Gunnar Peterson
Appearances
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I've listened to all of your episodes on here. You guys bleep it out.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I'll do a ZOA, 160 milligrams of caffeine. Let's go.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So he said to me, I'm doing, listen to this. This is funny. He goes, I'm doing this role, Sahara. And I said, oh, Sahara, there's a book, Clive Cusser. He goes, what do you know about that book? And I said, lead character, Dirk Pitt. He's got a girlfriend named Eva Rojas. He works for a guy named Admiral Sandecker who works for NUMA. He's this, and he goes, what do you know about Dirk Pitt?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I go, what do you mean? And he goes, I'm Dirk Pitt. I go, Dirk Pitt is 6'4". And he goes, Dirk Pitt's 5'11 and 3 quarters. And I go, solid.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
say less you're right you're right yeah yes you are yeah so you but working with him for a role like that or working with somebody that you've worked with for a while I don't feel the pressure I think it's then it's fun because you're just you're taking the relationship in a new direction and they trust you you know how they work you know what's going to work with them what you can and can't do there's no like feeling it out phase
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And it's a lot of road time because you know better than I do that travel schedule is no joke. No joke. It's no joke, yeah.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah, kudos to my wife. I was in LA.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But yeah, but when I told, I sat everybody around the table. When Rob Palenka offered me that job, I brought the family around the table and I said, do we do this? And they all said yes. And I go, but hang on. You got to think. It means like Christmas morning I might not be here. We could be on the road. Because they're the Lakers.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And I said, Ann may not be here for games this. I may miss this. And they all go, that's fine. Take the job. So I had their blessing so it's easier to do. And then when we won in 2020, my wife goes, why do you want to go back? And I was like, I mean, it's fun. It's awesome. I work with great people. She's like, babe, come on. You want a ring? Like, don't kid yourself.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But it also, it came to a natural end and things changed. It's a great organization, great people, as you know. But, you know, things change and you move on. But nothing but love for those guys. And they crushed it. I mean, there's a work ethic down there that's sick, which is why they are who they are.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah, I have Henry, my oldest, then Jack, then Sloan, and then I have Zane and then I have Monroe. So I have a starting five.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Duh. My middle son went to SMU and I left. I said to him, dude, you're going to have more fun than everybody who went to Duke just because you're going to be in Texas and he tore it up. He'll still wear a Duke shirt, but he's an SMU kid, Jack, and it's awesome to see him in his own, like he's got his own gig there. But yeah, they were only going to Duke. I wouldn't let the...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I wouldn't have any baby blue in the nursery. I want Duke blue in the nursery for the boys.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah, balance, that's that word, right? I have a guy now, country music guy in Nashville. He goes, I hate the word balance. I said, cool, I hate the word journey. Not the band, but people always say, I'm on my journey. I'm like, shut up. You're not on a journey. It's your workout. You're not on a journey. But I don't think you have balance. I think you go hard and get obsessed with everything.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Like I'd imagine right now you are, because this is your newest baby, I would imagine you are all day. The fact that you have notes and things and like you can't have balance if you're doing a new project, right? Whether it's a work project or a kid, you got to go all in with that. And you know what you're about to find out, but I think you do know with the kids, they're gone in a minute, right?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Right? That first it's the school thing and then they're gone for X amount of hours a day and you go, oh, that's weird. I got a big hole in my time. And then it's the friend thing and then it's trips with friends and then it's college and then it's like, good luck.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I think you have to. It's funny. People go, how do you motivate people? I go, you don't motivate them. You insult them and you shame them. But that's also like on their time behind closed doors, never on camera. And you just keep it under wraps. Well, and I think also... By the way, P.S., one of the reasons and the person I knew first in your clan was your mom.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
They're always super respectful, and they would stay back there. And that's also how you get to tell who the people are that you're working with, the ones who acknowledge them and speak to them versus the one who just wave and walk. And I want them to see. I brought my little guy here, Zane. I'm in L.A. for two days, and he's with me. And I said, you're going to do work day with Daddy.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And he's like, can I bring my iPad? I go, you can, but he needs to see. I think it's helpful that they see what you do.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I know, journey. Let's find balance. How old is she? She's five. And last year, I think it's a year ago, tomorrow or Thursday, was diagnosed with AML leukemia, which, yeah, that's a fun day.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah, my wife Jess found that, and I'll give even more kudos to Jess for not just how she found it, but how she's championed the whole thing. As far as I'm concerned, she's got an MD. She's become an absolute beast. The way I would expect a lot of moms, especially you, and when you're – it's not helicopter parenting, by the way. It's being a good mom.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So Monroe was getting fevers, and they would subside, or they'd break in the night, and then she'd be fine, and then she'd get another one. And I don't know, to me, her skin, like her pallor wasn't – There was a pallor to her skin that you didn't see normally. And I said to Jess, maybe it's like anemia or something. I think this is more than just like day cool, night cool time.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I think this is like go to the doc. And she went and checked. And she checked while I was at work. And then they put her in an ambulance. They said her counts are extremely low. She needs to go up to Vanderbilt right now. So they sent her to Vanderbilt. And then they checked. And then a couple of days later, they come and they checked her in. And of course, my wife stayed with her the whole time.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Like literally lived there. Ended up, the two of them living there for six months. Wow. Thank God it's only 20 minutes from our house. So we could do like a tag in, tag out thing. And Zane could see. And my other kids flew in. And all the other kids, when she...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
When it came down to needing bone marrow transplant, all my other kids stepped up, drew the blood to see who was a match, and that gets super hairy. But they get that diagnosis, and it's no joke. They check you in, and then they tell you what it is, and it's not leukemia. It's AML leukemia. And what's the difference?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
It's more rare. It's more difficult to— It's everything. And then it's probably going to be a bone marrow transplant. And then there's going to be, then that didn't take, the first one didn't take. And then, I mean, it took for a minute and then it didn't. And then they go through a radiation and the chemo. It's just, you wouldn't wish it on anybody.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But my wife, and I would tell any parent or any guardian, you have to advocate for your kid and you have to keep meticulous notes. My wife wrote down on this notebook that's more notes than I took in four plus years of college. And she wrote down everything they did. Every time the nurse comes in at night, how much? What are you giving her? What time? Why?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Nasty side trick. Your mom would walk into my gym at 5.30.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And you keep it because you want to go back to it and say, this didn't work, this did work. And Vanderbilt, top notch, can't give it more praise for how they handled the whole thing. But you have to advocate for it. And you have to ask questions of... not just the doctors, not just the heads of the departments, which we were lucky to have good relationships, but the day-to-day caregivers.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Those people are the ones who see symptoms, who see trends, the nurses, the orderlies, the people who are in and out and in and out. And if you don't keep those relationships open and take those notes, something can get missed. And I worry for the people who don't know to do all that. It can go sideways real fast.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah. And as she walked through the gym without looking, without taking inventory of who was there, she would go, may I do my Kris Jenner impression? Yes. Good morning, motherfuckers. She just walked through the gym. It didn't matter who was there. And that's how she lit it up every day. And I love it because that matches the energy I have. And I love having somebody in there with that.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yep, Jess did that. We also had a guy through other friends, and probably not cool to say their names, but anyway, we had other friends who connected us with another doctor down in Florida who Jess and I could bounce, but more Jess bounced stuff off of.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
but I was on all the emails, all the texts, and so I'd read it, and Jess was just on it, on it, on it, and without his being like a sounding board and giving advice, and he never contradicted or countered anything, but he said, ask about this or what about this, and when you put it in a question form, sometimes you do spark an idea like, oh, maybe, and then the treatment takes a different turn or a different path, or like the second transplant she did,
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Um, they do a TBI, right? A total body irradiation where they essentially microwave your kid to nuke anything before the transplant so that the transplant has a better chance of taking. And they get down to discussing what temperature that's set at. And the doctor in Florida has a different idea than these people. Because how would you know? how would I know?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
How would my wife and I know, oh, for her body size, for her body weight, for the fact that she's been under chemo for this long and now she's going to go through this. Having those people, like I would tell anybody, reach out. And the pediatric oncology world, right, is very small and they talk in real time and you can get really good answers if you step up and ask a question.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Nobody's holding back information. It's not like We have the cure and we're going to hold it. So you come to us and we make money. It's not that kind of business. They will talk. And we've got some really good people on our side.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Correct. We've gone back and forth on this, but he has a little room at in the Vanderbilt, in the Monroe Carroll.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
a children's hospital for kids to go because I guess teenagers go and then they feel, thank God, like Monroe, our daughter, lost all her hair, right? And her eyebrows, which is a freaky look. But it's cool. Like, make it work. But she doesn't have the association with hair and beauty and how she presents herself as a teenager would.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So Harry recognized that and there's a little center for teens within the hospital where they can go and be themselves and there's musical stuff and it's really cool.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Kendall brought him into the gym one time.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
and I was like just something like he looked thin and I didn't I didn't know the backstory right and then they're like oh by the way I said got it yeah okay they were aware of how kids the teens are going through sure the cancer fight not to be denied but the other fight of how come I look like this and I don't fit in and now I look weird and whatever Monroe doesn't have that my daughter doesn't have that she's like laughing and then it's coming back Monroe has
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I took a picture of her hair the other night.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Hopefully you can. I'll show you the pic. And it's like she wetted it down and it's just growing back in and it's patchy and she combed it like that. And I took a picture from the top and I sent it to my brother and I go, I'd like you to meet my new accountant. It looks like a terrible comb over, but she's just happy to have it.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
She's good. She's going through, and this is another thing, she's going through a ton of gut GI problems. So you have to know as the parent, as the guardian advocating for the kid, that the treatment, yes, sure, the cancer is in remission. That's the best news ever.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But there are things you can do leading up to it that might help you avoid future problems like the gut disorders, which she's been fighting now for five months. I would say now it's better than it's been. And her attitude through it, like you realize you learn more from the kid through this than the kid learned from you.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Her attitude? She's a 10. She's a trooper. I don't know how graphic you want to get, but her bathroom habits have been pretty...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
crazy over the last five months but she'll go in there and i'll go you're right and she goes yeah i'm just riding my dirt bike and i'm like you're five years old don't say that but it's her attitude she's she's not phased by it and she'll go from a painful episode in there and then she'll just start talking hey daddy when the barbie goes down the slide she has to move because if not the other barbie when she comes i'm looking at her going
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You were just going through immense abdominal pain.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But her attitude, she just compartmentalizes it.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You're not selling fitness. I tell trainers that all the time. You're not selling fitness. You're selling energy. I'm 150 years old, and I worked out this morning, and I was giddy because I had a great workout, and I think as a trainer, you should do that for the people's exercise you program. What do the one percenters do? Especially in LA, especially in Hollywood.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
That's Jess. Jess did theme rooms, which of course you would do too.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Because the rooms are pretty bleak and you feel... If you want to ever look at where you could help, not you, but one, with their time or their money or their energy, take a walk down a children's cancer ward. It's like humbling. Right. And it's pretty bleak. And a lot of those kids are in there by themselves, young. And so Jess made, I mean, she made the bathroom. She did a mermaid theme.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
She did the Frozen theme. She did some cool stuff so that Monroe, her stay there was less awful than a normal hospital stay.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Because I'm sure... I like that you're going to sit back and set this up like it just popped into your head.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I'll tell you this, in the beginning of doing this 35 years ago. When I had people, you could feel that, right? When you feel the reluctance or the pushback, my thought at the time, younger, gung-ho, passionate, excited to share it, was I'm gonna make this person fall in love with their time with me and fall in love with fitness. And I would make, that would become my cause célèbre.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I wanted that, I wanted them to just love it. And when they get it, that's like a huge victory. Now, if I feel any pushback, I just go, hey, Wednesday I'm slammed, but I have these two guys here, Colin and Adam. They're great. They're going to be here. And I just try to push it downstream. Not in a bad way. We're not suited.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I can't come at this with 110% energy and I prepped the workouts the night before and you come in not wanting to do it or phoning it in. That's just a bad match. Thank you.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
for like a weight loss like it's not that it's about just showing them to be active and I used to sit with my mom at Tybo and all the other shit like it's good for that sets the tone and then when they're introduced to it at whatever time in their lives they they're not intimidated because they're like yeah I've been around this I've seen it it doesn't get weird for them right yeah whether they do it or not it's another thing right but
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I don't know. Thank you for watching.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you for watching.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
It's your gym. It's your music. There was a great video. You probably have it of you and Kendall.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You got to send me that. It's just, and it's you guys from the back. I think you guys said film it, but you can't do that. At another gym. Like, good luck. Yeah. You could, but you can't get the music queued up. You can't. Kendra used to come in there and bop, bop, bop on the iPad and literally DJ her own workout.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I'll get you to come to Nashville, even if you come for a weekend. And they break ground today on the new building for our gym to expand it, but you'll see same vibe. Oh, of course it is. But bigger ceilings, just...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You've got to stay on top of the field. That's where some trainers, they don't get it. They think, oh, I know basic programming and three sets of 10 kind of stuff. Great, but there's a lot more that goes into it than that. And then you get the trainers who talk about... Well, you're a therapist. You're not a therapist, bro. And you're definitely not a trained therapist.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
The people that you're saying, well, if I had what they had, I would do what they did. You wouldn't. Oh, what else is she doing? She's got all day to work out. No, she doesn't have all day to work out. What's the hack? The hack is hard work, dude. That's the hack. Yeah. Your mom would walk into my gym without looking, without taking inventory of who was there.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So you should leave that out of the equation and let people come to their own decisions. You just have to create a space where the person feels comfortable talking. Most people are going to solve their own problems anyway. And you're definitely not in a position as a trainer to give advice on that. Or you should leave your husband. Are you crazy?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You can't do that because then if they don't, then...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
The fitness part, I was a fat kid. I was in Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old and then I learned about working out and then I learned to connect it to nutrition and it was obviously, you know, we have a mutual friend in nutrition, Dr. Golia, but they go hand in glove and you know that and he jokes that it's 80% nutrition. I joke that it's 80% fitness.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
I think what we can agree upon is the closer you are to your goal, the more nutrition you plays a part and you can't out-train a bad diet, right? So all that falls in line. But I got into that because it was a control thing. As a fat kid, I was a victim. I felt, I can't control this. Why am I so fat? Why do I look like this? Having that control was cool and I just wanted to share it with people.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And I would tell friends, come work out, but they won't or they won't on a regular basis. So then it becomes, you're telling people but without pitching it, right? Like, You're not selling fitness. I tell trainers that all the time. You're not selling fitness. You're selling energy and an experience.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And if your energy speaks to your workout, like I worked out today, I'm 150 years old and I worked out this morning and I was giddy and I came back in the hotel room and my son goes, dad, what's the matter with you? I go, I don't know. I'm just fired up today because I had a great workout. I knew I was seeing you. And I think your exercise program should do that.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And I think as a trainer, you should do that for the people's exercise programs that you program. And they're coming for the energy.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And I was on the cable and I was shouting because that's like my therapy, my catharsis. And I was yelling and swearing. And I finished and the other guy who worked with me, Brad, was there and he starts laughing. And I looked and I saw you walk past and you go, oh, that's nice. And I was just swearing up a storm because that's how I get it out.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
She would go, may I do my Kris Jenner impression? Yes. Good morning, mother. walk through the gym and that's how she lit it up every day and i love it because that matches the energy i have and i love having somebody in there with that so gunner peterson right here
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Do your thing. Four letter mom all day.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So I think that energy is what draws people to it. I think your energy in anything either draws or repels people, whether you're selling widgets or workouts or running an escape room. It's the energy of the people.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
As far as the roster goes, to go back to your question, I was in the right place at the right time. And that's not fake humility. I used to joke, I have great parking. And people go, oh, that's not really right. That's a big part in LA.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
The fact that someone like you or anyone in that rare air can pull in off street, no paparazzi, park, get out of the car where you can't be seen, no cameras, that changes the game, I think, for who's going to come to you. That's appreciated by those. who value that, right? And then they're going to keep coming. And it's a safe space.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And still the man, he did a thing, as did you, and thank you in person, but I've done it on text, for my daughter. Yes. The people like that wrote me back right away. And there's a reason he writes you back because he recognizes what you bring to the table and that you're not...
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
after anything else it's like not asking for a photo I'm not asking for a photo yeah or it's gonna happen or it doesn't whatever but that doesn't change the exchange that doesn't change the time spent right I have people I've trained that I'm still super close with probably don't have any photos of them but that's fine
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And the ceiling quilted in jerseys. Oh, everybody... Super fun.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Deliver on that level. If they know you outside of the gym, maybe they go, oh, he's an asshole. But you try like you're coming for a workout. It should be fun. You're bringing time, energy, money, whatever to that. You want to leave with a perception of value.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So the new gym has a block that's black and yellow and a block that's red, white, and blue. And it just makes it fun, which I had kind of in the old gym that downstairs was morphed into red, white, and blue. You weren't starting that. Pirates and Patriots.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
So I was walking out of a gym. I used to train early morning before the job, and a dude asked me if he could work out with me. And I was like, and the person, the kid I was training with, early morning training partners, as you know, are hard to come by, and they're hard to be consistent, and the kid had not shown up, so I worked out by myself.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And as I'm leaving the gym, this guy asked me to train, and I said, I was kind of like, sure. And I said, but I go early. And he goes, no problem. Then he said, what do you charge? And I was like... Let me get back to you on that.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yeah. Cause I didn't have like, I wasn't a trainer. And then I played cat and mouse training him in a gym as a non-employee, but training him and then trained a buddy of his. And then I started training a woman in the evening. So I do two people in the morning and then go to the regular job production assistant and then go into the gym for my own workout at night. Oh my God.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And then a woman started training and then I started looking at it and I go, I'm making more money training three people three times a week than I'm making for a full week in a regular job.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
No, I guess I was like, probably didn't love the job, but I didn't love the control of the job. And then I started, I met a casting director who I started training and I trained like two or three casting directors. And they worried that I didn't have insurance because I didn't have insurance.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Because I was young and strong and I don't get sick. And I was like, I got Viking blood. I'm not going to get sick. And they're like, you need insurance, Gunnar.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Yes and yes. But they were talking about health insurance. So they would put me in small roles in some of the shows that they were casting.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And then I got SAG insurance. And I kind of coasted like that for a little while. But you do what you can. You're in your 20s. You don't have responsibilities, right? You're not married, no kids, no pets. So you can do what you want, work when you want. And as long as I can control the workflow, as long as I can keep my foot on the gas, I'll go as hard as it takes.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
But you're also in the right, think about it, you're in the right zip code. You're in the place where the people are. Where was your first gym? My first gym was at the house on Tower Road.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Okay, I remember that one. Yep, gutted it and it became a gym and it became, again, it was a safe place for people who can't be, it's not fair, they can't, who it's uncomfortable for them in a public gym. And I get that. People go, oh, why can't they work out? Well, they can, but can you promise me you're not going to go bother them or you're not going to take pictures like this?
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Because that's what people do. And that gets annoying for somebody in your line of work. That's tough.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
It is, but it's fun, and you've already had the, especially when you get called by a studio to train somebody for a role, that's a different responsibility than you've worked with a person for X period of time. They get a role, and they say, okay, here's the role. Here's how I want to tweak that.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
You know, I worked with, name drop, Matthew McConaughey for a lot of years, and he was training for a role. I want to say he was going to be a diver. Mm-hmm. Like a springboard diver and working, working, working. And then he came in one day and he goes, changing the role. That movie fell through. I'm doing a different role.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
And I need to look like the cross between whatever it was, something like a quarterback and a linebacker. And it was the role of in the movie Sahara, the Clive Cussler novel. And he was playing the lead character, Dirk Pitt. And very ironically, I read all those books growing up. Clive Cussler.
Khloé in Wonder Land
Strength Beyond the Gym ft. Gunnar Peterson
Well, that's why I don't gamble. I don't do drugs. I'm afraid of coffee. I know how I would go.