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- It happened on October 13th, 2013.
And I was suffering from a broken heart,
I lost a loved one in a relationship
and I remember feeling so helpless and so weak.
And I could walk into a room and smell her perfume,
and collapse, it hurt that bad.
And I thought to myself,
is there a way that I can make myself stronger?
From within and sort of build myself back up?
It wasn't until about four years ago
that I really started to focus on how do I create
a better value of life,
and that's when I sort of discovered this road
to fitness freedom.
These abs got built in 10 minutes a day.
No weights, no gym, no travel.
Let's get right into it.
We're going to start off in a plank.
We all have things, routines,
that limit us and combat out priority to our health.
Whether you're an executive,
if you're on the move,
whether you're severely overweight
and you've never known fitness,
and you don't know where to begin.
So I figured what's the best approach?
I figured ask the expert so I went and talked
to my doctor and asked him what working out was?
And it turns out that working out is actually creating small
micro tears in your muscles.
And it doesn't matter if you're running, swimming,
doing crossfit, all these things were creating
these small micro tears,
so using science, we figured out the most effective way
to tear muscle.
And essentially what we did was we brought
the pool work out,
which is face down,
when you're in the pool you're swimming face down,
isometrics, to land.
If I ask anybody in the world to break a pencil,
or break a chopstick,
everyone would do it the same way.
They would snap it in the middle.
What you wouldn't do is you wouldn't try
and squeeze a chopstick.
You wouldn't try and pull it apart.
And you wouldn't try and twist it,
because you know, just like I know,
it's an inefficient way of breaking that chopstick.
I can give you two chopsticks
and you can continue to break them.
So we created this workout routine that's basically
this snapping motion of your body,
where your waist is the middle of your quote,
unquote, type pencil, and so a lot of it is just you
on the ground and moving that waist up and down.
Creating that motion,
and it actually effects the entire part of your body.
This is what my office looks like.
There's cast members, crew members everywhere.
There's film equipment all over the place.
And let's take a look at the food table.
So I've got a big mouth,
and everyone knows that.
So I'm no stranger into changing what we're eating.
So here's a typical movie set and we've got chips
and things that I don't deem to be too healthy,
but my influence is this stuff.
I require that we all have greens on our set.
We've got strawberries, blueberries, a little bit of nuts,
and greens, and also fruits.
I eat the colors of the rainbow al the time.
Things that are red, orange, yellow, green, and purple.
Talking about health is also talking about nutrition
and I really believe it's the 80/20 rules.
20% of the activity, 80% of what you put in your mouth.
Now me personally, I really encourage people
to eat the colors of the rainbow.
Things that are red, strawberries, tomatoes, chard,
those type of things.
Things that are orange like turmeric, carrots.
Things that are yellow like pineapples, lemons,
even honey which is a great for your immune system
and for the digestive system.
Things that are green like kale, spinach,
spirulinas, too, is very, very healthy.
And then things that are purples, too,
like blueberries, blackberries, beets, even pomegranates.
Deep deep colors.
But the more colorful your diet,
the more healthy your diet.
We've had a lot of advances in science as far
as protein goes,
and a lot of people are very pro vegan protein.
Me, I do believe that a healthy balance
of fish and chicken is a great way
to get proteins,
and those are the ones I use predominantly every single day
along with the heavy vegetables.
When I started Highway Fit,
I noticed I was probably about 30, 40 pounds overweight,
based on my height.
And my BMI, which is my body mass index was above 25,
which is overweight,
getting on obese side.
And I worked on myself first,
and lost about 30 pounds in about a month.
And then immediately my first customer was
a woman named Tiffany Carr
and she is in Wilmington, North Carolina.
She walked into a Gold's Gym,
and I was standing right there at the front desk,
and she said, I'm 28 years old,
I'm 400 pounds, and I just want to be under 200 pounds
for my 30th birthday.
And I thought to myself,
what could I do to help her
and to serve what her goals were?
So I took her over to the side of the gym,
and been doing the same exercises that I'd been doing,
and modified it a little bit so that she could do it,
and it was actually accessible and attainable for her,
which is great.
And then there was this great joy,
this sense of accomplishment,
that what was the workout, her beginning of her road,
she was able to do from the first day.
And the next day she brought her aunt,
who was 55 years old.
And now I've served 10s of thousands of people,
I have 120,000 people on my Instagram follow me,
just for health,
and just a couple weeks ago,
I had a woman who's 60 years old who told me
that she's lost 50 pounds in two months.
So, I think that this is something that's
really trying to change society and enrich culture
by providing education, fitness education,
health education for positive health practices.