I was born on December 21st 1991 in Miami Florida growing up in Miami it was always hot so as a kid you spend most of your time out in the Sun hanging out with friends listening to music just being active I got into fitness at an early age working out in the park by my house shortly after I found myself traveling all over the world competing teaching meeting some amazing people and making some of my greatest memories I didn't know what this was all leading up to but it felt right after developing an arsenal of
knowledge and experience of perfecting my craft I came back home to open the first calisthenics gym in Miami calisthenics Academy and soon after there were calisthenics academies all over the world [Music] I would wake up to thousands of messages a day from people who are changing their lives through my teaching all right I just got Eduardo's message he's calling me right now let's see if we can get him Blanca video your body transformation is incredible videos that you already posted I train every single day with my wife and my son amazing bro amazing I needed
to find a way to put everything I knew into something tangible that someone could obtain and instantly access all my knowledge to start changing their lives we open 10x back in 2000 and time flies last year 2016 I think it was at the end of 2015 it was just like an online website with all my programs on it we hadn't started the YouTube channel yet so two years later now we got the gym first videos authentic song here as you can see we're putting the gym together now we got the app half a million downloads
almost a million subscribers on YouTube it's crazy to see what can just happen in just a couple years actually this is like a true blessing though I mean look at this like this is what we're doing for work every week we see our stats go up our views go up our subscribers go up our memberships on the website go up you know it's for growing crazy like every single week you know that makes is a lifestyle [Music] [Applause] it's a gym it's a YouTube channel [Music] but most important it's an online platform where I broke
down everything it took for me to get the body and skills that I have acquired through my journey into easy step-by-step programs and daily workouts to ensure your development through an application you can access from anywhere in the world with our app on your phone things that people would train for years in professional facilities they were learning in a matter of weeks with my app sometimes days half a million downloads later here we are today my day starts on the computer I normally wake up answer a couple YouTube questions answer some emails I really have
a support team to be answering the main emailing questions and then after that I come straight to the gym and I train train train train then after that I shoot either for the YouTube video or for that app and then after that it's normally meetings developing that app coming out with new programs market research on new products for you guys there's a lot of time that goes into selecting the products creating the products manufacturing the products you know we go through many many different samples to find the best one so we're constantly working on that
we've come a long way we came from from literally from nothing the way that this company really started was just an idea and I put all my thoughts and all my knowledge into something online and then from there everything grew from there when I first started doing this you know I started out of passion I didn't have an idea to create that next to create these gems or even to like become a trainer you know when I first came a trainer was because I was so passionate about the sport and about movement that I just
wanted to share this sport or share this this concept with more people because it was becoming like a community thing more people were showing up to the beach where I was working out at for example you know on Miami Beach when I first started working out there there was like nobody there you know now come 2017 you have to get in a line to wait for the pull-up bar I really just want to bring this to people around the world and I want people to start like engaging start using their bodies and that's what I
want to hope to bring so if it's with apps or if it's with a youtube channel i bringing videos every day or with my programs where i can actually teach you how to do that handstand or how to get in the best shape of your life and then in turn you can teach other people we move into spreads and that's really my goal so the more everything just grows more things will happen along the way [Music] there's a lot to keep me going every single day I just have so much to be grateful for you
know at one point in my life a couple years ago I had literally lost everything you know I mean that's a story for another time but I mean I thought I had lost my my literally the rest of my life I lost my son basically at that point in my life I was like 19 years old that's what I'm like really everything started for me I was literally like living on the brink of not knowing what would happen to me for the rest of my life and I lived like that for the next two years
so every single day I lived like this could be my last day what would you do on your last day how would you spend it when I was living like that for the first two years oh my god calisthenics for me was like boom I excelled remarkably fast even in business something I've never done before excelled remarkably fast video editing never owned a camera in my life you know I edit all my own videos I'll I've completely changed you know I started taking advantage of every second I had so I always think as an optimist
that there's so much opportunity around especially in the most difficult situations is where the opportunity really lies like this waitlist I could do way more reps then I could probably do it better too if I just took this thing off but I'm gonna struggle through it I'm gonna put myself through the struggle because the opportunity and this is that when I take this off I will smoke anyone that has never put this on before or that doesn't change like this so trust me you want to make things more difficult on yourself don't ask for a
lighter burden but ask for a stronger back time seems to be flying nowadays every day is something new but it's always filled with laughter fun friends passion and love will you love what you do you don't really work a day in your life even hard work is fun I want to use my story to show the world that nothing is impossible you just got to believe in yourself don't worry about how it's gonna happen or how everything could go wrong just think about how everything could go right I've done a lot but it's still not
over with this channel get a glimpse into my life and follow me on this journey as I continue to share with you the behind the scenes and secrets to my training nutrition and day to day lives for example like if the if the bigger one becomes available we could just all exchange the one that we're going in and just pay the difference and then upgrade to the to the 3,000 square footage one and then at that time oh we can if we want to we can just close our gym
