Welcome to the shark bite show, where we dive into the stories of our members, coaches, friends, and family at Shark bite fitness and nutrition. All right, let’s go. I have the honor of having Tiffany Wilin here on the podcast, right? She’s here if I’m going to start with Joe. Tiffany has been with us at SharkBite Cape Coral for, unbelievably, almost four years at this point, right. She’s got an excellent job. She’s got a cool background. She’s got a great story; we’re going to dive into it. So TIFF. Thank you. Yes, you’re welcome. It took a lot of convincing to get you to do this. It did. Talk to me. So first off, we’ll start; I feel like I talked to you quite a bit. And I did not know until the other night that you are like a Southwest Florida local.
Tiffany
Pretty much. I pretty much grew up here most of my life. I was born in Kansas. When I was a kid, my dad played professional soccer. So we moved around a lot. So that’s how I was born there. My parents had a house here. So we always came back here. I went to elementary school, middle school high school here.
Nick
You can’t just skip over that your dad did what?
Tiffany
You played professional soccer when I was a kid before I was born, to the early 90s, like Kansas, la Tennessee.
Nick
So did you live in other places while he’s playing? Or? Yes, you’re from Kansas here?
Tiffany
No, we live in a few other places. I was a baby.
Nick
All right. So you’re basically like Kaypro local. Yeah, that’s cool. Well, talk to you about some of the stuff. What is your background, and do you like health and fitness?
Tiffany
My background in health and fitness is I did gymnastics for most of my life since I was three, went to college, and did it through college, so probably till I was 23. So that’s like my background. Do Why I love it as part of my daily. It’s just li a muscle memory. The reason I love fitness. So that’s how I started leaving gymnastics was hard to find a fitness routine. And you know, everything was always so set for me as a gymnast. So it took me a lot of years to find something that worked for me, coming from every day, four hours a day in the gym, to finding something that fit into like actual lifestyle where you have work and family and friends.
Nick
Because that was like lifestyle, right? So you said three years old you didn’t choose that. Now, who wanted you to do gymnastics.
Tiffany
I think it was crazy, this little kid with a lot of energy. So take me to the gym and let me run around like crazy. And I loved it. I think I tried to dance. And I was just way too crazy. I want to run around. I don’t want to sit there and just twirl around. I want to run and jump and swing to pull it off like a ton of energy. Yeah, yeah, sure. That helped me go to sleep earlier at night for my mom.
Nick
Neither of us has kids, but I feel like if you had them, that’s probably the best way to ensure they’re tired.
Tiffany
That’s how I got started in gymnastics.
Nick
Okay, so you were doing that till you were 23? Right? Yeah. Well, where were you? Where’d you go to college for gymnastics?
Tiffany
I went to the University of Oklahoma University.
Nick
What was that like?
Tiffany
Being a college athlete was pretty darn cool.
Nick
Yeah, why? Yeah.
Tiffany
Well, I went away to school. So I’m from Florida; I am an only child. So I went away to somewhere super scary. I don’t know anybody there. Besides the fact that I know I have a gymnastics team. But I don’t know anybody on the team. I might have known one girl from competing years ago, but mostly. I am just having a family or an established group of core friends before going there. First of all, it was awesome. I mean, I particularly am a shy person at first, and when I get to know you, I can open up and be more silly or goofy or fun. But at first, it’s tough for me; it scares me I’m intimidated. And kind of went into a setting where we all had a common belief and a common goal together, and they got to become my family over the years I was there. So doing gymnastics there was awesome, but having that community and those girls that I’m still friends with now is probably one of the coolest things.
Nick
Yeah, because I mean, you recently went back, right?
Tiffany
Well, we went to Texas, a bunch of us, to watch the NCAAs Yeah, that was awesome. That was cool- Actual teammates in roommates. Yeah, that was amazing.
Nick
Yeah, if I remember correctly, I was sending videos on Instagram. Like, what is she doing? What’s happening? I don’t understand anything that’s going on.
Tiffany
Yeah, that was very cool to come back and reminisce about being with them, living with them, and training with them. Plus, just being called an athlete is pretty cool. You get many perks; academic-wise, you get all the help you need. So you’re in a class, you’re struggling, you just go to somebody, and there’s somebody there that can help you, or they send you to a tutor, or you get to go to any sporting event that you want to with your friends and your other teammates and to get to go all different sporting events. And just, it was pretty darn cool.
Nick
I mean, especially at a bigger school like that, correct? Yeah, there were pretty cool sporting events to go to.
Tiffany
It was cool. I’m traveling with him and competing with them. You know, getting to go all around the US, taking flights getting cool shirts. Yeah. And just competing is awesome, too.
Nick
So alright, well, that. I mean, I know that the videos they rarely put up are pretty cool to watch. So you started at another CrossFit-style gym before? Right? Yeah, you’ve found your way to us. What made you want to get into like CrossFit or functional style fitness? So your post gymnastics? Well, yeah.
Tiffany
I think I started seeing stuff probably online or on social media about what CrossFit was. And a lot of things I saw were just gymnastics-related conditioning. And so those were things that were very instinctual for me. That’s what I know from a young age. So it always kind of enticed me to do it; I always wanted to get into it. And that was like, the reason I wanted to, I was just like I said, I was too scared to start something. And so it took me a long time until I would get a friend to come with me or something to get into it. So that’s how I like started getting into CrossFit. And then I think that’s one of the things that I love about it is; that it is very reminiscent to me, it feels like the old days, it feels like I’m working out, and I enjoy it. But I’m doing these muscle memory things that I know how to do. I also like a community of people, and it’s fun to encourage them to encourage me. And then I’ve grown to love the other parts of it. So like, I love the gymnastics part of it. And I’m kind of growing to love the Olympic weightlifting and conditioning aspects, which were a little different from gymnastics.
Nick
So this is something we’ve talked about not on the show, but I know you said that you didn’t enjoy going to like normal-style gyms, right?
Tiffany
It was just hard for me. It was hard to get into a routine and then do it myself. That’s hard for me. And she was then staying accountable for that.
Nick
Well, you could have found a pull-up bar somewhere else, right? Like a gymnast, you can walk on your hands anywhere. What about this style of fitness got you to like say, Okay, I want to keep doing this, I want to make this part of my day to day because you’re pretty much like you know what, every day or every realistic day, that’s doable work router, right? This is a part of your life now.
Tiffany
Yeah, for sure. I think part of it is accountability. I was not just like a coach or somebody saying. Why didn’t you come yesterday, but also like your friends? And it’s a set program for me that I do not have to go in and like make a program for myself and have to think, Am I doing this body part today? And then how much cardio am I going to do? That was just really hard for me. I know, I probably could have found a plan online, and it probably could have stuck with it. But it just wasn’t as enjoyable. It’s not as enjoyable to sit on the elliptical and watch TV as much as that works for some people. It just was just not. Yeah, what kept me going.
Nick
I feel the same way, right? Like even this far, I don’t want to come in and make up my workouts every day. Yeah. And I love the idea that I get to walk in. It’s set up for me; the stuff I need? Is there a workout? I’m going to do it there, and the amount of time I will spend on it is there. And I get to focus on just going hard and having fun with my friends. Yeah. Like I remember there was when I was in Iraq, we were trying to figure out, like how to work out, you know, with our limited equipment. And people would mail us men’s health magazines, you know, and we’d like to look at the workout routines and men’s health and be like, why are we doing this? Try to modify it with like your ammo cans or your cinder blocks, you know, but because we didn’t know enough about it, we didn’t know what we were modifying for, you know, so we weren’t like preserving the stimulus and what we were trying to do right, and I remember that always frustrated the hell out of me. And then when I came back to America and tried to work on James, it was like I’m not doing this. Yeah, yeah. So what when you talk about that kind of like gymnastic style conditioning things, right? What is that for you? That is because that’s the highest level of crazy movement for people who work out like us, right? Yeah, for you. They’re a little more normalized.
Tiffany
Well, yeah, that’s like basic. A lot of these things are from when I’m a little kid. It’s what you’re doing almost every day. I think gymnastics culture is changing now. But back then, it was very punishment-based. So you know if I got in trouble, you know, I had to climb the rope however many times it So I don’t love climbing the rope. Now I just think it’s a little bit of reminiscing that things are bad. But if I’m reflecting on it, those were the basics and the fundamentals that helped me do all the skills I could do in gymnastics; I just didn’t see it back then. It always felt like a punishment, even though it wasn’t, it was to learn core strength or stability or hold a body position to keep you safe, or air awareness so that when you do fall, you know how not to hurt yourself. And so that’s kind of where it comes from.
Nick
Air awareness sounds like a way to justify putting you off a beam or something.
Tiffany
Like living in the air and just making sure you don’t land on your head, you land on your back.
Nick
And in Airborne School in the army, there is a week called Ground week, right? It’s split up into three weeks. Oh, I’m allowed to say this on whatever is too late. So we called Ground week, where you just fall on the ground from different heights for multiple days. Okay. And what you’re doing is you’re just learning how to fall. Yeah. So you don’t break both your legs, and you fall out of a plane? That’s exactly it. Yeah. But I mean, like, it gets pretty high up. And I know I, I’ve got some friends who then became like airborne instructors, they don’t have to do as much as they do. There’s like, now we got two more hours to go. This blew my mind when I found out because, like a muscle-up. Yeah. You know, in CrossFit, or, you know, greater functional fitness style stuff is, is like the, it’s like the top, you know, like, people are fighting to get that for years and years and years and years and years. And then I can’t remember if you, or Rachel or one of the other girls who were gymnasts in our gym that explained to you like, Devin does that. Have I been doing that for four, Right? That’s craziness to me.
Tiffany
I mean, it is a warm-up for your event. So if we’re going to bars, it’s like, three sets of five glide camps, which is what we call a muscle-up. And that was the first thing you did you get on the bar; you do five like hips, you jump down, the next girl goes, and you’re warming up your shoulders, you’re warming up your core, you’re warming up all those to start that workout.
Nick
Yeah, that’s crazy because think about it. Right? Like you’ve been in one of these dentists for a long time. Now. How long have you fought to do that? Do you know? Yeah, I do. And then, Charlie, one of our friends, Charlie, sent me a video of some of his daughter’s doing it. Yeah. Like seven years old. Right? Yeah. It’s amazing. I was so unaware that that was so basic outside of your, because like, my muscles are my thing. I like doing those. And I feel like that’s so cool. And then I see that, and I’m like, Alright, maybe I should have started this 30 years earlier. Wow.
Tiffany
Also, nobody should compare themselves with anybody.
Nick
Okay, so you have a really interesting job outside of the gym. I do, right? I’m going to try not to stumble over saying this, although fair warning, I probably will. You are a nurse anesthetist is pretty darn good. There we go. What is that? What do you do?
Tiffany
I provide anesthesia for people every single day. So I visit you before you go back to the operating room; I interview you. Ask you your medical history, find out what procedure has taken you back, and I will put you under anesthesia. And I keep you safe while the surgery is going on? Wake you up, take you to recover room.
Nick
then you were a registered nurse before that, or is that the same? Are you still that? Is that how that works?
Tiffany
So I’m a certified registered nurse anesthetist. Okay, so I had to become a registered nurse first. So I did that for about five years before I went back to CRNA school. And CRNA schools about two and a half years, it’s a bit longer now. It just became from a master’s degree to a doctorate. So it’ll be closer to four years for those people in school now. But yeah, you have to be a nurse for so long. You have to have critical care experience for at least a year. And then, you can apply to be a nurse anesthetist.
Nick
Okay, what’s your what is the general work schedule for that?
Tiffany
It can be really whatever you want it to be. There are lots of different opportunities. Yeah,
Nick
that’s why I want to ask about this. Because I think you have an exciting life schedule. Yeah. And I think that you’re able to do that is impressive. How do you talk to me about it?
Tiffany
So for me, I’m pretty much working full time. I take a call position, meaning that I take overnight shifts for a certain amount of time in my schedule. So for me, I work like any a 10, a 12, and a 24. And then like overtime day, but you could do it in all different ways for this job. There are options to be like 1099, and you’re setting your hours. So if you have a lot of lifetime or lifestyle commitments or children, you can do a tattoo somewhere or work at a surgery center. That doesn’t work.- the overnight Surgery Center is only open for a certain part of the day. Those places aren’t open for holidays either, so that lifestyle differs. And so kind of can fit whatever you want. If you’re going to work more hours, the opportunity is there. And if you have more of a lifestyle that you need to be home for, that’s an option.
Nick
Well, like yours. It’s okay if you want to say the specifics, but I know that you’re all over the map. Right? Yeah. And I find that interesting, suitable? Because I think a common, let’s say, hurdle that people have to kind of getting fit and living healthier lifestyles is let’s say that I’m, you know, I’m too busy, or I work too much, or I whatever too much. How do you manage that? Because you’re all over the map.
Tiffany
Yeah, that was hard at first, especially. So mainly, if we’re going to talk about this gym, we have many classes available to us, which isn’t the same at all gyms. In other gyms I’ve been at, it was a lot harder. So to me, I enjoy coming in. So I kind of make it a priority. And I want to go here, even on days that I am feeling kind of down. I don’t know, once I leave, I feel happy that I came. So I guess it’s just a mindset more than anything else. Like I do work all those hours, but I can make it some almost, you know, three or four days a week. I’m not coming seven days a week. Yeah, be realistic. But I can make it enough to feel consistent and happy.
Nick
Yeah. And I think what you hit on right there is that you make it a priority. I try to tell people the best workout plan that works, the one that you go to the random willing to go to. And the key to that is it being fun. And I’m the same way as you. If I’m having a bad day like I want to get my workout, and I want to hang out with people in the class. I wish to have Tiffany talk shit to me from the other side of the room as we’re doing muscle-ups. I want that. And I always feel better afterward. Yeah, I do too. I mean, today’s a good example. Like I was not looking forward to today’s workout. I did not. I did not look at the sugar, right? And be like, oh, I can’t wait to do that, you know. And I was kind of stressed out from some stuff earlier in the week. And I got my butt up. And I want to do a morning class today. And my day has been so much better afterward. Yeah, yeah. And I still feel that way all the time. And hopefully, you do too. You know, I do. Yeah, it’s weird how it was like that amazing. Kind of like, popping the bubble feeling, you know, you release the stress immediately.
Tiffany
Yeah, I feel that to us. But it doesn’t even really matter what class I go to. Like it’s just a good atmosphere. And everybody’s kind of pumped.
Nick
Yeah, that’s another thing I think is interesting about you. Generally, we’ll have, you know, early morning people, mid-morning people four o’clock or 630, or stuff like that. Right. But you’re kind of in like every class.
Tiffany
Yeah, except for 5 am.
Nick
I don’t understand why we still have that class.
Tiffany
Let me, that’s the Breakfast Club. Has that locked out?
Nick
That’s the time I go to bed, not the time I go to the gym. Okay, so this is a little weird, right? This is weird. I’m going to ask you about it, though. You have more love for Christmas and Christmas-style stuff than anyone I’ve ever met. Right? I do. What is that about?
Tiffany
Well, my birthday is December 23. Right. So I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.
Nick
You’re going to be like; my birthday is June 15.
Tiffany
I feel like if your birthday is close to Christmas, you either love or hate Christmas. Because some people get they feel like they get gypped or whatever. I don’t know. I love it. It was a big deal in my family. My parents made a big deal about it. My mom was huge on decorating when I was a kid and always made it super special. I said earlier that I’m an only child, so she always tried to make it special. And so I just love everything about it. I love the smell and love them; I know some of the stuff is cheesy, and what’s the word? Like hokey No. Commercial. Oh, here we go. But I love the decorations and the smell and just the way it makes me feel and how it’s just like a happy time, and I love that feeling, and I love being with my family and just celebrating like the presents don’t mean anything. I care more about, you know, hanging out with the people that I love at that time of the year. And the whole season, not just like on Christmas day like I want to do fun stuff all through the season. I just love it.
Nick
Yeah, it’s mid-March. I think you’re still celebrating. I shouldn’t work Christmas if you’re listening and not watching; she’s lighting. The biggest grin as we’re talking about Christmas. That’s awesome. What did you do? You did something with a tree recently, right? With your old tree.
Tiffany
I made and Christmas gnome.
Nick
What is a Christmas gnome?
Tiffany
It was a craft project out of a real Christmas tree; I took all the branches and made them into a gnome. And it’s still hanging out on my front door. And it is now becoming every season. It just gets a new hat. We got a St. Patty’s Day no right now.
Nick
Yeah, okay. Maybe we’ll post a link to St. Patty’s Day. No,
Tiffany
it’s still looking good. It’s hanging out.
Nick
Okay, so you and I competed together on a grid Team A couple of years ago, right? And if people don’t know what grid is, it’s like a team competitive sport with like, some elements of CrossFit and aspects of gymnastics, some aspects of like, track and field. And that was a lot of fun. Right? And then you also competed in a local event we did with our friends at bloodline. CrossFit here, right? Yeah. What was it? Like? What was the competing grid for you?
Tiffany
Craig was a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. That was my first ever CrossFit competition was the first grade with you. That was cool. That’s different than any competition. I’ve done it since then. Because I’ve done quite a few, but that one was three guys. Three girls. Yeah. Right. And that was awesome. Because you only had to do what you were good at in that competition. And it was just so much fun. We were each doing our specialty and encouraging each other. And you know, the other team was right behind you competing—the same thing here on the grid. It was a lot of fun because it was in our home gym. So that was super cool. And then it kind of made me love competing. But you were right. It does hold a special place, like competing in grade compared to any other competition. And it’s just a lot of fun. Yeah, I
Nick
I feel the same way. I mean, CrossFit comps are fun. But man, I can do burpees on my own at home, like getting to do stuff. I’m good at flying around doing muscle-ups, or double or triple touches or snatches, and not worrying about doing thrusters or burpees. Right. Someone else that loves to do those. Yeah, that’s so so much fun. I remember we talked leading up to it. And you were like; I don’t know if I want to do it. No, no, no, I didn’t. I worked hard to convince you, and yeah, or afterward. You said it like unlocked. You’re like competitive edge again, right? I think so. Yeah. Because since then you’ve done like, I don’t know, 15 competitions. What are those been like? Have those been fun?
Tiffany
Those have been so much? I think I like I think I’ve only done one individual comp.
Nick
It probably just was that the Masters don’t. Yeah.
Tiffany
And that’s okay. But it’s so much fun doing it with somebody else. Because you’re pushing yourself not just for you, you’re pushing yourself for them. Like gymnastics, gymnastics is an individual sport, especially club gymnastics. Before I went to college, there were no fundamentals; there were awards for teams. But the main accolades are for an individual like me. As an individual, I do good. I go to regionals; I go to Nationals. You don’t go as a team; if you get those individuals who make up that team, that will be your regional or national team. But to me, it was so much fun going with my team and encouraging my teammates. And that’s kind of how it feels again, coming into like a CrossFit competition with, you know, one of my friends here. Yeah, are you, and it’s just, yes, super awesome. I mean, I love competing. I remember being back in gymnastics coming out in the field and, or, or their arena, and it’s so quiet, and nobody’s there yet and just kind of seeing it. And I’m getting those nervous energy butterflies, and all that’s the same here. Like, I’m nervous before it starts, but it’s like this sounds fun, nervous, like
Nick
you’re excited. Yeah. I think the local cops we do are all a lot of fun. I don’t know what else we’d get to put ourselves to that much discomfort but enjoy it. Yeah, right. Okay, so you hit on something that I think is important. I don’t want to miss out on that. Right. So I’m the coach for the sharks as I was sort of sharks are great team, right. And one of the things I’ve learned in the now five years of being a coach to that, right is this one I didn’t expect is that grid is so like the team have, right? So there’s a lot of like a sacrifice on the team kind of putting other people in front of you or helping others propping others up. And one of the things I’m doing a bad job of explaining this, one of the things that I didn’t expect was how hard it was going to be for a lot of individual sports athletes to adapt to that. Right. So, like gymnastics, as you said, it’s very individual sport athlete, individual athletes or CrossFit people who kind of start in CrossFit. We’ve even had skiers on the team, very individual heavy, right? A lot of times, they have a hard, tough time. Understanding that what’s good for the team is good for me. You know, because I don’t Believe it’s on purpose, but they’re, they’ve been trained for so long to think what’s good for me is good for the team. Yeah, no, not the other way around. How do you? Why do you have that? Because you’re not that way at all. You’re not in any way like that.
Tiffany
Yeah. I don’t have a good answer. But I’ve been like that for a long time; I can specifically remember being a little kid and somebody saying something about that crawled out an extra turn or something that made it we’re putting that person above me. And I don’t know. It’s just not inside me. I want to do good. And I want to win. Like, I’m competitive. And I enjoy that. I just want to win because I worked hard. And I did well. I don’t necessarily want to be you. I just want to be good. And I want you to do well too. I don’t want to beat you because you failed or messed up. I want you to do good. I want to do good. And I want to have fun. And I want to encourage you, and I hope you like to encourage me, and may the best person win. And that just, I don’t know, that’s just fun for me that way.
Nick
I think that is such a powerful mindset, right? Like, because you kind of control your outcome there. Right? If all I care about is beating you like there’s stuff out of my control. I can’t do anything about how you do; I can only get draw do right. And if all of my happiness is built off, Did I beat you? Right? I’m setting myself up for failure. And I think that’s so powerful that you’ve adopted that mindset. Yeah. Can you say that I remember when we were still a relatively new gym? We did a big competition called Thunderdome. Everybody was standing out before the first workout, especially in the RX guy division, you know, lots of like, flexing and like, looking down and hard nostril snorting.
You know, I’m logging out. I’m going. Good luck, guys. This is Welcome, everyone. And it was really funny to see half the people like, yeah, the other half are just like pretending they didn’t see me. Yeah, yeah. I’m with you, man. I feel the same way. I got like, I’d like to win things, you know, but I’d also really like to have a good time. And you have a perfect time. Right? Yeah. I like I wish I could help like to spread that more, you know because I think people would enjoy what they do more often. They can feel like that.
Tiffany
I agree. Yeah.
Nick
that’s cool. Because I’ve worked with a lot of gymnasts now. And I would say that whether you realize this or not, that is not normal across the board. There’s a lot of like, I need to win, not worried about you. And it’s cool that you’ve grown past that. So that’s going to hit upon the next thing, right? Like, I didn’t warn you about housing. Ask this so you can see she’s getting nervous. I’ve never told you this in real life. But I’ve thought about it hundreds of times. And I’ve said multiple times. Next time I see her at the gym, I will grab Tiffany and tell her this right, but I haven’t. I was in the infantry or the Army infantry. That’s all, dudes. No one, right? None. Like none ever. Right. And one of the things that were a tricky thing for me to adapt to when we started the gym was this would sound dumb. Hopefully, it didn’t sound chauvinist. It was hard for me to adapt to working with women, right? To be around women and like, staying an excellent job in a way that you might appreciate. Whereas one of my grunt dudes, I would say, in a very different way, you know, and I’ve seen many people like, come and go through this gym and others in there, like female support of other women. You know, and I’ve never met anyone who likes lives as honestly as you do. Oh, I seriously didn’t warn you, as I say that I always see. Right. Wow, many things I’ve seen in the gym are women supporting other women until it doesn’t benefit them. Yeah. And I like you. You live that soulful, right? I’ve seen you run out into the middle of a workout and high-five somebody after you’ve dropped your barbell because you failed, and they lifted 10 pounds. Like that, it warms my heart up so much every time I see it.
Tiffany
Yeah, well, thank you for noticing that. It’s not something I think about; I feel that way.
Nick
Well, I believe you, right I believe you because I think you know when you try to pretend to be someone or be a thing, it eventually kind of shows you’re not, you know, yeah. Yeah, I just I’ve always thought that was so cool. And I wish I may be done a better job of presenting what I was going to say there, but man, I’ve. Oh, I see that and across the gym. And I’m just like, yes, yes, yes. Yes. Well,
Tiffany
thank you. That’s very, very kind.
Nick
When when you were on your team medical Houma. Yeah, right. Did you guys have that kind of vibe? Yeah. Do you think maybe that like has something to do with that? Yeah, we
Tiffany
were a big team. Yeah. Even though we’re a bunch of individuals. We were in it. So okay, I told you that clubs and gymnastics it was not team-oriented. College is completely different. It is team-oriented. Our team does well. We go to Nationals. Not one person goes to Nationals. Cool. Technically, one person could go to Nationals, but that’s not the competition’s goal. So yes, I think it helped that I already felt that way. But For I went to college, but then going to college was everybody was on that same aspect of encouraging each other, and you know, waking each other up for morning workouts making sure that we’re there early that you know, all the things that we have to do together as teamwork together. So yeah.
Nick
That’s cool. Yeah, that’s super cool. Okay, any other stories want to bring up anything else? I was doing some Facebook research, and I saw the pictures of you and Carrie dressed up as the ladies from the 80s. Oh, our compositions.
Tiffany
That was so much fun. Yeah. Plus, dressing up was fun.
Nick
What do you what did you guys dress up as? Oh,
Tiffany
we dressed up the ladies from the 80s. We had leotards and leggings, and I want to say she called them JoJo bows, big bows in her hair from her daughter. I think when we have big poofy hair,
Nick
one of us had an MTV leotard. Yes, it was Kodak. Kodak, Kodak, Polaroid.
Tiffany
So good. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
Nick
My favorite part of that was that I dress up for a lot of shit, but many people here in the gym do, right? It’s like not weird to see people dressed in just,
Tiffany
we want to walk in without each other. Let’s just say that.
Nick
Nobody else in this event. You didn’t tell anybody else. At least not me. You guys are doing this. And you guys came in almost any other time we’ve done an event. It wouldn’t have been out of the ordinary. But we were the only two people out of like 150
Tiffany
I think I’ve come to every Reindeer Games dressed.
Nick
Reindeer Games. That’s normal. Right? Everybody comes with some stupid Santa thing.
Tiffany
And we worked out in that the whole time you did? We had leg warmers?
Nick
Yeah, I don’t think you could have changed anything. You were locked in. That was a full day out. Oh, man. It’s fun. Okay, if so, you’ve been doing this for years now. Right? And you had a reason for why you didn’t feel comfortable going other places. Right? You now know why you like this place. If you talked to somebody who was scared to start working out and not necessarily sharp, right, but just scared to start moving forward and like a more healthy lifestyle? What would you tell him? How would you motivate him to?
Tiffany
That’s a tough one. It took me a long time to come here. Just because it’s scary to start something new. And to be honest, in many things in my life, I find that starting it is scary. And then, once I pushed myself past it, it wasn’t as bad as I thought. And even though that happens repeatedly, it’s still scary to push through that first step. And so that first step of just coming here or just starting any routine is the hardest, or even asking for help. Those are, by far, the hardest. And then, once you do it, it is not nearly as bad. And then the outcome has been amazing. So I guess just take that first step.
Nick
Cool. I like that. Take that first step. Anything I was going to talk about? Think, cool. Ted. This has been great. Yeah, I told you, I told you it’s going to be fun. It wasn’t as bad. Alright. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. All right. Thanks for hanging out with us today on the SharkBite show. If you’d like to get ahold of us, you can find us on Facebook or Instagram at Shark by fitness nutrition or on our website at SharkBite fitness.com. If you’d like to learn more about our guests, that information will be in the show notes. Suppose you’d like to talk to us about getting more fit. Feel free to schedule a free no-sweat intro at one of our locations in Cape Coral, Fort Myers, or Naples, Florida.
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