(upbeat music)
- So for the next month, I'm going to be training
like the actors we see in super hero movies do.
- I always wanted to train like Chris Evans.
Something about his shoulders makes him so unique,
that dorito shape shoulder to waist ratio.
- My favorite super hero on the screen is
definitely Black Widow.
Great butt, toned abs, most of it is the legs.
- When I look at these characters in the movie like
Captain America, Thor, Superman, Batman.
Rarely you get to see Asian characters
that are powerful, reliable.
I feel like there is not enough representation
of Asian super hero figures.
- So we're going to be training with
a professional personal trainer.
He has trained a lot of celebrities.
He gave Chris Evans the super hero body.
And now he plays Captain America
and looks absolutely incredible.
- Me, as Korean, really want to see if I have what it takes
to achieve the super hero look.
- I think I'm ready to look super buff.
- Hi, I'm Steve Zim,
and I'm the owner of A Tighter U fitness studio
in Culver City, California.
I've written three best-selling fitness books,
and I'm going to train Kelsey and Evan
like their favorite super heroes.
- You personally trained Chris Evans.
You showed me a before and after picture,
and his shoulders just got like 10 inches wider.
I want that dorito ratio.
(laughter)
That's what they call it!
- We're going to do a five day a week plan.
You're going to work out with me minimum one hour
with weights, and then depending on our body fat
situation, how much cardio.
With Kelsey, Kelsey is starting at a really good spot.
But we're talking super hero.
Her shoulders are rolled way forward.
You have to have everything standing up straight,
looking great.
And then the other part is we have to make sure she is even.
I don't want one arm bigger than the other arm.
We need to make everything symmetrical.
The back of her leg, we want to separate
the hamstring from the glute.
Really important for a woman to have that.
It almost looks like a bow from a bow and arrow
the back to the leg.
Evan looks a lot like Chris when he started.
Slender, good shape,
and if you look at him, he looks fantastic.
We're going to take him from looking great
to looking unreal.
I've created a program for him to round out his shoulders,
so we can really separate his shoulders out from his arms.
That's going to give us
what he calls the dorito look.
- It was very interesting to see all these numbers
that represent my body.
Like the size of my sweater, and the size of my pants,
that's literally all I know about my body size.
- I found out Evan only had to do 20 minutes of cardio,
and I had to do essentially double
or triple the cardio he had to do.
Women carry more body fat than men.
That's just how we function on our bodies.
- We use two products.
We take these before our workout,
and then after our workout.
Their basically protein.
It helps enhance muscle fiber,
and melatonin helps you go to sleep.
The deeper we sleep, the more growth hormone naturally
is created in our system, which helps us keeping us lean,
getting us stronger.
This is what we do.
I look at what we start with, I break it down.
And then I create the exercise program
that's going to make them pop on film.
- First week was just awful.
I was waking up before the sun was up.
- I never wake up at six a.m.
in the morning for anything.
It was uhhh, it was just uh God.
- A lot of his exercises are very different
from what I've been doing.
There's a lot of twisting, squeezing, and holding.
Like the first day of training,
he gave me a five pound dumbbell.
He instructed me to do this one exercise
where I bring my arm back and twist.
I've never felt that weak in my life.
- It's not about the weight.
I don't care how much you're lifting.
The weight is so secondary.
It's technique, it's isolation,
and it's about not swinging the weights.
It's about bringing the weights.
- I was really surprised how many butt exercises there are.
I had never really done anything for my butt.
- The first week just had so much pain involved.
- And I was sore every single day.
(laughter)
And it was a different body part on rotations.
- My abs were screaming for help.
I couldn't take off my shirt because my shoulders
were hurting so bad.
- I couldn't walk up the stairs to get to my desk.
- The first week is always a big shock
because your body doesn't know what's going to happen.
- Yep, this is going to be harder than I thought.
- When's my cheat day?
- When you're telling me we have four or five weeks
to get you in shape, we don't have time for a cheat day.
- I had to change my diet too,
and I think that was the thing I struggled with the most.
- The nutrition program I've put these guys on
feeds the muscle, starves the fat.
The idea is you have to get enough calories
to feed the muscle from the work we're doing.
Make sure that we're not eating sugar
and a lot of carbs that will feed the fat
because we don't have the time to do that.
We want to just shred these guys up.
- My friends wanted to go out for pizza,
or wanted to go out for pasta,
and those are all things I can't have.
And I hate being the person that's picky.
- I ate approximately 7,000 Greek yogurts
and 3,000 chicken breasts and salmon.
- Now that I'm used to this diet,
every time I eat something I can taste how much sugar
or how much sodium something has.
- We asked him if we could eat In and Out,
and he said we could essentially
just eat a patty and lettuce.
- Which is fine by me because that's what I eat anyways.
- It was not fine by me, so I bailed and ate cheese.
Like my body, I can feel the dairy.
That was really eye-opening for me.
All of the sudden I had to think about every ingredient
that was put into anything I ate.
And I realized that I had never before
seriously thought about what I consumed ever.
- It's eight a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, sigh.
At least there's no traffic.
Throughout the weeks, I was seeing changes in my body.
My biceps were showing a little bit,
my abs were showing.
- I remember the first time I had my friend
take a photo of me, and I noticed all these muscles
in my back that had never been there before.
It was really cool to be like, having these random muscles.
- And I never realized abs were so hard to get,
like one mistake or one off-track, your abs are gone.
- Good.
(laughter)
Boom.
- It's getting easier to wake up in the mornings,
managing the food is getting easier.
The trick might be just to like, just to keep going
until it becomes habit.
It's a little bit addicting, working out.
I see how that is a thing now.
(techno music)
The day of the last weigh-in, I honestly
really wasn't looking forward to being weighed again.
I didn't want to judge myself and think,
oh, I could have done better.
But I think that how Steve did it was really great,
in that it was more about the progress,
and being proud of the work that we did.
- I was actually really excited to find out
how much I changed.
Kelsey and Steve were making all of these faces
after they saw the measurements.
I was like is that a good thing or a bad thing?
- We'll start with Kelsey.
We built your shoulders up.
By having that, you might gain a little width,
but what that allows us to do is have a nice taper down.
The chest, I kind of figured this.
You were a 34, you're still a 34.
- Yeah, boobs still boobs.
- And the thighs, they were uneven.
Now you are completely symmetrical in your legs.
Symmetry, we hit it.
Weight, 123.
Nine pounds down.
But that's not the important one, it's the body fat.
And that's what gives the difference in the appearance.
20.3, 6.2 percent down.
That is insane.
- [Kelsey] My result was much better than I expected.
I was so excited, and it was a lot of change.
It was really cool to know that
all this hard work really did stuff.
- Okay, Evan.
Number one part of the dorito, your around.
You went to 48.5.
4.5 inches wider up top.
- Wow.
- Chest ended up at 39.25.
Now here's an interesting thing.
His waist started at 30.
I didn't think he had anywhere to go down.
He went down an inch and a half.
- He's a dorito!
- He created the V.
We thought there was maybe not that much body fat to lose,
but apparently we did.
So the legs are symmetrical, but here come the biceps.
Now he's at 13.75.
The body fat ended up at 6.6.
- [Kelsey] Yeah.
- So you're telling me I lost weight,
but gained a lot of muscles
here and there.
- Yeah.
- You lost all the fat, and then gained all the muscle.
- That's so interesting.
- This was only a one month thing.
I still don't have raging abs or like giant biceps,
but I think I'm off to a really good start
to transform further and better,
and that's the whole point.
- It really makes you feel alive to feel your body
and get to know your body.
I still think I'm going to use a lot of this
in my day-to-day life in a less intense aspect.
- I have a lot , a lot of respect.
All the Hollywood stars, all the personal trainers.
Their clients who are working really hard
towards their dream body.
- Going through, even just a small fraction
of what they go through is absolutely insane.
And all the pressure because you are going to be seen
by people looking this way at that date no matter what.
Just hat's off to those people that have that drive.
- They don't wake up like that.
They put in so much effort, time, and energy.
There's no way of cheating in your life.
- Forget those infomercials, go out and work out hard.
Do it the right way.
- Hey Evan!
Wait, it's really close.
- I'm going to eat it.
- Okay.
(crunching)
I'm proud of you.
(laughter)