(upbeat techno music)
- This shit hurts. - Why are you crying?
- Two more, two more, two more,
two more, two more.
- I'm hurting.
And this is the warm up?
- It's just getting bigger.
(upbeat techno music)
- So we are about to do a 30 day challenge.
- Yes.
- To get fit and thick.
- Yes. - You ready, girl?
- I am ready, girl.
Julissa asked me to do this video.
(speaks in foreign language)
'Cause I got tired of my damn panza.
And then she got tired looking
at my panza all the time 'cause she's
sitting next to me. (Julissa laughs)
- We're about to get our asses handed to us
by Kathy and Luther Freeman
who's the 30 day transformation team.
- What's up, y'all.
I'm Luther Freeman.
- And I'm Kathy Freeman.
And we are the 30 day transformation team.
- And we are responsible for transforming
thousands of lives across the world.
We've trained Don Cheadle, Anthony Anderson,
Tamar Braxton, Steve Harvey, Marjorie Harvey.
- [Kathy] Keri Hilson, Gabrielle Union.
- [Luther] D Wade, Carmelo Anthony.
When I was in college, I took all
my friends and I was training them.
And I was giving them different plans
and they started getting phenomenal results in 30 days.
I called myself Mr. 30 Day Transformation.
My phenomenal wife at that point,
girlfriend, jumped into the picture.
Transformed her.
We showed her whole journey.
She helped me to kind of reinvent
the process and how we were bringing
it to people because we're a couple now.
Now we aspire couples to live better,
to love better, and to work better.
What's unique about the 30 day transformation team program
is that we know how to look at a person's body
until exactly what they need.
We'll give you something and see how your body responds,
and immediately tweak it to give exactly
what you need to give you a result that you want.
- I reached the point that I'm fed up
in looking the same way.
I got thyroid issues.
So, it's pretty hard for me to
go to the gym and lose weight normally.
- I am not trying to do this because I wanna get skinny.
I just wanna be fit and maintain the right lifestyle.
I wanna feel good.
I wanna wake up in the morning and just be mad energized.
- The goal is not just weight loss.
A lot of people that do our program,
they don't wanna be skinny.
They want that pow, pow, pow.
So, our goal is to help them achieve that.
With the food.
With the workouts.
It's not just gym life.
I started my transformation journey.
I was 118 pounds.
So now, I'm almost 160 pounds.
I mean I'm curvier than I've ever been.
I've got thick, karate kicking legs.
I've gotten to share that experience
and share that journey with people
and I've been coached by Luther.
He makes tweaks to my plan.
He'll make tweaks along the way.
That's the same formulas that we use
in our program that we give to our clients.
- They're gonna kick our ass.
We're gonna be out of breath.
- You ready for this?
- I don't know if I'm ready for this.
- For the next 30 days, we're gonna
be transforming Gadiel and Julissa
from where they're at now which
they're still fabulous but
we're gonna help them get to
a better version of themselves.
The first phase which is gonna
be essentially a detox phase.
That first six days of their program.
And then moving in to phase two,
will be the remainder of their 30 day program.
That's where Luther kind of comes in.
He plays with the numbers a little bit
and looks at what their food need to be
and we change up their diet a bit.
- We're gonna work on your mind.
We're gonna work on your mentality.
- We have a saying in our program
called transformation of the mind.
So, this is much more than a physical change.
Our goal is to help you to turn inward during this process.
It help them to kind of see what is their threshold,
where is their quit at, and how can we move past that.
- Kathy and Luther, we got this.
- Yes, right.
- By the end of this video,
we're gonna look better than y'all.
- Oh.
- I'm about to go do my first workout
with Kathy and Luther.
In that first workout session with Luther and Kathy.
I was still drunk from the night before.
(upbeat techno music)
I'm so hungover.
- She's hungover.
Tell the truth.
Got here mad late.
- What are we doing today?
So it's our first workout.
- I feel bad for Julissa.
I don't think like...
We should take it easy on her.
- Well, this is what we're gonna do today.
We'll walk around the gym,
and you're gonna show us the things that you like to do.
We're gonna tweak that form just a little bit
to show you - Got you.
- what it feels like to do it right.
- You're gonna have an actual regimen
that you're gonna be following.
So you're gonna know what you're gonna do.
You're just gonna have guidance.
So you have like a literally a road map.
- This is a moment to focus.
So we're gonna teach you how to focus.
- I'm excited.
- I'm super excited.
- For me, I want to develop thicker legs,
I wanna get away - So you wanna work
- From the (mumbles) - on that too.
- And I want my buns to be bigger.
- My goal is to get rid of this.
- Yeah.
- Get rid of my man boobs.
- Oh my God.
- That's talent y'all.
I wanna change my relationship
to the gym and eating right.
- I'm ready.
Are you ready, Gadiel?
- I'm ready.
Let's do this. - I'm excited
but I don't even know. - Let's do it.
- Is this what your would normally do?
- Yeah.
I do like 10 of these and I do it like three times.
- Now come up, sit up.
Alright.
Now, spread your feet a little bit.
No, not that much.
Now go up.
Now when you, come up, bring it up.
Now when you come up, I want your toes to face the ceiling
and lean forward when it comes up.
- Oh that hurts. - Only bring it up.
- Oh. - Put your mind right here.
Let's go.
- I feel like Luther kind of transformed my mindset
'cause he's telling you to focus
on that muscle that you're trying to grow.
- I didn't think I was gonna get much results
because I was working out on my own already.
- What I want you to do.
Squeeze the bar as hard as you can.
Try to...
Make this bar come in.
Now, bring it down.
Arch your chest, arch your chest,
arch your chest, arch your chest.
Crazy arch.
Now bring it up and squeeze.
How does that feel now?
- Whoo. - Whoo.
- That hurts.
- Good.
- After meeting them, I found out like,
yo, these people were cool as hell.
They have like the dopest energy.
Luther has like this father figure type of thing.
- The workouts I felt like were hard.
I don't think I've ever worked out
the way that I worked out in these past four weeks.
So I just got off the phone with Gadiel.
He was just calling me to find out what happened
and why I was crying yesterday.
- Why are you crying?
- I feel like I haven't been doing shit
(laughter).
I just wanna be a better person.
I wanna be happy and positive
- Yeah.
- I just had a lot going on.
And that morning, day one had a really
tough conversation with my boyfriend
about some things that was going on in my life.
Then in the workout, Kathy was just talking
to me about evolving in my mindset.
And it was tied in to the same conversation
that I had with my boyfriend in the morning.
And so, everything hit me like a ton of bricks at once.
What's going on?
My life is a shit show.
I completely broke down.
It was just like me, just letting it all go I felt like.
And it was the start of like,
a really good four weeks.
- So she had that revelation for herself.
I think it was just a very honest, real,
transparent moment where she got to
hear what she really wanted for herself.
Your heart is in the right place.
- Yeah.
- Week one, I wasn't taking it serious.
Week one, I was my own enemy before anything else.
It's day one, I messed up.
I should have gotten all my stuff.
I should have cooked on Sunday.
But Sunday, I was toot tired.
'Cause I was drinking Saturday.
- We're not drinking.
- Gadiel, he will not drink. - This guy's a snitch.
- And you're supposed to be what?
- This guy's a snitch.
I was taking straight shots.
- [Julissa] Doesn't matter.
You're not supposed to be drinking.
- I didn't even mix.
- [Julissa] Look at what he's eating.
- I gotta eat something.
- [Julissa] Not only is it...
It's not even turkey.
It's a meatball sub.
- [Gadiel] Because that's supposed to be...
- [Julissa] And everybody's phased.
- I wanted to try it for the first time.
I've never tried it before.
It was hard cooking.
I had to cook, you know, for two hours.
I'm gonna do a quick little meal prepping.
I went shopping yesterday.
Shrimp frying here.
The asparagus cooking right there.
I already made the turkey wrap.
Brown turkey right there.
- I was really good the first week.
I was strong.
Phase one of my meal plan.
Two gallons of water?
Daily?
Señore (laughs)
- I was slacking off a lot.
Julissa started already.
- It's meal prep Sunday.
(speaks foreign language)
But that's because I am cooking.
You see all of this stuff.
My bags, my tupperware.
- Seeing Julissa starting ahead of me.
Really motivated me to get my
ass up and do something, you know.
What up y'all.
So y'all know.
First run of the day done.
Had to do it out on the street.
'Cause the gyms are far.
- So, it's still week one.
Last night, I bought a different almond butter.
I caught an allergic reaction
and I had to go to the ER.
(mumbles) are swollen.
And it's Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving's coming.
Ima eat. Ima eat.
I gotta cheat.
I gotta have...
It's Thanksgiving.
I need to have some mac and cheese.
But just a little bit.
(speaks foreign language)
- So we're starting this video
and Thanksgiving is around the corner.
It's Thanksgiving.
I don't know how Ima hold up 'cause
I'm hanging out with my friends
which are Dominican and Puerto Ricans.
There is gonna be pernil de.
It's gonna be tough 'cause it is Thanksgiving.
But Ima do my best.
Packed up my meal.
I'm serious about this, man.
My boys come in, they bring in coquito,
they got the rum, you know, and they got the pernil.
I'm looking at all of that.
I'm like...
- Okay, I'm gonna be honest.
I cheated yesterday.
It was Thanksgiving.
It happens once a year.
But I only had one plate.
Did a gallon and a half yesterday.
I went to the gym.
And I didn't have no alcohol.
And I didn't get a second plate.
I'm proud of myself.
- The day after Thanksgiving and I woke up with a headache.
And I did drink.
I did drink.
I was like, yo it's Thanksgiving.
- On Thanksgiving, Gadiel says,
"Oh, happy holidays.
"I'm taking a day off.
I'm going to celebrate Thanksgiving."
And I'm saying, "Okay, well.
"No, enjoy this workout and then enjoy your Thanksgiving."
He goes like, "No, no.
"There's no days off.
"We're not taking any days off."
Even though I didn't wanna do it when I was down there,
Ima make the best of it.
So I went out to the beach.
I was running out in the beach.
That was the best experience of my life.
- Then when we came back.
As soon as we walked through the door.
Remember that energy?
- Oh yeah. - They was like nervous.
- They look different but you could tell,
I think what they were carrying was I missed some stuff.
- So when I told Kathy and Luther that I drank.
They were disappointed. They were not happy, son.
And I felt like I let them down.
- It's the end of our first week
and it's my weigh in day.
159!
Hey, girl!
So, I've lost four pounds.
- 177.4
(speaks foreign language)
That's right, son.
Six pounds.
- It's week two.
And I'm cooking again.
Broccoli.
Got some brown turkey.
Got some chicken.
Got some fish.
My tupperware is ready and on deck.
- Time for phase two but...
I woke up sick today.
I'm a little bit under the weather.
I cannot go to work and get somebody else sick.
Maya got me sick so I was out for four days.
I thought I've gotten better
but turns out, I gotta rest.
Once I get better, Ima get back on track.
- Just finished my run.
Just back from the gym.
I'm still sweaty but I'm taking a little
break before I go to the shower.
I got my handy dandy gallon next to me.
We're drinking a little less than two gallons.
Thank you, Jesus.
Our food has changed.
I have a little bit of carbs, sweet potato.
A lot of work but gotta put it in.
Gotta put in the work.
I'm excited, I'm excited.
I see a difference in like what I look
like and I feel like especially.
I think that is the biggest thing.
- I'm breaking my diet today.
I ordered some pho.
So I could feel better.
(beep) I'm messing up my meals.
I'm messing up my diet.
I'm not workin' out.
First day back after being sick.
Coming back, I feel like all the stamina I built, I lost.
The motivation is not there.
I don't...
Today I was like not in the head space.
- I was feeling myself by week three.
You start looking at yourself and you're like, oh okay.
I got this.
We are going in to week three y'all.
Oh my God.
This is really, really, really exciting
because I feel really energized.
I feel really good.
You can look at me from different sides
and the papas gone down.
And so I feel like it got to me.
And I was like, I could slack.
(speaks foreign language)
I didn't drink.
- Bullshit.
- Okay.
I had two, I had two shots.
(rap music)
I drank at the holiday party.
- Like three shots and I went to La Bella
and we had some more mescal.
We were like, yo we're gonna have fun.
- [Luther] What's up y'all.
- Hi friends. - How we look?
- Y'all look totally different.
- [Julissa] Ask him why his voice sounds like that.
- You know, we had a holiday party yesterday.
- Yeah.
- Oh. - You know.
- And we drank a little bit.
We drank...
- How come every time we meet up with y'all,
y'all had drink the night before.
What's up with that? (Gadiel laughs)
- I was like, "Yo, it's the hardest part.
"We can't be drinking."
You're like, "Ima drink."
- No. (Gadiel laughs)
- Oh.
Why did you make the decision to drink?
- Because it was a party.
Luther called me out.
And something that I didn't notice I did before
is that, you know, I use jokes to
protect myself from being vulnerable,
called out, and for my excuses.
- You use humor, which is your gift,
but you use it as like a cover up.
You want more for yourself.
You use your humor because you're comfortable
with making fun of yourself.
- And I was like, dang that's true.
- When I called him out and told him that
he was making jokes on everything
that he really wanted in his life,
he gave me a hug and said,
"Thank you.
"Nobody's ever told me that before."
- [Julissa] Come on we got one more.
- Give me five minutes.
- [Julissa] Yeah, let's do the last one.
Come on.
- You roll without me.
I'm not jumping the next one.
- [Julissa] Gadiel.
- I'm not doin' it.
I do feel bad that I left Julissa working
out by herself but I couldn't continue.
I was about to throw up.
- (beep) for leaving by myself.
- That's what friends do.
I was like, Goddamn, I gotta stop this shit.
No more excuses.
(beep) this.
Ima go hard, son.
- And that was a shift in his personality to me.
And I think he's developing to being
a man he's always wanted to be.
- I worked out the next day.
And I could feel the hurt.
But I pushed through.
- Julissa has that challenging spirit.
She's hungry and I admire that a lot
because not everybody carries that.
- We're going to work out at a new gym.
It's called The Mecca.
That already is intimidating.
- I was working out but I was not really
enjoying the work out until we went to The Mecca.
Wow.
Everybody's big.
I feel like I had to walk like everybody else.
- Gadiel just going crazy.
- He started walking different.
- Walking with his chest. (laughs)
- [Julissa] (speaks foreign language)
- I feel like I was Rocky, son.
I was like, nobody's gonna (beep) with me.
I will see in my results.
- Five.
Back down, back down, back down.
Back down, back down.
Four.
Back down, back down, back down.
Three.
(Julissa groaning)
- It's all mental.
It is all mental. - Two.
- Body weight.
Body weight.
- [Julissa] How we doing y'all?
- You guys are doing amazing.
We are really, really proud of you.
- My birthday's coming up on next weekend, right.
So, you cannot drink on your birthday.
- You already just came to the last workout hungover.
- He sure did. - And you wanna talk
about drinking already?
- Kathy's a nurturer
but she's gonna push you.
And then Luther comes with this
whole thing where he's like nah.
- Don't do it.
- Week four came around.
I was going.
I was running twice a day.
Berto and I just finished our run.
What's up, man?
I was hitting the gym hard.
I got this edible arrangement.
And it looks like it has some delicious chocolate in there.
And I can't have it.
- So good.
I love it.
- You like want some?
- Wow, this is good.
- Working out this morning.
With this beast. - Killin' it this morning.
- She's killing me per usual.
- [Kathy] You work hard.
Good job.
- Oh my God.
- There's this shirt that I stopped wearing.
It's one of my favorite shirts.
To be honest, I love this shirt.
I haven't worn this shirt in a long time because of my bipa.
My belly just sticks out.
It just doesn't look good, man.
For my birthday, I was able to wear this shirt.
I'm getting ready to go out.
Celebrate my birthday.
I was able to put on this shirt.
I'm super happy because the buttons were able to close.
I was dancing salsa in it.
It looked great on me.
- Only four more days til this is over.
This is no joke.
- You know, I feel good.
I walk around the house without a shirt on.
Which I feel more confident.
Thank you Luther and Kathy.
That yo, this has been a complete transformation.
(upbeat techno music)
(Gadiel groans)
- Sit back down.
We gotta go back there.
(Gadiel groans)
- Arch that back.
Arch that back.
How bout my head.
'Cause my head is exhausted.
(upbeat techno music)
- We're about to do our reveal for Kathy and Luther.
Today, I weighed myself.
And I came in at a whopping 157.
- What was your start weight?
- 163.6
164. - Wow.
Congratulations. - So like seven pounds.
- Seven pounds
and four inches off my waist. - Four inches.
- When I first started, I was 184.2
Right now, I am 169.2
- Wow. - That's 15 pounds.
- That's amazing.
30 days. - Wow.
- That is 15 pounds in four weeks.
And I'm gonna be honest with you,
this is the fastest I've ever lost weight.
- Without being hungry.
Let's be clear.
- Your mind is totally different.
- But what I noticed is the meals.
The way you guys broke down the meal plan,
was much easier to follow.
- I'm gonna show you guys - You go first.
- my before picture (laughs)
- You go first.
- Wow.
- Beautiful. - You look
totally different. - She beautiful, okay.
- You look totally different.
- Should I hold it?
(Gadiel sings)
- [Kathy] That's the cutest before picture I've ever seen.
- Oh my gosh. - Wow.
- One thing I did notice that I never noticed before
or paid attention to or cared about
is this. - Hello hamstring.
- So I started seeing
- Yeah. - like a little
poking out.
I was like, I never worked that out, I don't think.
- [Kathy] That's your hamstring.
- Look how lean your arms look.
- Girl. - So you guys
see the difference?
- Yeah, we see the difference. - Huge.
Your waist though right now.
You have a waist.
- Now you have like a hip.
- So you look beautiful. - Thank you.
- Congratulations. - Thank you, guys.
I appreciate you guys so much. - So proud of you.
- I gotta hug too.
- So proud of you, Julissa.
- This is me.
- Whoa. - Gadiel.
- I look at that now, I'm like wow.
- Dude.
- Let's see the new parts then.
We have your...
- Yes. - Get out of here.
- Gadiel.
- Get the...
- Are you serious? - Look at that.
- [Julissa] That's such a big difference, right?
- [Kathy] Turn around and flex your back too.
Dude.
- You get stomach.
- Your stomach is gone. - Dude.
- We're so proud - I'm proud.
- of you, Gadiel. - Give me a hug.
- Proud of you. - Proud of him.
Yes!
- How do you feel when you look in the mirror, man?
Seriously?
- I feel happy.
This is the happiest I've ever felt.
- Y'all did a phenomenal job.
- Hey, thank you guys.
Hey, you know what?
- Yeah. - You guys did it.
- We wanna say thank you. - Thank you so much.
- You're welcome. - Like...
You guys completely changed our lives.
You guys really worked on the mindset.
- You were with us everyday.
This is an online thing.
This is. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- At the end of the day, we felt so connected to you guys.
- You were checkin' in - It's the goal.
- on us so much.
We were getting motivated.
Not just physically.
Like our mindsets were changing.
- You guys truly care. - Yeah.
- You know.
You guys would look at us in our eyes
and say like, "We're here for you.
"we're here to better you."
- [Luther] You did it.
- Yay, we did it. - Yes, you did it.
- We get a group hug y'all. - You did it.
(Julissa laughs)
- I'm super, super, super thankful
that I even reached out to Kathy
and she said yes and was like,
"Yeah, let's do this."
That she brought Luther on onboard.
I could not even mention how proud I am of all of this.
- I wanna thank Luther and Kathy for this opportunity.
Thank you for transforming myself.
- It makes me so excited to look at myself
in the mirror and be proud of what I've done.
- What up.
I'm a new man, baby.
I look good, son.
- Just seeing like my energy though.
I think to me overall that's worth it.
The fact that I'm happier.
The fact that I'm just like
energized when I get out of the bed.
The fact that everyday I'm like feeling more purposeful.
Now, Ima put this new pictures I got on Tinder.
Hopefully I find a wife.
- One, two, three.
30 day transformation team.
- Whoo. - Wapa!
- Yes! - Another one.
(upbeat techno music)