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<HTML>February 26, 1999 HarpoAce: Welcome everyone to our special event with TAE BO creator BILLY BLANKS! He's here with us from LA to take your questions about the hottest exercise sweeping the nation. Please help me welcome Mr. Billy Blanks! BlanksB: I want to thank God for this opportunity to speak to you all, and I want to thank Oprah for the opportunity to show you all Tae Bo. Thank you all for the opportunity to introduce this exercise to the world. HarpoAce: Hi Braves4783, you've got the first question for Billy! Question: Hello Billy. I have to say I love Tae Bo. It's a great workout. How can I stop the bottom of my feet from hurting when I do the tapes? BlanksB: One of the reasons why your feet might hurt might be your shoes. What you need to do is look at them to see if they're giving you the support you need. The best kind for Tae Bo are cross-training shoes. If you use running shoes, they don't have any ankle support, so anytime you bounce on one leg, you are not supporting your ankles. You might want to check your shoes. Or, you can do Tae Bo barefoot. HarpoAce: SiZzleZ 98, you're up! Question: Are you married or do you have any kids? BlanksB: I have been married for 25 years. I have two kids. My daughter is 25 years old and my son is 22 years old. HarpoAce: Hey Euroindo99, thanks for coming tonight! Here's your question for Billy. Question: Can Tae Bo help to lose 20lbs in a month? BlanksB: What I tell people, when it comes to losing weight, is that you shouldn't concentrate on losing weight. You should concentrate on being healthy. If you do that, you will have more fun in class. Also, I wouldn't put a time limit on losing weight. You have to give it some time. Your will, and your will to lose weight, will survive, so it will take time. Think about changing your life and your lifestyle first. HarpoAce: SIDESHOWML has a hometown question for Billy Blanks, creator of Tae Bo, Question: Are you ever going to come back to Erie, PA? Because, that's where I live. BlanksB: I'm definitely coming back. The grand opening of the new Tae Bo studio will be when I'm there next. HarpoAce: Hi Jtden31, thanks for coming tonight! You're up! Question: Billy, how many times a week should I do Tae Bo to achieve optimum results? I am a 25-year-old female in good health. I've been doing the basic workout for a few weeks now. It has changed my life. Thank you! BlanksB: Thank you, I'm glad Tae Bo has given you the opportunity to challenge yourself. You should use it three or so times a week. Be in control of your workout, you're the boss. HarpoAce: Hi CinSky, here you go! Question: I saw you on The Oprah Show. You really wore her out. How long does it take to get over the soreness? BlanksB: One, I didn't ware her out! She was there at 6 AM, and after she got off work we did another hour of Tae Bo. It depends on how many days a week you work out, as to the soreness. Alternate your days, and it depends on how long you have been working out, too. Just listen to your body. HarpoAce: Hi Btiger64, let'er rip! Question: Billy, will you be releasing any new tapes in the near future? BlanksB: Yes, I just finished 16 new tapes: all new workouts. With these tapes, I want to invite the public into my studio, which I recently remodeled. So, these tapes are going to be totally different from the others. This time, I do a lot more with the cameras, and I actually treat the camera like it's one of my students. So, I am right along there with you. It has a very good soundtrack also, with a lot of popular songs. HarpoAce: Hey Kar5585, thanks for coming, take your best shot! Question: Billy I just wanted to ask, what do you feel when you see yourself in all the different magazines, and has stardom changed your life in any way? BlanksB: You know one thing, with everything that's happened in my life, with he 36 gold medals, the championships, etc., I have to thank God for all of it. I'm in the studio every night teaching. I'm here every night until late. I'm still the same person I was before all of this. HarpoAce: Welcome Cpmr36, thanks for coming, here's your question for Tae Bo creator Billy Blanks! Question: Where did you get the idea for Tae Bo? BlanksB: I got the idea for creating Tae Bo in 1975. What I wanted do was find a better way for myself to workout and get in better shape. I also wanted to find a way to teach self-defense to women. So, what I did was, I took the theme from "Rocky:" you know how that music moves you, and it inspired me. And, I took ballet. It taught me how to count beats, so I used that. I kept boxing, dancing ballet, learned hip-hop dancing and created Tae Bo. I combined them together. And then what I did was, I used the word Tae, which means legs in Korean, because women have problems with their thighs/legs, and Bo, because guys have trouble with their waists (stomach). Tae represents the female and Bo represents the male, so Tae Bo means the coming together as one, which means anyone can do it. Then, each letter has meaning too. T stands for total, A for awareness, E for excellence, B for body, and the O for obedience. Put it all together and you learn to become your own body guard, mentally, spiritually, phyisically. HarpoAce: Hey Aly007, thanks for your question, here you go! Question: Hi Billy! Everybody at my office is doing your tapes (or so they say they are doing it), but is this really for everyone? BlanksB: I truly believe Tae Bo is for everybody that wants to do it. Because you have your own limitations, and since you are in control, you have to know and test your own limitations. I have people from 3 years old to people over 80 who join in my class. I have a lady who started with me when she was 63, and she is now almost 73. That's 10 years. But it shows that anyone who wants to do it, can. HarpoAce: Hi Donnaj71, you're up. Your question is next for Billy Blanks! Question: Should we also do interval training or weight training along with Tae Bo? BlanksB: I believe that you should do anything that makes you feel good: walking, weight training, etc., anything that makes you feel good. But, I also believe that you have to know your limitations, and know when to shut down and not do too much. HarpoAce: Rdrscc, you've got the next question. Question: Do you need to be certified to teach Tae Bo? BlanksB: Yes, you do. You should be certified to train Tae Bo. One of the reasons why is that I believe, as a instructor and the man who created Tae Bo, I didn't want to introduce an exercise to the public until I knew what I was talking about. I didn't want people to get injuries, and I wanted people to know the things you should and shouldn't do in Tae Bo, and how to modify your techniques. It's good to know that someone has been certified through a good teacher. It's like a doctor. Do you want to be operated on by a doctor who is certified or uncertified? HarpoAce: Looks like the whole town of Erie, PA is here tonight to support their hometown Tae Boy. Here's a question from Alexus025, Question: Billie, I live in Erie, PA, where you grew up. And I'd like to say I know your family, well some of them: Willie II and Tiah. There doing great. Is your Tae Bo the same thing as your brother teaches at his fitness center here in Erie? BlanksB: My brother's Tae Bo is the same as my Tae Bo, but different in one way. His is a little slower. The technique is the same, but he teaches an intermediate level. That is why I go back and forth to Erie, teaching my brother on how to keep Tae Bo up to date. HarpoAce: Thanks for coming Spacehoe! Ask away! Question: Hey there Billy, is it really true that you can lose a lot of weight in a small amount of time using the Tae Bo technique? BlanksB: Again, I don't put a time limit on weight. One, I have to know what your personality is like, and two, I don't know how much time you are putting into it. Three, I don't know how much effort and how much you are putting into your workouts. I have had people who have lost a hundred and two hundred pounds. It depends on your personality, and what your will is to do, to get the weight off. HarpoAce: UNIQLADY wants to know ... Question: I've been using Tae Bo for two months. I'm still on basic. Should I move up to advance? I'm scared to! BlanksB: I'd like to say, don't be scared. You've been doing Tae Bo for two months now! Take out the advanced tape and do it. First, start slow. The next day add another 5 minutes. Remember, you control your workout. Remember, you are the boss. Life is a test, so if you want to test your will, go ahead and test. The first 30 minutes many get tired, but the first 30 minutes is just the beginning. At thirty minutes, see if you can go another five minutes. When you are tired, go over the top and see what you are made of. HarpoAce: Hi Soc63, thanks for coming tonight. You've got the last question for Billy "TaeBo" Blanks. Question: About how many calories would a woman weighing 145lbs burn if she completed one of your workouts? BlanksB: Again, when answering a question like this, since I don't know you, it depends a lot on your personality and how much effort you are willing to put into it. If you get on a life cycle, see how many calories you are burning off. With Tae Bo, you are doing a lot of movement, so you are burning off a lot of calories, but again that depends on how intense you work out. Remember, God gave you the will and control. You are the boss, so it's up to you. HarpoAce: Whew, I got a workout just talkin' to you! But, unfortunately that's all the time we have with Billy Blanks. BlanksB: Today is a reality, tomorrow is a promise, and yesterday is history. A person who usually thinks about doing something, usually lets it pass them by. God bless you. Keep up the good work. If you can, check out my website at www.taebo.com. HarpoAce: Thanks for coming everyone to tonight's LIVE event with Billy. Please be sure to go to Oprah Online (kw: oprah) tomorrow for the transcript! Thanks! And, have a good night everyone! Tae Boooooo! OnlineHost: Copyright 1999 America Online, Inc. </HTML>