- [Chris] Perseverance: steadfastness in doing something
despite difficulty or delay in achieving success.
If I could sum this whole 30-day body transformation
into just one word, it would be perseverance.
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I started this 30-day challenge because, well,
I definitely felt like I had a dad-bod.
I was at that point, you know,
we were doing a lot of traveling
and stuff like that with the THENX crew.
I wasn't on my normal routine.
Back then, when we used to train, we used to train so hard.
Every single day we would show up to the THENX gym
at like 9:00 a.m., we would train nine to 10, 10 to 11.
Like kill ourselves, and then after 11,
we would basically start work after that.
So, back in 2017 and 16,
I literally, like, trained two hours a day, and as of 2018,
the business has grown a lot, a lot of things have changed.
I definitely have a lot more responsibilities,
so I've been training a lot less
so I wanted to push myself back how I used to,
and basically get 2018 back to how I was,
and take it to the next level.
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Every year I feel like I must be stronger, faster,
better than the old version of myself.
So, this is mainly why I do it,
and that's why I'm doing it at the beginning of the year.
It's the perfect time to do it
because it's gonna set the tone for this year
at the beginning so that I really hold myself accountable
into becoming the best version of myself this year.
In 2019, I'm gonna do it all over again.
Basically when I first started the 30-day transformation,
we had just gotten back from L.A. not too long ago,
so I wasn't back into my workout routine.
I'm used to training in hot weather.
We had just come from really cold weather,
and Miami itself was, like,
the coldest its ever been in a really long time.
So, the first couple of days when I started
the 30-day body transformation,
I definitely needed some time to get back into the groove.
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Basically, I just needed to shake off the rust, you know?
A lot of things that you're used to doing
that you haven't done in a long time,
you try it again and it's, you know,
you're definitely rusty, so I felt like super rusty.
When I first started the 30-day body transformation,
I think like day one, I weighed, like,
160 pounds, 161 pounds, something like that.
Now, at the end of this 30-day transformation,
I weigh about 165 pounds,
so yeah, I gained like four or five pounds
through the whole 30-day transformation.
Well, normally when my training isn't on-point,
other things as well suffer, too,
like diet and stuff like that.
So, my diet at that moment when I had first started,
it wasn't exactly on-point, I mean I don't eat unhealthy,
but I mean I just wasn't eating
as best as I could in other words.
There's a lot goes into nutrition, you know?
The time of what you eat, what it is that you're eating,
and also which day of the week you're eating it, so--
This is what I'm eating for today.
All of these things, I started to take more serious
when the 30-day body transformation kicked in.
I think that's what's really cool about a challenge,
or a 30-day body transformation in general,
is that you really hold yourself accountable,
at least for a consecutive amount of 30 days.
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There is a workout for the day.
Using the Heria Pro app has really helped
through this whole entire transformation.
You can just go in there, create a workout,
and then you can schedule it,
and it will send you a push notification
of the time that you scheduled it.
So, I scheduled my workout now for one o'clock.
The workout I had scheduled
and created earlier just came through,
it's time to start the workout of the day, guys.
To really make a change in anything,
you have to do something for a consecutive amount of time.
So, I think, like, doing something like this
is definitely, like, a good booster
when you're trying to take it to the next level
or when you feel like you're just like stuck somewhere.
Other parts of my routine suffered because of that as well.
You know, so having a 30-day body transformation
to basically hold myself accountable,
at least for consecutive amount of days.
I knew that that was not only gonna change me physically,
it was gonna help build my cardio endurance,
everything else, bring it back to where it was, but mainly,
it was gonna bring my mental state back to where it was.
You know, getting used to training again,
and getting used to basically going hard
as soon as I wake up in the morning.
The thing I found hardest about this 30-day transformation,
honestly, was just being able to stay consistent.
And I really think that that's probably most people's
struggle when they're trying to get in shape anyway.
You know, the working out part and the nutrition part,
it wasn't anything that I haven't done before.
They were very doable, I mean like,
I shoot videos for a living,
so even though I wasn't on my normal workout routine,
I was still shooting and filming videos
on a daily-weekly basis, you know,
so I was always staying active.
Definitely trying to stay consistent
was probably the hardest thing for me.
You know what they always say,
"You don't find time, you make time."
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I had to make time because every single minute,
every single day, every single hour of the day,
I'm doing something for work,
I don't exaggerate when I say I work every single day.
On Sunday, I'm literally editing from the moment I wake up
to the moment I go to sleep.
That's the day I upload the THENX videos.
Same thing for Thursday,
when I upload the HeriaVlogs and stuff like that.
So, that's why it was such a big struggle to stay consistent
was because trying to make that time
as well as taking care of my son, dealing with work,
and everything else in between,
trying to fit in a two-hour workout session,
you know, with how full my plate is now in 2018.
That was super hard, so I definitely had to lose sleep,
or I would have to wake up extra early,
or I would have to stay up extra late
just to make sure that I got that training in that day,
but that was the whole point of
the 30-day body transformation.
It's like normally on any other normal day,
you would just be like, "Ah, just do it tomorrow."
But on this challenge, you know,
I really, really did not let myself go through that
because I definitely felt that at the beginning
of the 30-day challenge, like the first week,
I was already like, "Ugh," you know like,
"I'll just move this workout day to the next day."
But I knew if I was gonna allow myself
to do that at the beginning,
then I was just gonna start accepting, like,
being a person that makes excuses, you know,
or a person that falls to their own excuses.
I had to set an example or set the tone right there
and be like, "You know what? I basically made that promise
to myself right there, like bottom line,
no matter what, this workout, this task is gonna get done."
And I just put that in my mind, and engrave that into me
at the very, very beginning so that
by the time I was working all the way out to the end,
it was just like intuition for me to just
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I'm not going to sleep without doing that, ya know?
My main goal for this 30-day body transformation
was really just to bring back that attitude,
like that motivation that I had like I said back in 2017,
back in 2016, I was training like a beast.
Now that 2018 comes around,
I have a lot more responsibilities.
There's a lot more things to handle within the business.
I have my own YouTube channel now.
There's just like so many more things going on.
There's more athletes that we're working with
on a daily basis, stuff like that.
I definitely felt like I was losing that time
that I always had to myself to train
and to improve and get better,
and with that I felt like I was also losing that motivation
and that attitude where I would always like,
"No, no matter what, this is my day,
I have to start working out."
You know, I was getting more lenient with it.
I was like, oh, you know, putting it off more to the side,
'cause I was prioritizing my work versus my workouts.
So, what I wanted from this 30-day body transformation
mainly was just to get that mindset back again,
because I know when you have that mindset,
you know you're like unstoppable.
Those are the times when I was deep into that mindset,
those are the times when I've advanced the quickest,
the fastest, and the most efficiently.
And those are the skills and the strengths
that I still have with me today.
With that mindset, anything can be accomplished.
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When you're working out with your friends,
or basically when you're working out with someone else,
it's a lot easier to get through your workouts.
You know, you have that physical motivation
where it's like you see somebody do something,
and you're like, "Nah, I gotta do that shit,
like I can't let that person do that and me not do it."
Or, "I can't-- I can't be that person that's gonna quit.
Ya know, if he can do it, I can do it,"
or "If he's still going, I'm still going." You know?
Or "If he stops, let me be that example to keep going."
- Working out with Chris was dope, man.
His training style is definitely unique.
Some workouts had me stepping out of my comfort zone,
and push myself harder than I've ever pushed myself, so.
- They push you to keep going,
and you push them to keep going as well.
(inaudible) Last one, bro. Last one.
- [Bryon] Yeah? - Maybe.
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When you're trying in that type of environment,
it's a lot easier to get through your workout.
- Chris is very open-minded about training.
We've even incorporated some power-lifting techniques
which was pretty cool to bring that back,
and be able to adapt new and different exercises.
- It's a lot more fun, and you tend to get
the most out of your workouts.
Now that I've finished the 30-day body transformation,
I definitely feel stronger, you know,
my cardio has gone way up, I can endure a lot more,
I can go a lot longer during a workout
than when I had first started.
But the most important part is that I had gained
that mental focus that I had before.
Now, I feel like 2018 is mine,
I'm definitely gonna kill it,
I'm definitely gonna hit new PR's,
I'm definitely gonna be hitting new skills,
and I already feel like I'm in the best shape of my life
right now to start doing that.
These 30 days have really tested my strengths,
but mainly my mental state, and I can definitely say
that every time now I wake up in the morning,
and I have that focus again,
I'm just ready to kill my workout.
If you've never done a 30-day challenge,
a 30-day transformation in your life,
if you've never done anything consecutively for 30 days,
you need to try that, that's like my number one advice,
because for me, that developed the habit of perseverance.
I feel like everybody has an opportunity
to take themselves to the next level,
to push themselves a lot further,
and to do a 30-day body transformation
consecutively for 30 days.
Train, and transform their life.
Make a difference for those 30 days,
pushing themselves to limits that they never have before.
I think that that's gonna positively change
the rest of their life.
It's definitely not gonna be easy,
but it's definitely gonna be worth it.
So, now I wanna challenge you guys
to your own 30-day body transformation.
Download the Heria Pro app in the appstore.
Start your day one today, and take a day one photo.
Then, start training every single day consecutively.
Hold yourself accountable,
and send your before and after photos
to my30days@Heria.pro.
Thank you, guys, so much for going on this journey with me
of this 30-day body transformation.
I can't wait to see what you guys are gonna do
to change your bodies and to change your lives.
I'll see you guys next Thursday.
Mad love, peace out.
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