I was born with a disability called
Congenital Limb Deficiency.
My name is Ryan Hudson Peralta.
This is how you stay fit without having arms and legs.
What's your excuse?
Hey, what's up guys?
Today, I'm shooting a video
of me training in the basement.
I'm excited to show you.
I got my son Noah helped me film it,
and I'm excited to show you guys what we're doing.
Check it out.
I'm gonna take you through my daily routine
of how I stay fit and active
despite having no arms and legs.
I was born with a disability called
Congenital Limb Deficiency, which basically is the shortening of the arms and the legs.
And in my case, I was born without hands.
I'm going to show you my sneaker room before we get started.
I would describe myself as a
regular 40 year old guy.
Yes.
I'm 40 years old.
The last video we did with Truly,
there was a lot of comments on YouTube and Facebook saying,
'How is this guy really 40 years old?'
I just want to let you know it wasn't a mistake,
I'm actually 40.
What's up guys?
This is my home office / sneaker room / hat room.
I've been collecting since I was a kid.
And I guess it all started because when you have arms and legs,
you're able to accessorize with gloves, rings,
bracelets and stuff like that.
Shoes and hats are the only thing I could really accessorize with so
I kind of went all in with that.
I don't know the exact number of shoes and hats I have.
But if I had to guess, it's somewhere between
200 and 250 pairs of shoes,
and hats, I don't even think I could guess - it's somewhere like over 500.
We've got the Travis Scott sixes,
the just done twos.
These are the Yeezy turtledoves,
these are the most comfortable shoes I have.
That's a must have for every sneaker head.
Sometimes I get asked,
Why does a guy that can't walk have so many pairs of shoes?
Number one, I want to be cool.
Just because I can't walk, I still want to look good.
And number two, I want to be comfortable, especially when I'm working out. I want to have some comfortable shoes.
And these right here is gonna be what I'm going to be working out in today.
Let's go downstairs and I'm gonna go work out.
It's extremely important for people to realize
that just because someone was born with a disability
or are facing some adversity in life
doesn't mean they can't do anything.
This is my basement gym,
I call it the "Look Mom, No Hands" home gym.
My wife, my son, my daughter helped me set this up.
Pre-workouts and energy drinks are a little tough for me sometimes.
So I found these energy mints that really help me out.
Let's get working out.
Because I sit all day, it's tough for me to lose weight.
I exercise at least every other day.
Sometimes every day,
I'm getting some cardio in, get my heart pumping.
I started doing fitness bands at home
and we got different weighted bands and it seems to be working good.
Everything's trial and error with me, there's no book on how to work out
or train with no arms and legs.
Both my shoulders are completely dislocated,
the joints are worn down to nothing at all.
What I chose to do was build up the muscle around my shoulders
to help keep the pain away and help strengthen my shoulders
so I can do things.
I built up my shoulders, muscles, my hip muscles, my back.
I have Scoliosis, my back is like an S shape.
By building up all these muscles, the pains lessens so much.
Because I'm missing the weight length of my legs.
I replace it with these 10lb weights to help balance me out when I'm doing crunches and back bends.
I do six minutes of crunches here.
Then I move over to the bosu ball.
It's pretty tough.
Now let's go do here, six minutes of crunches and back bends.
This one is a little scary because I don't have my arms, to hold me from falling back.
So I have to kind of get my back perfect before I fall back and full extension.
Back and come up into a crunch.
This works my lower abs and upper abs too.
Nothing in life's easy, right?
I mean, so the people that say exercising is too difficult.
It's not too difficult. It's difficult just like a lot of things in life
that we have to do and that we should do and that we need to do.
We need to get the heart pumping. We need to stay fit, stay healthy.
And you know if not for us, for the people that love us.
All right, I'm done for the day,
and I'm feeling so much healthier, so much better.
Hopefully after watching this video,
you've been thinking about working out,
you've been thinking about doing some crunches at home.
Get off your butt because
if I have no arms and legs and I can work out,
you can too.