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  • in about five weeks i will loose thirty pounds like that that's the best weight loss

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  • break too much how's everybody doing in

  • who can I work out this morning awesome

  • love to teach everyone to be arm who did make it like you people

  • trumka me twenty so arm

  • thank you our talk a little bit about how to be awesome and how to make some

  • money and how to be successful how to be happy

  • and I'll in 209 if you're interested in those things but also first wanna talk

  • about me a little bit I know Rahman getting my story

  • a bit there I love the microphone I flying back to encounter again

  • so on down mother Cora Cora on nevermind

  • even flashback im sorry all those people in the room

  • call soap I was born in a van down by the river

  • actually was born in the state around our ocean state

  • and some my father was in the military

  • so he was a tank commander and we moved six times before fifth grade so we

  • started morale in

  • and we moved to Kentucky Kentucky to Hawaii Hawaii to Connecticut Connecticut

  • to upstate New York back to connecticut then rowan and then we finished in

  • communicating added an extra town there how to know

  • baby but but you know I was a very very insecure kid and I had a speech

  • impediment

  • I was a terrible student because I had so many different teachers and some

  • different friends and yeah I was that kid they got shoved in a locker got beat

  • up in

  • the last kid picked for every team except for dodgeball weird

  • in anyway

  • I'll take him you know easy targets so are

  • it was a bit of a struggle for me when I when I was a wee boy and um

  • and are my father was a tremendous athlete he played football basketball

  • baseball he was the capital of three

  • and his father really pushed him quite hard and that's the way to the back in

  • the fifties in the forties

  • and that mindset didn't change much are my coaches I did make the football team

  • actually technically

  • they kept me on the football team because I mean awesome

  • tackling dummy between Mondays and Thursdays

  • and then are usually in Friday night's I was a guy with a helmet gone

  • yen is plane was awesome and you know you want

  • like in warmups are the only time I really got dirty was in warmups I get

  • down there around the much I look like I played

  • because typically you know take a picture afterward memories uniforms were

  • felt in this is

  • perfectly white uniform that was mined I don't even have to wash mine this is

  • perfect

  • then I'm off to college and I majored in a

  • chasing girls in drinking beer that turned out really well so you know I

  • don't want you to think that I was a

  • somebody who is involved in fitness in was a brilliant student that wasn't the

  • case in I was kinda get through life

  • my father I after the military arm was on the road Monday to Friday so

  • he was just my mom my two sisters hanging out and

  • I had a couple friends but we were terribly athletically and we played

  • stickball in

  • some basketball and you know the usual things but we didn't exercise our train

  • that's something that the athletes did this something I was forced to do when I

  • did play

  • high school football but it wasn't my nature is not who I wise and I really

  • struggled in school

  • up I think I'm gonna blame it on up removing all those times

  • as a compliment me the same way arm

  • but also to I also struggled I as to college

  • you know I was also no I never and they're actually graduated from

  • University rely on

  • but I was very fortunate to the week a graduation

  • a different mine from high school called and he said what he don't ring the

  • summer ice I think I'm gonna commit suicide

  • shows about right been cuz I could have been more depressed more sad and

  • and more are I

  • concerned about my future because I really didn't know where I was going to

  • go on when I was gonna do

  • and I wasn't I was eating crap you know I was eating whatever I i and I was on a

  • budget

  • as a college student and arm you know a garbage the morning I

  • garbage at lunch in a garbage at dinner cuz I did no better cuz it was the

  • seventies and that's what we ate

  • you know there's no such thing as hell for their health nuts is to call them

  • health nuts

  • like that healthiest happiest people are nuts that's nuts

  • as far as I'm concerned you know and so arm when I'm let the California the

  • crazy thing was

  • they were fitness facilities on every corner had never seen that before

  • because I solomon high school my solemn

  • University but I'd I'd never been to an aerobics class before i'd never walked

  • into a public gym

  • where they were the equipment was better than anything I've ever seen back on the

  • east coast in this was very intriguing to me you know and so

  • are I did take a weightlifting class in college for a semester

  • that was my only happily because I was good at pushing our and I really like to

  • like the feeling

  • love changing statically I didn't do it for any other reason other than I wanted

  • packs an arm so I can walk around campus with my shirt off

  • which in was embarrassing in the winter

  • it was man called who knew

  • right so sober when I went to California you know I became an actor

  • I know Rahman touched upon a little bit or attempted to be an actor in so I

  • finally got an agent that was a big deal right when you got an agent and you did

  • anything agent told you

  • and he said hey you know you can hear their billing it some arms

  • and swim right in the gym and I said taking aerobics classes and I was doing

  • some bodybuilding and

  • I'd go to the track and I do some running and it was really up for a

  • nominal lifestyle cuz you without california

  • you know it's sunny 362 days over the year hit right now she's gonna be sorry

  • for ever in the whole thing's gonna

  • just burn up in float away in the way it's going right now even have seen rain

  • in months but

  • that's just the nature of RV our for the environment

  • in california and I loved it you know and so I was you know hot to touch

  • months to my job

  • early on but I was a handy man I was a carpenter and I was a waiter and I was a

  • dishwasher

  • and I was a go go dancer hello bang hella be as I got nothin on me

  • you know and it's what I did you know I'm enough for my came into town said is

  • your father know you're dancing on a box in a club

  • now

  • he has no idea about that he thinks I'm a carpenter and I was a man I did

  • everything I could to make a few bucks

  • and arm I was a train mein so I've to put this down

  • here up

  • all

  • and so I put on my my makeup which work again

  • gonna cut out

  • turn anyway can you hear me all right right

  • I will not move so I can appear and I get my class box

  • and I would do my thing and I put that had out if I made about 10 to 15 bucks

  • I go to the corner liquor store and I pick up my choosing you over and I

  • eat it for breakfast lunch and dinner until I ran out and I go back down to

  • the pier and I do some were my man that's how I survived

  • in between jobs and I did stick with very often because

  • you know who wants to wait tables for for years on and who wants to work

  • retail stew oak tree selling you know

  • fifteen dollar polyester pants junior this is this is my life but I was in

  • California so who cared

  • I'm in california mountain peach about the peach look at these

  • me is club so we would go to survive we would go to the buffet

  • you know and we'd you know get the fear that the hot dogs in a blanket and fried

  • shrimp and we just munch on nose and

  • stick a punch in our pocket and have that for breakfast lunch the next day in

  • this is surviving

  • early on so are you know I when I came to California I didn't know anybody

  • I'm near the front brought me out there and he went off to get a real job amid a

  • real girl on

  • you know and I was condom on my own I was still trying to figure things out

  • but I was going to these gems on a regular basis and I was began learn

  • about health and wellness

  • but I was doing it for the wrong reasons I was doing for the reason why most

  • people still do it

  • here in 2014 most people exercise with hope and dreams are going to look

  • different in the future

  • so it's all about a static sent you go and if that worked

  • then everybody would be super fit you know but most of us can't really survive

  • on that

  • lame reason for exercise it shouldn't be about the scale on the mir

  • and the tape measure in those reasons it shouldn't be about for nafta pictures

  • what it should be is about improving the quality your health today

  • and I did disc

  • furthest into later in my fitness but I saw I was working out just to have

  • muscles cuz I thought was that was cool cuz I was single male

  • and I thought that would you know give me to meet a nice girl

  • so on got one day i finally get a real job was working at 20th Century Fox I

  • was a runner

  • there and with my shirt off look at look on my face like

  • yet get a hard-on flexing right now

  • came and smile on my boobs explode

  • nap

  • am I was younger than in

  • set of so are I got this ruling the job and I was over at Fox out watching

  • movies being made and I was feeding the cat 9 was

  • you making coffee and his lights go dim

  • thank you I'll but at the same time I had a great my boss would allow me to

  • going to auditions and and

  • I had to get my job done but still I was able to can live in both worlds

  • and as I became more more fit more more followed health and fitness

  • my boss came to me and said you know you look you look

  • really great I've seen you change in course last six months you know you're

  • more muscular your belly is gone

  • can start training me so this guy harlan good man who use before me in the music

  • industry

  • was my first client was my first guy and so I would train harlan the morning we

  • both go to work together

  • and he would try to make a movie and he could make up the save his life

  • love her he never made a movie the entire time and so that

  • that job was ten US I knew it was going to be there long because

  • such things are working well with that with that company with production

  • company

  • but I was meeting more people I was meeting people in the lot hey harland

  • looking like he's in great shape can get mean cheaper on a sudden had 34 clients

  • so

  • now I'm auditioning for acting jobs and working a lot

  • I'm and I got this little tiny many training business on the side

  • in one day harlan finally realizes she go back to musically can make a movie

  • switch walking down the halls

  • apiece and management and in the other direction is Tom Petty

  • ho hey harlan you look fantastic

  • harlem's from Gainesville my I meant

  • Tom Tom Perry or do you do when you look great

  • and houses on working out with Tony Horton toll report known

  • or his number so one day Tom Petty calls me at my my picks up the phone

  • says hello heart stone patio I'm looking for Tony Horton

  • click his heels skies

  • and I'm king of the hill who was at

  • some guy saying it's probably Perpich downstairs screwing with us he says is

  • Tom Petty

  • hikers funny ring Harlow's

  • my name's Tom Perry I think simply hung up on me my girls

  • act-up keep

  • hello home in Ames Co is this

  • Jamestown bowling from her own goodman's home

  • gonna ago the tour Cohen my own

  • going in shape my wife and I are fire can come to my house tomorrow

  • here would you live with and he was like you know I I pulled up

  • the gates next gate next gate

  • right I pull up in it she s as we say in california

  • bitch I'm it is the coolest need us

  • multi-level ranch waterfalls bring you all inside goal record goal record goal

  • record

  • Qatar's harm Tom Petty is my wife Jane I got a tour

  • can get me in shape so I put on the elliptical because the pre-lab to go on

  • a stationary bike

  • so got the equipment I got a bench got some dumbbells

  • not just the basics near a couple mats I put him on the stationary bike

  • for a couple seconds are

  • ahead on level 1 it went to see 2012 had on one girl

  • so I just of overlord

  • I of course curtain our Shroff

  • he did level 0 no tension machine of

  • for a minute 36 seconds and I are in a game a couple love

  • ten pound dumbbells to do curls over heavy

  • not only got three months later he was doing level 6 for 25 minutes

  • any was pension 40s and and

  • it was a long slow process i mean he went from to

  • home no two different lifestyle so I was able to

  • really help clean him up cut his cigarettes in half

  • can come out altogether but I gotta eat healthy and we started out slow

  • we did cardio on one day we did wait on others basically the beginning of power

  • 90

  • and he went off on tour in these were in he's wearing sleeveless shirts and do

  • any Springsteen like

  • freakin settings bands like holy crap was this guy just slow down you know

  • and everybody noticed you know so I admire you might small group I had

  • harlan a couple dozen I had Tom Petty

  • company one of on tour all in after the tour

  • my phone didn't stop ringing Billy Idol Stevie Nicks

  • Annie Lennox sean connery Shirley MacLaine Ewan McGregor

  • been all the sudden my my morning started out with Billy Idol Tom Petty

  • Annie Lennox Stephen Stills

  • sean connery Monday Wednesday Friday

  • I was a cool life I don't gotta feed the cat Neymar

  • I don't gotta do this anymore on a stage

  • bang there cuz again see them so good I pop the migraine of my head saw all the

  • sudden I was a trainer I didn't plan on being a trainer I went out to be

  • you know a cross between Jim Carrey and Brad Pitt alrighty then

  • you now so it didn't quite go the way I wanted to but because I had this

  • acting training because I was going to acting class because I was going to

  • auditions because I was learning how to read

  • a teleprompter because I was pretty good are doing voice-overs

  • while also doing the side business as a trainer who knew that the two things

  • that come together

  • you saw that lovely pictured me with the midriff looking now

  • that was my first job it was with Nordic Track and I we go back and forth to

  • Minneapolis

  • and I do these little jobs you know for their various

  • silly products didn't really do any

  • thing but I was it was great you know it's a great experience for me

  • and then at some point you know when I was overly talkin thirteen years ago

  • I wasn't getting more which is great I was still able to go on my out my ski

  • trips which was nice

  • my I don't have to have roommates anymore my apartment arm

  • I was able to convert one in my bed rooms in into a gym and I would have

  • social mclean come over to my three bedroom apartment in Santa Monica which

  • was

  • kinda funny family had time to tell that Madonna story of a boy

  • was on that one time at Billy I'll sell so I don't have time for that story but

  • it was really really cool because I was with the icons have

  • rock n roll on and legends have about word and I was

  • I was living a really cool lifestyle and I had to broken down cars which

  • I thought was really cool glad two cars you know an app on it because one would

  • break and have to have the other one to drive all over town but you know they

  • consisted of

  • couple clients at the house Malibu Venice Culver City

  • you know back to Malibu I was driving like myself all over town to train these

  • folks

  • I was probably make an you know 60k a year and I thought I was on top of the

  • world

  • arm then very fortunately for me i think is an important part of the story

  • which is might affect each and every one of you at that stage in my life

  • I was reading every self-help book I could from Don Miguel Ruiz to Tony

  • Robbins to

  • to deepok chopra

  • I'm you know just I just want to better myself pop

  • and for Austin back tears freaking out but

  • but you know and I would go to the seminars as well you know whether the

  • financial it would be worth far as relationships

  • are you know I was just I just wanted to become more successful I knew somewhere

  • beyond 60 grand

  • here is is kinda where I want to live I didn't know how to do it so I just went

  • to the experts

  • and dinner and everything I do and see you read resonate with me know I mean a

  • less felt like a lot of times a person it was crap

  • but it always be another tour I can wear contacts that's what I want that's what

  • I need you know it's so

  • I was reading I'm I think Keith ellis's book

  • the magic lamp and if you don't have a singing I can leave you with

  • go by Keith Ellis has booked a magic lamp love your onto yours business

  • owners and CEOs

  • but really really helps guide you helped me cuz I was caught between that and my

  • an act

  • her or amaya trainer you know what I mean and that that really helped me

  • focus on what it was and I need to do

  • I'm where I need to go so are there were these lessons in the book and learn

  • lessons was

  • are for no other reason other than it was a a way to try to challenge yourself

  • go either way into something extraordinary for somebody you're in

  • conflict with

  • that was the last thing that was the lesson to go out of your way into

  • something extraordinary

  • for some your car how wanted to chat that sucks you know only one do nice

  • things for people I like

  • I when I wanna kidding from gets home

  • on this particular Saturday I'm playing basketball with the lawyers legal rights

  • so

  • these lawyers who get together that was me so you know we spent probably fifty

  • percent over time playing basketball

  • and the other 50 percent arguing about the call you know so

  • I'm waiting Harrison is one gentleman seems Ben van a back door he just

  • retired

  • his fifty I'll then it's probably

  • to in quite well I'm can not much money that is made but he's been very

  • successful he's the

  • he is a former CEO Gotti rancor bill gushing Greg rancor on the number one

  • for sure company in the

  • in the world and you know we're making our way up the ladder we're getting

  • closer but we're certainly not as big as coffee maker

  • and Ben van about intense channel hard-working

  • very opinionated didn't like me I didn't like him

  • and so quite often and Saturdays we were getting these arguments

  • on this particular day we were on the same team and they're both playing

  • pretty well we just won the game

  • and he was complaining about his way up 35 pounds overweight

  • and he was talking to someone has some his pals

  • and om I callous way you know I'm a trainer

  • so I thought to myself on your way into something extraordinary for somebody

  • here in conflict where

  • well I don't like dat by headman are gone do the stupid playing

  • hoping move sonoma trainer and I can probably help you lose okay no

  • yes sounds great monarch what yeah Kim your number and you don't you train

  • Billy Idol in top anyone was paying attention that was kinda cool so I

  • write my number down I thought he would never call I was just being

  • you know courteous cuz we won the game and that afternoon he called me up and

  • said hey look I'm serious I

  • how can you know do you have Monday Wednesdays and Fridays OpenID

  • 8 that's when I can come

  • night just lost a client who used to train at Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays

  • at 8 o'clock I said yeah

  • he said can you want to come here I said I got a gym at my house started training

  • him

  • turned out we had a lot in common foreshock is not always the case right

  • so

  • year later I want to meet this guy called Eichler

  • crowd like a sharp kid coming in from from of Philly

  • i think is going to work for us you guys have a lot in common I ami'm

  • called I clears the CEO a billion-dollar company called Beachbody

  • didn't exist fourteen years ago did not

  • exist car when I met we hit it off we go skiing together we go

  • you know out at night hanging out having dinner just talk about ideas

  • and so while he was with got the record he's doing awesome infommercial Slyke

  • at home LASIK eye surgery at was one in im

  • chest upper they are I placed a laser over in

  • then I'm sure they will turn out great you know hi pantyhose don't Ron says

  • stupid crap that he didn't really want to do

  • because he was a fitness guy NEC said to me said you know let's

  • you know let's see if I can get banned allow me to a little side thing we did

  • something called great body guaranteed

  • now keep in mind to broken down cars live in an apartment

  • you know I'm I'm not in debt but I was you know sixty cane that for a long time

  • making my sixty thousand dollars a year and

  • we made this product P two grand I'll box no royalties nothin just you know

  • just a flat fee

  • and it made money people noticed and are you know for sure running regional spots

  • the National spots

  • and down and some investors came in

  • and they want to build a company in so-called said to ban

  • you know what I'm gonna go of my own soap soap billing Greg unban

  • rented them a closet basically down the hall

  • so it was it was called Eichler Ben van a months roommate from college who would

  • be

  • now it's official the president who had nothing else to do hey I'll give you

  • this

  • office like start your own business became higher my own roommate from UCLA

  • in making your president in Fig town of

  • figure it out sure lucky John condom and talk about the right place the right

  • time

  • and turned out he was quite good at his job as well so it was college on a

  • secretary

  • in a closet and we made power nineteen people look at us was power 90 power 90

  • is pre

  • p 90 x it was six days work and exercise anybody have power 90

  • first power 90 yeah had a half-inch takedown chair I

  • got the right there next year VCR covered in dust nope no big deal in

  • school

  • and so power 90 made money

  • crazy first year nobody bar why because every watching infomercials before saw

  • some quick fix diet are some piece of equipment was supposed to change their

  • life

  • in 10 minutes a day i three times a week this was or by the way we're gonna tell

  • you to eat well

  • and you gotta work out six days a week alternating cardio and resistance

  • almost the exact same program I created for Tom Petty when I first rate showed

  • training him

  • but why develop something you could do it for your television set without

  • the bench press and and all the all the equip so

  • at first year crickets say we told you so all the experts in it she said you

  • cannot get america

  • to work that hard need to clean they're lazy bastards

  • you gotta trickum and then went after deftly trying to figure out your

  • your product is crap you gotta bring in another one and we decided you know what

  • this worked for Tom Petty Billy Idol in Bruce Springsteen

  • and other people who really certainly truly care about their health and

  • wellness in the inner and then understand the importance of it

  • and so all the sudden people were beginning to to submit a before and

  • after pictures

  • in their own personal video from their journey from power 90 the footage in the

  • before and afters were so compelling

  • we stopped using you know the folks from our original test group and we started

  • using their footage

  • and there before and after pictures and we redid the CNE infommercial for the

  • second year

  • it went from month flat to through the roof

  • it broke all records it was huge the company went from three employs 250

  • to 150 to 200 to 250 we had to move from one facility to another cuz we're going

  • so fast and so furious

  • our customer service was growing our we had to bring in you know

  • our own editors and everything else and it just it just build the company and

  • you're so at that point prior to that

  • I make sure that I got an attorney and

  • I got a royalty rate cuz i wasnt just get a flat fee in and leave

  • and Coliseum's keepers so thankful that it was

  • it done so well and I love had to do because I was silly and goofy in my

  • personality had a lot to do with the reason why people continue to do and got

  • those results

  • and so you know I got I got my first forty checks

  • you know and I as an actor you know you do a long row commercial all it ran in

  • San Francisco San Diego in guam

  • let's open at up all eighteen dollars and fifty cents

  • and buy some socks and i'd open up these royalty checks in gold

  • Paul Wall time to buy

  • a house you don't mean it was

  • crazy so I went with three bedroom apartment you know in Santa Monica with

  • an awesome view the convalescent home

  • if you got up on the roof you could see palm trees at the beach in an offer you

  • know then I said looking at houses

  • and I'd say Nick my realtor go you can for a nice house

  • you can for a bigger house you can for a nicer hi serious I

  • I can remember seeing this house in Santa Monica and it was you know this

  • this modern Mediterranean multiple levels

  • are had this amazing you know a

  • backyard a guest house and then get on the guest house

  • and you could see San Gabriel Mountains that are now on fire

  • and the Hollywood sign you could see UCLA

  • you can see Mount Baldy which the highest mountain in in in Los Angeles

  • it was this ridiculous and you could see the Getty you could see downtown

  • it was it was a dream come true you know i mean i i lived n

  • squalor 421 and a half years

  • 21 and a half years and that same apartment

  • and now I walk in the house a mic was at Christmas

  • lottery its you know it's I L unbelievable and so I just turned lower

  • the realtor up you know up from the guy was selling I said it sold

  • how much sold sold are useful to go see a screw it this

  • African Court gorgeous and that seems about right

  • and so hoff you know ended up ended up to

  • 10 2007 came in one worth what I paid for but now it's it's going up in value

  • quite a bit

  • and I still live there today and um you know with pic with

  • with power 90 came p90 X and

  • that tanked and so my big giant house had no furniture in it

  • and I wasn't going out I wasn't going skiing and I was in a lotta macaroni and

  • cheese cuz I was freaking out I got to get the place up

  • like a lot of actors in Hollywood I a TV series on a bye

  • a Maserati in a big place in MI series gets cancelled and now I'm down on Iran

  • by the river again you know on

  • I was so fearful that but I kept my nose to the grindstone I just said

  • I said the car we got to create the next product let's get after it

  • and he agreed and we put p90x2 out there arm

  • and nobody bothered either and so much 0

  • because we make we had a really our program and then we made harder one

  • and why did we help the obese what were we thinking and that was the big debate

  • she help folks are really slowing with the way well let's just take you know

  • our customers from power 90

  • and see if they wanna go extreme and the same thing happened first year nothing

  • second I second-year those before and afters came in the fridge came in

  • and when so I bought a house in Jackson Hole

  • hmm Wyoming from and I bought one right now

  • so you know it's really been a blast are

  • and and when I try to protect try to

  • sorry Austin I try to walk the talk you know I mean there's a lot of fitness

  • crews out there and meet him in person

  • in you go who I you look like you know he's strong Keith

  • fat he doesn't walk the talk for me is so critical

  • arm to do exactly what I say because when I say works

  • you know it is is about exercising five to seven days a week in eating right as

  • often as you can

  • and if you do that amazing things are going to happen to you

  • above and beyond going to seminars in reading books

  • and and I you know getting graduate degrees

  • really what matters here in this is straight from the Harvard Business

  • Review

  • is that when you exercise and also if anybody's read I'm John Raese books Park

  • books Park buy that book because when you buy that book

  • you will not miss work out on you like a king and a queen and here's the reason

  • the reason why I'm a success undiscovered

  • vests and it'll be fine in I'm not successful other than the fact that I i

  • I walk the talk and and you know

  • when you when you move on a regular basis on care for to yoga pilates a

  • bodybuilding urs

  • Zuma or or pink are naked ping-pong tournaments okay what you're into

  • but the goal here is to stimulate your brain

  • which changes your emotion about who you are we're going to go

  • so you can work your ass off right but if you're eating crap and not moving in

  • a regular basis this thing isn't working as well as it can

  • the lack of creativity and pro and productivity and willingness to think

  • outside the box in exploring expanding have adventure in your life

  • slowly shrinks raise your hand if you got parents or grandparents with health

  • issues

  • that's almost all your pic put them up came up that's your shoulder workout for

  • the day

  • so as I say this I don't want you put your arms now I want to keep mop

  • are you can switch arms if you get tired see a building these businesses your

  • entrepreneurs you working really hard will guess what

  • 5 10 15 20 years from now you're gonna beat them

  • she can't build your business you can't grow your business you can't become an

  • entrepreneur

  • because you're sick it when you're sick your priorities change because now your

  • job is to try to survive

  • your sickness type 2 diabetes Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's cancer

  • you name it you're gonna get it your parents had sex they made you

  • you can have their problems times too and to you start moving your ass and

  • making better food choices

  • there's a health care crisis in this country and guess what if the democrats

  • fall

  • it's the president's fall its Republicans fault it's the insurance

  • company's fault

  • it's here kept no it's nice we started

  • we can fix it it all comes I will you have the self-discipline

  • between these two hands and your phone call food

  • I'm dead-set it's not like walking shotgun a car accident a break in arms

  • you know hand in taking our shoulders that for the orthopedic folks to fix

  • but for the rest if it is because we put shock in her mouth

  • meal after meal after meal after meal

  • so you got your arms up in the air because your parents are sick guess what

  • gonna be them but worse any my microphone

  • mad

  • mmm I don't know

  • so raise your hand if you feel like you're the best she can possible be at

  • your age right now today

  • which arm in the air one name is Robyn is she kicks ass

  • to sino

  • to who who would like exact who would like to just be

  • fit ready strong able

  • right you wonder how to get there what the magic

  • first of all my books coming out February 4th is called the big picture

  • go get it sofas anything here that you don't pick up for can't remember

  • does you know even got all the whatever you need

  • by the book harper-collins to be very happy about that

  • so loud but here's the pierced the basics

  • the are you ok I'm gonna go to he just threw me off bacteria

  • cell her

  • this is this is for Austin man because he says

  • home I making me look bad so this formulas is not for

  • you know athletes necessarily it's for moms that have

  • businesses in for people who have time crunch is

  • and it's for anybody and everybody who wants to feel great

  • for a long time to avoid a lot of the problems that

  • your parents in your ancestors are suffering from and so you know my mother

  • passed away at 75

  • cancer she was a smoker company well as she she suffered from a lot of stress

  • and anxiety depression

  • and that's just kinda you know raise your cortisol levels and Tara Patel

  • amir's in

  • and interneuron you your organs in the marsh

  • are minnows cancer cells are just gonna go here yum yum yum chewed up right so

  • you're trying to avoid that so here's some the simple tools in which to do it

  • and and it's not easy me tell you right now it's not easy

  • but you have to change your priorities are really depends on how important it

  • is to you

  • so number one is you gotta exercise with lotsa variety like today for today's

  • exam to work at

  • right we push ups who did much miss martial arts we did at work

  • we did like stuff was it easy now we are modifications yesterday anybody die now

  • to shut up and do it again and again and again and again and yoga and pilates

  • Edwin aid

  • add weight training and cardio add something different every day

  • I work out I workout schedule seven days a week do i do all 70 but when I

  • schedule 7 is a great great likelihood I'm gonna do five

  • oftentimes I do six and sometimes a workout 18 days in a row because

  • all everything's lined up but sometimes it's four

  • which I don't like so you know it's like everything I'll

  • thing else in our life we debate we do the basics to survive

  • you brush your teeth we eat food you go to sleep at night

  • we take your business to take care of our family that's great surviving is

  • great

  • but if that's all you're doing then the and is going to suck

  • guaranteed last five to 15 years you live

  • are going to be lousy horrible miserable fill with disease

  • hospice care other people take care yo so you can fix that you're gonna die for

  • one of three things or some combination thereof

  • environmental so if you live next to Fukushima and Chernobyl

  • get out and are Nexus genetic some us just don't have

  • you know it's not spying on you know we've got hard issues in long and cell

  • re growth in with all kinds of things are genetic searches behavioral

  • so this one you can control

  • and one you can control staves off the other two quite well

  • Jack elaine's father died at fifty he that the ninety-six

  • father died from poor habits bad behavior

  • and also subject genetic really genetic issues Jack out with his father by half

  • a century

  • because he worked at every day he ate fruits vegetables whole grains lean

  • proteins healthy fats boom

  • that was his mantra that's what he did he was a maniac to the end

  • this guy did not did pushups for the entire length of johnny carson

  • episode johnnie invitame a is a jekyll any on armies america's that this guy on

  • Jackson's dad do a pushup thing is gonna do for an hour and a half are you f'ing

  • kidding me

  • on his 40th 50th 60th 70th birthday

  • shackle his hands and feet he put people in a row boats on his 40th birthday he

  • put forty people forty rowboats

  • shackled swam across San Francisco Bay yeah

  • that happened also did in the 70th birthday

  • and you can't do push-ups shot of so the goal here is

  • to at as much pride is possible because that's going to prevent

  • boredom injuries in Plateau State go here is

  • ok how old you are you can still get better you can still get stronger

  • and if you had variety you're going to prevent those injuries in the boredom in

  • the plateaus usually happens

  • when you think that doing the elliptical three times week is actually gonna do

  • something

  • who owns elliptical regime kid at

  • get some friends drag it down to curb filled with kerosene

  • Burnett son of a bitch and then go do something real the elliptical

  • is a a rehab device for people who go from I'm nearly dead 2 I don't wanna be

  • dead

  • now I can burn that piece a crap and go do jump he talks

  • and donkey kicks because the idea here to get better is to figure out how to

  • learn a skill

  • you know if you walk into a gym is filled with all these machines is

  • ridiculous machines we are sitting on your ass

  • you're working in arm are you working your chest and that's

  • it's great but we're not football players or hockey players

  • or basketball players for trying to get beat get bigger

  • elliptical machine it's the same thing over in over and over again

  • you know that

  • story box got modify that

  • but that be crap anyway

  • Sally on Thursday which Starbucks for at least 20

  • Starbucks

  • okay but to be honest and variety

  • riding riding riding its everything is going to keep you in the game is going

  • to changing more dramatically

  • it's going to prevent you from getting hurt is can add fun who wants those

  • thanks

  • bull number two consistency

  • the more you do the more you get skip brush your teeth for three days

  • that's nasty you wouldn't do it

  • skip a couple meals I can work for you I think I just will not gonna sleep

  • tonight cuz

  • I want alright so these things brushing your teeth

  • eating regularly getting some sleep this is what we do to survive survive

  • I want you to freakin thrive add fitness five to seven days a week

  • and your brain release nor Pougnet friend dopamine

  • serotonin brain-derived neurotrophic factor these are things that are already

  • inside your skull

  • waiting for you to move your ass when you move it all those are released

  • creativity goes to the roof productivity goes to the roof

  • and that happens from the top down automatic every time I don't care what

  • color you are what religion you

  • you your you're into how old none of that matters

  • everybody in here has hippocampus everybody in here as a dent hrs it's

  • this big

  • teeny since it's inside the side the

  • the temple above your brain when you move

  • oxygen goes in oxygen goes into the blood it's all about blood and breath

  • blood breath it happen today happened everybody in this room today

  • a whole showed up who showed up to work out better

  • who didn't worse didn't get

  • you didn't you didn't release those drugs that didn't happen for you

  • you didn't your your cognition didn't improve your memory didn't improve

  • Your Enthusiasm didn't prove your classes didn't go from half-empty

  • a half for the half have

  • empty to fall halter top over the rare

  • okay that's what happened people exercise today and guess what you don't

  • have to wait 60 90

  • days from now to get that you got it today paw

  • today you got it and who doesn't want that today who doesn't want to approve

  • the memory their cognition

  • sex try cuz blood goes everywhere

  • I'm just sayin

  • I you know I know blue pill blue shoes mill baby

  • you don't need it movement in a variety of ways

  • is the fountain view here looking for the fountain of youth gotta move your

  • ass in any way

  • it's that simple it's gotta happen often thriving happens from five to seven days

  • a week

  • for the rest of your life for the rest of your life

  • to your dying day you gotta move if you wanna feel better if you wanna be more

  • productive more creative

  • have a greater sense of adventure and build your businesses and kick some ass

  • I'm just say to watch that anybody

  • number three intensity

  • in this this goes beyond the fitness thing you know you have to always focus

  • on

  • pushing a little bit more thinking outside the box

  • asking more yourself you know when it comes to fitness

  • one more rep deeper range of motion focusing on your form

  • you know ammonia first doing mixed martial arts

  • up

  • go

  • well gotta get better

  • you know and so that that comes with anything and everything and when it

  • comes to life

  • intensity don't try to be a perfectionist don't try to shoot for the

  • moon the first week

  • be okay with sucking with being bad

  • being terrible we taking breaks giving yourself

  • a timeout it's alright it happen today in that room they were folks nearly came

  • in their petrified

  • did you leave petrified you less satisfied

  • ride in you got that

  • today that's why you know i i when it comes exercise and I fired up every time

  • norm up in the room last night in a traveling all day two different time

  • zones I wanna get some rest

  • but that damn GM missed out lobby for

  • I didn't work out today so a little mind game

  • because typically work out with other people so I walked in

  • in its you know it's not an ideal situation their treadmills

  • walk on treadmill press buttons

  • mall I ran a 5k run through 3.2 miles I try to do one

  • underneath her under half an hour which is not rocket speed but

  • I broke a sweat blood and breath came together

  • I walked out there all I walked inside

  • obsession walked out well it happens every time

  • Friday consistency intensity important

  • so now we're getting into the them the parts vs

  • that will help sustain you motivate inspire next

  • purpose nobody canna touched on this

  • the scale the tape measure

  • the dress size the opinions from

  • others about how great you look its all

  • bullshit

  • its it's smokin mir's

  • it doesn't sustain anyone and less for example

  • you're a bikini model or a fitness model

  • or a bodybuilder or you're somebody who looks to other people to make you feel

  • good

  • my purposes

  • i lov feeling like this love it

  • I love being in a great mood I love being happy all the time and that's what

  • exercise does because I'm releasing your prefered dopamine serotonin

  • and brain-derived neurotrophic factor so what does BDNF

  • protein molecule sitting sign in your brain inside you don't age iris

  • waiting funeral and you only have to do it for about 20 minutes if it's

  • its intense enough and you start to move in these proteins a molecule start to

  • vibrate

  • inside your brain and they come together and they create something called in

  • neurogenesis

  • so cool here is older than 26

  • my whose younger

  • you still get to F off

  • self for the rest of us

  • if we don't want that part of our brain to die

  • and rot and turned black so that we all end up with

  • early onset curmudgeon disorder then we move

  • because it's the only way we're gonna generate new blood cells not only inside

  • the brain but your entire body in the same thing happens with the organs in

  • your skin

  • and everything else you know so that's my purpose

  • if I move today sometimes it's yoga

  • sometimes as planned metrics sometimes his chest and arms sometimes it's

  • you know a 5k on a treadmill doesn't matter what it is as long as I got that

  • variety

  • then I'm gonna release not been different dopamine serotonin

  • brain-derived neurotrophic factor

  • and improve my cognition my memory my sense of adventure

  • my my level of happiness and joy and protect productivity in creativity

  • at and IR I'm gonna be a better

  • a better man a better boyfriend

  • a better trainer somebody who actually walks the walk and talks the talk

  • that's definite and all I have to do suffer for 20 minutes or more

  • on some level you know it really depends the reason why most people don't

  • exercise is because they don't like to be physically uncomfortable

  • they didn't like in high school it in like it junior high school in like it

  • when they were a little kid

  • and sell let's I'm gonna use and disuse this Albert this is enough

  • not enough to activate this thing you gotta move everything else from the neck

  • down for the rest of your life

  • that's my purpose I wanna feel good today I wanna be productive today

  • I wanna be better today I want to slow the aging clock down today

  • I'm gonna move today because if I don't I'm not gonna get

  • any those things that aging clocks just gonna spin and up just like my parents

  • or grandparents or worse sock-b_ desman

  • have peed set make sense purpose

  • hope that doesn't get you off your ass I don't know what will

  • works for me hope it'll work for you as well next is the plan

  • so you know you had planned to come here

  • right to get your flight you get your your deal with the kids while your way

  • in

  • you know whatever it is you have to plan everything in your life to be able to

  • have a life to be able to survive

  • but now you have to plan how to thrive as well

  • so its 10 times easier really

  • and what I like to do is in this is so simple it's crazy

  • is goal all school so 24 teams around the corner I mean it's just happen so

  • you can't for Italian lot yet to 2014 is now here we are said we're

  • I mean yeah I'll you the issue here January

  • arm suppliers of a calendar civil calendar

  • and part one of three places the back your front door

  • your bathroom mirror or your refrigerator and then you can write down

  • exactly what you gonna do

  • and what time you gonna do it now doesn't matter morning at night I don't

  • care what are 3 o'clock in the morning whatever you can do get

  • it doesn't matter me. ideally the morning is great its metabolism going

  • the brain is functioning a higher level throughout the day

  • night is great but if you in the morning is great if you do it at night then you

  • can sleep better in

  • years have to work with your schedule basically so for me my calendar still

  • 30 years in Monday's 5:30 play metrics

  • Tuesday's 7:45 shoulders and arms

  • Wednesday cardio typically 5k Brun

  • I Thursday morning arm 8 o'clock

  • chest and back Friday boxes and balls

  • it supply ok or at pile boxscore witty

  • Saturday yogurt for Sunday ten o'clock

  • are either I go to UCLA tracking run sprints

  • or I do my three hour gymnastics class its

  • an it's locked in and guess what by the way I've got people they do

  • each and every one of those with so accountability goes up he is now I'm

  • responsible to somebody else

  • they're responsible to me so it's already there it's locked in it's Who I

  • am

  • just like everything else in my life I prioritize p 90 x

  • was awesome

  • millions of people did it but needs people didn't the plan was there we came

  • account to show them what to do on what day

  • but an hour was too long I create a 10-minute trainer because a lot of

  • people

  • only have 10 minute trucks so my my cousins got five kids

  • did ten minutes in the morning in 10 minutes before dinner bomb she lost 35

  • pounds

  • saw excuses out the window

  • she found her twenty minutes a day did they have to happen in a row now

  • they have to happen because is 10 minutes better than 0 every to

  • alright so start there then as power 90 that is P 90 X in its x2 x3

  • and then before you know it you do in mud runs and run half marathons

  • becomes who you are and that's happened over and over again

  • my good friend Jeremy oast got seven minutes left

  • honey higher 280 pounds

  • fuse right ankle you know Jeremy arm

  • quiet guy them but not much to say obese huge

  • he'd be the biggest guy in the room right now artworks dang kentucky is a

  • manager for the tire plant

  • and our you know his wife cut the lawn and as he couldn't play with his kids

  • and

  • and then finally one day as friend has said dumb chairman you know

  • and this friend of his just buried a 45-year-old

  • relative heart disease contact an attorney Germany said to

  • you know you're not gonna see your kids graduate you know that right you don't

  • there's no shot you talking about on yours

  • your your 380 you're gonna die

  • you gonna die is no shot you can barely get up some stairs

  • you know so some other guy is going to be your son's

  • father your wife's husband and they're gonna come and visit you

  • in a whole in the ground gonna happen guaranteed

  • and I can exaggerate their story but that's the just a bit

  • when right now bought p90 X

  • couldn't do it couldn't do it couldn't do it had to do this for literally

  • eighty-five percent of it right we're doing pull-ups he's doing this we're

  • doing johnnie talks were doing this

  • he were doing abs he's doing this at the first route or the in a first-round is

  • able to do some more the exercises

  • three to four rounds later he lost a 180 pounds

  • issue he lost me basically they ought I was inside

  • Jeremy ohs till I look at you you look fantastic some

  • so the man he is now he's a completely different person has a completely

  • different personality

  • he's outgoing gregarious he's his extrovert

  • he trains and teaches other people people wouldn't talk to him now

  • now they can't get ok enough above what he's learned what he knows

  • and all I did was jump around unfurnished television for

  • for buncha months so you know now he's a leader

  • because he's lived a life that is said you did it the Hess

  • said to others you don't have to be here you don't have to live this

  • lifestyle are you can be anything you want in all you have to do

  • is eat better an exercise more often so

  • that's what he did now in the five minutes I have left

  • the last thing I wanna talk about which I'd touched on earlier

  • Islam is the food it's the food

  • im food will help you live a long beautiful life it's medicine

  • you know it's basically medicine every single meal is your meds

  • or at your poison in quite often we some kinda combination thereof

  • right we've got to the saturated fried meat with some vegetable so you got you

  • know

  • that contrast excuse me and

  • so we have to make a decision here are raise your hand if in the last week

  • you had pancakes or waffles for breakfast don't like you read my mind

  • pancakes waffles ticket damn arms in the air so

  • keep a mop you had birthday cake for breakfast

  • Jake birthday cake for breakfast cuz its white flour butter and syrup what do you

  • think

  • KKS its white flour butter and sugar

  • so it %uh you know you're here to be better you're here

  • to think and a growing to improve if you're gonna have

  • bake n which is saturated

  • fried pig carcass it was out their eyesight gobble it up

  • there is not a nutritional there's protein in it

  • barely other than that it's in which a worthless food did is increasing your

  • ability to

  • age faster die younger gets sick sooner

  • that's what it is that's what pancakes and waffles are ability so good

  • and they've been in my family his mother's recipe shut up if you want to

  • end up like your parents or grandparents

  • freakin eat the pancakes and waffles in the morning why can't you have all meal

  • with Barrys

  • meant his cock is good on lo que bomber

  • than minute there you are there's your tombstone Palmer

  • how we picking you up alleyoop a kid life is hard it's hard to stop its hard

  • to

  • but doesn't stay hard starts harbingers

  • then then how you look at how you feel what you can do what you can produce how

  • you can create how you sleep now you have sex

  • holy smokes that piece a crack about your damn waffles pancakes

  • do you want it or not you want it or not

  • I'm 5511 209 and where our modern 10

  • go to Colorado K

  • by a time I'll cut should be phil was Stoner's anyway on

  • Idaho legalizing that's the smartest thing we ever did

  • hopefully we'll figure it out so

  • each and every meal

  • in two minutes and ninety seconds over is it opportunity you for you to grow

  • younger

  • to feel better to be more productive embed guess what you don't have to get

  • off your butt to do it right

  • lunches comment what you can and our

  • much can I do look

  • in the finish in a and I'm already over don't write you know

  • I used to be vegan I was miserable was then

  • but I was miserable because I couldn't have any cool food anymore you know it's

  • way too many crackers and chips and cookies at worry no gluten free and I in

  • fiber blah blah what a joke right so

  • so what I just to their sorry mom

  • I here sometimes I'm still that comic right I was for a couple years

  • but but I try to stick to fruits vegetables whole grains lean proteins

  • healthy fats

  • and I try to figure out what restaurants serve that make that not taste like wax

  • and my girl for an eye on the same page when it comes to what to cook in the

  • house

  • and I'm not vegan anymore I am a plant-based guy

  • who each pair Leo meals weeds vegan meal sweet flexitarian meals

  • who eats Indian food in Greek food Mexican food and Italian food and sushi

  • I eat it all but I looked at my plate and I just hope and pray that my great

  • great great grandparents

  • know what the hell it is because if it's a Red Bull and jury does they have no

  • flippin idea

  • alright so get away from the factory through the pastas food stop sticking

  • your hands into boxes and bags few nutrition

  • and looked out your plate and hope to god you see food to have one ingredient

  • blueberries 1 kale one stake one

  • chicken one arm you know red potatoes 1

  • the simple pancakes waffles

  • its its all the fibers taken out all the chunk is left in

  • and then more junk put on top a bit it's not that hard to get up in the morning

  • and that's an egg whites with grilled peppers and onions and avocado on top

  • nothing that's not a hard thing to do it. now so we put ever ugh

  • gun to your head you'd figure

  • how to do it needed often repeat at lunch repeated dinner

  • look down your plate and wonder if you great-great-great

  • grandparents know what you're eating get off the fat sugar salt and chemicals

  • because it is killing us and if you want to improve your business and you wanna

  • grow on you wanna be the ultimate are you want to be

  • thing you gotta clean up your diet first you gotta move your butt five to seven

  • days week for the rest your life

  • up Tony Horton thank you very much

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