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everyone is the same there's some people
that just like to kick back and coast
through life and I just want to be very
intense and want to be number one and
want to be successful
that's like me I always wanted to be
very intense I always wanted to be
number one I took it very seriously in
my career though this was the same when
I started with bodybuilding I didn't
want to just be a bodybuilding champion
I wanted to be the best body build of
all times
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before my team does I actually have
brief signatu cinderblocks because I
didn't have enough money to go to
Adele's and you like a $60 week set so I
started with this broomstick and cinder
blocks and I tried doing floor presses
bicep curls I mean the interconnection
it was really slow like dial-up but it
was enough for me to look on YouTube and
learn about working out and I found that
you know oh town my hands I was like
what better to do so I did and it became
like an addiction and I loved I remember
I have posing videos of when I was just
shirtless hitting poses I'm like 13 14
years old and I was in good shape and I
made me feel good so after about a year
of training with broomstick and cinder
block I graduated to a week 16 events
and then shortly after that where I'm 15
now I'm back in America now I'm back in
the States
I'm back in New York City right and then
for a couple of years
I was jumping between gym I picked up
boxing I had a couple of friends oh my
oh my friends don't people I knew we're
at the gym right because that's the only
place I went getting bigger and stronger
with the only thing that but I was good
at I wasn't good at studying I wasn't
good at pushing myself into anything
else they're done you care about
anything else that's all I really knew
already careful always national but one
thing I want to get better I was working
on getting bigger
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that no matter how dark it may seem
right now you look for the light because
there is good in your life right now
even if you don't see it you need to
look harder because it is there
I was jumped between gyms and then
finally I moved to Washington Heights
myself a little bit and went to the gym
called Jays big gym was a hardcore
bodybuilding show right it was on 181st
Street and st. Nicholas as long as
you're making progress long [ __ ] better
now than you were last year
that's a PR and small PRS a lot of small
players made it for a really big button
just wake up one day and squat 900
pounds I started at 225 then 300 four or
five six seven hundred and then I had
that same intensity passion and
gratification when I nailed those few
hours along the way I did when I hit
nine hundred those small few yards I had
up to nine hundred are equally as
important a big night repeal so I just
want to encourage you guys to place that
same intensity the same passion you may
have hitting the gym EEP I was in here
as you would to everything else outside
your life and if and just because you
don't come it's because you may come
short if your goals will die maybe you
know maybe you're at a new job and you
want to get promotion faster but it just
didn't happen maybe it did happen but it
happened with timely fashion you want it
to be as long as you're making progress
launch it better now than you were last
year
that's a PR
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mistakes are gonna keep coming you're
always gonna make mistake is hard living
but it's how you learn from those
mistakes that makes you the person walk
today how you learn from those mistakes
how your advertise it and then what you
learn from it because I learned what I
learned from that is gonna stick with me
and help me progress for years to come
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did you have to dig deep down dig deep
down and ask yourselves who do you want
to be not what but who
and I'm talking about not with your
parents and teachers wanted to be but
you I'm talking about figuring out for
yourselves what makes you happy no
matter how crazy it may sound to the
people when I was a kid I didn't deal
with bullying I dealt with poverty I
don't want up in the ghetto up that live
living off food stamps I dealt with
being raised by single mom with abusive
boyfriends and God just Pattinson was
all about and so I also dealt with being
surrounded by people growing up who were
not successful
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to me if I was back then they weren't
successful so motivated me just I always
want to set up I always want to be
different
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you need to place the same intensity the
same discipline same commitment as you
would trying to do a PR in the gym as
you would and your life goes that
nothing makes me feel better than
hanging up your arm
to try to be the best trying to be
number one I did power thing because I
knew my potential and I felt like I owed
it to power to public community to
realize my potential to reach my true
potential because I care about being
invested pressing because I have a gift
and I feel really shitty and like I'm
betraying the party community if I
realize I have this gift and I don't do
anything with it I couldn't sleep and I
have a guilty conscience I feel like I'm
just wasting to get through it and I'm
so happy that I realized it and then I
continued to maximize my potential power
hitting a PR it's not about being better
than somebody else getting a PR about
being better than yourself your biggest
competition is yourself you may have
heard this before and at some point but
it is so true when I hit 5 chicag
Mandela when I first time I hit that I
felt just as amazing and excited as
money nine hundred when your passion
about something passionate is probably
the strongest emotion you can have
passion can drive you to go to lengths
you never thought you would go to and
that's part of the reason why I feels so
good to make progress and something
you're passionate
no matter so much to you because your
Pat you love it you're passionate about
it you want to be the best you can be at
it and then eventually once you realize
that you're passionate about it once you
find your passion and you realize that
this is just something you're passionate
about you start comparing yourself to
other passionate people nobody is gonna
be the best at anything right away
nobody is that talented where your first
year doing it you're the
you know one of the best but your
ability and your attitude to learn from
your mistakes and stay consistent and
dedicated towards just bettering
yourself and really just holding
yourself accountable for the mistakes
you make he gets you so far your
attitude and storage failure is super
important I didn't see a light like I
didn't see a way to get out of poverty
mistakes are gonna keep coming you
always gonna make mistake it's part of
living and it can be hard to come to
translate or to accept that you make
mistakes but it's how you learn from
those mistakes that makes you the person
you are today how you learn from those
mistakes how your attitude towards it
and then what you learn from it because
I learned what I learned from that it's
gonna stick with me and help me progress
for years