(inspiring music)
- I gotta wake myself up.
Just rolled out of bed.
Nah, I'm just kidding.
Actually I'm not kidding.
Yesterday, I was up all night.
I can't even see straight.
- Ohhh.
- I'm about to eat this air sandwich, right?
- 9:47.
- 9:47?
- What's the difference between a latte and a cappuccino?
- That's a good question.
I think latte is more milk than coffee,
and cappuccino is more coffee than milk.
- If you can answer that question, comment down below.
- Comment down below.
- A cappuccino is more foam, latte is less foam.
- I'm kinda pissed, though, I didn't get a haircut.
(chuckles)
I'm gonna look like sh- (silly sound effect)
in all these pictures
on a day that I'm gonna take like a billion photos.
Man, this sucks.
Oh, my hair's not that bad.
It's not as bad as I thought, alright, here we go.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
For all of you who wanna know my hairstyle,
just put a little bit of water on your head,
go like this this and this and that and this and that,
(claps hands together) and ready to go.
- Yo, what's up guys?
We're out here at the Fit Expo in Fort Lauderdale.
Come pass by the booth and say "what's up?"
Yo, what's up guys?
Dope!
Yo, our booth looks poppin'.
Does our booth look poppin'?
What do we have here, we have THENX joggers, what?
Resistance bands.
This is like my favorite thing that we sell.
I literally use this thing like every single day.
This thing will change your life right here.
Some rings, baby, THENX rings unboxing.
- Showin' off the Dem-breaker, what!
- I wanna go there, let's go.
- [Chris] Let's go.
(light, tinkling music)
You said the right word, it's all a journey, man.
This is gonna be on the next episode.
Episode three, vlog three.
This is not exactly the nutritional segment
I wanted to give you guys but I'm about to eat right now.
I normally don't eat this food,
but I'm stuck here at this Fit Expo.
So, let's just see what they have to eat here.
Y'all gonna think I'm nasty, but...
- What's up man?
- Let me just make sure I got my judges right here.
Chris Heria, yo, from THENX.
I remember when I first got on Instagram,
he was one of the first dudes I followed.
OG in the game.
- [Announcer] Last 15 seconds.
Hittin' the high bar with some aggression.
And it goes to Zay Tiggs!
(crowd cheers)
Congratulations on the win!
- Honestly, they both killed it, bro.
Fitness Buddha killed it, spot on,
Zay killed it spot on.
The only reason why I chose Zay was because
Zay used more eloquency, used the floor,
used the bar, and used the parallel bars.
They both did sick, they both did amazing.
I'm not joking.
Guys, it's gonna be 8:00 PM soon and I still have not
edited this Sunday's YouTube video for THENX,
so I'm here at the Expo and I'm gonna take a little break.
I got my computer with me and I am going to
edit this Sunday's YouTube video, 'How to Muscle Up 360'.
Thank you guys so much for passing by.
I appreciate you guys, all.
Thank you guys so much for watching the videos.
You guys are so rad, seriously.
We have like the best viewers.
We have the best THENX athletes.
You guys rock.
Our next fit expo is gonna be in January,
at the LA Fit Expo.
Til then, I gotta finish up this editing right here.
It was a blast and we had a lot of fun,
met a lot of great people.
Thank you guys so much again, man.
I love you guys.
What's up!
Yo, Garrett, what's up, dog?
- [Garrett] What's up, my man?
Meet me at the bottom of the restaurant?
- Yeah, yeah yeah.
That was my boy Garrett.
I met him through Mike Rashid,
if you all don't know who he is,
shout out to Mike Rachid, the OG.
We were hanging out at the fit expo.
I'm gonna have Raul go downstairs and pick him up,
because we're gonna get a workout in.
(chuckling)
- Just spoke to Chris now, met him at the expo.
He's a really talented guy, and we 'bout to go
get some dope shit for you guys.
- Yo!
- What's good, bro?
- [Garrett] Chris, this is Dave.
- What's up, Dave, nice to see you.
- [Garrett] Yo, this is so,
this is the look you were going for.
- [Chris] Yeah it is.
- Yo, man that's dope
and these are all in between everything, or-
- Yeah, yeah, these are gonna be,
we're just selecting shots that we like.
- Then I won't be verified until I get
like inked up like you boys.
- Hey, man, the tattoos don't make you.
- Yeah, right?
- Hey that's funny, you know what?
I'm doing a tattoo story at the end of this vlog.
- Yeah, yeah.
- If you want, we can drop in one of your stories.
- Yeah, dog.
- Pretty much, all my tattoos have to do with my life.
That's my daughter.
I'm a firefighter from Miami beach.
I got all tatted up within the last three years, bro.
I'm gonna give a tattoo story about this one right here.
Stay tuned for that one, at the end of this video.
Alright, so you first started calisthenics
when you were like six years old, right?
Five or six?
- Yeah, five or six years old.
The way I started, it was,
my uncle, he was in and out of jail all the time,
and my mother used to drop us off over there
for like daycare and stuff.
So my uncle would wake up every morning
and do 100 push-ups,
and I would catch him in between like 50 and 60
and just drop down and like, yo, wait,
let me catch up, let me catch up.
So I did that every morning, every morning with him,
every morning with him, religiously.
I didn't really start hitting real weight, weight, weight,
until I was probably in like the 11th grade
because I started playing sports and stuff.
I started lifting then but by then I was a monster.
225, ten reps, 405, one rep, maxxing out.
But it was just muscle memory,
muscle maturity, you know, where you're doing the same thing
for so long at a young age,
by the time you keep it going, bro,
it's just like everything kept going, kept going, kept going
one building block over another
and before I knew it, I was just like,
I gotta keep going with this.
- It's the skill and the strength that you develop
along that journey, so if you skip the part
where you gain strength and you gain skill,
and you just get big, what's the purpose?
- Exactly.
Nowadays, bro, guys that are not as big are just as strong,
and the guys that are huge, you know what I mean?
Back in the day, you'd be able to look at somebody,
be like whoa, he's huge, he probably lifts a lot of weight.
But now bros don't like that no more.
By the time I got, what, 15, 16 years old,
my muscle maturity was already there,
so the press in the gym was nothin'.
- It was natural.
- Yeah, it was natural.
- Because with calisthenics,
you were already doing that pressing movement.
This man is 25 years old!
- If he was wide, he'd be a beast!
- There's no cap now, there's no reason for you to be,
you know what I'm saying, like before,
you were looking at guys like Arnold,
and stuff like that and they were 28, 27-
- [Chris] And you would be looking at time
as a like relative thing.
- Exactly right, like bro, there's no filter now, bro.
- [Chris] Time isn't relative anymore when it comes to that.
- Yo, these guys are like 23, 24, 21,
and they're starting early, bro,
they're coming for everything.
- What's important isn't the time,
it's the moment that's relative.
And the moment is now.
And there's more opportunity,
that you don't really have to invest anything but time
to create something nowadays.
Like you can start advertising, or promoting,
or doing anything for yourself, by yourself,
for free nowadays, you know what I'm saying?
- Exactly, and there's so many outlets, man,
you know what I mean?
You can take advantage of it, or a lot of other people will.
They're doing it man.
- Oh shit, that's you bro?
- That was me, man, back when I was in high school.
I was always a skinny kid too.
- Yeah, right?
- [Chris] Damn, that's crazy, that's a transformation, bro.
Yo, man, I'm inspired, we should go get a workout in.
- Yeah we got to, man, we got to.
- [Chris] Hell yeah, let's do that shit.
- [Garrett] We got to, dog, you know what I mean?
- [Chris] Let's do that shit.
(crosstalk)
- [Garrett] Let's see where we're at.
You guys got me feelin' like Dwayne.
Here we go.
There you go.
Yeah, right?
- Yeah.
- How many should I go for?
- I got like, what, ten.
Make it all the way down and all the way up.
That's big right there.
Yeah, that was a lot, right there, good.
- [Chris] There ya go.
- There you go, yes!
Okay, okay, I see how you use it to alternate.
Yeah, okay.
Turn your wrists in on the way up.
It's a different world where you just gotta
pick up a weight and lift it,
but when you have to stabilize your body
in order to move through reps and sets, whew!
Set!
- Tell me you feel that, because if you don't,
I'm gonna have to take it up to the next level.
- My boy Chris ain't no joke!
(inspiring music)
- Way to go, D.
- We're on it, brother.
- That's heavyweight skills right there!
- Chris really put us through it, man.
- Aw, yeah, hell yeah.
I can't lie, hard work.
- Not at all, baby, not at all.
- Y'all stay tuned, the match is gonna be sick.
Some of that different angle shit.
- [Garret] Yeah.
- So today I'm gonna be talking about this tattoo
right here, my Albert Fish tattoo.
I got this tattoo by Jose Rosado.
He's one of my homies, one of my best friends.
He actually owns his own shop down in the hammocks of Miami.
It's called Black Tie Parlor.
You can check him out at BlackTieParlor.com.
So I've been playing music since I was like 12 years old.
I started off playing piano.
My mom got me a couple piano lessons when I was like,
super young, like seven years old.
I did a couple of those and then I fell off super quick.
I guess I didn't really wanna play piano,
but what I really wanted to play was guitar.
And I finally got a guitar when I was like
11 or 12 years old so I really got into music
when I started getting into playing guitar.
Eventually, I made a band with a bunch of friends of mine
that had also played other instruments,
and we started making like, oh my God,
I've made like every type of band,
like punk band, rock band, death metal band, metal band.
Like I've literally experimented with everything.
I also produce a lot of the tracks that are on
THENX channel and this channel as well.
I'm gonna, in fact, show you guys how I make my music
probably in the next vlog.
So around 16, 17 years old, like what I really wanted to do
as crazy as this sounds, I wanted to be in a band,
I wanted to be a rockstar, you know?
That was actually my first passion.
It was the first thing that I actually started
taking seriously in my life.
I remember having a band and it was actually like
running like a mini business, you know?
Like make sure everyone was hustling.
Putting the work in when it came to
writing music, playing it on point with everybody.
When you do shows, making sure that
everybody is working and hustling basically,
making sure you're coming out with new merch,
and getting our sound and our image out there online.
So that was basically my whole growing phase,
it was basically my whole teen phase.
I hold a part of that pastime very dear to me.
I'll never forget those moments.
Raul here, he was actually the singer for our band,
Theater of the Obscene,
but before we were Theater of the Obscene,
we were called Albert Fish.
We named it Albert Fish because it was a death metal band,
but we didn't want to be so generic and name it like
Black Death or anything stupid like that,
we just wanted like a super normal name
so that when people heard it they were like,
oh, what is that, and they would want to inquire more.
So basically, Albert Fish, our band,
was the first thing that gave me like passion, you know?
It was the first thing that made me feel raw energy,
like I really wanted to work towards something,
and that was such a developing moment of my life,
something that I'll never forget,
and something that has made me who I am today,
which is why I wanted to get a tattoo that resembled
that whole part of my life.
I wanted to concise that into a tattoo.
Now, I didn't want to get anything corny,
like a guitar tattoo, or, I dunno, like a music note
or something like that.
And I wanted to get art, I didn't want to get words on me,
like my band name or anything like that,
so I chose to get Albert Fish's portrait.
It may look pretty grim.
It may sound pretty grim,
but to me it's just a reminder
of that whole experience growing up.
That's what it really resembles to me,
not really so much as who that person is,
but the concept behind it.
To sum it all up, this is Albert Fish.
I got this tattoo as a tribute
to all those good times that I had playing shows,
making music, and hanging out with the best people.
Basically developing me into the person that I am today.
(music fades slowly)