What's up guys?
Welcome to another vlog.
It's a beautiful day in Miami and today,
I've brought you guys to Jose Martin Park.
One of the first parks that I actually
started personal training people in
and we're gonna get a workout.
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Okay I definitely gotta warm that up.
But today I'm gonna be getting into
how I started personal training.
I've also had a lot of requests from the last vlog
to make a vegan meal, so we're definitely doing that.
And I'm gonna throw in a tattoo story at the end of the vlog
so stick around guys.
Wooo!
Hey, Chris has still got it right?
So today we're at Jose Martin Park.
This park is basically where everything started for me
when it comes to teaching calisthenics.
I actually used to be a personal trainer
out here at the top of these condos.
So I'm gonna tell you guys a little story.
When I first started out here,
I definitely didn't look like
how I look today.
I definitely didn't have the skills
that I have today.
Nor the experience.
But I just stuck with what I wanted to do
and that was teach calisthenics.
Live, breathe calisthenics, like,
take my training to the next level, you know?
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Yeah these bars are dope.
Oh yeah.
Man that feels nice.
I wanted to take my training to the next level.
And obviously you can't do that in a condo building up there
so I quit, and I told all my clients,
hey, I'm gonna be training people at the park.
So if you guys wanna train with me,
we're gonna be doing calisthenics,
that's gonna be at Jose Martin Park.
When I first started I think I had one client,
came with me, that was this dude Alex.
He was a nurse out here, in downtown.
And as I would train Alex out here,
that was an opportunity for people to see
what I was doing when it comes to personal training
and the type of training that we were doing in general.
So people would see what we were getting into
and they're like "Oh that's cool,
"what are you guys doing?".
I didn't feel like I was impressing anyone.
I didn't feel like I was gonna be a good example to what
people wanted to get in terms of results in training, right?
But I knew that what I was doing worked,
and that was one thing that I knew for sure,
so I was confident enough to stay in the game.
So at the time, I used Alex, to build my skills,
my business plan, and basically my experience
on teaching calisthenics.
What are the best ways to get from point a to point b.
The best way to learn how to muscle up
from the very beginning and so forth.
So Alex, he was like my walking billboard.
And at that time I, like I said, I didn't think I could
impress anyone I didn't think I was an example
for anybody but I was enough for Alex.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is,
the other day, my friend was telling me
that he wanted to start a YouTube channel.
But he didn't think that anybody would subscribe,
anybody would listen to what he had to say,
stuff like that, right, he didn't think
that he was gonna, why would anybody listen to me, right.
So I was trying to explain to him that you're always
gonna be an example to someone.
You might not realize it, but there's always someone
that wants to be where you are right now.
And you always can't work towards becoming better
every single day, so you're always working on your journey.
You will get better, it's inevitable anyways,
so why not start now?
There are people around the world that you can influence,
that you can change their lives as well.
You're always gonna inspire someone.
So at the time when I didn't think that I could inspire
anyone there was Alex, my first training client,
out here, at Jose Martin.
And soon I had a lot more clients out here.
In fact I went from training just Alex,
to making about $5,000 a month just training people,
here, in this park.
And that's when I knew that I was ready
and I needed to open my first gym.
I'll save the story on how I opened my first gym
and all the other gyms after that for another time.
For now, we gotta go make some vegan food.
Before that I gotta get my workout in.
Alright guys, so I'll see you there.
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Alright guys, so we're at Publix.
A lot of you guys have requested in the last vlog
to make a vegan meal, now I'm not vegan so
I brought along Brian, my friend that is.
So what are we making today Brian?
Alright so we're making my go-to recipe,
that I have every day.
It's tempeh with a rice quinoa mix,
and mixed vegetables with a side of hummus.
Alright so let's go pick out
the stuff that we're gonna need.
Mixed vegetables, ready to go, takes no time.
Organic chickpeas, quinoa and brown rice mix,
roasted red pepper hummus, tempeh.
If you don't like tempeh you could try tofu,
and then there's always a lot of different options
in the vegan section of any supermarket.
Cayenne, ground black pepper, and salt.
Alright guys, we're back at the office with Brian.
We've got all our ingredients for our first vegan dish.
This meal was a special request meal from the last vlog.
But the thing is that I'm not vegan.
Which is why I brought along Brian,
my trusted vegan friend, to give us this recipe for today.
So what do we got Brian?
Alright so we have, vegetables, quinoa rice,
with chickpeas and tempeh today.
So this is a very versatile recipe,
that I eat every day, it's my go-to.
Cause it takes little to no time to prep.
Roughly 15 minutes.
Okay perfect.
Alright so I see a lot of carbs here.
So what do we got here?
So I typically break my meals down into four segments.
I always gotta have my vegetables.
I'll have my carbs, and I'll have my proteins.
You can choose how much or how little you want
depending on your diet, but, you know,
I'm six foot one, I weigh 190 pounds,
so I try to make up for some calories,
add in some carbs, having a good mix.
But you don't have to have as many carbs as I do.
Right so I do see a lot of carbs.
I guess what people are going to be wondering is
where does the protein come from?
Yeah, so there's a lot of different
sources that you can get it from.
Quinoa alone, this package you'll get
about six grams of protein per serving.
The chickpeas you'll get another
six grams of protein per serving.
And then tempeh is a big source of protein.
It'll give you about 16 grams of protein,
and it's just about...
Six, six, and 16, that's about 28.
What is this?
So tempeh is a Indonesian soy product.
It's actually fermented soy.
- [Chris] Fermented soy.
Yeah, the fermentation process actually
builds up the proteins in the soy.
Cause, I've never tried this before
so this is gonna be pretty interesting.
Alright let's make it man, let's get started.
What do we have to do?
First thing we have to put the
vegetables in to steam cook.
So we have the oven preheated at 375.
And we're gonna stick that
in there for about, 5, 10 minutes.
Pull the chickpeas out of the can.
All you gotta do is really heat them up
and add some flavor to them.
What I really like about this recipe for me
is just to me I really need something convenient
cause all day long I'm out working.
So to make something that I can make within 15 minutes
is my go-to and that's what makes it
even easier for me to stay vegan.
So tempeh, as you can see it's a fermented soy product.
Trust me it tastes good.
It has like an earthy, nutty flavor.
So it goes well with the hummus,
it goes well with the garbanzo beans.
Alright so what you wanna do is slice this,
I usually keep it in the plastic to make it easier.
Right around here, is one serving.
And that'll get you 16 grams of protein
just that little bit there.
- [Chris] Yeah I would eat that
whole little thing right there.
So if you serve yourself a little bit more,
this is super low in cholesterol, and all the fat.
So you can have the whole package,
it's really not that bad for you.
- [Chris] That's true, the total carbs in this is 10 grams.
Yeah.
Put that on there.
Any oil of your choice.
So we'll toss a couple in here, and we'll let that suck up.
This we can flop in the same wok.
Once that's ready we'll pull that out
and we'll put in the chickpeas.
And we'll cook the rice with it, and we'll season it.
And by the time that's ready, the vegetables are ready,
and we'll have a whole meal.
Perfect.
How long do you cook it on each side for?
I think it's about a minute and a half,
maybe two minutes each side.
So once it starts getting this brown color?
- [Brian] That's when you know it's good.
This, it's ready to eat, from the package,
so you don't need to worry about it cooking through
or anything.
Well, should I just try a piece?
- [Brian] Try it, I don't think
you're gonna be mad about it.
- [Chris] Oh bro.
- [Brian] It's just fermented soy product.
I mean I definitely wouldn't eat it just like this.
- [Brian] No you have to add some flavor.
A little bit of salt, little bit of cayenne.
- [Chris] Should I salt bay it, like.
- [Brian] Salt bay it bro.
Quinoa and brown rice guys.
You guys were saying oh where are the carbs,
in my last vlog for the last meal that I had well,
like I was trying to tell you guys, I was carb cycling.
Basically how carb cycling works
one day I will choose to eat all my carbs that day.
Then the next day I will either choose to eat
no carbs or I'll choose to eat half
the serving of carbs that I normally would.
And then the third day I would eat
absolutely no carbs, at all.
Basically cycle that, or just mess around with
those three days, try to put them in different order,
so that's what I do, that's carb cycling for you.
So today we are actually having carbs on my carb day.
Ready for this?
Open that package up, pour this in here.
And now we toss in the garbanzo beans
so they heat up too.
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I like a lot of cayenne.
I guess, to me, it's one of my favorite flavors.
That smells awesome.
- [Brian] Throw a few of those in there.
So the hummus just adds a little more flavor,
and also a little bit more moisture to the meal.
So that's why I always like to include it.
This looks delicious bro.
Alright so, I made my first vegan dish, with Brian.
Brian, you're the man dude.
Thank you.
So much.
Now it's time to taste it.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun, alright here we go.
- [Brian] Moment of truth.
(laughs) (cheering)
I don't know if it's cause of the hummus,
but it's like Mediterranean food almost.
- [Brian] Yeah.
This is good bro.
I don't know if I could be vegan for the rest of my life,
but, for vegan right now, this is good man.
This is good.
So there you guys go.
I tried the dish.
Let me know what you want the next dish to be,
in our next cooking segment.
I gotta wrap up this vlog now guys,
I gotta get back to work, but before we finish,
I have another tattoo story for you guys, stay tuned.
Today we're gonna be talking about my neck tattoos.
So on this side I have a passion flower,
right in the middle, I have the pattern
of the flower of life, and in the middle
I have the shape of a dodecahedron.
If you guys don't know what the seed of life is,
the pattern of the flower of life,
I mean that's a whole other story for itself
so you can go ahead and YouTube search metatron's cube,
seed of life, flower of life,
stuff like that and have fun with that.
On the other side I have a rose that's actually covered up
a rose that was there from before.
So the story with my neck tattoo is pretty short.
Basically I had gotten my neck tattoo back
when I was 16, was the first time I got my neck tattooed.
And the reason why I tattooed my neck at that time
was because at that moment in my life
I had thought, like I told you guys in the last
tattoo story vlog, that I was gonna be a rockstar,
or something like that.
Either way I knew that I didn't want to have a normal job.
I didn't want to live a normal life.
And I didn't want for sure, to work a nine to five.
So when I was 16 years old, I had the brilliant idea,
you know what, I'm gonna tattoo my neck.
Because if I tattoo my neck then for sure,
I'm 16 years old, I'm not gonna be hireable at that point.
I'm gonna have to fend for myself,
I'm gonna have to create something for myself.
So it might have been an extreme way of
basically setting myself up to start working for myself.
And it might not have been the smartest idea,
but that's what I did.
So basically I tattooed my neck
to force myself into making something for myself.
I told myself, look you're either gonna become nothing,
or you're gonna become something by yourself, right.
You're gonna create your own thing, whatever that is.
I gave myself like a make or break situation.
It was either I was gonna survive
or I was actually gonna not survive at all
and basically go nowhere in life.
So I put myself in a position where
I was forced to become something.
And I'm so happy I did that because a lot of times in life
we're always trying to accomplish things,
or trying to figure out how we're gonna get somewhere
from point a to point b, but there's always the doubt
that stops us from doing that or whatever excuse
we give ourselves as to why we're not achieving
things that we wanna achieve in life.
So it definitely wasn't the smartest idea ever,
but it was the first step into locking me into
accomplish my goals and discovering my true potential.
I guess it goes back to a lot of times
when people say, if you could do anything you've ever
wanted to do, and failing wasn't an option,
what would you do?
And I guess I use that as a way
to put myself in that situation.
I put that tattoo on my neck, boom,
Chris, you're already gonna fail
if you try to do something for someone else.
Do something for yourself.
And one of the best advise I've ever gotten,
was to make sure that you're enjoying
at least 60% of every single day.
And if you are not enjoying that time,
then it is time to make a change in your life
and maybe just go all in on something that you know
for sure, that you're gonna enjoy.
Cause at the end of the day it's your life.
And at the end of the day you're gonna be looking back
at your life and thinking about all the things you wish
you coulda been instead of actually being those things.
Stop wishing about all those things,
and actually start doing.
Go all in.
Obviously you don't need to get a tattoo on your neck,
but, put something out there.
Put yourself out there, where, you have to do it.
It's like a make or break thing.
Now it's not that I'm just thinking about it,
but now I've put myself in a position where I have to do it.
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