- People have been asking me to put up my before pictures
for as long as I can remember,
but I never felt like I had
a good enough transformation to present.
But now it's been over five years and I want
to show you guys how my natural progress has gone
in hopes that I can inspire and motivate you
to make your own transformation happen.
This is me at 15 years old
before I'd started lifting at the gym.
I was 135 pounds, hadn't done anything
but pushups and sit-ups.
You'd say I was skin and bones.
I was tired of people telling me I was super skinny
and I needed to put a little meat on those bones,
so I started lifting.
This is after about seven or eight months
of figuring out how to lift and getting a proper diet down.
I had started to progress and I immediately
became addicted, to put it lightly.
The first order of business was to bulk
and my first bulk lasted over a year.
I started really skinny with a crazy metabolism
so I was shoveling as much chicken, rice and potatoes
down as I could just to get calories in.
It was small gains measured daily but it was enough
to keep me pushing forward every day.
Here's some footage from when I was
about a year and a half into it.
Still hadn't perfected my form but I had
a pretty solid workout going.
Everyone has to start somewhere and I'm always surprised
when people talk down on the guys who aren't as fit
trying to put in work.
But the only thing you can do is to put your head down
and continue pushing on because the naysayers
will do nothing but keep you down and away from your goals.
At the end of my high school career at the top of my bulk
I was weighing in at 195 pounds
at about 14 to 15% body fat.
I felt like a huge bulk was the best way to do it for me
and after cutting for about four to five months
I was at 182 pounds, pretty damn lean.
Now it's always fun to have definition and a set of abs
but it was time for me to put on some respectable mass
as I planned to compete, and I did.
After high school I continued bulking to put on mass
and I was 193 pounds in my 100 pull-up challenge video.
A lot of my footage from then was deleted
when my old YouTube channel was taken down
but this was from the new gym that I went to.
After a mini bulking cut I was at 197 pounds,
a lot leaner than the old 100 pull up challenge video.
I've been bulking for the last 10 or so months
and now I'm at 208 pounds.
I'm trying to get up to 225 pounds
before the end of this bulk
and then I plan to cut down until I'm about seven
or eight percent body fat.
I hope this video inspires to put in as much work
as you can every day in your workout
because anything is absolutely possible
as long as you work as hard as you can to achieve it.
If you never start, you'll never have the chance
to succeed and you'll never be the amazing person
that you wish you could be.
You'll just be another person
wishing they could change their bodies
but never doing anything about it, always talking.
One of the most amazing feelings in the world
is to look back at your body from the beginning
of your journey and see how much
you've changed yourself physically and mentally.
Whether you need to lose a lot of weight
or you're an extremely skinny person,
the sooner you start,
the sooner you'll get to your goal
and the sooner you'll become addicted
to the most rewarding obsession in the whole world.
No addiction out there
can provide you with as much mental clarity,
positive outlook, physical changes, confidence,
discipline, power, efficacy
as deciding to put in the work
to consistently exercise
and mold your body into the exact masterpiece
that you want.
If you wanna keep up with my weekly progress,
give my channel Humorous Progress a look
and keep updated with my weekly growth.
Thanks for checking the video out, guys.
I'm more than happy to answer any questions you have
in the comments below.
Now it's your turn.
Get out there and do it yourself.
Lift heavy or die admiring.