You helping make sure a form is correct, encouraging and explaining a bit of the detail. We like to think of our workouts in this room, in our program workshops versus just workouts. And what do I mean by that is there's an element of learning, not just doing right. The why. Okay, we're teaching you squat. What's the functionality of it? Hoping that that also increase in buying. So there's definitely an opportunity. This room with the back green curtain, it's aesthetically a little bit better, but functionally this has a lot of great equipment and it's core. You do this class three times a week When you're in our program, the classes are on, depending on what group you're in, you guys will be in the group, one group, which is Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays. So Saturday will be, you'll be in here tomorrow morning. Perfect. And I'm recording you, Jamie, for purposes.
Okay. Yeah. Now one of the things I have done, and I want to be sensitive to your time preference of when you get up and you're active. Our fitness group is our first group. So we do have a later starting time to start to exercise, but then you're in the easier group, so I can put you in either one. So I assume the fitter group, but you tell me. Yeah, I would do the later group. So later, and this is my general advice to anyone who thinks our exercise program is, by the way, I was the exercise director here for the first six years of my career. That's my background. My subject matter expertise is in exercise and master exercise science and all that kind of stuff. So what I will say is it's not easy if you lift heavier, don't confuse the exercise with the simplicity, with the intensity because go heavier if you think it's easy as long as you're using good form.
And if you're doing cardio, go faster. Increase the level. It doesn't matter what your neighbors are doing if they're using five pounders, but you can use a 15 pounder when you squat, you can use 15 pounds. Right? Same thing on a treadmill. You can be running when somebody else is walking. So sometimes there's this conflation of, oh, this is the easier class. It's more the movements are simpler to prevent some people from increasing the chance they might do it wrong in her. That's all. It's just about complexity. Less than it is about intensity. Right. Okay. Now there is a class coming on, so I'm going to be a little quieter, but I have you set up today, if you guys are raring to go, I have you set up potentially to do this class at nine 15 and start with a general yoga. Is that something you're up for today or you want to wait and kind of get more forward? Let's wait. Yeah, let's wait until, so this is a group exercise for you. Certainly a great opportunity. Now these doors have a film on them, so it looks like it's darker in there than it really is because it has a film for the sun. I don't know why they put it on interior door. And I think
One's in here just taking a photo Exactly, looking like I'm doing yoga. So aesthetically with the background with the water view and the golf, this is definitely a prettier room and can be feng shade, a little bit nicer and there's some cool props. We also do our higher intensity classes every year. Anything that's an elective group exercise class short of aqua or outdoor exercise is done here. So this is our elective, if you traditional room, you go do group exercise classes, that's this studio. Whereas this one's really around the program. So we have two variables. One is
Structured program we put you in
And then the other is here's classes where it is just about doing a distraction. Not so much workshop but have fun. So our yoga, spinning products, meditation, all of these kind of ones are much more what you would call that's traditional group exercise experience. There you go. And then I printed two copies for each of you, and this is just sort of a first draft. So you did see the, I almost forgot to show you. Yeah, the diagnostic tests. Yeah, all those look very interesting. I think that would be definitely want to feature that. Yes. So we do too, and I'll take a moment to kind of explain it and now that we know we're not going to be rushing to yoga, we can kind of take our time and really I want to be your program consigliere. One of my main roles here is I'm the chairperson of the program committee from my role in exercise. So all of the different elements of the program, I'm probably the person that knows the front end and the backend probably the best. Of course, our subject matter experts are experts in their nutrition, medical, behavioral. No, but
This is something that I think really will set the Pritikin apart. How all of these just diagnostic testing, I mean it's taking wellness from just a very superficial level.
Very Oh yeah. For us especially, right? Because we come from a medical curative sort of place that is coming this way into preventive wellness, experiential relaxed reset for people that are already on a health and fitness journey. For us that's a new market. Whereas it seems like people who've been in the more traditional wellness are coming into more of let's get more medical. So we're kind of meeting in the middle and trying to really identify what's that individual traveler looking for? Is it just rest and relaxation and healthy food and exercise or are they looking for something a bit more diagnostic detailed? So we have two programs. You guys are in the non-medical program. So while we can talk all about the DEXA machine, this is a medical service and so we can discuss it, but this is a service we can't provide without the medical clearances and stuff like that.
But this one we can actually do versus just talk. And so we usually have our non-medical guests do this, and I'll give you a cross comparison conversation about these two right now, just at the highest level, body fat assumptions, right? Everybody, I want to lose weight. Okay, weight is weight. Two thirds of our body is made with this. If I drink this, oh, I just gained a half a pound while we were walking, I just gained weight. No, of course not. It's silly, right? Yet the scale doesn't know the difference. If I stood on the scale before I drank this and after I would be heavier. So one of the big educations we try to do here, I created this electric called fat loss versus weight loss to try to help people understand, oh and one second, because I love using this prop when I have this conversation, this, guess what this is?
Yeah. Yes. Well, it's not, don't worry. Didn't. It's not a cadavers. We didn't go slice up some chubby person on their way out. Nobody left it for us as a gift. Thanks. I'll leave that with you. That's great. That's a good point. So it's silicone representation of fact, but the feel the size really that's what fat feels like is pretty accurate. So guess how much from a poundage standpoint, this is when you look at that volume, it felt like a pound. It is a pound, but usually when I say, oh man, that's so much, it's so volume. So when people, I only lost two pounds, I'm like, if you lost two of these, right? Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a great, all of a sudden it's not so bad because the hard news that I have to tell someone from a, don't blame me, blame God of how you were made or your parents is you can only lose this about a half a pound to a pound a week in the best case scenario.
So that's very discouraging for people who think they need to lose 20, 30, 40 pounds. Oh my god, I'll never get there. But that's because they're conflating weight. So these tests, they're all building up to the education is one thing, but getting the actual benchmarks of, well, what is then my body composition and particularly what's my fat-free mass and my body fat mass. This adex is the platinum standard. Interesting. Right? I don't want to call it gold because then this is the very next best thing. It utilizes the data you get from here, but it's an indirect measurement. So this also tests your body composition. Yes. In an indirect way. Exactly. That's the key differentiation. So there's three high ion infrared cameras that what you get very precisely is measurements in morphic measurements. Oh yes. Finally. Hi, my name is Brenda. So nice meeting you. Raquel, very nice to meet you.
Go get ready and then come with, Brenda's going to be assisting you as well. She's one of our key leaders here in the marketing department. Question in terms of demographic, what demographic are you targeting as a 50 plus crowd? For us now, I think everyone can benefit from our program, but I do have to be sensitive of, if you look at the traditional demographic profile that's here, it's usually we've skewed towards, for us a younger audience has been, we've been getting more 50 something year old than 70 something year old traditionally because of what our core premises for 50 years was built around lifestyle, disease, mitigation. Well, at the point that someone's willing to do something about lifestyle mitigation, it seems like it's pretty long in the life journey of when now you're negotiating. For a couple of good more years, I've had a stent, I've had this all my life.
So a lot of folks that came to us originally were really retirees and traditionally sixties, Hey, I'm now concerned about the next 20 years to make sure I'm not going to be debilitated critical end of prevention, of bad outcomes, of end of life. The world has started becoming more preventative. Hey, my parents went through these episodes at 50. I'm starting to think about the next 50 years. That's what I want people to think of. The next 50 years can be just as exciting and productive physiologically and health-wise, it isn't if from a lifestyle standpoint based on maybe choices you've been making, so you can do something about it. Eating better, moving more structured fitness. Our functional fitness is creating what I call life athletes, athletes for life, and I play on that word, right? For the permanency as well as the fact that you got to think of yourself as an athlete.
You just don't play a sport or you play the sport of life. You got to bend out, pick things up, move your body needs to be balanced, coordinated, and by doing the things that you do from an exercise standpoint and then supporting everything through the nutritional element and making sure that your mindset isn't destroying you, right? Those three key elements really are the action plans of living a better, healthier life. Some people are born under an unlucky star where maybe there are some genetic things. 85% of what's wrong is lifestyle. Yeah, exactly. It's so much more about, for most people is lifestyle, heart disease being the leading causes of premature deaths in Americans, 85% is preventable. A premature death in America and take 50% of that. That's crazy that many people are suffering when it's due to the lifestyle choices that our culture really pushes you down.
I mean, if you think about it, we're built now to use our brain, not our bodies in terms of what do we do for our lives, our careers, everything is convenient and the food industry has made sure they want your dollars. They don't care about your health. And so over fat, over-processed over sugar, they've broken into the code of human physiology and created addicts to their products. That doesn't get really talked enough about the addictive qualities, especially with processing sugar. Exactly the worst. Exactly. Far more than the sodium is to some degree. But we see here, when we teach people how to reduce the sodium, they don't miss it. The way people can have triggers with sugar-based and just been, I mean my mother's love was a chocolate chip cookie really after school that she baked right here. You were a good boy and you think that's really healthy.
Well, emotional love. Exactly. You think that's love. The love was great, but the delivery of it through this cookie that just this Thanksgiving at 57 years old almost my mom's still making me cookies and I'm like, mom, you could show you love me with a hug. That's right. I don't eat the cookie, but I'm going to eat it. You made it and it's right there and it smells so good, but it's changing. It's really rewiring your brain of what is, and I have a young daughter who's almost three that I'm fighting with everyone do not corrupt my child's palate. Oh, but she can just, no. Yeah, that's a really, and our society really does it. So this helps this really a FreeWire exactly our way is a unique way from a holistic standpoint where we really are looking at all of these different elements that apply into the physiology, the psychology, even the emotional side, the support mechanism.
Really what wellness is, it's around all of those vehicles. So anyway, that's kind of making it back up really high. So this machine does a great job of giving you very precise measurements. You get a very motivating avatar of your true self that you can see and you always have access to it. There's a lot of other places around the US you can get this test done besides here. So it's nice for people. We hope that people come at least annually as sort of a return to Mecca. But then this is a test I would recommend people do in the beginning of their stages of really starting to take control. I wouldn't recommend it earlier than four weeks. My is sort of an eight to 12 week give your body a chance to really start changing because this takes time so you really see real results, but pay attention to how you feel for the first couple of months.
Focus on the behaviors in your feelings. Let the assessment stuff kind of be in three month, six month, nine months, a year later and you'll see how far you've gone. So that's our recommendation in terms of frequency. So because we do have this nonmedical program, I brought this tool in as a great alternative to the body composition. But the good thing is it also does really a couple of neat things that doesn't do the reason why you stand here. It does a real, and you'll experience this, a really cool balance assessment, which then helps the exercise physiologist come up with a corrective exercise solution. Hey, if you're doing this or you have this, there's exercise solutions that are counteract kind of balancing out the tires of a car before you take it on a racetrack. So that's a big part of what we love to provide people is a corrective exercise solution they can discover while they're with us to then apply to their overall fitness journey.
And so you're going to get that, plus you do get the body composition assumption. So that's why I love this test. It is complimentary to this because it does do two other key things aside, whereas this is really, really the platinum standard when it comes to one thing, determining your body composition. Got it. Visceral fat. A medical diagnosis in terms of being pre-diabetic and exposed to metabolic syndrome. This really helps you discover internal fat around your organs, which fatty liver, huge, huge thing. And it's growing and people don't know until it's almost too late because it's not so symptomatic. And so this really helps people, helps with the motivation more than this to know that now that's we're talking about your health, not just how do you fit in a pair jeans and so that really measures visceral fat. Precisely. Yeah, exactly. This is going to be a direct measurement and this is the standard throughout the world. This is the best way to do it. So let's keep going this way. So we're going to, Brenda, we're going to set up a fit 3D. Okay, good idea. I have them with Tremaine today. I just set up, so I feel like that's one of the things we might be able to do. I took it out of aqua and we're not worried about going to yoga right now. Yoga. Yeah, we're not worried about yoga this morning and we're switching out of green and going into orange so we can have a later start. Okay. Okay.
So normally this is inverse. Everything from the name.
No, I mean this is very important. That's technical. The diagnostic tools. It's very interesting. I think that's something a lot of my audience is very executives. Oh, awesome. They care about kind of these alpha, they're very focused and they care about all of that data.
Absolutely. And there's a couple of other key ones that we do do through the physiology department because you're here long enough, I feel like we could probably get at least one or two of those done rest. And I'll actually show you them when we get to them on the tour kind of like we did there. Perfect. So
Out how to get checked in last night. So this is our front desk now on Mondays we do a general orientation that I do.
Hey, how are you doing doc?
And as you see, just really good what you would consider for the marketing looks like really cool photo opportunities. Let me know what you, same.
Yeah, no. So my expert there is Tony who will be in a little bit. So I'm going to definitely make sure that you guys get a chance to chat with him today. Thank you. Because over the weekend we won't be here, but I want you to sort of have that outline.
And he has that eye. He's really improved our assets since he's been with us about a year and a half. And we brought him on specifically around photography, videography, and really helping us improve our soap. It'll be a great liaison versus me. I'm the exercise that you have questions about or the program I'm your best po c, but when it comes to the more technical aspects, that's where we have Brenda or our social media angle and other general things around marketing and phone, especially around these.
And I'm not going to be very guests there, I'll them out. Do I have your permission to also one of the editorial shots me engaging with
A staff member? Of course. No, no, that's exactly what we want. I guess the question we would also have is will we be able to access to these assets?
Yes, exactly. So my agreement with Natalie was I'll send you all of the assets afterwards.
You can I figured. But I kind of parachuted into this. So I was brought on to sort of oversee the marketing as part of my main effort is really business development. Big part of my business development goals is attracting new customers. So that's where I came into the marketing side because exactly who you represent is this. It's a newer audience focus, although I know there's a lot of people in there that have medical concerns that have visited us that would also go and do this when my
Audience is very much interested in wellness preventative and I think it's a lot of it's preventative.
Exactly. And we started out really as you came here when you already had a diagnosis or a big health scare and this was your like, okay, I've got to go to Pritikin to save my life versus hey, let's not have Aron, let's prevent it. Which is that new mindset. And so these non-medical programs, it's not necessary for somebody who's not sick. Some people still love going through the medical program from an educational standpoint and all the lectures are everyone has access to. So a lot of, there's about six really good medical based lecture series that we have kind of like TED talks or master classes that are still very impactful and helpful and especially from the preventative side because we really get into some of these specific diseases that you are trying to prevent a deeper dive into diabetes and how to prevent it heart disease.
And we're really starting to see even now with some of the diseases around mental cognition with and dementia, the positive impact and prevention, the studies are starting to support a healthy lifestyle, really helping these things, which before just used to be you don't know who gets it and why there's nothing we can do about it. And so you just prep that you're not actually next week we have a guest speaker that will talk about cancer prevention through lifestyle and this guest speakers, it's about writing your life story, which is a little bit different, right? For us really around reflecting. So that mindset piece to the thing. So we havet on your schedule for the I have to bring the No, we did. We did a new, but I got a feeling even what's printed now is going to be new. So probably one of the best things is going to be is we got to get you on our app so we're not all the trees because every time we make a change it's going to be a new printout or why don't you just go on the end. Okay. So we're going to have you do that today. I'm going to drop you off with paper. We'll get you set up when we do our, so I'm treating the to like from here and now we don't have to go downstairs okay's. Perfect. Awesome. So following me, so we have, do you have a record? Yes, I'm good right now. Yes. Okay.
Oh, we have time. Yeah, I'll make sure we have time to, okay. Brenda, if you just want to coordinate and make sure that they're aware that maybe close to nine 30 we're going to be coming over and getting some breakfast. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Did you bring a suit? Yes. Awesome. Because definitely we want to take advantage of, oh yeah, this is great. Our indoor pool, which is this is where we do all of our aqua classes and despite us being just the older crowd, you would think, oh, are these sort of the YMCA yoga classes that are in the pool where it's just happy up and walking around Grandma? No, these are workouts, our guys that do it. Now we have people who are beginners. What's beautiful about, it's kind of like the T, you can go in the water and do this or you can really work and instructors, we have high energy, very motivating and some of the best workouts people tell me, especially with biomechanical limitations where they really can't take a founding that it would take to use an elliptical or treadmill or step climber.
They can get an amazing cardiovascular workout and muscle endurance. So we use a lot of different tools or tubing, some dumbbells. So I definitely wanted you guys to try that. It was initially put on your schedule today, but we have it all the time for the class. I'm going to have you doing the one-on-one with one of the exercise physiologists at the time that Brenda initially said. So there's going to be some tweaking to the schedule that I'm going to do today as that program person. And then you'll just be able to follow on the app and just look at it each day and then you'll be able to see exactly what I've had, what I have planned for you, including one-on-one appointments as well as suggested classes. You will have the ability to, hey, I think this might be more compelling versus what I suggested.
Feel free because we are almost like a university of information in your major, especially when you're not here for a full two weeks. We are going to have to say, well what are we going to do this or this? Because they're at the same time as you can imagine, there's only so many hours in the day and we have over 45 adult based education opportunities in our two week program. That's great. Which that's really our difference. I would say compared to what I've seen when it comes to the spa exercise, relaxation, there's a lot of options out there, A lot of beautiful places you can go and really receive, do workouts, get away, and we have that too. But when it comes to education and then particularly our culinary because it's culinary medicine, I feel like those are the areas for us that are kind of unique and set us apart.
And then especially when you have the way of the medical support that you can get for those who are worried about doing some of these preventative things because they already have issues. So to me those are our big three that I would say kind of help create the unique three. What are the big three again? The medical support. The fact that our culinary by far our culinary experience between our nutrition and our food is super quick in a way that even places that I've seen that are vegan or vegetarian sometimes if that's your cultural, if that's your belief system, we can offer a full vegetarian experience. But from a, this is what you should eat and how you can in the real world, we really give you that practice that you can then apply to the real world and how do I go to a restaurant and actually order and still stay true to these new things.
So that educational piece behind how do you do it besides when you're here I think is, I love that it's not just people are not, it's how do you make this practical? Exactly. I apply it all the sustainable in your life versus we think of sustainability in the planet level, but I think of it in the personal level. I want you to be able to sustain some of these key choices you made and we're going to give you the education and support and the practice to do it in this perfect bubble environment. And the traditional PRI and programs a two week program. Yes. And now people can come one week at a time and a lot of times for people it actually works out well if they come back within three to six months because they can take that first week's principle level of understanding of big picture.
What should I do? And I always tell people their first experience, just pick two or three things in your life that you're going to focus on starting an exercise program, not drinking your calories, starting every meal dinner with a healthy salad first to help save you before you get into your regular room. Just something simple like that measured over time consistently. These are huge variables of change. I've seen people personally as an exercise coach and trainer, just simply giving up Coke soda and drinking their calories, help them lose 10, 20 pounds with relatively little other changes in their life, not exercising more. But honestly when it comes to weight loss, it's so much, it's 80% about the food, the exercise keeps the weight up, the food is what creates that calorie deficit and that's all part of that culinary. So between our nutrition and our chef department, that was one I said really one of our good coffee parts as well. So outside here we also have a lot pool.
So this is when you're a guest, the bar guest resort in resort has a ton of amenities beyond the wall. So you're going to get to experience the spa amenity that we have set up for you on Monday and we were able to set it up as a couple all that. Yeah. So we've got all that already set up. Spa is copied to provide that in hopes of thank you exposure for themselves. We are not owned by the same entity, but we are a close partner as you can imagine. We literally share the same building with the spa. I don't notice when you first came in you saw that there was a spa desk just by our so separate ownership but fully integrated in our program. We fully support what they do because we know be it from self-care to the literal physiology benefits around getting massage.
And then of course in the locker rooms you're going to have steam, sauna, jacuzzi, cold plunge. And by the way, when it comes to utilizing this, you're going to make sure you go to the spa, get a locker to change. So that way you're right inside and you can come right down. You're not having to worry, how do I get from my room to here? This would be a great photography. Got it. You already got the photo. Okay. So even when this is shut down, for whatever reason, we utilize the locker for doing the qua processes. So that isn't deep. It's deep enough for you to do laps, but so you can do a lot of those. Take some of the props into the pool. Oh you have props? Oh yeah. All the things you're going to do with the That's great. I think that'll be great. Use them and take advantage of that aesthetic. Great. I really think probably the picture from the imagery standpoint, it's going to look much better and we do offer out there. So it's not gaining the system where we do occasionally do the classes outside. When we were under our renovations, we did all our classes and our guests love, but it requires we have to start the class really early because as you can imagine with Miami year round, our guests will melt. Totally. So let's go back in.
Of course I picked one of the 20 doors, hasn't been open a year. How long has Prairie Canyon Longevity Center been? So from the origins we are entering our 50th. 50th right from the of Nathan Creek and out in California and in Miami. So this location has moved because we are a tenant. We've been in different places over the years, but the program has been around for that long and what was it, what is it? About 45 years from the time that when it came here to Miami, where then we had, yeah, yeah. I think it's about 45 years since we've been on the east coast.
Yeah, no, I know. It's funny. You're just passing this wall. Great source of information. This is Brendan's baby right here. Our interactive TV
Screen. Okay, great. We're updating the videos. Okay. About testimonials and also podcasts
And there's some foundational stuff that gets, we have something around that
For sure. That's something you want. You do need something. Thank you. Send me or email me. So
Sort of foundational knowledge opportunities and
See up to date, what's happening while you're here. Like an activities calendar and of events and things that are going on. So this is always great to just kind of take a peek and there's a couple of other digital signages you'll notice by the gym downstairs by the Group X. There was one that'll also have some of the things because there's so much going on. We do try to communicate as much as we can with people so they don't feel like they're going to miss on anything.
How many guests predicting guests do you have right now?
So right now in-house there's going to be a fluxx between this week and next week. Every Sunday typically is when everybody comes in, especially for the medical program. And then it's almost like a cruise ship where we take off. So for our non-medical, we don't have to have that restriction because you're not setting up all these doctors appointments. I see. For the
Medical it's usually on Sunday,
Sunday arrival and then you stay at least for the week through the following Sunday. And then if you're here for the two weeks, you just keep going. So we can have anywhere from 45 to 85 is usually from peak season to down in our lowest season. So I think next week we're probably in the fifties because I know we have an influx of folks coming in. You know what I want, will you ask about pay for the physical new arrival and stay over overlap. It's like two years.
And right now is most of your guests, are they from Miami area or do they
Come from all over the world? So our biggest markets are northeast, right. Then Florida proper, not just South Florida is our second. Between Florida and California and Texas being sort of any given time, those are big markets for us. Midwest from International Canada, especially upcoming in the season. Canadians love coming to Florida during the winter. Makes sense, right? I would too. So we get a big Canadian influx, especially seasonally uk. A lot of folks come over from the UK and we do get essential and South American presence that occurs not a lot but on a regular basis. So there's always a smattering, but it's certainly, and not only a national crowd but an international crowd. But I would put it at any given day, it's probably 95% American, 5% international, with the exception of certain months where the Canadians coming to go. So our dining is over here, but I just wanted to kind go outside and then we're come back in and I'll sit with you for breakfast. So hot because I'm talking so you can be eating.
So this is the outdoor patio. I say NDA just because I like that word. Nobody ever told me to say it. I don't know how much classes we build, but I'd say out on the ground we have our sunrise stretch that we do first thing at 7:00 AM just a little way to wake up before going to breakfast. The tennis courts are have four nice clay courts. But what's really differentiating for our, and again not part of us but I can't promote them enough, is our instructors. We have two instructors here that I know from our grads who come all around and have laid at the best places and had the best coaches and they can't speak highly enough about. So I'm advocating the tennis program that they put on for our clients is amazing. This march, there's the Miami Tennis Open that's going to be here in town.
So what we've done is we've created a tennis week where we bought a bunch of seats and we're going to actually be giving them out and we're doing a structured program around the tennis experience. So people are going to get group tennis lessons. The exercise they're going to do is tennis specific. So we're going to have, and we do these occasionally, these specialty weeks. And so we're really going to be embracing that relationship that given week. So beyond, you have all the main golf courses, which this resort is famous for the where do you see the American flag if you're walking straight out and you decide to just want to go for a walk if you like doing an afternoon or an early evening walk. In fact we have a guided walk after dinner that one of our exercise people does to it times a week.
But you can do it yourself by simply following to where the flag is, you're going to start heading to the right, which is natural on the path. And when you get to the eastern border, that's the start of the walking trail. What going to walk by is a range, like an open or driving range and a chipping on the other side. And right at the end of that it's a one mile walk, but to get from here to there is about a half mile. I think that's where we're staying. And you're right over here. So the path I was talking about, I see. Yeah. So you can take this path to come back and forth saying you're probably in the Phil Mickelson Palmer, okay, so you're going to come through this path back and forth, but then you could continue or from your room make a right versus making the right exactly when you get to the path and then you'd be a little closer to the Washington.
So how long is the actual trail? So when it's official it's a mile. So just doing the trail itself is a mile out, a mile backwards. Two potentially. If you go all the way to the, you do want to make sure you're on the walking trail because it looks very similar to the general golf path. You start out, it's pretty obvious that's a lot more than a mile and you don't want to be on the course with all the attackers. Totally right. But that's all the way at the very end and there's a sign and you start seeing golf stuff. You kind of know when you start seeing the green to the left of right. Oh, we went past it. But if you're chatting, people have told me, oh man, we started, we ended up halfway on the course before we even realize it. Alright, so you walked a little further.
Really it's a beautiful trail. Oh yeah, exactly. So let's go back in. So what a lot of folks do is you'll take advantage, especially at this time of year, bring their breakfast or their lunch or their dinner out here of some of the outdoor seating just to enjoy the beautiful weather, especially if they're coming from climate places. I've been huddled up for a month or two. So it's definitely available. We don't normally have surface just out here, but if you let the surface people know, then they'll have you on the radar. Oh great. So second floor is where we have the spa services and the spa treatment rooms are medical, nutrition, behavioral departments are all up there and there's a desk there to help service that. So I know Brenda, we made an appointment with Dr. Turn I think today I saw Yes, at one 30 I think one 30.
One 30, something like that. Yes, exactly. It will be upstairs. And so you'll see that and it should say medical desk as the location right on MBF it. This lifestyle. No, it doesn't say no. I think that it didn't. Okay, so I'm going to tweak it and make sure. So anything, yeah, you'll go there. And when in doubt you can ask anybody who works here. There's three levels here and where we were below, most things are on this main level, right? Spa men, spa women when it comes to the locker rooms. So like we were saying, so you bring your clothes, you can bring a bag or whatever, take advantage of the locker for the whole, it's not an overnight locker. They have membership, but it's perfect because it's open Exactly when you would need it to be for using the pool or doing a class like I was suggesting.
It's a great place to get rechanged up by the way our dining, because so many things are based around activity that people are doing throughout the day. Always casual dress the way you guys are dressed now you could come to dinner and you wouldn't be outliers. Some people do decide between breakfast, lunch there everybody's going to be kind work workout close because just the timing. But for dinner some people do go to their room and change up and put on kind of business casual or dining casual sort of clothes but not work out just because they feel like they can in they and want to take a shower. But it's certainly, even though it's plated and white and lemon at dinner, it'll look fancier than you need to dress. That's what I want. I don't want you to feel like, oh, we got to go put on a time tractor for something.
I did not bring that. So that's not a problem at all. So at 10 15 been skin can have a chat with them. I don't know if you keep Perfect. Okay, perfect. So that'll be kind of the first thing since we're not doing the yoga, right? Correct. Exactly. So when you have your spa treatment services, this will be the spa deck. Certainly they're available for asking me questions. Like I said, we fully consider it a symbiotic relationship. What is the spa service? It's Monday. Monday. I have it on your schedule. Yeah. Monday's a little bit of a lighter day. Our onboarding day from the weeks report. And for people who've been here for a week, we kind of light them up by the end so they don't overdo it. So it's a great day to have spot. So there are restrooms back here. One of the things is you start eating our food, depending on how much sodium's naturally in the diets you're eating outside of here.
For a lot of people you're going to lose a couple of pounds of water weight naturally because you're eating food that has such low sodium. And the fruits and vegetables are of course loaded with water and fiber. So that's part of kind of the trick of how you're never hungry but you feel full is if you eat things and you have a Yeah, exactly. With more water content, more fiber, less condensed. So quick note, a lot of people have misunderstood and thought, therefore we think all fat is bad right now. When people are trying to lose weight, we suggest one good mechanism is calorie density solution. And there's a lecture about it on Tuesday that you guys should still be able to go to. I think it's getting switched between Monday and Tuesday next week, but I'll make sure it's on your calendar if you're still in-house.
But the quick synopsis is that's one methodology, a weight loss. Other people do controlled portions, intermittent fasting, but from a healthy diet perspective, Mediterranean pritikin, treat seeds, Mediterranean, vegetarian, whole food plant focus, we're just not plant exclusive. It all is under the same tent. And it just depends. If you had a book you're trying to sell that you say, oh well this is a little bit different. So some people feel like, oh well you guys are not. Where we would be different with the Mediterranean is with the healthy fats. No, absolutely not. If people are trying to lose weight, those are very calorie dense almonds. You can have a lot of calories without being full and be absent mindedly eating and have four or 500 calories. So that's where we're more like trying to lose weight use caution with added healthy, but they're healthy from a health perspective. All of the things that everybody talks about, it's very aligned with,
You have different philosophies for weight loss, intermittent fasting, calorie restriction, focusing more on denser
Foods. Exactly. Because people will have different, we focus on nutrient dense and then foods that have volume naturally without the calories associated. And so all diets that are decent, and I'm even going all the way to keto and paleo, if you notice from vegan to there, even carnivore, which is at the most vegan and carnivore are probably the most extreme elements from there to there. And somewhere in the middle, which we're kind of closer to the vegetarian than we are to the carnivore. What does everybody get rid of? Sugar, processed food. So ultimately the main thing is much of the highly processed foods, having whole grain based foods. If you are going to have starches that have been made by man versus nature, then minimally processed whole grain. Everybody supports. Some people like Haley say or don't eat that. Okay, you can restrict the food as a method that's called dietary restriction.
We kind of say don't eat a lot of even healthy plant fats if you're trying to lose weight, that's a dietary restriction. But it all comes down to calorie restriction. It's just how do you get there? Even intermittent fasting is calorie restriction. You give people less time to eat, they're more likely without you telling 'em anything else to eat less. So that's why it works. It all comes back to calorie restrictions. So we have a methodology that we found very supportive for people losing weight that we promote, but not to an exclusivity where we say all other methodologies are not supported and you shouldn't be.
And the methodology that you really espouse as a critical philosophy is the nutrient
Dense. Exactly. Yeah. Calories low, nutrients hot. If you're going to kind of keep and just simply whole food plant focus, recognize the food on your plate. Somebody should have picked, pulled, dug it up or without sounding too morbid, killed it and you should see it. Pretty much not something that has, when you start having to get to second line, third line of ingredients, that's where you start to get into trouble. And that's kind of common sense that I do think that as much as there's controversy around diets, it's really I think a lot manufactured in certain medias because they want to have click bait. Oh this is the best way. Focus on real food. But going too, people have their own preferences for what they want to do. And then when they leave here, how did they apply the philosophy for their own? Exactly. Our ultimate goal is meet you where you are in your sort of health, nutrition, fitness or health and wellness journey and show you what are the best next steps you can take.
And that customization really gets value added when you meet one-on-one with one of our registered dieticians, with our exercise physiologist, with our psychologist or behavior. If maybe there's some other trigger that's been sabotaging you from making these choices, you don't know why. Let's talk to the psychologist and see if there's some root cause beyond just you didn't know what to do so you know what to do, why aren't you doing it? So we kind of hit all of those elements and come up with an individualized approach when people meet the individual, then we have our general approach that applies to sort of everybody and that you learn in the group environment. So there's this hybrid of group and individual that we provide so that when you leave, you can literally have a plan with our exercise team, you can continue working with them beyond the walls with an app supported proprietary app that we have that has the exercises on it.
And you have accountability and support from a coach that you met here. Same with the nutritionist, the registered dietician. You can also work with them as well as our behavior coaching therapist. You can continue to work with them remotely. And we're really building around this post state program where we're getting all of those elements together to be in synchronicity the way it is when you're here that we want people, Hey, if you're going to come back in six months, why don't you stay working with us? Yeah, I think that's great. And now we can take off the training wheels that you had while you were here and really see what you're doing in the real world and what are your challenges for what we said to do and let's talk about 'em and adjust them as needed. And that's what coaching is. That is. And it's just you don't want to have a guest that just comes in one time that you really think it's, if somebody comes to our stays two weeks, one time, the amount of information they're going to retain is what? Maybe 20%? Yeah. If you're lucky. And that's why for those I say well narrow it down and really understand the one or two, three things you're really going to do that you know can do and are the best things to do based on who you are and where you're trying to go. So even that then I try, don't try to learn it all at once. I'm going to run to the restroom quick please.
Yeah, all we're going to do is go to, I'm just going to point to the cooking code and then we're going to sit down or bring 'em up to the
Yeah, exactly. But we'll do that after he and artifact we can do it right while we're sitting down because what
About tomorrow? I noticed that.
Yeah, no, we're going to scratch that. Okay. Because that's even earlier than so it's okay.
Yeah. Well I want 'em to go north. So that's one of the things I've said I was going to talk to Carol about. We do fitness excursions taking advantage of this beautiful beaches and waterways that Miami's known for. So each Saturday we do a fitness excursion kind of duplicating the classes I was telling you that we can be in and we take it on the road. Nice. So we had initially had you guys set up for the class, but the problem is the bus leaves at like seven. So we're going to skip that part of it and have you skip to the class that you have. Sounds great. But it's definitely a big part of when people come to Miami, going to the beach and stuff. So for us, I see Miami come to the beach, go for a walk on the beach, do some stretching, yoga on the beach, do a little bit of a workout on the beach or by the bay. We have the beach in the bay here. So we take advantage of both
No, why don't we do this while we're waiting for the help. Go ahead and let's get you started. Sure. On the breakfast
And then that way you can get stuff set
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So there you shop at Fruit. Okay. Sauce. Great.
Big recommendation I make for folks is egg whites or free protein. So take advantage of it as much as you can and adding vegetables to it. It's a great way to get some free protein in and already get one to two servings of vegetables as your very first meal versus skipping out. So definitely recommend having one of those omelets if something like that is part of your pal.
It is. I'm going to get some hot water. Yeah,
Yeah. We're going to be sitting right here.
Can I get some fruit to call from Madeline? She's not going to make it down this morning I think. Sure, that's fine. I'm in no rush.
I love an egg white omelet with peppers, onions and tomatoes
I'll add potatoes as well. It all works good.
We have potatoes as well that aren't obviously not fried, that are baked. Oh, okay. Great. Add you see 'em on the other side? I do. I do. Thank you. So I usually recommend people, if you're going to have a star, you can either do it in the omelet or have one piece. This is like a zPo bread. You're going to have bread. This is the bread to have if you're going to have it.
So this is the buffet. What do you want? Yeah, for breakfast. So dinner's, plated, you'll see breakfast and lunch, potatoes, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Fruit is the first section and this is the almond station.
We usually white. Sometimes I don't. Let see. Thank you. What? Yes, please, James. You know how you make it for me. Get the, in your back, you have the app. The app sheet. Maybe you can start downloading knowing the folder in the white folder in here? No, the only white folder. Oh, in here. There should be an app. Yeah. Let's see.