'all talkin? I'm chilly. Oh God. I know who she is, but she's married to her. Sure. No, she didn't get married. No. Oh they do. Just for two dollars a day. You can save another Soul. I'm gonna just get to know I haven't seen you in two days this morning, but we were both like yeah, we had to like just get in the work has hired so hard when you're like breaking records, you know, you know, are you sore this week my butt hurts it does Troy's been on a cruise boat crew has been hitting up grinder all week and photos very sore. I don't know what that is. That is the gayest thing. I said I'll show I don't know her so we're going to close to another show. So Rhea we are very fortunate to get our first sponsor. Its Chief it bras. Can yeah, really? Can you tell us a little bit about your own your rack and unique challenges you have with it and how you solve your problem. Was she fit and then we'll talk about what we have our listener. I would first like to start this out by saying they're real. Yes, they are and I know you like boobs and they're amazing. They say to me look at me. I know it's so good. Thanks. Mom. Mama, do you coming in strong? Yes, we were talking about running and like getting a black eye and how many yes, you don't want to get a black eye. So I normally wear two sports bras a tank top. Yes, and then a tank top or a shirt like a credit card just to like hold these puppies down. Yes. And so I got a tip they were like, well, why do you not wear a bra? I'm like, I wear $16 bras anyway part of the problem. So we had the opportunity to reach. Out to she fit and I actually purchased two she fit bras and they are like front clasp Bean with a zip. So it's actually kind of hot if you didn't like, yeah for those who don't like role play you go work out in the morning and at night and then your red bottoms and then you have your she fit and then You like oops the slipper slipped and make sure my babies are protected. Yes, which I didn't think that I would like but I'm actually dig it and then it's zips up zipper and a zipper. So like these things it is like Kevlar. They're not going to move around. Yeah for the audience. There he is not working law enforcement. What is kevlar? It's like what they make a bulletproof vest out. It's like what I guess if you want to make sure you don't get shot in the eye. Okay make sense. So I I tried that and like the girls did not move around and the cool thing also about the bra is its adjustable. So like it across the top not that I'm doing this like people can see but yes, we could I can't see her go ahead and so you can kind of Of keep it Loose until you're ready to ready to really roll. Okay, and then you just go. All right, go all out drank you're ready and just like boost them. So when I say 30 seconds before all out, you can't you just just said so the problem that solves and I've heard a girl say those before is basically when you're the typical way that girls had to wear sports bras that were well-endowed is it's like a compression that feels like it's choking you it does and so you're telling me this kind of solves that problem. Yeah, it does not feel like that at all and it's adjustable like around your around your Okay, like around like the around part and then across the top two on your shoulders, like that was really good and then so once I bought it and I was like we should reach out to these people just to see like can we get a discount because it's actually like it works. Yeah, and so we reached out to them and they were super excited to partner with us to give like basically discount code for our for our listeners and they also then sent me a brand new bra and you're like don't even talk about out this until like August 16th or 13 or something. It's called The Valor and The Valor is actually a little thinner bra than the one that I bought so less Kevlar ish but still like holds everything together and I actually really love it. There's no seams so I can see like wearing a lighter shirt with it. The other one. I probably would need to have a black shirt. Why just because you'd see seems girls don't like seems, you know, you don't want to seem around your boob girls don't want seems no bra. In general like if your boobs look like a cone. No, thank you being so guys if you want to try it out go to she fit.com and also follow me on Instagram if you get a she fit.com and on your order, it's 10% off the entire order just answer orange like the color orange ee the number 10 and it'll be ten percent off your entire sheet order and I did just see to that they have some payment options. So then if you get a big order and you need to kind of break that out, so yeah. Yeah, I saw that I was like I've never really seen that on the e-commerce store. It's pretty cool. So that was cool. And I mean, they're not telling us to say we're just talking about it. And what's the other thing? Oh, they are introducing leggings. So it's all it's cool. They were on Shark Tank to and that's how they got a lot of their funding and that every single one of the Sharks actually went to back her. So it's a female owned company so good and she said go to see fit not come there also a histogram of she fit. 10,000 it's okay. If you're driving right now just text this triple five AAA and we'll send you the discount code. But if you can write it down, it's orange 10 now enjoy the interview with Coach JJ JJ. Welcome to the orange therapy podcast. How's it going today? What's up? It's awesome. It's hot and annoying. But I am blessed It's oddly man. Where are you? I am home right now here in Atlanta. So I just left from the Outside of the pits of hell and it's I wore the wrong outfit. What if the world that what outfit did you wear and what would you have worn clothes period is the wrong outfit definitely and what I have would have worn was staying inside with AC. So JJ just so you know this ahead of time and for the audience is that if it sounds like my to co-host are blushing it's because I've got your Instagram profile up on the screen and I feel like I'm sitting The two teenage girls are over here going screams. Everybody wants to follow along while the interview him. It's instagram.com John James ATL. Make sure you have the glass of tea. Oh my God, follow me girls do oh geez Louise know that is the after six pm Instagram Instagram. Would you like us to her? Fitness inspiration and your kids are in the room and change and JJ daily fits. We follow all of yours. We like this one. Yes, so we'll include both in the show notes JJ you're in Atlanta. Now, where are you from originally born and raised 80 alien. I was born here right in the city at what used to be called, Georgia Baptist hospital now Atlanta Medical and then I went to I've only Left the city to live in Tallahassee to go to school at Florida A&M. So in Tallahassee, oh me I'm a Tallahassee laughs see I went to Florida State who would have thought I am. Yeah. It's right across the street. That's awesome. I played I majored in music. So I picked up an instrument in fifth grade. When I was 9 years old the trombone and I started learning from there every year since then I was in the band through middle school high school and then got a partial scholarship to Florida and went down there and that was literally the only College I applied to I got accepted. And I went and I stayed for two years. And so that tuition caught up to me and I came back to Georgia State and went there and pursued major major in music education and performance. So awesome. My sister actually marched. She's marching Chief so Outsourcing. Yeah, and I was in band too, but not in college. I played the trumpet in French horn. Trainer, where's your home studio considered? My home studio is Smyrna it is. Okay majority of my classes are at Cumberland. But I also teach at Sandy Springs as well. Okay. Got it. JJ. What do you what do you love about coaching in the Orangetheory world to be in to be an inspiration to learn? So I even if you follow me on Instagram Instagram, you'll see I'm here to learn here to teach them here transpire and I Everybody you never filled up your brain with knowledge and information and as long as you're open to learn and as long as you're open to spread that information, that's kind of my motivation every single morning you have maybe the same people but they're there in the different day. You know, they might be feeling different. They might be have more sleep one day or they might have experienced something in the last 24 hours that changed their life. So if you're a part of that progression then why not, you know, give them what you know, yeah, I will say a little back story about about you JJ, is that when My daily P. I see Lisa and I started Orangetheory you were on like your second or third day there right as I say. Yeah, so you showed us around and you were you're studying to become a coach and things but you welcomed us every single morning and we're a light for us every single day loved it you and your energy and you had all these amazing signs and art and it was just a different experience when you were there and we miss you at the front but are excited for you. As a coach to yeah, thank y'all so much and as I do miss you all dearly dearly, so I appreciate when you guys come and pop into the Cumberland or if I you know, take a class over at Smyrna and you guys are there. It's always a pleasure to see also, I mean, I remember when you guys came in like it was yesterday course, that was like my first week there. I remember when Trey came in he called me and I don't know if you remember but still have that card. Still have that like it was it was something that I wasn't at all and he's got super quiet. I don't know who he is, but he comes in he runs he rose he leaves. Is that every morning? I write a thank you card or node or an email to somebody before assuming I get up and so what was going on is I'm going to the 5 a.m. Class and everybody at the front if you've gone to one of those morning classes, like it's a miracle that we're all there in the first place. And so everybody's like kind of tired and zombie but James is there like Pepin everybody up at 4:45 five o'clock in the morning and after like a month I was like Mostly, he's a special recognition to make that transition so coach Nikki again. I mean that she's one of my besties and we teach dance together and she's the one who told me our stories about, you know taking as a member and then eventually Transitioning into being the coach and it really inspired me. And so I said hey, you know, I'm I do group group classes by teaching dance. So I'm already comfortable with that setting on what do I need to do to get in the coaches? So she explained everything the logistics of getting a certification National certification didn't going through the actual Orangetheory certification and at the time orange theory was not looking to hire any coaches to put any more in the schedule. So that's why I took the essay position Shannon was looking for help at the fund s Scat Smyrna and so I went there now with that said the entire time I was there. I was observing. I was watching Finding, you know, what coaches did different how our members responded to certain coaches what they like he didn't like and so I really was just pocketing all that information taking notes and then when it came to about eight eight or nine months in so this is all August. I started in January of 2018 behind the desk and then about August or September. I got my Ace National Asian for group fitness and then you have to go through a Orangetheory certification to learn the ropes Jennifer for everybody out there. What is the a certification? I don't know what that is. So the a certification is a national nationally recognized group fitness and also personal trainer personal training certification that you pay for your curriculum. They give you all of the reading material all of the online material you can either to either take your practice test, but it's really just grooming you to be a professional. Colonel fitness instructor, whether individual or with group. It's very difficult very hard. I mean you have people's lives and helping your hand. So to be quite honest with you, I felt the test the first time I took it and I filled it and it just made motivated me even more and I went back. I took it a second time and aced. It pun intended got my service. We got to go through ten classes where you are being shadowed and or evaluated before you can't actually be put on the schedule in that time. Head coaches come in. They ask the members how you doing? They come in and they want you to observe you you have to make a certain score 90 points on a on a evaluation is very strict. You have to say things at the right time. It's very time specific. Yeah, you gotta watch her poems because I realize we learned in episode 1 she gets turned on by language arts. As I'm looking at your at your John James ATL Instagram upon I'm looking at you that don't know what that is. I think you're gonna like what we climbed up. Anybody else like music and where we were climbing up those that that's what we have in mind right now is something Mach line, which is a macrame. He called me that basically but I brought some some fancy food last week, which was cheese with like Prosciutto wrapped around it. And he was like, oh, I know he's like, I'm not eating that food. And guess what? I brought him this week and he wasn't and he ate it right away. I did. No, I'm Rhino when it to be served. Okay, we're done. Crush the ATF test case you no pun intended. Uh, so and then you're doing that. So what other jobs do you have right now besides being OTF coach, right? I'm going to keep this limited because we don't have a lot of time. But with that said my livelihood is in dance and choreography and dance instruction. I'm moving all the time. If you ever taken my class, I'm very particular about the music that I play because It keeps you moving that keeps you motivated. So every once in a while, you catch me over on the side doing a dance move. But yeah, I dance for a living and many different aspects. I could I teach kids I teach adults walk in classes, but I also have traveled the world because of debt. So I'm very grateful JJ. I want to I want to ask you. How did you get into Dance? I mean ATL's got like a really strong hip hop scene in was it like that from the get-go for you? Did somebody like push you into it knows it was a transition. So I grew up in a musical Family. Come on Mom was a vocal major and all of my mom's side of the family grew up singers or producers are instrumentalist. So around my high school age when I was still in the band or what not. I was pursuing being a producer and a songwriter mentored under a few major producers here in Atlanta to bounce around in different Studios and things like that and it wasn't until I went it to Tallahassee went to school in Florida and him and started learning choreography while playing an instrument while in the Florida heat. It was just one of those things where I like this. Hey, I have rhythm I guess so why not and when I came back I was 20. I was 19 years old around 20 21 years old. I took my first day at school ass from JJ. You have a lot of Rhythm. Wow. Well, let me know. Equally diverse home. I mean I listen to everything a fan of country fan of Rhythm rhythm and blues Soul funk all of that kind of stuff. So it's a lot of Rhythm in the house to just siblings do something. Yeah, I grew up with two older brothers five and six years older than me who kind of have rhythm, you know, my oldest brother is not really the dancer my little brother. He loves to dance battle me with liquid. Courage encouragement and then I now have two younger brothers for my from my father remarrying and I'm not sure if you've seen him but my dad just come shows up to OTS Smyrna all the time don't ya with that said I didn't die not so much anymore because I'm not behind the desk. Okay are but when I was there like every day he would he would come a very even I think we're didn't you do then you win that painting I ever say did I won and donated it? Yes, because your family has a foundation. Our baseball great kids for kids baseball and so I dad painted a super awesome picture. Yep. There it is. We just pulled out a picture an old picture of you and your dad. It's so cute. Did you play baseball? Yeah. So before all this dance and music I was on my mom's side was music. My dad's side was baseball. So my great-grandfather play baseball for the tray and leave. Memphis chicks back in the day and he was actually drafted and played in the starting roster. The Boston Red Sox went with the first the first baseball game ever played in Yankee Stadium from that point on my grandfather all my uncle's everybody played baseball. My one of my uncle's was drafted to the minor league team under the Cleveland Indians my so now currently my dad and his oldest brother my oldest Uncle run a Folks family baseball foundation and it is encouraging the private instruction and group instruction of underprivileged kids who may not necessarily have the funds to bother you maybe goes away. Yeah get the equipment that they need to get glove donations for gloves and hats and all kinds of things. We don't have the time or the parents who don't have the transportation or the reliability to get them to a Rec rec league baseball practice. Practice or things like that travel ball is a huge thing. Now, they provide that service to be able to train them and prepare them for high school tryouts or even you know, getting into college and things like that develop them to be the better players. So yes the folks family baseball foundation. And yeah, so that's it. My dad's is really been working through that if somebody wanted to donate balls or gloves or bats or mean, how would they how would they do that? Well, my dad's very Believe it or not on Instagram and on social media so you can go to his Instagram or Facebook page and it's folks baseball and it felt fo WL kaes baseball all one word. Facebook will be the best way to get in contact with him or find out as far as donations for equipment gratefully. We've had a lot of orange to your members who have come in with, you know, their kids youth baseball gloves and things that they don't use anymore. It's just sitting around in the garage and the attic I mean, Anything if it's usable, it's accepted and appreciated. So we also take money monetary donations the other store or quick. Sorry, I went to get behind his you have pictures on your Instagram story of you dancing with Luke Bryan at the CMAs. Yes. How did that? How did that come about and what was it like so I'm Ali is is is nashville-based. It's one of the hugest things. I mean, especially for dancers dancers in Nashville very talented, but there's a small pool in comparison to like saying Anna La New York, whatever over the past about nine eight half to nine years. I've been building a relationship with the choreographers and dancers up there. So when auditions happened I am there, you know, I don't mind making that three-and-a-half-hour, you know, whatever drive to get there in 2016. I believe is my first experience with the CMT Awards dancing for Jake Owen. And that was a lot of fun and then I became is really good friends with the choreographers who work on major gigs like that. Like I said, it's a small pool. So usually when they have something like that there is a go to set of choreographers or you know people who they want to pull into these events. So anyway with that said went up there and I'll just say that in any kind of TV or exposure you have to Luke Bryan and his personality and whatever he's exactly like that like, he's the greatest he's super cool super nice and a lot of fun to work with he shows up. He's a hard worker. He's at every rehearsal that he's required to be at and then he just rocks the stage. Infectious personality and it's really cool and I'm grateful to be able to share the stage with them change. It sounds like someone else we know that JJ. Can you give everybody listen like a little behind the scenes? Like is it like once you get called by the choreographer? Like is it you're in or you have to try out? How does that work for a big award show like that? Well, it depends on what's going on how much time you have to prepare a lot of times for something like that. You'll have an audition where you'll pull in, you know, however many dozens. Of dancers looking for a certain look height dance style choreographer gives a either exact choreography or they'll give a idea of what choreography is going to be on like be like on stage a lot of times especially in country music. You have to know how to partner if you take a look at his most recent that or that specific performance Luke Bryan at the 2019 CMT Awards. There was a lot of partnering a lot of tossing a lot of lifting turning so obviously with guys you got to be strong. You gotta be aware of how to do, you know dance with someone Else so they take that in account this one in particular. We were on kind of a time crunch. So they pulled in people who we had already either worked with or that we knew were able to pick up that type of choreography. Okay, and we all just kind of a lot of us were from Nashville summer. I mean not a lot of us were from Atlanta if you were from Nashville as well, but all signed under the same agency and so we just worked in got into to rehearsals and then hit the stage and just knocked it out. So only two that was that was a I mean you guys were on different levels. I saw that and yes yes to rehearsals and then life that's amazing. So interesting my senior year MTSU in order to graduate you have to do an intern with the CMA Awards and I was assigned to Tim McGraw and Faith Evans. Okay, Phil. Sorry, but yeah, I remember sleep. So people may faith. I know it's cool. Oh God, I will say though speaking of Faith. She is gorgeous as far as she walked in with just a tank top white tank top and a pair of jeans and flip-flops no makeup, and she still look Flawless still right there. So JJ we're back on we're back on your profile. We're looking at the picture of you and after Jersey from when you were a little league with your dead. And then Trey asked me to keep scrolling. So I'm very curious. Your body is ripped. What is your secret? So what is your secret a huge like strict Dieter? Not welcome. Everybody's pissed at him. But here's the thing. Here's the thing and I'm going somewhere with that. So I feel like if you don't if you overthink it, you can either take yourself too far or never get to where you want to be and for me. I feel like I take it day by day or take a week by week. Obviously genetics, obviously life experience like things are different for different people. But for me, what works for me is just eating smart. I've never been a crazy like indulge or when it comes to food. I don't always have a sweet. Tooth when I do I'm very conscious of it and I prepare myself like okay if I'm going to eat something that's crazy out of you know out of order like a huge cake because I go in like if I'm indulging I'm gonna eat the whole cake not just a slice like I'm Garfield status. So yeah once but I'm very active I dance, you know, I dance I stay dancing. I'm in the house. I'm grooving them to step in. I'm even when I'm coaching recently. We were as at a coach's meeting for coaches to wear heart rate monitors while we are coaching and for it's not anything, you know, you will notice that my heart rate is up and it's not because I'm nervous not going crazy. It's just that I'm keeping trying to keep up with y'all's energy all motivate me to keep moving. The music is good, you know, whatever the case may be. So I just say stay active stay doing what you love to do. Stay happy, but it's just a moving and whatever it is. I mean even in the source panel time that I had a corporate job. I was in a Uncle it was not me at all I would say I was selling toner for something like eight like printer toner printer toner. I was behind the desk calling making cold calls and that just like steal the life out of me. Like I cannot you doing that at all. I loved all of the human interactions that I had but that job no. Thanks. With it was it was not something in there. I was good at it because I want to put you know 100% into everything that I do. However, it was not for me that honestly was actually when I started taking dance class because I just needed a release and so after an eight 8 nine hour day of just sitting behind the desk looking at a computer. I was like, I need to go take a dance class. So that's kind of what got me out of that. But anyway with that said I rarely rarely was sitting I remember my manager coming up to me and asked me why I was dancing. I was on a phone call but I was like they cannot they cannot say. Oh, I have a headphone in one year. I'm talking to them in the other ear and as long as I'm handling business, you know then then we're all good. So do what you got to do? Yeah. All right, JJ we're getting closer to the end. What if you if you enter the studio and you can only get one song to fire you what would it be? Oh my God. Okay, so got to pick one and I had a feeling that you Going to ask this so my go-to always is going to be Prince always always always I anything Prints, but if I were to open that glass door, and the first thing I heard was dearly beloved. So let's go crazy by Prince would be my insurance song and that's that's what we would do. Let's go crazy and starting off the warm-up right or starting off the work out, right? I like it. Yeah when I stopped were that's what he did when he was here. Yeah, man, if you could pull it we said any Prince song have you pulled off and Purple Rain? I'd be like well that's impossible. Mm x square and you could write one thing on it. What would it be go the great always I in every single class that way I don't care what kind of day you've had a night you have a for how much sleep what kind of Hangover you're experiencing from that from that point on. I feel like there's always the even with one minute left in the day a opportunity to be better. And so I just always in my class with after the stretch say go and be great. So if people could see that every day and it's funny that you ask that. In my room. I have a canvas photo of Times Square. So I would love to do that. Right smack-dab in the middle of that would be I do a lot of deep research before these interviews, so I've been And James ATL Twitter, I don't I forgot it existed Facebook. I'm there as well more. So promoting for classes coming up but I am active in communication on Instagram. So John James 8000 or fitness-wise. It's JJ daily fits all one word. Yeah. Well, you tell me again because I do want I have like zero Rhythm and if I were to come to your class, but I still could I still follow along in like tell me again where that classes sure. Yeah, absolutely. So my first and my specialty class is the urban rodeo and what that is is basically it's not just a dance class. It's a party we come in and it's country fused or hip-hop Hughes country. So basically we learn a DOT line dance and learn a little hip-hop choreography. It's all levels. I would say it's a little faster Pace, but it's still fun. Especially if you sign in on em Bo and get that little bottle of whiskey before you start with that said on Wednesday night. That's Excel Studios, and that's the letter X see. L Studios offer Falkner Road on Wednesdays, I teach a beginner and intermediate hip hop on but I had a lot of fun. I teach two more popular like pop songs hip hop songs things that you would recognize and be able to kind of like you're not trying to dissect the music at the same time something that you probably familiar with already and a lot of grooves a lot of to the right to the let and just having a really good time to sweat it out. If you want to come for Fitness you want to come her hobby if you want to just Get back into dancing. It's been a long time. Then that's the best opportunity. That's at dance 101 off of the North Druid Hills Briarcliff area near Tokyo Hills coach JJ. Thanks so much for joining us manual unique spirit, and we're very happy. We get to get get taught by you every now and then over. No TF. No problem. I'll see you guys one of these days and at 5 a.m. When I'm not driving, so it was a pleasure. Thank you very much. Thanks. Say you're awesome. Thank you. Bye you guys to I'll see you later. I don't star P Nation. Thanks for joining us this week on the podcast. 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SHOW NOTES 2:40 - 500m benchmark water row 3:10 - 7 years of bad sex 5:50 - Natalie's crew runs a DriTri to her playlist to honor her fight against breast cancer 7:45 - The forgotten story of the 40 9:57 - Random thought of the week: microwaveable popcorn 10:45 - Zero or Hero motivational sayings 13:30 - Balls falling out on the water rower 16:58 - Colored leggings and vagina sweat 21:00 - Intro music of the week 26:10 - Rhea’s story about SheFit bras 31:35 - Interview with OrangeTheory Fitness Coach JJ 37:30 - JJ goes all out working at the front desk 38:15 - JJ makes the transition to an OTF coach from the front desk 43:15 - JJ talks about how he got into dance 45:20 - JJ’s family has a non-profit foundation for baseball 48:00 - How JJ danced with Luke Bryan at the CMAs 52:00 - JJ shares his secrets of a ripped body 55:30 - JJ’s intro music 56:25 - The one thing JJ would write on a billboard SHEFIT Bras use code ORANGE10 for 10% off your whole order: https://shefit.com REACH OUT TO US Instagram - http://instagram.com/orange_therapy Text - OTPodcast to 555888 Email - therapyorange@gmail.com Follow the OrangeTherapy playlist on Spotify. I’ve had times my balls fall out of my underwear 😂😂😂 https://www.facebook.com/groups/OrangeTheoryMemes/permalink/2171024583194767/ Fowlkes Family Foundation - https://www.fowlkesbaseball.com/fowlkes-family-foundation 