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I was paralysed, but I got myself back on my feet, and that has made
me determined to help other people reach their goals.
Go on, push, push!
Right, let's go for it. I'm great!
Tell me like you mean it! I'm great!
Oh, yes, you are!
I've got an artificial leg. Oh. So... Snap!
Yes. We're going to be friends. Yeah.
I've always been in a relationship.
This is the first time I've been single in ages, so I've...
I'm new to it. I don't know what I'm doing. Oh! But I'm awkward.
I can't even imagine a first date.
I probably won't go on one.
My love life is pretty much a barren wasteland right now.
I think I definitely need to up my game.
I don't really like dates. Yeah, I just feel like it's an interview.
"Where are you going to be in five years' time?"
"How are your chakras aligned?" It's not OK. And then you just walk out?
"Check, please."
Hey, mate. Jay. Hi. Hi, you all right? Hi, I'm Lyndon.
Nice to meet you all. So, what can we do?
Why are you here? I'm pretty bottom-heavy right now,
so a bit potato-shaped. Got some booty. Exactly.
Not very good at "chatting girls up", as it were,
and I think mostly it stems from not having any confidence growing up.
Talk to us about, like, if you have any physical or mental limitations
that's, like, really stopping you from going for those goals.
I've got an artificial leg. Oh, OK. So I... Snap!
Yes! We're going to be friends. Yeah.
Leg friends. THEY LAUGH
I've had it since I was born, basically. All right.
I was born without a shinbone, basically, so they had to amputate
my leg, and my knees are also very weak.
Do we get to see it? Sure.
Better not be that... Carbon-fibre finish. Carbon fibre! Wow! Fancy!
Carbon-fibre finish. Carbon-fibre finish.
Removable ankle.
Wow! Cool! But can you spin around like that? Oh, no, I can't.
That is cool. I'm sorry, mate, but, you know, I've just topped it.
I've never really had a proper girlfriend because I didn't really
know how to approach the leg.
I've got lots of girls who are friends but, you know, taking
any next steps is...
It hasn't really been successful.
Do you feel like, having grown up with a prosthetic leg, do you feel
like it's affected your confidence in any sort of way?
I think it sometimes affects my confidence when approaching girls
or having maybe a girlfriend. Why is that?
I think it's just.... You're a good-looking lad.
Thank you very much.
I think it's just a fear of not knowing what their reaction is
and not knowing how to approach it.
The type of body that you desire would kind of bring the girls?
I think it'll just give me a bit more self-belief... Yeah.
..and it'll give me a bit more... just a bit more confidence when,
you know, when approaching them romantically.
It's such a shame you feel like this, and I really... I mean, Jay,
I don't know if you agree, but I really feel like you can bring that
out of him even further. Yeah. Totally. Because he's got no
confidence issues. At all! At all.
And I think there's something...
I think he can help you. I can understand. You know,
it's petrifying. Yeah. Yeah.
I remember the first time I ever wore shorts.
Jesus Christ, hated it. Yeah.
So, you know, I can relate to it all. To be able to adjust
everything, so long as I go get you, like, doing squats, we'll
isolate everything without affecting the limb at all.
Amazing. I'm excited. I'm excited!
I can't wait! So am I, yeah. Can't wait, can't wait.
It's going to be hard, though, isn't it?
All the girls, like, queuing behind him, like...
Come on, mate. Go get 'em. Let's go do this. Come on.
# The boys are back in town The boys are back in town. #
Right, are we ready? Yeah. All pumped up, ready to go.
The consultation I think went really, really well.
They all seem so nice,
and Jay seems like he really knows what he wants to do with me,
so that's really good. What we're going to start with is the prowler.
Ugh! You like that? Straight in the deep end, yeah. Yeah.
I want your chest stuck out, stick your bum out
and dig those toes in and push.
I think the six-weeks' journey is going to be more about
setting him up for this long, lifelong journey.
Let's stack some weight on it.
That's it. Stick that bum back a little bit.
That's it, dig it in. Easy, mate. Come on.
He definitely felt it.
Dig it in, come on. Oh, fuck! Do you know what?
He just ploughed through it. It was great. I love it.
You can tell I haven't used these muscles in, like, years.
We need to start working them harder, then,
don't we? Yeah. What is this? You're going to stand there.
You're going to use both arms, all right? No excuses.
Catch the tension of it. Then we'll have nice big pulls.
All right? We're going to do that
for about a minute or two minutes at a time.
That's a long time. Yeah.
That's it. Keep a nice, steady pace. Come on, push, push!
It was definitely worth putting him on that rope pull.
Come on, you can do it.
I thought, "You know what? Let's really see what he's made of."
Come on, work it. It's so hard! It brought out his competitive side.
We pushed all the way until
he literally could not fight it any more,
flat-out on the floor. Ugh!
Are we done?
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I do what I do because I genuinely can't bear the thought of someone
thinking they're not strong enough. And I don't mean physically,
I mean mentally.
So, my dream job growing up was actually a dancer.
I got accepted for dance college to start at 18,
and just before I was about to go, I needed to have an operation
to fix a hernia, and then my life sort of took a big turn.
When I came around, I had problems with my memory and my speech.
There was a moment where I realised I couldn't feel my legs.
I was paralysed from waist down, and I was just so scared.
The doctor came and stood at the end of my bed and he said to me
that he just thought that was it - I wasn't going to walk again.
18 years old, couldn't walk.
My friends were going to dance college. Dance meant so much to me.
It was my whole life. To have that taken away from me
just felt...just so unfair.
Erm...
I would sit at the end of two parallel bars, in a wheelchair.
I would use the bars to lift myself up, and then from there
I would literally drag each foot, one in front of the other,
until I fatigued, which was usually after about three steps,
and then I'd sit back down, start again.
I hit a really bad patch. I didn't leave the house.
I completely lost my confidence.
I was insecure.
You know, I was scared to do things that people were doing every day.
I could be putting in the hardest work that I've ever put into
anything, just to take one step forward.
You know, I hate the thought of someone not having the confidence
or the strength in themselves to go and do the things they want to do.
And I think fitness can play a massive, massive part in getting
people confident, strong and making them feel like they can just take
on the world.
In what ways are you spicing up your life?
The closest I'm getting to spice up my life right now
is having a hot curry.
I do feel like I am trying to cover up my body.
You know, it makes me really miserable.
I don't really want to go out, and it's just not nice, like,
I need to be more confident in myself.
We just need to spice up our life. We need to do something. Yeah.
Cos we're not feeling so spicy.
Exciting. I want to feel Spice Girl again. Hi! Hi! Hi!
Have a seat. Tell us why you're here.
Need to get fit. Had two kids. The more kids you have, the harder
it gets, so hoping that you guys can help me. Yeah, sure. Yeah.
What was your, like, fitness regime like before? Pre-kids, a lot of
dancing, partying. My first daughter,
it did take me three years to get fit again.
Then I had an operation two years after that - a ruptured cyst. OK.
And then had a... They fused my stomach to my pelvis. Oh!
So that set me back even more and I kind of lost my confidence.
I'm literally a walking car crash, so... Oh, no, no, no!
You look amazing. Thank you.
I think there's a lot of stigma when it comes to going to the gym,
because you get people that are, like, really fit and it
makes you feel embarrassed.
You know, I haven't got these, like, Love Island bodies.
It puts you down a little bit,
and so then I end up, like, running away in the sauna.
And what was the pre-baby Cassie like in terms of confidence levels
and outlook on life? Really confident.
Just, yeah, feel a bit more...
..these days, so, like I said, the stomach is, like, you know, the one
thing that gets me down. Yeah.
You always sort of come back to your stomach.
You've created a sort of negative association to that story.
To that area, yeah.
I've had a lot of people be quite nasty about it. Oh! Like, people...
Girls that don't, like... I don't know why. Just haters. Yeah.
When someone's said something like that,
it's always stuck in my head.
But I think what we need to do as well is, erm,
convert that into something positive, because it's
like when people have scars on their body,
and we should love our scars, because they made us grow. Yeah.
And whatever's happened here is who you are today. Yeah.
You've overcome it and you got through it,
and you went through a lot. These people who might judge you
don't even know what you've been through. Yeah.
I do feel like getting my mojo back.
I'll get that confidence and, you know, I'll be able
to be the old Cassie again. That's a really big thing.
You know, everyone thinks I'm confident, but I put on a front.
I don't want to put on that front any more. I just want to be me,
like, for real this time.
I would love for you to get you to a point where you can look
in the mirror, be naked and smile at yourself, like, like the body
that you see, because, like Esmee said, your body tells a story.
We just want you to have a story that you're proud of. Definitely.
I feel really empowered. Girl power! THEY LAUGH
Going into this, I did feel nervous before, but now I feel, like, really
confident that I'm going to get through this and
come out a whole new me.
Still the same face, though.
Your biggest challenge isn't actually going to be any
of the exercises that I've got set up for you.
Your biggest challenge is, you've got to say to yourself at
each repetition, "I'm great." OK. I'm great!
So, Cassie's plan will be all about training her
with a five-to-one method, and get the technique right where she starts
an exercise, she does five repetitions then four, then three,
then two, then one. It builds up stamina so quickly,
and it just shows you what you're capable of.
Right, let's go for it. I'm great!
That's one.
Cassie is brilliant when she gets in the zone.
I'm great! That's two. Bring those knees higher.
I'm great! That's five. Let's go. All the force. I'm great!
What are you? I'm great! That's it! Tell me like you mean it.
I can see Cassie's really, really pushing herself. I'm great!
That's the one! When she's saying those words... I'm great!
..she really believes it, and that's the point of all of this.
I'm great! You are great. Come on. I'm great! Knees to chest.
I'm great! And massive... I'm great!
Oh, yes, you are! And rest. How do you feel?
Sweaty. Yeah.
What were you thinking about the whole time?
That I need to do this,
I don't want to be a failure, and I want to show all those
that don't believe in me that I can do it.
I have a new-found motivation, which is, "I am great!"
Oh, I am tired! SHE LAUGHS
Grab that bottom ball down there, all right? Ohh!
Ready? So, squat slightly and then push that ball forward.
Power. Let's go.
Good. Power. Good. Power! Two.
That's a lot heavier than it looks. It is. It's good.
So, we're going to go for number two next.
Power up!
His attitude is brilliant, and I reckon, you know,
we've got a great little character on our hands, and he's going
to do really well.
How does that feel? Pretty tiring, but definitely working areas
that weren't being worked before. Good? Perfect.
I will not lie - this is absolutely fucking killing me.
I've nearly been sick twice, but I'm going to keep powering through it.
I'm feeling so good and still motivated.
I know I'm probably going to have some days when I feel like,
"Ugh! I can't be bothered to do this." But, you know, I've got to
say, "I am great, I can do this."
I've just got to know I can't give up. Wish me luck. Aw! Aw!
Aw, Cassie! So, how often has she been running? Twice a week.
That's so good! Didn't she say she hated running? Yeah. Yeah.
SKYPE RINGTONE
Hi, you all right? Hi! Hello! Hello! How are you?
Yeah, I'm feeling absolutely great. We see that you've been running.
Yeah, my pet hate, running. THEY LAUGH
Like, I feel so much better in myself. Yeah! Like, you guys
have given me, like, this opportunity.
Especially you, Kelechi, like,
really, like, helped me change everything around, so...
Cassie, you just seem, like, so full of life and, like, so full of
energy. It's amazing. Thank you.
No, I do. And, literally, I'm up early.
I'm not struggling to get up in the morning.
So, when you first came to see us, you were talking to us
about your body and your tummy specifically.
How do you feel about it now?
I feel a lot better than what I did. Been able to wear tight
clothes. Well, TIGHTER clothes. Not...
I ain't going all Kim Kardashian yet.
But, yeah, that little kangaroo pouch bit from having a Caesarean
is the hardest bit to try to get rid of. Like, you can lose it all
up here, like I have, but it's just that little pouch.
But it's better than having a massive mum tum and that, so, yeah.
Feeling a lot better about it. It's nice cos I've actually had
people say to me, "You look well, Cass." Aw! Yeah.
Like, "I can tell you've lost weight in your arms and your legs,
"blah-blah-blah. You look slim."
Been nice to have people say how well I look.
And what were the difficult times?
You were struggling with stiffness and things like that.
Yeah, that was a struggle, walking up that hill to do the school run.
THEY LAUGH
All my mates are like, "What's wrong with you?"
Like, "I've just been working out."
It's like anything. Push through it and you'll come out better on the
other end, which is how I feel now.
I'm all about you getting the physical results, but I'm so happy
with, you know, your emotional and mental results. Like, you seem
so much brighter, but ultimately it's just reminding yourself,
like you said, that you're great, and just to keep saying that.
If you say it to yourself,
your children hear you say it
and they start to believe it about themselves, too.
Yeah, 100% agree with that, cos like I said, the kids, I've got to set an
example to them. Once I've got my complete body goal, I want to start
motivating other people or maybe do, like, a personal training course.
Wow! So, hopefully, summer, end of the year,
I can start helping others. That's amazing. Amazing.
So good to hear. No, thank you. No, honestly, I owe you guys,
so thanks so much. Thank you, Cassie. Bye! Thank you. Bye-bye.
So, Lyndon. Little one-leg buddy. THEY LAUGH
I'm allowed to say that, you're not. He's been doing really well.
Yeah? He's looking incredible.
So I've been on Jay's plan for almost a week now.
And just to give everyone an update,
it's been tough.
100g of chicken, broccoli and a baked potato.
Jay is trying to starve me. THEY LAUGH
Tomorrow it will be exactly two weeks.
I've lost over five kilos, which is insane.
My dad came to the UK.
If I've gotten fat in the past, he would say, "You've gotten fat."
And I saw him and he said there was an unbelievable weight loss.
In just under five weeks, I've lost ten kilos.
Whoa! Look at that back. Look at that! I feel probably the best I've
ever felt with myself. Hey! Well done, Jay!
He smashed his diet. His back is gorgeous!
I was looking back at his back,
I was like, "Gee, I need to follow my own plans!"
Jay's workout plan! No, it's great.
Yeah. Shall we give him a call? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SKYPE RINGTONE
Hello. Hi! Hello there! How are we feeling?
It's been a tough five weeks, but feeling good, yeah.
You're doing amazing.
It's so good. It's not even just, like, your body.
Like, obviously that's amazing. But you're just, like, so smiley.
Physically, I feel good, but also I feel pretty proud of myself
that I actually stuck to it. Your back looks amazing.
Your back - woo! Well...
Just walking on the street every day, I feel a lot better
with myself, a lot more confident. Set up a dating profile.
What's this about a dating profile?
Go, Lyndon. It only happened yesterday.
Calm down, guys. THEY LAUGH
Yeah, been good. Just been chatting to some girls.
Oh, just like that? Just like that?
Just casual. Just been chatting to some girls. Yeah, whatever.
I remember when we first chatted,
you were so negative about your body.
But I can see your face, when we say, "Oh, your back looks good,"
like, your face lights up. See? See that?
That is what we love.
So, what you've been doing, mate, you know, it is paying off.
Yeah, for sure, I think so. Yeah. Now you're a hot boy.
Aaaaah!
Well... Look at him. He's like, all, like... Yeah.
"Hey, world!" You've changed! Swag, got swag..
Really happy with you, mate.
And I want to see, on your Facebook and Instagram,
something about you and another girl there, matey. Wahey!
All right, yeah?
Well, thanks for everything, guys.
Thank you. There we go. We'll catch up with you soon.
Bye-bye! Bye! That grin!
He's happy. Hot boy! He did not stop smiling, did he? No.
He literally... You did a great job, Jay.