The Breakfast ClubINTERVIEW: Jake Steinfeld Talks Fitness & Education, Healthy Habits, Smart Workout Routines, Dieting + More
The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Jake Steinfeld To Discuss Fitness & Education, Healthy Habits, Smart Workout Routines, And Dieting. Listen For More!
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Morning, everybody, stee j en Vy, Jess hilarious, Charlamagne the guy. We are the breakfast Club just as on maternity leave. So Lorn LaRosa is filling in and we got a special guest. He's back in the building. Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, Jake Steinfield, welcome back.
All right, good morning fellas.
Are you feeling hey, I'm here too.
That's Laura la Lauren wait to meet you too, looking very shiny.
Thank you shiny because I need no.
Shiny sweet like you know, nice red Jack.
The whole fly her dermatologies would say, oily, But it's.
Well, you know, I figured I figured we get off there.
You see the shade that they be throwing my.
Way, I know, but I saw a drink over there, so I figured I better not go there.
Damn, everybody know you're an alcoholic, Lauren crazy, that's a candle, that's not a really. Jake is a fitness guy when he's really concerned about you.
I am. That's why it came only and but that's why you guys called me.
Waist your guess because I'm not supping.
Okay, Well, it's I'm.
Not an alcoholic. I just went to homecoming very alcoholics.
That's what they say, right, that's the first line. And then now I'm not an alcoholic, that's right.
All I did was go to homecoming.
But do you want to keep talking? So Jay, what are we here talking about today? My brother? Well, you know, we're always talking about what what what? You're what's very near and dear to you as mental health, that's right right, you know, and all the kids aside as you guys know, you've been awesome and your audience has been so supportive. I've been putting fitness centers in elementary and middle schools around this great country of ours. And I had this dream right thirteen years ago that I wanted to put fitness centers in as many elementary and middle schools in this great country of ours. And my thirteenth year, right now, we just completed fifty states. Oh wow, thank you, thank you. We were in Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, and the great state of New York, my home state, and we're up in Buffalo, Troy and Sarenac, believe it or not. And you know, here's the one thing I say, because I know you guys got a lot of great guests on but you're a passionate guy, and when you say you believe in something, you talk about it, and you, guys, are really on the line. You know, this mental health crisis is a crisis. And when you think about it, the most underutilized antidepressant is exercise. You know, if you're mad, if you're sad, if you're angry or stressed, just move your body. And when you're moving your body, especially for kids. You know, kids today, with social media and everything, they're looking at things and most things are not real, and they believe because they're looking at something that look what everybody else has and I don't have it, and you get in to this downward spiral. So putting these fitness centers in elementary and middle schools has been an incredible blessing. And it's just to me. You know, guys, I live in New York, well I'm actually from here. I live in LA And when I go back home, I come back high because of the people that I meet. And you know, we read so much crap in the papers and on TV about how divided we are. And where I'm going. I'm talking about inner city, urban suburban reservation schools. People with so little do so much and care so much, and the communities are so incredibly beautiful, and you see that there's real love. I mean it's real. It's not make believe that how much they care. And you put this fitness center in a school and it becomes the hub of the community. So I always say, let's not just get the kids and teachers working out, Let's get the moms and dads, grandma's, grandpa's, aunts and uncles in the fitness center too. And you'd be amazed to see what happens, because academics and fitness go hand in hand, and it's upward spiral of success happens.
Let me let me ask you a questions. Well, first of all, look this is this is my son twenty years old. Oh man, Yeah, he doesn't play with fitness twice a day.
An he gets busy. Not the man in the house.
He's in the house.
But that's why you're looking the way you look. He gets busy. I can't work out with him. He does some some crazy workhouse. But I wanted to ask you. So I have a younger son and he wants to he wants to look like his bigger brother. As far as the diesel and all that. At what age the kids be able to work out using weights?
Right right now?
I just make him, do you know push ups, pull ups, things that have no weight control, because I always heard when kids use weights to stunt their growth is.
First of all, that's a fallacy. Back in the day, when I started training people, I was the first guy to do personal fitness training and made it an occupation long time ago, nineteen eighty. But back then people would say if women used weights, they get big muscles, which is not the case. Thirteen years old is a great age. But what you were saying, AMBI, push ups, pull ups and dips. Those three exercises, those three strength exercises. You mastered those three. You could do anything in the gym, any exercise in a gym, and it's the greatest thing for you. I mean, the whole idea. It's not just about building bodies, but confidence and self esteem. And you know what your son, what you guys like, what you're training now. When you feel good, it's amazing to see what you can accomplish in your life. And I know you. You have millions of viewers and listeners every single day who struggle every single day with something, because everybody's got something, and it's one it's one rep, it's one push up, it's one sit up, it's one take a walk, you know, and I promise you you'll start feeling better every single day. Do something, do something, move your body, don't quit.
Now, you know what people listening, I would say that, you know, if you do the average, there's a lot of overweight people in the world. What would you advise people to do as a start, as a start, not nothing crazy, just as a start to start getting yourself ready for their their winter body.
You know, I mean what should they start doing?
Start doing right? We talked about stop stop eating, Lauren, stopped drinking, but you know, you know I had to skinny margaeraders. So you just only one, not three, Lauren. I'm just saying. But yeah, I'm just saying. Laura's looking at me. Yeah you're not.
You're not telling nothing wrong.
Okay, thank you, because people start you know what it is, here's where you start. Look in the mirror. Okay, look in the mirror. Then go to your closet. Take a pair of pants or something dress or something that you used to wear or want to aspire to wearing and use that as your goal. Take the scale, throw it out the window because muscle weighs three times more than fat, and just keep moving. Take a walk right, it's cold outside, So a couple of exercises in your house that you can do. If you have a husband or a wife. You take a towel, right, and you can do bicep curls with a towel. If I could show you, guys right now using a towel, tricep extensions, towel lap pulls with your husband and your wife or with your kids. Right push ups off a chair. You could do dips off the bed, right biceps, triceeps back. Don't make exercise a second job. Everybody's got a job or two and it's stressed out beyond belief. Don't make exercise one. That should be something that you can do simply by just getting started. Just getting started, or go out and take a walk and you start feeling better. Believing right the world, Let you be what you make them believe you are the world. Let you be what you make them believe you are. People listening right now have a dream, something they want to accomplish. Write it down, Write it down, Write it down to a piece of paper. Write. All of a sudden, when you write down a piece of paper, it's not out up here. It's on a piece of paper. You can read it. That's what this is all about. And as you know, Charlet, we talk a lot about don't Quit. I was cut from my eighth grade basketball team long time ago, and it was a pretty devastating moment. We all have those moments as kids growing up. And this kid gave me a poem called don't Quit. I wasn't a student, I wasn't very good at school, and I probably for some reason. Why didn't I throw this poem away? Why didn't I just not even take a look at it? I put in my pocket. I got home, and that poem became a Bible verse to me and all these years later. The last two lines of the poem are, stick to the fight when your hardest hit. It's when things seem worse that you must not quit. Stick to the fight when your hardest hit. It's when things seem worse that you must not quit. Don't quit on anything you started. Don't quit on your family, don't quit on your friends, don't quit on you. And if you think about it, and be one. Step one rep leads to two and three and four and five. I stand up a little bit straighter. I'm feeling better about myself. I look in the mirror, I could be proud of who I am, right, and whether it's your kids that get better in school, the teachers are proud of them, their parents are proud of them. Right, they can look in the mirror and be proud of who they are because look us will be. You guys are youngsters. But you know, we got to make this place better for our kids, right. We got to leave this place better because they got next. Right, and as they go, this country goes, and there's a lot of crap going on, and we need to show them the good and show them how they can take real control of their destiny.
Oh oh, wan, d ask you what would you like to hear from the presidential candidates as far as addressing the lack of fitness programs in our school Because I'm sitting there thinking about it. In my lifetime, the only person I can think that ever tried to tackle that was Michelle Obama.
Yeah, yeah, that's it. You know, no one talks about it. Exercise and music are the two things they cut out of every school. First two things they cut out music and fitness. That should be a daily protocol. It should be a daily protocol. Kids today are heavier, they're lackluster. They got no that, there's no drive. Everybody's on their phones.
Well, that and the fact that kids are not in sports activities anymore. When I was a kid, I was forced to play in this trevity. You know, whether it was karate or it was swimming, it was basketball, it was baseball or soccer.
I was forced to which.
People don't understand is yeah, you have a game every Sunday, but you practice two three times a week and that's your cardio.
That's it. That's exactly right. Kids aren't forced to do this stuff anymore. You know, it's oh, it's okay, honey, go on your phone, play a game. They should. It should be mandated, and I'm sure we can get I don't want to get political on things, but I'm glad you brought it up, Shawl, because that's really one of the main things in the world. I mean, for our country, our kids need to be strong, right right, you know, our kids need to be strong. If they're not this country, it's got.
You oues what's the last time you ran, Lauren, I'm just curious to the liquor store.
No, my fan August, my fan of Reunion.
We do the sack races and the relay races, and August is August. God, would I be running, like just outside of early exercise. So I was doing I do the treadmill and the stairsteps in my building, but like thirty minutes. But like I thought, you were like outside running, like really like outside.
But you're exercising.
I do that though, because so thank you.
So I used to fly to the flight attendant and that's when I started because I used to always feel so horrible on the planes. And one of the older flight attendants told me, like, even if you don't exercise, just go and do the treadmill and it helps you feel better when you are up in the air and you're standing for so long. So I started working from home a lot, and I started feeling like I'm just eating a sleeping and I was doing the same thing because it gives you energy a bit.
I'm not like a real exerciser, I don't know, but just.
About flying, right, How good or bad?
Is the food horrible?
Horrible?
Yes?
The water the water and the food. What do you what do you recommend for people? I mean, you know, you get on a plane. I'm going to get on a plane tomorrow morning from LA from from here back home to LA.
Well, are you flying Delta? That's the first thing I usually fight out.
I'm playing j jet blue.
Okay, so you are right, ment yes, okay, so you have a better serving a bit.
But I mean there's really nowhere around it.
It's all like package and process stuff unless you're going to bring your own stuff.
So bring your own stuff.
Yeah, but you could only get certain things through. But that's kind of like the only way.
What's the craziest thing you saw when you were flight at Tennant, I had a.
Rd emergency where we were landing, because you know, you got to like like really trained to like get people if something happens.
So we had a red emergency.
We thought the plane was going to we were going to hit the ground and we were going to catch on fly our tires. So preparing for that in real time and watching people. I was in a prairie seat, so I'm sitting facing the people, watching people think that they're about to like go.
That was probably the craziest experience I read.
And That's why You're working.
Well was somewhere after that. But yeah, No, after that, I was like, yeah, I gotta figure something. I gotta get on up out of here. The tireland it didn't come down our Yeah, our landing gear wouldn't come down.
So we flew to I think it was Tampa.
We flew to a longer runway just to buy some time and so they could like let go to fuel. But even when we went down, you could feel it, and I was just I tell my.
Mind, I think that the show was over.
Oh yeah.
I text my mom and was like, Mom, here's my flight number, here's what's going on.
Don't call my grandmother yet.
If I don't call you when I land She already had all the emergency contexts, and I just I just prayed and.
Was like people had to slide down the thing.
No, we didn't have to.
She takes back like, okay, she didn't tax that.
She didn't take back anything.
And by the time she probably tried to, I think we were like already on our way down. I don't even remember everything just like went out. But when we when we landed, I didn't get back on another plane because I had to get the We had to get back to Atlanta.
So we landed.
They gave us like twenty minutes to get ourselves together, and then we got back up in the.
Air to come down.
It did.
It was rough, but they did. But you could literally feel like we were going down so fast. And I remember this later. The landing gear wouldn't come down. So they called us and was like, hey, y'all tell people, not right away, because what's happening is you're talking about fitting. It's like our training. We had to swim, we had to we had do so much stuff.
Because did you say when the pilots called and said the landing gear is not.
Coming down, I said, or okay, when do we tell the people? And they were like, don't tell them yet. We're going to fly to another another strip and give us some more time to try and.
Figure it out.
But there's a lot that goes wrong when you're flying, and the pilots figured it out, so I had confidence that they were going to figure it out. Happens a lot, yeah, but once they started, once I heard them, the ding ding deans, the fight attendants know.
The good time out. This happens a lot.
You're fitness guy, though, you'll be all right. It was landing, rolling, tumble or somethinge with. I'm just speaking.
That's the problem.
It depends on it depends on who you fly. No, it depends on who you're flying with. But there's a cold where we know, like, okay, this is escalating.
So what's the cold? Can you tell us just between us because you know, because it's just us is.
It's a bell system, but it changes different airlines you with, they probably updated.
I haven't flown in years, so.
So when you were doing it, was it delta and how many? How many bells? Is like you fucked three?
Just a deflect from the fact you got a drinking that whole story.
Drink.
You get free drinks in first class too.
See you get free drinks in first class. You get free But you know, we got this. It's a perfect way to sort of segue and end. Here is life is about moments. Moment. Life is about moments, and some are great and and some are not so great. But this right here is a great moment, being being with you guys. And and I just gotta say this because I do it all the time. When you guys have me on. I can't tell you much. I appreciate it because your audience it's so responsive to me with the positive messaging. And it's amazing the power that you guys have. And I know you know it, but it's it's always nice when someone else tells you how good you are, as opposed to you having to tell people how good you are. But you guys are. It's amazing how how people listen, how they follow, and how they support and and and it's really amazing the community that you guys have built. And this is one of those great moments. Man.
And uh everything Man a stranger, I love it.
Read you well? Oh yeah. Official body by Jake, Official Body by Jake. Yeah, let's let's see me get up. Man. I don't do the social media much. Man, I'm going to start doing it right now. My son Luke is here and he's he's he's now a Hollywood guy. You know. He's got a film festival coming up October twentieth, Horror Fest he's doing in La.
He doesn't work out with the director actor writer, Yeah I could.
Yeah, you don't work out with pops.
He's my youngest of four, he's my youngest, my daughter Morgan lives in London. I got two boys here in New York, Nick and Zach, and looks my youngest lives in LA with us. But I think he's gonna come here. I grew up here. I couldn't wait to go to La all my kids Boom bass. That's right, you guys are awesome. Don't quit jake Stown.
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