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We Tried The 30 Day Gym Challenge
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– I don’t go to the gym. I signed up for one like five months ago, I went for two weeks, and then I haven’t gone back. (upbeat music) I would say there are two things that prevent me from going to the gym frequently. One is time. I feel like I barely have time to do what I wanna do, and then when I get to the gym I’m kinda like what do I do here? I feel like an outsider. – Eating healthy’s not hard for me. The part that’s kind of challenging is working out. – My relationship with fitness is kind of like a roller coaster journey since college. – So, growing up, I wasn’t really that active, but I was always interested in kinda like the healthy lifestyle, in a way. – Since I moved to L.A. my physical activity is grocery shopping, walking around the office, getting coffee. – I know that I’m not super out of shape, but I want myself to be able to look at a before and an after shot and be like okay, so this hard work is paying off.
So, I feel like being consistent is my main issue. – With these 30 days, I hope that I can kinda find my way around the gym and find its role in my life. – I wanna be able to make it a consistent routine and habit of going every day, and if I miss a day, then at least it’s just one day than just missing a whole week of working out. – I mean, I figure if I just take a boatload of the classes, I’ll be fine. – Alright, ladies and gentlemen, it is day one of going to the gym for 30 days. You know, it was raining this morning, so I had to force myself to go. Today, I’m taking it slow, I’m taking it easy. I’m just gonna do some cardio, maybe some pushups, ab workout and stuff like that, and just kinda warm up my body. – Day one, I thought I could ease my way into it, so I booked a really fun dance workshop. I show up, and… (pop music) I did not know taking a dance class could be so hard.
It was very hard. I thought it’d be very chill ’cause I’m like, you know, I’m dancing. I don’t know how I’m gonna get up and walk. – So, I was supposed to go to the gym this morning, but someone overslept, and that was me. So, I had to go on my lunch break. I am actually on my lunch break. This is my lunch post-workout, but I did it, I went to the gym today.
– So, it’s day two. I came to do spinning, but I came too late and won’t let me in, therefore I need to figure out how to work out on my own. My strategy was to keep taking class after class because I don’t know what to do in the gym. So, I took spinning, hated it, I took… I don’t even know. It had a lot of weights in there, and I wasn’t into it at all. I’m meant to work out right now, but I ran out of clothing for the gym ’cause I own like four items. So, I have to go shopping before I can work out. – It is Saturday morning. It is raining, but guess where I’m going? To the gym, baby. – I took it upon to figure out what to do in the actual gym. Working out on my own was a lot more chill. I could take my time, then when I was actually doing my workout I could focus on what was happening, I could feel what was moving.
– Over the weekends I would do cardio, that way I don’t have to lift more weights and I could give my body a break, but I would still go to the gym. I’m feeling good. – A couple times it was a little crazy because I went to dinner. – Kiano, are you thinking about the gym right now? – And then I worked out. I’m not doing that one again. We just ate like 20 pounds of Korean food.
It’s like, what time? 8:00 p.m. and now I’m gonna go to the gym. And then I went to the gym after a seven-course dinner. That was miserable. I don’t wanna be here, but I’m here. I’m not gonna work out. I’m gonna stretch my body and chill ’cause I can barely walk. I’m very full. (upbeat music) – It is Monday, it is day 10. I’ve been going to the gym for 10 days straight. I haven’t missed a day. I feel stronger than ever, I feel so happy. I was noticing that I was feeling stronger, and I was like okay, so if I feel stronger, that means that this is working.
So, I would just keep getting more and more motivated instead of tired, which is crazy. I feel so proud of myself, honestly, that I’ve been doing this. Today, I thought that it was gonna be hard because it was Monday, but no, I was so motivated to just go after work and work out and sweat and lift weights. I’m so excited to see the final outcome. – There was one day I went to the gym, and it was right when Daylight Savings happened, so by the time I arrived, it had closed where I thought I had another hour. To make up for it, I will do a two-a-day workout. I’m really annoyed because my gym is very far from where I live. I drove like a half hour to get here, and I’m gonna eat my feelings. – So, coming into week three, I was going at it every day.
I would spend an hour a day in the gym, and then I started adding even more weights. – I’m about to go into dance class. I can’t video in there, but I’m excited. After working out on my own for a while and I was a lot more aware of what was happening when I was doing different workouts, it was a lot easier for me to take a class again because at the beginning, I didn’t know what was going on, I just knew I was doing a lot of different stuff. But then, having worked out on my own and going back to class, I knew what to focus on. Alright, I just finished dance class, and it was really good. I’m looking forward to doing this every week, every Monday, late at night, I don’t care. I brought people French from work. – Hello. – It’s so much more fun working out with people you know, you know? I’m not alone, we’re sweating together, I love it. – So, I’m here in Nashville, Tennessee, I’m in the hotel room, but that’s not stopping me from not going to the gym because first of all, the gym is here is really nice, and second of all, I’m pumped, so I’m going to the gym.
Let’s do it. Alright, so we’re in the countdown. We have about five days left of this challenge. So, when the last week of this challenge came, I was extra motivated. I was like, I can’t believe I’ve been going for over 20 days, I haven’t missed a day, I’m so excited. And then, as the last week started, I went to the gym and sadly, I’m starting to feel sick. I don’t know what I’m gonna do. I’m going to go to the gym, but hopefully I still have enough energy to push through, but honestly, I’m not feeling too good.
Wish me luck. – So, final week, I went back to classes, and my last one was a dance class again. So, I did full circle, and that one was fun and I brought friends from work too. (upbeat music) – You know how two days ago I said I was feeling a little bit sick, but I was still going to the gym? (sniffles) Well, it’s been two days. I was super congested, so I couldn’t even breathe. So, that was when I knew that I had to stop for a little bit, and it was devastating because it was especially towards the end. I am definitely sick. I’ve missed the gym the last two days because it’s been impossible for me to go. Hopefully tomorrow I can go back and finish strong, but let’s see. – It went by quicker than I thought. – So, even though I did miss a few days towards the end, and as you can see, I still sound a little bit stuffy, so I’m still getting over that, it didn’t really change my perspective on the gym right now because now I’m super motivated.
I feel like I’m in a good level that if I just keep going consistently, I will see results. – From doing the challenge, I don’t feel as awkward walking into the gym. I knew people at reception, they know my name now, and that’s kind of… I like it, it’s like a community in its own. – Yo, that’s at 13 inches. That’s, hold on a sec. – What? Let’s do it! – I’m just happy my numbers didn’t go up. – Awesome. – That’s all I care about. (upbeat music) .
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I Did 100 Pull-Ups Every Day For 30 Days
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My body is really sore and that really was the hardest workout I think I’ve ever done I’m not a personal trainer I’m just a regular person the last thing I want to do is 100 pull-ups it is day one of the pull-up challenge I’m doing a hundred pull-ups every day for 30 days this challenge started a couple of years ago I wanted to do a fitness project for BuzzFeed where I gained as much muscle mass as possible I was always super skinny and I always had body image issues so I gave myself 12 weeks to do it and I gained about 20 pounds and then throughout the year I kept it on and I was really impressed with how much stronger I looked and felt so I wanted to sort of challenge myself again and see what else I could do I’m pretty excited I’m nervous I’m scared I don’t even know if I can do 100 pull-ups most I’ve ever probably done was like 50 in one gym session and 100 super daunting and I’m grossly competitive so if I can’t do 100 I’m gonna be so frustrated with myself since it’s my very first day I want to see how much I can improve over the next 30 days so I’m sort of going for time today I want to see how quickly I can do my hundred pull-ups about halfway through on the very first day my arms were completely dead so I’m not looking forward stay what I’m gonna do it we’ll see what happens luckily I finished all 100 pull-ups I was super proud of myself it took me about 54 minutes to do 100 pull-ups which i think is pretty good I want to keep time because I know I’ll be able to cut down on my very last day and I want to see how much time I can actually cut my very first set I did 16 pull-ups hoping to get that to 25 or 30 I think 30 would be awesome and yeah day one is complete 29 more to go I have a feeling I’m gonna be very sore tomorrow I don’t think I’ve been this sore in a very long time basically my whole upper body I don’t know can I do this for 29 more days day threes workout is officially done last 25 were really difficult almost couldn’t do it I almost came back a second time today it’s okay if I fail but it’s also I don’t know I’m gonna push myself and see how far I can go this challenge was gonna be a really big undertaking so I wanted to make sure that I was doing it correctly so I reached out to my friends at Soho strength lab which is a gym in New York and we realized that if I was gonna do all of these pull-ups I wanted to make sure that I had different variations of the pull-ups so I could do a regular pull up this way but I could also do parallel grip or reverse grip and that way I wouldn’t put too much strain on my body and then we also figured out that if I was gonna do all these pulls I needed to have a lot of pushes in my workout as well so when I was doing 100 pull-ups I was also in between doing some push-ups we’re doing handstands just so my muscles could get a break and I wasn’t just overworking them because I was doing this challenge I actually didn’t want to change too much about my diet I just wanted to see what the pull-ups would add or change to my body I did want to be careful about the number of carbs that I was putting into my body so I didn’t have any cars with dinner and then for for breakfast that was when I mostly got my carbs just because I needed that energy before and after my workouts it’s day four and I don’t want to go to the gym I am tired and sore but I signed up for the challenge and I think it’ll get better the next couple days were actually a lot harder than I thought they were gonna be because my entire upper body was so sore my abs were sore it hurt when I laughed when I coughed and I started getting calluses all over my hands which made it even harder to grip the pull-up bar I thought to myself if my body’s gonna be this sore and it’s only day four into this challenge there is no way I’m gonna make it to day 30 so that was not looking forward to the rest of it it’s getting easier to be honest at least compared to the first couple days okay five is done 25 left week two was a little different my body stopped getting really sore which was awesome I was sort of getting used to all the pull-ups and that made them a lot easier to do I’ve always struggled with not knowing how far to push myself so one day 9 I wanted to really see how far I could go so I did the hundred pull-ups but I also did a hundred push-ups on top of that just to see if I could do it and surprisingly I was able to do it it took a little while but I did it all in one gym session and that was incredible because to me it sort of told me that the project was working because there’s no way I would have been able to do that before this challenge day 11 early in the morning ready for the challenge feel-good nuts or the biggest thing for me with this challenge is they’re only like to pull up spots at my whole gym and I always feel so guilty using them so I sort of made the the city of New York my gym at some points I would go to the park to do the pull-ups or I would use scaffolding and do the pull-ups just to finish my workout and that way I wouldn’t cheat myself out of not finishing off one hundred I don’t know I just have to get creative with it because I feel so bad about taking up the pull-ups by every single time in the gym just finished day 15 that means them literally halfway through the challenge already this is crazy because two years ago I couldn’t do a single pull-up and now I’m doing a hundred a day and I just did it for 15 days there’s a point during the end of the third week when I was in a separate BuzzFeed video the video was taken from a different angle of where I ever saw myself this camera was set really far away I got to see myself from an angle I could see that my arms were like the biggest they had ever been I was just so impressed with myself because I was actually seeing results it is day 20 and I am 2/3 of the way through the project so I thought I’d celebrate by doing hundred pull-ups and 100 pushups today just to compare myself to that first week when I did it to see how much I’ve improved it actually went really well I did it in the same amount of time it took me to do the just a hundred pull-ups in day one so I’m definitely doing a lot faster at this and that’s like exact proof that I had gotten stronger and was able to do this so I originally wasn’t going to say anything about it but there was one day last week when I didn’t complete all hundred pull-ups I don’t know I was just super tired my body was exhausted I wasn’t feeling well I’ve done enough research about fitness to know that if your body is not feeling well you shouldn’t push yourself I wanted to listen to my body so I only did thirty that one day and I was really frustrated with myself and embarrassed I didn’t want everyone to know that I had failed I sort of looked at it as failing I wouldn’t even call it failing because I’m still completing the challenge almost every single day it’s just one day I couldn’t do it and I was so glad that I didn’t finish because for the next day my body was absolutely ready and I was able to do all hundred the next day so the very last day of the challenge was pretty big for me I knew that I wanted to go into it and do all hundred pull-ups as quickly as I could because I wanted to compare that time to the very first day and on the first day I did all hundred pull-ups in 54 minutes on the very last day I completed all 100 in 21 minutes and I was just so incredibly proud of myself because they just showed how strong I had actually got I am officially done with the challenge I did not really think I was gonna make it this far I don’t know I just keep thinking – two years ago I literally couldn’t do a single pull-up I know it’s really easy to look at some of these fitness videos and fitness projects online and think yeah that’s great for that person but like what about me I am that person who used to ask those questions I would see other people’s body transformations and I would just think like that is honestly incredible for them but I could never do that but here I am I’m literally that person who did that there were actually some pretty big changes in my measurements from before and after the challenge my weight actually went up by about half a pound which was incredible I saw that my body fat percentage went down to ten point nine percent instead of the thirteen point eight percent it was originally and also I saw that my chest got a lot bigger and my biceps got bigger and my shoulders got bigger – I’m not a personal trainer I’m just a regular person and some days I don’t do everything that I should do but it is not easy at all it’s a lot of hard work a lot of willpower and you may not like it then but if you have a fitness goal or if you want to gain muscle if you want to lose weight if you want to do anything like just look at my progress I couldn’t do a single pull-up two years ago and I just did a hundred of them everyday for 30 days so you can do it too
Singaporeans Try: 72 Hour No Calorie Challenge
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Oh my god! What the hell? Wait, you cheat so much? Hi guys! So in collaboration with the new Pepsi black, which has a bolder cola taste and not using a energy, we will be doing the "No Calorie project". Hello guys! Hello! So, what is your present food regimen like? Health side begin first. Fitness facet, fitness aspect! Fitspo! This one, this one! I’m doing intermittent fasting. I truly devour within eight hours a day, then I eat whatever i need- His something he desires right, is… BROCCOLI! Yeah, broccoli. I used to be on intermittent fasting, but i haven’t finished it for roughly a month. Ok, currently proper, presently i’m making an attempt this food plan, like meal replacement form of factor. Wa! So each morning and evening right, i don’t eat breakfast or dinner lo, I simply devour…<br><br>No, I drink the chocolate shake. I’m seeking to be on intermittent. So, have you learnt how energy have an effect on your body? I keep in mind I read it somewhere, calorie is absolutely the quantity of vigor you ought to burn it off. So, you will have a base, that means like even though you are mendacity down not doing some thing correct, you continue to burn a detailed quantity of energy. So, on this episode of Singaporeans are trying, you’ll be making an attempt the "No Calorie undertaking" for 72 hours. Oh… No calorie? Might be, i’ll simply go with that sport plan right there, just lie down. No calorie for 72 hours. No calorie! So, does any person be aware of what no calorie food stands for? Air. No la, joking. It is basically meals that in reality takes extra energy to burn than it’s actual calories. So which you can simply whack one object la? That you would be able to try that la, for the following three days. Your broccoli for the 72 hours. My method for that, yeah. No, but then like how are you going to cook dinner the broccoli? Like blanch it? What’s blanch? I do not know what is blanch! Like cook dinner in water la! Oh, just boil la! Boil that is all ah, like cannot put whatever inside.<br><br>Boil, boil. Blanch. Morning guys, today is Day 1 of the "No Calorie assignment", and proper now could be 5.30 a.M. The other guys are like, "Let’s do this fitspo" and stuff, so they decided to go to Yoda… Er, Yoda? So we’re like accomplished with our fitness category and like, now right, we have got to find things which might be zero calorie. Zero calorie. So, the very first thing we saw is in reality apples. Apples, okay.<br><br>We might have to live on on this, for the next 3 days? Three days! Good enough enjoyable fact, I hate veggies right, but then I quite love lady fingers. Lady fingar? Girl finger? Girl’s fingers? Yeah. Yen, are you hungry? Oh my god. I am quite hungry, I just ate an apple for breakfast, so… Wa, I consider I work except not hungry sia, but… See, I advised you! She like robot leh, she on no account eat one. You understand, I keep imagining that like, aiyo, i will like, "12 o’clock! I’ll like, get some stable food." after which I realised proper, oh my goodness, i am on the task. So we are making ready our lunch. We have mushroom, broccoli, konnyaku! I suppose like we are in a cooking show eh. Hi! Hello! If Yen can cook dinner, so can you! Oh yeah! Carbs! Carbs but calorie free! Let’s consume lunch! Let’s eat lunch! Definitely honestly right, i’m rattling surprised that we received carbs eh.<br><br>Hor? Yeah. Let me are trying some. Yeah, we acquired carbs! Ok, so I was just speaking to Yen, Jess and Adria on the chat proper. Since now we have a chat collectively to make sure that we don’t relapse, and we’re rather like, craving for some thing candy. And, surely I purchased Pepsi black for me to love, cheat. ? In view that adore it’s sweet drinks ma, but it’s no energy. Oh my god! Sure i want something candy. Wa shit, too excited already. That is zero calorie! So i am just accomplished with my exercise. In reality it feels most of the time the equal, perhaps it’s just day 1. However definitely I at present, I additionally slightly play cheat la. I did not do the average exercise, I style of like cut it by 20%. I am out with my buddy over right here, his name is Joe, and he received me… He is very candy by the way. He received me… What is this? Cinnamon rolls… Sorry! So i am just executed with bar, and i’m ravenous, and i am at Takashimaya finding food. And all these? I cannot consume! So I known as myself ‘Hungry Jess’. Honestly I must alternate it to ‘Hangry Jess’.<br><br>hello guys, so it can be Day 2 of this "No Calorie venture", and i am a bit of extra energized this morning. It is lovely handy within the morning, like correct earlier than lunch, on the grounds that… I don’t suppose hungry within the morning in general, so it’s beautiful k. Day 2, and we’re gonna cook dinner… I will put together the enoki mushroom salad, so i am hoping it is zero calorie enough. And i will prepare the cauliflower rice. K, so i am very tempted to interrupt this no calorie factor, since that is my favourite candy eh. Oh no! No! No, no, no! Keep powerful. Stay powerful! Shoo, no! Ooh, it is an aeroplane! Okay, so i am filming coffee damage, and who’re the knowledge for espresso spoil? It’s my pricey chum, Adria over there… Stop it hor! And she or he is shamelessly eating sia.<br><br>this is for work! For those who have been in her role would you haven’t eaten this? I will… Just scent. LIAR! Liar, liar, pants on fire! So it appears, it is counted that I cheated this morning. Since I was in a shoot, and that i needed to consume some chook. In my defence proper… I’m going to check out now, how many energy is 1 / 4 of a fowl leg, or anything. And then i’m going to work this off. So the only purpose why i am even doing this endeavor… But in my work put on ah, of all things, is on account that…<br><br>So it’s the end of day 2, and i am very tired after the recreation. To make up for in these days, i’m no longer really going to consume a lot for dinner, also because i am not very hungry now. There are food which might be very low in calorie or like zero calorie, but the factor is right, first of all, you need to go and purchase them, so that could be the more tedious phase. Like having to head and find them and buy them and then prepare them. As so much as I wish to say there used to be flavour to lunch, there wasn’t enough. Throughout the entire day I was once just craving for like, some thing candy, you realize? So after I was going dwelling, I determined to get myself a Pepsi black.<br><br>they have got no energy, it convinced my cravings due to the fact that they’ve the bold cola style, which it says over right here. You realize what, I think i will continue to exist this project lovely convenient. Ok, so I have got to confess something. Wager what? I ate… Like I just received a small chew of this baguette. Which is like sincerely air la, by the way, I ate this part… So I do not know if that counts? So it can be day 3 of the assignment. I am definitely feeling relatively alright, I determine without feeling hungry, and i’ll go for a morning run. Welcome to yet another episode of ‘Yen can cook’. Sure, so we’re simply going to do like, soup stuff… Oh my god, we nonetheless have tomato, so we can simply prepare dinner like some tomato-onion-garlic base stuff with plenty of veggies. Ok, I simply knocked off, and after having a day of low/ no calorie food, you simply think like having something that has bolder taste.<br><br>I don’t know, for me it can be like i want some thing that may be a little bit fizzy. So, I bought myself a bottle of Pepsi black! Yay! And it says ‘no calorie’, so that is quite, you understand, the savior for the day. I don’t know why i’m here… Given that ‘no, however okay’ i will truly just eat eh. How’s the task? Unhealthy. Coming from Yen. I omit my meat, and my tofu, or the whole thing that is regarding protein, yeah. He like breaking down already. Yeah, same leh, like you do not ask a T-rex to consume grass. Certainly for me, I feel like through this mission right, i will live with out meat.<br><br>Huh! Clearly really sian for me given that I relatively, fairly hate vegetables la, so… Eh, however i tried my high-quality k this venture. Confession time. Who cheated? You cheat? You cheated? I was going to say i am rattling impressed you by no means cheat eh! What did you consume? Adequate, adequate, ok. The day gone by morning proper… It’s the day that you in no way come to administrative center. Good enough, let me explain! Oh my god. You shouldn’t even have taken AM off. You instructed me that you simply just slept! To be fair right, the 2d night time, I practically cheated. Immediately, at like 10.30 p.M., after which in my head I used to be like, "you understand what? I’m going to screw this! I will go residence and consume maggi mee and no one’s gonna be aware of!" but then I used to be like, after I go dwelling then I used to be like, oh are not able to la, I rather like tahan until this moment right, it can be simply a further day. Why you giggle, is it you also try this? Maggi mee additionally. Huh? You cheat extra? Are you severe? Huh? Oh my god! Huh? What the hell? Wait, you cheat so much? Am i able to say, he failed to even hesitate to walk straight to the counter and get a meal.<br><br>k, honestly it is been three days in view that I touched meat eh. First-rate, anything, i am not going to put this within the video anyway, bye! Okay, as a way to congratulate for the top of the mission, except for you James, we’ll offer you some snacks. Yay! Eh, cheaters are not able to get. Do you consider, or see any alterations by way of this task? Yes, like my pants are loose, and my t-shirt sleeves are free. Which i’m rather disturbed, i am very sad.<br><br>but simply I think correct, seeing that we were so confined in option proper, so finally during the day correct, i do not particularly think about what am I going to devour later. I consider it helped that I used to be like, just a little extra alert la. I not ever rather like, feel tired within the core of the day. However the end of day tiredness is real. Ah, ok, yeah yeah. What used to be the highlight of the whole challenge? Cooking collectively! Within the workplace. Oh yeah, that was once fun.<br><br>That was very, very fun. Like, also we bought accelerated lunch ruin due to the fact of this, however whenever in the place of work proper when we had been cooking, honestly other men and women were kind of jealous of us. All of them crowded around, they had been like, "Oh my god that smells so just right!" am i able to simply kope (steal)? Smells good leh. Wa, eh you all jealous ah? Yeah, tremendous jealous. Will you proceed to incorporate some of these objects, or like continue this sort of venture on your daily life? Surely, i will restrict sauces eh. I imply to not take the whole project literally, like proceed it. However I realised like, things like sauces, they quite have a lot of like, sugar and stuff like that. One of the vital dishes right, that we cooked for lunch, i’ll do it at dwelling eh. Which one? The cauliflower rice. Yeah, equal identical.<br><br>Cauliflower rice with like a slab of steak. Will you all advise this venture to other persons? I feel like one day is ample to check out. Honestly all these like fads, it is like you have got to see the physique can take it first not. It’s not very healthy la, to move straight like, assume you do this for like 2 weeks. Section 2? 2 weeks? No! 2 weeks? Can’t, can’t, are not able to already! K, I find 2 weeks right, it can be potential if we do not ought to retailer for food, that means all the groceries are offered. Huh? Oh, that you would be able to call Yen lo. He appears very interested. Eh you all do one more mission with him. .
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