- We're gonna work out for eight weeks
to get our ideal beach bodies.
This is not it yet.
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- So when I was younger, I used to play a lot of sports.
Played in college soccer, really got out of shape
during my twenties.
- In high school, I played football.
You know, I was in really good shape,
I had a six pack and then college happened.
- Last year, had a really big transformation with Steve,
lost 32 pounds, lost about 10% body fat.
I felt really confident, but I still felt
like I had some jiggle in the middle.
- I wanna get more defined, and I definitely wanna be able
to like just be shirtless some time during the summer
and feel completely confident.
(rock music)
- Hi, I'm Steve Zim, I'm the owner
of A Tighter U fitness studio
here in Culver City, California.
We're gonna get these two guys measured,
we're gonna take their body fat test,
their weight, and we're gonna see
where their start point is.
14,
41,
32,
11.
His body fat to start with is 12.seven.
So he's at an excellent body fat shape to begin with.
We also don't have a lot of muscle.
We will fix that.
His shoulders, we have to bring them out.
You'll start to see how we start to develop them.
There's gonna be a complete ball here.
His chest, most guys' chests finish here.
His chest finishes a little lower.
What we're gonna do is build the chest up
from the collar bone down so we'll start
to see a separation line come to the top.
So his abs, the upper and middle, gift with purchase.
They'll be there.
The lower and the sides, that's what we focus on.
His legs, we're gonna put some size in his legs
and we're gonna make sure everything balances out.
I like symmetry and we try to see how balanced you are.
Are they symmetrical?
If they're not symmetrical, that's the most important thing.
You should be about one and a half pounds off
because our organs aren't centered.
A lot of times when people have a bad back
it's because they're way off.
You are off by about five pounds.
Five pounds is no problem, we'll be able to even it off.
And when we're finished we're gonna step back on
and I bet you he's within one and a half pounds.
You are now 130 on the right and 130 on the left,
you are completely even.
17,
47,
43,
24,
15,
Now the body fat.
- [Zach] 29 point five.
- So Zach's workout is gonna be different
from Tristan's workout.
He's got a lot of muscle versus Tristan
that we need to build muscle.
We need to cut him up so this way
we can see what's under here.
His chest does come up to about here, a lot higher.
We have to take it to the top.
We have to cut through here so when we go sideways,
this is gonna start to come in.
There's a 10 and a half inch difference
between his around and his waist.
We wanna change that ratio to get it at least to 15.
When it comes to the abs, we have this extra skin here.
So as we come down, we're gonna have to see
where the skin ends up.
The younger we do this, the skin goes back.
The older we have to do this,
the skin sometimes doesn't go back.
This is a process and we'll see what happens as it goes.
The legs are in really good shape in terms of body fat,
he carries the least amount of fat there.
We will have to proportionalize the legs
to the upper body so everything looks symmetrical.
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There's three parts to my program.
There's the weights, there's the nutrition,
and there's the cardio.
Weights are number one to me,
because you need to build the muscle.
Muscle is the engine for burning calories.
Then comes the food.
- [Zach] Tuna, salmon, yellow tail.
- We wanna feed the muscle, starve the fat.
That's the idea.
We wanna make sure we have protein, fat, and carbs.
I use two supplements only,
I don't use protein shakes or energy boosters,
I use Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Melatonin.
What this does is it keeps you from getting as sore
after the workout, keeps your muscles from breaking down,
and actually recovering a lot better.
Melatonin.
It gets us in a deep sleep.
The deeper we sleep, the longer we sleep,
the more our body recovers.
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- Week one, the biggest challenge was
definitely getting up.
- [Zach] Dude, you're late.
- Having to get up at 5:30, or six,
and be at the gym at seven?
It's 7:01.
- [Zach] Yeah, you're late.
- It's 7:01.
Going back into the gym was actually really hard for me.
- Go down.
Head in there.
- When I was in high school, I got to be pretty strong,
so going back to the gym and like barely being able
to bench press a weight that I wouldn't have
even started with a warmup was really damaging
to my mental, going into it.
Steve just saying, "It's not about the weight,
"it's about the form.
"We'll get to the weight eventually."
- My abs are killing me.
The cardio is kicking my ass, doing an hour cardio
every single day.
I am getting stronger and better.
I'm noticing different changes already,
especially in my stomach, you know, my top area.
- Diet is so important.
Abs are made in the kitchen.
The hardest restriction was ice cream.
I was like, a tub of ice cream a week kind of guy.
- Midway through week two.
(sighs)
I'm tired.
The two days was difficult.
Going from the gym, driving to work, working,
and coming back to the gym and doing the same thing,
eating, rinse, and repeat.
- The hardest part of week two was Saturday
going to brunch.
Not being able to eat what I wanted to eat.
Not being able to drink alcohol when my friends
drink alcohol.
I go to brunch all the time.
- Having done this before, I knew going into it
that the diet would be the most difficult part.
I don't really know what I made.
Cauliflower fried rice with ground turkey.
- Went to brunch and my friends were like,
"Hey, you wanna drink?"
And I was like, "No, I'm good.
"No, I'm good."
And then 12 bottles later,
(chuckles)
was extremely drunk and was like, oh man,
I kinda blew like these whole last two weeks.
I brunched a couple more times in between these
eight weeks, but that was really the last one
where I like drank heavy.
(upbeat rock music)
(groans)
- It's 5:30.
(alarm ringing)
Just started week three.
Gotta wake up!
Gotta get back to the gym.
- I was like man, is this worth it?
You know, maybe if I take off today if won't be a big deal.
I'll come back tomorrow, and then I just kept saying,
you know like, these people are invested in me.
I need to invest in myself also.
It's routine now.
So, I'm getting up at the same time on the weekends
that I was getting up during the week.
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- We're about half way through.
I feel great.
My results are pretty good.
My cardio's a bit down.
I've been trying to get it up to an hour 15.
I've been doing my 45 to an hour each day,
but it's been tough.
- End of the first month was definitely the shoulders.
Shoulders started getting bigger.
Steve was saying Trapzilla when I walked into the gym.
So, that was really fun.
What was really cool was people who didn't know I
was doing this workout were like,
"Tristan are you getting bigger?
"Have you been working out?"
- Man, you look swole as I'll get out, man.
This is insane.
You cut.
I'm watching you from afar, not even recognizing you, man.
This is crazy!
- And being able to tell somebody,
"Oh, yeah I've been in the gym with this trainer,"
and they didn't know.
They just saw the results.
That was like, this is really happening
because now it's not just my mind telling me
that these things are changing.
People who were seeing my outward appearance
were like oh, something positive is happening.
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- By the end of the first month, beginning of the
second month, people were coming up to me, be like,
"Hey, man.
"You know, your shoulders are getting bigger.
"You look a little more toned.
"You face looks thinner."
I was getting it from both, guys and girls,
so it was a really nice compliment from both sides.
- After the time we got situated and now this is routine,
I know I gotta go to the gym every day.
I know I can't eat this, can't eat that,
so I'm having my restrictions tight, not doing anything.
I'm startin' to feel really great about myself.
So, I've had this shirt for about three years now.
Absolute favorite shirt.
I put it on after the gym to go to work today,
and I moved my arm, and look what happened.
That's all from the last three months.
This shirt is done, virtually done now,
but I guess it's a success of the body workout from Steve,
so we're getting baddies for the season, you know.
- Having Tristan, it would just form this like,
I don't wanna say I'm cheesy and all,
but like there's brotherhood.
There's comradery that we had.
You know, we ragged on each other in a good way.
Pushed each other in a great way.
(rock music)
JV team right here.
Lookin' good.
Gettin' that 15 pound ball.
Couldn't handle the 20.
- It's only 10.
- [Zach] Oh, it's only 10!
That's like a bench JV move right there.
- The workouts that I enjoyed the most were either
the biceps or triceps.
I remember I used to see those guys in the gym
and be like, oh they're corny.
They're in the mirror just lookin' at themselves
the whole time, and then I became that guy.
And it was just like, every rep, I was like oh.
That's me. That's me.
And it was almost like falling in love with yourself
all over again.
(upbeat pop music)
- As the challenge was ending, the last two weeks,
certain things really were difficult.
I really wanted to just say screw it
and go out with my friends and eat whatever the hell
I wanted.
Didn't want to have any restrictions.
Other things that were harder was just seeing how
everything was coming along.
I really, I'm proud of what I've achieved,
but I really wanted to see, like, an ab.
And I'm so close to it.
I really am so close to seeing an ab.
- Week one we had these pushups,
and I couldn't do one of them.
Week seven, you know, I was knocking out 80 of them.
Now, I see it.
I see the goal.
I can do this.
- So the most difficult thing for me throughout
this whole workout process was hyperextensions.
I really struggled with that.
Maybe it's because my lower back isn't as strong
as it should be from all the weight that I've been carrying.
To do 10 of those, four sets of 10,
that was the hardest thing.
Steve didn't want me to do 20 of those.
10 was the max.
At the end, I was able to do all sets of my hyperextensions
without a problem.
- When I started, the pullover was really hard.
I was just like doing 25, and it was slow.
It was really slow.
And then finishing, I was doing like a 45.
And I was hittin' 'em, hittin' 'em, hittin' 'em.
(upbeat rock music)
- These guys did incredible.
As you will soon see.
What we try to do was do this really realistically.
I want this to be long term.
I want for you to own this body, not just rent this body.
Dude!
- We got a shirt off.
- Yeah, oh!
(claps)
Look at this guy.
Everything's proportioned.
The abs have come all the way down.
The chest is coming all the way up to here.
And then the shoulders separated out.
Now we see the bicep and nice and long.
He had no traps before.
There was nothing up here.
Look at all the way down.
But your body fat went from 12.seven
down to seven point one
You gained six point five nine pounds of muscle.
- Mr. Zach.
Look at that.
We've got chest, shoulders, the stomach's coming in.
It's not exactly the abs, but look,
we got a dent in here.
Look at this.
Those are pecs, brotha.
This is a completely different guy.
He hasn't gotten the full pack there,
but we're startin' to get the cut down the middle.
My friend here gained 12 point seven five pounds of muscle.
Body fat went down 39 point five pounds.
This is exactly what they did, how we did it,
and it breaks down when they ate,
what they ate, why they ate what they ate.
- Movin' forward I'm definitely still in the gym.
I don't wanna maintain.
I wanna still be adding on.
The takeaway that I would have is just dedication.
If you go to the gym a couple times a week,
and you're looking for results,
you're not gonna see it because you're not even
working out enough to maintain.
You gotta push past your comfort level
of how many times you wanna do this.
- This round taught me how to make fitness a lifestyle,
not just something that is a necessity,
but actual lifestyle choice and change that I wanna make.
Not something that you do for six or eight weeks,
but something that you do throughout the course
of your entire life.
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