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Joining us today is Camila Ramon AKI.
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Our favorite fitness instructor.
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Hi, guys. Thanks for having me.
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I'm so excited to be here.
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We're happy to have you.
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Ok. So we love your teaching in Spanish versus teaching in
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English videos. But I have to ask like which language wins
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It, it's so tough because I know those videos show
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something very specific and I know that my most hyped moments are
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probably in Spanglish, but both my English classes and my Spanish
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classes are equally as hype.
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You guys. I know it doesn't look that way,
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but there are different ways that I express myself in Spanish that
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are just, you can't translate that to English.
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Like sometimes I have like mantras of the day where I'll say
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them in like Spanish.
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well in English it means stay up,
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right? Like you can't,
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there's no way to translate it.
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I wouldn't say any is better.
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They're just so different in their beautiful,
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amazing ways and what classes are the better ones and which crowd
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brings the most energy,
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the crowd that brings the most energy.
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I have to say the Latinos for sure.
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Hands down when we have Spanish member weekends where I'm teaching in
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Espanol and everybody's vibing out and then we get this Bachata Merengue
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Cumbia track and everybody pops off.
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You can hear them from the hallway.
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You can hear them from the streets.
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They're like Camila, your people have arrived.
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They are here and I'm like,
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literally, no, no people,
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people will come in and be like your people are here and
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it's wild and I love it and then they'll close the door
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immediately and I'm like,
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OK, yeah, I'll go off mafia.
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But there are people that are also extremely hyped that I want
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to send love to because I know there's somebody that's going to
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be watching this at home and be like,
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Camila show up with energy all the time for all of your
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time. And I just want to say that I see you
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Well, Seor do Senora attend your classes too?
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100%. The Senora are the most hype ones,
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especially when I'm like,
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don't tell me. So the Senora are the first ones that
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are like, I love it.
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They embrace it as a fitness instructor.
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How do you create body positivity and help people feel confident in
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all areas of the gym?
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I know with me like I get intimidated by like bodybuilding and
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like weightlifting that I like,
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OK, I'm gonna go on the Stairmaster or just,
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you know, do the elliptical.
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Like I stay with those machines.
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But like, how do you,
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you know, build that positivity and going around for me.
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A lot of the confidence building comes from me just showing up
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as I am. I'm a very silly human being and the
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way that I show up in these classes is very,
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in a very silly way.
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And I think that really opens the door for people to have
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fun. And then in addition to that just having conversations about
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the beauty of being strong forte to be for,
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for the rest of your life because it's something that we're doing
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forever, right? I'm always lifting weights and I always communicate
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that extremely in an extremely important fashion because I do believe that
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strength training is like something that we all should be doing.
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And historically, as a Latina and having conversations with other Latinas
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I have noticed that they are very intimidated to step into
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the weight section of gym,
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particularly because it's dominated by Latino men.
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And in Latino America,
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it's even less welcoming than it is in the United States.
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So we're out here trying to break barriers.
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We're out here trying to empower people to show up in these
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spaces where they feel like they don't belong because everybody belongs,
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lifting weights, everybody belongs,
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moving and celebrating what their bodies can do.
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And Camila, you teach a lot of fun classes like,
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you know, you work with artists like fade and T pain
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Do you have a favorite memory of these like,
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you know, classes that you've done with any celebrities or just
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overall the themes or anything like that.
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Besides the entire classes as a 305 raise girl T Pain Ride
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was one of the highlights of my life.
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T Pain if you are in the building,
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come on, we need to see you on stage,
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baby. We need to see you to Pala studio.
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I love hyping people up in the fade class.
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We did like a Freon Nitro moment where I did an outfit
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change. We had like smoke come out in the studio,
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the lights changed. They were all green and glow in the
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dark and I put on his neon green vest and these glasses
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but I was riding a bike and the glasses were bouncing
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up and down in my face and I was like,
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I look so Ridic right now,
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I was like, I'm going in right now doing everything that
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I can for this class to be as hype as possible for
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really cool. And what's the best music to work out to
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Like, what do you think?
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Do you have a favorite song?
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Well, I've been ever since I read that like reggaeton music
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stimulates the brain more than any other genre music.
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I've just been spreading that information,
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just spreading that information to everyone.
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I know my first ever class Merengue ride that I taught was
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at Peloton. And that's my favorite class to teach.
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You're just out the seat the whole time.
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They're so tough dude.
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I know. How do you stay in your seat with the
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vibes like that? You know,
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Blame Benito, blame Santa Rosa.
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Blame the class has to keep going.
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But, and more on that,
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like how have you made space for Latinos in a predominantly white
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space? I think that I was extremely lucky to have been
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chosen by Peloton to really lead this effort and grow this
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space. There's no other fitness platform doing what Peloton is doing
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for the Latin community.
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And for me, I think the most important thing is,
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is growing this program as much as possible right now.
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So focusing on building the space and growing the community and building
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awareness since I started,
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I've gotten so many messages of fellow trainers in the space that
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have mentioned to me that they have now like embrace their culture
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and who they are a little bit more and are starting to
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teach more reggaeton forward classes like Latin music forward classes.
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And that makes me so happy.
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And so the only thing that I can do is continue to
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work as hard as possible.
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Like a true, the true immigrant that I am put my
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best foot forward and,
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and create spaces and opportunities for others to come.
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Thank you so much Camila.
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We appreciate having you on and,
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and going over, you know what you do and when people
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find you and follow you.
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Yeah. So I'm Camila Ramon with three Ns and then you
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can actually come hang out with me and EOL on the Paon
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cycling. I teach running,
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I teach walking, I teach hiking and I teach now dance
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cardio so we can shake those Ns together.
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OK? And I do scream at you in Spanish more than
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You know what I think you're inspiring me to get a peloton
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