we are ready to rock and roll. Let's get Charlotte on board. All right, please. I'm just trying to prop my phone up. Can you hear me all right? Vienna, you sounding good? Perfect. Right, how are you? Yeah, well, thanks. How are you? Good, yeah, I'm doing well. We had quite a long day of sessions, but it's been great. It's been really good. But you're bringing a slightly unique flavor to this, to the occasions that we have any sports, performance, conversation or personality that we're gonna have. Okay. Before we get started, I thought I'd surprise you with a little something just to set the mood of a lighter tone. Yeah. All right, I've never donned this, but Kara was going through the wardrobe in the day. She says, can we throw this out? And I said, we can't throw it out. So I've never worn it. Do you remember this? We never got to wear these. Hang on a minute. Is it the bomber jacket? This is tagged and all, to show that I've never worn it. So if anyone wants to buy it, real, this is the opening ceremony jacket for the Rio Paralympic Games. It looks really good with the tag on. Looks really good with the tag on. Yeah, like authentic. I never, yep, it's not, they're not actually real pockets. Oh. Wow, that's a throwback. Wow. I was gonna tell you to wear yours. And then we could have been like matchy-matchy. You know what? I don't even know where it is. That's nice, isn't it? I've probably put it, I've got a box of all my stuff that I keep from, like games and stuff. And it's probably been boxed away for a bit of time. But I've definitely still got it, but it's not one I wear, often, shall I say. This sentimental value attached, isn't it? You kind of don't wanna throw it out, but you're never gonna wear it. Yeah, exactly. It's weird. I'm not possibly throw it out, but it will just be in a box for a few years, probably. Right, so let's dig into a bit of background. I've got a load of things I want to talk about. Give us a little bit of an overview. You will do a better job of it than I will do, because I'll just big you up for the next five minutes if I do your bio for you. But Charlotte and I, I've got a little bit of scene assessing and then you can kind of fill in the gaps. Charlotte and I have known each other, probably since about 2008, 2009, we started working together in the build-ups in London, Paralympic Games. Charlotte at that point was a swimmer, and we'll come on to that as well, you're not a swimmer, technically, anymore. But I was Charlotte's training commissioner coach, and then Jaco, when he joined the team, did some work with Charlotte as well, through London, through Rio. And yeah, Charlotte, to give a little bit of context, Charlotte is one of the athletes that have the utmost and highest levels of respect for, because your career has not been a straight linear progression upwards, it's fair to say. But I started to talk to her and that was that we were going to chat tonight. And she said the same thing. She's like, Charlotte's just one of the best examples that we know of resilience. And it's like, I don't know if someone was going to describe your life, when you'd be like, that's the word that people would want you to choose, but it's actually like a really significant thing because it's been such a, your ability to do that has been such a defining quality of your personality and your career, which has got you to where you are now. And now it's like, yeah, it's been really cool. So give us a little bit of context about what you're doing has been like.  There could be worse words to be described by. And I think it's not until you take that time to step back and reflect on your career that actually it is quite a, that's quite an apt word to use. Because like you say, things didn't always go to plan and didn't always go the way I wanted them to. But yeah, I was a swimmer for many, many years. It was a sport that I had jumped from being tiny. And that was because really my disability, I'm a bilateral leg empathy for those that don't know. At the time, it was the early 90s. It was probably one of the only sports that was available to me at the time that allowed or had a bit of a pathway for disabled kids to go down. So it was a hobby. And then when I moved to university, it became something a little bit more serious. That's when I got on a program and funding and everything like that. Went to my first Paralympics in 2008. I was 21, so relatively old in terms of like debut Paralympic games. Since then I was at every major championship for swimming until Rio 2016. And then I had a bit of time out and now I've been involved in Para Canoe for three and three and a half years now. So that's the next part of the journey. Which is going well. Yeah, really well. Yeah, three-time world champion since I moved over, which is not what I expected at all in the first few years. But yeah, it's an amazing challenge and it's a change that I didn't really know that I needed until I did it. And then I was like, okay, this is where I'm supposed to be for the foreseeable future. Yeah. So let's talk about that because that's one thing I really wanted to sort of dive into a little bit. So there's obviously, training as an elite athlete has been compromised by coronavirus, first and foremost. So when you're doing a day-to-day basis, it's shifted massively. Like a lot of people was like, worlds would have been disrupted a little bit. But I think from an athlete's perspective where most people can take their job and they can do it at home or they might have been furloughed or whatever. Some people have lost their jobs, but you're almost not exempt from the pressures of a performance. No, your project is still gonna have the work and your focus is still gonna be delivered, hopefully. So when coronavirus kicks off and then they put the paradigm that gains back a whole year, talk me through what happens when you find that out. Had you seen it coming?  It was a bit of both to be honest because when we went into lockdown, it was a very gradual thing, certainly for performance sport because we had got a bit of an exemption from the government to carry on training as normal as we could. But then when we realized it was becoming too risky for us and everyone else to do that, we gradually start to shut things down so eventually we weren't allowed to go on the water or anything. And at that point, it was when the athlete voice around the world was probably starting to say, a decision needs to be made. Whatever that decision is, we can't just plow on knowing or hoping that the gains will go ahead because it's putting people under your risk and we couldn't train properly so it added that extra stress to then think, well, if I'm not training properly, how's that going to impact my performance? It would have been four or five months for the Olympic guys and only six for us. So we wanted the decision but then when it came, it didn't make it any easier to deal with even though we knew it was the right decision. And obviously, from a coaching perspective, you write training programs that are planned around a particular point that you wanna achieve something. And so our four years has been sort of structured around performing to our best this September. So obviously to extend that by an extra 12 months was a massive challenge for everyone. They were sort of squirrelling away, trying to rewrite macros and everything like that. So it was a challenge but we used to things not going the way that we want them to and it's just an added hurdle that we've got to get over to get to the games next year now. Yeah. Did you feel a sense of disappointment? I'm sorry if you can't hear this, just started from the storm. Yeah, it's just finished here. Yeah, yeah, I can hear you fine. I just weigh down from Mansfield. Did you feel a sense of disappointment or was it more like an opportunity or like, cause you were peeking, like you're looking good, right? So you just caught back with a really successful championship. That's really like exactly from the sport perspective where you want that springboard into the games and all of a sudden like, okay, I've got to do that again now. Today we're going to springboard again. How do you feel about that? It was exactly that. It was, you know, there was disappointment. There was the worry that we sort of planned everything like you say to springboard to this summer and you know, there was always that sort of, well, what if next year doesn't go the way that this year has and what if we don't get it right next year? And I think that was something that we always knew we were going to have to contend with once it canceled the games. Everybody's kind of going, well, what if I'm not fit next year?  So it's definitely something you have to deal with. But I tried to kind of flip it round as, you know, this year we'd got halfway through the season. We hadn't quite got to the racing part of the season, but the training over the winter had gone really well. So there's not a huge amount that we want to change next year, which is I kind of have to look at it in the way if we've had a dry run and it was going really well. So why wouldn't it go the same way next year if we do the same thing, but just try and push it on? And so then I started to be really excited about it because I've only been doing the sport for three and a half years. So, you know, how much more can we push it on if I've got an extra year behind me and I've got an extra year of experience. And I think that's been the whole thing with this lockdown is trying to take the things that haven't gone quite well or the things that we can't do and focus on something that we can improve because of the circumstance. And it might be something that we don't get chance to work on on a daily basis when everything's normal because we're going full steam ahead with what we've planned. But there might be other areas we've not explored that now we have the luxury to explore. And that's really exciting. Yeah. And what does that look like for you?  Well, it goes back to that stuff. And I post about it a lot and it goes back to the work that we did when we were working together. And yes, it's the traditional land-based work and the gym-based work has strength and all of that. But in both the sports I've done, it's really important for me to understand how the top half and the bottom half of my body are working together. And so being able to go back to some of that calisthenics work to really strip it back to understanding how my shoulders and my hips and what leg I have all work in tandem to kind of create this sort of system that allows me to put down that strength. So it's been really nice to go back to the basics in a way and movement skills and just that understanding has been great. And because I've not been plowing down to the water all the time and I've not been able to go in the gym, so it's been, what can we do with the equipment I've got at home? And is it just in case you get the Swiss ball out and starting to do some movement and understanding that? Yeah, I'm going to move out of the conservatory. I wonder what that was. Absolutely. That's okay. Linging it down. Hang on a minute, but I was going to put a light on in here. Oh, it's fine. Yeah, so that's like a really interesting point because we brought calisthenics into your kind of training program a little bit sort of when we were, I don't know, like probably years out of the Rio cycle. Just we often get a lot of questions from people who are in swimming, particularly, about what the potential benefits of training like that or like what's been your experience of using like calisthenics for a sport to form a sport? I think to me, certainly when I was at swimming, it was because swimming is a bit of one of those funny sports where, yes, you've got to do gym work, but you ask any swimming coach and the swimming is the priority and it's the lion's share of what you do in your week. So for me, we kind of understood after a few years working together that that right balance of gym and water work was perhaps not smashing the weights in the gym because it meant that I couldn't perform in the water, but like I said, to strip it back and understand those real, specifically around my shoulder and all of the shoulder stability work and when you stripped it back and we kind of looked at the body position of where I was in the water and understanding the weight distribution between the top half and the bottom half because I'm top heavy, because my legs don't weigh as much. So it was how we worked on that and we challenged that in different positions, didn't we? Like we worked through the handstand work, which eventually we're doing on a voce, I think in the end and really challenging that instability, but keeping that kind of base and that kind of core part of my body position strong. And I think it just helped that I was able to do a handstand already. So we could sort of explore a bit more and kind of try a few different things, which was great and it was really helpful and just broadened that understanding, which I think I got to that point in my career that I wanted to understand that what I was doing was going to transfer to the water and that did absolutely.  Was it part of what they were doing already or did you bring it in and be like, I've got this stuff that I think it's pretty cool? I don't know whether they did it already to be honest, but certainly in Parakunu, it's much more winter training and summer training just because in the winter, we can't be outside as much because of the weather. So the winter summer difference is much greater than when I was swimming. So the winter period when we're really working on strength and capacity and things like that is when we can explore a little bit more on land. So we have sessions programmed into our week, which aren't gym and they're not water, we call it robustness, which is essentially injury prevention, it's strengthening shoulder capacity, it's working on rotation and things like that. And that's where we kind of put in a bit of, we do some bit of bars work and some boaty work, we do a lot of balance work. And so that's where it kind of slots in really nicely in my little blocks. Yeah, I think that's it. And that's what's amazing, I think, is that as we continue to have conversations around sports performance in calisthenics, particularly around stuff with shoulder, like we've done some stuff with Scottish rugby and we're doing some work with artists, the guys, the sprints and athletics company in the States, it is that exact piece of going, well, let's talk about the shoulder and where physio kind of lets off or finishes and where strengthening condition traditionally starts. And there's a piece in the middle where we're missing, like we can scale strength, and we have a hard time like scaling stability. So for people that are sort of like interested in, there's so many people getting in touch and I've got issues with shoulders, obviously I mind me and Jack have got our own history. Tell us a bit about what your history of shoulders was like and how kind of, what they like then, how calisthenics changed it? Because there was some periods of time where your shoulder was on an, I used to describe it as a knife edge. Yeah. Like real borderline. Yeah, yeah. And I think you look at any swimmer's shoulders and they're probably 40 years older than the age of the swimmer. And I think towards the end of my swimming career is we're having real trouble with impingement and just real grotty pain whenever I was trying to put any power through the stroke. And like you said, it was getting to the point where I was losing days and days in the water because I just couldn't plow through the pain and it wasn't worth it. And I had two MRIs on both, I had MRIs on both my shoulders in probably that last year. And I remember the radiographer or radiologist kind of getting me into a room and he was like, well, there's nothing hugely wrong with your shoulders. Of course, when I first looked at them, there was so much like scar tissue and past injuries that he said, if I didn't know that you were a swimmer, I would have been really shocked by it, but just the amount of stress that you put through your shoulders on your swimmer is enormous. And it's relentless repetitions of being overhead, which is a horrible place to put that force down. And we're doing it for four hours a day some days.  But when we were working together and we kind of started working on that, engaging the scat properly and making sure that I wasn't kind of in those awful shoulder positions and working on posture and the real basic stuff, you know, your rotations, the internal external rotation work. We know, I think there was one exercise that we did wasn't it, where it was just like an isometric hold against a wall to try and strengthen that just to hold it there and not allow my shoulders to kind of pop forward and let my pecs do everything. And that, I didn't understand that until we started breaking it down and taking it back to that sort of, you know, understanding what the shoulder does and how important it is to everything else below it. And that was a real eye opener for me. And it changed kind of everything because we kind of got on top of it, didn't we? We managed it, which was what we needed to do. Yeah, it's been an interesting thing because we jacked out in the podcast a couple of weeks ago and I had a bit of some information, my tendon, you know, it's from my own back end of last year into January and I was starting to get some like, I was jumping overhead a little bit and what happened is I kind of overloaded and underloaded it in previous to Christmas. So I went away for three weeks, didn't really do a lot on it. And then it just kind of started to get a bit niggled. But the interesting thing about it was that I probably had warning signs of it for about six months before, but it wasn't that bad that I didn't do anything about it. I think it was kind of like as well that it wasn't moving great. But then like, when I came back, I kind of tried to rehab it a little bit, spent some time with it, with a session with a physio friend of mine and Gemma Jefferson, you know, Gemma. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course. So, but then I did the same process as what you did. And when we were talking on a podcast with Jack, I just rattled through it, I was like, oh yeah, stripped it back, found out where I was tight. Did a little bit of ice age activation and built the pattern back up and now it's fine. And it's that, it's understanding that process of the shoulder requires so much neuromuscular control and precision. But you can't, you can't fix very often, I should probably say, you can't fix a problem shoulder just by training global movement. Like you've got to go back. And what I'd lost was a lot of like just that fine motor control around the shoulder, external rotation and being able to bring the joint head or the head of the humus into the socket. Without, like you said, just cracking into lats and pecs because like, boom, just going to be strong. But it's, sure, I can remember you getting like properly frustrated with that work because you don't feel like you're doing anything, but for whatever reason, you can't do it. And it's really not. Yeah, it's so true and it is. And I think because in my head, I couldn't, at the start of it, get my head around. Like you say, I feel like I was doing anything. And I thought, well, how is this helping? I'm not, I don't feel tired. I don't feel that gym kind of, oh, I'm so tired of work really hard. I didn't feel that. But like you rightly said, I was so frustrated because I couldn't do what you were asking of me. And I was literally, it was moved the TheraBand from here to here without doing, and I just could not do it. And it was like, it's the most simple movement but understanding where that you initiate that movement was so tricky to me. And it does take a real patience and willingness to work through something that perhaps doesn't always feel easy, or even though it's very basic, it's quite hard to plow through that. But obviously it's hugely worth it. And the work that it's doing is massive without you really realizing it. Yeah. I hope this was referred to say that we were trying to do that work on a Friday morning after you've probably done about eight swim sessions that week. Yeah. Probably not always in the, after the swim session, you're not always in the greatest frame of mind to be like, just tired now.  Yeah, and I was like, oh, I just went in an hour and 45 minutes and then I've got to quickly get changed and come straight in the gym.  But yeah, I think the energy levels might have been a bit different on an afternoon at the start of the week. Yeah, I'm sure. I've just seen it as soon as he signed in. So, you know, swimming with your friends. So with all that sort of short shot, like obviously, I remember one time we were shoulder wear it was probably one of the more kind of nerve-wracking times for me. And I don't know whether we ever really kind of verbalize it, but you kind of picked the niggle the Christmas or the December before the games, I think, in, which is going to be the following September. I can remember just being like, I'm where we're like, this is a little bit kind of borderline, but, and this is kind of what I wanted to get some of your takeaways on. Like, you've been through a number of different processes through your career wear or time periods where you've kind of had to kind of properly do that process of regrouping. And I just be interested, I'm not going to, I don't want to lead you in any direction on that one.  Or I don't know where the way out is because you've always managed to kind of climb, pick your way through quite a bit of complex situations. Yeah. I mean, again, I think it's a challenge of any athlete if you're going to put your body through what you put your body through, you expect to have niggles and things that affect the daily routine, which then affects the mind because we love to know that that consistency is there. So it's what gives us the confidence when we step out onto the field of play. And I remember working with Jaco when I was doing the psychs of with him and he used to say, if you can step out to race knowing that you've done everything that you possibly can, you're in the best possible place to perform. And obviously training disruption through injury starts to get into your head of, well, I'm missing out on XYZ. So then when you come to race, you think, well, have I done everything that I can because I've been so plagued by days where I've had to have old sessions or I've had to have a few days off for whatever reason. And it's really tricky to navigate that. But I think I got better at it as I got older. And I think I started to understand that it was part and parcel of what I did. And I think that's when we kind of stripped everything back. And we actually worked out what I needed to do versus what we thought I needed to do. And that in turn had a massive impact on those injuries and things that were affecting me physically and mentally, stripping it back to, well, the textbook says that we should do XYZ at this point of the season. But actually for you, it doesn't seem to be working. This is when we always get injured or this is when we pick up a niggle that, you know, is there any need to do this? Is that affecting the body? And so when we started to play around with things, then that was when it gave me that ability to sustain a level of training that wasn't enough. And I think that that was part of having those honest conversations with everybody that was around me and making sure that everybody was on the same page, coach, S&C coach, psych, physio, me. We were all singing from the same hymn sheet and that allowed me to navigate those slightly tough times with, well, actually we just need to have faith in what we've planned and it will come good eventually. It's not easy at the time, but I think once you understand that everybody's fighting for the same cause, it makes it so much easier to work through those rubbish types. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think it's interesting for people that are sort of listening to this and not in an elite sport environment and going, what does that look like for me? And it's just like when we're in an elite sport setting, we just lay a more complexity onto it because it's basically more of a take effectively. We have to perform because for the athlete, for the team, for the country, whatever it might be that we're involved in that conversation. Well, I think for most people, there's a couple of things that you said there, if they're like training calisthenics, the training sport, whatever it might be that they're just enjoying it and they're a recreation athlete, that those times are stripping back and working out what you actually need to do. Because it's so easy to add more all the time. But actually we're gonna be the most beneficial things. Like you said, get back to what do I really need to do but then also be very clear on what you want out of it. And I think you got to that point where you've actually started to refine those processes. You had a very clear goal. You knew what time you had to swim. You knew what you needed to do. What was interesting for all of us is when we did less, you swung faster. I was like, this is not how it's supposed to work. No, I know. I'm doing the feeling, yeah, she's getting quicker. Yeah, yeah. And that's something that I think as I got older and I got through my career and I mean, I think there was this five seasons, I think that I never swam a personal best. And I was winning medals at majors but I was never getting faster. And that was a real grind and how I kept going through that, I have no idea. But I think I always knew in the back of my mind that there was more to give. It was just finding the way to get it. And that was when we stripped it back and actually, I think it was five years and not PV'd and then when we finally got the mixture right, I think I PV'd three times in three weeks or something ridiculous like that. It was like, it was a six-week period that I kind of went from being just completely flatlined to going way quicker than ever gone before and like I was doing less and it was just finding that right balance that worked for me. And I think that's really important, especially when you can kind of get caught up in what everyone else is doing and it's something that I apply now to canoeing and I've got that benefit of experience and I've got that benefit of knowing what essentially went wrong at swimming and now I'm eager to not make that mistake at canoeing and it's about training smart rather than lashing myself into the ground and not being able to get out of the hole that I put myself in and that's hard to get your head around sometimes when it doesn't feel like you're doing a great deal but you have to have faith in that it's the thing to do and that's something that I'm so thankful that I went through that and had that period where we had to think slightly differently because it's been a godsend for the rest of my career, for sure. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think that's a really important takeaway for people to go through that process on a regular basis. Because we kind of get the fitness industry or pull us into the process of thinking you've got to be the hardest worker in the room. You've got to do more than everybody else and that's how you get better. The physiology of tellers are actually like and even as an athlete, because you constantly got that pressure of so my competitors might be doing more than me. But I think it's when that maturity that you're talking about now is going, you know what, they might be doing more but if I'm doing it smarter, I haven't got to do as much and that's the whole thing you need to do is as little as possible to get the most amount of change and when you get that right, then you're going to be in a good place. Absolutely. It's not to say it's not difficult. You know, there's still days where I think, whoa, I wonder what such and such doing and should I be doing that? But it's then having the ability to have those conversations with the people that are around you, whatever that may be and whoever that may be and float those ideas, you know, do I need to be doing this? And if not, why not? I think I want to understand why I'm training. I don't want to do anything if I don't think it's going to better me because why would I do that? So I think knowing that and having that freedom to talk to someone and have that conversation, do we need to do this? What about this? Can we try this? Yes, no, maybe let's try it for now. That's crucial to any sort of upward trajectory in my mind. I always love that about working with you. Is that you would always like, but I always wanted to use the name, why I chose this. Why? It was just such a good relationship because I would always like from that perspective when I come and say, this is what I'm thinking. I would obviously be quite open about that. But then you did the same thing of coming back and going, you weren't afraid to go see why we're doing this or is this the right way to do it? Or the stuff we're doing in the water is not complimenting what we're doing here. And I remember, I'll never forget one time when you said to me, and this was probably a game-changing point for me. It was like, you know what I feel really good in the water at the beginning of the season? And I'm like, what do we do at the beginning of the season? We do loads of lightweights and loads of high reps before we get bogged down at Hedberg. And then we went, all right, let's just do loads of that. And that was a turning point. But it was that honest conversation around what does it look like? What do I need to do? And what's going to work. So the question before we start to wrap it up a little bit was just around loads of people, because they love training and particularly because calisthenics is addictive, they want to do more of it, but it's quite high intensity. They find themselves pick-up niggles and you've had issues with elbows before, with wrists before, with shoulders, like super common injuries in calisthenics. What is your advice to people who are thinking that they might have a bit of something going on, but they don't really want to acknowledge it? And then also, what does you learn from like, you got quite good at getting over injuries? Talk to me a little bit around identifying injuries and then also dealing with them. So identifying them, I'm the first person to, and I've been injured since I've been at canoe and now it's not shoulders, it's ribs and back because of the rotational element, but it's the same sort of thing. And I think the more you can know your body of what's normal for you is the first thing, because I know that when I do a certain amount of, certainly now in canoeing, it's whenever we change our training block, my back flares up, I know that now and we can almost prepare for it before it happens, but I wouldn't have known that had I not become very in tune with how my body responds to such. So I think the biggest thing is to know your body of what's normal and what isn't. And that can be really hard to start with, to know what's normal and what isn't. And it's have that conversation with, I don't know if you've got a physio or you've got a sports massage person or whatever it is that kind of gets your body through the training, that's the first port of call. And chat it through and don't ignore it because I've done it and thought, well, that's not quite right, but I'll be okay. And then I've carried on training on it and it only has made it worse. And then the time recovery is five times as long or whatever, but once you've got that experience of knowing what's normal for you, it makes it so much easier to identify things and alter things before problems get too much of a problem if that makes sense. But yeah, it's tough, it's really tough. But I just kind of got to the point where I was like, I've put in my body through the ringer, it's not a machine, it's gonna give at some point and it's how you can sort of reduce the give point as much as possible and know when to push and when to say, actually, this is enough for now, like we need to just reset and recover and go again. But it's tough, it's really tough. It's that same thing that I think the point you make about knowing what your body's like and so to know yourself and then also just listening because you get plenty of warning signs. It's rare that you get to the door where it just goes, bang. And you're also okay, it's a traumatic injury, maybe contact base is a bit different, we're talking non-contact injuries. You get the signals for quite some time. Oh, absolutely. You're just not doing anything about it. Yeah, and that's the thing. I mean, it's not just to do with injuries, but it's a big thing I've learned is fatigue levels and case in point this week, we work on three week cycles with two heavy weeks and a D-load week and I was on a D-load week last week and this week was supposed to where it ramps up again and I didn't feel recovered enough after my D-load week. I just normally it sorts me out, but I got to Monday and I thought, I still feel tired and I could have plowed through it the whole week as it was written, but I had those conversations on Monday and we changed things up and we altered things for the rest of the week and yesterday I had a gym session planned in and I started it and I was 15 minutes in and I thought I won't be able to finish this to the standard that it needs to be finished. So what am I getting out of it? Just plowing away at that fatigue level, which then come Monday morning, it'll come back to bite me in the behind. So what's the point in pushing through it? So after a few minutes of going, oh, I really should do this gym session, but I don't think I can get anything out of it. I actually listened to my body, which was telling me I needed to rest and it's tough, it's really hard when you want to do more and you feel like you should do more, but listening to your body about not only injury but resting recovery is so important. It's as important as the training. Great advice, I think that's a good one to sort of people to take away, to take home. So what's training look like now?  So we can go into our training environment gradually. So tomorrow there's four of us, I think that are allowed on the lake. We're kind of the first people in and it's all very regimented, temperature checks on before we travel to train in and everything because we're essentialised programming so we all train in the same venue, which is a bit of a hotbed for the virus if someone wants to bring it in. So we're being really stringent on access in and out the water and boats being cleaned down every time we've used them and gradually reintegrating back to training on the water. Jim probably will take a little longer because that's an environment that just sharing equipment is tricky. It's probably actually where coronavirus started in a gym somewhere. It wasn't in the Wuhan food market. Exactly. It was probably the gym. I know. It was fit somewhere. Yeah, so that's a bit challenging but we've got what we can at home to... I've ruined one of my patio slabs by dropping a dumbbell on it in the first week of lockdown because I'm gym training out in my garden. But if we can get back out on the water that's one step towards slight normality, which would be great because we've not been... I think it'd be 10 weeks so we've not been on the water so that just to get the feel back will be key. Yeah. I can't remember. I wanted to... The thought is coming to my mind about the phrase that I've heard that I really liked. I need to remember it. But it was this idea that like you've got to keep training so that you're always ready because we still don't know what's going to happen. Like how long this is going to take. Yeah. Rather than trying to get ready just trying to be ready all the time. Yes, that's probably like the only mindset that you guys can dox them on because we don't know what normal is going to look like. We don't even know what games might look like next year. Well, exactly. Yeah. And we've had our training... We've had our entire season cancelled basically. We're not going to get to race at all this year. So that's tough because we've done some really good work and we're not going to even get to the domestically race I don't think just to give ourselves a run out. Which is tough. But we've got a nice block running into the end of our season which it would be coming into the end of our season now. And we're just going to get fit and we're changing the mindset of normally we're going fast but let's work on that base engine which, you know, I'm fortunate to have a pretty good engine from swimming anyway. So just need to get the more petrol going round it which would be great. And it's a different stimulus. It's a different challenge but as far as we know the games are going ahead almost exactly a year later. So we've just got to get through to October which is the start of our season normally and then we know what that looks like from October onwards. We know what the year is going to be. We know when our trials are going to be. We know when our peaks have got to be. So we've just got to get through to the start of a season that will look like something we've already seen before. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Two comments coming through.  I was like, wow, I never thought maybe it's probably you. Look, Priya, I think it is, lockdown haircut it's like when you commit to a haircut like this and then you get locked inside for 12 weeks. There's only one way it's going. Like it doesn't do anything else. No. Give me a break on it. Is that not cut at all from... Is that no trim or anything? The car is back in the size we just left the top which you've now... It worked alright for a while. Johnny Bravo for a bit, but now it's equine problematic. Yeah. Mark Shardlow's on, thanks, Mark, nice to hear from you. And then also somebody called Ox Strong Health used to swim with you, Charlotte. Says you were absolute world class and I would agree with that, Joe. OK, that's Nathan, yeah, he used to swim at Nova. Amazing. Right, so that was everything. Thank you so much for that. I just wanted to... I was laughing at me now, I know it. People are like, why don't you shave it off when I can't? I haven't got the right kind. Imagine moving the bald head, it just wouldn't work, would it? I'm not, yeah. I don't think I've ever seen you with any other hair, but some form of that. Well, what else can you do? I think you just grow it out. That's our guy's hair. I don't know. No hope, yeah, definitely keep it like that. Yeah. That's what guys do. You get a good haircut and you stick with it. Like, it's... You're not going to be messing about long, short.  Oh, yeah. We're also terrified of changing barbers, in case they don't get it right. Also true. Yeah. So thank you for that sharing, you're... I think you, like I said, there's so much experience of being in the game as a full-time athlete. How long has your career been now, would you say, at the world-class level? So, I raced my first international for GB when I was 17 and I'm 33 now, so 16 years. Yeah. Yeah, so you've done it. There's not much you've not done in that time. So I encourage everybody to take on board what Charlotte said, and I think, even if you are not in a performance environment, just spend some time thinking about what it looks like for all of us, and whether that's surrounding yourself with coaches that can help, get advice from people, training groups, whatever it might be, communities that you're part of. But, yeah, take an honest look at your training and take some of this stuff on board, because Charlotte learns it the hard way. So, you have to take the benefit from her advice. It's been so nice to catch up with you as a senior. I always always say, we're trying to come and get together for coffee, but the only thing that lockdown has done for me is it's put the brakes on. So I'm now going to create some more time in my diary to actually do the things that are going to be more sort of... Well, I think it's done that for everyone, hasn't it? It's made you kind of reassess a few things and slow down and prioritise what's important. So, if there's going to be a benefit that comes out of it, I hope it's that. And what's going to happen to, like, one thing we've not talked about, music industry or musicals... Oh! Like, Charlotte is a very big stage theatre fan. I am. I don't know. It's the same as, you know, a lot of the environments that are to do with theatre and things, it's very people in very close proximity. It's kind of similar to gyms and places like that. It's not an easy environment to start back up again. So I think it's going to be a bit of time before something like that comes up. But again, similar to the fitness industry, there's been so much sharing of knowledge and experience online. And a lot of performers I've seen have been doing stuff online, the same as people doing workouts together online. So I think it's definitely created a bit of community. It's just not quite the same as being all together in the room. But yeah, I know I miss the theatre very much, but hopefully at some point, I'll be able to get back. It'll be a strange moment. It'll be like sport where you've got every three seats empty. The same as theatre. It's going to be a strange world for them. I did see the clip from New Zealand. They think they had a rugby match yesterday. And it made me a bit emotional, actually, seeing like a proper stadium with a match and a crowd. It was like, it feels so long since I've seen that or experienced it. It's something that kind of gives me that buzz. And, you know, to not be able to have that is massive. So hopefully at some point in the near future, that'll be back. All right, well, I hope the next few weeks goes well. Integrating back into training, you get back on the water and then you enjoy wiping your boat down with antiseptic wipes. Oh, I know. That and me, yeah. All right, thank you so much for joining us, Charlotte. It's been good to see you. Thank you, Tim. See you later. Take care. See you later. Bye-bye.


This is the only bed. I'm keeping this bed for the rest of my life Popping welcome back to another. Well, you're gonna see I'm ponytail Okay, cool. So anyway, y'all if you're new here. Hey girl, my name's cover. Do not forget to like come subscribe So today Sunday, it's gonna be another big busy errands shopping for the home Day, but today I'm about to go to pottery burn because I tested out that bowl that I bought in the last bug and It just doesn't Fit, you know, it's too big. So I'm gonna show y'all what I put out here Show y'all so this was what? The shape thing I was looking for at West Elm, but this is what my mom found at Hobby Lobby with these little feather things or whatever just cuz my Liberal and furniture is gonna be like neutral I want neutral colors, but like black in like neutrals if that makes sense. So those little Feather things that's gonna bring it out. So it's not all I'm black in here and the bowl was just too big It wasn't doing this thing for it. It would just have to be Set on a big table or my should I just keep it for the table? the bowl So today I'm going to try and find a mattress today's agenda mattress risers and Also a table to go right here I've seen one my mom picked it out and It looks cute So we're gonna see if we can go see it in person So yeah, I think it looks real cute y'all So Yeah, it's gonna be so kidding. Yeah, I can't wait to then But yeah, I'm about to go to Lennox first because I need to go get some earrings and I need to go get These shoes cuz I have no shoes y'all. I have nothing here So Yes, so that is what Today is gonna consist of finding all these items. So yeah, I'll probably check in with y'all once I get to these stores so Let's get it It's the ponytail for me. I gotta take a picture with this ponytail y'all. So that's why I'm getting shoes So I can take a Content from my Instagram. So yeah Thank you Wow Sit on this but it's still firm and it's only 15 99 Yeah, so I'm looking for a mattress too as well like I just showed you and then 20% off Oh This is I need one of these I'm trying to pick out a mattress How do you feel? It's it don't put your feet on it Hmm that one I don't feel the same definitely a difference What's the difference between mediums?   I think she snores. No, I don't. Oh, yes, you do. You're lying. Oh You snore No, I don't I'll take that. I have allergies. You do have allergies. Hey, and are you tossing and turning a lot right now? Yeah, cuz I'm on the air mattress. Okay. Did you just move? Yeah, that's exciting to alpha-redder. No, it's a Atlanta So the way we coordinate the story is separated by three different types Everything on this side here is gonna be our specialty beds in the middle here This is gonna be like your traditional traditional inner spring and then on the left here. These are gonna be your hybrids That's gonna be like half from half clothes So we can try to make sure of all three you can kind of tell me which one you like the best Okay, do you typically like some of the softer medium so I tried this one. I just tried this one over there This seal hybrid Okay, yeah, um, so you like that hybrid Okay, so we can show you can look at a couple of like that and you do you have a certain price Please don't say with me. No, you just want something as long as it's comfortable, but I do want to say I mean, yeah So my I mean we have every like best ball. We don't sell furniture I Do you want to show you to is our base option that can come on any mattress in the store? So it's a part of our promotion right now. So I definitely want to show it to you Go ahead and hop on this bed here here. What's a base option? Um, so it's basically like what goes at the bottom of the bed. Oh, you mean the Real no, no, not just the base. Yeah, let's lie on your bed Just protect your feet right here. Mom. Do you want to get over here? No, no, but shoes on the bed I don't like. Okay. Lift your shoes. Lift your shoes up. Oh, yes. Yeah That's Nancy. We in a pandemic you spray these you spray these beds, right? Yes, man. Okay Okay, so This is the exact matches I sleep on at home. So I like mine a little bit softer too. How's this one too? It is So So you naturally have a curvature in your spine when you lean flat you're stretching that curve out when your body's adjusted A chance to contact to that curvature Because another one doctor recommended the way to sleep is on our backs. It's just most of us camp will begins to happen We begin to feel tension pulling on our lower backs. I'm eating human reactions into go to our sides So this is going to do as I lift your legs up This will take the pressure. Oh, yeah So this will take the pressure off of your lower back like so and as I slightly elevate your head This is going to help the acid reflux Acne if you snore this takes pressure leaf off of the chest and it's a lot easier for you to breathe But if your bed comes with like, uh, you know sideboards and stuff Yep, so you have slacks on the inside those slacks just come out and this base is going to sit directly inside Oh, yeah, so any better these days are comfortable to work with an adjustable base This position here is actually going to put your body to perfect spawn alignment. This position is called zero gravity One of these Because with sinuses I have to sleep Yeah, I need one of these bad boys and then they can't sit out like a chair So we'll do gonna be my present read books in bed. Oh on your laptop Yes, I work on my laptop so you could sit all the way up like sit all the way up like that And so how does the mattress itself feel for you? You like it and so yeah, this is so this is the number one doctor recommended with see now was cool about this match I know you mentioned you like sleeping cold. This is actually one of the coolest matches in the market You can feel it to the touch. So this is actually Yep, it looks like you from your body and effectively cool you down as well So this is a very very popular option, but especially if you like it soft I love it because it's like with the base. She's on now. We need a king. I'm so sorry King 399 and then if she got it with the base it'd be With the base is the base is an additional 999. So this will be like 53 You ain't gonna put one so that's with the coupon. Oh, so it's $300 off of this price here And it's just $300 as well. So this don't come with no box brings this though You don't need a box spring. So this is the box spring. It's the base Uh-huh, you don't tell box without kind of the older way of technology, right? Of a box for now you get an adjustable base, but it acts as a box. Yeah, I think this will be a good investment though I mean cuz I can't cuz I work from home. Do you really?  Um, this I yeah, yeah Let me see. Do you see how it's not it's sturdy So as a back sipper you need that sturdy support by the size see for you to give So you'll get that give here off the shoulders And so purple four is gonna have four layers of this grid purple three It's gonna have three layers of this grid and purple two will have two layers Mm-hmm purple four is gonna be like the most pressure leaving so it's gonna feel a lot softer So you'll probably like purple four a little bit more now isn't gonna feel like anything that you try before Y'all should have eggs around here though we used to The grid Just tell me how do you like it compared to the temperature I mean it goes in more on your back On your side it'll go in but on your back. What does it do like these things in more? Oh? Can you get the just the base with this too and I'll go earth earth. Well, I don't like how you You don't like that Yeah, okay, if I lay down, I might go asleep. I'm tired. I'm tired of Atlanta wherever I mean So time repeating they're like they're like Apple so they're never on sale. They're always the same name same They're actually on sale so I There's another one in my phone I think it's from what's down to I told you we're gonna draw off tonight. I want me to get this number You're not gonna You can do whatever you want to do, but it's not gonna look good because nothing's gonna equal so you guys gonna have three I Want three But this over here, I don't want this Like but really strategize of like what it's gonna go in here I'm Is the next day and I am here at American Signature early Because I'm gonna try and order my table and also the mattress place She's smack that I'm getting my mattress room. It's over here too. So I'm gonna order that So, yeah, and that's the plan for today so far. I have to be in I'll probably check which I want I get in the stores after she eat her food So, yeah, we're in for the sales associate that I'm working on it But I love the color of this mirror, but it's not for sale but I might get the one I seen In the other blog the big one Now looked at two glam, but it really is not too long to me honestly, but I love the color of this But I think it's not for sale because it's crap Area so it's gonna be so cute just I just wanted to show you I like Yeah, I haven't ordered it yet, but obviously cuz I'm waiting for my table just to see Y'all so this is the bed I'm getting I'm never buying a bed again.  So I work home. I miss from home, obviously and I do have like an office But majority of the time if I don't feel like getting up I do work from my bed and then sometimes I'll put my laptop over here and Like it's annoying But here I can just look at my head look at my legs relax kick back edit work do all that so I'm cool and this one is I sweat when I sleep a lot. So this one is supposed to be like cold Um So, yeah, so I'm supposed to go over there and head over to order my mattress So it's been a little later We came back home and I thought I had a laser hair removal appointment today, but apparently not because the laser hair removal that I was going to I don't know why It still had me an assistant for Brookfield where I used to go And it was supposed to transfer me today and lean on one. I don't know why But yeah, so I'm waiting for them to call me if they don't call me I'm probably have to call them in the morning to send an appointment, but they're supposed to call me But anyways, I'm gonna show you a little Sephora hop before I get to do my makeup because I got it to the picture for this company and posted and also I gotta do Instagram story as well gonna not post too out. So but I want to show you what I got from Sephora. So Y'all I have a lot of points for Sephora and I have been getting I've been really young I love the glass straws and I was hyped that this store had The straws and this is the Sephora at Lenox. So with my rules, I got two of these I don't I have one set in my thing. So when I start making my drinks at home, I mean, you know a little glass straw I like the glass over the middle honestly because metal just But anyways, I also got a new beauty blender Cuz I have lost my other one, but then I had to get this tan one. I don't know this tamas seems more safe Then my black one. So I had to get that and then also I got this with my points This Dior dream skin anti-age something skin corrector See how that work cuz you know, we're gonna start early with the skin, you know So we can look young forever. So then I got this Natasha Denona Matt concealer Brie was telling me about this the other night So I wanted to try that out because you know assists always flawless and I also did get the milk makeup The hydro groups that refresh break y'all I have this it's my second bottle I love how because I have a matte face But this actually like just brings it out like my makeup at the end of the day and like allows the makeup to stick and Sometimes when I sleep in my makeup, don't sleep in your makeup. My makeup still be popping. And so I Had a re-up on this and then I also had a re-up on the Lord Mercier banana powder I don't know where my banana powder is. I mean this is honey.  Yes, honey the honey translucent powder y'all this powder is And I'll even while I'm using the translucent one cuz I haven't I don't know where this one went So, um, yeah, I'm about to do my makeup get ready to take this picture I woke up at like six and Grow I'm just so tired, but I got me some coffee y'all y'all are all Asked me what kind of coffee is this? Cuz I uploaded it on my Instagram story y'all This is just a regular vanilla latte with vanilla sugar-free vanilla and almond milk. That's a like Simple coffee. So anyways, I love your makeup. I said so I'll probably check them with y'all once I Enjoy y'all like the process Hey y'all is the next day and we are another day Today is um, what's today? Tuesday forever and a day Yeah, it feels like forever, but today my mom made a list for me of the stuff we have to get such a workout, but um, yeah, so I'm on my way to He's trying Yeah, get something to eat get a green juice I'm gonna try and order my mirror for my you know in the living area like in the outer area and then And I might as well just get my mirror from there And that's where I want to get my beauty room here And I might be looking for a rug today for my beauty room and today we're ordering the IKEA thing that y'all have seen me play around with in the video and I'm gonna order my Entryway nook today, and we're gonna try and find a mirror to go above it and then What else I got to order But yeah, we've been looking at what my mom's been looking for that table and trying to find it because we can't order it Y'all like hey But just because of COVID and the pandemic like we live in and I live in Atlanta now You see Elena is wide open like nothing is closed like you can go out to eat and stuff like that But other states like you can I guess I'm locked down Everybody in the house, but here So, um, but yeah, that's what today consists of and Yeah, my bed tomorrow My back hurts I don't get no good sleep. That's why I wake up so early Like I go to sleep late, but I wake up early like last night.  Like what what are you talking about? She was like, I'm the mom He was like, she was like, I'm just helping her He was like you're the mom My girlfriend would not be looking like me But yeah, y'all so I'll check with y'all once we get to the stores and stuff We're just going to clean juice regular program, you know Regular program. Wait till y'all see me trust. Hey, miss mama So I'm at this dye and furniture Well, yesterday we was having a problem with finding a couple things With my table but today I had the same problem with the mirror that I want in my like living space Um, but we ought to find this dealer or whatever So she can sorry so she can order the mirror that I want like outside of in my living room to go with my decor And she doesn't have it here at the store. This is statin's Home furniture y'all it's really some a lot of furniture stores here out here. Um And this one is the starting Home furniture.  I need it to be as The mirror. Okay, but I'm about to show y'all what it looks.  Let me show y'all Hold on.   So Yeah, bro But it's some cute stuff in here y'all I'm about to go around the store. I'll show y'all Ma Ma She's still placing the order It's cute Them pillows over there is cute. I gotta show you what to All those are cute You think the but that will be too much cream These pillows at this place are bomb like So many good like cute pillows that you can put on your couch or Or in your bedroom to get to that hotel field because that's what I'm really going for That's cute, but I like the other one better. I like this one. Yeah that one Or wait to the I guess I can come back when I get the pillows Do you always have these? Wait, look at that. Look at that gray Which one Which one I like this one That's like the black one you say, yeah, but this not black I We back at it So we just got to at home. So I wanted to let mama know what y'all What what we're getting We're getting nothing. We're over here looking to see if there's anything else Before we really put this order in Oh for like Because I found my mirror at home the mirror that y'all always asking about I actually found this at the at-home store in Milwaukee And um, it's like it's like the same design as the gallery. Yeah, that was um, it's not the same. It's uh um, I feel like it is The z gallery one is not really like the same but it is like It's similar Like it's like um, but it has these touches of not the same I know a restoration hardware has one, but it might be more That one that you've seen at um That one furniture store is Okay, um, I'm a one battery bar. Did you ignore me? No, I didn't I was listening No, you was not listening So I'm gonna see y'all once I get in this store because I don't want my camera to die. So yeah So y'all I'm getting this from like this Dang get off me Okay We haven't been to this one before This is different Trebekah collection I can look at stuff So y'all They be having like the same type of design and this is exactly What? I didn't order that today though. I didn't get it, but I'm just saying for y'all Y'all can come at the at-home store and they literally have everything Um And they have like this in the bigger version. This is what I have for it was literally only like $200 but this little square one is 189 But Yeah Smell this because I think this smells more vanilla than the one That I have already the oil diffuser I'm gonna get the diffuser but smell that Because that's the same scent and Yeah, I can't smell none of my mask. No Well, pull it down. Yeah, it's I did you smell it. I mean, did you see anything over here? I'm looking Y'all so have y'all heard of these fresh patches? Wait, where do you put these? Oh Thanks, I think I like this The one I gave you No, clean clothes The summer romans Smell we got a summer romance going on in my booth. Yeah, valentine's day coming up. So right that is at the time Anyway, there's nothing here, but I'm getting this so another home kids Okay, y'all so it's been a little bit later. My friend came to see me You look so cute This is teddy for me and he won't tell me what saying he got on Brought me some gifts and I'm ready to open them. But y'all I gotta show y'all this shoe These are so hard to get There was in stock and I had a grab. I just had to like What I'm gonna do a home boxing later though. Oh, this is a business one This is what you got on. I know what this is. Don't even tell me Oh, they just put it in here.  You're a bad rapper They open it so how I'm a bad gift rapper Don't take your personal thing because you tired it tight. I know You be tired. You tired not No, she didn't say don't take something personal You don't make your youtube one day Do you know how to edit your youtube?  What is it? Are these called? What oh you can put your um My key your key chains on we're twins. I'm so excited for this. Well, you should have got it initial, okay? No, you didn't need to they don't This is so cute. I always went on these. What what they said so cute With my new house my new keys come in. Mm-hmm period period pull See if you can put the five on this is actually real secure too. I'm real What is this I'm scared. I'm scared too because we're trying.  Why are you scared? Put it on the front because you're so picky And I'm being bought though. You got me some shoes But I need to see if your mama said you don't like me. That's what I see I just thought about some time Oh, hey, come on. Just do it. You tried these on No, I didn't get them off my clothes. These won't be my every day. She's girl You can't beat them.   Is it room in there? What size is this? What size is this?  Yeah, no, they're not they're not coming off the feet I bought these. How do you open this? Um, wow How do you open this? So you like those? Yes Thank you Yes, it is. I was I woke up early and we got to get up early Child y'all have to get up early every day. She always say that every time we do we do I don't know why the time goes so fast. I'm gonna go back.  Don't you mean that? I'm not telling you Tell me now No Pooh-pooh What is it? My mom's gonna end up telling me. I know I am not gonna tell her pink promise me that she wanted Why would she tell me now if that's what you want to get? Tell her now. No, I'm not gonna tell her Sing, watch this Um notification singing Dog me out. Who cut it? Is she sewed it in? This is so hard to wash my hair. Y'all saw my bed come today. I'm so excited But yeah, so before all that I'm just gonna get ready. I have to be home Uh at a certain time because they're coming between um, I think three and five So I gotta be here just in case so they can pop up, but Yeah, girl, I finally get my bed today. I'm so excited and I'm probably gonna have to go I want to get a duvet cover and I want to put two inserts in it Just I think I said this already, but I don't know just to give it that hotel feel like fluffy plush You know so I can go to sleep in luxury. Okay, so I can wake up One of the ones that but I'm about to get in the shower. I'll wash my hair Yeah, get ready for them to come. So I'll talk to y'all once We start doing things. Okay. Uh, so the mattress people are about to come And I put this black this paper I said that on purpose Mama, I put this um, what is this called this paper on the floor so they protect her You know because she's ocd about these floors, bro. Like they hers or something like she kind of feels And yeah, we got the Plastic. Oh my god. Y'all don't look at my feet I gotta get them done. I'm doing a whole youtube video But yeah, we were just waiting for them. They're about 10 minutes away So Anyway I'm excited to get my bed y'all. Y'all just don't know like Bruh, so Yeah, so I'm just gonna Do a little time left of them set up the bed. It's a king girl It's a king. I ain't never had no king before. Okay, you know And I'm never buying a bed ever again y'all. This is the only bed. I'm keeping this bed for the rest of my life So Yes, I am It's good for me and my husband and my little kids if I have What Well, black wouldn't be bad the closet online like custom making or whatever. They don't have any of the shape So But I'm looking at these drawers in real life. Oh my god. They so cute, bro Like I'm having like three of these drawers And this clear top I'm gonna have my um frances on top of this maybe and then I might have a drawer Where it has like, but not this one. It's like literally where you can put your sunglasses and my jewelry like It's gonna go right under. I just never seen this in real life.  So But yeah Oh my god, this one looks so cute Like a little display So let's go down here with the list to that thing you have the list What? But anyway So yeah, this is how my drawers are gonna be like long like this I'm gonna fill them Oh, I can't wait inside it I can't wait for my life to be nice But come on. Let's go to the service What doors a cushion I can add a cushion. They don't gotta have doors though. What because who wants the Because it's easy you can just yeah, we think about putting this as a For like when people come over where I can put my shoes at Well, I This not coming out Try you do a thing It wasn't coming off for me So this will be in my entry way Very woody Like this It got some things at the end Maybe that's the door That is the door It's the next day on a road trip to where South Carolina Because y'all know Ikea is just backed up on stuff or stuff is not in stock You can't order blah blah blah So, um, I want to really get my office up and running like I want my closets to be done like, you know So they have my drawers that I want attached to my closet in South Carolina And um, it's three hours away from where I'm at and also I'm a driver y'all so Oh, North Carolina. So, um I really don't mind it's you know, it's like driving to Chicago for me. Yossi Belmont.    I never been to charlie.    Don't play with me. Do not do it. Don't do it But yeah, let me go check up on my mom. I'll see What's the team? Hey, y'all it is at the next day. I got back pretty late. It was like 1 a.m But we got everything that we needed. We're not everything Um, we still have a few more pieces left. Hopefully I can get this closet done I don't know if I'm gonna end this vlog or include The closet in it I don't know because I know y'all like long vlogs But anyway, but this is my bag right now I have two slip pillowcases and then two king um pillows back there because um the slip pillowcases um are only fit as standard pillow So I had to get two Standard pillows because y'all know I love um sleeping in my slip pillowcases Just because they're better for your skin and your hair and I'll have them linked down below And then yeah, so today I'm starting a new video. So y'all say don't know what that is but Yeah, so I'll probably check my job tomorrow or another day because Or if we do anything today Um, as far as like anything with my house. So but yeah, do that update y'all And yeah, so I'll check my job if I do anything. But yeah, my bed is so comfortable y'all I don't want to get up And I'll flip the head part up because it allows them to breathe better Okay, y'all so look at these closets in pre So y'all these are what my closets are looking like so I am gonna order two of these So in the packs um thing like you have seen Me try to design something to come up with it, which I did design But it's crazy because over here on this corner my my thought Like this area would fit um, what did she think she thought It was more space than what it is basically so but some of the stuff I kid didn't have Um, well, we thought that wait, let me talk to y'all. Sorry So some of those things that we thought Ikea had We had ordered when we went there and got it delivered to the house And they were missing a package and they must have not had the item in stock Which is the corner closet, which is made to be in the corner But it's a good thing it didn't come for real because it wasn't gonna be able to fit because look at all this No, there's literally no room so But yeah, so I cannot wait to put the drawers in here the shelves my shoes Like and I just cannot wait because all my the rest of my stuff is coming. Um Next week, so I'm probably hopefully hopefully hopefully I'll have All the pieces because literally I had to ask my stepmom I mean I had to ask my godmom to get pieces in texas girl And my mama's gonna go back home to get stuff from old creek and bring it back here when They bring the rest of my things like drive the rest of my things y'all So yeah, like Ikea. I don't know like they just got a lot going on right now, but This the only thing I'm probably getting from there in this closet because they have been Giving me a hassle, but Anyway, so I just cannot wait to this comes together like I'm so excited like So But yeah y'all that is it for this vlog. I'm wanting.  So which is late and then yeah, so At my birthdays this month y'all I'm really indecisive on what I want to do on my actual birthday um because I just got a lot going on and this move is literally stressing me out and then just Trying to figure out what I want to do for my birthday just Really hectic so but whatever we'll see So but yeah, I'm glad y'all are enjoying these vlogs. I miss y'all so much So let me get to editing in this video So we can get started up and get late because I miss y'all And yeah, and I will see y'all in the next video And I'm rambling at this point just because we gotta talk So But anyways, I'm gonna talk to you next video. I love y'all and I'll see you


5B, state and local real estate taxes. So enter online 5B, the state and local taxes you paid on real estate you own that wasn't used for business. So this is the other big one, someone owns a home, that's the big one, you've got the mortgage interest on it and then you've got the sales tax related to it as well. So remember that the state sales tax, I mean the state taxes could be, what's their normal taxes, either they have an income tax or sales tax or both right and then you have the question of the deductibility of the state taxes there and then no matter where you live they almost certainly have a property tax, so a property tax on the home. So now we've got the home and the property tax no matter where you live that you would think there would be state and local property taxes. The property tax. Then the question is, is the property tax just a personal home in which case we're looking to take that property tax as a state and local tax deduction on the schedule A, if it was for business use you might be able to take it on the schedule C, if you use part of your home for business, home use of an office or something like that then maybe you have to have a ratio of your taxes we might talk about when we get to the schedule C but you can't double dip, you can't deduct both on the schedule C and on A or on, you know, home office deduction or whatever, so but only if the taxes are assessed uniformly at a like rate on all real property throughout the community and the proceeds are used for general community or government purposes. So you got publication 530 explains the deduction homeowners can take, so don't include the following amounts on line 5B, foreign taxes you paid on real estate so no foreign taxes we're not we're not subsidizing foreign taxes here so it's itemized charges for services to specific property or persons for example a twenty dollar monthly charge for house for trash collection five dollar charge for every one thousand gallons of water consumed or a flat charge for mowing a lawn that had grown higher than permitted under a local ordinance so those are more like fees it sounds to me then kind of like taxes or you're paying for something goods and services and taxes charges for the improvements that tend to increase the value of your property for example assessment to build a new sidewalk so if you're paying for an assessment to build a sidewalk then you're probably paying for you know an improvement in the home not being you know taxed for sales tax so the cost of property improvement is added to the basis of the property meaning you're increasing the value of the home so that when you sell the home you'll have less of a gain at the point in time you sell it and that's when you might have a tax benefit from it although the home would be most likely exempt anyways for a large portion of the game so it might not be all that beneficial to you but there it is however a charges deductible if it is used only to maintain an existing public facility in service for example a charge to repair an existing sidewalk and any interest included in that charge so if your mortgage payments include your real estate taxes you can include only the amount the mortgage company actually paid to the taxing authority so when you deal with your your property taxes you might pay the property taxes directly so meaning you have a home loan you're paying off the mortgage with the loan and then you pay the state and locality for your property taxes directly sometimes they package those together so that basically your mortgage payments are going to be paying for both your mortgage and then the mortgage company will actually be paying off the property taxes so that could be kind of convenient sometimes because then it's you know one less payment to not miss it maybe you won't miss but then and then the mortgage company should give you the documentation of 1098 which should give you the information in terms of how much you paid in mortgage interest and the real estate taxes just remember not to miss that because anytime someone owns a home you would expect that they would have property taxes so if you don't see it on the on the 1098 or whatever from then then you've got to collect other documentation for it because they have to have property taxes for crying out so if you sold your home in 2022 any real estate tax charged to the buyer should be shown on your settlement statement and in box six of any form 1099 s you received so this amount is considered a refund of real estate taxes see refunds and rebates later any real estate taxes you paid at closing should be shown on your settlements settlement detected statement so that's another kind of issue in terms of when you first purchase a home or when a home is first purchased you've got this issue in terms of the who's going to handle in the in the agreement the property taxes right so so so then and so it could be a little bit messy to determine and you might have to look through the closing statement to determine the proper allocation of payments related to to property taxes and who possibly could have a benefit for deduction related to it based on the agreement for the closing statement caution you must look at your real estate tax bill to decide if any deductible items charges such as those listed earlier are included in the bill so if your tax and authority or lender doesn't furnish you a copy of your real estate tax bill ask for it so prepayments of next year's property taxes only taxes paid in 2022 and assessed prior to 2023 can be deducted for 2022 so notice we're kind of have a cashed based system here for the most part and cashed based systems are actually more manipulable than accrual based systems but they're easier to track so if you have the cash flow you might say hey look I earned more money this year than I'm gonna earn next year for whatever reason if that were the case why don't I just prepay a bunch of these expenses why don't I just pay for my property taxes for the next 10 years this year because I happen to earn a lot of money this year or something and the government doesn't want you to let you do that so they're gonna they're gonna limit you know the amount of prepayment of the property taxes so if you get a bright idea of I'm gonna prepay stuff then you got to make sure and say am I able to prepay this or if the tax code gonna explicitly say which they often do no we're not gonna let you prepay a massive amount of your expenses because it's manipulative of the of the cutoff and whatnot so state or local law determines whether and when a property taxes assessed which is generally when the taxpayer becomes liable for the property tax imposed so refunds and rebates if you received a refund or rebate in 2022 of real estate taxes you paid in 2022 reduce your deduction by the amount of the refund or rebate if you received a refund or rebate in 2022 of real estate taxes you paid in an earlier year don't reduce your deduction by this amount instead you must include the refund or rebate in income on schedule one form 1040 line 8c if you deducted the real estate taxes in the earlier year and the deduction reduced your tax so this is the same kind of concept we saw before with this would like a the state tax refund for example if you got a benefit last year for something that you deducted and then they refunded it this year then what are you gonna do you're gonna go back to last year and fix the fact that you deducted something that you didn't really pay for because they refunded it to you or it would be easier and oftentimes the way to go the way that the code lets you go is to do it this year meaning if I got a benefit for it last year I'm gonna include it in income this year so it has a tax burden to me this year because I included it in income because I got a tax benefit it from it last year kind of improperly because I got I got a deduction which I didn't really shouldn't really have gotten because I didn't really pay that but that's the cash base kind of problem again with this cash based system because I paid it but then I got refund okay so see recovery is in publication 525 for details on how to figure the amount to include an income so line 5c state and local personal property taxes enter online 5c the state and local personal property taxes you paid but only if the taxes were based on the value alone and were opposed on a yearly basis example you paid a yearly fee for the registration of your car part of the fee was based on the car's value and part was based on the weight so now you've got your other property taxes other you know that you have the real estate taxes your home and another property like your car which is the common example where you have this registration fee so you may be able to deduct that but they want only to deduct the part of it