hey y'all thanks for stopping by my channel today i'm kevin reese if you're here it's probably
because you saw the title why i started my youtube channel kind of my life story so let's go ahead
and get into it so i guess it all kind of starts uh with just wanting to be a better person when
i was 13 years old i was real thin skinny kind of out of shape really was not strong just weak and
scrawny so i wanted to be i wanted to be better i want to be stronger i want to be bigger so my dad
used to lift weights was in very good shape he helped some guys like help help train and teach
them that they were going to compete and a couple of guys competed in like some physique shows
so he was really he was he was a great teacher a great instructor so the school i went to was
a small private school and my dad at the time was the maintenance supervisor at that school so
five nights a week on school nights you know when he would finish up yeah i would go home i would
do all my homework he would finish up work and stuff that he had to do at the school that day
then he would come home he would get me and we would go back up to the school where we would
lift weights and he would teach me sometimes this was like eight or nine at night so i learned how
to lift weights and stuff for my dad and he would take me through everybody part every exercise
was was very serious would help me focus on what i was doing teach me the right way show
me also what the wrong way would be so that's kind of what happened when i was you know
13 growing up there and i continued to through school transferred to
another school i continued to you know exercise lift weights just continuing
and striving to be a better version of myself i continue to lift weights all through high school
and you know all into my adult life i still do so fast forward through up until right around when i
when i graduated high school i started working construction for a guy who we had sold some land
to that had a warehouse and had a construction business so i started he was a general contractor
i started construction i started working for him and i learned a lot under him but as i was working
for him i knew in the back of my head that this is not something that i wanted to do my entire life
you know i wanted more out of life and i wanted a career you know so while i'm working for this guy
i'm thinking about school thinking about what i want to do you know career options what do i like
uh what do i think i'm good at what can i see myself doing and all of a sudden my boss gets
diagnosed with cancer and he was in his in his 50s not very old but he got diagnosed with cancer
and didn't have long to live and it was maybe six months later he was dead so then i found myself
without a job no employment still trying to think about what i want to do with my life so i thought
what do i like to do what what is something that i do about every day that i'm good at
that i'm passionate about and it just it just clicked i love lifting weights i love the exercise
and working out i love being able to teach people that so i went to a local gym that i had never
been to before i go in and it's actually a funny story the lady who was the director of that gym
also taught me uh sports medicine in high school so it was a nice reunion she asked how i was doing
how i'd been that sort of thing i told her i was looking for a job that i would love to work in
this gym and help people exercise she said i obviously look like i was in shape and that i
knew what i was doing and what i was talking about and then she would be glad to have me so i put an
application ended up getting a call came in and started work and while working at that gym i met
several people that were influential in my life i worked alongside some exercise physiologists
sports nutrition majors and one guy who is a us certified track and field coach
awesome guy very knowledgeable i learned a lot from all these people so while i was working there
i was pushed in the direction to get certified and licensed as a personal trainer so in 2009
i got licensed i took my test i got licensed and certified through alpha which is the aerobics and
fitness association of america so i became a licensed certified personal trainer so my pay
jumped up whenever i was able to train people which was good but i knew i knew the area that
i was in uh i didn't want to make that a career i knew that i couldn't make it a a great career
that was a steady like a paycheck that you could count on and i and i just wanted more i was i
was hungry for more i wanted to be able to teach more in depth i wanted to continue to help people
so i took what was offered to me at that gym at the location in the place that i was and that
gym had a pool it was a junior olympic sized pool and an instructor from the american red cross came
and they took people who were interested and we went through a whole course of being certified
as a water safety instructor and basic border safety so then i began teaching people how to swim
teaching children teaching adults who didn't know how to swim you know something that could
potentially save your life if you don't know how to swim to keep you from drowning so i was
working at the gym i was personal trainer i was a swim instructor i stayed very busy
and i was in great shape because i was swimming every day i was lifting weights
at one point i was less than four percent body fat i was super lean and in great shape but i knew i
just wanted more one of the classes that was done in that gym because it was a it's a fitness center
but then it was the health and wellness center and fitness center
part of the gym was cardiac rehab and they had a registered nurse that worked back there
they had patients that would exercise on telemetry telemetry is where they hook up a monitor to your
chest a box you exercise they monitor your your cardiac rhythm your heart rhythm make sure nothing
gets crazy or out of whack and that everything's okay they check your blood pressure before and
during and after your exercise and they also had a diabetes course so on mornings that i would
open the gym on the days that they would have that class you know the rn would allow me to help them
and in doing that i learned how to check blood pressures what is the normal blood pressure what
does blood pressure mean i learned how to check blood sugar blood glucose levels i learned normal
ranges i learned how blood sugar is involved in your body all this stuff was so interesting
and just fascinating to me and i thought that i could use this and still be able to help people
and at the same time be able to educate them if they're sick and tr and help them get better and
after looking into it i found out that the field of of nursing and health care is just so large
there's so many different things you can do so that's when i decided to become a registered nurse
now as for nursing i haven't done a lot of nursing and health care related videos although some
people have asked about it the thing about nursing and health care is i don't do a job where i can
easily just go and film because you have hipaa patient i can't be in in the hospital videoing
people and talking to them i'm taking care of them so that just doesn't work but i do have some
videos planned for the future because i want to be able to help and motivate those who are interested
and those who are thinking about getting into health care or those who have already been in
health care and are just looking to take that step into becoming a registered nurse and i want
to be able to encourage them and answer questions because when i was taking all my prereqs and stuff
to get into the nursing program and then got into the nursing program at that time
youtube was not as big as it was now and i would have loved to have someone you know a guy
like me who's really in a historically you know predominant female field which that is changing
but a guy like me that i could have watched his videos posted comments he would have answered
my questions stuff like to help you you know just be more successful and be a successful student in
nursing school study tips and stuff like that so i plan on doing some videos like that in the future
now the reason i do so many mechanic style videos and like review tutorials the video the product
reviews and stuff that i do are really to that's that's just to help people that's just to kind
of help people if they're if they're looking at purchasing something that's kind of expensive
they aren't really sure about it i like doing those videos to be able to help them just to see
so they can kind of get an idea of what this product looks like or does it's just to help
people that's the only reason i do those videos and the reason i do so many mechanic videos
all this goes back to my dad again so my dad there was there was nothing that he
could not fix he could fix everything i learned so much from him when it came to
mechanical type stuff engines things like that he would never get frustrated with something
he would never cuss it throw a wrench or anything he would take his time and be patient figure out
what was wrong problem and solve it and i am the same way now as you all can see from my videos
and the reason i did that was the reason i do those mechanic style videos is because
something i noticed growing up i realized that not everyone was as fortunate and as blessed as
i was to have a father that was not only there but also was knowledgeable and able to help me
you know and i had buddies and stuff that you know that didn't have a dad or dad wasn't around
and didn't really know the stuff that i knew about cars and engines and stuff like that i decided
with my youtube channel to make some videos like that to help those you know those guys and girls
that are out there that didn't have someone to show them or wasn't sure about how to do something
they could watch my video and learn how to do it and ask questions and i'll and i answer questions
and they can avoid having to go to an auto shop to where they're going to get taken advantage of and
get overpaid get overpriced on stuff so that's a big reason that i started doing the mechanic style
videos i mean when i was 17 the car that i had you know the engine the head gasket had it had been
ran hot in the past and so the the head warped it blew the head gasket and we we pretty much had to
you know tear the if you ever done a head gasket replacement there's a lot involved with removing
the whole top of the engine so we we did that so that was when i was 17 we i was doing
rebuilding engines in the backyard with my dad and i learned a lot and i just wanted
to pass all that on to everyone else because with youtube it's a platform that i can reach
worldwide i have people all the time you know sending me love from
norway or greece or spain it's a worldwide platform and and i enjoy being able to help people
and i had a few videos where i did a little bit of gym related kind of fitness stuff
and i got some good feedback on it and in one of the polls i did i see that the majority of
y'all want to see videos that are kind of health fitness lifestyle related so some plans for the
future videos that i have will include nursing health care related stuff as i mentioned before
and also some exercise videos and the exercise videos are going to be just kind of body weight
calisthenic style exercises that you can do at home with no equipment or minimal equipment
and they're really going to be targeted at people who want to get in shape get muscular
and lean it's not going to be targeted for those who want to be power lifters or bodybuilders
but just to those who want to be lean strong have muscular endurance be fatigue resistant
and for longevity for just overall joint health mobility cardiovascular strength and endurance
that's what that those videos are going to be targeted for and as a personal trainer
i'll be able to demonstrate in the videos although the correct ways to do exercises things
to look out for how to avoid injuries proper stretching warm-up cool down stuff like that
and the videos would be for those who do not want to go to a gym especially right now with
covid you know when the gym is closed or you have to maintain social distance in and wear a mask
and you have to be six feet apart and every other treadmill and all that stuff it's aggravating so
this is stuff that you're going to be able to do at home like i said if you don't want to go to
a gym or if you can't afford a gym or for those people who are just really overweight right now
and they don't feel comfortable going in the gym and working out next to the girls and the
little fitted skinny leggings are the real big muscular ripped up guy and i've already been
working on some workouts i've got some awesome workouts circuit routines planned body weight
calisthenics it's going to get you all in awesome shape so in summary i would say the whole purpose
of my channel is just really to help others with everything that i've learned so far in my life
skills that i have and just to help others and spread that knowledge to them and with that y'all
i hope that you subscribe to my channel i hope that you click the notification bell so that you
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audience so that i can continue to just spread positivity and love and kindness and just help
other people and help everyone out because at the end of the day we're all human and we can all help
each other i'm kevin reese thanks for watching like comment subscribe see you on the next video