- Look, I don't know if you're like me, but I hate gyms.
I don't know how to use the equipment
and I feel like everyone there knows exactly
what they're doing, except for me.
But I feel good when I work out,
and I wanna feel good about getting a workout.
So for the next 30 days we're gonna be working out at home.
No gym memberships, no equipment.
Let's see what happens.
(upbeat music)
- Alright. Hey, my name is Chanda Ramnath.
I am 23 years old.
I am from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
and I was chosen to be part of the 30 day
home fitness challenge.
- We auditioned over 50 people on Instagram
and we selected her.
For 30 minutes, everyday, we're gonna do
a mixture of jumping jacks, flutter kicks,
mountain climbers, and burpees.
- 2018 was probably one of the hardest years for me.
I spent most of the year taking care of my Mom
because she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Didn't really get time to focus on myself
and I just feel like it's time for me to get back into this.
- I have a healthy relationship with fitness
but as far as like actual exercise,
I do not feel confident in getting a full body workout
knowing the moves that I can do
to work different parts of the body.
- Let me tell you something first,
I'm already a person who works out.
I work out in an average of, I don't know,
three times per week.
Working out everyday, finding the strength,
that discipline to do that everyday, that's crazy.
I work really hard on maintaining my weight
because I lose it like this (snap fingers).
And so to work out everyday, for 30 days
could drastically change my appearance in a positive,
negative way, I just don't know.
- I shouldn't be scared of exercise
and I shouldn't be intimidated by it,
so I'm really hoping this challenge will make me feel
more confident and capable of exercising in my daily life.
- Beginning.
We wanna do this.
Jumping jacks five sets, total 20 seconds,
rest in between.
Alright.
(rock music)
- It was really hard for me because I guess my body
just isn't used to that much activity.
- Jumping jacks were fine, burpees sucked.
Flutter kicks were difficult and the climbers,
the climbers are gonna be the most challenging thing for me.
- It's a nice mix up of cardio strength and balance.
I liked it.
Brenda approved.
- I think I'm doing something wrong with the climbers
'cause it keep messing up my knee so we're gonna start
with the climbers and do them slow,
so that way I don't hurt my knee.
- I've realized that I was doing flutter kicks
wrong this whole time and no one told me.
You can see them right this time.
This doesn't get easier.
- They're not easy but they're doable
and that's what's important.
- If you are all on the thoughts of how much this sucks,
it's kinda suck and you're gonna want it to end.
But if you're like,
"Oh! yeah, that sucked but that feels good."
That's doing things then you get a reward out of it.
- So I knew going into this challenge
that doing the exercises for 30 days straight,
I wasn't gonna see results unless I change
the way I was eating.
- Put a lot more focus and attention into the food
that I'm putting in my body.
- I needed more fruits and vegetables.
- You're eating more, you're burning more calories.
I'm feeling extra hungry.
(upbeat music)
- We are halfway through and I cannot believed
that I made it to this point.
Yesterday was the hardest part of the challenge,
but it takes a lot of dedication and willpower
to push through this, commit to this,
and that dedication and willpower
is already pushing into my day.
- I feel like my energy levels are way up.
My sleeping habits have been amazing.
I think that my body is finally adjusting to the work out.
I'm definitely seeing some progress
especially on that scale.
- I wish it was building up like my chest
and other muscles a bit more.
This is at least teaching me ways that I can work out
at home, place I can go more confident in the movements.
- I'm losin' a lot of muscular mass.
Doing a lot of this cardio, the body the muscle away.
My goals have always been to build up
and this is doing the absolute opposite.
(sigh)
- It was great because my friends all joined me
and that was really great.
It was really fun and motivating.
- Chanda has been showing me and Brenda up
and doing this work out with other people,
so I'm back in Texas so I'd thought
I'm gonna do this with my sister.
That's my sister.
- These are the last days.
I wanna give it, give it my all.
(upbeat music)
- I did 30 dang days of exercise.
That's insane.
(grunting)
- I dit it. I did it.
I freaking did it.
- I am just so unbelievably proud of myself.
- If you're looking for dramatic before and after photos,
that's not this video because I believed
that physical transformation and fitness takes time,
because everybody's body is different.
We did this challenge so we could feel more confident
in ourselves and in fitness.
- And I feel like I've grown into a completely
different person.
My confidence is way up.
- I'm amazed in myself and my commitment to this challenge.
It has helped me managed some of those resentful
and distressing thoughts surrounding fitness.
- Towards the end, it was always like I hated
every second of the last five minutes.
But then when you were done it was like "I did it!".
I did it.
- And while the goal of this challenge
was never to lose weight, for better for worse,
we lost some weight.
- I think I lost a little bit over 10 pounds.
- I lost nine pounds.
- I lost five founds which I need to put back on
to stay healthy.
- We committed to the challenge and I know
that you can commit to something similar.
- It takes patience, it takes time.
- You can achieve anything.
This is to me not the ideal way.
I know it's easy just for you to take it once
then by the time instead of doing this whole thing at once.
- Brenda did it, Chanda did it, I did it,
and I know that you can do a work out
that feels good for you.
This next challenge is something I've been
trying to do for 15 years.
I'm looking for people who are serious
about quitting smoking, but not just cigarettes.
I kicked this habit a while ago and replaced it
with something even more addictive.
I replaced it with a Juul.
So if you're 18 years or older and you're serious
about quitting the Juul, click the link in the description
on addition and go to my Instagram for more information
about the challenge.
Let's get better together.
Let's quit the Juul together.
Let's do this.
(upbeat music)