Hey everyone! Welcome back to my YouTube channel! If you've
followed me for a little while and know anything about me, it's that I
LOVE trying new things, and in particular,
trying new routines.
Years and years ago, I did a video for refinery29
called "5 Days of Swapping Daily Routines", and in that
video, I basically took on the different morning routines
of various people in my life... just to see how that effected the
rest of my day. It was so much fun to try
living my morning or my entire day in the way that
other people do. I highly recommend
swapping your daily routine and trying new things to see what works
for your life, and your body, and your mind. So, living in
New York City... it always feels like it's fashion week.
You just can't go outside without spotting some sort of event
that's related to high fashion, or modeling... and because of that,
I had the idea that I wanted to try the morning routine of
a fashion model. And I knew exactly who to
go to for a morning routine. Emily Didonato is a model,
a YouTuber, and so much more... If you're unfamiliar with her, you've
probably seen her in various campaigns.
She's worked with Maybelline, Victoria's Secret,
She's walked in runway shows for Chanel, Louis Vuitton,
and she's also been in ad campaigns for the Gap,
Calvin Klein, Oscar De La Renta, Ralph Lauren,
And a lot more. So this girl's all over
the modeling charts. Recently, on my honeymoon in Thailand,
I came to the discovery that Emily was following me on Instagram!
And when I went to her page to check her out, I realized, wait a second...
I'm not following her, but I KNOW this girl... I've seen her
in all these campaigns all around New York City. Immediately, I followed her back,
and I shot her a message, we started talking...
Long story short, we were both in Bangkok at the same time...
And we connected over the internet, and we pretty much have not stopped
connecting since then. She's 28 years old, she's
one year older than me, she's absolutely one of the sweetest people
I've ever met... The two of us are definitely going to
collaborate and do a video together in the future... but for now,
she sent me some video clips so that we could collaborate on this video.
I reached out to her and asked her to record a video
telling me her typical morning routine,
and then I lived one day of my life this week
emulating her morning routine EXACTLY. So, today
I'm going to share with you exactly what a real life
model does in a typical day in her life in New York City. Let's get into it!
Emily: Hello, Lucie! I heard that
you want to try my morning routine... So,
I wake up every single morning around 7am.
One important aspect of when I wake up...
I always make sure that I wake up exactly seven and a half hours
after I went to sleep.
Seven and a half hours is my magic number for sleep, and that is always when I wake up.
So, once I wake up in the morning, I do sleep with my cell phone
right next to my head... I know that's, like, not good for you and stuff...
but I still do that... um...
and I check my texts, I check my email, see what's going on...
check out my day, look at my calendar...
look at my to-do list for the day...
Lucie: In order to wake up at 7 am, which is very early for me...
I had to go to sleep at exactly 11:30 pm
which would get me that exact 7.5 hour sleep range that Emily says she gets.
I actually like to try to not even
go on the internet or go on Instagram or go on my emails
until I am up and out of bed... But
surprisingly, my brain was functioning at a very high speed...
And I was really ready to start doing work.
Emily didn't say anything about going on Instagram or social media, or
surfing the web... so I was really trying to stay
productive and focused... to just look at my calendar and my email app...
Then I just popped into the bathroom to quickly brush my teeth...
but I did not do any sort of skincare routine because
Emily actually saves that for later in the morning.
Emily: Lately, I have every morning been making an iced oat milk latte...
So I do two shots of espresso, one cup of oat milk, a whole bunch of ice...
A silicone straw... and that's kind of all I have in the morning.
Lucie: Emily's morning drink sounded SO EPIC.
I actually do get oatmilk lattes at coffee shops
all the time, but it's not something I typically make.
I am generally just a regular coffee kind of gal...
Emily had me upping my coffee game just about one level... so
I put a shot of espresso into the cup, and then I took
a separate cup and I frothed some oat milk... and then I took the oat milk
and I mixed it in with the espresso... I did a little bit extra
frothing... and then I dumped a whole ton of ice in there... and then
popped my silicone straw in. It was delicious.
Kind of like an upgrade from my classic morning coffee...
And definitely something that I can start to do every day.
Emily: While I'm drinking that, I love to go over to my computer
area, look at my to-do list again... figure out
what I want to get done today... So one of my favorite things to do is
to prioritize what I want to do in a day.
So I always have a general To-Do list, but then I'll have my, kind of,
action items list of my top things that I'm
absolutely going to get done today on this very day.
Lucie: I loved Emily's strategy of going straight to the computer
after you get your morning coffee, and
just kind of starting to strategize for the day... so
just getting it all down on paper and seeing it all laid out before you
can help to just alleviate your mind from that pressure.
Emily said that she makes a list of general to-do's,
and then also action items for the day. And this is a to-do
list structure that I'm not used to, but I found it
really helpful to be able to write a list
of all the general things I have to achieve, but then sort of
narrow it down to "okay, what is actually the first thing I am going to do here in order to be productive?"
Emily: So, after I kind of look at my to-do list and do all of that... I get into my workout
clothes, and then I head over to the gym. So I either
go and workout in my home gym, or I will
go work out with my personal trainer. So three days a week, I workout with
my personal trainer, and we typically lift
super heavy weights. That's my favorite kind of workout... And
I'm going to send you one of our workouts in a separate note.
And you can try that in this morning routine if you want...
Lots of weights, lots of kettlebells, lots of cardio...
One other thing that I forgot to add... I also,
right when I wake up in the morning, before
I go to the gym or do anything... I always have
at least three glasses of water before I even leave my house.
So make sure you do that too.
Lucie: This one was a lot for me.
I do love water, and I do like having,
maybe one cup of water right when I wake up... but
THREE CUPS of water before I even leave the house...
especially on top of the oatmilk latte... was a lot of liquids
to put into my system. I did find it a little bit difficult
to drink three cups of water at home, at that time.
So, I could have done an at-home workout, like I usually do,
but because I was emulating Emily's routine
and I really wanted to make it as similar to hers as possible...
I synced up with a personal trainer,
and I went to a gym... I sent him her circuits...
so, the exact circuit that she sent me that she does...
and I had him prep it for us, and then I went through her exact
fitness routine. I definitely need to
kind of tone some things down here and there,
because I'm just not as strong as she is... yet.
But we basically took her routine and made it a little
bit more do-able for me, and it was really fun.
Lucie: So I just finished Emily's workout with a personal trainer... So I'm going
to pop it up right here... So she basically has three different circuits of what she does...
Those are resistance training circuits... so, the first
ones, you can see it says 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4...
so that's four parts of the first circuit...
then there's the second circuit, and the third.
So in the first circuit, she does
a dumbell chest press, core-engagement...
Then she does renegade rows, then kettlebell squats, then bench jump-overs.
She does this first circuit three times... It tells you her exact weightload...
which I did not copy exactly because I am nowhere near as strong as Emily is yet...
Where you see "BW" that means she just does it with her body weight...
And then on the side it tells you exactly
how many seconds of an interval she takes between sets.
Then you'll see the second circuit, which has four parts to it
also... So there's the dumbell bent over row, the core bench knee-tuck...
then there's the dumbell band hip thrust... which I actually
used a barbell for... and mountain climbers... then
you can see her third set... so she does
dumbell Romanian deadlifts, then kettlebell dead cleans,
and kettlebell swing catches. And then when she's done with this
resistance training, she does an
"energy system development", which is a treadmill run... And she basically does
sprints... So she puts the intensity to an
incline of 3.5 and a speed of 8... So I replicated that, and it was pretty fast for me.
And then she does four sets
of 30 seconds of running, and in between every set she takes 30 seconds of rest.
SO! ... I just did that exact workout...
It was a lot more intense than I thought it would be... normally
I don't feel this, sort of...
soreness, until the following day... but I'm feeling it
right away. Just finished the workout and I'm sore. But I can
definitely see how doing this type of workout
every week, a couple of times a week, would start to build some intense muscle...
So I'm definitely gonna work with my trainer to start adding this into my routine because this is awesome.
Emily: After that, I tend to walk home.
I come home, and have my morning smoothie... so I've definitely
made that on my YouTube channel... many times before...
So you can go over there and watch it, but.... Every single morning
I have a smoothie after I work out. And inside of it
there's almond milk, a cup of spinach,
mixed berries... I usually do about a half a cup...
1/3 of a cup of oats, for the carbs and energy for the day...
And one scoop of whey protein.
And that's what I have for breakfast. So when I go to the gym,
I really only have my coffee in my stomach.
I don't like to eat before I work out.
Lucie: After I walked home, I started building her morning smoothie.
There were two ingredients in this smoothie that I'm not used to putting in my smoothies...
and they are: oats, and also whey protein.
They actually really make the smoothie a lot heartier
and denser... I enjoyed both of them. So, you know,
I added my spinach, I added my mixed berries, I put oats,
I put whey powder, and then I put almond milk... And it was really, really delicious!
I loved Emily's smoothie, and I think I'm going to steal her tactic of adding oats in
whenever I want to make it a little more filling.
Emily: So, then, I kind of make my smoothie, drink that, jump into the shower...
So, in the shower I... do what everyone else does in the shower...
Once I get out of the shower, then I kind of start my skincare routine and
kind of start getting ready for the day... So this is usually around, like, 8:30 / 9:30, around 10 o'clock...
post-workout... So, in the shower I like to wash my face with this Drunk Elephant jelly cleanser...
And then I like to apply some of this vitamin C serum...
I love vitamin C! That's, like, my absolute favorite thing. I feel like
it's made a really big difference for my skin... And lately I've been using this CEO serum from Sunday Riley.
And then, of course, some moisturizer... So I've been using this Biotherm Aquasource gel...
I'll obviously send you all these products.
Lucie: Next, I went into the shower, and I wanted to make sure that I was following Emily's
routine EXACTLY, to a T... So I asked
her ahead of time, all of the skincare and hair products that she uses,
and I made sure to get those exact products so I could try them out.
I used the face wash that she uses in the shower,
and then when I got out I used the serum and the moisturizer
that she uses.
So there's this CEO vitamin C serum from Sunday Riley...
I've never used vitamin C serum before... so I'm excited
to try this...
Ooo it smells like citrus...
Alright, love that. And then she uses this Biotherm Aquasource gel
as a moisturizer...
let's try it!
I love moisturizers that feel like a surge of water...
My skin gets really dry... Oh, this one smells great...
Emily: And then, for my hair... If I'm leaving my
hair natural and just kind of the way it is after I get out of the shower...
I pretty much always apply these two products.
So, Iles Formula, which is, like,
a serum...
kind of, like, a finishing serum... But it kind of just allows my natural
texture to be the way that is is...
And then I also do a little bit of this May 11
revitalizing hair oil... so that's that...
Lucie: So she told me two different hair products that she uses...
And, to be honest, I really don't put anything in my hair
on a daily basis. The only thing I'll do is
put in some sort of a heat protectant if I'm about to blow-dry it or style it...
But otherwise, I don't use oils and serums... so
getting these products was really interesting. And I actually really liked the way
they made my hair feel and smell.
What is it I'm smelling?
Castor oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, hemp seed oil...
Wow, smells really good.
Emily: After that, I kind of just do my everyday makeup, and I tend to get dressed for the day...
And usually after that I always have, like, coffees or meetings or... something scheduled.
After that, and then I'm usually out the door, kind of at my meetings by, like, 10:30... 10:45... and
then I kind of start my day...
Lucie: Then I put on my everyday makeup... I got dressed... And I
headed out the door for my first meeting of the day.
It's not very like me to be out the door and totally ready for the day... at that time.
10:30, 10:45... is a very early time for me.
I am typically out way later because I wake up later...
And it takes me a long time to go through this morning process, usually.
On top of it, to be out the door at that time, having already gone to the gym, had a smoothie, had my coffee,
and organized and prepped for the day...
That was kind of crazy.
Emily: I hope that was, like, specific enough for you...
I feel like if you do the workout that I sent you, you'll definitely enjoy that, and that will be tough...
What else do I do? Yeah. I think that's it.
Lucie: So, if nothing else, copying Emily's routine taught me that there are a lot of ways for me to be a little bit more efficient
in the morning... and one of them is waking up earlier.
Personally, I'm fascinated by morning routines.
I think it is just such an incredible way to see
what works for you and your lifestyle, what makes you the most
efficient... what makes you the most productive...
What helps you get on track and set yourself up for success
in a day best... I would love to make more videos like this,
where I try other people's routines...
And in particular, I would love to try different routines of people that have
different types of jobs... But let me know what other careers out there
you're interested in seeing the morning routine of.
For instance, the morning routine of someone that works at a bank, or the morning routine of
a body builder... Or the morning routine of an event/wedding planner...
There are honestly so many jobs that I could show you the morning routines of...
so comment below and let me know what you want to see.
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And, once again, let me know what other morning routines you want to see me try.
See you next time! Bye!