The Fit Artist Sculpting Health for Creators and Entertainers

0:00 Welcome to the Living the Dream Podcast with Curveball, if you believe you can achieve. Welcome to the Living the Dream with Curveball Podcast, a show where I interview guests that teach, motivate and inspire. Today, we're going to be talking about fitness and music, as I am joined by Trey Trey, the fit artist is the founder of Next World Fitness. He is a fitness coach as well as a music artist music musician himself and he basically is a fitness coach for artists, creators and entertainers, and he helps them, you know, stay at the top of their game.

0:58 So we're going to be talking to him about everything that he's up to, straight out of Jackson Mississippi. Trey, thank you so much for joining me today. Yeah, man, thank you for having me, man. Why don't you start off by telling everybody a little bit about yourself? Okay, well, I'm living in Jackson Mississippi. I'm from a small town called Drew. There's a little Delta town, pretty much, where they raise agriculture and crops and stuff like that, so not a really lot going on there. But I'm here in the in the capital now, jackson Mississippi, um 38 years old, um, and I, uh, you know, like I guess a little bit about me. I like to play basketball, draw, write, make music, have fun and so forth, and and, uh, what I'm doing?

1:43 What I do is I am an online fitness coach and trainer. I've been doing it over a decade now and I'm specializing in helping artists and entertainers sculpt their fit masterpieces. So that's specifically music artists, musicians, actors and models and not only helping with their wellness, but also enhancing their artistry as well. Okay, well, tell the listeners how you actually got into music and how you got into, you know, online fitness or being a fitness coach. Okay. Which one you want to know about first. Which ever one you want to tell us first. Okay, all right. So how did I get into music?

2:25 Well, I was more, I was raised in the church. My grandmama she was a preacher and her son took the mantle, and my uncle, and so I've been in, you know, church and so forth all my life growing up, and pretty much my mom she was in that lifestyle too as well, that being her mom and she basically, you know, used to go around singing door to door to people and stuff like that, singing in the choir and all that, so going with her all the time singing in the choir. My cousins, you know, they all know how to play instruments from just listening. They didn't really know how to read notes and so forth.

3:05 So a lot of this I absorbed that early on. You know they didn't ever teach us how to play. I always wanted to play the organ or the piano and the drum. They never teach us how to play. But you know I can definitely beatbox and you know pen tap, you know, on a desk or something like that. I'm your man on that but definitely want to learn that. But for that I would say that's my first introduction to making you know to music and so forth. But it didn't really like actually become a dream of mine until, like hip hop, which is my first introduction to actually, you know, hearing that and wanting to make music and so forth um, I would say a little bit about where I started.

3:51 I'm gonna go back a little bit more. When I was in um elementary school, um, I used to write these literary works or whatever for um, for school, and they would tell us what to write at the time time my grandma had passed and I was six years. You know, like maybe three years ago, three years passed after she passed, but during that time it was like I was missing her and most of my stuff was about her. And the teacher was like I was writing poems, I was writing, you know, a paragraph or essay in the essay type format and everything about her or to her. And the teacher was like, well, you know, you, you writing so much about your grandma man, like that's where she was.

4:31 Like you know, I bust out the crying and say like you don't tell me what I'm, you know what I'm supposed to be doing, and so forth. And I think that was the start of my writing and the teacher she kind of, you know she backed off, but she did let my mom know about that. She did let her know that, like he has a talent, so she noticed how I was writing poems and how I was putting feeling in everything. So that's kind of like the spark right there. But growing up in church I didn't really hear a lot of hip hop growing up. So when I got a little older, maybe like 14, 15 years old, when I started hearing hip hop, that's when I like, okay, these poems I'm writing, I definitely can write that to music and so forth, cause that's really what it is Poetry, and and and and emotional poetry and with, with, uh, with music tied to it.

5:19 So that's when it kind of kicked off there and I always kind of wanted to do it. But like growing up, how it is, you know, in that religious background, I didn't really think. I really didn't think it would be proved. I guess I was just looking at what they were saying and so forth, not really what I wanted. But and then later on, coming into now, I would say I would say up to until 2019, when COVID happened, I just started, man, look, where I had a whole lot of time on my hand, I said, look, I always wanted to write, I mean make music and so forth. So I'm just going to go in and start writing and that's when it kind of like started right there, from there to actually getting into the full, actually wanting to do this and pursuing this in a broad way.

6:06 And the second question what was the second question? How did I get started with online fitness coaching? How did you get into online fitness, especially for artists and stuff like that? Okay, especially for artists. Well, I would start with how I got into personal training. So I didn't always start out as an online fitness coach and trainer. I was more so in person, where I started at the y mca a little bit before that, um it was. I was always a pretty much an avid, avid gym goer, going, going all the way back with my dad he was pretty much with a big uh bodybuilder back then and so forth. So going with him he taught me a lot and like got my first weight set when I was 15 and, um, you know, a little bit after that, like he was uh, he was uh, all right, so he was uh, uh, he.

6:58 He was basically like diagnosed with cancer, uh, on my 19th birthday and later on, after, after that, he kind of, you know, kind of even got more on a health tip and so forth and he got the whole family into a gym membership. So that was my first gym membership at that time and you can just say the rest is history. You know he told me what to do and so forth and I was kind of going by myself. But the rest of history from there I I started, uh, you know, working out kind of like what most people were doing you know, go in two weeks and then next two or three weeks you don't see me in there. You know it started off slow but when I got got into it more, I started seeing you know results and people started flocking to me asking me questions, wanting to work out with me and give me compliments and stuff like that.

7:46 And it wasn't like later on until the woman I was at work working at levi's and she was like man, you're doing all this working out. Man, you know you should, as soon as this become a uh, you ever thought about person training? At that time I didn't looked it up, research to see if it sounded like something like I can do. And then that's when it started from there and my first, let's say, start towards it. I wanted to kind of get my feet wet where I would go into like work at a gym first and start as a trainer there working on a gym as an employee. But at the time in Mississippi we wanted really a lot of gyms going around and then wanting a lot of folks hiring. So I was kind of forced into starting on my own, which I wanted to do anyway, but it was just at a point where I just wanted to get my name out there, get some exposure and experience and then branch out.

8:36 But it didn't happen that way, so I had to start on my own and then from there we went into. I got a deal like independent contract deal with a YMCA where or where they let me train there and as long as my client was members, and so forth, and I can say it started there. So started with one-on-one training, you know one-on-one training. Then later on branched out, I started doing group training at my own spot for about a year for for for a little while, and you can kind of say I was always online training I give. I have a certain app that I give to clients even though they're not seeing me. When they're not seeing me in person, I still have something for them to do on their own time and stuff. Excuse me, but uh, that that was until like 2019 when I fully went on fully online, when everything happened a little bit before covid, when I was starting to fully online, when everything happened a little bit before COVID, when I was starting to go online and everything then from there now, how I got into actually working with, with the artists and entertainers, so to speak, is they always tell you you got a niche down, you know it's about, you know if you're going into, you know certain business and niche down who you um targeting and helping and so forth.

9:44 When I at the time, it was more so people, 25 to 55 men and women looking to lose a little weight, maybe get a gain, tone a little bit or gain some muscle, get stronger or have some energy, and it started right there. But as I start like actually finding a actual niche, I thought about, as they were saying, is either what you are passionate about or it's what you're going through. So I chose the. What I'm passionate about, so, writing, being creative, that's that's what I'm really passionate about. So, music and so forth, and and and, in the whole, that's what I do. So those, those things that I told you music, musician, actors, models and and um and music artists who I'm looking to help those are all four things I wanted to do growing up and so forth.

10:31 So, um, and that's like I would like you, when you look at it, uh, how they, how they go around, they are constantly on the road, they're constantly traveling. That you know they're doing. Uh, you know it's hard for them to get to a gym, uh, at times because they traveling so much and they're traveling that, you know they're doing. Uh, you know it's hard for them to get to a gym at a time because they're traveling so much and they're on the road, so they are really just, uh, delegated to whatever's around them. For us eating. So it ain't necessarily healthy, but it just is. It's close by, and so what I do with online definitely can help that a lot, and the program that I got set up helps in a great way where they can be able to not only still keep up with their fitness and health, but also enhance their, their artistry as well in the process, because, because they are, you know, it is able to more accessible, and I make it where it's more towards a busy lifestyle or that demanding lifestyle that artists and entertainers have.

11:27 So, as a music artist, talk to the listeners about how you feel that creativity and well-being is, you know, connected. Well, your body is the instrument, so it is. When you are constantly like I said again, you're constantly on the road, you're on stage, jumping up and down, you're moving, you're singing and so forth, all that can be taking a toll if you're not really treating your body the right way. And then another thing too is if it expounds on it. The more healthy you are, the more fit you are, the more you are able to do things, longer You'll be able to be on stage, have more energy.

12:08 It gives you that mental clarity, especially after you don't work out that good 30-minute session and so forth. You feel a whole lot better and that definitely gives you that ease, lower stress, which in turn helps you to create more at a higher level or produce at a higher level in your craft. So what do you feel like some of the biggest mistakes that artists, creators and entertainers make and give some tips on how they can fix them? Biggest mistake is, I think, is they think that that fitness got to take like an hour, or they got to clear out their whole day to just to just work out, you know, and it's not like that, I mean, it's just like anything else that you do uh, with, with your, your day-to-day, your day-to-day.

12:58 So you got a schedule, is a schedule, you got schedules and appointments you got to make. So it's all about you. You were scheduling that time in and it don't have to be, like I said, a 30 minute workout hour workout. It can be short, as like a 10 minute HIIT workout or a 20 minute workout here and there. It can be short, as like a 10 minute hit workout or a 20 minute workout here and there. It can be, whether you, um, and using just your body weight, not, no, really need any equipment, you can be on stage, you can be on tour bus, you can, you know, be practically anywhere and still get that, that fitness in. And then, uh, another thing I would say too is like for, as uh, the eating, like I said, you are pretty much when you're hungry and you're constantly, you know, doing all these appointments, so it's kind of hard to get to said food.

13:41 I would say more, and most time it'd be like where they end up just getting what's around them or rationale goes out the door and they just end up, you know, eating whatever because they just want to get satisfied for us, because they're hungry. So I would say, basically, you know things they can do with travel with. You know light snacks and so forth, until they can get to a certain meal. They don't have to be anything cooked. But you know, just be really like cognizant of what you're doing and putting in your body food. Food is fuel and the way you fueling your body is the way it would definitely show out in how you're doing and everything else as far as your, your career, your life and everything else you talked about the tour bus and the stage.

14:27 Talk about how performers can build stamina when you know they are on stage in the studio, and all that good stuff like that okay, well, yeah, basically, like I was saying earlier, with the like the hit style workouts, a lot like you know, um, a good quick one, like, say, fencing we doing, uh, you can like say, push up for 30 seconds, then go back, you know, run for the next 30 seconds, that's, that's a, that's a like a full body exercise right there, you know. Or or you can do it like where you are push up and then squat for 30 seconds or something like that. There's really just staying active. You know not being present. And being being present in what you are doing, a lot of people, a lot of artists, entertaining.

15:11 They are sitting down. And what you are doing, a lot of people, a lot of artists, are entertaining. They are sitting down constantly, whether they're playing an instrument or they're writing something. So you've got to get up every like 30,. You know, get up every I ain't going to say every 30 minutes but get up often and be active, whether you're just going for a little quick walk and then come back, sit down, get back to work. But you want to make sure you are active and it doesn't take an hour to do it. You can do it in spurts five minute here, five minute there and all that ass up. The body is smart, so the body will. Will process all those times you did work out and still you'll still be benefited from it then not doing anything at all.

15:52 Well, what's the difference you know as far as fitness and you know challenges that performers and creators face versus the average person? Well, I would say they. It's more prevalent for them. Like, everybody needs health and fitness and fitness need to work out to some degree and be healthy to some degree. But with artisan entertainers, they are constantly using their bodies in a certain way than the normal or the average people do and also, too, they are constantly in the the, the appearance. You know their appearance need to be a certain way.

16:32 Now you know somebody just working at a grocery store not to knock on the people working at a grocery store, but they ain't got to necessarily worry about their appearance too much or how they perform and things like that. As long as they're doing the job at a reasonable level for the manager and so forth, they good. But when it comes to an artist, entertainer, is that their bodies and their bodies, they, they hold things. So, you know, they certain for, like an actor, that trying to get a certain role, um, they got to look a certain way or they got to perform a certain way. A singer they definitely have, with their lung capacity and so forth, when they are improving their stamina, endurance and energy and so forth, it helps a lot with that.

17:19 So they got to look at their body as an instrument to be able to see and do their jobs at a high level, and for the long haul as well. So I would say it's more paramount for the artists and entertainers to actually live a fit lifestyle, because that's where their bread and butter lies. Well, you know, mindset also plays a role in this as well. So talk about some of the mindset shifts that you know creators can develop for, you know, to be successful, for long-term success.

18:01 The biggest one, I would say the all or nothing process. I know we go all in on our artistry and so forth. Especially when we're writing a song, creating a song or however, or whatever artwork we're creating, we go all in and so forth. Especially when we're writing the song, creating the song and or however, or whatever artwork we creating, we go all in and so forth. I would say with the fitness it. Don't don't go in with all and all or nothing approach. You know it, and that's where it'll be grounds, to where you stop, stop doing it. And what I mean by all or nothing pros, meaning like okay, I'm gonna go do this hour every day, excuse me for is working out, or I'm going to eat like this, and so forth, and then you do that, I'm going to do this, you know, stop drinking alcohol, cold turkey and so forth, and I'm going to do this for six months straight.

18:47 And then first month in they end up you know doing, maybe first two weeks they do good, then at third week they start falling off and then kind of get discouraged, get, you know, upset, you know ashamed a little bit, or however, and then they end up stopping. So it's the little things that count. So maybe just start drinking a little bit more water than you are, drinking sodas, going for a walk a little bit. And you know, like I say, if you start going for a walk, if you haven't been going for a walk a little bit, and you know, like you say, if you start going for a walk, if you haven't been going for a walk, but let's say, if you are going for a walk, let's say you're doing it 10, 20 minutes, and I do that once or two, two times a week. And then you know, increase from there, little small thing that you can do and implement and and going forward and that can definitely goes a long way.

19:30 And then, once you start actually making that a habit, you can go on to the next thing and then that kind of builds and snowballs from there and then you'll be living a more more, a more fit and healthier lifestyle in the process of that. And then that's how it helps to get it ingrained and more disciplined to it. Because you know, we, we often uh, like, when we brush our teeth and we don't think to do it, we just get to do it because it's already in the routine. So when you get into that routine and that kind of that motion, it will come a lot easier to you because you already been doing it and putting it in your daily routine. So it's just basically taking out the, you know, replacing the old and bad habits with new habits, basically.

20:16 So tell us about you. Know you founded Fit Masterpiece Collabs and you have a podcast, so tell us about both those All right, Appreciate it All right. So Fit Masterpiece Collab is under the umbrella of Next World Fitness, which is my nutrition and fitness coaching business. So Fit Masterpiece Collab is basically where we give people who might not be ready for the coaching yet and it's basically where we give that guidance. But they still want to live some, you know, get fit and need advice on it. So that's where we guide them and everything on that. But not only that it is also a community of like-minded others, of others artists and entertainers and creatives.

21:00 That's in the group as well. That will be where they can not only just get on it, you know, um get towards their health goals and be able to share that and and motivate each other from that, but they also can be able to share their ideas, uh, network and, you know, come and communicate with, you know each other and be, you know, build other opportunities and open up new doors that they never thought possible and everything from that. And then fit masterpiece collab and forest the podcast just uh started that and the podcast is is in the similar to fit fit masterpiece glad, where is uh called scuff and create and it's basically where we are doing interviews with other artists and entertainers and uh, talking about their creative journey, their process, the creative process, their journey, their story, what they got going on and so forth, and how they fit their mental and physical health into the whole spectrum of things and stuff like that.

22:00 And also, well, we will be talking with other fitness and wellness professionals as well. That helps in these regards for mental health or fitness and other aspects and stuff like that. So it's all in all, all both of them together, all to help the help the artists entertain us in their physical, personal and career growth. Well, talk about what makes your program, your method of training different from the traditional programs or trainings that's out there. Well, just as you said, it's not really traditional. I'm not. Most of my exercises are, or not, the dogs that don't follow a traditional trend or so forth.

22:47 In the fitness realm it do have some traditional things, like when we go to the gym, some stuff you just can't. Fitness realm, now, it do have some traditional things, like when we go to the gym, some stuff you just can't, uh, get away from. But you know I do it still in my own style. But I would say, um, the way I I deliver my work, especially the ones where it's on the go. I do very fun, challenging games that you can do anywhere, no matter where you're at home or on the road, um, and it's done in a hit style where you still can definitely get a. The road, um, and it's done in a hit style where you still can definitely get a little definition. You definitely get that energy and stamina pumped up, no matter where you are. And then when you're able to get to a gym, we definitely can match where you at, so you can get the workout, so you can be able to, no matter, like I said again, at the gym or home.

23:27 We've been able to maximize what you know, your goals, no matter what you're doing or what your situation is so being like. And I would say there's a lot different from being in person, because you've got to be present with the way we're in person training, because I really I call myself a fitness coach than a personal trainer. So fitness coach and training is what I do, but with the in-person training, that's all you're doing. You're meeting with that trainer 30 minutes an hour and with Artists and Entertainers Constantly Traveling. They might be stationary two months, three months, where they can work with that trainer, but then after that they got to get on the road. Now they ain't got access to that trainer. So what makes it different for me?

24:08 I'm in your back pocket where, no matter where they go, where they're traveling, what they're doing, I can be able to help them and be in contact with them. They can contact me anything that they have, any problems or challenges that they have, and I can definitely help them in a more effective way, an efficient way, because you know, because of that, because I'm ingrained into their routine as well talk about any upcoming projects that you're working on that listeners need to be aware of uh well, uh, four is um musically, or are you talking about four, anything, anything, okay? uh, well, uh, the biggest thing right now is that, like I said, sculpt and create right now.

24:49 So that's why I'm getting on. I'm did, just did my third interview and getting a few of that, so hopefully we'll be able to get the first episode out this week. So I would say that'd be the next big thing. Going from there and then um, uh, then going from there, like, like I said, uh, going to with to evolve, uh, fit masterpiece collab, a little bit more, uh, other than just the community and the fitness guidance and so forth. I definitely want to add, where we, where we add in more towards um, the networking aspect, where they can be able to meet other people like them or other services that they need. So you might be able to like say, okay, the artist is looking for a music artist, is looking for somebody to make their beats, or they're looking for a videographer, and I can have other creators that's in this network or in the fit masterpiece collab, that's in there, that can, they can provide that.

25:42 Or I can definitely make the match up and say, okay, so and so is looking for this and you, you can provide that. So I think y'all be a good matchup and so forth. So that's one thing, and then also to providing courses and so forth as well, in the fit master piece collab as well. So that way they it's do it on your own, but it's where they can be able to be able to ingrain fitness in their lifestyle for the long haul and learn how to do it effectively, and where they can keep doing this for a lifetime or making it a lifestyle other than just some little phase, and they can be able to. But they now they got the knowledge to keep going and to keep it up, and where there'd be weight loss, muscle gain or whatever, I would say.

26:28 Though. So those two, two things I'm, you know, looking for was next in their time. Okay, well, so people can keep up with everything that you're up to. throw out your contact info okay, well, they can definitely look. Most of my sources is on um? Uh wwwnextworldfitnesscom n-e-x-t w-r-r-l-d. Fitnesscom. I'm on tiktok uh, on the tiktok trader, fit r T-R-E-A D-A Fit Artist, as well as Facebook. You know you can find me on there. Like I said, pretty much all my links is on there. You can find me there and that's. I think that.

27:08 Yeah, that's pretty much it, for, like I said, you go on on my website. My links is there, but I'm on TikTok Instagram Instagram at Next World Fitness. Let's see Facebook. My business profile is Next World Fitness, but the personal profile is Trey86. And let's see where's the others. There's, yeah, I'm on Twitter. Twitter is the N-E-X-T-W-O-R-L-D Fitness and, like I said, I said TikTok. There's all my links, but you can go on my website and get most of those already. Okay, we'll close this out with some final thoughts. Maybe, if that was something I forgot to talk about, that you would like to touch on, or any final thoughts you have for the listeners.

27:53 I would say be cognizant, think of yourself as a brand and your body as an instrument, and to do what you do at a high, at all time. High is you got to make sure your, your, your instrument is intact and fully functional and the rest will flow from there, and then that will help you to be able to not to say they're not thriving, but they help you to thrive at an all-time even more all-time high and a long, fruitful career all right. Ladies and gentlemen, nextworldfitnesscom, please be sure to check out trey and everything that he's up to. If you know of of any artists, entertainers or creators that could use some fitness and get what Trey's offering, follow, rate, review, share it to as many people as possible.

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