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- As many of you know, I've been physically gifted
from a really early age, just icon genetics.
No, I was 300 pounds on television, which is super cute.
My awkward teenagers years are in reruns,
which is incredible.
But throughout my life, I had no baseline for fitness.
I was an active kid, like I enjoyed playing sports.
I just wasn't very good at them
and inevitably when I got that big,
I just wasn't really able to keep up.
So when I eventually lost a hundred pounds,
that journey was very specific to me
'cause like I had to learn how to do
one pushup or one pull up.
I had no baseline fitness,
so everything you're seeing here,
this very average package, took a lot of hard work.
In my mid twenties, I was a CrossFit guy.
That's right, if you were looking for another thing
to love about me, I was that guy.
I was into wads.
I wore lifting shoes and then I tore my peck,
Josh Peck tore his peck bench pressing.
I was like, "Okay, I probably need to chill out
on going this hard body."
So I really got into boxing and now that I'm in my thirties,
more of like a Tabata approach.
So constantly doing things for time.
I have this app, the Tabata app and it's like
how many reps can I do within 20 seconds
for 8 or 10 rounds as opposed to maxing out
and breaking another part of me.
So today, a lot of my workout,
the things I've tried to embrace are the suckier movements
like pushups, pull ups.
For legs, it's one thing I'm blessed with
it's some natural trunks.
Yeah, get that whole thing.
(Josh laughing)
So sorry, I can't wait to see the comment section
on this video, it's gonna be demoralizing.
I try to do for legs, like air squats.
I try to do pretty self-sustaining workouts
and as far as warmups go, I love hitting the heavy bag,
I like to have active warm-ups
instead of just like 10 minutes on the treadmill.
So start out easy.
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You know there's a lot of like fancier, cooler workouts
when it comes to boxing,
you know, doing mits,
but you need someone to do that with
or speed bag and jumping rope
like all the things that look really cool,
but the heavy bag is truly embracing the suck.
It's 200 pounds in front of you.
You're just there and it's between you and that,
and every time you connect, you're feeling that vibration
go through your body and there's no cheating it,
there's no getting around it,
you just have to kind of face off for three minutes
and I'll try to do that for three to six rounds to warm up.
We can do some kicks too.
(bell rings)
Next we're gonna do kettle bells.
It's gonna be a few different movements
that I like to do with the kettle bell
and we'll probably do 10 of each.
You know, when I was originally trained,
it was by a guy named Mike Knight in Detroit, Michigan
and he was sort of this kettlebell whisperer.
He's like, if you want to get mutantly strong,
grab this 53 pound bell and let me teach you.
I mean, we didn't start at 53.
We started, let's be honest at 35
but he was like, we're gonna learn these movements
and you're gonna learn how to move your hips
like you never knew how to before
and if you learn this correctly,
it's going to affect your overall fitness
in a way that you couldn't have expected
and that's why I love it
and I still do it today.
Do the other side so it's even.
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Yeah and then we could do sort of like a military press,
a strict press.
I like doing like very easy barbell workouts.
Not that they are easy,
but I've tried the Olympic weightlifting.
I might not be built for the snatch
or the clean and jerk.
Bench press I try to stay away from
just because I did injure myself,
but any of those things feel like good compound lifts
that sort of incorporate a lot of different muscles
and feel very impressive doing them.
(metal clanking)
35 guys, what do I got to prove?
And in case you were wondering natural, no PED's, nothing.
Some Nutella here and there.
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Yeah, I mean like all of these workouts
that I have grown to love even,
you know something as simple as a pushup
because I had to earn it.
I just naturally wasn't capable of doing it
the way most like young guys are able to just,
knock out 20-30 pushups without thinking.
I keep them in sort of like a standard in my workout
'cause I never want to ever get rusty or let them go.
(heavy breathing)
Man, I can sort of butterfly them a little,
but I don't know if that's mad corny.
You guys have to sort of cut it out.
What I try to do is,
I'll try to do 10, nine, eight, seven
and go all the way down to one.
And that rounds out to like somewhere
in the fifties of the amount of reps I do.
Certainly am taking breaks in between,
but can can definitely feel that when I'm done.
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How was that?
Be honest.
I can't wait to see the comments on my pull ups
'cause yeah, there's a bit of a kip.
I'm a big boy, okay?
I'm Josh Peck with Men's Health and that was my workout.
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I'm gonna go get a protein shake and an Advil.
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