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A Day in The Naturally Intense Life- Part 3

12:01 pm- 1:00 pm.

We get back to smell the curry simmering on the stovetop and now the real work begins. Today I have to write some business proposals due by the next day and I spend the next hour typing away.

1:00 pm.

Lunch time. Woo hoo! The curry is fantastic and the chicken and potatoes are topped off on a bed of long grain parboiled rice. I make a point of getting only the freshest of ingredients, and of blending the seasonings myself (that way I know there isn’t any salt or msg hidden in them), and the chicken is actually chicken! Not the ‘free range’ fake chicken, the real deal. I grew up around chickens and can tell you now that they might have a free range label on them, but truly free range chickens do not look like the ones you see at a Wholefoods. The bones are far too soft and the chickens themselves are far too fat. The meat is too soft as well, instead I get fowl from butcher shops in the West Indian neighborhoods, which look and taste nothing like the ones you’ll find in the stores. They are far cheaper too, and why spend more money for chicken that claims to be free range and (heaven forbid I use the term), ‘organic’ (when last did you see and inorganic chicken?) when I can spend less and get the real thing? The wonders of modern marketing never cease to amaze me.

1:20 pm.

After the workout I was truly starving, and after a good lunch I am ready to go! I have a business meeting in the city at 4:30 pm, then start training clients at 5:30 pm, so I spend the next couple of hours working on updating dietary guides for my clients and the numerous people that I work with online, maintaining the website, which I built myself (took all of 4 months of working until the small hours of the morning). Then I am calling and confirming schedules for clients for today and the rest of the week while also getting back to those set to come in for a trial to see what this ten minute workout thing is all about. By the time I am done it is 3:45 pm, and a quick shower later I am ready to run out of the house (I see showering after a workout as part of my contribution to a more eco-friendly environment!). I grab a piece of curried chicken right before I leave the house and pack a ziploc bag with some peanuts to keep me going for a while along with a plain bison burger that I cooked earlier this morning to take along with me. I get to my meeting (kind of) on time, and by 5:30 pm I am at the gym and waiting for my first victim, I mean client of the day. Lucky for me, he is running about 5 minutes behind and so I sit in the gym lobby and have my bison burger, savoring every bite! I made it with another Kevin R. proprietary blend of spices and the combination is right on! My client walks in and I am ready to start my working day. I have 13 clients lined up for tonight and I am looking forward to it as I always do!

The fun part for me has always been working with my clients and I have to say that I have always seemed to have been blessed with some of the most fantastic people to work with! Many trainers complain about having difficult clients, but after working with the formerly homeless population for 14 years, I really don’t see anyone as being difficult at all! My last client was running a little late, he is driving in from Westchester and got stuck in traffic. He called to apologize, but my native Trinidadian sensibilities don’t mind at all. Several of my clients come from really far away, one comes in from Connecticut, one from Long Island and we have even had some commute from Boston on the weekends! I am happy to have them and have no problem waiting a few minutes here and there to accommodate them if they are running late. They are great people and I love working with them as well.

8 pm

I am out of the gym and heading home after a quick meeting with my business development manager (the team is certainly growing these days). I get home by 8:30 pm and dinner is ready and waiting (bless Stephanie’s soul!) I was a single parent for a while and I know very well what it is like to come home and have to do everything yourself, so I am always extra grateful to come home to a home cooked meal! Rabbit is on the menu, quite a surprise, and it is served with some greens on the side. At 10 pm it is time for my last meal of the day(except on  Fridays when I teach my ninjustu class from 10 pm to about 1 am- then I eat a bit later), which is always some form of fish. I vary it each night and tonight I am having some blue snapper, a tropical fish that I know very well from my childhood in the islands. Some last minute emails, and checks online, and I am off to sleep and ready for tomorrow. Although Lucien has some other plans…

Celebrity NYC Personal Trainer Kevin Richardson is the creator of Naturally Intense High Intensity Training™, a lifetime natural bodybuilder and one of the most popular personal trainers in New York City. Get a copy of his free weight loss ebook here.